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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1930
Page
3
A survey of county spending reveals rising costs across courts, offices and institutions from 1926 to 1931. Increases hit the clerk, treasurer, sheriff, assessors, prosecutor and several courts, with 1931 budgets generally higher than 1926 figures.
The village of St Martinsville Louisiana near Evangeline figures as a historical landmark with little change in appearance over two hundred years. Acadians from Nova Scotia endured exile under ancient oaks as the area preserves its period look.
Ross Sterling defeats Miriam Ferguson in a decisive runoff, securing the Democratic standard for governor. The Houston publisher leads by a large margin, while Ferguson and her husband Farmer Jim Ferguson suffer another repudiation. Sterling, an oilman who rose from humble beginnings, may face Dr. George C. Butte in November.
Servia Indiana August 25 The annual biars contest a Servia homecoming feature will be held Friday Contests have run five years Only once in that time has a Servia resident won a contest Farmer Jim twice elected Governor impeached in 1924 defeated for U S Senate and President on his own American party ticket Mrs Ferguson elected Governor once defeated twice Ferguson barred by supreme court from running this year.
Chicago reports an upcoming seventeen story all metal apartment building with outside walls three and a half inches thick faced in chromium aluminum alloy and insulated with rock wool to rival brick for heat retention. It will feature long glass window panels and electric heating and its metal skin resembles New Yorks Chrysler building spire per Popular Science Monthly.
Ripley notes the Santa Clara Valley Mystery House with hidden doors and costly fixtures built over 38 years by a wealthy woman. Also covered is Guiseppe de Mai of Naples who had two hearts and signed a 1894 contract with the London Academy of Medicine to allow posthumous dissection.
Psychologists and educators report Philadelphia children with even slight hearing loss fall behind classmates. Impaired hearing links to lower intelligence test scores slower grade progress poorer school records and greater malnutrition among affected children.
An investigation into sight and speech defects was conducted by Dr. John L. Waldman and Dr. Francis A. Wade, supervising principals of public schools here, along with Dr. Carl W. Aretz, president of Ellis College.
Night watchman Morean Rowlette, 56, of 801 North Pennsylvania Street Apartment 2, who served eighteen years in the post, fell dead Sunday night in his residence. Coroner Charles H. Keever attributed death to heart disease.
In a Philadelphia report director C Emerson Brown says captive big cats act tame and pettable, but the deer proves dangerous causing frequent near misses for keepers. A separate report notes J H McKinney shot his sweetheart Ione Givins then took poison and died. she is not seriously hurt.
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