Indiana Weekend Violence Toll Reports Eight Deaths
A weekend tally in Indiana records eight violent deaths including three slayings. Ralph Heath killed Mae Snyder at a Danville farm estate then killed himself amid a love triangle claim. Others include Fred Spratly shot by Gary detectives after auto theft, Elmer Roundtree stabbed after bicycle dispute, Charles Izor suicide amid intoxication charges, Catherine Snyder's death in a Delphos Ohio auto fire, a Kokomo car crash killing James Green, and Rufus McElroy struck by an interurban car.
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Indiana
Ralph Heath
Mae Snyder
Danville
Himsel
Fred Spratly
Chicago
Gary
Elmer Roundtree
Anderson
Burnice Johnson
James H. Green
Ashland Avenue
Kokomo
James Sapp
Sapp
Rufus McElroy
Ft. Branch
Card in Mail 14 Years
A World War I era postcard dated March 23, 1914, mailed by M. M. Justus to Ben L. Fry invites him to a Memorial day service meeting. Found in Bluffton, Indiana, mail delivery after storage shows both writer and addressee are deceased and the card’s whereabouts for fourteen years remain a mystery.
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Times Special
Bluffton
Ind
Norman Shufelt
M. M. Justus
Ben L. Fry
Fry
Hoover Maps Plans for White House Talks
President Hoover, aboard the USS Utah, worked on materials to present to President Coolidge during their Washington conference. The Utah is between Rio de Janeiro and Hampton Roads, having passed west of Barbados as it steered through the West Indies.
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Herbert Hoover
Friends’ Congregation
Washington
Augustus T. Murray
Palo Alto
Cal
Hoovers
United Press
U. S. S. Utah
Coolidge
Utah
Rio de Janeiro
Hampton Roads
West Indies
Barbados
Fireman Faces Blaze at Own Home in ARSAW
Harold Shepler, a truck driver with the local fire department, answered an alarm and found his own home afire. The blaze caused about 60 dollars in damage after soot from a flue ignited a shingle roof.
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Times Special
ARSAW
Ind
Harold Shepler
Water Appliance Firms Merge Under National Consolidation
Twelve major water appliance firms join to form Water Appliance Corporation of America with offices in Chicago or New York and a Los Angeles factory. Patents valued at over 20 million dollars. Merged companies include Revigator Water Jar, Dow Herriman Pump, Minerala tor, Revigorette, Soft Water Stone, Drink-O-Meter, Wolf Patent Drip, Standard Health Cup, Revig-A-Chick, Fastidious, Black Charcoal Filter, and Radium Therapy Corp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Los Angeles
West
Revigator Water Jar Company
Dow-Herriman Pump and
Doctor Attacked by Mysterious Malady
Washington December 31 A mysterious anemia like illness has struck Dr Joseph Goldberger of the United States Public Health Service who is seriously ill at the naval hospital. Goldberger discovered the Pellagra cause and cure and is said to be improving after support from fellow physicians who match blood types for possible transfusions.
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Science Service
Washington
Joseph Goldberger
United States Public Health Service
Naval Hospital
Goldberger
South
Public Health Service
Dr. Goldberger
Big Advances by Explorers in Last Year
A 1928 geography progress survey notes polar migrations and new resources, with navigation in Hudson Bay, icebreakers and aircraft used for reconnaissance. Rail projects in Canada and Central Africa expansion, flood control efforts on the Mississippi, irrigation plans at Black Canyon, and the Congo Katanga railway spur. British, Japanese, and Mennonite settlements expand globally. Cap tain Sir Hubert Wilkins flies from Alaska to Spitzbergen.
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Science Service
New York
American Geographical Society
Hudson Bay
Strait
Canada
Churchill
Manitoba
Zambezi River
Africa
Rio de Janeiro
Mississippi River
Colorado River Board
Black Canyon
Bolivia
Brazil
Paraguay
Pyrenees
Canfranc-Somport
Liberia
Central Africa
Congo- Katanga
Benguella
Angola
Tabora
Aerial Arctic Ventures and Northward Expeditions in 1928
The passage notes the Italia disaster on its third voyage and Nobile's Northern Land flight. It cites the University of Michigan Greenland expedition studying winter and summer meteorology 1927 28, the US Coast Guard cutter Marion researching ice bergs in Davis Strait, and Byrd's Antarctic expedition entering Ross Sea with aims of aerial conquest mapping and scientific observations.
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Canadian
General Nobile
University of Michigan Greenland
United States Coast Guard
Marion
Davis Strait
North Atlantic
Ross Sea
South Pole
Office space outlook steady despite vacancy rate
Paul Robertson of the National Association of Building Owners and Managers notes a year end surplus of office space to meet at least three years of demand. He says vacancy remains about the normal ten percent with rents unlikely to fall and as tenants seek modern facilities, space per occupant must rise to cut noise and improve quarters.
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Paul Robertson
National Association of Building Owners and Managers
Hume- Mansur Building Company
Nor
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Hoover Maps
President
Virginia
Guild of Master Direct Mail
Evey Pawning CG ‘— Sieup Press
A.M. Glossbrenner
West Ouro St
Times
Water Appliance Corporation of America
the Railroadmen
Indianapolis
W. T. Cannon
E. J. Facoby
F. 8. Cannon
J. KE. Pierce
HW. Cannon
A. Greene
Sect
Virginia Ave
Board of Directors
W. C. Downing
RE. d. Jacoby
F. G. Appel
J. E. Pierce John H. Appel
Byrd
Pole
Ness
Economy Auto Painting Company
Michigan
Capitol Avenue
E. C. Siebert, Pres
Lincoln
Aetna Trust & Savings Co
Pennsylvania St
E. F. Kotlowski
Paris
Europe
Union Trust Travel Bureau
Richard A. Kurtz
the Union Trust Co
LDS
City Trust Company
The
City Securities Corporation
East Washington Street
City Trust Building
Dick Miller
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