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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1924
Page
4
The city hall maintains birth and death records used by government, insurers, and lawyers. Daily inquiries come from federal agencies and neighbors alike. Records aid wills, estates, and tracing titles, with 10 to 15 certified copies made each day. Indianapolis tracks rates to compare with other cities.
E. W. Harris was reelected head of the Indianapolis Council of Boy Scouts at a Tuesday banquet at First Presbyterian Church. The event honored his work with compliments. Thomas Howe reported on the recent Scoutmasters convention in Chicago. Officers include Vice President W. C. Marmon, L. C. Heusmauh, E. A. Kahn, E. A. Graff, John A. Hook, secretary W. S. Pearce, treasurer F. S. Hollweg.
Police probe an early morning hold-up at the Roosevelt Hotel. Night clerk William Davis Jr says two masked men entered the diner and opened fire. He fired a pistol to scare them, they fled in a car, and Davis faced police questions over drinking.
G I Seybert to lead the Bruce Robison post of the American Legion with R B Diler and H Purvell as vice commanders. F F E Long is named finance officer, J M Armington adjutant, and William S Mayer, George Rorter, Paul E Beam as executive committeemen. Coupon offers for Foley remedies accompany promotional text.
Address by Charles White of Land Title Cleveland on Modern Evidence of Title headlined the nineteenth annual Indiana Abstracters Association convention in two days at the Latecom. About seventy five delegates attended. Walter Coppage Crawfordsville opened the session. Committee reports and routine business were acted.
Omar Brown and Kokomo Republican representatives urge Secretary of State Frederick E. Schortemeier to block Brown from being named county chairman of Howard County. They accuse him of managing a Roxana branch license office and oppose his political appointment. Kiwanis and Lions clubs have condemned Schortemeier’s plan to place a license distribution branch in political rolls.
WEAF New York airs the New York Philharmonic at 8 20 p m EST and the New York Oratorio Society chorus at 10 p m. WRAP Fort Worth presents Harmony Club at 7 30 p m CST. KLN Oakland schedules a studio concert and WJAR Providence lists Evangelical Church concert at 8 30 p m CST.
Automatic traffic signals installed at Central Ave intersection for east and west thoroughfare protection. A second signal planned at Senate Ave intersection. Additional signals guard Meridian and Welware Streets and Capitol Ave.
Governor Barnett granted clemency to Rose La Follette on juvenile neglect charges allowing installments of costs and a 180 day sentence suspended. Joseph Watson and May 29 124 era crimes receive mixed outcomes with shorter terms. Arthur Wolfe faces two to five years for escape. Charles Wheeler in Marion County retains life murder sentence from October 7, 1916.
The theft involved a large sign hung on the second floor of an empty building at 114 WL Georgia St. Thieves used a ladder to remove the sign. BE. S. Cavanaugh Company, a real estate firm, reported the incident to police today.
Four of five firefighters from Pumper Company 16 remain in hospitals after a crash at Sixteenth and Meridian. Harry Van Pelt 30 Earl Milender 34 Lieut Walter Geizendanner 41 and William Anderson 34 suffer injuries. Earl Snyder 27 lightly hurt sent home. Driver J L Martz 41 Charlottesville Ind held for failure to yield and assault. witnesses say he appeared to ignore the fire bell Martz claims he did not know city rules as he was out of town.
The Athinta Federal prison newspaper highlights the Tigers football team with a 3-0 record and features an editorial by Warren Mietray praising President Coolidge. A prison column notes Brown as a guitar player and Rally’s promotion, with satire on political rallies.
A dated listing shows numerous individuals with marriage license details and ages, including Marie Talieg 21 Hazel M Medarts 44 Alexander Reetor 44 and Ton Wo Miller 40 1 M, among others. The fragmentary record mentions spouses linked to locations such as Pennsylvania California New Jersey and addresses or occupations like stenographer and sheet metal worker.
A teletype style birth notice enumerates numerous couples with birth announcements. Names linked to Deaconess Hospital in Jackson and other locations appear, including Arthur and Helen Specker and Charlee and Rosie Sandini among many entries, with addresses such as 100 W Michigan and 14 Southern Brest.
Dorris Quinn age 7 days of 116 N New Jersey died of broncho pneumonia. Andrew J Rehymer 74 of Fantern died from hypoatalic pneumonia. Annie J Harman 67 of 39 No Warman, carcinoma. Mary Janet Day U7. Deaconess Hospital died of general peritonitis. John Sulerove 72 of Link Nest Company died of cerebral apoplexy. Rebecca Madden 71 of Methodist Hospital died of uremia.
Indiana implement dealers association plans a Thursday convention with sessions at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. A banquet follows at 6:30 p.m. in Claypool. Other groups including dairy products manufacturers and tire associations hold meetings and luncheons in Claypool and Lincoln.
Harry E. Yockey, attorney at 12506 Consolidated Building, named head of the Kiwanis Club at Tuesday night’s election in Chayypexl. Dwight S. Ritter retires as president. Regular candidates largely victorious with Frick S&S Chainer among steelet truster candidates defeated by L. Ties.
Baty oof Menest Vo Steckley 45 a former Hutchuey professor at Chant University and former ress Cert o of Straughn Ind will be brought to Strave today on Tuesday. Professor Shockley at trrove City Be Tuesday. He taught at prove City tollere Professor Strovaley Syed in Ini Hpels from 1983 to Hie and was a mitigated work the Ps 2 pioneers company. publishers Overisige what tantie Pyoferesp Stankley with Pans Login Hsarey Dutiana University wrote a history of Indiana by Wyers and Judes. He is survived by a wideaw cute stoall children his mother Mrs Mama Suoeckley of Straughna heathen Frank W. Shethley Mad S00 WIS dni sister Mrs Bogs F Lae trite Of Mhormineton.
Police detained Albert Maupins and Creed Stockton in connection with two armed robberies in Brightood on Tuesday night. Maupins and Stockton were hospitalized or arrested, while six other men faced $5,000 bonds on vagrancy charges after a raid on colored districts.
Daniel Rays, 9 percent? a retired farmer, died instantly when his truck collided with a Pennsylvania switch engine at Grass Creek. Driver Hin Mer Pratt blamed slippery pavement for the wreck on a December day.
The Indianapolis Street Railway Company began regular operation of two feeder bus lines today with five buses. The routes cover Thirty-Fourth and Illinois to Capitol Avenue and Fifty-Second Street, and Thirty-Fourth and Central Avenue to Fifty-Second and Central Avenue. Buses ran from 5:28 a.m. at Thirty-Fourth and Illinois and 5:44 a.m. at Central Avenue, at ten and twelve minute intervals, then twenty minutes in the evening until 12:30 a.m. The fare is seven cents with free transfers to street cars. Service was launched at the request of residents in areas without street car or bus service.
J. B. Henry, vice president of the Mid-West Storage Battery Company, said damage to the building and contents at 1623-25 Bellefontaine Street from a Tuesday fire in the heating plant would probably reach 6008 dollars.
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