City to Slash Payroll in 1926 Reductions
Mayor Shank, promising no politics, orders cuts across city departments as budget reforms take effect. About twenty workers lose jobs, police ranks shortened. several offices and roles eliminated or consolidated with target completion by December 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shank
Herman F. Rikhoff
Barrett Law Department
Board of Health, Sanitary ,Commissioners and
City Plan Commission
Tomlinson Hall
Bold Hold Up By Girl In Broad Daylight
Police hunted a daylight girl bandit and her male accomplice after breaking into Mrs. Myrtle Brethaeus home at 438 East Market Street. The woman struck the resident and injured a visitor while escaping with a purse containing three dollars. a larger sum was left behind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Brethaeus
E. Market St
Brethaeus
Margaret Madison
Beatrice Madison
Chicago
Brethauer
State Inspector to Oversee Churchman Road Paving
Marion County commissioners approved a petition by fifty taxpayers for a State highway commission inspector to supervise Churchman Road paving with crushed stone cement. The road runs south from the city through Center and Perry Townships. County Commissioner John McCloskey praised the move, noting a prior inspector condemned forty car loads of crushed stone on the Three Notch Road paving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Churchman Rd
Marion County
Center
Perry Townships
John McCloskey
Three Notch Rd
Improper Driving Alleged Arrest Near Greencastle
Thomas E. Sherral of Greencastle was arrested by traffic police at Pennsylvania and Washington streets for driving while intoxicated and transporting liquor. Police allege he had a half pint of mule in his automobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Washington Sts
Thomas E. Sherral
Greencastle
State
Milk Spill Fallout in La Porte Taxi Collision
Mrs Carl Knicklebine cried I spilled the milk after a taxi hit the milk truck she drove. Eighty gallons spilled and she sustained a deep gash in her right arm with minor cuts and bruises. Both cars damaged.
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Times
LA Porte
Ind
Carl Knicklebine
Truck left at 140 W Twenty Third St after brick thrown through window
Police hold a truck found in front of Mrs Ella Dalton’s home at 140 West Twenty Third Street. A brick tied with a note reading Beware Bozo was used, but the driver fled, leaving the truck. A queer note remains as investigators review the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Dalton
W. Twenty-Third St
Postal receipts rise in July in fifty cities
United Press reports July postal receipts in fifty industrial cities rose 11.19 percent from a year earlier. Tampa led with a 61.25 percent jump, followed by Cheyenne 47.87 and Sioux Falls 37.71. South Bend showed a 22.37 percent increase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Post Office Department
Tampa
Fla
Cheyenne Wyo
Sioux Falls
S. D
South Bend
Ind
Two Arrests In Liquor Raids Named In Ames
Lieutenant Eisenhut and his squad made two liquor raid arrests today. Ames Stewart aged 44 of 1818 Northwestern Ave and Frank Cooper aged 51 of 2022 West Washington Street were charged with operating blind tigers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eisenhut
Ames Stewart
Northwestern Ave
Frank Cooper
Washington St
Chamber invites Meyer to discuss Indianapolis factory plans
Sol Meyer of the Meyer Kiser bank is invited by John B. Reynolds to discuss a proposed 1,000,000 factory fund and city industrial development in Indianapolis. Reynolds praises Meyer's support and outlines a broader campaign to boost the city with public cooperation and tax incentives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce
Sol Meyer
John B. Reynolds
Chamber
Reynolds
Meyer
Meyer-Kiser Bank
United
Frank S. Fishback
Industries Committee
G. M. Williams
Nordyke & Marmon Company
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
Disposition of $200,000 Bonded Whisky Delayed
The disposal of a $200,000 stock of W P Squibbs bonded whisky is delayed while an appeal is prepared against a FederalJudge Baltgell ruling that the liquor be destroyed. Attorney Thomas D Slattery of Cincinnati said he will appeal to United States District Attorney Albert Ward. The government claims the liquor was part of a large conspiracy led by George Remus bootleg king of Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. P. Squibbs
Robert C. Baltgell
Thomas D. Slattery
Cincinnati
Ohio
United States
Albert Ward
George Remus
Burnett brothers freed on bond in bootlegger killing case
Lawrence Burnett ages 24 and Joseph Burnett 30, of 524 Vinton Street, were released on $2,500 bonds from Beecher Illinois jail. They had been held in the death of Norman Hamilton aged 22, shot in a bootlegger battle near 355 West Merrill Street. Illinois officers said the Burnetts saw Hamilton's body tossed from a speeding car and notified police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Joseph Burnett
Vinton St
Indianapolis
