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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1928
Page
5
The author recalls using Conrad as a trigger to elicit long contributions from William McFee, noting past attempts to provoke him with remarks about Conrad. McFee’s silence earlier is described as temporary, with a late letter indicating he was out of town and would respond when opportunity allowed.
William McFee writes from illness and travel defending Conrad against Hitchcock. He notes Conrad’s human greatness, discusses Dona Rita and Arrow of Gold, and contrasts cynical wit with earnest literary commitment in a defense of Conrad and a critique of peers.
The city glows with red green and silver decorations as stores offices and clubs brighten for Christmas. The Above Columbia Club resembles a giant Christmas card with centers and theaters adorned by silvered trees and festive lights.
United Press reports from Grenoble France that Jean Duboin a Lyons journalist was rescued from the Nero s Helmet peak after hours on a rope as his companion Mademoiselle Renaux froze to death. Duboin clung to an icy rock while rescuers faced snow and wind and a crevasse trapped him until help arrived.
J H Ehlers spoke on Buying Up Every Moment at Indiana Central college chapel. Dr H W Marshall, head of education, announced his resignation to Jan 1 after sixteen years and will head psychology at New Mexico State Normal. Richard Johnson, 84, prominent landowner, was seriously injured when struck by a automobile in Marion Indiana.
A Cleveland mother, Anna Kempf, who mixed ice cream with rat poison in a bid to ease poverty, had her first degree murder trial end in a hung jury. In a second trial she pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was promised probation, and was freed to resume caring for her two surviving children.
Vincennes man C. O. Miller, a garage proprietor, won a $4,500 verdict against Yellow Cab in a suit for $10,000. He was injured when his wrecker car was struck by a taxi as he stood in front of the vehicle.
Alexander Miller of Coesse Indiana collects honey for the third year from bees under his home siding. This season the hive produced 150 pounds with more than half classified as high grade honey.
Municipal Judge C R Cameron invoked a new Supreme Court ruling on search and seizure in a liquor case. Haley Pinkston and three customers challenged the arrest by Sergeant Morrisey claiming no warrant was produced. The judge ruled no warrant needed when an officer observes a violation in a nearby public-adjacent area. Pinkston fined 25 dollars plus costs and each customer 1 dollar plus costs.
Local realtors will have an opportunity to earn commissions at the Indianapolis Real Estate Board luncheon held at the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday noon. Members of the Indianapolis Home Builders Association will offer for sale on a commission basis some recent home-building jobs. Fred L. Palmer, president of the association, will preside. Everett J. Holloway leads the business program with speaker E. L. Cothrell, William L. Bridges and Walter M. Evans also on the lineup.
Roy Chapman Andrews plans a Mongolia expedition next March to seek the predecessor of the Java man among Pliocene fossils estimated at one to six million years old. The Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History mapped 3,000 miles of virgin Mongolia and found fossils of giant prehistoric animals including a thirty ton titanothos and a mastodon with a shovel like beak.
Greens Fork Indiana December 19 Mrs Hannah Bradbury aged 100 has died of heart disease just weeks after her 100th birthday celebration attended by over 200 people. A native of Wayne County she lived in Greens Fork eighty years and was a Sunday school teacher from age 15 and an early W C T U worker in Wayne County.
City officials and gas trustees met at the Chamber of Commerce to discuss how Indianapolis should proceed to take over Citizens Gas Company. City Corporation Counsel Holtzman indicated an early administrative plan, possible use of special counsel, and firm steps to preserve the public trust while drafting possible legislation for 1930.
Christmas tradition centers on holly and mistletoe with roots in ancient Yule feasts. The article explains holly’s survival into Christmas, mistletoe’s Druids link, and Science Service notes about its semi parasitic nature and seed spread by birds.
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