Water Utility Ordered to Pay for Meters Across City
The Public Service Commission ruled Indianapolis Water Company must cover future meter installations and pits, delivering a $250,000 saving to 25,000 property owners. The order, not retroactive, ends the company’s bid for a hearing and directs meterization under revised rules without deposits on owner‑paid rental water bills.
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Indianapolis Water Company
Public Service Commission
Commission
Two Murders Tied to Steuben County Crime Ring
Angola Indiana reports link two murders to a large bootleg ring centered in the area. Investigators say Angola served as a refueling point while officials allegedly protected traffic extending to Ft Wayne Detroit and Indianapolis.
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Steuben County
Ben Stern
Angola
Ind
Indianapolis
Indiana
Marion Durbin
Ft. Wayne
Tommy Burke
First National Bank
George McHie
Merl Wall
MecHie
Charles Bridges Forest Huntington
State Criminal Investigation and Identification Bureau
T. A. Redman
Kendallville
Wall
Pt. Wayne
Detroit
Mich
Terre Haute
Evansville
Kentucky
Cholera Epidemic Claims Thousands in Travancore
A virulent cholera outbreak in Travancore state causes 562 deaths in December and 7,880 deaths among 14,000 cases in four months. In Japan a storm struck the northwest, killing several and injuring twenty six.
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United Press
Bombay
Travancore
Japan
TOKIO
Seva
Clas Aka
Dry Row Flares in Congress
In Washington on January 4 the prohibition issue flared in the House as Rep. Ketcham of Michigan urged life imprisonment for a fourth conviction of Etta Mae Miller, a dry law violator. He defended Michigan against criticism from New York and Illinois while Rep. La Guardia attacked Dr. Clarence True Wilson for endorsing such punishment. The dispute paused as Majority Leader Tilson halted the debate and business resumed.
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United Press
Washington
Ketcham
Michigan
Etta Mae Miller
New York
Illinois
la Guardia
Clarence True Wilson
Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
Tilson
Edward Anthony Announces Marriage to Esther Howard
Edward Anthony, author of How to Get Rid of a Woman, announces his marriage to Brooklyn artist Esther Howard. The couple met while working in the Hoover-Curtis campaign publicity offices last fall.
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United Press
New York
Edward Anthony
Esther Howard
Brooklyn
Hoover-Curtis
Street Stalls To Go Near Courthouse
The board of safety will remove city market curb stands from Delaware Alabama and Washington streets around the courthouse to stop hawker noise disturbing courts. Fred W. Connell board of safety president announced today.
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Board of Safety
Delaware
Alabama
Washington
Fred W. Connell
Peaches Browning Weighs Paris Trip Plans
Paris reports say Peaches Browning wife of Edward Browning is considering a trip to Paris. Her mother and her personal representative denied claims she will host a Paris nightclub event.
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United Press
New York
Peaches” Browning
Edward
Daddy) Browning
Paris
Indians Besiege Ecuador Town Threaten Americans
Five thousand Indians threaten to attack Guayaquil as mutiny spreads today. Reports say Americans are in danger while the city faces danger from native forces and government conflict.
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Ecuador
United Press
Guayaquil
Alabama
Parole Granted for Charles Johnson at Jackson Summer Home
Governor Jackson approves ninety days parole for Charles Johnson a Black houseman at the Jackson summer home at the Dunes Johnson sentenced for life for murder in Delaware county in 1919 The action follows his time served in Indiana state prison.
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Jackson
Indiana State
Charles Johnson
the Dunes
Johnson
Delaware County
Leslie says 15 applicants seek adjutant general post
Governor elect Harry G. Leslie told reporters at the statehouse he has no public appointments yet but there are about fifteen applicants for the adjutant-general position. He described current contacts as friendly and nonofficial.
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Harry G. Leslie
Statehouse
Influenza Germ Tubes Stolen From Doctor’s Car
In London on January 4 a doctor’s car was looted of glass culture tubes containing millions of influenza germs. Dr. M. R. Brady and bacteriologist Dr. W. M. Crofton stated the unguarded tubes could ignite a serious outbreak if mishandled, with warmth indoors aiding survival and multiplication.
