Perseid Meteor Shower Expected This Weekend Observers
Washington reports urge watchers to scan the northeastern sky Saturday night into Sunday morning for Perseid meteors. Experts note moonlight will be absent, making as many as one meteor per minute visible. The radiant lies in Perseus and astronomy club members, led by Prof. Olivier, seek more observer reports.
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Washington
Perseus
Meteor Club
Charles P. Olivier
Flower Observatory
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
American Meteor Society
Olivier
Drowning of 11-Year-Old in Sugar Creek at Kirklin
Albert D. Roberts, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Roberts, drowned while swimming in Sugar Creek after stepping into a deep hole. It was Clinton County's first drowning of the year.
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Kirklin
Ind
Albert D. Roberts
Richard Roberts
Sugar Creek
Clinton County
Custodian of Federal Building 78 to Retire
Frank Adams aged 78 of 1638 N Pennsylvania St will retire August 31 after 35 years as Federal building custodian. He plans a trip to Lafayette and St Louis after retirement. Adams recalls Indianapolis growth from 35,000 and notes he started as a substitute postal clerk in 1893. He has managed laundry for the building, washing hundreds of towels weekly. His wife died nine years ago and other relatives moved away.
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Frank Adams
Pennsylvania St
Federal
Adams
Lafayette
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Fletcher American Bank
Electric mixer death sparks $10,000 suit
H D Carpenter druggist died after a soda fountain drink mixer in his Anderson Indiana store was electrified. His estate administrator files a $10,000 damage suit against the city, alleging municipal electric plant workers caused a high voltage wire to contact a low power line feeding the mixer.
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Anderson
Ind
H. D. Carpenter
Carpenter
Anderson Trust
Profits soar near record in U. S. business
United Press reports 1928 midyear corporate earnings rising across major groups. Automobile profits lead with about a 20 percent gain from 1927, while other industrials average over 10 percent higher. Utilities up around 6 percent. steel steady. some coal sectors show little profit amid broader efficiency driven gains. Unemployment noted despite strong profit outlook as costs are cut and prices hold steady or rise.
Indiana State Summer School Draws 9,478 Students
Eighty-eight of Indiana counties and nine other states plus nineteen denominations sent 9,478 students to Indiana State Summer School in Terre Haute. Four counties were not represented. Methodist churches led with 943 attendees while Quakers had the smallest pew, two. Nonmembers numbered 147. Out-of-state pupils came from Alabama Illinois Iowa Kansas Kentucky Michigan Nebraska and Ohio.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
Indiana State
Elkhart
Randolph
Rush
Union
Methodist
Alabama
Colorado
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Michigan
Nebraska
Ohio
Religious denominations and church counts listed in census style data
A concise tally lists Baptist 247, Catholic 131, Christian 401, Christian Scientist 22, Church of Christ 60, Church of God 5, Congregational 25, Episcopal 25, Evangelical 21, First Born 3, Methodist 943, Presbyterian 184, Reformed 10, and United Brethren 121. The figures appear as a roll call of denominations with their respective counts.
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Catholic
Christian
Christian Scientist
Church of Christ
Church of God
Congregational
Episcopal
Evangelical
Methodist
Presbyterian
Reformed
United Brethren
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