Fairview district locals push higher street light standards
Gustav G. Schmidt of 4205 North Illinois proposes a system charging property owners for excess street lighting to relieve poorly lit blocks in Butler Fairview. He cites budget limits, cites existing 24 000 candlepower, and urges installation of arc lamps every 400 feet with front foot tax pro rata.
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Gustav G. Schmidt
North Illinois Street
City Council
City Plan Commission
Butler-Fairview
City Hall
Schmidt
Talbot Street
Chicago
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Ore
Montana
Cincinnati
Washington Boulevard
Girl jumps into sea aboard liner Deutschland
Passengers arriving in Cherbourg report that a girl named Pallma Kerestesy, who studied piano in Chicago, jumped overboard from the Deutschland last Tuesday and drowned. Some passengers blamed a broken heart from leaving her American sweetheart, others said she despondent over parole limits that forced her to abandon hopes of becoming a great pianist.
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United Press
Cherbourg
France
New York
Pdlma Kerestesy
Chicago
America
LIMIT BILLS ON ALIENS Mexican Immigration Focus This Session
Senator Hiram Johnson of California said action in this Congress will center on two immigration proposals: Mexican immigration and national origins provisions. Johnson chairs the Senate immigration committee and indicated votes will reach the Senate this session. Last week the Harris bill to set a quota for Mexico was reported by the committee.
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Washington
Congress
Hiram Johnson
California
Senate
Johnson
Senate Immigration Committee
Harris
Mexico
Death driver charged after fatal Bloomington crash
Bloomington police charge Elza Boshears after a train struck an auto killing his guest Reige Adkins of Helenwood Tennessee. Police found a broken liquor bottle in Boshears coat pocket and he faces multiple charges in city court with bond set at 1500 pending trial.
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Bloomington
Bu Times
Ind
Elza
Boshears
Reige L. Adkins
Helenwood
Tenn
Pick the Pictures Cop the Cash Contest With Colleen Moore
Collect a list of Colleen Moore film poses used in The Times contest. Identify the photographs by which movie it came from among titles such as Lilac Time Oh Kay and others. The Times Circle theater prize awards range with top prize $15 and additional prizes for near matches and tickets.
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Colleen Moore
Circle Theater
Indianapolis Times
Times Office
First National
The
Times
Skouras Publix
Indianapolis
Colleen
New York
Antonio Moreno
Montagu Love
Gertrude Astor
Katherine McGuire
Love
Flap
Twinkletoes
Ella Cinders
Sally
Huntress
Mellon Attacked for Tax Refunds on Steel
Washington December 20 Representative John Garner of Texas assailed Secretary Mellon on the house floor over tax refunds to the United States Steel Corporation and other large concerns. Senator McKellar proposed moving refund powers to the IRS with board approval. Garner urged Mellons resignation for allegedly providing false financial information to Congress and the President. He noted conflicting surplus and deficit forecasts and questioned the refund payments cited for 1917.
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United Press
Ashington
Mellon
United States Steel Corporation
John Garner
Texas
House
McKellar
Senate
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Board of Tax Appeals
Garner
Coolidge
Congress
Treasury Department
Rhodes Named State Securities Commissioner
Mark W. Rhoads of Columbia City will leave the automobile license division to become state securities commissioner after Wallace Weatherholt resigns. Rhoads takes the post January 15. Opal Evans is named Fifield’s private secretary. Francis Kunkle becomes secretary in his law practice.
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Mark W. Rhoads
Columbia City
Otto G. Fifield
Wallace Weatherholt
Chicago
Rhoads
Opal Evans
Fifield
Francis Kunkle
Schortemeier
Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia Seriously Ill in Antibes
In Antibes France on December 20 the lung congestion of Grand Duke Nicholas lessened but his heart condition remained cause for concern. The Grand Duke, head of the Russian White Army, is seriously ill at his home.
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United Press
Antibes
France
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Russia
Linwood pastor links sin to public opinion at club talk
Reverend Homer P. Boblitt of Linwood Christian Church told the Bible Investigation Club at the Y M C A auditorium that public opinion reveals the true size of an individual and leaves little room for personal sin to be concealed.
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Homer P. Boblitt
Linwood Christian Church
Bible Investigation Club
Car goes into ditch after crash near Flackville
Henry Johnson, 48, of 21 North Alabama street, was arrested by deputy sheriffs on charges of driving while intoxicated after his car plunged into a ditch and overturned near Flackville on Road 52 early this morning. He was uninjured.
