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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1928
Page
12
A contest at The Times offers a $5 prize for the best title for the third scene from the photoplay Lonesome starring Glenn Tryon and Barbara Kent at Circle theater. Readers must submit titles with name and address on coupons or plain paper to the Lonesome Contest Editor. Five additional winners receive two tickets each.
Burglars failed to steal $900 from the home of W. A. McMinn in Elwood Indiana. About $30 was taken from a table beside a radio set and the larger sum was hidden behind a flower pot on a stand.
Boston dispatch reports actress Ethel Barrymore was set for surgery to remove an abscess in the jaw at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Phillips House. Dr. Gerald Blake said her condition was not serious.
The Kingdom of God performances starring Miss Barrymore at the Wilbur theater were cancelled the Shubert interests said she would resume her role at Wednesday's matinee as per manager E. W. Fuller.
Chicago December 4 Herbert Hoover appears poised to pursue a policy favoring the welfare of all people over any single bloc. Updegraff in The Magazine of Business says Hoover will be hard on business agriculture labor and politics when group interests clash with national needs. He will push agricultural relief inland waterway development tax relief and private merchant marine ownership while maintaining broad, fundamental moves benefiting everyone.
Scottish Rite program opens its first session with a noon luncheon. The Sarafah council plans the fifteenth and sixteenth degrees this afternoon, while the Indianapolis Rose Croix chapter offers the seventeenth and eighteenth degrees tonight. Fourth through fourteenth degrees were presented Monday to 218 candidates.
The city health board president Dr. Frederick E. Jackson pledged cooperation to obtain a veterans hospital for Indianapolis after talks with Watson B. Miller and legion officials. Officials aim to supply a site and seek an early congressional appropriation for a 300 bed facility to serve Indiana veterans.
Governor-Elect Harry G. Leslie files his election expense account with Tippecanoe county showing expenditures of 8550 including 2000 to the Republican state committee. He received 6475 from contributors. Donors include George Ads 100 Arthur Ayres 500 State house Womens Republican Club 100 Henry Marshall 400 William Fortune 200. Singing as an exercise is a great benefit to chest or throat weakness.
Paul V. McNutt national commander of the American Legion and L. W. Esterline local manufacturer will speak at the Indiana Commercial Secretaries Association mid winter meeting to be held at the Chamber of Commerce Friday and Saturday.
Marion County Women’s Christian Temperance Union outlines 1929 agenda. A committee to review motion pictures is chaired by Mrs. W. M. Paulsel. By-laws and constitution amendments take effect January 1. Prohibition Day on January 16 includes a prayer hour and luncheon. Legislative Day January 17 will discuss bills. Ten Commandments to be posted in every city schoolroom by January.
A revived McNary-Haugen proposal introduces a federal farm board with a $200 million revolving fund to finance surplus disposal and promote orderly marketing. The plan envisions loans to stabilization corporations and advisory councils, shifting losses to the corporations and limiting federal costs to running expenses.
An advertisement promises almost instant cough relief using Thoxine a physician’s prescription free of chloroform or dope. It claims internal action rather than syrups and pills with first swallow relief and safety for the family. Priced 35 cents and 1.00, money back guarantee.
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