The Senator's Anxiety and California Barley Trade Echoes
Indiana readers confront the Senate clash over Reed's probe into 1928 elections and the broader call for reform. The piece links Robinson's wary stance to future election integrity while noting broader national issues from barge-line transport of Minnesota grain to Britain’s dole and pension debates.
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Indiana
United States Senate
Arthur Robinson
Senate
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
Robinson
Grand Jury
Ed Jackson
Frank Ball
Muncie
John L. Duvall
Stephenson
Anti-Saloon League
Supreme Court
Watson
Arthur
A Bold Declaration on Prohibition and Church Control
The Anti-Saloon League, led by clergymen, aims to capture government for enforcing the Eighteenth Amendment. Dr. Poling asserts a plan to control Democratic and Republican conventions to advance law enforcement, warning this risks church state union and constitutional liberty.
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Anti-Saloon League
Wayne B. Wheeler
Westerville
Ohio
Washington
Daniel A. Poling
Marble Collegiate Church
New York
Poling
International Society of Christian Endeavor
The
Christian Herald
Christian Herald. Dr. Poling
League
Dr. Poling
Republic
United States
Europe
New Republic
Oklahoma’s governance cited amid impeachment talk and unrest
The piece notes Oklahoma’s impeachment threat as unprecedented in U S history, with a governor opposing a legislative session using troops. It cites Judge Henry A Grady’s Sunday court to curb mob violence in Goldsboro North Carolina and reports Detroit’s city arrests for illegal conduct with only a fraction convicted, highlighting law enforcement gaps.
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Henry A. Grady
Goldsboro
N. C
Grady
Detroit
Telephone Growth Shortens Distances Across Nation
The telephone use has risen sixfold in the last 25 years with 34 conversations per person in 1900 rising to 202 in 1926. This expansion strengthens social and economic ties, broadens acquaintances, and lengthens contact. Dialect and provincial outlook fade as connections widen.
Fisher argues poverty may end by 1932
Professor Irving Fisher contests Hoover's outlook and the idea that averages fix poverty. He notes 25 of 100 workers earning nothing drag down the average, warns abolition by numbers alone is false, and points to disparities such as New England's high savings deposits despite regional hardship.
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Hoover
Irving Fisher
New England
Spotlight Club presents The Brat at Ball Teachers College
Muncie Ind December 13 members of the Spotlight Club students of Ball Teachers College will stage The Brat Maude Fulton s comedy in the college auditorium Wednesday evening cast and others connected in production include Deli ne Munelen Kerlin Mott Marion Jenee Riuepah Muncie Evelyn Jacobs Wood and Portine Tacs faculty sponsor Otis Phares club president Geers.
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Muncie
Ind
Spotlight Club
Ball Teachers College
Maude Fulton
Deline Munelen
Gong
Kerlin
Mott
Marion
Jenee Riuepah
Evelyn Jacobs
Fiat. Wood
Mice
Porttine Tacsulty
Editor notes Cleveland city government vote impact
A Terre Haute Tribune Republican column discusses Harry Davis's failed bid to overturn Cleveland's city manager system. It also critiques high school basketball schedules, quotes Booth Tarkington about modern life and schooling, and advocates Indiana coal to power use for economic and health benefits.
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Terre Haute Tribune
Harry Davis
Ohio
Cleveland
Davis
Anderson Herald
Republican
Booth Tarkington
Philadelphia
Tarkington
Nobiesville Ledger
Indiana
Letter Golf Rules From the Word Puzzle Page
The excerpt explains letter golf a word puzzle where one word is changed to another in a fixed number of strokes. Each step must be a complete common word, only one letter changes per jump, and letter order remains fixed. Examples include COW to HEN in three steps: COW HOW HEW HEN.
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State
High School Athletic Association
Husky
Reader Q and A from The Indianapolis Times
A period column prints reader questions and concise answers on topics from economics to sports. It covers wage averages, football backfield positions, football weights, Grover Alexander’s 1926 record, name meanings, arrhythmia, and rhododendron planting guidance with practical tips.
Q and A on plants wars aviation weather and names
A mixed Q and A summarizes gardening tips about facing beds away from sun and layering grafted plants, with factual trivia on Ruth, Paul Wegener, air respiration limits, shell acoustics, Harrison's wife, counts of U S military aircraft, German president salary, Pope Pius XI, rainfall in Pacific Northwest, Marine Corps enlistment, Normandy geography, and the meaning of Ida.
Reader letter urges home rule to curb state control
The writer thanks The Times for condemning Indiana state overreach and calls for Huntington and Indianapolis to regain municipal autonomy. He favors a non political city manager form of government and home rule to control utilities and avoid state interference. PAULSEN asks for employment. CAMPBELL seeks a steady job as a deaf and mute machinist with seven years’ experience.
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Times
Indiana
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Huntington
Indianapolis Times
Co. E. Paulsen
Paul R. Campbell
Old Masters Song by Hartley Coleridge
A lyric recalling a maiden whose outward beauty deceives until her smile reveals a loving gaze. The speaker contrasts her now coy, cold looks with the enduring inner radiance seen as a spring of light and love, surpassing other maidens' smiles.
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Hartley Coleridge
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