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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1928
Page
5
Leo J. McGinn 28 Maywood Ill veteran air mail flier died after his parachute failed to open during a blizzard flight. His plane crashed on Huron Ohio main street and fire swept a barn where the chute landed, destroying mail sacks.
Ted Wherry of Salt Lake City was robbed by two bandits who took all he possessed. He retrieved a gun and pursued them with police joining the chase. Gunfire faded as the culprits surrendered. both received five year sentences. Ted is hailed as a town hero by friends.
Additional gas main blasts in west end and central London districts caused further damage and threatened building foundations. Seventeen people were injured, including seven who were gassed, as explosions began Thursday and continued for about twenty hours after the initial burst. An electric dynamo repair in a manhole preceded the first main explosion.
Mary Walker aged 104 the oldest Howard county resident died at her daughter Mrs Josephine Waits home in Kokomo Indiana Born in 1824 in Kentucky she spent most of her life in the hills of Kentucky before moving to Kokomo to live with her daughter
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