Prices fall as Christmas buying gains in 1920 retail
Retail reports from The Stat indicate December business for general lines and Christmas goods shows rising shopper demand and higher turnover compared with last year. Merchants note prices are about 25 percent lower than a year ago as cash receipts rise to preholiday levels and better quality goods drive shopping around.
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Stat
Iondinapolis
merlee
laad preholiday
moat of the ants
moat
CalmlY claiming crimes by an unclothed wanderer on the run
Wilbur McFarrin, shirtless and wrapped in a blanket, sat with John Quinn and officers and recounted a cascade of alleged robberies and hold ups in Terre Haute and Indianapolis. He claimed three armed assailants forced him to disrobe and stole a bar while detailing past burglaries and a stint at Fort Harflaon. He told tales of escaping Central Hospital for the Insane and a long history of police and military detentions.
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Wilbur McFarrin
John Quinn
Arnolda avenue
Sergi
Sheehan
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Pat O'Hara
West Washington street
Cohen
Brightwood
Charles D. Dodson
West Nineteenth street
Sergt. Sheehan
McFarrin
Central Hospital
Fort Harflaon
bag nine
hoa- Pi
Train overturns street car injuring many in Indianapolis
A Big Four freight train struck an outbound West Washington street car at West Washington Street and the Belt tracks, flipping the car onto its side. More than twenty injured, with serious cases listed, as investigators probe signals miscommunication between the street car conductor and the flagman. The crash halted traffic. forty two passengers were recorded on board.
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Big Four
Belt Railroad
West Washington
West Washington Street
CHARLES NEEL
New Jersey street
City hospital
E. SCHOOLEY
Sheffield avenue
CLARENCE WALLACE
Washington street
ROBERT DAVIS
HIRAM GRAHAM
Marle Oren
West
Sherman Roberts
Sheffield
Morris Houfnagel
Holmes avenue
H. Austin
Levi Gasho
Roosevelt hotel
John Movick
Everett street
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Movick
William O'Connor
Gasho
Auto Supplies and Repairs Classified Ads Preview
The page presents typical auto related classifieds including supplies, repairs, ovens, and engine parts. It lists several offerings from manufacturers and repair shops with mixed legibility, showing items like pistons and freon and noting page references for fuller listings.
Army cook hunting eggs not Allenby captured Holy City
A Brooklyn talk recounted by Maj. Vivian Gilbert describes an egg hunt misdirection during the 1917 Jerusalem capture. The mayor of Jerusalem reportedly handed over city keys three times to British officers before Gen. Allenby finally entered the city two days later, with the mayor said to have died soon after from pneumonia.
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ALLENBY
HOLY CITY
NEW YORK
Jerusalem
Vivian Gilbert
London
Brooklyn
Gilbert
cook
Watson
Michigan Prison Warden Stabbed During Riot
A riot at the Michigan state reformatory branch in Marquette during a moving picture show left Warden T B Catlin with nine knife wounds. Deputy Warden Menhennit was beaten. his son Arthur Menhennit was stabbed in the lungs and hospitalised in serious condition.
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MARQUETTE
Mich
Michigan state reformatory
T. B. Catlin
Menhennit
Arthur Menhennit
Igraia
Holdups Bullet Wounds Man Who Tries to Run
Isaac Collier of 608 North Capitol avenue was shot in the left forearm by two Negro holdup men who stopped him at North and Muskingum streets early Saturday. He told police the bullet struck but did not go through. The assailants fled in the opposite direction.
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HOLDUP
Isaac Collier
North Capitol avenue
North
Muskingum
Rev jafiers
O'Connor
Ubarty
Edward Darrow
James Laporte
Tommy
St. Paul
Minn
Adhiapala
Donvid Strauss
Strauss
O’Connor
Keres
Orde
76 000 Asked To Give To Chest A waits Forts Decision
The Indianapolis Community Chest launches a $605 412 drive to aid 39 organizations with more than 76 000 citizens expected to subscribe. Campaign chair Dick Miller leads 1 000 workers through nightly Cable Tabernacle programs open to the public without charge. The effort emphasizes weekly one hour pay gifts from factory and mercantile workers, with a goal to fund feeding, medical relief, child feeding, elder care, and delinquent youth programs next year.
