Clemenceau Praises Quakers on Richmond Stop
Georges Clemenceau ex premier of France paid tribute to Quakers and their reconstruction work in France during a brief stop in Richmond on his way from St Louis to Baltimore. A girl presented him flowers and he kissed her, while a delegation from Earlham College greeted him.
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Specia Richmond
Georges Clemenceau
France
America
St. Louis
Baltimore
New England
William Dudley Foulke
Rudolph G. Leeds
David M. Edwards
Earlham College
M. Clemenceau
Eatin to bacco and watermelon juice urged for longevity
A string of small town notes across Indiana report quirky cases and local events. James Jones, 104, a former slave, shares his longevity prescription. a Cayuga truck owner ships eighty bee swarms to Alabama. divorce suit filed by Julia A. Ice. Snakes killed in Bloomington. August Kroeger returns from Germany. hold-ups in Decatur and a car crash in Auburn. mistletoe found on Nine Mile Island. youths sentenced for auto theft. a congressman won’t seek re election. ministerial wedding census delay. wooden fuel for a church. a farmer with 350 pullets laying eggs. moonshine and home brew poured by sheriff order.
Local man arrested in theft and check fraud case
Shelbyville dispatch reports Noyes Price of Indianapolis was arrested at Columbus and brought back. He is alleged to have stolen an automatic pistol from Dr. S. B. Coulsen of Waldron and is charged with presenting a fraudulent taxi fare check.
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Times
Shelbyville
Ind
Noyes Price
Indianapolis
Columbus
8. B. Coulsen
Waldron
Price
Woman Proves Efficient As Licensed Auctioneer
Miss Lillian Lagonarsino, the first woman licensed as an auctioneer, wins over Brooklyn officials and a 200 person crowd. In two hours she sells 500 dollars worth of goods, proving deft at quick judging of buyers, especially fellow women, with a poker like reading of faces.
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Lillian Lagonarsino
Marian Hale
Woodhaven
Charles Rose
Brooklyn
Miss Lagonarsino
Auctton
Vincennes Man Denies Offer In Gland Sale Story
Isaac Miller of Vincennes denounced reports from Chicago that Jacob Miller offered glands for sale at 100000. He said the tale was a joke and vowed harm to the source. Vincennes police later confirmed Isaac Miller admitted writing the letter in a talk with the chief.
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United Press
Vincennes
Ind
Isaac Miller
Vincennes Sun Today
Chicago
Jacob Miller
Arrest Two at Muncie Charged With Hold-Up
Two men identified as possible robbers of Clarence Heath taxi line owner were arrested in Muncie Indiana. They deny all knowledge of the crime. Heath claims a pocketbook carried by one man is his.
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United Preas A
S. S
S.S.S
Auto Toll Claims Two In Evansville Sunday
In Evansville Indiana on Sunday two persons were struck by autos. Charles Munson a 53 year old railway engineer died after being hit by a mail truck driven by George Cunningham a local manufacturer. Francis Helfrich age 25 died later in hospital from a fractured skull.
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Evansville
Ind
Charles Munson
Francis Helfrich
George Cunningham
Helfrich
Reformatory Earns $83 527 In Year
Jeffersonville Indiana State Reformatory reported earnings of 83527 for the year. Superintendent G A H Shideler prepared the figures noting prison trades allowed earnings and about half of 857 inmates earned pay totaling 21549 75 dollars during the year.
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Reformatory
Timea Speci
Jeffersonville
Ind
Indiana
Aged man killed by auto in Huntington accident
George Fredericks 84 was fatally struck by a car driven by Charles Nolan in Huntington Indiana. Fredericks who was deaf died instantly. A coroner's inquest ruled the death unavoidable.
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Timea
Huntington
Ind
George Fredericks
Charles Nolan
Fredericks
Muncie Man Wounded Suspect Elopement In Police Case
Muncie Ind Dec 4 Harry R Strain a truck driver lay in a hospital with a bullet wound above the heart as police hunted his wife and a man she allegedly eloped with. Strain found last midnight south of Muncie near an outbuilding said She shot me but offered no other details.
