Farm relief seen from freight cut and credit ease
The Star notes the interstate commerce commission order cutting freight and grain rates by 16 percent, effective December, with wheat and grain tariffs reduced. Bankers and farmers see improved financing and broader markets, while thrift and economy boost farmer savings and readiness for future service. overall tone is cautiously optimistic about gradual farming recovery.
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The Star
Ind
Eben H. Wolcott
ier
insen
ngs deposita
Trio borrows street car for Brightwood joyride
Three men inspired by too much white mule borrowed Indianapolis Street Railway car No. 914 and rode the Brightwood route before police stopped the stunt. James and Mike McCormick face vagrancy and trespass charges while Robert Walk is charged with drunkenness vagrancy and trespass. The car was recovered and returned to service after a chase.
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Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Georgia street
Capitol avenue
Illinois street
Massachusetts avenue
Alabama street
Brightwood
James
Mike McCormick
Prospect street
Robert Walk
Singlish avenue
McCormicks
Walk
No. 914
Rountree
James McCormick
Irvington
Dail Eireann Secrecy Pauses Ahead of Treaty Vote
Dublin crowds and reporters await the Dail Eireann meetings as insiders hint at a probable small majority ratifying the treaty with Great Britain. Speculation centers on Arthur Griffith moving the measure with Michael Collins seconding, amid possible revisions and renewed public sessions over Christmas.
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DUBLIN
Associated Press
Dail Eireann
a. burat
council
Desmond Fitzgerald
Sinn Fein
Fitzgerald
Corkelty
Dall
Weather Outlook for Indiana and Indianapolis Area
Forecast for Monday and Tuesday calls for increasing cloudiness then rain. Temperatures show little change. Special report notes yesterday's conditions with humidity around 68 percent at noon and 68 percent at 7 PM, rainfall totals, and temperature highs near 42.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
United States Weather Bureau
Indianapolis Star
acm
Joe
Mawlanm
owe Tom
cece eye
Shank Favors Assessing Plan For Traffic Offenders
Maurice Early reports Lew Shank his plan to tax first traffic violations in Detroit style. Walter W Wise notes Detroit's $1 $3 and $5 assessments along with court transfer option. Detroit’s system uses a central bureau a parking lot pond and a card index to manage offenders and cut congestion. A tower controlled flow at key streets and brief delays for streetcars improved downtown movement. Wise advocates Meridian Illinois and Washington streets for a pilot tower control system to regulate traffic signals.
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Detroit
Mich
Lew Shank
Wise
ope
Mr. Wise
Shafik
Meridian street
Maryland Street
Fall creek
towera
Meridian
Illnois
Washington streets
Campaign to End Tonight With Reports From Workers in Each Division
Indianapolis leaders and seventy five representative men gathered at the public library to boost the Community Chest drive for 1922 welfare relief. Nearly $30,000 was raised and eight men pledged to raise $1,000 each by evening, as the drive aims at a $604,412 city goal.
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Indianapolis
public library
Community Chest
Frederic M. Ayres
Albert M. Rosenthal
Leo M. Rappaport
Franklin Vonnegut
Henry F. Campbell
Edgar H. Evang
J. J. Holcomb
Samuel E. Rauh
People's State Bank
big gifts
ugh Mel
Landon
big gifts committee
Dick Miller
Fred Hoke
the
chest organization
Charles F. Coffin
Chamber of Commerce
Albert N. Rosenthal
Five hundred arrested in Chicago dry drive
Chicago police raided wholesale and arrested 500 individuals for violating prohibition laws. Chief Fitzmorris said more arrests were planned as raids continued throughout the city, targeting venues including the Casino Club where society members were reportedly present.
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CHICAGO
Fitzmorris
Temperature records set in Indianapolis low for year
A temperature of 22 degrees yesterday established the low mark for the season in Indianapolis while the day’s high reached 37. A forecast called for increasing clouds with rain today and tomorrow. The coldest U S spot was western Montana and northern Wyoming at about 4 degrees below zero. British Columbia reported minus 20. Indianapolis weather reports show rainfall this year at 48.4 inches, 7.92 inches above the thirty year average.
