Bloodhounds Track Slayer of Indiana Farmer
John Lawrence, 35, a farmer near Eckerty Indiana, was fatally shot while with his brother in law at the other man’s hog lot. Neighborhood feuds and past threats are cited as motives as bloodhounds are deployed to pursue the unknown assailant. Lawrence and his wife had recently left for French Lick where he took a new job. No arrests yet.
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Ind
John Lawrence
John MecFarland
Eckerty
Lawrence
S. M. Cunningham
Bedford
French Lick
McFarland
Lawrence Mitchell
Mitchell
Viet!m
Greencastle Area Social and Moving Notices
Greencastle residents hosted sewing circle gatherings with Mrs Stella Huffman and others. Several families announce moves to Greencastle, visits to relatives, and a Whelan reunion at Indianapolis. Local trips include state fair attendance and Cataract Falls outings.
Miss Sears Returns to Indianapolis Home of Leheys
Miss Katherine Sears ends her summer visit and returns to Indianapolis to reside with Mr and Mrs Ted Lehey.
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Katherine Sears
Indianapolis
Ted Lehey
Miss Edith Curry to Wed Russell E Brown in Hartford City
Hartford City Indiana September 11 The engagement of Miss Edith Curry daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Curry to R E Brown cashier of the First National Bank in Greencastle has been announced The wedding will be held this winter Miss Curry is a Hartford City High School and DePauw University graduate where she led Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority Mr Brown graduated from Northwestern and belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fratern ity
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Hartford City
Ind
Edith Curry
W. A. Curry
R. E. Brown
First National Bank
Greencastle
Cox Refuses to Cancel Talks Despite Laryngitis
Governor Cox, on a West campaign tour, was examined by a throat specialist in Portland who said his voice is seriously impaired and urged cancelling some engagements. Cox, insisting he will not suspend appearances, faces continued vocal strain described as speaker's laryngitis.
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Portland
Ore
Cox
Govenor Cox
James Gifford Surprised by Relatives for 67th Birthday
Relatives and friends gathered at the Gifford home on Sunday for a surprise dinner in honor of James Gifford turning 67. Attendees from Bainbridge, Fillmore, Greencastle, and Indianapolis including the Gifford and Ruark families. They voted to make it a yearly reunion on the second Sunday in September and elected officers Hattie Callahan president Neva Hammond vice president Clara Ruark treasurer Frank Gifford secretary.
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James Gifford
Milt Brown
Greencastle
Frank Jones
Indianapolis
Neva Hammond
Will Callahan
Emerson Ruark
Fillmore
Chester Ruark
Fred Ruark
Herschel Cliff
Filmore
Wade McAvoy
Milt Wampler
Bainbridge
Roscoe Oliver
J. C. Gifford
Frank Gifford
Robert Gifford
Jimmy Crawley Ordered to Work By Judge After South Greencastle Robbery
Jimmy Crawley, one of two youths sentenced to 2 to 14 years in the State Reformatory by Judge Hughes for a south Greencastle robbery, must obtain a job and quit the store box habit as a condition of suspended sentence. He was seen sitting on a box in front of a store, leading to a summons for compliance.
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Jimmy Crawley
State Reformatory
Hughes
South Greencastle
Crawley
Jimmy
Condition of Claire Bittles Famed in Indianapolis Hospital
Claire Bittles, son of Mrs Racer Bittles, remains in critical condition after a fourth operation at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Doctors say the young man’s life is hanging by a thread due to skull beneath abscesses. He has been hospitalized ten weeks.
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Claire Bittles
Racer Bittles
Mr. Bittles
Methodist Hospital
Indianapolis
Jewish holiday closes Star Store and Sudranski stores
The Star Store and Sudranski stores were closed today in observance of a Jewish holiday.
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Star
Sudranski
Brazil debates currency sourcing after US printed note
In Rio de Janeiro the Chamber of Deputies discusses Brazilian currency printed in the United States after a $10 note from First National Bank of Brazil, Ind prompts questions about national identity. Deputies warn of potential plate exchanges and misnatlional spelling. The finance minister had earlier ordered Brasil spelling on all national currency.
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Rio DE Janiero
United States
First National Bank of Brazil
Chamber of Deputies
National Bank of Brazil
Ind
Ferraz
Frontin
Brazil
Brasil
Thomas Bettis Couple Wed At Clinton Falls Home
Miss Dorotha Thomas daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thomas and Noel Bettis son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bettis were married Saturday at 6 in the afternoon at Rev. L. D. Dodd s residence near Clinton Falls. They will reside near Clinton Falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorotha Thomas
Ed Thomas
Clinton Falls
Noel Bettis
Frank Bettis
L. D. Dodd
Dodd
Fletcher Runaway Returns With Family in Tow
Miss Louisa Fletcher, 17, runaway daughter of Indianapolis man Stoughton A. Fletcher, was found on a Ipswich farm and later left with her mother and uncle Holliday. She plans to go to New York, with governess Fritz remaining at Grapevine cottage. The escape made her famous along Cape Ann.
