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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1922
Page
6
Chicago battles a brutal cold wave fueling deaths fires and crime. Four frozen victims found last night two murders in twelve hours police report a rampant spree from pickpockets to robberies.
A pedestrian was wounded as gangs of gunmen fought in the Grand and Mott Street area causing panic. Two men were arrested and streetcars were forced to flee the firefight near police headquarters. The spree followed numerous robberies including jewelry worth 100000 and a Brooklyn bank messenger robbery of 19000.
Dr H B Hatch reports 125 patients at Sunnyside will attend most of the Christmas events with only two unable to. Free gifts will be given to patients and attendants from funds raised by citizens and lodges. Christmas carols will echo through corridors and buildings as 500 visitors are invited for Christmas day.
Thomas B. Wood former president of Valparaiso University and later a Methodist missionary has died in Tacoma Washington. He established the first Christian missions in Peru Paraguay and Ecuador and was 78 years old.
An advertisement claims people aged forty or older are more susceptible to colds and pneumonia and urges Bulgarian Herb Tea to keep bowels open and improve blood. It says taking it steaming hot breaks up a cold quickly and that physicians and druggists recommend it.
A reader submission column shares playful kid lines and family moments. A mother recalls Katherine’s funny goodbye request to Mr Brown, Yolanda’s joke about glasses, Billy’s dog confidence, and Harold’s medicated mash mishap in lighthearted anecdotes.
Hollywood and Los Angeles figures allegedly plotted to extract money from Wallace Reid to suppress an exposé aimed at damaging his name. Mrs. Alice Davenport says the threat accelerated his collapse during a drug rehabilitation fight. Reid, once 200 pounds, now 130 and weak with a flu like illness, is improving slowly.
John F. White, chairman of the mayor market commission, replied to the Architects Association of Indianapolis detailing limits on plans for a new city market house. He said the state owns the site and the building must include a ground floor market to satisfy the easement.
White suggests the plan has broad popular backing and it is now in the hands of the city planning commission for approval.
Hammond Indiana December 19 W C Marsten 25 was crushed to death in the plate mill of the Inland Steel plant this accident ends a life in the works.
A watch worth 15 dollars was taken from the pocket of P. G. Tarpy at the Kingan & Co plant. The coat hung in the washroom when the theft occurred.
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