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United Press
Muncie
Ind
Harry R Strain
Strain
Princeton Faces Water Shortage Due to River Pollution
Princeton Indiana faces a water shortage as Patoka River supply is polluted by minerals from Pike County mines. The river is described as devoid of fish with a surface covered by dead fish, attributed to pollution and low water conditions.
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Patoka
Princeton
Ind
Patoka River
Pike County
Courts to settle trustee race in Fairmount Township
The trustee contest for Fairmount Township will be settled in Grant County courts. Democrat David G. Lewis says he won by eight votes on canvass, while Republican Orville Wells leads by seven after a recount.
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Times Special
Marion, Inc
Fairmount Township
Grant County
David G. Lewis
Orville Wells
Lewis
Wells
Stray shot wounds girl in rural Indiana
Mabel Beagle, 12, was wounded in the right leg by a stray shot while standing in her front yard on a farm north of Shelbyville Indiana. Hunters could not be found after the incident.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Mabel Beagle
Here
Telegraph Chief Dead
William Nelson Fashbaugh age 61 vice president of the Western Union Telegraph Company died at a hospital in Greeley Colorado after an operation for peritonitis He came here from New York a year ago for his health.
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United Press
Greeley
Colo
William Nelson Fashbaugh
Western Union Telegraph Company
Fashbaugh
New York
Postal deficit greatly reduced in annual report
United News reports the Post Office Department cut its annual deficit by about 21 million dollars. Expenditures were 780 835 dollars above the prior year as revenues rose. Work urges reforms including higher money order fees, higher savings interest, stricter postage on misaddressed mail, and more postal employee protections.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
Youth Arrested After Hiding In Old Fairbanks Mansion
Arnold Hoover, 20, of St. Louis, Missouri, was arrested after being found hiding behind rubbish on the third floor of the old Fairbanks home on Thirtieth and Meridian Streets. He entered via a coal chute and pulled a burglar alarm, triggering an A B C Detective signal. Police detained him as the unoccupied fifty room mansion drew attention.
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Arnold Hoover
St. Louis
Fairbanks
Meridian Sts
Hoover
Charles W. Fairbanks
United States
Fifty New Talesmen Drawn for Herrin Jury
Circuit Court reconvened in Herrin massacre trial with fifty new talesmen present for examination. Most jurors are farmers and were summoned during the court long adjournment. State and defense aim to finish the jury this week.
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United Press
Marion
Til
Herrin
Hold Up Man Forcibly Robs Man Behind Billboards
After leaving 930 Daley St at 10 p m yesterday William Cooper 619 E Ohio St was seized from behind by a robber who pressed a revolver to his head and forced him to walk behind billboards there the man took a diamond ring valued at 125 and 19 75 in cash from Cooper Mrs Myrtle Hudson 911 EB Washington St was passing and mistook them for a fight
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E. J. Bailey
Daley St
William Cooper
Ohio St
Cooper
Batley Home
Myrtle Hudson
Washington St
Body of Girl Found in Swamp Near Chicago
Relatives of missing women file past an unidentified girl found in a swamp near Chicago. Police believe the body was killed in Chicago and moved to the swamp. It was discovered by muskrat trappers.
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United Press
Chicago
Here
Spectators Fight at Rambler-St. Phillip Game
Spectators clashed during a Brookside park football game. A riot call brought police. by the time officers and the park patrol, Jerry Mahoney, arrived, the fighters had left. One spectator sustained a bloody nose.
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Rambler-St. Phillip
Brookside Park
Dean
Jerry Mahoney
Park
Teachers Set Date for Indiana Association Convention
The Indiana State Teachers Association will meet in Indianapolis on Oct. 18, 1920, for its annual convention in 1923, as decided by the executive committee at a Chamber of Commerce meeting on Saturday.
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Indiana State Teachers’ Association
Indianapolis
Chamber of Commerce
Robbery at New House on Ludlow Avenue Reported
Thieves entered a new house at 1718 Ludlow Ave last night cut electric wiring and stole wire and electric fixtures. John Ray building the house at 6007 Ashland Ave reported the robbery to police.