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Gloucester
Mass
Louisa Fletcher
Stoughton A. Fletcher
Indianapolis
Ipswich
Mr. Holliday
Miss Fletcher
Cape Ann
Madoo May Visit Five Indiana Cities
Senator Pat Harrison of the Democratic speakers bureau said McAdoo plans to speak in Washington Vincennes Terre Haute Logansport and Fort Wayne denying reports he would skip Indiana on his stumping tour for the Democratic national ticket.
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New York
William G. McAdoo
Indiana
Pat Harrison
Democratic Speakers Bureau
McAdoo
Washington
Vincennes
Terre Haute
Logansport
Ft Wayne
Fatal wheel crash at state fair auto races
George Sample, 55, of New Castle, died when a wheel torn from Auburn Special No. 16 driven by Harry Demster struck him as he watched from a roadside location near the track. Demster escaped with minor chest injuries after the car toppled a fence on the east turn. The accident occurred during the first heat of the championship race at 3:45 p m.
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George Sample
Newcastle
Indianapolis
State Fairgrounds
Auburn
Harry Demster
Sample
J. B. Johnson
Billy J. K
Demster
Hogs Slip From Opening Gains in Indianapolis Market
Indianapolis receipts show hogs at 6500 head, cattle 1500, calves 650, sheep 700. Early bids rose 10 to 15 cents, then buyers pulled back with top hogs at 17.60 and most at 17.25 to 17.50. Pigs 16.50, packing sows 15.50. 2000 hogs sold locally. Steers steady. cows and heifers weaker. calves 50c to $1 lower, good vealers 18.00. sheep down 0.50 with best lambs around 11.50.
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Indianapolis
Keeping Water Cool With Insulating Materials
The best way to keep water cold is to use a material that resists heat transfer. A vacuum or empty space provides the poorest heat conduction, making a thermos the ideal container. Wood, leather, felt, horn, or bone also insulate, keeping liquids cooler than metal or glass containers.
Kean Admits Cox Right On Newark Campaign Quota
The Newark News reports H F Kean acknowledges Cox was correct about Newark’s campaign fund quota of 100000 dollars. Hays and Upham denied any levy against Newark Republicans. Kean is expected to testify in Chicago. Florice Runyan departs for Hunter North Dakota to teach at the high school this winter.
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Washington
Newark News
N. J
H. F. Kean
New Jersey
Cox
Newark
Hays
Upham
New Jersey City
Keay
Chicago
Florice Runyan
Hunter
North Dak
North Dakota
O'Brien Leaves City for Indiana Medical College
Cecil O'Brien, son of Mrs. Cora O'Brien, departed this morning for Indianapolis to begin his sophomore work at the Indiana Medical School.
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Cecil O'Brien
Cora O’brien
Indianapolis
Indiana Medical School
The Greater Trial The Bride’s Nightly Absences
A bride of a few months laments to her mother about her husband George going out nearly every night. The mother consoles her, claiming greater trials and noting her own husband never stays in.
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George
Train collision of etiquette lessons in a playful accident
A child playing trains bumps an elderly woman and, after continuing her game, is reminded to apologize. The woman responds with a blunt quip about an express train not stopping for apologies, highlighting a moment of social etiquette in a humorous tale.
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Ame
Glory Destroyed by Time in Ancient Assyrian Rise and Fall
The fragment recounts the fall of Assyria after Trojan War era, the rise of Media and Babylon under Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar, and their conquests from the Caucasus to Egypt. It notes Babylon’s splendor and Nineveh’s elusive ruins buried in marshland and distant traces.
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Media
Persia
Caspian Sea
Nineveh
Babel
Babylon
Nabopolassar
Nebuchadnezzar
Caucasus Mountains
Sybia
Jerusalem
Ammon
Moab
Edom
Tyre
Egypt
Whites to absorb Maoris in early New Zealand lore
A historical account argues Maoris will be absorbed by whites as beef, mutton or pork abundance grows. It claims about fifty thousand pure-bred Maoris remain, with several in high political positions, and notes their Polynesian origins and mixed heritage with Melanesian or Papuan ancestry.
