Indiana Moves to Prosecute Pool Room Operators
Burt New and W. H. Thompson prepare an injunction suit against Ed Alvey of Jeffersonville to stop running a pool room for race track gambling. Indictments exist in Clark county. prosecutors favor injunctions over criminal prosecutions as bills to curb race betting are discussed for the next legislature.
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Burt New
W. H. Thompson
Ed Alvey
Jeffersonville
Clark County
Alvey
Indiana
Gov
Marshall
Hughes
New York
Hanly
Governor Marshall vows to curb poolrooms in Indiana
The governor states plans to enact laws to abolish poolrooms in Latonia and Chicago zones now in Indiana. He asserts Indiana will not be known as a wide pen state while he serves as governor.
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Latonia
Chicago
Indiana
Marshall
Electric Rates Referred to the Board of Works
A Commercial Club committee reports evidence of different electric rates among providers in Indianapolis. It states rates exceed the charter maximum of 100 cents per kilowatt and urges referral to the Board of Public Works for action.
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The
Commercial Club
Board of Directors
Indianapolis
Board of Public Works
Lost Child Found After Street Crying On Meridian
A four year old girl named Margaret, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Doucher of N. Wilinois street, stood crying on Meridian street Tuesday night. A passerby took her home after a bystander suggested the police station, and a man who knew the girl identified her and returned her to her parents.
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Meridian Street
Margaret
Frank Doucher
N. Ywilinois Street
Opening of Murat Theater Delights Indianapolis Crowd
The Murat Theater debuts with the Shubert Lov Havana in a grand opening for Shriners and invited guests. James T. Powers and cast deliver an extended vaudeville program with encores while admirers praise the theater’s splendor and management.
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NEW Murat
Indianapolis
New Murat Theater
Shubert
Havana
James T. Powers
Shriners
America
Jimmy’ Powers
Mr. Powers
Jimmy
Powers
Joe Jefferson
Shriner
United States
Charles B Sommers Indpls Dramatist The Winding Way
Indianapolis dramatist Charles B Sommers author of The Winding Way will have his play produced by Willam Faversham at the Murat theater for the last three days of the week. Sommers tells of his transition from actor to playwright after a father’s opposition and a move to Albuquerque where mining steadied his course before returning to the stage. Faversham will star as Herod during the opening days while the new drama receives its first stage presentation.
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States
Henry D. Carey
Park Theater
Neil McLain
Alaska
Kate
Neil
George Arvine
Emre Theater
Jardin de Paris Girls
The
Empire
Miss Mitchell
Mitchells
Stewarts
Stewart
Dave Marion
Marion
Charles B. Sommers
Indianapolis
Willam Faversham
Murat
Cincinnati
Sommers
Young Sommers
Hamlet
Virgil Pinkney
Cincinnati College of Music
Tackleton
Pitticus Green
Hazel Kirke
Slasher
Tom Robinson
Crasher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Hell's Canyon
Hug
Faversham
England
Surrey
New York
Herod
Abdallah Troupe Performs Double Full Twister at Grand
The Abdallah troupe presents a daring double full twister stunt by Sam Abdallah and company at the Grand Opera House this week. The American tumblers Sam Willie Jimmie Ali Abdallah Archie Gullet and Patsy Judge form a six man act striving to excel global acrobatic exhibitions. The act opened the program with the three Abdallahs featured in the bill.
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Sam
Jimmie
Willie
Archie Gullet
America
Ali Abdallah
Patsy Judge
Ted Judge
Grand Opera House
Sam Abdallah
Abdallah
Abdallahs
Ali
Taft Declines Testimony in Ballinger Pinchot Inquiry
President Taft will not be called to testify before the Ballinger Pinchot investigating committee. The conversation between Taft and Pinchot on conservation will not be used as evidence. The decisions were made in executive session.
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Washington
Taft
Ballinger- Pinchot
Pinchot
Miss Money Teaches Horses Care in New York Lecture
English whip Miss Ethel Money, granddaughter of Lord Gainsborough, lectured on proper horse care at Gainsborough studios. She urged light and air in stables, clean bedding, deep sawdust beds, ample water, long ropes, and humane practices, condemning cruel rein restraint and stressing ventilation and cleanliness.
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New York
Ethel Money
Lord Gainsborough
Gainsborough Studios
Fifty-ninth Street
Miss Money
Cascarets Claim Massive Public Trust and Sales
The ad touts Cascarets as a trusted national remedy with millions of daily users and over six years of sustained demand. It warns of imitators and counterfeiters seeking to steal the brand’s good will and profits.
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America
Cascarets
Cascarets Offer Time Tested Digestive Aid
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a reliable, vegetable laxative for all ages. It claims they cleanse the digestive canal, strengthen bowel activity, and protect children from disease, presenting them as safe, harmless, and efficient.
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Cascarets
Dishonest Sales Tactics Warned By Consumer Ad
An old advertisement warns against dishonest sellers and a bogus “Just as Good” claim. It promotes Sterling Remedy Company Cascarets sold only in the Ten Cent “West Pocket” box marked CCC, emphasizing genuine products and cautioning buyers against bulk sales and counterfeit tablets.
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Sterling Remedy Company
Probationers Report Before Judge Collins In City Court
Judge Collins received 78 probationers reports on Tuesday afternoon. Fifteen failed to show, with several to be found and required to justify absence. Wives testified on conduct, some men had obtained good jobs, and pay envelopes were sent by wives to prove employment.
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Crotyl
Collins
Knights of Attica to Install Uniform Rank Pythians
Gen Merrill E Wilson Col A A Womack and Maj Samuel L Montgomery head a ceremony at Attica on March 11 to install a Uniform Rank chapter of Knights of Pythias. The new group will have seven members and eight new companies plan to attend the national encampment in Milwaukee.
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Merrill E. Wilson
A. A. Womack
Samuel L. Montgomery
Knights of Pythias
Attica
Milwaukee
Remembered She After Elopement Letter About Will
A letter notes a father finished his will and left all his money to an asylum for hopeless idiots. The couple wonders if he remembered them. The exchange reveals family estrangement and a morbid bequest.
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Papa
Singers to aid milk dispensary at church charity drive
Reverend Allen W. McCurdy of Morningside Presbyterian launches a pasteurizing plant in church rooms to provide safe milk for babies. A March 3 benefit at the Belasco Theater will fund expansion to serve north of One Hundredth Street. Noted artists including Bella Alten and Beatrice Bowman join Otto L. Fisher at the piano.
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New York
Marci
Allen W. McCurdy
Morningside Presbyterian Church
Belasco Theater
Bella Alten
Alma Webster Powell
Frederick Gunther
Beatrice Bowman
Rita Fornia Barrick von Morden
Marguerite Dunlop
Grifith Hugnes
Howard Jones
Jan Munkasky
Otto L. Fisher
McCurdy
Hundreith Street
Morningside
His Practice Anyhow Wigg What Originated Idea
A fragmentary note ponders the notion that the longest route may seem the shortest path home. The text mentions a taxi driver named J. as a possible origin of the idea.
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Ohio
Armstrong Laundry
Marta State Life Idsurdie Co
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Columbia National
Washington St
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Indianapolis Street Railway
Indianapolis, Columbus & Southern
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Marion & Western
Mettins
Fletcher National Bank
W. H. Wade
Myre
Bond Department
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