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Indianapolis
United States
Montana
Wyoming
British Columbia
weather bureau
Auto Gas Tank Explosion Claims Girl’s Life
Fort Wayne Indiana December 18 Mil dred Rose Mossman 2 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs M R Mossman died in St Joseph hospital from burns received in an automobile gasoline tank explosion after an accident on the Huntington road ten miles from Fort Wayne The child was taken to the hospital by a passing motorist and died shortly after arrival Her parents suffered severe burns rescuing her but were not considered critically hurt by physicians
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FORT WAYNE
Ind
Mildred Rose Mossman
M. R. Mossman
St. Joseph hospital
Huntington road
Penniless Rag Picker Worth $45,000 At Death
Beattle Wash Dec 18 Petition for probate of Albert Licht blau who died Dec 15 reveals he left $16,000 in cash and $30,000 in property. Principal beneficiary named is Mrs Martha Ramp of Waterbury Conn. Police found Licht blau weak in arrest Dec 7. He had collected rags and paper for years before dying last Thursday.
Fire Claims Johnson Family In Windsor Home Blaze
Mrs. Reuben Johnson and her six children aged 3 to 16 died as a fire destroyed their Windsor home. Johnson had left briefly to help fight a neighbor's fire and returned to find his house ablaze, unable to rescue his family.
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WINDSOR, N
Reuben Johnson
Buffalo Storm Death Toll and Heavy Damage Across City
A ninety five mile an hour gale ripped Buffalo on December 18 water rose along Lake Erie and the Niagara River. One man was killed two women and a man injured as wreckage and floating debris caused widespread destruction. Boathouses docks and hundreds of pleasure craft were swept away and large property loss was reported along the waterfront.
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BUBPFALO
N. Y
Associated Preas
rank FH
Kiefer
Porter avenue
Misa Margaret Cochrane
Hier
Katherine
Lake Frise
Bird Ialander
Squas ialand
Buffalo
Fort Erie
Tonawanda
Niagara falls
Grand Island
Lake Erie
Niagara river
the falla
Lasalle
Niagara Falla
Chinese View of Limitation at Washington Conference
Dr Cr H Wang of the Chinese delegation says armament limits are good but only lessen war engines not dangers. He notes nations treat neighbors unfairly, comparing illegal acts between individuals to treaties. Lord George Ridell urges patience and a cultural shift toward peace, stressing education and fewer monuments to soldiers.
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WASHINGTON
Associated Press
Cr. H. Wang
Church of the Covenant
BALTIMORE
George Riddel
Grace
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Blacksmith named by prisoner as maker of bomb
Warsaw dispatch reports Wolfe Lindenfeld accuses a New York blacksmith of crafting the Wall Street blast in 1920 and being paid to stage the explosion. The man, now in the United States, allegedly traveled with Lindenfeld to Moscow last August before returning home with his wife watching Morgan’s movements nearby.
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WARSAW
Associated Press
Silvester Cosgrove
Department of Justice
Washington
Wolfe Lindenfeld
William Linde
Wall Street
Weat Thortleth street
New York city
United States
Tindenfeld
Paul Altendorf
Windenfeld
Allendorf
Lindenfeld
Moscow
America
J. 2. Morgan
Hotel owner recalls weak records on Wall Street blast site
New York December 18. George Me hotel on Fortieth Street near a former saloon said he could throw no light on the alleged transaction linked to the Wall Street bomb explosion. Wolf Lindenfeld is said to have paid for the site. Meritos claimed he operated the International Hotel months before September 1920, when the blast occurred, with few guests as repairs continued. He kept no register and recalls no suspicious patrons.
