Millinery Trends Show Large Hats Dominate Indianapolis Styles
The feature photographs several women modeling new hats at local stores. Jennie Dancy wears a large black lace hat with pedaline braid from Pettis Dry Goods. Mayme Watson displays a milan hemp hat with multicolor wheels. Margaret Bassett sports a large hair braid hat with lace, while Mary Fischer models a bangix straw helmet creased crown at L S Ayres and Co.
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Indianapolis
Jennie Dancy
Salle St
Pettis Dry Goods
Mayme Watson
N. Alabam
Pettis
Milan
Margaret Bassett
Miss Mary. Fischer
New Hope for Chicago Boy
Bernard Grant reacts to the State Supreme Court ordering a new trial for Walter Krauser in the killing of Patrolman Ralph Sanders. Grant, once sentenced to hang, hopes the Krauser ruling paves the way for clemency and potentially an end to his own case. Governor Small previously reprieved Grant, now tied to the Krauser decision.
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United Preas A |Hicago
Bernard Grant
State Supreme Court
Walter Krauser
Ralph Sanders
Leopold-Loeb
Grant
Governor Small
Small
Krauser
Hunt Defense Agrees to Jury in Embezzlement Case
Eph Inman on behalf of Edwin A. Hunt accepts a jury just before noon in Criminal Court as prosecutors begin state examination. Hunt, charged with conspiring to embezzle 10 000 in county funds, was indicted April 14 1922 with Latta and Sipe. Sipe pled guilty and served two years. he will be a key state witness. Judge Collins allowed ten days to file exceptions to objections raised during jury selection. Remy objected to questions about potential prejudice if Hunt repaid the embezzled funds.
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Eph Inman
Edwin A. Hunt
William H. Remy
Remy
Hunt
Will.h. Latta
Richard V. Sipe
Sipe
Indiana State Prison
James A. Collins
Inman
Assemblymen Plan Reformatory Visit Amid Inquiry
Three Indiana legislators and a State accountant toured the Indiana State Reformatory as part of a broader inquiry into prison construction costs. The assembly may summon the Senate, with wives, to visit later this week. The finance and Ways and Means committees also invited the highway commission, with further invitations expected to the public service commission.
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Indiana State
Senate Finance Committee
House
Ways and Means
State Highway Commission
Public Service Commission
Joint
Statehouse
Trial Date Set for Conspiracy to Blackmail Case
Judge James M. Leathers indicated the trial of Thaddeus R. Rainey Joseph O Brien and Albertson M Howard for conspiracy to blackmail would occur in the first week of March. Affidavits for change of venue were filed December 16 1924 and Leathers was named special judge. They were indicted November 26 1924 for alleged wholesale arrests over alleged workmen's compensation law violations.
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James M. Leathers
Superior Court
Thaddeus R. Rainey
Washington St
Joseph O'Brien
Albertson
M. Howard
James A. Collins
Leathers
Fragmentary OCR Weather Notes From Historic Page
Readable fragments show time marks and numbers likely related to weather data. Details include hours such as 2410 a.m. and 33.11 BF, with additional figures like 33.12 moon and various alphanumeric tokens. No clear event or named entities beyond generic terms.
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Bede
Elks Change Vote Hour For Indianapolis Election
The Indianapolis Lodge No. 13 Elks will hold officer elections March 3 at their new home with ballots starting at 11 a.m. instead of evening voting. Exalted Ruler J. H. Tudball announced the change at the request of John Orman, director of the automobile show beginning March 2, to allow more than forty exhibitors to vote.
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Indianapolis Lodge
B. P. O. Elks
J. H. Tudball
John Orman
KLAN MEASURE WINS IN HEATED HOUSE VOTE
The Cooper religious garb bill banning public school wear linked to any creed passed the House 67 to 22 on third reading. The measure is tied to the Ku Klux Klan Americanization program. Rep Clark of Indianapolis also introduced a bill for daily Bible readings in public schools with teacher licensure penalties for noncompliance.
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Cooper
House
Clark
Indianapolis
New Cafeteria Planned at Capitol and Kentucky Aves
J D Marley and C C Marley announced an upcoming cafeteria restaurant at Capitol and Kentucky Aves to open late this week.
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J.D. Marley
C. C. Marley
Capitol
Kentucky Aves
State Debate Session Opens With Key Upper Unit Issue
Report notes the State legislature opens debate on the upper unit issue as lawmakers focus on a primary item before proceeding. The session centers on testing proposals and gauging political support among legislators and observers.
