Fight Picture Fighers Turn to Big Effort
Boston July 7 leaders of the anti prize fight film drive plan a national campaign to enforce anti prize fight laws. The movement against Jack Johnson on vaudeville stages grows with church groups backing the effort and several states and cities acting to ban showing the films.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United Society of Christian Endeavor
William Shaw
Jack Johnson
Washington
D. C
Atlanta
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
World's records fall in air meet at Rhobims
Herbert Latham set a 200 kilometer air record in 2 hours 46 minutes in Rhobims. Olieslagers pursued Henry Farman's 4:06:26 record after 3 hours 29 minutes, reaching 160 miles. A collision between Kinet and Petrowski damaged the latter's plane. Petrowski unhurt. Waymann and Lindpanter crashed. Waymann landed uninjured, Lindpanter hurt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhobims
Herbert Latham
Olieslager
Henry Farman
Olieslagers
Kinet
Petrowski
Waymann
Lindpanter
Teacher to tramp west bare footed in Frankfort Ind
July 7 dispatch reports a teacher named George aims to tramp west with bare feet after leaving his post. The notice notes his action as a personal departure and seeks any information on his whereabouts.
Telephone appeal hearings before state tax board
The state tax board heard appeals from small independent telephone firms seeking lower property appraisals. Despite increased gross earnings prompting higher assessments, only 50 of 500 corporations appealed. Represented companies on Thursday included Lafayette, American Telephone and Telegraph, Peru, Hicksville, United States and Unionville, plus Santa Fe Refrigerator Car and Marquette Railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Tax Board
Lafayette
American Telephone and Telegraph
Peru
Hicksville
United States
Unionville
Santa Fe Refrigerator Car Company
The
Marquette Railway Company
States seek delay on new freight rate hikes
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan officials convened at the statehouse to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission. They seek to block the August 1 rollout until reviews finish and to gain the right to appear before the federal body. Indiana faces a 20 percent rise, Ohio 18 percent, Michigan 16 percent, with Illinois coal schedules filed so far.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railway Commissions
Indiana
Michigan
Ilinois
Ohio
Statehouse
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commission
Illinois
O. P. Gobhlin
J. C. Sullivan
C. A. Radcliffe
Gas bursts porter in hotel room in Michigan City
In Michigan City Indiana July 7 a porter named Jackson at the Fairview Hotel was knocked down when a lighted match ignited leaking gas. The blast damaged a door and sent Jackson to the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan City
Ind
Charles Jackson
Jackson
Fairview Hotel
Johnson
Japan Russia pact may end open door in Asia
London observers warn the St Petersburg Japan alliance threatens the open door policy with Korea and Manchuria. A secret understanding could bind Britain United States and Germany in a new triple alliance as Tokyo seeks to reconquer lost territory and extend influence in China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Great Britain
Germany
London
Far East
Russia
Japan
St. Petersburg
England
America
Britain
Tokio
China
Manchuria
Korea
Ito
Harbin
British Columbia
Australia
Washington
Spy network in St Petersburg lingers after Beringer release
ST PETERSBURG July 7 The release of Guy Beringer a Reuters correspondent suspected of aiding Baron Ernest Von Ungern Sternburg in passing Russian military secrets to Austria has not lessened the belief that the Austrian embassy in this city remains the center of an extensive spy organization focused on Russian military plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Guy Beringer
Reuter
Ernest von Ungern Sternburg
Austria
Indiana Fields Wage Pact Nears Breakup Over Fines
In Terre Haute Indiana on July 7 the Indiana operators and the miners agreed on all wage contract clauses except fines for miners calling local strikes without arbitration. Operators say they will close the mines indefinitely unless miners concede.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Sun
Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Ella Flagg Young Elected National Education Leader
Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Chicago public schools superintendent, was elected president of the National Education Association at its forty eighth annual convention in Boston. She is the first woman to hold the post, with a floor nomination overturning the nominating committee's selection of X Z Snyder. Strong female delegates led the drive, amid a bitter, public clash over the vote and a minority report adoption.