Beecher
Ill
Norman
Big Ham
Tax Board Protest by Putnam and Boone County Officials
Members of Putnam and Boone county boards of review visited the State tax board to protest tax equalization orders. The State board recommended a ten percent increase on all lands and improvements in Putnam County and a similar increase on farm lands and improvements in Boone County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of Review
Putnam
Boone Counties
State Tax Board
State Board
Tax Board
Putnam County
Boone County
Sixteen Native Kentuckians Head Homeward in Two Cars
Sixteen native Kentuckians, including the Dick family of Mr. and Mrs. Dick with eight children and a dog, and the Woolridge group with a father and two sons, depart a municipal tourist camp for Kentucky hills near Campbellsville and Somerset. They travel in two flivvers loaded with a squirrel rifle and coal oil lantern, bound for God’s country where the sun is seen only at noon behind the hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie
Tom Woolridge
John A. Dick
Kentucky
Campbellsville
Somerset
Illinois
Woolridge
God's Country
Illinois Plains
Thieves Loot Home In Park Avenue Residence
Miss Mattie Harrison the maid at Dr. Walter Grow’s home on Park Avenue reported burglars entered through a rear door and ransacked the house. Sergeant Russell investigated but could not determine all missing items while the Grow family was away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattie Harrison
North St
Walter Grow
Park Ave
Sergeant Russell
Will Kill No More Dayton Air Fatality Recall
The same plane that killed Lieut James F Tilton of Pershing Ind and Leo L Burch of Perrysville Ohio crashed at Osborn Ohio. They were performing stunts when it dove from about 1000 feet. Tilton formerly worked for a Richmond Indiana newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Dayton
Ohio
James F. Tilton
Pershing
Ind
Leo L. Burch
Perrysville
Osborn
Tilton
Richmond
Link-Belt Company to Hold Largest Picnic at Broad Ripple Park
Arrangements are complete for the Link-Belt Company's largest picnic at Broad Ripple Park to mark its fiftieth anniversary. Special streetcars will run from Market Street and Capitol Avenue from 8 to 10 a.m. An estimated 7,000 attendees are expected. Activities begin at 10 a.m. with athletic events for men women and children, two afternoon baseball games, and free dancing in the afternoon. G. P. Torrence serves as general chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Link-Belt Company
Broad Ripple Park
Market St
Capitol Ave
G. P. Torrence
Hawkins Seeks Bond After Federal Conspiracy Conviction
Hawkins a former president of the Hawkins Mortgage Company of Portland Indiana met with his attorney J J M La Follette in the U S marshal's office at the Federal Building amid reports he seeks a $50 000 appeal bond The attorney said appealing as a pauper would not affect bond eligibility and Hawkins declined comment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morton
Hawkins
Hawkins Mortgage Company
Portland
Ind
J. J. M. la Follette
la Follette
Four Drivers Arrested Over Muffler Law Violations
Earl F. Kingham aged 46 of 432 North Kealing Avenue was arrested today along with three other motorists for muffler law violations and speeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl F. Kingham
N. Kealing Ave
City Boosting Week Workers Open Quarters
Downtown headquarters in the Palace Theater Building will host Greater Indianapolis Week activities August 16 to 23. Johana F Walker street cleaning chief says executive committee will assign tasks for the week. Airplanes will advertise Indianapolis and sign boards will display city facts. Miss Greater Indianapolis plans include a popular ballot via luncheon clubs. The parade August 19 will feature a band and Ft Benjamin Harrison soldiers escorting twenty divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace Theater
N. Pennsylvania St
Greater Indianapolis
Indianapolis
Walker
Famed Jenny Lee of Poor Jo Fame Sobs Over Reported Hollywood Death
London reports Jennie Lee, the original Jenny Lee known as Poor Jo, sobbed over alleged Hollywood death news. The actress, living in poverty, told Daily Sketch she often teeters on starvation and wished the report true.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
London
Jennie Lee
Hollywood
Jenny Lee
Daily Sketch
Budget Sliding Will Continue in City Finances
Mayor Shank said the 1926 budget will likely hit a low of about $1,0725 and that city controller Joseph L. Hogue will continue to cut deficits. The current levy stands at $1,055. Shank plans to trim the park board levy by 8 cents and shift 1 cent to the recreation department per Ben H. Thompson's proposal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shank
Joseph L. Hogue
Park Board
Recreation Department
Ben H. Thompson
Slayer Hangs Self in Indiana County Jail
Benjamin Crawford fifty four year old colored man killed himself by hanging with strips of bed clothing in the Wayne County jail Richmond Indiana while awaiting trial on a charge of first degree murder for the shooting of his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Preas
