Indiana Legion Convention Opens At Vincennes With Key Races
The Indiana American Legion Department holds its second annual convention in Vincennes starting Monday. Battles for department commander between Col. Gignilliat and William Betz draw interest, while the adjutant race attracts figures like Russell Newgent and Morris Levy. Delegates will also choose Indiana’s National Convention delegates and decide on paying their expenses.
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Indiana
American Legion
Vincennes
Ind
Department of
A. Swiczer
D Seymou
Booze Car Caught as Officers Track Stolen Vehicle
Sherif Hull reports a car containing liquor stopped on a state road near Indianapolis. Hufford investigated a Ford found leaking gas near the County Home with no plates, suspected stolen. Suspects shifted keys and packages to the Ford and Maxwell car later located with Hufford.
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Sherif Hull
Cauht
State Road
Indianapolis
Maxwell
Ford
Fred Soper
Hufford
Danville
Providence man visits sister after Indianapolis hospital stay
Dy E V Claypool of Providence Rhode Island visits his sister Mrs J P Allen and Mr Allen after two weeks in Indianapolis Methodist Hospital for an operation. He returns home with the Al lens who were in Indianapolis to spend the day with him. Miss Grace Browning heads to Indianapolis for the Christian Endeavor convention. Miss Thelma Schmitt will also attend the Saturday and Sunday sessions as delegates from the Presbyterian church.
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Dy. E. V. Claypool
Providence
Rhode Island
J. P. Allen
Mr. Allen
Dy. Claypool
Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis
Grace Browning
Christian Endeavor
Thelma Schmitt
Miss Browning
Miss Schmitt
The
Presbyterian Church
Harding to Speak at Indiana Republican Event
Warren G. Harding, Republican nominee, tentatively plans to address the Indiana Republican Editorial Association summer outing at Turkey Run on Friday July 28. Edward E. Hancock of Greensburg, association president, announced the plan.
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Warren G. Harding
Indiana Republican Editorial Association
Turkey Run
Edward E. Hancock
Greensburg
Fire damages kitchen after soot ignites and bacon oven
Mrs. J H Grimes started a kitchen blaze with a match in paper on Saturday evening. Soot in the flue and stove pipe ignited, grease spilled from the oven, fire spread to the floor, and townsfolk aided until the doctor’s water hose warped the stove. The Danville Republican notes the incident.
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J.H. Grimes
Grimes
Tate
Danville
Hog Market Report Sees Mixed Prices and Strong Cattle
Fog receipts total 7,090 with prices in cents. Indianapolis area cattle and hogs show 7,000 cattle 700 calves and 00 sheep 300. Hog prices open 16 cents higher at 10.50, with some bids at 16.50 and pigs at 15.50. About 4,000 head sold to royal buyers, 3,000 to outsiders. All old cattle strong, others steady. Steers to 17.09, calves and sheep firm.
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Indianapolis
Derails on Monon line averted collision in Indiana
In Noblesville Indiana a signal tower man derailed a gravel train to avoid a crash with a Monon passenger train on the Union Traction line. No injuries and limited property loss. Traffic delayed several hours as gravel spread along the right of way. Other notes include local visits and a court acquittal in a separate assault case. F. Tilda gave the Ripley county commencement address at Ossgood with 250 graduates and a crowd over 2,900.
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Noblesville
Ind
Hamton County
Union Traction Company
F. ©. Tilda
Ossgood
Ripley County
Passenger fare hike approved for three Indiana lines
The Public Service Commission authorized a one cent passenger fare increase for the Union Traction Company of Indiana Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company and the Indianapolis Cincinnati Traction Company in an order effective July 1. The decision affects three electric systems and is part of a broader rate adjustment noted by the commission.
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Union Traction Company of
Indiana
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Indianapolis & Cincinnati Traction Company
Public Service Commission
Mayor Court After Dice Game at Knight Garage
Marshall O H air encountered three young men and two pairs of dice in the Knight Garage. The dice stopped when questioned by Mayor Bartley, who fined them ten dollars and costs. Mrs. Charles Stiles of Indianapolis visits Mr Stiles manager of Putnam Auto Co. George O Creighton, Chicago attorney, asks to play golf at Greencastle links before a Chicago call interrupts. T J Wright of Greencastle, a Republican insider, visits Colby and is hired as an editor for the Colby Kansas Exchange.
