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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1928
Page
3
Western 60,000 conductors and trainmen on eighty seven railroads vote on wage demands. They seek 7 per cent raise while roads offer 6 per cent or 7 per cent with rule changes. Mediation failed and arbitration refused. Ballots mailed Aug 18 and due Sept 2.
McGuffeyites officials will be elected at a Denison meeting on September 8 announced by J Frank Mann president. Ticket includes Mann as president Mercer as corresponding secretary Stella Friday as recording secretary and R O James as treasurer. Poems will be read by Mrs Cartwright Zumiz Mrs Reid and others.
Mau rice Eads of Shelbyville paid two residents here for damage after his auto driven by Mrs Bailey De Hoe of Shelbyville struck a telephone pole, then the Cauley home, and then the Owens home. Plates shattered, plaster damaged both houses, car damaged but repairable, no injuries.
Edna Frances Sheldon files in Boone Circuit Court claiming William Sheldon put her on an East Chicago train without a ticket or money and ordered her to leave, less than three weeks after their wedding in Lebanon Indiana.
A three-piece overstuffed suite advertised at Lewis Furniture Co United Trade-In Store. Located at 844 South Meridian Street the sale price listed as 69.50 with terms offered.
The eleventh annual conference on human relations in industry opened at Lake George New York under the National Council of YMCA industrial department. Delegates will discuss topics such as American Industry and World Problems fitting the handicapped into industry labor and leisure and managements problem and the one way out.
In Lima interruptions are the rule as theaters pause after each reel to let patrons chat and smoke. A café culture thrives with many movie cafes and pre dinner gatherings. One cinema shows a new picture daily and offers two machines but uses one.
The Interfraternity Club invites members and college Greek chapters to a chili supper tonight in the clubrooms with a following bridge game. Plans include an interfraternity bridge tournament and a bowling league. Jack Harding named chairman to publish a monthly magazine. James A. Rohbach assists with arrangements.
Five men attempted to extort 5000 dollars from Lawrence Shroyer 36 of Millgrove by luring him to a hotel room and threatening disgrace. The conspirators later pressured his father Lewis Shroyer 66 to sign a 5000 dollar check, then reduced the demand to 2500. They released the son unharmed after stealing 275 dollars and warning him to stay silent. Local authorities pursue suspects.
Anderson Indiana August 29 Mrs William Schrader of this city is aunt of Harold Walker air mail pilot for British Columbia Airways missing since Saturday when he left on the Seattle Victoria route at the controls of a ten passenger plane He is a World War veteran
Dozens in Indianapolis report health improvements after using Konjola advertised by the Konjola Man at Hook drug store on Illinois and Washington streets. Daisy Mayfield, age 59, credits relief from rheumatism and kidney trouble, better sleep, and no need for laxatives, after using Konjola. The promotion points readers to Hook drug stores in the area and other local druggists carrying the remedy.
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