Browning Faces Fresh Troubles Over Adoptions
New York August reports Edward W. Browning the 50 year old millionaire realtor adopting a 16 year old Bohemian girl. Anna St John of Rye asks welfare commissioner Bird Coler to return Dorothy Sunshine Browning. Coler to meet Newcombe to examine Browning guardianship and investigate two $500 checks to the girl's birthparents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
New York
Edward W. Browning
Anna St. John
Rye
N. Y
Coler
Queens County
Browning
Newcombe
John Spns
Mary
Nellie Adele Brown
City of New York
Italian Prophet Foretells Shocks On Aug 10 and 12
Faenza Italy Aug 7 A famed earthquake prophet Raffael Badandi reported a massive tremor 1500 kilometers away and predicted further shocks on August 10 and August 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presa Faenza
Italy
Raffael Badandi
Barn Hay Fork Accident Kills Colomus County Farmer
John Trembly 60 a wealthy Bartholomew County farmer was accidentally killed on his Columbus Indiana farm when a hay fork punctured his chest and severed a blood vessel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Preas
Columbus
Ind
Bound to Grand Jury for Larceny and Stolen Goods
Charles Williams of 320 Douglass St and George Mates of 701 Haugh St were bound over to the grand jury. Williams faces grand larceny charges for allegedly stealing automobile tires that Mates is said to have accepted from him for disposal or resale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Williams
Douglass St
George Mates
Haugh St
Willams
Mates
Williams
Oil Station Held Up Near Silver Flash
Two unmasked bandits robbed Clarence Hoebner at the Silver Flash filling station on Thirty-Eighth Street and Fall Creek Boulevard. They forced the attendant to open the safe and took 94.96 dollars before leaving him locked in the station. It was the fourth such hold-up at the site in a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Hoebner
Broadway
Silver Flash
Thirty-Eighth St
Fall Creek Blvd
Marion County Drops Funds for Julietta Insane Asylum
Marion County sheriff Cassius L. Hogle announces no 1926 appropriation for Julietta the county asylum for the insane. If closed 254 inmates would be left homeless and redirected to the Central Hospital for the Insane, prompting state responsibility and potential overcrowding concerns. Dr Max A Bahr warns the Central Hospital cannot absorb more patients and cites current high occupancy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion County
Julietta
Cassius L. Hogle
Councl
Central Hospital For the Insane
Hogle
Max A. Bahr
Central Hospital
Bahr
Marion
John A. Brown
Board of State Charities
Northern
Eastern
Southeastern
Brown
Essay contest offers prizes for Indianapolis youths
The Hoosier Post and The Indianapolis Times invite city youths under 18 to write about the future of Indianapolis. Submit one side of a page with a 200 word limit to The Times Essay Editor by August 18. Prizes total 80 dollars, with awards announced August 22 at Spades Park during a lawn fete hosted by the Hoosier Post. First prize ten dollars, second five, third three, five runners up two each, and a nearest manuscript prize two dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoosidr Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Indianapolis Times
Indianapolis
Times Easay
Spades Park
Hoosier Post
State hospital plan debated after veto on transfer
Brown noted that sending 250 insane back to relatives shifts the problem to families and points to ongoing talk of closing Julietta as Governor Jackson vetoed the bill that would have transferred the county hospital to state control for use as a colony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Julietta
Jackson
Parkerstown tragedy as son shoots father and wounds mother
In Parkerstown Iowa 17 year old Warren Vandervoorts killed Rev R J Vander voorts, pastor, atop the parsonage stairs and wounded Mrs Vandervoorts. He was arrested at the city jail after refusing to speak and was said to have lost his mind from over study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United
Parkersburg
Iowa
T. Warren Vandervoorts
R. J. Vandervoorts
Methodist Church
Chicago Records Quake By United Piece
Earth tremors were recorded on the University of Chicago seismograph. The first tremor began at 1 45 a m and until 4 a m several disturbances were logged. The sharpest movement occurred at 1 58 a m and lasted several minutes with the epicenter reported far to the southeast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Piece
Chicago
University of Chicago
Weather snippet hints at hourly temperatures and times
Fragmentary data shows hourly temperature readings around morning to noon with partial labels and times. Readable bits include 70 at 10 am and 76 at 8 am, but many words are garbled. The readable values suggest a warming trend through the morning.
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