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New Zealand
Moony
House of Representatives
Legislative Council
Executive Council
Senor Portal Transforms Peru Into Literary Figure
For eighty years the leading Peruvian journalist, author of twelve best sellers, is praised as a national hero of letters. He parallels Spain’s Luis Tabouda, the U.S. Mark Twain, and France’s Madero, after laying down his sword in Peru’s struggle with Chite and now battles the vices of his countrymen with sharp irony and satire.
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Senor Portal
Peru
Luis Tabouda
Spain
Mark ‘Twain
United States
Madero
France
Pep
Redetermination of light velocity by wheel method
A Nice experiment uses Mizean toothed wheel to measure light speed. The beam traveled fifty seven miles round trip with 1109 observations. The mean velocity reported is 18b2254 miles per second.
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Nice
Dream Numbers Shared by Italian Lottery Player
The Italian in a dream scene uses numbered portents for the national lottery. Dreams reveal items the man wears eats and sews with numbers to play weekly. If luck fails he blames the Evil Eye and avoids the man with the Evil Gye.
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Kenneth L. Roberts
Saturday Evening Post
Gye
Dud
Fire at Vandalia Station Baggage Room
Fire crews responded to Vandalia station near ten Sunday night as flames spread from the baggage room. Chemicals, not water, were used to extinguish the blaze. Estimated damage around $100. Cause undetermined. fire started in a corner and burned toward the ceiling before arrival of firefighters.
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South Greencastle
Vandalia
Browning Reunion Held at New Market
The second Browning reunion in Montgomery County was held at the home of Mr and Mrs Louis Browning in New Market on Sunday September 12. Attending were George Browning and family Louis Browning and family Clay Browning Tyler Gentry and family James Quinley and family Miss Calve Hicks Mr and Mrs Harry Servies Mike Feeley and family all of Montgomery County Robert Browning and family John C Browning and family Mrs Bettie Browning and family Otis Browning and family Mr and Mrs James E Browning Mr and Mrs T L Browning Mr and Mrs Ralph Browning Mrs Mattie Browning Miss Emily Jackson Miss Hallie Browning Mr and Mrs M P Coffman Mrs Bertha Coffman Mr and Mrs Frank Talbott Mr and Mrs Guy Jackson John Sinclair and family all of Putnam County and Mr and Mrs D S Bowen of Coatesville Frank Granger and family and Robert Browning Jr of Indianapolis.
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Browning
Montgomery County
Louis Browning
New Market
George Browning
Clay Browning
Tyler Gentry
James Quinley
Calve Hicks
Harry Servies
Mike Feeley
Robert Browning
John C. Browning
Bettie Browning
Otis Browning
James E. Browning
T. L. Browning
Ralph Browning
Mattie Browning
Emily Jackson
Hallie Browning
M. P. Coffman
Bertha Coffman
Frank Talbott
Guy Jackson
John Sinclair
Putnam County
D. 8. Bowen
Coatesville
Frank Granger
Robert Browning, Jr
Indianapolis
New Era Club Meeting Scheduled with Mrs Evans
The New Era Club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2 80 oclock with Mrs T E Evans. J O Cammack returned from the south where he spent most of the summer. Mr Cammack was in Shreveport La during his stay in the south. Mr and Mrs Hal Royce and daughter, guests of Mrs Royce's parents, have returned to Wabash. The Domestic Science Club will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 30 with Mrs Clara Peck.
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New Era Club
T. E. Evans
J. O. Cammack
Mr. Cammack
Shreveport
Hal Royce
Royce
Roy Abrams
Wabash
Domesti Science Club
Clara Peck
Locust Street League Elects Its Officers
Locust street M. E. League members elect and install officers led by Howard Higgins as President and Esther Foster as 2nd Vice President. A cabinet meeting planned for social events and a final canvassing meeting aims to close church finances for the conference year.
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Locust Street
M. E. League
Howard Higgins
Frank Greer
Esther Foster
Leslia Pickett
Ord
Vivian Godwin
Mary Manuel
Ellen Rector
Howard Younger
Wilbur Jones
Helen Kendall
Pianis
LaVerne Courtney
Locust M. E
Jesse McAnally
Keystone Bible
Locust Street M. E
C. A. Wade
Christian Church
H. C. Clippinger
Vincennes
J. FE. Cash
Madison Township
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James Reeves
A. T. Hillis
Chris Knauer
Laura Lewis
Lou Hillis
Stella Huffman
Louscobee
Ella Lewis
Delbert
Ella Whelan
Mae Berry
Laura Hurst
Lillie Busby
Fern Hurst
Ray Whelan
Whelan
Charley Seabee
Lockey Hurst Ang
John Hillis
D. W. Hursts
Mort Lyon
James
Arthur
Guy Lyon
Russell E. Brown
South America
Thomas
Bettis
Mother
Madoo
Country West
Locust Street League
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