School Board Plans Budget for Grade School Buildings
The Indianapolis school board debated funding for two to three new grade schools in the 1920 budget at a special session. Key figures absent were President Charles W. Kern and Mrs. Lillian V. Sedwick. The plan to build Broad Ripple High in 1930 via bonds would shift grade school financing to the city budget.
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Charles W. Kern
Lillian V. Sedwick
Broad Ripple
Carl W. Burton
Broad Ripple High School
Theodore F. Vonnegut
Burton
Arsenal Technical High School
State Tax Board
Vonnegut
Union Street
Spruce Street
Virginia Avenue
Hoosier Salon Reports Five Year Art Sales Totals
Hoosier Salon Patron's Association reported $16,657 in art sales for the year. Five year totals reach $71,157 in sales, excluding outside exhibitions by individual studios. The association advances Indiana art through annual Hoosier salons at Marshall Field galleries in Chicago.
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Indiana
Marshall Field
Chicago
Parachute Instructor Plans NBC Rebroadcast Leap
Charles de Bever, wearing a twenty five pound broadcasting set on his back, will leap from a plane over a New York aviation field. As he drifts with a parachute he will describe sensations and landing maneuvers by radio. Bever, a veteran jumper and parachute instructor, aims to have NBC rebroadcast the stunt.
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Charles de Bever
New York
Bever
Centenarian Margaret Phillip Dies in Montrose Iowa
Mrs. Margaret Phillip 105 died at her Montrose home near Keokuk Iowa. Born in Edinburgh Scotland on June 22 1824 she came to the United States in 1859 and lived on the same farm since.
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Keokuk
Margaret Phillip
Montrose
Here
Edinburgh
Scotland
City council debates street sign funding and traffic controls
The council weighed rubber stop signs at 7500 to replace 5500 and considered brass knobs and stand signs amid snow and truck overhang issues. A proposed 95 percent fee split for electrical inspection was not acted on, while a taxi space dispute with hotels remained unresolved.
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Joel Baker
Harris
George Denny
State Inspection Bureau
Bureau
Board of Public Safety
Poor Food Charged at State Soldiers Home
Mrs Ceatta R Oliver of Indianapolis writes to The Indianapolis Times detailing chronic complaints about meals at the State Soldiers home in Lafayette. She alleges cold served meals with skimmed milk, insufficient meat, and mush and hominy as the main foods, issues she has raised to commandant C F Zillmer and Governor Harry G Leslie.
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State Soldiers’ Home
Lafayette
C. F. Zillmer
Harry G. Leslie
Ceatta R. Oliver
Indianapolis
Indianapolis Times
City Council Debates Taxi Space and Transfers
English hotel managers seek taxi space allotment while Smiley Chambers aids impartial review. Howard E. Robertson explains granting methods as three ordinances pass: a $3000 transfer to Gamewell, a $2500 transfer in the financial dept, and a $500 spend to publish litigation proceedings on Citizens Gas acquisition. Also, a man in Monticello loses a finger in a hay machine pulley incident.
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Red Cab Company
Smiley Chambers
Howard E. Robertson
Board of Public Safety
Gamewell Department
Financial Department
L. Ert Slack
Citizens Gas Company
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