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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1929
Page
9
The American Automobile Association urged motorists to drive safely on Independence Day. An AAA survey showed 205 deaths on July 4 in 1928, with 54 from motor accidents. The notice advised careful driving, avoiding unnecessary passes, obeying police directions, and ensuring brakes and car features are in good condition.
Officials of the Pittsburgh building trades council and the Building Trades Employers Association reached a five day week agreement affecting more than 18 000 workers in the district. The change takes effect next week and wages remain unchanged despite the shorter work week.
A light delivery truck belonging to Meier Packing Company was stolen early today from West Washington street while the driver ate breakfast. the truck was recovered later minus the meat. The incident followed thefts of clothing and a ring from different addresses and a robbery of a teen at Wells drug store delivery bay.
Nine states represented at the Big Four Veterans Association picnic in Broad Ripple park with more than 1,500 attendees. A Columbia Club luncheon preceded the event led by President R R Harris. J G Van Winkle won longest service prize for sixty eight years, with W T Streibling aged 86 as the oldest veteran and W J Smith of Long Beach California traveling the farthest.
In Lafayette Indiana on July 1 Sonny McDonald eight and sister Louise four are returned home after a near week missing. They were found asleep in a crude camp with John Eads fifty five who says he is an Indian. The youngsters said they were not mistreated and Eads says the parents allowed the camping trip.
Wabash files with the Interstate Commerce Commission to form a fifth trunk line combining its routes with nine other railroads and gaining trackage rights on additional carriers. The plan envisions eastern terminals at New York Philadelphia and Baltimore and western termini at Chicago St Louis Kansas City Omaha and Des Moines, with access to Detroit Pittsburgh Buffalo Toledo Cleveland and other hubs.
Horace W. McDavid of Decatur Illinois, a lawyer and former state legislator, was chosen president at the 13th Kiwanis convention in Milwaukee Wisconsin. The article also notes Wabash Railway petitions seeking a sixth interest in the Montour Monongahela rail link and opposition to rival four system merger plans by Chesapeake and Ohio and Baltimore and Ohio.
Three women from Franklin and Edinburgh are recovering at home after a Sunday evening crash at Center church and Bottom roads when two drivers were blinded by the storm. The injured are Clara Sutton 43 with back injuries David Clark 72 scalp wound and bruises and Fern Clark 16 with bruises.
A London humorous piece imagines a future rational dress man seen at Ascot. It describes a designer era where men wear a dark coat, open-necked shirt with white shorts, no hat, and golf stockings, provoking widespread astonishment and satire.
Christian and American flags were displayed at Edwin Ray M E Church today. The Joseph R Gordon Relief Corps and church members presented the flags. Rev W R Jones accepted the American flag from Rosa B Pease and discussed the union of the two flags in his sermon.
The Treasury opens fiscal year 1930 with a surplus of 185 million dollars and a debt below 17 billion for the first time since the war. Secretary Mellon says finances are highly satisfactory and notes a 673 million reduction in debt over the year, plus a 220 million rise in receipts from personal income tax amid prosperity and stock market profits.
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