Indianapolis Times of December 24 1929 front page details
The Indianapolis Times published daily except Sunday at 214 220 West Maryland Street Indianapolis Indiana. Price 2 cents in Marion County 3 cents elsewhere 12 cents a week delivered by carrier. Editors Boyd Gurley Roy W Howard. President Frank G Morrison business manager. Includes affiliations with Loited Press Scripps Howard Newspaper Alliance NEA and NIS. Motto given: Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way.
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Scripps-Howard
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
West
Maryland Street
Indianapolis
Marion County
Boyd Gurley
Roy W. Howard
Kiley
Loited Press
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Newspaper Information Service
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Times
Chamber of Commerce
United States
Indianapolis Street Railway
College Avenue
Forty Second Street
Street
Illinois
City manager test for Sullivan appointees amid politics
The piece argues that Mayor Elect Sullivan's selections must pass a standard of nonpartisan, efficient governance. It notes the protest against Coffinism and cites named physicians Winslow Hamilton Emerson Wynne Opie on child labor harms, urging safeguards for under 16 workers.
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Sullivan
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Challenge of Child Labor Facts Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
A national call marking twenty-five years of anti child labor work argues the U S still treats children in industry as barbaric. It cites state gaps in age limits eight hour days health certificates educational requirements and regulation of dangerous or home work with a northern versus southern distribution analysis and a push for stronger federal action.
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Winslow
National Child Labor Committee
United States
South
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Fnsylvania
Michigan
Ippi
Virginia
Germany Rejects Liberty Bill Narrowly in Referendum
The defeated referendum shows Germany’s move toward international cooperation and peaceful European reconstruction. Nationalists failed to block the Young plan, risking economic chaos, while leaders like Einstein Mann Eckener Stresemann symbolize a forward looking Germany.
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Germany
Berlin
Austria
Russia
Paris
Hugenbergs
Hitlers
Einstein, Mann
Eckener
Stresemann
Miner Hero Of Peace And Peril In Coal Mines
The piece extols the miner as a hero equal to soldiers for risking life to feed families. It cites the McAlester disaster where sixty miners died, praises miners’ courage, and contrasts labor danger with bandit criminality. It also briefly comments on political topics and recent flight feats without deep detail.
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McAlester
Okla
Prosperity Tied to Peace Global Events
The piece links prosperity to international calm as Germany backs the Young Plan, Russia and China renew relations, and the Fascist League of North America dissolves. It argues that domestic well-being rests on peace at home and abroad, urging recognition of the bread and better side of international relations.
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Germany
Young Plan
Russia
China
Fascist League of North America
Merc
Self
East
Christmas Spending Signals Prosperity and Cultural Value
A government survey notes Christmas spending will mark economic health in America, helped by a strong market for American made goods since the war. The piece argues expenditures on cards, gifts, and even parties support jobs, artistry, and scientific progress, linking consumer habits to broader social history. It cites gum chewing and Maya ruins as demonstrations of how seemingly trivial interests reveal knowledge and culture.
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America
Sam
Nora
the Times
Oath Administered to Coolidge by His Father in Vermont
The oath of office for President Calvin Coolidge, succeeding Warren G. Harding, was administered by his father a justice of the peace at their Vermont home around 2 a.m. after news of Harding's death. The Q and A also notes census Indians total 355 481 and other factual snippets.
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President Coolidge
Harding
Vermont
United States
Liver extract aids pernicious anemia says Dr. Fishbein
The Times and NEA Service present Dr. Morris Fishbein on 1929 medical advances. Liver extracts restore blood in pernicious anemia, reducing reliance on whole liver. Liver contains vitamins A and D and iron. possible blood pressure effect and potential to ease eclampsia convulsions. NEXT: The use of ultra violet rays.
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Times
NEA Service
Morris Fishbein
Journal of
The
American Medical Association
Minot and
Murphy
Boston
University of Michigan
Pittsburgh
Christmas Graft in Critic’s Desk and Algonquin Tales
The columnist recalls Christmas gifts to critics from Shuberts and a yearful of cigars, noting ethics of reception and a petty but persistent graft. He debunks the Algonquin Round Table myth and recalls daily hotel luncheon chatter with theater folks.
Times Readers Voice Views on Indianapolis Transport and Critics
Readers critique the city transit system noting snow delays on streetcars and buses. The column recalls a dramatist critic experience, debating fairness with friends and choosing discretion over blunt honesty.
Daily Thought on Chastisement and Wrath
A reflection contrasts Psalm 11 16’s warning of punishment with Ouida on how just chastisement may benefit a person though rarely does an unjust one turns his blood to gall.
Which poem contains The mills of God grind slowly line
The quoted line appears in a poem attributed to Longfellow in an odd rendering of von LOGAN. The familiar phrase is often cited as The mills of God grind slowly yet they grind exceeding small.
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Longfellow
von Logan
Rutherford Receives Royal Society Honor For Atomic Breakthrough
Sir Ernest Rutherford has been re elected president of the Royal Society Britain s oldest scientific body. The scientist who led pivotal atomic theory work and charted the atom as a mini solar system is praised by A S Eddington as shaping modern physics beyond relativity and X rays.
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Ernest Rutherford
Royal Society of Great Britain
Royal Society
Great Britain
Rutherford
A. S. Eddington
Albert Einstein
Eddington
Berlin Physical Society
Rotengen
Becquerel
Pierre and
Marie Curie
Lorentz
J. J. Thompson
Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
Thompson
Utherford
Henry Moseley
Galipoli
England
Neils Bohr
Copenhagen
Bohr
New Zealand
University of New Zealand
Cambridge University
McGill University
Montreal
Canada
University of Manchester
Death of Robin Hood the Legendary Sherwood Chief
Robin Hood, the romantic leader of a band of robbers in Sherwood Forest, died December 24, 1247. His outlaw band plundered from 1189 to 1247 and was linked by some to Robert, Earl of Huntington. He allegedly aided the poor by stealing from noble forts.
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Robin Hood
Sherwood Forest
England
Robert
Earl of Huntington
Richard I
Sherwood
Jolly Band
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Indianapolis ‘Times
Frank G. Morrison
Scriot
Howard
Democratic Party
C. E. A. Winslow
Alice Hamilton
Haven Emerson
Shirley W. Wynne
Eugene L. Opie
Frederick Landis
Japan
Toho
Manchuria
Jimmy Walker
Lindbergh
Atlantic
Seville
Spain
Brazil
M. E. Tracy
Central America
Syria
Asia Minor
Damascus
Parks Cadman
Clinton Avenue
Brooklyn
George Peabody College For Teachers
Nashville, Tenn
Mt. Vernon
George Washington
Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
Alexandria
Claure
Daily Health Service
DR. Morris Fishbein
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
Heywood Brown
Shuberts
Hese
Bacco
Spee
Algonquin Round Table
Swaggers
Daily Thought
Science
David Dietz
Radium
Annie AY
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