Identity of boy may be established in Indianapolis case
A 3-year-old boy found on Washington Street and Capitol Avenue is to be identified with help from Cincinnati Humane Society and local Juvenile Court officers. Police seek H. C. Jones and his wife who registered the boy at the Craig Hotel and then left stating they were bound for Iowa. An unsigned letter to Miss Hazel Clark was found in their room, and the boy has connections to the Loomis family and Cincinnati Children's Home.
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Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Ohio
Pearl Hobbs
Bates St
Hobbs
Louisville
H. C. Jones
Craig Hotel
Washington St
Iowa
Hazel Clark
Jones
Archbishop McNicholas Elevated to Cincinnati See
Archbishop designate John T. McNicholas, formerly of Duluth Minnesota, was elevated to the Holy throne of the Catholic archdiocese of Cincinnati at St. Peter's cathedral. He succeeded the late Archbishop Henry Moeller by papal decree and was enthroned by Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago in a ceremony with notable church figures present.
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United Press
Cincinnati, CO
John T. McNicholas
Duluth
George Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Fragmented Timetable Fragments From OCR Page
A damaged OCR snippet shows scattered times like 10 am 12 noon and 1 pm with missing context. No clear event or entity present.
Seven Days Left For Essays In Indianapolis Contest
Seven days remain to mail an essay on The Future of Indianapolis to The Indianapolis Times Essay Editor by midnight August 18. Prizes include $13 first, $4 second, $3 third, five at $2, plus a special prize for the nearest manuscript. Open to Indianapolis youths under 18. Awards at a lawn fete August 22 by Hoosier Post at Spades Park.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Times
Hoosier Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Spades Park
Meyer Urges City Advertising in National Papers
Sol Meyer calls for a $1,000,000 Indianapolis industrial fund and full page national ad campaigns. He pledges $25,000 and urges a young, hustling volunteer organization to promote the city’s advantages to attract industry. He notes Louisville’s fund growth and factory gains as a model.
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Indianapolis
Sol Meyer
Meyer
California
Florida
United States
Industrial Fund of
Louisville
James M. Ogden
Fire Damages Garage and Brass Company in Local Incidents
Fire investigators probe a blaze at 235 North Temple Avenue damaging the garage of Mrs Margaret Gill with an estimated 200 dollars in losses. Earlier, a short circuit in wiring caused 50 dollars damage at the Universal Brass Company on 139 South East Street.
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Margaret Gill
N. Temple Ave
Universal Brass Company
S. East St
Scientech Club criticizes smoke code section
The Scientech Club board adopts a resolution condemning the smoke abatement section of the new building code. They say it is too severe, would control installation design and approvals, empowers enforcement officers too much, risks harming industry, and exceeds the ordinance scope with debatable textbook design matters.
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Scientech Club
Board of Directors
Exposure Kills New Born Babe After Farm Eviction
Mrs Anne Cooper a 19 year old mother evicted by a constable near Chicago gave birth in a rain storm beside a rural road. The infant died soon after birth and an inquest is begun to determine responsibility. Cooper had been deserted by her husband and lived with ten siblings on a bare farm. Constable C J Braun said he gave a week’s notice and proceeded with eviction despite her condition.
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Phoenix
Chicago
Anne Cooper
Scott Kept Mad Threat Wife Avers Duel Made Me Eat Gall
The wife testifies that Scott kept up a mad threat during a duel ending with her claim that he forced her to eat gall. She describes fear and coercion amid the confrontation.
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Scott
Voted Day Lived Wet Witness Says in Divorce Trial
In Alpena Michigan on August 12 United Press reports Congressman Frank D. Scott denying clandestine meetings and affairs as his divorce case proceeds. Mrs Edna James Scott testifies she was taunted threatened and left with damaged finances while detailing his alleged private life and habits. Judge Emrick ejects a photographer from the courtroom during testimony.
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Clark B. Kelsie
United Press
Alpena
Mich
Frank D. Scott
Edna James Scott
Nursing
Wilbur Sumner
Scott
Representative Scott
Uis Wolffe
Chicago
Frank Emerick
Auto Thefts Investigated in Interstate Ring
Federal agents pressed further charges against George, 30, and Frank Haggard, 23, both of 608 Lexington Ave., Mrs. Minnie Gowen alias Haggard, 22, Louisville, and Mrs. Leona Helen Wesley, 30, Cincinnati, held in city jail awaiting arraignment. They allegedly ran an interstate auto theft ring with operations spanning Detroit, Toledo, Cincinnati, Chicago, and Louisville. Gowen deserted a child in Louisville and Wesley four in Cincinnati.
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George
Frank Haggard
Lexington Ave
Minnie Gowen
Haggard
Louisville
Leona Helen Wesley
Cincinnati
Ohio
United States
Gowen
Wesley
Detroit
Toledo
Chicago
Board defends sanitary commission amid mayor's protest
The sanitary commissioners defended their record against Mayor Shank who charges extravagance. They opposed dismissing legal representatives and using a city staff member as legal counsel, calling the move impractical. Shank's levy cut from 7 percent to 544 cents would force the sewage disposal plant to close, they warned.