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Marshall O'Hair
Knight Garage
Charles Stiles
Indianapolis
Mr. Stiles
Putnam Auto Co
George O. Creighton
Chicago
Creighton
James Mick
Greencastle Golf Club
Greencastle Club
Golf Club
Greencastle
Links
T. J. Wright
Ind
Colby
Nation
Will Hays
Applicants flood Standard Oil Pilling Station job in Indiana
The Standard Oil Billing station project in Indiana has drawn about 140 applicants for the station manager position. Authorities confirm a large influx, with the number reaching at least the 140 mark amid mounting interest.
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Standard Oil
Indiana
Standard Oil Co
Ion Goood
Extra session to study Indiana election laws and suffrage
Indiana lawmakers may call a special session to consider repeal of primary election laws. Attorneys for the Republican state committee discuss proposed reforms and four poll clerks per precinct to aid women voters next fall. Suburban readers are urged to subscribe to the Herald.
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Indiana
James F. Goodrich
William H. Thompson
Charles O. Roemler
Indianapolis
Population shifts in Indiana schools and townships reported
Indiana 1920 school enumeration shows Putnam County down 74 from 1919 while state total rises 5 644 to 744 430 about 7 percent. White youths six to twenty one total 764 902 up 4 814. colored youths 19 528 up 1 330. Township and city changes noted. local officials cite tuition fund distribution and April enumeration. Local real estate transfers include Christie Moag visit and several property sales in Terre Haute Commercial Place Ohio Street College Avenue and South Locust Street.
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Indiana
J. 8. Hubbard
Putnam County
Evta.e
Margaret Cook
College Ave
Minnia Lewman
Terre Haute
Bina Todd
Ohio Street
M. A. Wolf
Robert Browning
Commercial Place
David Jones
A. J. Cosner
South Locust St
William Dittemore
Bomb Aims at Workers in Waterbury Strike Fails
A bomb exploded early today in Waterbury Connecticut targeting five men who refused to quit their Benedict & Burnham brass mill jobs. No injuries were reported as the blast damaged a wooden house at 23 Railroad Hill Street and the workers returned to their shifts that evening.
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Waterbury
Conn
Albino Bibas
Boaders
Benedict & Burnham
American Brass Company
Bilbas
Famous Roman Feast Day Echoes Of Old Witch Lore
The May night rituals around Rome mix superstition and history. Reports describe witches and salt basins to ward off spirits on St John the Baptist Eve and May feasts marking Romulus and Remus. A living wolf memory remains central to Rome’s founding myth and city ritual.
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John the Baptist
Sonate
Toman
St. Johno the Baptist
Dan
Sone Hitchen
Witeh
Newnan
St. John Litera
Rowulus
Rewine
Tad
Ge Rene
County officials reallocate bridge funds amid repairs
The county commissioners and county council met to reallocate scarce bridge funding. Money from planned new bridges will fix dangerous structures, prioritizing repair over new construction. Earnest Stoner, deputy postmaster and vice president of the Indiana Postmasters Association, plans to attend a Indianapolis meeting. Blake Conley returns home ill after selling books in northern Indiana since Greencastle High School graduation.
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Earnest Stoner
Indianapolis
Indiana Postmaster’s Association
Blake Conley
Indiana
Greencastle
McAdoo Might Head Democratic Nomination Amid Convention Turmoil
Democratic leaders debate McAdoo as a potential nominee while McAdoo’s backers and rivals forecast a possible deadlock at the convention. Talks center on platform issues especially prohibition as factions weigh Palmer Cox and Glass as alternative paths. Marshall could gain if a deadlock favors a vice presidential tilt.
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Acov
Polit.c
McAdoo
Palmer
Cox
Mr. McAdoo
Marshall
Davis
California
Largest Sunday school convention in Crawfordsville report
Rev Victor Raphael sent word that the Crawfordsville state Sunday school convention was the largest ever held in the United States. A number of Greek Castle residents are attending. J. B. Hammond reports the sale of the Frank Allee residence on East Washington Street to Prof. L. R. Eckhardt.
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Victor Raphael
Crawfordsville
United States
J. B. Hammond
Frank Allee
East Washington Street
L. R. Eckhardt
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U. S. Adjutant
Harding
Turkey
MONON
Marke Cratt
Brazil
Dan Pollom
Dorothy Robison
R. L. Pierce
B. BE. Lemon
Fillmore
Walter Wright
Phillip Frank
Mgr. Wright
Jesse Ton Ysidence
Block Street
Bartley
Kansas Exchange
Herald
P. R. Christie
James A. Moag
Harry H. Talbott
Wan
Detroit Free Mess
San Francisco
Cal
W. G. McAdoo
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