Miss Angermeier Suicide Inquiry Stirs New York Society
A coroner's jury in Chicago refused to rule if Margie Angermeier 27 of New York killed herself or died accidentally after a private suicide in a loop hotel. Witnesses described a decorated debutante drinking poison to forget a love affair with an English nobleman amid heavy alcohol use.
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United Preas
Chicago
Margie Angermeier
New York
Miss Angermeier
Loop
Cath
Arthur M. Clarks
George M. Reynolds
William W. Wood
Guyon Manufacturing Company
Thomas J. McIntosh
Wood
House
Gerard’s “rulers” list mocked by Caraway and Hoover
Washington notes that Senator Caraway dismissed James M. Gerard’s list of fifty nine “real rulers” as ridiculous while naming seven powerful figures in public life. He placed Herbert Hoover at the top of the power spectrum if he were in private life, and defended the influence of leaders like Green Hughes Robinson Borah Longworth and Butler.
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Washington
James W. Gerard
Germany
Gerard
Caraway
Dem
Ark
Senate Lobby
Congress
Atterbury
Mellon
Pennsylvania
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Treasury
Francis Shunk Brown
Hoover
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Hughes
Robinson
Borah
Rep
Idaho
Longworth
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Herbert Hoover
United States
Arkansas
Green
Senate
Butler
Fletcher
Fla
Florida
United Press
New York
James M. Gerard
America
Bleachers Collapse Injures Several at Hamilton County Fairground
In Noblesville Indiana authorities probe cause after a section of bleachers at the Hamilton County fairground collapses. Mrs Fred Anderson farmer's wife suffers serious injuries while eight others receive minor harm.
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Hamilton County Fairground
Fred Anderson
Barn Fire at John the Stock. 50 Tons Hay Lost
A barn on the John the Stock property in Bainbridge Indiana burned destroying fifty tons of hay eight calves a saddle horse harness and machinery. The goods were owned by Aaron Goodwin a tenant and were not insured.
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Bainbridge
Ind
John the
Aaron Goodwin
Take It Helen Bequest: Moody Told to Take $20,000
Bobby Jones weighs in on Helen Wills Moody’s supposed $20,000 California will bequest. He questions the idea of denying the inheritance while noting the heir’s right to accept. He also recalls a $50,000 house offer he rejected years ago as different. He hints at ongoing golf plans and a possible retreat from competition.
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United Phasa
York
Helen Wills Moody
Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Helen
Bobby
Thumbs Down on Memorial in Wabash Budget
Wabash Indiana rejected a plan to raise 2 cents for a $2000 light memorial after a city council budget session. advocates argued the memorial would honor electricity pioneers while officials emphasized keeping taxes low to attract industry and factories.
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Wabash
Ind
H. H. Hutchens
Plummer
Aimee McPherson Fires Kennedy From Temple in Public Split
Aimee Semple McPherson removes her mother Mrs. Minnie Kennedy from Angelus Temple as the feud widens. Kennedy, recovering from a broken nose, says she is already out and will not return. temple elders order her to cease statements. Miss Barzek blocks access to Kennedy at the Brentwood sanitarium.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Minnie Kennedy
Kennedy
Angelus Temple
Mrs. McPherson
Beach
Mrs. Kennedy
Brentwood
Bicycle Industry Grows While Motorcycle Output Falls
A census bureau report shows motorcycles down 9.3 percent in 1929 from 1927, with value down 5.7 percent, while bicycle production rose 20.5 percent in quantity and 6.6 percent in value, signaling renewed life for bikes despite motorization trends.
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United Press
Washington
Census Bureau
Leprosy Scare Hits Hammond After Joker Prank
An inland scare began in Calumet City IL and spread to Hammond as a joker forged a sign claiming four leprosy cases. The note imitated Calumet City health officer Edward S. O'Brien and led to street closure on Webb Street to protect a patient named Spyros G. Sarros under care for heart decomposition.
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Times Special
Ammond
Ind
Calumet City
Hammond
Edward S. O'Brien
Webb Street
Spyros G. Sarros
City Raiders Smash Gambling and Liquor Outlets
Anderson Indiana police amid a hard edged campaign raid six downtown gambling and liquor fronts in one night smashing fixtures and entering living quarters. Mayor Mellett and Police Chief Riggs led the action with a vow to end silk glove policing and pursue hammer and tong methods. Several owners threaten damages claims and attorney Samuel E. Johnson is detained amid rumors of federal prohibition agents nearby.
