Watson Plays Waiting Game On Presidential Bid
Senator James E. Watson, arriving in Indianapolis for Indiana Republican conferences, says no announcement yet on a possible presidential candidacy. He attends at invitation of State Chairman Clyde Walb and will not discuss Governor McCray.
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James E. Watson
Indianapolis
Washington
The
Severin
Indiana
McCray
Watson
Walb
Clyde E. Walb
Congress
Coolidge
House
Senate
Interstate Commerce Committee
Cummins
Smith
Wald
State Committee
Stuart Fisher
Princeton
Ind
Ewing Emsion
Vincennes
George M. Poland
Crown Point
George Lockwood
National Republican
Old Augusta Demands A Road In Muddy Isolation
Residents of Old Augusta pressure county commissioners for a road to access the town. They warn isolation worsens danger if a death occurs and city burial is impossible. Officials say the case will be presented to state highway authorities as the Michigan road is being cemented.
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Old Augusta
Michigan
Fragmentary Train Schedule Snippet Missing Context
A partial OCR style snippet shows times like 6 am 4610 a m and 4511 a m with unclear text. The readable items imply a timetable fragment or timetable notes but lack coherent events or entities to confirm a full item.
Ex-Wizard Warns of Feudal Warfare in Klan Strife
Edward Young Clarke former imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan warns in Washington that internal strife and a rise as a political machine threaten law and order. He appeals to President Coolidge to curb or dissolve the Klan, citing widespread violence and control by factions in multiple states.
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United Press
Washington
Kentucky
Ku Klux Klan
Edward Young Clarke
Clarke
Coolidge
White House
Edward Fuller
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Ohio
Michigan
Illnois
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Evans
Fuller
Robbers Break Into Grocery on College Avenue
Two men used a hole in the floor to enter H. J. Claffee's grocery at 6055 College Ave on a Wednesday night. They stole twenty five pennies and some tobacco before fleeing.
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H. J. Claffee
College Ave
Times Safety Club enrolls 196 initial members
The Times Safety Club opens with 196 drivers from Indianapolis taxi companies joining to pledge careful driving this year. Charter members include Yellow Cab, Diamond Cab, Indiana Cab, Red Top Cab, Donn Herr, Checker Taxi, and others formalizing the safety pledge.
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Times Safety Club
Marion County
The
Times
the Times
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Yellow Cab Company
Mike Maroney
Diamond Cab Company
William H. McLaughlin
Indiana Cab Company
F. J. McKennan
Red Top Cab Company
A. F. Davidson
Donn Herr Cab Company
Don Herr
Checker Taxicab Company
A. C. Metcalf
William O'Connor
Belt Railroad
W. Washington St
O'Connor
He Ixty
Stock issues approved for two utilities in Brewer group
The public service commission authorized stock and bond issues for the Wabash Valley Electric Company and the Northern Indiana Power Company. Wabash Valley may sell at 90 percent for 39,600 of 7 percent preferred stock for improvements and extensions. Northern Indiana Power can sell at 90 percent par for 396,000 in 6 percent bonds and 181,000 in common stock.
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Public Service Commission
Joseph A. Brewer
Wabash Valley Electric Company
Northern Indiana Power Company
Waiter Sentenced to Five Days in Jail for Contempt
Mars Hill waiter James L. Sowders was jailed five days by Superior Judge T. J. Moll for contempt of court after failing to answer a personally served subpoena in a divorce case over alleged non support. He told the judge he believed he need not appear unless he opposed the divorce. the judge called that information mistaken.
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James L. Sowders
Mars Hill
T. J. Moll
Sowders
Caise
Sawders
Moll
Fundraising Plan For 1924 Indianapolis Federation Discussed
Friday evening executive officers of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Clubs will discuss ways and means to raise funds for the 1924 program. The meeting occurs in the office of Edward O. Snethen at 416 Indiana Trust building and no general meeting is planned until January 25.
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Indianapolis Federation of Community Clubs
Federation
Edward O. Snethen
Indiana Trust Building
Loss of French dirigible becomes state scandal
A clipped public safety pledge appears amid a Times Safety Club promotion in Indianapolis. The item ties a dramatic loss to political scandal while urging drivers to obey traffic rules and watch for emergency vehicles, with space for a name and address to join.
Traffic wardens warn 1300 motorists in city
Since last August police have tagged 7 956 traffic violators. Beginning Jan 1 there will be no more instruction. Regular fines of 2 3 and 5 dollars will be assessed. A new warning system will tag cars of drivers showing effort to obey but incomplete knowledge.
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Michael Glenn
Glenn
Citizens Gas Company Announces Next Year Dividend Plan
The Citizens Gas Company says it hopes to resume common stock dividends next year after restoring a $418,000 surplus funded by stockholders. Rates remain under study at the Public Service Commission with a possible small decrease forthcoming. The firm notes 25,000 tons of surplus coke due to a mild winter.
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Citizens Gas Company
Public Service Commission
Music Leader Mrs Porterfield Ill at Home in Richmond
Mrs M J Porterfield eighty a noted state musical leader and mother of Homer Porterfield of Indianapolis is seriously ill at Sunshine Cottage Richmond Indiana as learned by friends today.
