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Newspaper

Indianapolis Times

Location

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jan 27, 1925

Page

5

Wright House Passes Third Reading On Bone Day Bill

The House passed the bone day bill after engrossment by viva voce vote with amendments from the Public Morals Committee. The minority report urging indefinite postponement failed. amendments remove DUI like prima facie intoxication provisions and extend jail terms for offenses, with venue changes and other changes.

House Public Morals Committee Carlisle South Bend Wright

Traction Shops Burn In Terre Haute Fire

A major fire destroyed machine shops and store rooms of the Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company barns in Terre Haute Indiana. The blaze damaged floors and spread quickly with most of the city’s fire brigade fighting the flames. Firefighters Frei Moelter and Wilber Brotherton were injured after falling into a pit while blinded by smoke. Damages run to many thousands of dollars and the fire’s origin remains unknown.

United Preas Terre Haute Ind Terre Haute, Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company Frei Moelter Wilber Brotherton

Federal Grand Jury Called for February Session

United States Attorney Alexander G. Cavins announced a federal grand jury will convene in February for about two weeks. The panel will be the same as in December and around 100 minor cases, mainly liquor law violations, are expected. Aimed to clear small matters before addressing major cases for the next district attorney.

Exander G. Cavins United States Trict

Desperate Condition Of Dr Sun Yat Sen After Kidney Surgery

Tokyo dispatches report the health of Dr Sun Yat Sen the South China dictator who underwent kidney surgery is described as desperate in Pekin. The update comes as authorities monitor his condition with concern amid political tension in the region.

South China Wu United Press Japan Sun Yat Sen South ‘China Pekin Dispatches

Motorist Escapes After Collision Injures Minor

Police report three drivers have escaped in two weeks after a hit run on New York Street and Indiana Avenue. Lillian Smith 21 of Harrison was struck and taken to city hospital with minor injuries.

Lillian Smith Harrison New York St Indiana Ave

Sparkling Eyes Accompany Good Health

Mrs G E Mottweiler of New Albany Ind thanks Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription and Medical Discovery after a year of health trouble. She reports relief after using five bottles of Favorite Prescription and two of Medical Discovery and recommends the medicines to other women.

G. E. Mottweiler Dr. Pierce

The Little French Girl reviewed by Walter D. Hickman

Walter D. Hickman praises Anne Douglas Sedgwick's The Little French Girl for its rich character drawing of Madame Vervier and the contrasts between English and French life. He lauds the novel as a best seller and a masterful medium of cultural viewpoints, urging readers to engage with its portrayal of love, youth, and family.

Mme. Vervier Alix Happi Anne Douglas Sedgwick Madame Main’ St Madame Swift Giles Madame Vervier Toppie Houghton Mifflin Company

Senate acts on rules and memorial plaza measure

The State Senate adjourned to 2 p m after debates over rules and reports. Cham bers of Newcastle urged abolishing fire insurance rate bureaus, Nejdl pressed indefinite postponement of a rule change. By 47 to 0 the Senate passed the Penrod bill to prevent removing churches from War Memorial Plaza. it heads to the House amid bitter debate.

State Senate Chambers Newcastle Nejdl Senate First Baptist War Memorial Plaza

Man Posing as Radio Supplies Salesman Tried Apartment Break-In

Miss Margaret Mayer, of 222 B Pratt St, refused entry to a man posing as a radio supplies salesman. When she declined, he left after she shouted through the door and screamed from a window. Police report similar attempts in other buildings.

Miss Margaret Mayer B. Pratt St

Legislative Calendar and Bill Highlights Across Indiana

A dense review lists bills and amendments before the legislature including B 129 on hospital and city acceptances and B 120 on substitute spending. It notes measures on education, state militia funding, tax sales, university funding, and judicial procedures, with several bills deferred or withdrawn.

Barker Bagiten Harrison Sea Ph Sore Detimone Tha Neal Mae Ion Goo Oon Ba Moorhead Berreck and Quillen

Meetings Here Wednesday in Claypool Indiana

Indiana notices list multiple meetings on Wednesday across Claypool and Lincoln. Organizations include Retail-Hardware Dealers, Traffic Club, American Building Contractors, Ladies Benevolent Society, Council of Social Agency, Sheet Metal Contractors, Indianapolis Association of Credit Men and Merchant Plumbers with various times and locations.

Indiana Retail - Hardware Dealers Claypool Traffic Club Riley American Building Contractors Ladies’ Benevolent Society Lincoln Council of Social Agency Lunden Indiana Sheet Metal Contractors’ Association Severin Indianapolis Association of Credit Men Builders and Contractors Merchant Plumbers

Geitz Re-elected President of Fur-Mets of Indiana

P H Geitz of Indianapolis was re elected president of the Fur-Mets of Indiana at Severin reports were heard. The Sheet Metal Contractors Association led by J C Gardner will meet for its sixth annual convention. New officers include Wilkening Neal Canine McElwain Jordan Norman Beaman Henley and others with O Voorhees secretary and John C Henley treasurer.