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United Press Ondon
Brook Street
West End
M. R. Brady
W. M. Crofton
Brady
Beating Death to Reach His Son in Cincinnati
Hartford theater manager W. 8S. Perutz raced 1000 miles to Cincinnati to reach his son Carroll who lay comatose from scarlet fever. Doctors warned the crisis could end his life at any moment while the boy’s mother kept vigil at the bedside. Perutz arrived by air, car, and rail after learning his son’s death was imminent.
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United Press
Cincinnati
Perutz
Sim Lad
Moore sells house in Boynton to Board of Safety president
Former city councilman Boynton J. Moore sold a residence at 5706 Washington Boulevard to Fred W. Connell, president of the board of safety, for a sum slightly under 25 000. Ira P. Haymaker of the agency, a Democratic board of safety member, negotiated the sale in part exchange for Connell’s home at 3609 Salem Street. Moore resigned from the city council after an indictment.
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Boynton J. Moore
Washington Boulevard
Fred W. Connell
Board of Safety
B. M. Ralston
Ira P. Haymaker
Moore
Connell
Salem Street
Peggy Joyce case sparks Broadway intrigue in New York
Peggy Hopkins Joyce says a Denver man, Joseph E. Bolton, 35, is under arrest for allegedly endorsing her name to a $250 check and cashing it. She remains unfazed, insisting she cares about principle rather than the money.
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United Press
New York
Broadway
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Denver
Joseph E. Bolton
Peggy
Ake
Impartial commission urged for prohibition inquiry
Senator Edge of New Jersey urged a nonpartisan commission rather than a Senate committee to investigate prohibition. He introduced an amendment to the Jones bill outlining his plan for an independent inquiry.
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United Press
Washington
Senate
Edge
Rep
New Jersey
Death by bullet in Terre Haute leaves two men under investigation
William Hall, 24, died from bullet wounds in Terre Haute Indiana. Police report the shooting appears accidental and name two men Kelly of West Terre Haute and Ted Jeffers, 24, as persons held pending investigation.
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United Press
Pettis Dry Goods Raid Leads to Seven Arrests Across Cities
Police chief Worley and detectives intensified a coal haul search for $6000 in loot from the Pettis Dry Goods store safe robbery of Dec 27. Seven men tied to the Indianapolis gang held, with two more in Chicago. Investigators hint at an inside job and cross raids as they pursue three more locals.
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Pettis Dry Goods Company
Chicago
Pettis
Claude Stone
George Stone
Iago
Worley
John White
Emmett Englebright
Indianapolis
Benjamin Solkem
James Martin
Wilson
James Burke
Stone and Johnson
Selkem
Martin
Folsom Penitentiary
California
San Quentin
Sing Sing Prison
New York
Leavenworth
Kaw
Sacramento
Cal
Sing Sing
Tre fall kills Ray Lenon in Camden
Ray Lenon aged 40 died from internal injuries after being struck by a falling tree in Camden. The incident occurred January 4 as Lenon was in the area when the tree collapsed.
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Camden
Ind
Ray Lenon
TIME FLIERS SET FOUR RECORDS
The Question Mark aircraft shattered multiple endurance records and refueling in the air, surpassing the German duo's world mark with over 65 hours of sustained flight. The Fokker tri motor matched the air refueling duration before breaking it, while earlier American crews held the prior records.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Army
California
Johann Risticz
Wilhelm Zimmerman
el Centro
Fokker
Louis Grooy
Victory Groenen
Lowell Smith
Paul Richter
San Diego
Utility Inquiry Set in Washington Resumes Jan 10
The federal trade commission will resume its investigation of publicity methods used by public utilities on Thursday January 10. Hearings were interrupted about two months ago when the Electric Bond and Share Company of New York refused to produce requested records.
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United Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Electric Bond and Share Company of
New York
Sanity Plea Denied for Death-Row Couple in Louisiana
Judge James D. Simon refused the request for a lunacy commission to probe the sanity of Ada Bonner Leboeuf and Dr. Thomas E. Dreher, condemned to die on Saturday for the murder of Leboeuf's husband in Franklin Louisiana.
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United Press
Franklin
James D. Simon
Ada Bonner Leboeuf
Thomas E. Dreher
Old Folks Marry Up A Chill Spell In Chicago
In Chicago many seniors over sixty filed for marriage licenses in the last day as cold weather sets in County Clerk Robert M. Sweitzer notes the spike follows temperatures near zero.