Indiana Senate approves Wright bone dry liquor measure
The Indiana Senate passed the Wright bone dry bill 5 to 4, easing liquor law convictions and increasing penalties. The measure defines intoxicating liquor at 0.5 percent, makes possession a misdemeanor, and tightens penalties for driving drunk, with provisions for pharmacists and doctors to handle alcohol under prescription.
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Branaman
Nejdl
Perkins
Sweeney
Chambers
Cravens
English
Erii
Hill
Shank
Shirley
Southworth
Wife Accused By Stokes Counsel in Defamation Trial
In Chicago on February 17 United Press reports open the Stokes defamation case with defense attorney Charles Rathbun arguing that based on Mrs Helen F wood Stokes past indiscretions her ex husband W E D Stokes had reason to investigate. Witnesses expected today.
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United Press
Chicago
Helen F Wood Stokes
Hygiene Talk Set By Indiana Officials At Church
Dr. J G Royse and W E Wert of the Indiana State board of health will address the North Methodist Men's Club Wednesday night after a church dinner. Royse speaks on social hygiene and Wert discusses The Housing Problem. Mrs. Dave Chapman will read and Mrs. Harlowe F Dean will sing.
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J. G. Royse
W. E. Wert
Indiana State Board of Health
North Methodist Episcopal Church
Royse
Wert
Dave Chapman
Harlowe F. Dean
Hal Donahey Freed From Columbus Prison
Hal Donahey son of Governor Vic Donahey walked to freedom shortly after midnight after three days in a city jail for racing his father’s car through traffic signals. He complained of cooties and terrible grub and said he had much to do before returning to the executive mansion.
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United Press
Lumbus
Ohio
Hal Donahey
Vic Donahey
Freedom
Columbus
Hal
Executive Mansion
Cave Tomb for Collins Is Program
Rescue efforts at Sand Cave Ky continue amid new danger as rock threatens to collapse on workers seeking to reach Floyd Collins. Dr. William Hazlett examined Collins and said he had been dead two to five days. Four friends were named to identify him for the coroner. Coroner's jury deemed the route too dangerous and rescue plans likely abandoned.
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United Press
Land Cave
Floyd Collins
Sand Cave
Collins
William Hazlett
Chicago
Hazlett
John Gerald
Ish Lancaster
Wallace Page
Norman Parker
J. Lewis Williams
Satisfield
H. T. Carmichael
John H. Steger
One-Way Streets Ordered for City
Meridian Street and Capitol Avenue will become one way streets twenty four hours a day starting Thursday. Meridian Street will carry south bound traffic and Capitol Avenue north bound. The order was issued by the board of safety at Mayor Shank's suggestion, replacing council driven rules as the board asserts power without an ordinance.
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Meridian St
Capitol Ave
New York
Board of Safety
Shank
Reinstatement Seen for McGee and Bedford
Mayor Shank says McGee and Harvey Bedford, ambos former police lieutenant and trafficman, likely to be reinstated by the board of safety after their dismissal for an unauthorized Colfax trip to inspect suspects in the August 1923 murder of Robert Watson.
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Arthur McCee
Board of Safety
Harvey Bedford
Traffican
Shank
McGee
Bedford
Colfax
Ind
Robert Watson
Richland Ave
Widen Meridian Street Proposal Seeks Track for Traffic
The board of safety asked the board of works to widen Meridian Street from St. Clair to Sixteenth Street of Fall Creek. They also instructed the electrical department to devise a traffic control system from Ohio to St. Clair Streets to coordinate intersection traffic in the same direction and timing.
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Meridian St
St. Clair
Sixteenth St
Fall Creek
Board of Safety
Board of
Ohio
St. Clair Sts
Mayor Shank Day By Day On Forms Of Government
Mayor Shank offered no comment on talks about manager or commission forms of government. Meanwhile petitions supporting the change continued to pour in to Police Captain John Zener, who urged pressure on Clermont Smith and the Legislature to require 40 or 50 percent voter signatures. He warned that when signatures are turned in, Johnny Rhodehamel, the city clerk, will need extra clerks to count them.
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ITY
Shank
John Zener
Clermont Smith
Johnny Rhodehamel
Harbors Bill Advances with War Dept Lakefront Sale
The river and harbors bill worth about 41 million dollars was favorably reported by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. It includes authorization to the War Secretary to sell 1,180 feet of Indiana Harbor lakefront to Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. for 90 thousand dollars. Previous authorizations for a Grand Rapids lock and dam and a Wabash River project in Indiana and Illinois were repealed.