P. H. Geitz Indianapolis Fur-Mets of Indiana Sheet Metal Contractors Association the Severin J. C. Gardner Indian‘apolis F. A. Wilkening Harry Neal Indian‘apolia F. L. Canine Crawfordsville H. O. McElwain

Blue Bill Favored by House Public Morals Panel

A recommendation to pass the Kissing or Blue Sunday bill will be made by the House Public Morals Committee. Eight of its thirteen members favor passage. Other measures reportedly endorsed include a state board of motion picture censors and prohibitions on Sunday baseball, odorous slaughterhouses, and licensing of magazine agents with sale of salacious periodicals.

House Public Morals Committee State Board of Emotion Picture Censors

Indiana House postpones school corporal punishment bill

The Indiana House Education Committee indefinitely postponed the Smith of Lafayette bill banning corporal punishment in schools. Bills to raise legislators’ pay and to require counties to improve road access to isolated cemeteries were also postponed.

Fitch and Sims Indiana State Normal Lambert Indiana House Education Committee Lafayette Bernhardt Hornebil

Indianapolis dogs spared from vivisectionists

The board of safety announced that dogs in the city kennel are not available to laboratories. The statement came after an inquiry from a laboratory concern about obtaining dogs from the Indianapolis dog pound.

Indianapolis Board of Safety

Ballard Strickland Faces Speeding and Assault Charges

Ballard Strickland, 21, of 212 B Walnut St, charged with speeding and assault after his car collided at Walnut and Last Streets with Ivan Helms, 506 B Nineteenth St. T. E. Riker, 1807 Buckle St, riding with Helms, was injured in the back.

Ballard Strickland Walnut St Walnut Ivan Helms T. E. Riker Buckle

Minstrel Show Promoted by Zion Church Men’s Class

The Bible Class Men’s Bible class at Zion Evangelical Church presents its annual minstrel show in the church social room at New Jersey and North Streets. William Kruger serves as master of ceremonies on Wednesday and Thursday nights.

Zion Evangelical Church Men's Bible Class New Jersey and North Sts William Kruger

Farm House Burned Near Lawrence

Fire late Monday destroyed the Swank farm home two miles east of Lawrence. Swank estimated a $4,000 loss and said it is covered by insurance.

S. W. Swank Lawrence Swank

Man guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Maywood crash

John Strothenk 47 of 605 BH Market L8t was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after a three day trial. He confessed to drinking one swallow of a white mule and driving twenty five miles an hour when his car struck a vehicle killing Mrs Chester Haase and her two children near Maywood on October 22, 1924. He faces two to twenty one years in prison with sentencing set for Saturday at 9 a.m. before Criminal Judge James A Collins.

John Strothenk James A. Collins Strothenk Chester Haase Maywood

Burial in Greenwood

Charles Bowen twenty two who died in a gas shaft disaster in Columbus Ohio will be buried in Greenwood Indiana His parents Mr and Mrs W P Bowen traveled to Columbus for burial Also dead are Jack Smith of New York City John C McCarthy forty eight of New York City and John Peterson twenty two of Columbus Ohio

Greenwood Ind Pan Charles Bowen Columbus Ohio W. P. Bowen New American Insurance Union Jack Smith New York City John C. McCarthy John Peterson

Funeral services for 91 year old Mrs Apol lonia Straub

Mrs Apol lonia Straub died Monday night at her daughter Mrs John Rechs home 2128 N Meridian St Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p m at the residence with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery. She was born in Germany and had lived in Indianapolis fifty years. Survived by four daughters Mrs Rech Mrs Charles F Piel Mrs Elizabeth Borst and Mrs Fred Baliweg and two sons John and Frank Straub.

Apollonia Straub John Rech Meridian St Crown Hill Cemetery Straub Germany Indianapolis Rech Charles F. Piel Elizabeth Borst Fred Baliweg John Frank Straub

Humane Society Failed To Place Full Time Pound Overseer

Representatives of the Humane Society urged placing the dog pound under a full time supervisor but failed before the board of safety. The board favored Dr. Elizabeth Conger as poundmaster, and about fifty dogs were to be destroyed at the pound within a few days.

Humane Society Board of Safety W. P. Hargon D. A. Lamar Elizabeth Conger

Insurance Meeting Closes With Speeches by Agents

The closing meeting of agents for Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa at the Claypool featured speeches by company officials. More than 150 agents attended from seven states.

