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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1926
Page
8
In KO Ind on December 8 the question arose who will be the next postmaster at Kokomo as the Havens commission led by postmaster Ben Havens expires. No action or exams have been ordered to name a successor and some politicians expect Havens to be reappointed.
Small boys in Plymouth look forward to circus press agent Ed Jackson visiting for Christmas with his mother. Various Indiana local items follow including road work in Elkhart County, a crash involving a grocery wagon, and honors for Eagle Scout Lyman Boyle in Frankfort.
The excerpt presents a numbered answer key for page two questions. It includes the correct choices: a football player kicks a basketball, No, a three leaf clover, Mayor of New York City, the college president, the United States Congress, Springfield, Yes, Six, Lake Erle.
Hammond Indiana December 8 Anna belle Allis six saw Santa Claus and his reindeers in a Christmas parade. She walked to Chicago hunting him. A mail carrier saw her, called police, and had her returned to her frantic mother.
Two youths Andrew Moody 18 and Steve Kovich 17 escaped from the East Chicago jail after picking the lock and strolling to liberty through a crowded city hall. Police hunted the pair as they fled on theft charges. The breakout was noticed when a winter boarder reported his lodgings door left unlocked.
In Kokomo Indiana on December 8 Jack Thompson dropped a shotgun at day end. The gun fired causing shots that broke the headlights and riddled the radiator. Thompson patched the radiator with chewing gum and drove home.
A $25,000 damage suit filed by Mrs. Matilda Cartwright against Mr. and Mrs. J. Marion Cartwright over alienation of her husband John was settled out of court for $25. John appeared at Marion Cartwrights home and was given employment. the defense said they did not know John had married.
Norma Jean Kruge is baptised in front of her father William C. Kruge Jr.’s bier who died two days after her birth in an Indianapolis hospital of lockjaw fulfilling his dying wish in Seymour Indiana on December 8.
A young son of James Demas tied a paper bell to a light bulb causing a blaze that burned to the floor, marking Seymour Indiana's first Christmas fire of the season.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as a fast remedy for sour stomach and indigestion. It promises rapid relief from upset stomachs regardless of meal choices.
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