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Shank
Sanitary Commissioners
Five Candidates Named for Miss Greater Indianapolis Queen
Five finalists were chosen from over a hundred entrants to compete for Miss Greater Indianapolis during the city week parade. Voters must submit ballots by 6 p.m. Friday at 27-33 N. Pennsylvania St. The winner will be announced Saturday.
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Greater Indianapolis
Indianapolis
N. Pennsylvania St
Helen Garrett
W. Thirtieth St
Widener Talking Machine Company
Thelma Burton
E. Twelfth St
Bertha Markowitz
Meridian St
Superior Court One
City Park Department
Jennie Glancy
N. LaSalle St
Pettis Dry Goods Company
Indianapolis Federation of Civic Clubs
Edna Uphaus
Hendricks Pl
Western Adjustment and Inspection Company
Indianapolis Fire Department
Frank C. Jordan
Wallace O. Lee
Virgil T. Furguson
Four Wounded in Mine Riot at Zeigler Illinois
At Zeigler Illinois an overnight riot during a three day mine strike left three mine union officials and one miner fatally and seriously wounded. Police say three arrests were made as strikers clashed when union leaders tried to oust local officials for authorizing the strike. The wounded officials named Lon Fox E C Conz and H Z Hinzeman. An unidentified miner suffered life threatening injuries.
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Bu_United
Prene
Lon Fox
United Mine Workers
E. C. Conz
No. 9
H. Z. Hinzeman
West Frankfort
Vanderbilt Engagement Announced in Newport
New York and Newport society today announced the engagement of Miss Consuela Vanderbilt to Earl E. T. Smith. Miss Vanderbilt is the daughter of Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt II of Newport and New York while Earl E. T. Smith is the son of Mrs. C. Whitney Carpenter Jr. of Newport.
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United Press
Newport
R. I
Consuela Vanderbilt
W. K. Vanderbilt II
New York
Earl E. T. Smith
C. Whitney Carpenter Jr
Narcotic Plot Denial Ties to Chicago Leader
Federal agents traced a supposed million dollar dope trail to Indianapolis while Indianapolis narcotic agents denied any complicity. Col Will Gray Beach head of Chicago narcotic division faced $5 000 bond on narcotics selling charges as three Chicago agents were arrested.
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Indianapolis
Internal Revenue Department
Will Gray Beach
Chicago
Narcmtic Division
Leutenants
United Press
Colonel Beach
Claypool
Beach
Federal Grand Jury
Explorers Locate Landing Spot During Arctic Flight
A garbled radio message from Etah Greenland reports that three naval planes of the MacMillan Arctic expedition found a suitable landing place after a 200 mile dash across Blesmerland. The Navy Department received the news today.
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United Preas
Washington
MacMillan Arctice
Blesmerland
Navy Department Todig
Etah
Greenland
Jail-break warning prompts pursuit to Ohio
Sheriff Hiers and two deputies traveled to Toledo to return Albert House, a suspected Indiana bandit captured yesterday. A Hillsboro County investigator warned of a planned general delivery of prisoners and a gang being organized to carry it out.
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United Press
Tampa
Fla
Hiers
Toledo
Ohio
Albert House
Indiana
Hillsboro County
Despondent man in hospital after taking poison
Harold Olsen age 23 of 2828 Burton Ave is in critical condition at City Hospital after consuming a half teacup of poison on Tuesday. Hospital attaches say he was despondent.
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Harold Olsen
Burton Ave
Olsen
City man sentenced on multiple charges
Charles Crutcher of 815 Kinney was fined 50 dollars and costs for driving while intoxicated and sentenced to 30 days in jail. He also faced fines and costs for drunkenness assault and battery with jail time suspended during good behavior.
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Charles Crutcher
Kinney
Prowler Tracked After Store Break-in
After the grocery at 1011 N Illinois BSt was entered Sunday and Monday nights owner Wede Bandy sprinkled flour to trace intruders. He found tracks of a boy in the floor and reported forty cents and a five dollar fountain pen missing.
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Wede Bandy
Illinois
Teen Confesses Slaying Fellow Traveler for Car
Everett Adams, 17, of Ohio, arrested in Garden City Kansas after driving a bloodstained car. He admits he shot A. R. Clawson, 17, Cedarhurst New York, and hid the body under a culvert near Lamonte Missouri after Clawson gave him a lift, seeking the car for possession.
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United
Terre Haute
Clawson
Adams
Indianapolis Garden Flowers Society Picnic Set at Bertermann’s Grove
The Indianapolis Garden Flowers Society will hold its annual picnic at 2 p m Saturday at Bertermann's Grove in Cumberland Indiana. An inspection of the Bertermann conservatories will be made.
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Indianapolis
Garden Flowers’ Society
Bertermann’s
Love takes Texas woman from home in early romance
Miss Virginia McCall 21 of Eastland Texas says love drove her to elope with Edward Bettis 28, a married man with two children, after meeting last January. They were arrested Tuesday trying to sell an automobile. McCall, previously married with one child, resists returning to Texas as police investigate Bettis’s debt and the couple’s case moves in city court.
