Valuation Method Sparked Debate in Gas Rate Cases
This piece discusses how utilities and regulators clash over how to value gas property for rate setting. It highlights Kappes’s reproduction new basis with 15 percent depreciation, contrasting with original cost and average-price theories, and warns of potential constitutional challenges if rates are deemed confiscatory.
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Utilities
William P. Kappes
Indianapolis
Kappes
Public Service Commission
Home Telephone Company of
Ft. Wayne
Indiana
United States
White collar workers and labor attitudes in early 20th century critique
Davis the Secretary of Labor argues white collar roles crowding out unskilled day labor and links attitudes to education and practicality. He claims hard work is viewed as menial and education neglects practical skills, while laziness drives avoidance of labor despite immigrant labor timelines. He contrasts US and UK gun licensing and debt repayment trends from 1922.
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Davis
Secretary of Labor
America
Secretary of
Labor
Months and topics from the Rome to widow wedding advice
The Indianapolis Times invites readers to ask factual questions about topics from months named after Roman gods to legal terms and Treasury savings, with replies by editor. It covers origins of month names, wedding attire for a widow, King George III, the bar in law, Treasury certificates, strongest astringents, and canary care through molt and diet tips.
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Indianapolis Times
Washington
New York Ave
Weehington
D. C
Psychology Takes Over Third Degree For Confessions
Chicago police replace brutal coercion with psychological interrogation to extract admissions. Albert Foster, suspected in the disappearance of his former fiancée Mrs Kate Mitchell Trostell, endured 98 hours of questioning yielding a statement about the crime. Detectives aim to link stains on his coat to human blood while pursuing further truth.
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Roy Gibbons
NFA
Chicago
Albert Foster
Kate Mitchell Trostell
Michael Hughes
Foster
Hughes
Trostell
Horrid Tales of Turk Brutality Shared by Asiatics
Refugees from Asia Minor and Armenians tell a string of brutal abuses in Washington hearings. They describe young girls chained to horse saddles dragged through water, women tortured for gold, men shot or beaten, and Smyrna burning, as the House Immigration committee listens. They note escapees admitted under bond must return to Europe when their terms end.
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Smyrna
Asia Minor
Europe
Earth
House Immigration Committee
Mule Whisky Found Hidden in Poolroom Radiator
A quart bottle one third full of white mule whisky was hidden in the radiator of Joe Zunk's poolroom at 2803 West Tenth Street, leading to his arrest on a charge of operating a blind tiger after a search by Lieutenant Anderson and the squad.
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Joe Zunk
Tenth Sty
Anderson
The Beautiful Snow Brings Woe to City Streets
In the city beauty turns to burden as snow melts and overflows curbs, soaking clothes and boots. Automobiles skid, people struggle to clear wheels, and the slushy streets harbor colds and the flu as everyone sneezes, while rural life remains less troubled.
Habit Clinics to Treat Crime Is Scientific Plan
Boston criminologist Dr. Briggs advocates treating crime like disease. He calls for life imprisonment for capital offenders and the creation of habit clinics for subnormal and abnormal children ages two to seven to prevent future crime. He compares crime control to fighting epidemics, stressing study and treatment over execution.
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E. M. Thierry
NEA
Boston
Vernon Briggs
America
NEA Service
Briggs
Massachusetts Society For Mental Hygiene
American Instiute of Criminal Law
Thom
Manners for Waiting Turn At Public Windows
The piece urges proper conduct in queues such as box offices banks or ticket windows. It says individuals should handle their business quickly and yield to others with minimal crowding or disruption to those awaiting their turn.
Weathered quips and oddities mix in Humbolt to Philadelphia notes
A collage of snappy lines covers varied topics from a catamount killed in Humbolt County to a Newton shoe factory fire and a 14 year old in Los Angeles. The piece blends humor with brief regional mentions and reflections on life.
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Humbolt County
Cal
Newton
N. J
Dean of Hobo College Opens Bowery Lectures for Homeric Vagrants
In New York the self styled Dean Gus Schaefer announces a hobo college at the Bowery hobos hall. Notable professors include Frisco Brown Ike Schapp Max Small and Charlie Schaefer with lectures on psychoanalysis wanderlust and Marx. A prospectus promises courses from station yard bulls to communism and public speaking with a challenge to any professor to debate political economy.
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Josephine van DE Grift
NEA
New York
Schopenhauer
Spinoza
Willie
Edward Carpenter
Gus Schaefer
Hobo Hall
Bowery
Max Small
Max
Jack Clifford
Karl Marx
California Blondie
George Mintzer
Harry King
Gene Waimuta
Hobo Union
Spencer
Carpenter
Berg- Seri
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George III
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W. H. Porterfield
Berton Braley
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South Bend
Windsor
Jewelry Company
Lyric Theater
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Windsor Way
Tom Sims
Wojciechowski
Poland
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
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Hobo College
Ike Schapp
Ike
Wimmin
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