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United Press
Washington
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
Secretary of War
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Ynes Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Grand Rapids
Wabash River
Indiana
Illinois
Missing 79 year old man sought by family in Midwest suburb
John Laugtlit, 79, of 2233 Green Oriar Lane, was reported missing by his daughter. He is about six feet tall and wearing house slippers. Police urged anyone with information to contact authorities.
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John Laugtlit
Green- Oriar Lane
Burglaries Reported At Several Homes In City
North side burglaries were reported today at the homes of Robert Brown Gibbs 829 N Pennsylvania St Knight Templar ring valued at 425 dollars Mrs I Pinkus 3363 Washington Blvd oriental rug 200 dollars and Mrs E L Day 59 W Fall Creek Blvd Apt 1 eight dollars
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North Side
Robert Brown Gibbs
Pennsylvania St
Knight Templar
I. Pinkus
Washington Blvd
E. L. Day
Fall Creek
Book Board Urged Bill Would Give Textbook Control
A bill to create a six member State board of textbook commissioners was drafted by the House education committee and introduced by Representative Knapp. The board would have complete control of textbook adoption and include two ex officio members the State superintendent and a state normal school president with other members from city and county education offices a school inspector and a teacher.
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Board of Textbook Commissioners
House Education Committee
Representative Knapp
Civic expert praises council block on salary ordinance
Leon ard V. Harrison of the Chamber of Commerce lauds the minority on Monday night for blocking passage of the ordinance to fund police and fire salary increases. He says the move preserves the city budget and safeguards the 1925 financial plan against attacks.
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Harrison
Leonard V. Harrison
Chamber of Commerce
Sister Ends Girl's Agony in Polish Actress Case Echo
In RIS a dressmaker Anna 14 Vassor admits killing her tubercular sister after the girl urged death over hospital. She says tuberculosis claimed other sisters and that the pain drove her to act. she faces murder charges as the acquittal of Stanislauw Uminska stirs protest.
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Preas Ris
Stanislauw Uminska
Anna
Police Commissariat
King George Stricken by Influenza in England
London reports King George the sixth is ill with influenza complicating bronchitis. A bulletin says his condition is generally satisfactory after a restless night and notes thirty MPs also suffer influenza. The Archbishop of Canterbury is ill as well.
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United Press
London
George
England
Canterbury
Thoroughfare scheme eyed by plan commission
The city plan commission discussed separating truck and passenger traffic at a Gyro Club luncheon. Commissioner Gustav G. Schmidt cited feasible ideas including routing passenger traffic on W Washington Street and directing trucks on Oliver Avenue to cross White River, with trucks continuing to use alternative routes.
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City Plan Commission
Gustav G. Schmidt
Lincoln Today
Schmidt
W. Washington St
Oliver Ave
White River
General Store Cleared Out by Truck Bandits in Leesville
SEYMOUR Ind Feb 17 Motor truck bandits raided the general store of Mr and Mrs Grover Hill at Leesville Law rence County twenty twenty miles east of here and took virtually the entire stock valued at over 8000 Only shelving counters and the cash register remained Authorities report county crews unavailable for pursuit.
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Seymour
Ind
Grover Hill
Leesville
Here
Lawrence County
Burton Undergoes Operation At University of Michigan
Dr. Marion Leroy Burton, president of the University of Michigan, underwent surgery to remove fluid from the pleural cavity of the lung. Reported at noon to be resting comfortably with falling temperature after a period of influenza since October 1924 and a decline to a very low condition earlier today.
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University of Michigan
United Prose
Ann Arbor
Marion Leroy Burton
Dectore
Burton
Jury to Report Friday in Federal Court Cases
Federal grand jury, meeting since Feb 10, will report Friday near Alexander G Cavins US district attorney announced. About 150 cases have been presented by John Rabb Emison assistant US attorney. Most involve liquor law violations.
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Alexander G. Cavins
United States
Atorney
Indiana Senate OKs blue sky securities bill with full votes
The Indiana Senate passed the House blue sky bill to curb securities fraud by 40 to 0 and sent it to Governor Jackson. It creates a securities commissioner role under the state auditor at $5,000 yearly for a two year term and designates the secretary of state to revoke securities licenses on proper evidence. The bill expands state oversight to many classes previously exempt.
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Indiana Senate
Jackson
Securities Commissioner
Secretary of State
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State Board of Health
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