Youths Injured As Bus Hits Car At Tibbs And Washington
Two youths suffered serious injuries when their car collided with an Indianapolis Street Railway bus at Tibbs avenue and Washington street. John Goodwin, 19, head injuries, and Hillary Spink, 17, head and face lacerations plus brain concussion. Robert Fulton, 27, was arrested on reckless driving and failure to yield. A separate incident saw Louis Ramsey burn injuries from a gasoline fire after a truck overturned near a bridge on state Road 52. A motorcycle accident injured David Herschell, and John Sickle sustained minor injuries from a truck collision at Senate avenue and Wabash street. A freight train struck a street car at Belt Railway and Pennsylvania street, causing damage but no injuries to the motorman or passengers.
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Indianapolis Street Railway
Tibbs Avenue
Washington Street
John Goodwin
Sheffield Avenue
Hillary Spink
Robert Fulton
Roosevelt Avenue
City Hospital
Louis Ramsey
West Morris Street
State Road 52
David Herschell
R. R
H. P. Foxworthy
East St. Clair Street
Tenth
Broadway Streets
Charles H. Martin
South State Avenue
Senate Avenue
Wabash Street
John Sickle
Royal Center
Pennsylvania
Belt Railway
Pennsylvania Street
Martin Finneran
St. Peter's Street
November 1887 Echoes in Frigid Weather Recalled
Rushville Indiana reports recalling a January like cold spell as Elwood Kirkwood notes a November 1887 with temperatures ranging from 69 degrees on November 3 to 5 below zero on November 28. He says such freak events happen once a century and compares normals from 1887 to 1928.
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Speciat Rushville
Ind
Elwood Kirkwood
King Winter
Kirkwood
Girl Fails at Death By Own Action
Marion Indiana December report says Ellen King age 15 attempted suicide after rebuke for truancy from high school. Poison taken. stomach pump used to save her life. Authorities note the incident as a near fatal self harm case from Times Special.
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Marion
Ind
Ellen King
Young Mother Dies in Anderson Family at Home
Mrs. Mary Pardew aged 30 native of Indianapolis died after a brief illness at her Anderson home. Burial will be in Indianapolis. She left her husband and three children Gertrude Paul and Jack.
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Times
Anderson
Ind
Mary Pardew
Indianapolis
Gertrude
Paul
Jack
Prominent stars headlined Schenck film The Locked Door
Cast from The Ten Commandments and Burlesque join Rod La Rocque Barbara Stanwyck and William Boyd in The Locked Door a society melodrama by Joseph M. Schenck. Willard Mack's influence helped Stanwyck and La Rocque rise. palace opens Saturday with supporting turns by Zasu Pitts Mack Swain and Harry Stubbs.
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Ro la Rocque
Barbara Stenwyck
William Boyd
Betty Bronson
Channing Pollock
George Fitzmaurice
Boyd
Quirt
Flagg
Hollywood
Louis Wolheim
Willard Mack
Zasu Pitts
Sap
Mack Swain
Harry Stubbs
Rod la Rocque
Barbara Stanwyck
Wilma Banky
Mack
Duluth
Chicago
Salome Jane
Shore Acres
Oklahoma
Essanay Studios
Charlie Chaplin
Gloria Swanson
la Rocque
George Ade
Bryant Washburn
New York
Mary Nash
Alice Brady
Francine Larrimore
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan
the Palace
Pathe Company Officials Held After Fatal New York Studio Fire
Two Pathe Film Company executives, John C Flynn the vice president and Henry Lalley the production manager, were jailed after hours of questioning over a studio fire killing ten people including four chorus girls. Investigators suspect a non fireproof room stored film between 50 000 and 100 000 feet. Fire officials favored a lamp contact with a drape as the ignition, not an arc lamp. Mayor James J Walker to chair investigation. Fire Chief John Kenton criticizes delayed alarm.
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Kentucky
Joe Wagstaff
New York
Miss Moran
Dorothy Burgess
Tonia
Old
Arizona
Churchill Downs
Louisville
Lew Seiler
Radio Keith
Edith Griffith
McDowell and Montgomery
Royal Quartet
London
Eddie Clayton
T. Jones Leonard
America
Grauman Hess
Valle
Marker
Schenck
United Press
Pathe Film Company
John C., Flynn
Henry Lalley
James J Walker
Pathe
John Kenton
Anderson real estate dealer Thomas F Cornelius dead
Thomas F Cornelius 70 longtime Anderson real estate dealer dies at home after months of illness He leaves his widow and a son Paul in Anderson Indiana
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Anderson
Ind
Thomas F. Cornelius
Paul
Tide capsizes boats as 10 fishermen drown near Lisbon
A tidal wave at Costa Caparica beach capsized fishing boats. Ten fishermen died and twelve were rescued, according to United Press reports filed from Lisbon on December 12.
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United Press
Lisbon
Costa Caparica Beach
Anderson appoints Dru ley cashier and chemist
Anderson Indiana city announces Ermston Druley son of former councilman Walter S Druley is named cashier of the municipal electric light plant. Frank Beck is appointed city chemist succeeding B B Horton from the high school faculty.
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Times
Anderson
Ind
Ston Druley
Walter S. Druley
J. H. Mellett
Frank Beck
B. B. Horton
Navy flyer survives 1700 foot sea plane plunge in 1913
Commander John H Towers was hurled from a bucking sea plane 1700 feet above Chesapeake Bay without a parachute and lived to become the oldest serving Navy pilot. The daring incident occurred in 1913.
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John H. Towers
Chesapeake Bay
Berlin loan hopes spur government drive for reform
Berlin December 12 hopes rose for completing a loan of several hundred million marks from an American banking group. The move underpins the Reich stag push for Dr Rudolph Hilferding's financial reform program. Criticism by Dr Hjalmar Schacht last week warned that Germany must safeguard financial equilibrium to meet reparations.
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United Press Berlin
Rudolph Hilferding
Reichstag
Hjalmar Schacht
Schacht
Germany
Rausch Found Dead From Freezing In La Porte Home
Robert Rausch, 41, was found frozen to death in his La Porte residence after neighbors reported not seeing him for several days. County coroner John Foster ruled the death a freezing fatality discovered when neighbors entered the vacant home.
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Times Special
LA Porte
Ind
Robert Rausch
John Foster
la Porte County
Rausch
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