Doctors Dont Live as Long as Others
New York July 25 The life table study of American physicians shows a 50 year old doctor has a life expectancy of 8 years. General male life expectancy at age 30 is about 37 years. Met Life policyholders live about two years longer than the average doctor, due to demanding hours and emergency calls despite medical knowledge.
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New York
INS
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Insurance Company
Statistical Bulletin
State Parks See Higher Attendance This Season
State parks report rising attendance as a prolonged heat spell benefits parks including Turkey Run Clifty Falls and McCormick's Creek with timbered ravines and lakefronts at Pokagon and The Dunes drawing visitors. A dustless road treatment by the state highway commission improves access, encouraging more travelers to visit parks for beach lounging and scenic drives.
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Richard Lieber
Turkey Run
Clifty Falls
McCormick’s Creek
Pokagon
Lake James
Lake Michigan
State Highway Commission
Lieber
Missing girls sought in Williamsport case
Frances Rose Krout aged 15 and Lexie Vaught aged 16 have been missing since July 13 and have not been traced. They were last seen with Orville Brewer 26 of Attica who is also involved in the search.
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Williamsport
Ind
Frances Rose Krout
Lexie Vaught
Orville Brewer
Attica
Jackie Fields Beats Dundee To Win Welterweight Title
In Detroit on July 25 Jackie Fields, once Jake Finkelstein, becomes world welterweight champion after a 15 round rumble with Joe Dundee. Crowd buys push past 75 thousand dollars in tickets. Dundee expected to draw a $50 thousand purse.
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Detroit
INS
Jackie Fields
Los Angeles
Jake Finkelstein
Joe Dundee
Baltimore
Jackie
Dundee
Wheat Grows In A M And Biscuits In P M
Wabash Indiana July 24 Yesterday morning wheat grew in fields on the Joe Jackson farm south of town. At 5 p m the Jackson family and neighbors ate hot biscuits baked from wheat cut that day. A combine threshed and harvested the grain, and a portion was ground into flour for the evening meal.
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Wabash
Ind
Joe Jackson
Here
Jackson
Five youths held for Dyer act violation in Indianapolis
Five youths from Nashville Tennessee were jailed on charges of violating the Dyer anti motor theft law. Listed as Eugene Arnold 17 Arthur Green 16 William R Townes 18 William Glasper 15 and Harold Ware 18 they allegedly stole a Ford touring car in Nashville and later robbed farmers near Jasonville Indiana of gasoline and a tire. Bonds were set at 2000 dollars each.
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Indianapolis
Nashville
Tenn
Eugene Arnold
Arthur Green
William R. Townes
William Glasper
Harold Ware
Jasonville
Ind
Mandell Fights Canzoneri For Lightweight Crown In Chicago
The lightweight title match set for Chicago Stadium on Friday night August 2 features champion Sammy Mandell defending against Tony Canzoneri. Mandell seeks to prove his supremacy after defending the throne in 1927 in Detroit and last year in New York with decisive victories.
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Chicago
Sammy Mandell
Tony Canzoneri
Canzoneri
Phil McGraw
Detroit
Jimmy McLarnin
New York
State changes text books for schools
Greencastle public schools will update text books across grades with new titles in reading penmanship and arithmetic. High school mathematics also changes with Nyberk and Clark Otis texts. State instruction directed the switch as buildings receive redecorations and janitorial preparations continue for the new term.
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Warren J. Yount
Greencastle Public Schools
Johnson Publishing Company
Scribners
Laidlaw Brothers
Dr. Freeman
University of Chicago
Strayer-Upton
American Book Company
Thorndike
Thorndikes
Nyberk
Wells and Hart
Clark and
Otis
Newell and Harper
State Department of Public Instruction
Third Ward
Second Ward
School repairs to be completed before fall term opening
Plans state all school buildings will be in first class condition for the opening of the fall term on September 8. Unfinished repairs will be finished beforehand to ensure readiness.
