City Council Approves 1929 Budget With Small Increase
The city council tentatively set a 1929 tax rate of 63.5 cents for general fund, up from the Chamber of Commerce recommendation. The total 1929 appropriation ranges at 9.336 million dollars, down 298 thousand from the Slack administration proposal, with a $50,000 contingent fund and airport maintenance allotment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward W. Harris
Council
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Slack
Edward B. Raub
Civil Service Department
Harris
William H. Book
Michael W. Madden
Book
Woman Finds Missing Madison Family After Friday Disappearance
Mrs. John Martin of Madison North Carolina reported her husband and three children vanished Friday on Washington Street and Arlington Avenue in Indianapolis. After a search she located them Tuesday night at a relative’s country home. she had come to Indianapolis with her family after their North Carolina farm flooded.
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John Martin
Madison
N. C
Washington St
Arlington Ave
Indianapolis
North Carolina
E. Washington St
Murray urges speedy trials at Seventh District club meeting
Democratic candidate for prosecutor Raymond F. Murray urged speedier trials to combat crime amid corruption and court delays. He cited 148 defendants awaiting trial in Criminal Court and promised cooperation with the criminal judge. Also speaking were Mrs. W. C. Smith, club president, and Bess Robinson, candidate for the Legislature.
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Raymond F. Murray
Democratic Women’s Club
Indiana Democratic Club
Pennsylvania St
Murray
W. C. Smith
Bess Robinson
Dry Wedding Planned for Miss Laura Volstead and Carl Lomen
Miss Laura Volstead daughter of former Minnesota congressman Andrew J Volstead who championed prohibition enforcement acts and Carl J Lomen of New York announce an October wedding Lomen is son of Judge G J Lomen Nome Alaska and leads a large scale reindeer raising company in Alaska Volstead is a law graduate and president of the Women s Republican Club at St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Volstead
Andrew J. Volstead
Minnesota
Carl J. Lomen
New York
Lomen
G. J. Lomen
Nome
Alaska
Miss Volstead
Women’s Republican Club
St. Paul
Steal for liquor linked to widow and three men
Three men admitted selling chairs stolen from Mrs. Matilda Kenworthy a widowed mother of three. The chair theft was to raise money for liquor. Charles Gabi 38 and Charles Berger 18 are roomers at 515 W Ray St and Virgil Johnson 32 of 513 W Ray St allegedly stole the chairs from Mrs Kenworthy who works in a veneer factory and was paying $10 installments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick O'Connor
Charles Gabi
Charles Berger
W. Ray St
Jones St
O'Connor
Virgil Johnson
Matilda Kenworthy
Ray St
Funeral Only Father Refuses Aid After Bloomington Incident
William Skerd told authorities he would not pay for his son Bob’s operation after the kidnap and station hold up in Bloomington. Despite the ultimatum the operation was performed, removing a bullet and part of a knee cap at a local hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times Special
Loomington
Ind
Bob
William Skerd
David Chitwood
Bedford
White Whale Reported Off New England Coast
A white whale resembling Moby Dick was reported off the New England coast by the Bureau of Fisheries marking the first such sighting in years. Nearby Parkersburg held a bean dinner with 800 to 1,000 attendees as 270 pounds of navy beans and 125 pounds of pork were eaten. The Chaplin family in Peru invites Charlie Chaplin to a city park reunion on Sept. 9. Stanley Bartholomai announced his arrival in Los Angeles after a hitchhike trip from Indiana.
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New England
Washington
Melville
Bureau of Fisheries
United Press
Parkersburg
Ind
Peru
Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin
Times Special Incennes
Stanley Bartholomai
Charles Bartholomai
Los Angeles
Cal
Ere
Council head talks need for men of character in city manager plan
Edward B. Raub urged Rotary Club members to back the 1930 city manager form by placing high type executives in office. He stressed civil obligation and sacrifice of time and money as essential to good government, while noting the duties of the council as legislative body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Times
Edward B. Raub
W. Willieman
Eastern Quarterly Council
Rotary
Orville Page
Traverse Club
Claypool
Cil
Isaac Stanley
Puget Sound
James Ross
Rotary Club
William Harshbarger
West Branch
Quaker Clerk Elected for Indiana Yearly Meeting
Arthur M. Charles of Earlham College faculty is chosen presiding clerk of the Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends during the opening of its 108th annual session. Isedore Wilson is recording clerk with Edith J. Hunt and E. P. Trueblood as reading clerks, Parvin Bond as announcing clerk and William Webb among pages. Financial board members include Anna and others.
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Earlham
Richmond
Ind
Arthur M. Charles
Earlham College
Indiana Yearly Meeting of Friends
Isedore Wilson
Edith J. Hunt
E. P. Trueblood
Parvin Bond
William Webb
Herbert Reice
Margaret Gusweiler
Olive Smith
Thomas Carter
Ethel Bedford
Financial Board
Anna
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Reunion
Anthony Prestigiacoma
Henry W. Graves
Graves
Hoosier
Kansas City
C. F. Lamaster
Albion
Kansas
White Plains
N. Y
Robert King
Justice Taylor
Effie Cave
Page Country
Bandit
Bloomington
Moby Dick
Raub
Brunswick
Jacquard
Davenport
Indiana
Cogswell
East
East Washington
Genckr
Electric Iron and Board
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