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M. J. Porterfield
Homer Porterfield
Indianapolis
Sunshine Cottage
Richmond
Ind
Dr John N Hurty Reported In Good Condition
The condition of Dr John N Hurty former secretary of the State board of health who had an operation for infected salivary glands on Wednesday at St Vincent's hospital was reported as good today.
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John N. Hurty
The
State Board of Health
St. Vincent's Hospital
Farm laborer jailed for shooting two men near Elkhart Indiana
John Torok a farm laborer was held in jail here charged with shooting John Albert 61 and his grandson Homer White 15. Both wounded men are not in serious condition. Officials say Torok was drunk and fired at the helpers as they tried to assist him out of a ditch.
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Ly United Preas
Shaw to File Motion Saturday in Death Sentencing
John T. Shaw, a 21 year old colored man, faces a death sentence at 9 a.m. Saturday in Criminal Court before Judge James A. Collins after a Monday jury verdict for killing Mrs. Helen Whelchel. Shaw’s counsel H. B. Pike will ask for a new trial to keep the record open for a possible Supreme Court appeal. A colored attorney hired by Shaw’s sister will pursue the record to the high court, and Pike will withdraw after filing. Shaw insisted on his innocence and told Sheriff George Snider he hopes for better treatment from the Supreme Court.
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Criminal Court
James A. Collins
John T. Shaw
H. B. Pike
Shaw
Helen Whelchel
Pike
Supreme Court
George Snider
Last Mule Team Passes as Sanitary Board Sells Mules
The sanitary board decreed the last mules be sold at public auction on January 5 at 10 a.m. at 770 Oliver Ave. The charge cited was inefficiency, as motor trucks prove more economical than mule transport. The sale price will not be lower than appraisers’ valuation.
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Dobbin
Sanitary Board
Oliver Ave
Woman reports theft of ring set and cash in Indiana Trust building
Mrs Modjeskah Geillespie of 1618 N Delaware St told police a man stole her wedding ring set with twenty diamonds valued at $100 and $1.50 in money from room 307 in the Indiana Trust building. She described a suspect.
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Modjeskah
Loss of the Dixmude airship shocks Paris officials
French deputies demand a formal probe into the disaster of the naval dirigible Dixmude and its crew of fifty. Search across Algiers Tunis Libya and Cyrenaica continues as authorities weigh storm damage versus a possible crash in the Sahara with last wireless position near Biskra Touggourt.
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United Press
Paris
Sahara
Cbinet
Girod
Ministry of Marine
Algiers
Tunis
Cyrenia
Mediterranean
Cavalry
Camel Corps
Dixmude
Bizerte
Biskra
Touggourt
Farmer wounded in liquor hunt near Washington Indiana
William Bunch of Daviess County was shot and seriously wounded by Earl Sneff during a group visit to Sneff's home to question liquor law violations. Sneff claimed the shooting was accidental, saying the shotgun discharged when he loaded it, as four men confronted him Wednesday night.
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William Bunch
Daviess County
Earl Sneff
Bunch
Sneff
Death Toll From Chicago Insane Hospital Fire Reaches Twenty
The Chicago State hospital fire killed an estimated twenty people with seventeen bodies recovered. Authorities led by Judge C H Jenkins pursue escaped patients as chaos erupted among 600 dining room patients. Fire officials and police, including Chief Collins, battled the flames as three attendants and many inmates fled in panic.
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United Press
Chicago
Chicago State Hospital For
C. H. Jenkins
State Department of Welfare
Annex No. 4
Jenkins
State Capitol
Elijah Carraker
Mary Carraker
Elijah
Lowell
Carrakers
Michael Ledwith
John Bennett
Thomas J. Donohue
Otto E. Wolff
Thomas Hall
Washington St
Syracuse
N. Y
Wojak Swickocz
Gustav Burchardt
George M Howellett
Joseph Farley
James R
Anna Haevens
Margaret Gunn
Hannah Saunders
Polce Collins
Daniel J. Ryan
Cook County
Dunning
State Hospital
Elgin
Ing
Coffey
Fall affidavit denies charges over Teapot Dome funds
Former Interior Secretary Fall testifies before the Senate Public Lands Committee that he did not take money from oil interests connected to naval reserve lands. He acknowledges a $100,000 payment from E B McLean for Harris ranch in 1920 and a parallel $100,000 loan from the Thatcher estate for Pueblo Colorado improvements.
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Secretary of the Interior
Fall
Naval Reserve Oil Lands
Senate Public Lands Committee
Teapot Dome
Eadward B. McLean
Washington
Big Harris Ranch
New Mexico
N. Y. Thatcher
Ffr Pueblo
Color
Freezing Weather Due in Ohio Valley This Week
A cold wave moving from the Mississippi valley is expected to reach the Ohio valley, bringing a slight rain that may turn to light snow flurries. Temperatures will fall and dip slightly below freezing by Friday morning, according to J. H. Armington of the Weather Bureau.
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Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
J. H. Armington
United States Weather Bureau
Ohio River expected to reach flood stage at Evansville
The Ohio River in this district is forecast to rise for three days. Evansville reports the river at 84.2 feet, up 0.7 foot in 24 hours, with flood stage of 35 feet expected to be reached late Saturday.
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United Press
Evansville
Ind
Ohio
Weather Bureau
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