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Times
Anderson
Ind
Fire Department
Carrie Nation
Sam Ross
Mellett
Alvin Riggs
Samuel E. Johnson
Madison County
Queen of Toy Golfers Crowned in City Championship
Mary Jane Meyers won the women’s toy golf title at Spink-Arms hotel in The Times tournament and advances to a city-wide final against the men. Morris McIntyre and Theodore Siener meet tonight at the Plaza course for the men’s championship clash.
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Mary Jane Meyers
Spink- Arms Hotel
Morris McIntyre
Theodore Siener
Plaza Course
Pennsylvania
Michigan Streets
Capper to Cop Wins Then Returns Prize at Benefit
Michig an City police captain Roscoe Stephenson won a bottle capper on a wheel of chance at a city zoo benefit. He kept the prize only a few minutes before Chief Wesley R. Kibbey whispered and he returned the capper.
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Py Times
Michigan City
Ind
Roscoe Stephenson
City Zoo
Wesley R. Kibbey
Stephenson
Grand jury delays in Ewald case with contempt petition
In New York Aug 22 the federal grand jury investigation of the Ewald case was postponed until Monday after U S attorney Charles H. Tuttle asked Judge Burrows to bring contempt proceedings against three pension participants Mrs Bertha Ewald Martin J Healy and Thomas Tommaney Tommaney was recalled before the jury amid questions of possible misunderstanding in the proceedings.
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United Press
NEW York
Federal Grand Jury
Ewald
Charles H. Tuttle
United States Attorney
Burrows
Bertha Ewald
Martin J. Healy
Thomas Tommaney
Tuttle
Tommaney
Bedford Mayor Censured Over Miniature Golf Work
Bedford Indiana August 22 Mayor Henry S Murray and street commissioner Martin Ridge were censured by the city council for allowing Bedford trucks and machinery to be used outside the city to build miniature golf courses at Loogootee Oolitic and Paoli. A council member said Murray and Ridge should have known better.
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Bedford
Ind
Henry S. Murray
Martin Ridge
Ridge
Loogootee
Oolitic
Paoli
Murray
Reward Offered in Cigaret Hijacking Cases
The Insurance Company of North America posts a reward of $16 075 for leads in a trio of cigarette hijackings in Dyer Indiana. Over the past months more than $32 000 in cigarets, owned by a Louisville company, have been stolen and driven toward Chicago by truck. The latest theft valued at $18,000 is part of the sequence.
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Times Speciall
Dyer
Ind
Insurance Company of North America
Louisville
Chicago
Honest Pat Opens Zutamilions Records on Gang Boss Zuta
Chicago investigator Pat Roche released 497 documents from Jack Zuta's secret vaults detailing gang leadership, corruption, and money from dog tracks and vice. The records name Nate De Lue Simon Herr Emanuel Eller Paul Rothenberg and others.
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United Press
Chicago
Pat
Zutamilions
Pat Roche
Ireland
Jack Zuta
Roche
America
John A. Swanson
Atorney
Zuta
Nate de Lue
Chicago Board of Education
Simon Herr
Emanuel Eller
Paul W. Rothenberg
Moran-Aiello-Zuta
Cline Survives Crash but Loses Limbs After Fire
Truman Cline from Camden was pulled alive from a wrecked burning car in Crawfordsville Indiana where three companions died. He has had both legs and his right arm amputated at a local hospital.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Truman Cline
Camden
Fortune Built From Wash Boiler Says Beauty Expert
Chicago reports Ruth D. Maurer, pioneer in the cosmetics industry, says most spend $90 yearly on cosmetics. she began with $300 and a wash boiler to amass a $3 million fortune. She notes cosmetics draw workers, not society women, and details routine skin care for shop workers.
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United Press
Chicago
Ruth D. Maurer
Mother and Son to Face Trial Together
Mrs. Sam Howe and her son Jack are released on $500 bonds each pending the September term of the Wabash circuit court on assault and battery charges against Mrs. Minerva Kinkade. The defendants say they demand the property deed as compensation for years of caring for Mrs. Kinkade, who refused to sign it as a gift to her daughter and grandson.
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Wabash
Ind
Sam Howe
Jack
Wabash Circuit Court
Minerva Kinkade
Howe
Beauty Tips From Cosmeticians and Hair Artists
Chicago reports the latest beauty tips from the American Association of Cosmetitians and Hair Artists. Emphasize eyes and mouth with careful shadowing and matching lipstick, powder to skin tone, and rouge by gown shade. Dry skin wrinkles faster than oily.