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Texas
Virginia McCall
Eastland
Edward Bettis
Bettis
Hynes
Miss McCall
Man Fined For Sounding Car Horn In City Street
Lester Allen of 705 Rochester Street was found guilty in city court of offending persons on the street and fined $5 plus costs. His three companions were freed on similar charges after officers arrested them in North Illinois Street for sounding the horn to attract Miss Louise Clark of 433 North Illinois Street.
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Lester Allen
Rochester St
Lieut. O. Hudson
N. Ilnois St
Louise Clark
Illinois St
Louisa Fletcher Seeks Quick Nuptial Permit Delay
Louisa Fletcher daughter of Stoughton A. Fletcher hopes German officials will cut red tape delaying her planned wedding to Count Von Schmettow in Pommeralg. A ten day postponement was needed after she failed to submit a birth certificate, while Stoughton B. Fletcher travels in Florida and remains in Indianapolis.
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Berlin
Louisa Fletcher
Stoughton A. Fletcher
Indianapolis
Miss Fletcher
Count von Schmettow
Pommeralg
Fletcher
County Auditor Reports Bigger Value Figures in 1925 Valuation
Indianapolis and Marion county real estate and improvements rise to 16 745 750 over 1924. Total real estate and improvements value sits at 449 999 910 while 1924 was 433 254 160. Personal property not included. Auditor Dunn seeks 5 percent Center township increase withdrawn based on final figures.
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Indianapolis
Marion County
Harry Dunn
State Tax Board
Dunn
Tax Board
Center Township
War Memorial Plaza
City Examed and Found O K
Dr. Herman G. Morgan city health officer praised Indianapolis health, reporting only one typhoid case in 389 000 and no contagious diseases. He noted ten typhoid cases this year and babies born at 39 per thousand, crediting improved sewage disposal. Mayor Shank declined extra levy for the new 3 million sewage plant amid an exchange with Frank C. Lingenfelter.
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Herman G. Morgan
Indianapolis
Morgan
Auto ice wagon theft charged against Frank Page
Detectives Shrum and Kernoddle charged Frank Page 22 colored of 717 N Senate Ave with stealing an ice wagon. The wagon belonged to Joseph Dickens of 612 W Thirteenth St.
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Frank Page
Senate Ave
Shrum
Joseph Dickens
Thirteenth St
Local man fined for petit larceny in ice wagon theft
Frank Cage of 717 N Sen Late Ave was fined 400 dollars plus costs and sentenced to 180 days by City Judge Vinson Manifold pro tem on a petit larceny charge for allegedly stealing an ice wagon at Indiana State Farm today.
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Frank Cage
N. Senlate Ave
Indiana State Farm
Vinson Manifold
Cage
Steck Holds Lead After Lee County Recount
In Washington Aug 12 Daniel F Steck Democrat gained a 3914 vote edge over Senator Smith W Brookhart following the Lee County ballot recount announced by the senate recount committee.
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Bu _ United Arena
Ashington
Lee County
Daniel F. Steck
Smith W. Brookhart
Senate
Two Boys Missing From Guardians Home In City
Ellsworth Pritchard aged 9 and Walter Brown aged 11 were reported missing from the Children's Guardians Home at 5751 University Avenue today. Local authorities issued a missing persons alert and searched nearby streets and parks.
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Ellsworth Pritchard
Walter Brown
University Ave
Delegation Pleads Clemency for McCray in Washington
A seven member Indiana delegation led by Will Wood met with Attorney General Sargent to press for executive clemency for ex Governor Warren T. McCray. They argued he was not a criminal and was driven to fraud by farming pressures. The group cited 225 supportive letters from bankers and leaders. 130 bankers were affected, 25 writing in support. Prominent backers include Governors Bran don, Peay, Small, Martin, ex Governors Lowden and Sweet, and Postmaster General New Will Hays.
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Washington
Will Wood
Indiana
Sargent
Warren T. McCray
Atlanta
James W. Noel
George Barnard
William P. Evans
William A. Guthrie
Indianapolis
Charles Osborne
Michigan
Eb, C. Gatewood
American Cattle Breeders Association
R. J. Kincer
Long
McCray
A. B. Anderson
Brandon
Alabama
Peay
Tennessee
Small
Illinois
Martin
Florida
Lowden
Sweet
Colorado
New Will Hays
Navy Cutter Bear Ashore Off Alaska Shoal
The Coast Guard cutter Bear, a fifty year old veteran vessel, lies stranded on a shoal off Cape Prince of Wales Alaska. Navy officials in San Francisco reported the craft is not yet refloated despite attempts to pull her free.
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United Preae
Washington
Coast Guard
Bear
Ocean Guard
Cape Prince of Wales
Alaska
Navy Department
San Francisco
Two Stores Robbed on Indiana Avenue
Burglars entered Meyer Ladin, men’s furnishings at 350 Indiana Ave Tuesday night and fled with clothing jewelry and other items valued at 380 dollars after battering the safe. Thieves also hit Jacob Adams at 31 Indiana Ave taking tools valued at 12 dollars.
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Meyer Ladin
Indiana Ave
Jacob Adams
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