Santa Claus Letters Piling Up At Indianapolis Post Office
The Indianapolis post office reports a large flow of Santa letters from children and parents addressed to Santa Claus in care of stores or the North Pole. Most letters are unsigned or handwritten. few have stamps. Postmaster Miles K. Moffett notes one postal card requests postage. Mr. Bush oversees the batch, with letters expected through the holidays.
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Santa Claus
Indianapolis
Heaven
St. Nicholas
North Pole
Santa
Fond Papas
Washington
Bush
Festmaster McGinnis
Miles K. Moffett
Connersville
Roy
Pennsylvania-st
Uncle Sam
Direct Descent Halloween Campaign Ends In Peace
Aunt Rebecca hosts a Puritan descendants gathering in Plymouth bay. Peggy Drew and Bruce Myles engage in a playful dare that ends with Peggy sliding down a hill and landing in Bruce’s arms. The two confess affection, vow to end the family feud, and plan to maintain the direct descent tradition.
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Hallowe'en
Plymouth Bay
Drews
Rebecca
Peggy Drew
Mass
Bruce Drew
Molly Turner
Priscilla Browne
Rose Arnold
Bruce
Captain’s Hill
Molly
Priscilla
Peggy
Rose
Myles Standish
Duxbury
Hall's Corner
Page & Shaw
Dizsier
Youthful Tragedy: Boy Dies After Boiling Water Incident
In Derby Connecticut a three year old, James McSheehey, died after he leapt into a tub of boiling water in a burst of rage sparked by his mother's rebuke. The children quarreled while the mother worked in the Shelton home. The mother scaled back tears while scolding, and James hurled himself into the scalding bath. He was dragged out in agony and died hours later.
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Derby
Conn
James McSheehey
Shelton
James
Young New York Heiress Earns 3500 A Year By Cartoons
Dorothy Ficken, 16, daughter of a wealthy New York architect, draws comic pictures and makes 3500 dollars yearly. She lives at 7 East Eighth Street in a family with deep artistic roots including a celebrated painter grandfather and a sister in the impressionistic school. Her "Jim Dumps" and "Sunny Jim" cartoons amuse readers and critics, though she says the work is not truly artistic, just fun. She began drawing for her father’s dinner cards two years ago and has not taken formal lessons.
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New York
Dorothy Ficken
New York City
Sunny South
E. Eighth St
Ficken
Laugh On Americans Laugh At Salaries Of European Musicians
Major Taylor argues Americans pay lavish salaries to European artists and notes Europeans mock U S practices. He cites Calve earning 2500 for two appearances and observes Parisian audiences applauding encores with dramatic theatrics, while a German bystander comments on the American reaction.
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Europe
Major Taylor
Indianapolis
Taylor
America
Mr. Taylor
Calve
Paris
Faust
Grand Opera House
Hoosierisms and Local Gaps in a Lighthearted Notice
A fragmentary Indiana column parodies social notes and local quips. It mentions a divorce suit by Mrs Celie Jerome of Spikeville against husband Quilletrome over insults, a Shelbyville hotel clerk ad, a Washington man frustrated by shipment delays, a two page Modoc Corkscrew supplement of ads, and various Christmas fund and charity lines.
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Celie Jerome
Spikeville
Quilletrome
Modoc Corkscrew
Diz
The Boss Liar contest in Indianapolis Sun
A call invites entries for a best lie told in 109 words or less with a one dollar prize and a membership in the Ananias club No 1. Personal lies are excluded and entrants must sign their name to show good fellowship. Address to THE BOSS LIAR Indianapolis.
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Boss Liar
Ananias Club
Indianapolis
Ind
Car
The Boss Liar and a Stump Blast Incident
Isaac Busby of Taylorville Ind recalls an odd blast while blasting stumps. He stood on an oak stump, exploded with dynamite, flew into pieces, sailed over a 40 acre area, landed in a brass kettle by a hedge, and returned home unharmed.
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Isaac Busby
Taylorville
Ind
Giants Once Roamed Cuyahoga Valley, Ohio Find
Akron Black reveals ancient mound builder site in Cuyahoga valley with eight foot giant skeleton jawbone, 14 pound stone axe, copper beads and wedges, decorated pottery, and 1 500 stone implements unearthed in sand banks near Ira.
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Ohio
Akron
Cuyahoga Valley
E. B. Howe
Ira
Howe
Some Badly Needed Reforms in a Drunkard's Home
A column lampoons a man named John as an habitual drinker and suggests a counterintuitive method for his wife to curb his drinking by buying cheap beer and spiking it with whiskey to keep him home. The piece ends urging Mary to lead reform and save money for her family.
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Mary
John Smith
John
Emmy
Lucy
Reilly
Reilly’s
Gulf of Mexico
Josh
Santa Claus
Edward Singer
Sauerkraut in court case ends with odd tasting
In Chicago Justice Richardson hears a dispute over a barrel of kraut from W. J. Heinz & Co against grocer Frank Simon. Simon presents the sealed tin containing the sauerkraut while witnesses and a court expert sample it, noting its acidity and questioning its age.
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Chicago
Justice Richardson
W. J. Heinz & Co
Frank Simon
Simon
John Schmitt
Schmitt
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