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United Press
Chicago
American Association of Cosmetitians and
Dramatist Jacques di Castello Guests in Shelbyville
Jacques di Castello, noted dramatist and London scholarship winner, visits Shelbyville hosted by Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Milleson. Former wallpaper shop employee turned writer and director, he lectures in Louisiana schools annually and plans The Human Side of History using Civil War era material from southern residents.
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Sweet
Shelbyville
Ind
Jacques di Castello
Sargeant School of Dramatic Art
London
England
M. P. Milleson
Milleson
Louisiana Department of Education
di Castello
New Orleans
Fight False Alarm Triggers Police Urge Alarm Box Watch
After three false alarms within ten minutes on Thursday night, police and fire officials urged residents to watch fire alarm boxes to help catch perpetrators. The location of each box used will be broadcast over WMDZ to curb the practice. The department has logged 250 false alarms since January 1.
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WMDZ
Confederate Veteran, 94, Works Daily in Garden
Daniel Baker, a 94 year old Confederate veteran born in Boston in 1836, has tended a three acre garden all summer in Columbus Indiana. He rises at 4 each morning for extra work and still has keen sight hearing and walks without a cane. Baker lived forty five years in the area and once worked as a log cutter. He resides with his son in law and daughter Fletcher and Mrs Holeman and fought in Virginia at Civil War battles after running away from Boston mills at age 12.
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Olumbus
Ind
Daniel Baker
Baker
Fletcher Holeman
Boston
Mass
Virginia
Oldest Reporter Dies at Jonesboro
Charles J. Gray aged 70, dean of Indiana newspaper reporters, died in Jonesboro after a paralytic stroke. He had been on the Evening Dispatch staff in Michigan City for over 40 years before ceasing work and moving to his brother’s home. Born in Upland he studied at Asbury College before leaving school. He moved to Michigan City in 1886 as a printer and began reporting a year later.
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Times
Michigan City
Ind
Charles J. Gray
Indiana
Evening Dispatch
Jonesboro
William P. Gray
Mr. Gray
Upland
Asbury College
de Pauw University
Dispatch
Princess Elizabeth
Prince of Wales
Kangaroo court at Knox county jail spares inmate
Vincent Manning, 21, of Decker, claimed injuries from a jail session described as a kangaroo court. Mayor Kimmell fined him ten dollars and costs but suspended the fine after Manning said he was assaulted during the intoxication charge hearing and was released.
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United Pres
Claims hearing set for Citizens Bank proceedings
Claims against the closed Citizens Bank will be presented at a special Union circuit court session opening Monday. A depositors committee argues deposits should be paid first, ahead of bondholders, as part of court consideration.
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Times &Secial Libe TY
Ind
Citizens Bank
Union Circuit Court
Birth of British Princess Sparks Beacons at Glamis
In Glamis Scotland Aug 22 a princess was born to the duchess of York and the second daughter rises fourth in line to the throne. Beacons will blaze across Angus and Perthshire as bells ring and villagers share beer from barrels amid stormy weather and legends of Glamis.
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United Press
Glamis
Scotland
Duchess of York
Glamis Castle
Margaret
Strathmore
Angus
Perthshire
North Sea
City Treasurer Withholds $71,105 Tied to Barrett Law Fund
Clyde E. Robinson the county and city treasurer refuses to certify checks from the special assessment delinquency and deficit fund halting $71,105 of city money and delaying Barrett law improvement bond payments. Deputy Controller Ettinger says the move aims to challenge a 1929 statute allowing 60 percent penalties on delinquent Barrett law assessments. The fund would pay deficiencies from failed improvements and matured bonds, but Robinson argues the city plans to use the money for Capitol avenue improvements in violation of law.
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Clyde E. Robinson
Barrett Law
Robinson
Marion
Capitol Avenue
Charles E. Ettinger
City Barrett Law Department
Ettinger
Monticello Stockholders Vote for Bank Assessment
In Monticello Indiana stockholders of the defunct National Bank vote to assess themselves to raise funds for a deficiency note of the White County Loan and Trust Company. The final assessment amount depends on a federal court decision valuing the bank assets. the deficiency note totals 23000 dollars.
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Monticello
Ind
National Bank
White County Loan and Trust Company
Typhoid Suits Arise Over City Water in Fort Wayne
Ft Wayne and the Wabash railroad face two more damage suits over the 1929 typhoid outbreak. Geneva Alberts and Cecil Kepford sue for 5000 dollars each, alleging illness from city water due to a defective valve letting raw St Mary's river water into mains. In Kendallville a four year old, Frederick Irwin Fulk, dies from a cancerous growth.
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FT. Wane
Ind
Ft. Wayne
Wabash Railroad
Geneva Alberts
Cecil Kepford
Ask
St. Mary's River
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