Political scandals dominate 1927 state headlines
A sweeping review lists January to December 1927 events from the Indiana legislature, governor, and city politics. Key items include probes into corruption, impeachments, court battles, notable arrests, floods, bank failures, and major public works, with figures like Governor Jackson, James A. Reed, Duvall, Stephenson, and McCray featured amid a year of reform fights and political tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Pardon Board Chamber of Commerce
Dick Miller
Eche Times
Citizens Gas Company
Barton Brades
Bellefontaine St
Hadley Hall
Meridian St
White River
Frank Kennedy
Indianapolis Power and Light Company
House of Representatives
Simms
Senate
Aimee Semple McPherson
Cadie Tabernacle
State Tax Board
Shortridge High
State Highway Department
James A. Collins
William H Remy
Shortridge
Marion County Grand Jury
Collins
United States
James A. Reed
Missouri
Claypool
Clarence W. Dearth
Muncie
William Perry Crockett
Shortridge High School
Dearth
Teussell V. Duncan
E. A. Graff
Indianapolis
van Camp Hardware Company
D. C. Stephenson
Supreme Court
iSmms
Pocket
Charles F. Miller
Henry Noble Sherwood
Fall Creek
Harry G. Leslie
Republcans
James M. Leathers
John Fields
City Prison
Tuxedo State Bank
Stephenson
Claude Achey
James B. Armitage
Bill” Armitage
the Times
Indianapolis Street Company
Service Commission
People’s Motor Coach
Comany
James Armitage
George Dale
Funcie
States Supreme Court
State Farm
State Supreme
Toledo
James E. Armitage
Achey
Duncan
Charles E. Carter
Dragon
John L. Duvall
Ft. Harrison
Federal Pardon Board
Warren T. McCray
Atlanta
Arthur L. Gilliam
Mrs. Jackson
Gilliam
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
George Sauders
State Charities Board
Charities Board
Indiana State Prison
Michigan City
Cassius C. Shirley
Duvall
Buser
Oklahoma City
Col
Charles Lindbergh
City
Earl Garrett
Chase
St. Joan of Arc’s Church
John J. Collins
Dwight E. Aultman
Benjamin Harrison
Wallace
General Pershing
James C. Douglas
Union Title
Kansas
Mildred Meade
McCray
Miller
J. F. Wild & Co. Bank
Marion County
Claude M. Worley
Worley
Marion County Criminal Court
Hiram Evans
E. S. Shumaker
Indiana Anti-Saloon League
Lindbergh
Bandits
Roy P. Wisehart
State Fair
Legislative
William C. Buser
Boyd Gurley
Grand
Marsh
George W. Coffin
Republican
Chamber of Commerce
Ray Fletcher
Arthur Jordan
Butler University
Shumaker
Lew Shank
Mrs. Duvall
Johnson
Wallace McCutcheon
Virgil Vandagrifft
Works Board
Ora J. Davies
American Trust Company Bank
Kokomo
Ind
Frank Dailey
Louis Ewbank
Vandagrifft
Frank Cones
Zenith Burress Ewing
David Boyles
Willard Ewing
Lyle Jenkins
Claude Jenkins
Ohio and
Meridian Sts
Self
Coleman Hospital
C. E. Hinshaw
Joseph L. Hogue
Shank
Harry O. Chamberlain
Public Service Commission
Walter Myers
Edward A. Ramsey
Clinton H. Gigan
Claude E. Negley
Ira A. Holmes
New Shortridge High School
James P. Goodrich
Clyde A. Walb
L. Ert Slack
Clyde Wald
T. Guy Perfect
Indiana State
William D. Boyce, Jr
George Coffin
Slack
Sterling R. Holt
Hogue
Graystone
O. K
Joseph Milner
Advisory Council
Sanitary District
James E. Watson
Washington
Negley
Insurance Records Show Prosperous Year for Indiana
Clarence C. Wyson reports that Indiana insurance records show a substantial rise in both business and assets across the sector for the year ending 1927. Premium tax receipts reached 1.916 million dollars, 160 thousand more than 1926, with 151 companies operating in Indiana and 65 thousand licenses issued to agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence C. Wyson
Insurance Department of
Indiana
Indiana Farm Mutual Fire Insurance Companies
Indiana Legal Reserve Deposit Law
Commissioner of Insurance
Indiana Legal Reserve Life Insurance Companies
$1000 Ends Love Suit in Noble Circuit Court
Mrs Ruah Kirlin accepts $1000 in settlement of her $10000 suit against Claudia A Louthan for alienation of her husband Delmar Kirlin. Compromise reached on the eve of trial in Noble Circuit Court with the wife to pay all costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albion
Ind
Ruah Kirlin
Claudia A. Louthan
Delmar Kirlin
Noble Circuit Court
Civic Affairs Committee Drives Tax Savings in 1928 Indianapolis Budget
The 1927 campaign led by Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce civic affairs eliminates over 6.05 million dollars from 1928 budgeted appropriations. Taxpayers will save 94 cents per 100 dollars of property value, about 94 dollars for a 10 000 dollar property. The group scrutinized budgets, proposed economies, studied tax refunds, and backed civil service reforms and improvements planning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Indianapolis
Civic Affairs
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
Civic Affairs Committee
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Civic Affairs Department
Police and Fire Civil Service Commissions
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N&w
Adams County
Drys
Tony Ferracane
William English
The
Times
Margaret Brooks
Dorothy Dell
J. B. Kealing
National Republican
National Committee of Anti-Saloon League
Central State Hospital
Huntington
Jerry Kinney
la Grange Bank
Wald
Grand Jury
Indianapolis Air Mail
Cylde A. Wald
Raymond Donahew
Wr ‘den Walter H. Daly
State Plan
Donahew
Wild Bank Holdings
Florida
Mahlon E. Bush
Howard County
Luther F. Symons
Thomas D. Barr
American Trust Company
Ora Davies
Fred McCallister
Byram Ave
William H. Remy
Chicago
Addy
Ohio Street
Sander & Becker Furniture Company
Meridian
Maryland
S. Ayres & Company
Tmes
Ayres
L.S Ayres & Co
Aan
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