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United Press
Chicago
Cupid
Robert M. Sweitzer
Lincoln love letters not genuine says Worthington C Ford
Worthington C Ford of Boston and past president of the American Historical Society declares that no authentic document exists among the collection of alleged Abraham Lincoln love letters being published in the Atlantic Monthly.
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United Press
Springfield
Ill
Worthington C. Ford
Boston
American Historical Society
Abraham Lincoln
Atlantic Monthly
State acquires ninth state park by 1129 acre purchase
Final acquisition by the state of the ninth state park totaling 1,129 acres valued at 30 000 was announced by Richard Lieber conservation department director Brown county commissioners delivered the deed to Lieber for park use in Brown county Lewiston N Y January 4 three alleged rum runners were wounded two seriously in an encounter with United States border patrolmen They were taken to a Niagara Falls hospital
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State of the Ninth State Park
Richard Lieber
Conservation Department
Brown County
Lieber
United Press
Lewiston
N. Y
United States
Niagara Fails
Memorial for Mrs Nannie Ball Mother of Songwriter
Funeral services will be held for Mrs Nannie Ball 72 of Beechurst Long Island here Saturday burial beside her son Ernest R Ball composer of Mother Machree Ball died Thursday at Beechurst details mention the Cleveland upbringing and the family home in Ohio The song's enduring fame and a past theater moment are recalled by Ruth Ball granddaughter and author daughter.
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Jack Powers
Uaties
Puneral la
Machree
Nannie Ball
Beechurst
Long Island
Ernest R. Ball
Ernest Ball
Ruth Ball
Slayer May Quit Prison as Minister
John Beier, once a farm boy from Chipmunk Coulee, now freed with clemency after an eight year life sentence for second degree murder. Governor Zimmerman reduced his term to fourteen years and eligible for parole, while Beier trained in high school subjects and two Bible institute courses and contemplates evangelism or related work.
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United Press
Madison
Wis
John Beier
Chipmunk Coulee
Wisconsin
Beier
Zimmerman
University of Wisconsin
Bible Institute
Vare Held Invalid By Special Elections Panel
Senator elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania was described as invalid today by his attorney Francis S. Brown at a Reed committee hearing. Brown said Vare cannot appear without risking his life or say when he can present his case in person.
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United Press
Washington
William S. Vare
Pennsylvania
Francis S. Brown
Reed “Special Elections
Ware
Brown
Frederick E Schortemeier Named Assistant Secretary of State
Otto G. Fifield appointed Frederick E. Schortemeier temporarily as assistant secretary of state at 2600 dollars a year. Schortemeier, returning from private law practice, fills the post left when Herman B. Gray resigned in October.
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Fifield
Frederick E. Schortemeier
Otto G. Fifield
Schortemeier
Herman B. Gray
Reapportionment Bill Set for House Action Jan 10
Majority Leader Tilson announced the reapportionment bill will be taken up January 10 to reallocate House membership by population shifts over the last twenty years. He will seek a special rules committee to handle the measure and expects prompt action.
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United Press
Washington
Tilson
House
Rules Committee
Woman Fatally Shoots Man Suspected Burglary in Exeter
In Exeter Pennsylvania on January 4, 30 year old Charles Merelli of West Wyoming was shot and killed by 19 year old Anna Manta at her home after she says she mistook him for a burglar. Merelli was a close friend of her husband. Manta said she had feared burglars.
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United Press
Wilkesbarre
Charles Merelli
West Wyoming
Anna Manta
Exeter
Cotton Rocks fad colors Miami to Palm Beach
New York fashion experts report cotton frocks are dominating southern winter resort styles in Miami and Palm Beach. The article notes cotton has rarely had social recognition in years as travelers seek easy tan fashion.
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United Press
New York
Miami
Palm Beach
Fragmented OCR Timings Without Clear Context
A set of disjointed time stamps appears throughout the text sequence with no readable surrounding details. The isolated entries include early morning and late morning times such as 6 am 10 am 7 am and noon, but lack events, locations, or identifying names to form a coherent news item.
Weather Report Indianapolis 9 30 A M East Wind 12
At Indianapolis airport at 9 30 a m East wind 12 mph barometer 3054 inches sea level temperature 28 with visibility unlimited.
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