Adgents Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa Claypool

Marriage Licenses Listed For Review In The City

The notice lists numerous marriage license applicants with associated names and addresses including Agnes, Tamaseda, and Ja il nll. It mentions locations around Broadway and Brown avenues and dates, with a focus on pending approvals and clerk verification.

Ie Heakroun Ipa Broadway Prudent Agnes Pooge Boor Rexel

Births in the community listing multiple names and addresses

A fragmented notice lists numerous individuals with names and street addresses including Richart Mona Mary Spangier Helen Garner Ruby Pruitt Esther Fisher Pearl Wilson Bert Hoyt Anna Marshall Julia Micheatree Carolyn Mangin Nannie Ley Dottie and others tied to Methodist Hospital and local locations. The text appears as birth notices or a social directory fragment with scattered street data and names.

Wilbur Dei Richart Mona Mary Spangier Helen Garner Julia Micheatree Ore Carolyn Mangin Nannie Ley Parker and Dottie Fank Esther Montgomery Mee Alice Orme Fe Peifarry Charlotte Russell Chrie“Hibbert Aydle Orpl

Death notices and obituaries with scattered details

Fragmented notices list several ages and partial locations including 60, 66, 69, 62, 80, and 73. Mentions Methodist Hospital and Ohio and Delaware paths appear, alongside incomplete names such as Saunders, Lovett, Arnstein, Jackman, Swanger, Dawson, Manning, Pratt. Overall, unclear causes or full identities.

Saunders Kareo Lovett Methodist Hospital Pholecyst Mary Arnsteolg W. Tenth Alice Rhox Co Ohio Delaware Sitarth Jackman Long Hospital E Dawson Methodist Hos E. Manning Indiana B. Pratt

My love has a voice like a lark in the jam

Readable fragments describe a love with a lark like voice and a face that looks better at night as she performs in a setting hinting at artificial floral areas and tense prospects, implying a theatrical or showy scene with an ominous mood.

Bell Boys Describe Legislators as Tight Tip Seekers

A Times reporter recounts bellboys at hotels near the statehouse describing lawmakers as frugal at tipping. They say dimes and nickels are common from legislators while richer guests pay for service. Some boys report occasional party fundraisers and small tips, but overall declines in tipping.

the Times Statehouse Hassler

Noblesville Sons Challenge Father’s Will Over Estate

Frank Albert and Willard Hare sue to revoke their father Dr M Hare’s will. It left income to the three sons while title and management stayed with Wainwright Trust Company as administrator. Estate valued at 350000.

Oblesville Ind Frank Albert Willard Hare M. Hare Noblesville Wainwright Trust Company

Voting Bill Introduced by Logansport and Carter

A bill introduced in the House by Representative M Logansport and Carter Salem repeals the present absent voters law and creates a county board of absent voters. It requires physical in person appearance or county residence and provides for canvass of ill or unable voters.

Bergdoll Urged to Return to the United States

Bergdoll, the American draft evader, may be preparing to leave Germany and come to the United States. Reports from Eberbach say relatives in America press him to surrender to law after Eugene Stecher, his former chauffeur, turned himself in in Philadelphia last week.

United Press Berlin Grover Cleveland Bergdoll Germany United States Eberbach Bergdoll America Eugene Stecher Philadelphia

Smallpox Cases Rise Under Quarantine Watch

Dr. Herman G. Morgan reports sixty smallpox cases under quarantine with twelve in the pesthouse. New cages are developing at about three daily. Every contact is being vaccinated as officials maintain strict surveillance.

Herman G. Morgan

Five City Judge Bills Filed in House in Indianapolis Session

Lawmakers introduced measures including five bills for a common pleas court in Indianapolis and adding a city judge. Other proposals cover streetcar track upgrades, ending county road superintendent role, raising probation clerk salary in Marion County, a 3 cent gasoline tax, regulating motor buses, repealing absent voters law, reorganizing the prison board, selling surplus products, and ending eighth grade final exams.

Common Pleas Indianapolis Burns Buchanan le Haven Ebaugh Hinkly Clark Elliott Werner Drake Bebinger Marida County Clark Public Service Commission Carter Smith State Prison Board of Classification Carney

Statehouse Employee Faints in Basement Incident

Bruce Oakes, 72, of 857 Sanders St., Statehouse employee, fainted in the basement today and was bruised about the head. He was assisted to help by elevator operator Charles Richardson, 746 W North St.

Statehouse Bruce Oakes Sanders St Charles Richardson W. North St

Tanlac Health Booster Ad Promises Restored Energy

An old advertisement touts Tanlac as a natural tonic to revive energy and strength for tired people suffering indigestion rheumatic ache and fatigue. It claims the Tanlac formula uses roots barks and herbs from around the world to revitalize mood stomach health and weight.

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