Bronze memorial tablet given to DePauw for Joseph Carhart
Guy Morrison Walker has donated a bronze memorial tablet honoring Joseph Carhart professor of Rhetoric Oratory and Life at DePauw University from 1884 to 1890. The tablet will be placed in Meharry Hall with Vice president H B Longden in charge and Addison W Moore the main speaker at 11 o clock Saturday.
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Guy Morrison Walker
Joseph Carhart
DePauw University
Walker
Meharry Hall
H. B. Longden
Addison W. Moore
Cottage Earns Smith Hughes Recognition At DePauw
Miss Mary Beeman state supervisor of home economics inspected DePauw University Delaware, noting only minor changes needed to meet Smith Hughes standards. Two extra hours in dietetics and costume designing plus the model home aided the recognition. Beeman praised Miss Beatrice Mills for effective home management and urged broader qualified training to raise salaries and opportunities.
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Mary Beeman
Greencastle
Smith- Hughes
DePauw
Smith-Hughes
DePauw University
Marlin
Blackberry Year Supposed Cause Of Cold Weather
In Lebanon Indiana on June 8 the INS reports local weather prophets claim a Blackberry Year explains the unseasonable cold. They say blackberry bushes blooming predicts three to five cold days while others contend a rainy start to June means twenty cold stormy days ahead.
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Lebanon
Ind
Indiana State Fair to Pay Record Premiums This Year
The Indiana board of agriculture will distribute $162,193.88 in premiums and purses, the largest payout by any state fair in the United States. The fair runs September 1–8, inviting all Hoosiers to prepare livestock and farm products to compete and win prize money across departments listed, with entries closing August 15.
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Indiana Board of Agriculture
United States
Indiana
Snow Report In Columbus Sees Early Flakes At 53 Degrees
Snow flurries were observed in Columbus Indiana yesterday morning at 10 o clock with a temperature of 53 degrees above zero. The unusual late season snowfall prompted brief reports from residents and weather observers in the city.
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Columbus
Ind
Rains Aid Gravel Road Work Across Indiana
Indianapolis June 8 Special Heavy rains slowed pavement laying but aided stone and gravel surfaces permitting constant drag maintenance. The Indiana State Highway Commission reports unpaved surfaces in excellent shape due to maintenance and rains. Four pavement settings have occurred with plans to add at least fifty more miles in July under contract.
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Indianapolis
Ind
State Highway Commission
John D. Williams
Indiana
Williams
Pheasant Eggs Distributed to Indiana Sports Clubs
The Indiana fish and game division supplied 10 000 ring neck pheasant eggs to ninety five sportsmen clubs in May to stock fields. Eggs will be hatched under hens and released, with reports on success. In April 102 people were arrested for fish and game violations. 95 were convicted, paying 2 562.20 in fines. The department plans ten more ponds at Bass Lake hatchery to rear silver bass and test small mouth bass propagation.
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Indiana
Fish and Game Division
State Conservation Department
George N. Mannfeld
Bass Lake
Greencastle Man Fined for Speeding in City
W C Todd of Greencastle was charged by Officers Mc Ginty and Lawson with speeding at 45 mph in the city. He pled guilty before Justice Gates and paid a $12.15 fine.
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W. C. Todd
Greencastle
McGinty and
Lawson
Todd
Justice Gates
Brazil
Farm revolt to push McNary-Haugen plank at convention
Kansas City dispatch reports a nationwide farm revolt forming to demand a McNary-Haugen Farm Relief plank in the GOP platform. The movement draws support from all announced candidates except Herbert Hoover, with an army of 100,000 farmers pledged to march on the convention under the slogan Equality For Agriculture.
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Kansas City
INS
McNary-Haugen
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Secretary of Commerce
Republican Party
Coolidge
Nichols Murray Butler
New York
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Illinois
Yesterday's Baseball Scores Across Leagues
Results from American Association and American League show multiple games with varied margins. Detroit defeated Boston 5 to 2 while New York posted an 8 to 2 win over Cleveland. National League saw New York beat St. Louis 4 to 3 and Brooklyn win 1 to 0 against Cincinnati.
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Indianapolis
St. Paul
Toledo
Milwaukee
Louisville
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Columbus
Detroit
Boston
New York
Cleveland
Washington
Chicago
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Platform Writing Process At Nation Conventions
International News Service outlines the four day platform drafting sequence as parties finalize planks in public hearings and executive sessions. It notes historic moments and ends with a call to mobilize, Bring on the lions, Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party.
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Lawrence Sullivan
Committee On
Nebraska
Peacht College
National Association
United States
William Jennings Bryan
America
Indiana Forests Gain Attention as State Problem
Indiana needs stronger forest protection says Richard Lieber conservation director. He notes $32 million yearly lumber imports reflect the sector’s fragility and that idle acres could yield $20 million in timber if managed. Tax exemptions encourage forest reserves, with 450 classified tracts showing growth under current law.
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Indiana
Richard Lieber
Lieber
the Forester
Veterans salute Monticello post seeks to gift rooms to Legion
Four remaining members of the Tippi canoe Post G. A. R. petition county commissioners to turn over their occupied rooms to the American Legion. Petitioners are William Van Pelt J Wesley Chall W C Verriott and Walter Carr. Commissioners indicated they will grant the request. The Legion post has almost worn down members.
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Monticello
Ind
INS
Tippicanoe
American Legion
William van Pelt
J. Wesley Chall
W. C. Verriott
Walter Carr
California Marriage Decline Under Three Day Hesitation Law
California 1927 marriage analysis shows a sharp drop as the three day hesitation rule drove couples to Reno or out of state. Total marriages fell to 53,487 from 56,664 the previous year, with most counties affected.
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International News Service
Sacramento
Cal
California
L. E. Ross
State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Ross
Reno
Fancy Cakes and Pastry Gooda at Cooper and Inman
Local reader notes a storefront display or promotion for Fancy Cakes and Pastry Gooda located at Cooper and Inman. The brief item highlights a confectionary business and its location within the city.
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Cooper & Inman
Adv
Lawful to snare fish allowed for carp suckers dogfish gar
The state fish and game division clarifies that snaring fish is legal for carp suckers dogfish and gar while grappling hooks may not be used to take any fish.
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Fish and Game Division
State Conservation Department
Kunst Named L A Research Post Leader at Indiana University
Edwin J. Kunst of Chicago, formerly with Real Silk Hosiery Mills and later in teaching and research at the University of Chicago, will become manager of the Indianapolis division of Indiana University's bureau of business research next Monday. He succeeds Charles F. Benzel who resigned to join Gimbel department store in Milwaukee. Kunst graduated from the University of Chicago School of Commerce in 1925.
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Indianapolis
Edwin J. Kunst
Chicago
Real
University of Chicago
Bureau of Business Research
Indiana University
Kunst
Charles F. Benzel
Bureau
Gimbel
Milwaukee
Wis
School of Commerce and Administration
Konjola hailed as new remedy for rheumatism
Mrs. Carrie L. Miller of Indianapolis endorses Konjola claiming it cured her rheumatism after prior months of pain and sleepless nights. The advertisement asserts Konjola comes from plant juices and is sold at Greencastle Owl Drug Store and through other druggists in the region.
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Carrie L. Miller
Brookside Ave
Indianapolis
Ind
Greencastle
Owl Drug Store
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