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Grace Strachan
New York
Elizabeth Allen
New Jersey
Chicago
Mrs. Young
Snyder
Mrs
Young
Caroline D. Blake
Isabelle A. Evans
Youne
X. Z. Snyder
Colorado State Normal School
Mosquito Swarm Kills Cattle and Closes Sawmills
In Cameron parish hundreds of cattle have died from parasitic swarms of mosquitoes that have appeared in recent days. The pests have forced the closure of all sawmills in Calcasieu parish and driven residents to stay indoors to avoid insect attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Charles
Cameron Parish
Calcasieu Parish
Colored pastor opposes Jeffries Johnson fight pictures
Rev. J. E. Board, a colored minister and juvenile court worker in Indianapolis, becomes the first local colored clergyman to oppose displaying the Jeffries Johnson fight motion pictures. He backs Mr. Shaw’s appeal to stop the pictures and says he will help remove them from Indiana and the nation.
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J. EB. Board
Indianapolis
Jeffries- Johnson
Reno
Board
Indiana
Shaw
Boston
United Christian Endeavor Society
Jeffries-Johnson
Girl Admits She Tied Her Own Hands and Made Up Break‑In
Abbie Bower of 328 East Henry Street confessed to Captain Holtz that she tied her own hands and placed a gag, admitting there was no intruder or struggle. Bower said she tied the cords to attract sympathy due to unemployment and desperation, and detectives Shine and Haley brought her to the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl
Abbie Bower
Henry Street
Holtz
Shine
Haley
Oak tree leveled for man's coffin in Muncie
Cary Fenwick 71 died Tuesday in Muncie Indiana. Before his death he asked to be buried in a coffin cut from the old oak tree in front of his home. His sons are cutting down the tree as part of his last wish. The tree grew from a sapling to a magnificent size beside his house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muncie, Ind
Cary Fenwick
Theft of Cow Charged to Clifford Davis
Clifford Davis of Emerson and Thirty eighth streets was arrested Thursday charged with stealing the Worley Jersey cow from 2012 Dearborn street. Worley’s animal was left tethered overnight and Davis allegedly drove it to the stockyards and was arrested while attempting to dispose of the animal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford Davis
Emerson and
Thirty Eighth Streets
K. Worley
Dearporn Street
Worley
Jersey
Davis
Motorcycle Rider Fined After Tragic Speeding Crash
Orville Seewright of 2004 North Senate Avenue was fined one dollar and costs for violating the water speed law. He was driving with Frank Fisher near Ware and Eleventh streets when their motorcycle collided with Geral C. Tanner's car. Fisher died later at City Hospital. Tanner asked for limited punishment, and the judge imposed the minimum penalty after testimony. The motorcycle was traveling 85 miles per hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Seewright
North
Senate Avenue
Poles Court
Seewright
Frank Fisher
Daeware
Eleventh Street
Geral C. Tanner
Tanner
Fisher
City Hospital
Ermston
Area firms pledge to meet mail wagons for curbside delivery
Seventy one district business firms signaled willingness to station a man at the sidewalk to meet autos carrying mail for the 4 o clock delivery now restored. The district covers nearly all Indianapolis wholesale houses, easing access to post after 2 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Buchanan
Indianapolis
Novelty mohairs and shadow stripe fabric sale
Fabric notice advertising mohairs suitable for bathing suits and separate skirts and Shadow Stripes in solid color. Dark manufacture fabric sold by the yard, regularly 50c now 36c. Located on the second floor in the east aisle.
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Jeffries
Epworth
Epworth League
Methodist Episcopal Church
Christian Endeavorers
Gov
Ansell
South Carolina
Donaghy
Arkansas
Mann
Virginia
Fernald
Maine
Crothers
Maryland
Draper
Spry
Utah
Pothier
Rhode Island
Marshall
TAX Board
Commissions of
Indiana, Ohio
Illi
Nois
Porter
Nippons
Ella Flagg Young
Majority Report
Ella Flagg
Zaring
Seco
Mr. Fenwick
Navy
White Goodsite
Underwood Typewriter Company [Incorporated
East Market Street
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