High School Players Edge Trojans 6 to 5 in Close Contest
The High School team defeated the Trojans 6 to 5 at Mc Keen Field Wednesday night. The winning run came in the final inning as a contested safe-at-home call stood after arguments over too many colored players on the baselines.
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Trojans
McKeen Field
Time payment wave recedes says Aladdin official
Otto E. Sovereign of Bay City, Aladdin Company general manager, argues that the postwar building boom and its time payment schemes taught lessons. He cites Detroit losses of tens of thousands of families and asserts buyers will now prefer cash or substantial initial payments to protect savings and avoid default. The experience, he says, yields prudent resolutions after the morning after.
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Otto E. Sovereign
Bay City
Aladdin Company
Mr. Sovereign
Detroit
Belated search asked for missing Peru woman May Brocian
Authorities urged a belated search for May Brocian 25 daughter of Mrs Charles Hawkins of Peru Ind who vanished over a year ago after leaving with Charles Bingham in a taxi to Gary Ind The case ties to Bingham who was jailed for arson and later for a separate offense and now serves a prison term for wreon.
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Peru
Ind
INS
May Brocian
Charles Hawkins
Gary
Broadway
D. Elbert
Michigan City
Bingham
Wreon
Fashions in Love at Voncastle with Menjou
Adolphe Menjou stars in Fashions in Love at the Voncastle. Fay Compton and Miriam Seegar co star opposite Menjou directed by Victor Schertzinger. The plot follows a composer whose flirtations test his marriage until his wife stages a rival affair and he returns home.
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Adolphe Menjou
Voncastle
Menjou
Hermann Bahr
Fay Compton
James M. Barrie
Miriam Seegar
Victor Schertzinger
Wheel of Life
Redskin
Marcheta
Birthday Celebration At Rowings Party Hosts Night of Ice Cream
Mr and Mrs J T Rowings marked a birthday anniversary with relatives and friends gathering Friday at their home. An ice cream supper followed as guests wished Mr Rowings many more years. Other notes include visits among area families and a reunion at the Wysong gathering.
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Elzia Rowings
Indianapolis
Charles Rowings
Andrew Girton
Asherville
Louis
Virgil Cox
Turkey Run State Park
Mary Stewart
Harmony
Janie Harris
J. T. Rowings
Mr. Rowings
Isaac Irwin
Scott Irwin
Smiley
Clarence Rowings
Vera June
Wysong
Everett Ellis
Greencastle
Miss Ellen
Ethel Adamson
New salve shows promise against tuberculosis in Vienna
Berlin reports encouraging results in fighting tuberculosis with a new external salve devised by Dr. Ferdinand Mattausch of the Vienna Street Railways tuberculosis clinic. He says the salve mirrors the fat surrounding germs to boost the blood fat-destroying substance and aid germ destruction.
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Berlin
INS
Ferdinand Mattausch
Vienna
Mattausch
Mat
Radio Schedule Highlights Daytime and Evening Programs
A listing of radio programs across WEAF WJZ and Columbia chains from 3:00 p m to 11:00 p m includes Navy Band Larry Brier Orchestra Black and Gold Roo Orchestra Nickel Cinco Pater John and Fink Vietor Program Seiberling Singers Atwater Kent Midweek Program National Broadcasting Hour and Phil Spitalny Orchestra on various time slots. The lineup features musical acts, orchestras and choral groups across multiple networks.
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U. S. Navy
WEAF
Larry Brier
WJZ
Black & Gold Roo
Columbia
Vietor
Seiberling
Weaf Chain
Atwater Kent
WJZ Chain
National Broadcasting Hour
Phil Spitalny
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COX Tire & Vulcanizing Service
N. Jackson St
Yount
Garamount
Stark & Griffith
Motor Sales
Indiana Street
Dr. O. F. Overstreet
Alamo
Vine Street
Greencastle, Indiana
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