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Indianapolis
Dick Miller
Cable Tabernacle
Cadle
Joe Overmyer
Howard Cadle
Charles Reese
McCray
Jewett
Shank
mercantile—division
Hugh McK Landon
Community Chest
City council strains to challenge Shank in new term
Political observers see a brewing clash between Mayor-elect Shank and a majority of the upcoming City Council. Enemies of Shank aim to use six council seats to impeach or curb the administration. Ensuing maneuvering hints at covert power plays while Shank’s own outreach and appointments stir tensions. The report notes caucus timing and internal rifts as factions maneuver before Shank’s return from Hot Springs. CONTINUED ON PAGE MINE.
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Lew Shank
new city Council
Shank
Mr. Shank
WHS
Indianapolis
Indianapolia
Jowett-Lemcke
new Republican
Jewett
Belt
Hot Springs
Ark Shank
U S Birth Rate Rises 1.4 Percent in 1920
Washington December 11 The Census Bureau reports the American birth rate rose 1.4 percent in 1920 from 1910, at 23.7 per 1000. The 1916 rate is noted as the high normal prior to influenza and war, with state white and colored rates shown, including North Carolina highest white and California lowest white, and Washington and California leading colored rates.
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WASHINGTON
Census Bureau
bureau
United States
North Carolin
California
Californias
District of Columbia
Archbishp Curley denounces birth control advocates in Baltimore
Arch bishop Michael J Curley assailed birth-control advocates during a confirmation service at St Dominica’s Catholic Church in Baltimore. He described married life as sacred with duties and rights, warning against those who would “snuff out that area of unborn children” and urging Catholics to value life.
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BALTIMORE
Michael J Curley
St Dominia’s Catholic
Balttimore
Catholica of
America
Tara
Araerser
Bi partisan Senate support for four power pact urged
The article reports Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska signaling expected Senate support for ratification of the four power alliance. President Harding praises American delegates for their work as the Arms Conference coverage notes efforts to present Korea's case and bi partisanship within the Senate.
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Korean commission
Korea
Senate
fourpower alliance
Hitchcock, Demdé& erat
Nebraska
Harding
Burglars Seize Safe and Cash From Meridian Street Firms
Burglars broke into Houppert Strack Company at 967 North Meridian Street and stole a small safe with about $2000, plus two $100 gold bonds and roughly $660 in change. They also took tires and a stolen W H Diddel Company car, valued around $300, both vehicles later recovered. The heist was discovered by manager William Strack, and the safe was found near Fall Creek with papers strewn in mud.
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Baturddy
Houppert Strack Company
North Meridian Street
W H. Diddel Comepany
Fall creek
City hospital
Felice
Guam Yap cable sealed without owners told
San Francisco December 11 disclosure that the Guam Yap cable had been sealed within the past three days by unknown persons was issued by the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company owners of the line. Investigation is being conducted through its New York office but only the Navy Department, the Japanese government, or the cable company could have sealed the line. It was not known at what exact point the seal was applied.
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SAN FRANCISCO
Cal
Guam-Yap
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
New York
Navy Department
Man’s life saved by watch in holdup shooting
Clyde Towle of Portland Indiana escaped serious harm when a bullet fired by two black holdups near Market Street and Senate Avenue aimed at his heart struck his watch and pierced his clothing. Towle defended himself after being ordered to raise his hands, then turned to confront the second assailant before the gunfire.
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Clyde Towle
Portland
Ind
Towle
Market Street-and
Senate avenue
brulacs
Lieut. Jores
Sergt Sheehan
Goodrich to Testify on Russian Affairs
James P. Goodrich was summoned to Washington to appear before the House committee on Russian affairs Monday. He spoke at the Presbyterian church Bible class on "The Religion of Russia" in Winchester Indiana today.
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WINCHESTER
Ind
James P. Goodrich
Washington
House committee
Presbyterian church today
Russia
Weather Forecast For Indiana And Indianapolis
A United States Weather Bureau special report notes a Monday to Tuesday forecast of fair and colder conditions in Indiana and Indianapolis with unsettled moments, slight warming trends, and light rain possible. Winds shift from northwest to southerly by Tuesday as conditions ease.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
United
Weather Bureau
Indianapolis Star
Maem
Prison wall escape shocks Chicago gun killer case
Tommy O'Connor the condemned gun killer escaped from the county jail with two other convicts in broad daylight. They fought guards, seized cars, and sped from the jail through the yard and over a twelve foot wall, heading toward the South Side underworld as police pursued with armed deputies.
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CHICAGO
Associated Press
Tommy O’Connor
O’Connor
geen the slayer
South side
sagistast
O'Connor
O Connor
Robert Eo Crowe
tate
hemediately
Federal courta
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