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Ludlow Ave
John Ray
Ashland Ave
Cut This Out It Is Worth Money Slip Ad
Consumers urged to mail the slip to Foley Co in Chicago for a trial package. Foley’s Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills for pains, rheumatism and kidney issues, Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and biliousness are advertised with mail-in offer.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foley
Pastor Discusses Best Type of Girl for Wife
Dr E A Robertson at East Park M E Church Sunday night urged marriage based on religious values and common sense. He said health, domestic tastes, responsibility, cultural class, and informed understanding of married life mark a good wife, with a cultured Christian girl from church life the best model.
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E. A. Robertson
East Park
M. E
Dr. Robertson
Robertson
Right is Habit in Methodist Sermon
The Rev. Jesse Bogue of the North Methodist Church says in a Sunday sermon that doing right becomes easier with habit, but continued wronging is hard to change. He cites the law of the spirit through Jesus Christ overriding sin and death, urging active pursuit of goodness.
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Jesse Bogue
North Methodist Church
Jesus Christ
Fighting Parson Declares Victory Masked By Defeat
The Rev Will Todd of Terre Haute known as the Fighting Parson spoke in a sermon yesterday about today’s victories that carry hidden loss and futility, warning that triumphs can conceal greater defeats ahead.
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Will Todd
Terre Haute
Danderine Promises Hair Growth and Dandruff Relief
An advertisement touts Danderine as a quick, non greasy hair tonic that corrects oily scalps and dandruff, promotes hair growth, and strengthens hair. It claims global sales leadership and urges readers to buy at any drugstore.
Babb Attacks Turks at Y M C A Big Meeting
J Franklin Babb of Boston tells a Y M C A audience that Turkish massacres of Christians exceed those of the first six centuries. He denounces Turkish admission to Europe and criticizes France and Clemenceau for their stance toward America.
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J. Franklin Babb
Boston
Mass
Babb
Europe
Turkey
France
M. Clemenceau
America
Eighty Fifth Anniversary Of First English Lutheran Church
The First English Lutheran Church at Pennsylvan ia and Walnut Streets marked its eighty fifth anniversary. Mrs Elvira English 92 oldest member spoke on the church’s history joined by Mrs Anna Newby and J H Laughner long time council member. Prof L H Larimer of Wittenberg College delivered the morning sermon.
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First English Lutheran Church
Pennsylvania
Walnut Sts
Elvira English
Anna Newby
J. H. Laughner
Church Council
L. H. Larimer
Wittenberg College
Wittenberg
Ohio
First Amendment sermon at All Souls Unitarian Church
Walter T. Myers preached at an all laymen service citing the First Amendment as foundational to freedom of religion speech press and assembly. He noted the Constitution does not name God. Similar services were held in Unitarian churches nationwide.
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United States
Walter T. Myers
All Souls Unitarian Church
God
Mr. Myers
Gas Hearing Set On Citi zens Gas Company Case
Arguments in the cause of Citi zen Gas Company against the Public Service Commission of Indiana will be presented tomorrow before William P. Kappes special master in chancery. The case stems from a suit for injunction filed in Federal Court last spring to prevent rate increases.
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Citizens Gas Company
Public Service Commission of Indiana
William P. Kappes
The
Service Commission
State honors Amos Butler at city dinner
More than two hundred residents attended a Saturday night dinner in the Riley room of the Claypool Hotel to honor Amos W. Butler secretary of the Indiana board of State charities. Governor McCray praised Butler as a top professional and father of social service laws.
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Claypool Hotel
Amos W. Butler
Indiana Board of State Charities
Butler
McCray
Mr. Butler
C. H. Higenmann
Indiana University
Indiana
Ft. Wayne
Timothy Nicholson
Richmond
Board of State Charities
Samuel E. Smith
Eastern Hospital For the Insane
Stolen Cars Sought In Local Incident
Police search for three stolen automobiles reported by Virgil W. Hurt Sam Barnett and Guy R. Baptist. One vehicle was later recovered, leaving investigators pursuing the remaining targets.
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Speedway Ave
Sam Barnett
Bellefontaine St
Guy R. Baptist
Yandes St
Lester
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