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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1922
Page
3
Merchants report they are in the midst of the busiest Christmas season ever in the W Washington St area. Stocks will be depleted by tomorrow night as buyers from across the city flock to the district. Dealers say the area is shedding illegitimate businesses from years past and growing into a metropolitan shopping center.
Fire station No 1 at 445 Indiana Ave hosts a community Christmas celebration with four colored jazz bands a large Christmas tree and plentiful treats. Merchants contributed over 600 pounds of candy tesidle apples nuts and oranges. Fireman William Goodin will portray Santa Claus. Fifty cars with more than 200 carolers will tour the city on Christmas morning led by R Hayes Wilson who urges all colored carolers to contact him at 1448 Martindale Ave.
The Big Four Railroad will spend about 3 750 000 to purchase fifty Mikado type freight locomotives from the American Locomotive Works Schenectady New York. They will serve the Chicago division between Bellefonte Ohio and Sharonville Ohio and the Cincinnati division between Cincinnati Ohio and Kankakee New Jersey. The engines feature automatic stokers feeding the fire box from the tender.
Bruce P. Robinson post of the American Legion plans a Christmas night dance at Tomlinson Hall with Pollard's Victor Five providing music and vocal numbers. A small admission will be charged to aid the ex service men welfare fund.
In Dublin four imprisoned rebels face death for continuing guerrilla actions in County Kerry. The insurgents rejected a clemency offer after seven others were executed. their reprieve depended on stopping incendiarism bombing and assassinations.
The Postal Telegraph and Cable Company grants a five percent wage raise for all employees. Indianapolis manager H. T. Ford confirms the increase takes effect January 1. Messenger boys with continuous service since November 1 will receive a $10 Christmas cash gift from the company.
Sufferers with chronic stomach troubles overeat and strain the stomach. Mi-O-Na tablets taken with meals aid digestion. The product promises fast relief from sour stomach gas belching and heaviness within minutes and claims regular use banishes indigestion.
Felix M. McWhirter president of Peoples State Bank is elected new head of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. He succeeds O. B. Les. John R. Welch of Celtic Savings and Loan is vice president and J. Edward Morris of Washington Trust Company is treasurer. Committees likely to be named at the next board meeting.
The Indianapolis visit of Chicago rabbis Ephriam Epstein and Moses Fisher scheduled to begin today has been indefinitely postponed. They were to participate in a discussion of important religious questions, according to Rabbi Solomon J. Levin.
A massive fire at the Dearborn Street Railroad Station in Chicago left the landmark in ashes. Fire officials blamed crossed wires, a cigarette butt, or possible arson as the cause. Christmas mail and payroll were saved while three operators, Mamie Scully and two colleagues, remained at work before being overcome by smoke.
The station will not delay schedules as the shed is only slightly damaged and an annex will serve as the main station. A modern replacement building is anticipated. Railroads using the station include Santa Fe Wabash Chesapeake and Ohio Chicago and Western Indiana Chicago and Eastern Illinois Chicago Indianapolis and Louisville Grand Trunk and Erie.
Nick Sphrepferman aged 60 of 1443 Broadway and Banner Coal Co at 936 E Vermont St was arrested today by Deputy Weight Inspector Petty on a complaint by Frank Heizer of 4440 Carrollton Ave alleging two tons of coal bought for 12 dollars per ton was 250 pounds underweight.
The board of park commissioners authorized purchasing a half mile square tract west of the Long Hospital to create a convalescent park serving the city hospital, Robert W. Long Hospital, and Riley Memorial Hospital. Property owners sought details on future action and price. President Charles A. Bookwalter said terms had not been finally decided.
New York experiences a wave of federal dry agent raids as enforcement squads target alcohol venues. Dinty Moore's and The Tent are among the establishments raided, with diners feeling heightened anxiety as authorities push tighter liquor controls in the city.
A thief took a purse from the room of Bessie Smith at 306 Dorman Street last evening. The purse contained $17, and she reported the loss to police.
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