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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1929
Page
4
The article explains linemen's crucial but unseen role in football, detailing blocking methods, headgear use, and the shift from old dangerous techniques. It notes cross body blocks, body pivots, and the need for strong builds for each line position with a teaser about future discussion of the center trio.
English Ind Sept 14 Herschell G Miller 35 placed a stick of dynamite on his chest and blew himself to pieces at his sister's home, after suffering a nervous affliction. He had served in the Navy in World War I and was believed to have recently become demented. His sister summoned County Sheriff Balding but arrived too late.
Grace Banta Urbahns treasurer of state and Cambridge City official marries Franklin S Reynolds at the parsonage with only immediate family present. They plan a West tour through Canada to Seattle Was and San Francisco, return via Panama Canal, home at 3055 North Meridian after November 1. Urbahns serves on the state finance board. Reynolds leads Standard Manufacturing Rushville banks and Reynolds Manufacturing.
Earl Peacox stands trial in White Plains New York for the murder of his wife Dorothy Peacox and arson to conceal the crime. Ill health has caused postponement in proceedings as the case proceeds.
Indiana appellate court affirms a $9,000 award to Herman Bauermeister's heirs over typhoid deaths in Fort Wayne 1923. The ruling may prompt more suits against the City of Fort Wayne and the Pennsylvania Railroad tied to a contaminated water supply link.
Eight former employees of Clinton L. Selly and Company, Chicago stock brokers, were arrested in Indianapolis as part of a large bucket shop operation. The firm was closed by the State Securities Commission for alleged weak assets and irregular practices. Arrestees include William Wyman David Winston Chester Walsh Edward Ward Fred Lorch John Phillips Miss Marie Rappert and Mrs Mildred Sebel.
Applications for 40 000 seats to the world series continued at the Cubs office in Chicago. The total received so far is over 100 000 with more than twice that number expected before the sale closes next week says George Doyle, director of the reserved seat sale.
District Attorney John A. Holmes, 37, was shot dead as he prepared to close his garage door in Borger Texas. Authorities pursued the assailant after an ambush firing of three bullets.
Granada theatre screens Alibi an all dialogue underworld thriller from United Artists with Chester Morris and Eleanor Griffith in the cast. The program includes Cohen on the Telephone and today’s all talking sea picture Hurricane starring Hobart Bosworth Leila Hyams and John Mack Brown.
Universal presents Girl Overboard at the Voncastle theatre starting Sunday and running through Monday night with Mary Philbin in the cast. The director Wesley Ruggles explains the film uses authentic court procedure rather than dramatic license to heighten realism.
The film features Ruggles in vivid water front scenes shot in San Pedro and San Francisco with actual harbor backdrops. The court sequence, an authentic Los Angeles branch court, is well staged with a realistic judge. Otis Harlan stars as the tug captain alongside Philbin, with McDonald Breese and North in supporting roles. A new comedy and news reel accompany the feature. Tom Mix's King Cowboy closes tonight outdoors.
A Central News dispatch from Rome reports eighteen killed and twenty five injured in an explosion and building collapse in Parma Italy. The event is dated from London September and involves Italian disaster scenes with casualties and structural failure.
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