Smith Advocates State Control of Sale and Alcohol Content
Gov Alfred E Smith outlining a prohibition reform program calls for raising alcohol content limits, state flexibility to set or prohibit limits, and amending the Eighteenth Amendment to allow state run liquor sales by popular vote while enforcing existing laws and rejecting saloon returns. He also proposes an agricultural leaders conference for farm relief.
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Thomas L. Stokes
United Press
Albany
N. Y
Alfred E. Smith
New York
Canada
Agricultural Leaders
Congress
Staith
Amendment proposals seek scientific alcohol definition and state control
The speaker urges amending the Volstead Act to define intoxicating content scientifically and permit states to set standards up to a federal maximum. He proposes a statewide referendum before changing the Eighteenth Amendment and supports state controlled import, manufacture, and sale of alcohol, with sales by the state only. He cites Canada as a model for state run sales.
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Congress
Speeches Outline Prohibition Stance and Wide Policy Agenda
The speaker declares the saloon defunct and urges preserving interstate prohibition enforcement while allowing national and state debate on law changes. He vows full enforcement under the Constitution, derides Republican claims of prosperity, and backs public power expansion, wartime peace moves, and government control of resources.
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Smith
Congress
United States
Smith attacks Republicans over vetoed bill and corruption
Smith criticizes the GOP for obstruction and a reactionary trend in the party. He accuses Republicans of promoting material prosperity as a cover for inequality and vows to push progressive laws. He ties the corruption issue to party guilt and plans to highlight it in the campaign.
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Coolidge
Smith
Republican Party
Prosperity Issue Prominent Democratic Challenge
The Democratic nominee attacked Republican prosperity claims, charging industries are prostrate and 4,000,000 men are unemployed. He cited higher federal expenditures by 346 million and taxes up 383 million versus Coolidge’s first year, and urged gradual tariff policy without abrupt upheaval.
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Coolidge
Smith
Farm relief pledge outlines tariff for agriculture
Smith pledges to seek enactment of farm relief legislation based on the Democratic platform. He plans a conference of agricultural leaders if elected to develop details and present the plan to Congress. He also vows to make the tariff effective for agriculture.
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Smith
Congress
Smith Addresses War Policy and Latin America Critique
Smith denounces U S Marines in Nicaragua and Coolidge era reservations in arbitration treaties. He pledges to outlaw war, expand diplomacy, promote highways and flood control, and calls for an impartial survey on a Great Lakes waterway route while criticizing past flood relief efforts. He urges liberal conservation of national resources.
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Wilson
America
Smith
Senate
United States
Coolidge
Latin America
Republican Party
New York State
St. Lawrence
Public Utilities and Muscle Shoals Policy Outlined
The speaker condemns dishonest propaganda tied to a Federal Trade Commission inquiry and asserts public ownership of water power sources. He outlines government control for Muscle Shoals to recoup government expenditures and emphasizes civil service fairness and immigration law reform. He pledges appointment independence from personal beliefs or wealth, region, or church.
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Federal Trade Commission
Muscle Shoals
Smith
Bridegroom Missing After Wisconsin Wedding Party
In Kelnersville Wisconsin on August 23 United Press reports hundreds of villagers attended a party planned to follow a marriage ceremony. The groom Emil Patsorick failed to appear and has not been seen since, leaving the town puzzled.
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United Press
Kelnersville
Wis
Emil Patsorick
Beautiful Yard Prize Awarded at Tibbs Avenue Festival
George El Morgan commends yard beautification contest run by Tibbs Ave and Eagle Creek civic league. Oscar Hull wins first prize for yard, Fred L. Hanley takes best decorated porch, United Auto Service float wins parade prize. Event at School 67 lawn with 5,000 attendees. park board to buy 26 acre tract near Tibbs Ave for a playground ready by May 1929.
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George el Morgan
Tibbs Ave
Eagle Creek
League
L. Ert Slack
Michael E. Foley
Frank Owen
Benjamin Whalen
John C. Clark
Foley
Park Board
Police crack down on domino game at Ft Wayne poolroom
Police interrupted an alleged domino game in a poolroom at 818 Ft Wayne Ave operated by Charles Greenwood and arrested sixteen men on gaming charges. The proprietor faced a charge of keeping a gambling device and gaming. Officers confiscated a small amount of money and observed money changing hands at a table.
