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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
5
Franklin receives a $5 loving cup meant for a $200 prize after a costly Halloween parade. Local businessmen quietly raise $200 to replace the item, while the piece suggests boosters rarely lead to real progress. The piece argues for brass tacks over showy parades.
Chief Rikhoff arrests a speeder claiming seventy mph on city streets while the motorist is fined $15. The chief laments the leniency of fines and questions enforcing a ten mph downtown limit, arguing the reckless driver should be punished, not the cautious one.
Wheat prices rise amid political assurances to farmers. Yap island devastated by a tidal wave with possible overall solutions if it vanished. Florida records 24 degrees while Indianapolis marks 23 degrees, mocking publicity efforts over a single degree.
Near East Relief broadcast news from Greece hinting at Mt Athos as a wine source triggers a controversy. A publicity misstep blamed on a busy publicist prompts calls for investigation and questions about whether prohibition rules are being violated.
The piece argues poolrooms breed crime among youths and calls for higher license fees and bonds to bar minors. It contrasts poolroom offenders with country club youths, noting harsher parole patterns for some and the influence of wealth on leniency.
A business man says a college does little. it merely unlocks a student’s latent potential. The piece argues smart youths pursue education despite campus distractions, while dull students fail regardless. A Chicago woman accuses her husband of forty nine wives, suggesting he would need to shop early.
Readers asked about birthplace of Ricardo Cortez the actor and the meaning of Snodgrass, plus details on Daniel Webster’s 1850 speech, the Unknown Soldier’s burial, glass etching, whippet tracks, Mandel fur, presidential rank, cattle TB tests, and Fly River geography and tributaries.
In Luke 2 8 the shepherds abiding in the field hear the heavenly birth song. The sermon notes that divine revelation comes to simple, faithful workers who spend time in meditation. The Bethlehem shepherds’ quiet diligence made them worthy recipients of the Messiah announcement.
The Indianapolis post office handled 1,654,747 pieces of mail on Tuesday, topping the previous high of 1,000,822. Most of the surge was outgoing Christmas mail as shoppers filled downtown stores. Officer Buck Sumner avoided jail after apologizing for contempt. case linked to political fights and court delays.
A $50 million merger aims to combine Indiana quarries in the Bloomington Bedford area. If closed, about 75 percent of district stone output would be controlled by one firm, signaling a sizable national building material trust with limited public alarm.
A passage from a congressional column notes Rep. Green R Wood of Indiana urging $330 000 for new post office buildings in Bicknell Sullivan and Vincennes while other Hoosier lawmakers seek numerous federal structures. The piece questions the business sense of large post offices in small towns and cites a $45 million annual deficit.
Local readers report misnumbered houses on Caroline Street causing confusion after new homes south of Roosevelt Avenue. Mrs Viola Schmeidel and Henry Bohlsen seek city help. Mr Fixit notes traffic department learning curve amid Hoosier Traveling Man complaints and cites drivers ignoring signals and causing accidents in Indianapolis.
A jumble of notes and quips on politics media and social issues. It mentions Calvin Coolidge William Allen White a Roosevelt memorial debate and a postal rate oddity. It also comments on public land permits a Moscow worker pay rule and a hypothetical new John D. Rockefeller cook.
William Faversham stars in Foot-Loose at English’s while Stella Mayhew performs at Keith’s. Dancing Pirates at the Lyric and burlesque at Broadway headline a varied lineup with The Scarlet West at Circle and Pretty Ladies at Zaring’s. Also on offer are When the Door Opened at the Colonial A Woman of the World at the Apollo Mannequin at the Ohio and a complete new show at the Isis.
William Favershaw starts a three day engagement at English's tonight. Sarah Truax stars opposite him in the leading role as the production Foot Loose moves to the stage.
The Palace Theater airs a special Christmas program with five vaudeville acts and a feature film. The program includes The Toy Shop performed by the Palace orchestra, a two reel Santa Claus for children, The Evolution of Dixie, and acts by Dorothy Henry Ned Norworth Mason Cole Gordon and Spain Nick Cogley Ben Lyon and Mary Astor in The Pace That Thrills along with Pathe News and topical humor.
A newspaper columnist argues that sensational confessions by European nobles and American heiresses fuel publicity and divorce. The piece laments waning reticence in modern marriages and the pursuit of money through public romantic disclosures. It notes horse population declines from 19,320,338 in 1910 to 17,589,000 in 1925, a drop of 1,631,338.
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