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NEW YORK
George Mehotel
wat
Fortieth street
Wall street
Wolf Lindenfeld
Meritos
International hotel
herald
Captain Collapses After Potomac Docking
Captain William McTeod of the steamer Potomac, crushed between a deckhouse and a life boat during a mid Atlantic hurricane, collapsed after docking at Hoboken N J He was believed to have internal injuries The Potomac sailed from Bremen December 3 with 297 passengers and 201 crew Two seamen and first officer Richard Albrecht were injured. Nina of her ie bonta and several crafts were washed away in the storm.
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HOBOKEN
N. J
Dee
William McTeod
Potomac
mid-Atlantic
Richard Albrecht
Bremen
Nina
Flu kills chief engineer of U S forces in Germany
Corlenz, Dec 18 Major Bernard A. Miller chief engineer of the American forces in Germany died today of pneumonia developing from influenza He was a native of St Louis Mo Ninety two influenza cases have been admitted to the hospitals
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CORLENZ
Bernard A. Miller
Germany
Hie warna
St. Louis
Three Bandits Rob Capitol Theater For 10000
Three bandits robbed the Capitol theater tonight in New York. They held up the auditor Fouls Faulkner and three other employees, then escaped down a fire escape with $10,000 from the ante.
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NEW YORK
Capitol theater
Anti U S League of Tokio Opposes Parley Decisions
A mass meeting under the Anti American Young Men's League opposed Washington conference decisions. Speakers denounced the agreements and police blocked a planned demonstration before the American embassy, seizing leaflets featuring the song Struate America. Japanese papers react to naval ratios and wartime fears.
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U. S. LEAGUE OF TOKIO
TOKIO
Associated Press
Slump Noted in Wholesale Prices in November
Washington December reports a slight decline in wholesale prices for November. The Bureau of Labor Statistics index fell from 160 in October to 149. Largest drops came in farm products, clothing, and metal goods, while fuel and building materials rose, and foods showed little change.
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WASHINGTON
bureau. of labor statistics
bureau
Mary Garden Is Ill in Chicago Bed Rest Ordered
Chicago December 18 Mary Garden celebrated singer and general director of the Chicago Opera Company was ordered by her physician to stay in bed indefinitely. She is threatened with pneumonia.
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CHICAGO
Mary’ Garden
Chicago Opera Company
Classified auto supplies and services ad collection
A sample of classified ads shows auto supplies and repair services across California and other areas. Entries advertise radiator repair, tires rebuilt and new treads, auto tops, painting, and general repair. Prices and contact snippets indicate broad roadside and shop offerings in the era.
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California
New York
Malin
Eureka Auto Parts
Tira Co
Vinois
Crete
Anderson ‘Tre Ca
Capitol wen
Capitol Auto Parts
Tire
TIM nola
Matin
Hoonter Gayrage
Webster
Calls Attention of French Premier to Situation Caused by Demand
The French premier is urged to focus on a situation created by a demand whose approval would challenge the principles of arms limitation. The article notes concerns over potential breaches of agreed limits and the broader impact on international policy.
France Presses 6 6 3 3 Naval Plan At Armament Talks
Washington reports show French insistence on a 6 6 3 3 capital ship ratio and a phased fleet build to 350000 tons by 1941. Secretary Hughes challenged the plan as incompatible with core armament limits while Paris defends the French program and its timetable.
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WASHINGTON
Associated Press
Hughes
Briand
Trance
naval committee
Shantung
France
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ONTINGEO
BRIGHTWOOD JOYRIDE
Arthur Rountree
Richard Mulcahy
Irish republican army
John Joseph McKeown
Jim Grow
SHANK
MAURICE EARLY
PAQE SLEVEN
MILLER
Hoke
thair
Niagara
coast guard
West 40th Street
HURT
FLU
U. S
Colorado
Maryland
Asthi
Yorozu Choho
Japan
Kokumin Shimbun
Jif Shimpo
MARY GARDEN
Principles of Arma
LONDON
George Harvey
M. Briand
Times
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raypeees
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