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Charles Greenwood
Wayne Ave
Bartlet
Hudson
Edith Klenke Robison Spaulding divorce and remarriage record
In Fort Wayne Indiana on August 23 three names in three days mark the rapid changes of Mrs. Edith Klenke Robison Spaulding. She obtained a divorce from Elliott Robison, had her maiden name restored, kept it one day, and then became the wife of Louis J. Spaulding.
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Edith Klenke-Robison-Spaulding
Elliott Robison
Klenke
Louis J. Spaulding
Boat bidding sparks city county row over sheriff’s boat
No bids were received for the $500 sheriff’s boat intended for the county, though county commissioners plan to award the contract Monday. Sheriff Hawkins opposes transferring the craft to the city police for drownings duty, amid a working custody pact with city officials and commissioners Cassius L. Hogle Charles O. Sutton and George Snider.
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Omer Hawkins
Hawkins
Cassius L. Hogle
Charles O. Sutton
George Snider
Stolen Car Seen Again as Suspects Flee
Mrs Hazel Masten and her son Otis of 6406 College Ave spotted their stolen car at Twenty Seventh and Anneta Streets. A man and two women, all described as Negroes, jumped from the vehicle and fled. The car, stolen July 20, previously appeared several times with different plates.
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Hazel Masten
Otis
College Ave
Twenty-Seventh
Anneta Sts
Union Disrupts Funeral in New York
Max Perlstein a union representative was censured by Magistrate Bushel for forcing four nonunion drivers out of a funeral procession in New York on August 23.
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Union
United Press
NEW York
Max Perlstein
Bushel
Four of 23 In Traction Crash Badly Injured
Four of twenty three injured in a collision of Indianapolis Southern traction cars near Fairland Indiana are in serious condition. Notables include conductor Irvin Meal of Indianapolis and Miss Elizabeth Forsythe of Indianapolis. Other injured hail from Shelbyville, Chicago, Newport, and several towns. Oil on the track spread danger as responders aided victims.
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Southeastern Traction Company
Fairland
Ind
Indianapolis & Southern Traction
Irvin Meal
Indianapolis
Thomas Slater
Chicago
Earl Talbott
Shelbyville
Meal
D. P. Cook
Jackson Pl
Elizabeth
Ann Forsythe
Fletcher Ave
Ann Kaufman
Metropolitan Opera Company
New York
Murat
Norman Freeland
Newport
Willis Patterson
Edinburg
Carl Spurgeon
Lucille Sullivan
Manilla
John C. Smith
J. O. Tribble
Elsie Tribble
Tribble
John L. Tellas
Bridgeville
Emma Champ
Greensburg
Wilhelmina Harris
Roy O'Dare
Milroy
Marjorie Bennet
Hartford
Conn
O’dare
Kathleen Bass
Maria Durbin
Waldron
13 Cent Shave Sparks Courtroom Tale
Luther Johnson aged 70 appeared in court with half his face shaved after claiming a prison barber charged 25 cents for a shave and he only had 13 cents. Meanwhile a railroad crash near Bridgeport involved two cars Indianapolis bound and Shelbyville bound that collided head on but stayed on track. Twenty one injured were treated at Major Hospital Shelbyville with four too seriously hurt to move.
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United Press
Bridgeport
Conn
Luther Johnson
Indianapolis
Shelbyville
Civic clubs hear need for farmer city cooperation
Prof G I Christie retiring Purdue dean told 300 Indianapolis civic club members that rural and urban interests are interrelated and cooperation between farmers and city men supports prosperity. A separate note reports J H Graham of Indian Refining Co donating 250 to Vincennes police fund after the Lawrenceville plant explosion that killed twenty seven.
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G. I. Christie
Purdue University
Indianapolis Civic Club
Kiwanis Club
Claypool
Christie
United Press
Vincennes
Ind
Thomas H. Martin
J. H. Graham
Indian Refining Company
Lawrenceville
Ill
Final Races Rule Set for Scooter Derby Issued
A rules document from Lewis Skinner of the city recreation department governs the semi finals and finals of The Times Capitol Dairy Scooter race. The finals are set for Labor Day at 10 am in Circle with ten rules covering equipment, starting, passing, disqualification, parental permission, and final appeals.
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Lewis Sk Ner
City Recreation Department
Times-Capitol
Monady
Labor Day
Circle
Maurice Fox to gift $200,000 La Porte community house
Maurice Fox, president of Samuel Fox & Sons Woollen Mills, announces plans to build a $200,000 community house in La Porte as a memorial to his late parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Fox.
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LA Porte
Ind
Maurice Fox
Samuel Fox
Samuel Fox & Sons Woollen Mills
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