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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1926
Page
6
Grand jury investigation may be opened in Elwood Indiana as wives complain husbands lose money. Cigar stores and pool rooms warned to stop gambling or domino games may be banned. Police report children in Elwood also gamble with penny slot machines. Prosecutions threatened.
Local briefs report a backward named Brazil Clay Company trade name Lizard. A Vandalia area woman found ten pearls while eating an oyster. J W Brass announces six extra postal workers for Christmas. Rural Route A farmers near Wabash have bad luck with livestock, including a colt killed by a hog and a cow then. A horse owned by Harold Alber reportedly ate itself to death. Newcastle post office marks 26th anniversary of city mail service. Roy Gough remains the first carrier. Ivan Pullen buys an airplane near Flora. Spiceland prepares for a January 19 20 community institute with corn and poultry prizes. Alburius the miracle man from Linton staged a car fire escape near Lyons. Bloomington nuts weigh about 200 pounds per tree. Prof F M Andrew notes scientific record. Rev H Randel Lockabill of Kokomo touts a large gourd museum, once shown to President Roosevelt who offered no praise. Bloomington Bedford plant workers join Indiana Limestone Company merger and receive about 590 000 dollars in purchase payments.
South Bend was chosen for the next convention and Frank B. Wade a Short Ridge High School teacher of Indianapolis was elected president at the annual banquet in Muncie. Other officers include Fred J. Breeze of Muncie as vice president Harry Deitz of Indianapolis as press secretary and Marcus N. Lyon Jr. of South Bend as treasurer.
George Watts aged 51 a railroad man attempting to beat a fast train to a crossing at Dalton near Hammond Indiana was struck and killed instantly. The incident occurred near Hammond on December 4 with Watts fatally injured.
Incorporation papers filed with the Secretary of State by Meridian-Windermere Realty Company. Capital stock 360000 with 150000 preferred and 210000 common. Officers are O. M. Mothershead president John Ohleyer vice president and H. S. Fittons secretary. Building a seven story cooperative apartment house at 3231 N Williams St with one apartment per floor. Occupancy planned for next May.
Sonia Marsh travels to San Francisco to start anew after a tangled romance. Dr. Don Stillwater arranges work at Jed Thomas’s real estate office while Sonia grapples with Franklin Crane’s lingering devotion and a marriage she calls nonrestrictive. She plans a four month Stockton stay to wait for Don’s return and for Crane’s fate to unfold.
A set of ten Bible questions with answers on page 9. Topics include a parable, Purim, Job’s reward, Ecclesiastes 3, Saul’s baptism, John the Baptist’s parents, Herod's killer, Paul’s call to Macedonia, Saul and David, and Abimelech’s motive for death.
Public service commissioners faced a case over revoking the operator's permit for an interstate trunk line after a raid on a truck disclosed fifty four barrels of beer and 150 pints of whisky. The line owner A J Cummings of Toledo seeks to sell the line known as Ind O Mid Motor Transit between Detroit and South Bend. Louis Abrams, driver, seeks suppression of evidence claiming unlawful search.
Prof Wallace Bruce Amsbury of Armour Institute Chicago will speak as a interpretive reader at the Y M C A Big Meeting at English's Theater 3 p m Sunday. The program includes the Big Meeting orchestra under L A Von Staden and the Irvington Masonic male quartet with mass singing. Open to all city residents born in small country towns or on farms.
Four icebound tugs battled to free more than one hundred Great Lakes freight ships stuck in the worst freeze in the history of Upper Lakes shipping. Upbound steamers were added to the line as they neared Deadish Island. downbound vessels were seen to have a better chance of release, veteran navigators said.
A Minnesota reader Celia Stoffel from Star Route Badger reports a skin disease beginning on her leg with intense itching that spread over the body. After using Resinol Ointment her symptoms improved after the first application and were fully gone after several treatments. She also mentions Resinol Soap aiding with blackheads and pimples.
The Indiana Library Association and Indiana Library Trustees' Association hold a joint conference December 9 to 11 at the Lincoln. Speakers include Prof. Francis C. Tilden De Pauw University Miss Jesse Van Cleve and Miss Ernestine E Bradford. E L Craig leads Dec 10 discussions and J Arthur MacLean of Toledo will discuss excavating prehistoric mounds. One sixth of the 5 500 000 people over 65 in the United States rely on public charity per insurance data.
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