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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1928
Page
4
A city council in a special session approved a preliminary resolution to acquire Site 8, a 1000 acre tract south of Ben Davis for a municipal airport. The measure, backed by Mayor Slack and Airport Committee chair John F. White, goes to committee for final action next Monday with legal property details to be added.
A vintage advertisement extols Konjola as a cure for stomach liver kidney and bowel complaints and several ailments. The Konjola Man at Hook drug store Illinois and Washington Streets invites the public to learn of its claimed health benefits citing Mrs Dora Armstrong’s twenty year digestive recovery as a notable testimonial.
The council committee with Edward W. Harris Meredith Nicholson John W. Holtzman Smiley N Chambers and A H Moore outlines that a plat general plan and cost estimates must be posted for three weeks. A $680000 bond issue ordinance will follow if no remonstrance is filed and five percent of the population can trigger an election.
Charles E. Durr, 62, longtime Winchester marshal for twenty years, died after a year of illness from paralysis. Funeral services scheduled for Thursday in Winchester.
President-Elect Herbert Hoover sends a wireless thanks to Uruguay and plans a Rio de Janeiro visit after departing Montevideo. Hoover occupies a private suite on the Utah while the party travels up the Brazilian coast at sixteen knots in cool sub-tropical seas. The voyage follows a trip from San Pedro to Valparaiso aboard the Maryland.
Gus Sheets, known as Sleets, ran a gambling house at 1214 East Twenty third street. Sergeant Morrissey raided it on November 25 without a warrant after Sleets challenged him to shoot ten dollars. Judge Wetter fined Sleets 25 dollars plus costs for keeping a gaming place and five dollars for gaming. others were fined five dollars and costs, while Wetter reserved sentence for visiting a gaming place.
Mrs Florence P Kahm a new House Military Affairs member urged adequate preparedness until world peace returns. She told United Press that sufficient defense is not anti disarmament and emphasized readiness as essential.
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