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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
16
United Press reports a nationwide tally on prohibition enforcement plans amid the Durant prize contest. Results show 23 230 submissions from all states and territories, with methods ranging from education to harsher penalties and constitutional modification proposals.
William Hudson a 27 year old Englishman swallowed a soup spoon in a suicide bid after police detained him in the Dieppe railroad buffet. An X ray showed a bulging area claimed to be caused by a fork swallowed on a prior arrest. He quipped that next time he would swallow a knife.
A December revolt in Afghanistan challenges King Amanullah as clerics and public resist beard and turban reforms. Persian scholar Dr. Asadollah Beijan says the king’s legal push to shave faces provoked widespread unrest. Ali Abker Kiachif notes religion and tradition oppose swift modernization.
In Bradford on December 21 a new jazz band for poor law patients, chiefly epileptics and mental cases at the Brad ford institution, is planned. The Dais Hill Institution Committee of the Bradford Board of Guardians says the group will keep inmates from thinking about themselves. The patients already have a piano violins and two concertinas and the committee will add a full set of jaws instruments.
In Boston on December 21, the Italian poodle named Teddy fell seventy feet from a roof onto a concrete sidewalk and was hospitalized at Angel Memorial hospital where doctors report the animal recovering.
Health authorities urge early check of every cold and promote Vicks VapoRub for bedtime throat and chest application. The ad claims two actions: inhalation of vapor through air passages and poultice-like skin relief, plus nasal use in crowds to guard airways against germs.
President-elect Herbert Hoover reaches Rio de Janeiro aboard the Utah after a South American tour. Brazilian officials greet him at the docks and he will attend a reception at Guanabara Palace and a special congress session. Hoover to address the congress and visit the supreme court before returning to Florida.
Mrs. Gover C. Robey welcomed the fourth pair of twins in seven years in Washington. The children range from 2 days to 20 years old, bringing the family total to fourteen.
Cleveland police probe a headless body mystery tied to a self described voodoo doctor. The doctor claims he killed Nehemiah Gibbs for $35 and dumped the body after severing the head, but investigators doubt the confession as other facts shift the suspect’s story.
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