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Flackville
Henry Johnson
North Alabama
ULE LIQUOR COSTLIER AND NOT SO GOOD
Indianapolis Christmas liquor scene shows lower quality and higher prices this year. Bootleggers active nationwide with expensive, scarce grain alcohol driving up costs. Visitors report varied rates for wine, spirits, and beer, with New York and Chicago quoted high prices and concerns over fake or mixed products.
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Indianapolis
United Press
New York
San Francisco
Dogs Tear Man To Death After He Beats Himself
John Bucker a 65 year old from Elwood Ind was found dead in a bushes near Brookside park shelter house. He was intoxicated and apparently battered himself after denatured alcohol killed him. Police and coroner investigators noted injuries and the note that dogs tore an ear as the victim allegedly beat his head against the ground and tree stumps. His daughter Mrs Curtis Flannigan said he was drunk often and had been ordered from her home. Park custodian J M Driver and park employee Clarence Bell found the body.
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John Bucker
Elwood
Ind
Brookside Park
C. H. Keever
Bucker
Curtis Flannigan
Olney Street
Ared
Nigan
J. M. Driver
East Eleventh Street
Park
Clarence Bell
Wood Street
Park Employe
Buckner
The autograph fad and a fog of handwriting
A nostalgic reminiscence on autograph hounds and public scrutiny in New York and beyond. The narrator notes letters seeking signatures, the vanity of celebrity adulation, and how perceptions of attire and manners fueled rumors about character. A tale ends with an ironic jab at fashion and handwriting.
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New York
Special Municipal Board Pushes Gas Plant Takeover Plan
City officials push a plan to take over the Citizens Gas Company with a new municipal utility board and legal staff. Mayor Slack says $15,000 will be appropriated for attorneys and that a special session Friday will consider creating a utility district and authorizing bonds. Trustees resist losing control, while talks stress friendly conferences and a nonpartisan board to manage gas finances under city oversight.
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John W. Holtzman
Citizen Gas Company
Fred C. Gause
Fletcher Savings and Trust Building
Holtzman
City Hall
Lort Slack
City Council
Citizens Gas Company
General Assembly
Public Utility Board
L. Ert Slack
Slack
Indianapolis
Acting head named at city hospital nursing school
Miss Beatrice Jerrin was named acting director of the city hospital nursing school after Miss Eva Ellen Jansen resigned due to illness. The board of health approved the resignation and authorized Dr. William Coeppers to appoint a successor. Jerrin will not keep the post, aiming to finish her education. A temporary 175000 loan to the finance board was authorized pending tax money. The board noted a rapid decline in respiratory infection cases.
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Beatrice Jerrin
City Hospital Nursing School
Eva Ellen Jansen
East Sparta
Board of Health
Miss Jansen
William Coeppers
Jerrin
Nance Board
Hawk Trial Set After Plea Refusal in Blackmail Case
Wendell C. Hessong alias the hawk and Jack Montgomery faced Hamilton circuit court in Noblesville Indiana for blackmail. Both entered not guilty pleas and their trials were scheduled for January 23. Hessong admitted sending threatening letters to demand money from executives including Hal Purdy of Mormon Motor Car Company Lewis Rose of Capital Iron Works in Indianapolis and Bailey Hawkins of Citizens State Bank Carmel.
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United Press
Noblesville
Ind
Wendell C. Hessong
the Hawk
Jack Montgomery
Hamilton
Hessong
Montgomery
Indiana
Hal Purdy
Mormon Motor Car Company
Lewis Rose
Capital Iron Works
Indianapolis
Bailey Hawkins
Citizens State Bank
Carmel
Pastor Sentenced to Jail for Coal Theft in Michigan City
The Rev. Arthur Granger, pastor of Mt. Zion Church, was sentenced to ten days in jail and a $40 fine after pleading guilty to taking coal from a nearby company. Police traced the theft to Granger’s home basement via shoe prints from a car to his residence. The church loses its pastor as the sentence extends into next week.
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United Press
Michigan City
Ind
Arthur Granger
Mt. Zion Church
Fred Mitchell
Granger
August C. Heitschmidt
Heitschmidt Coal and Feed Store
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