Armory probe stalled in Governor Leslie's office
Investigation into a state armory building scheme began under Governor Harry G. Leslie but remains unfunded and dormant. The plan financed through The Peoples State bank via Ostrom Realty and Construction Co. aims for armories held by holding companies with rentals until state ownership. Adjutant General Kershner, once slated for more powers, may be replaced.
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Corporation” Armory
State Senate
Harry G. Leslie
Lawrence F. Ort
State Board of Accounts
Leslie
Orr
Peoples State Bank
Senate
Felix McWhirter
Ostrom Realty and Construction Company
Williamh. Kershner
McWhirter
Kershner
Ed Jackson
Hoosier Club presses for higher U S road aid
The Hoosier Motor Club asks Indiana's congressmen to raise federal highway aid from 75 million to a maximum 125 million dollars. Club president Frank D. Hatfield notes low road surfacing despite one car per 5.6 people and urges enlarging the two year ahead funding program to cover 1932 and 1933.
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Hoosier Motor Club
Indiana
Frank D. Hatfield
United States
Hatfield
American Automobile Association
Seventy-first Congress
Antique furniture fetches high sums at New York sale
Charles Arthur paid 7500 dollars for a mahogany lyre shaped card table and 2500 dollars for a Connecticut seventeenth century oak chest. A mahogany banjo clock made in 1815 sold for 2700 dollars and a miniature tull case clock from 1800 went for 2350 dollars in a recent sale.
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New York
Charles Arthur
Connecticut
Porter Edison Double and Tolstoy Lookalikes Stun City
Py Times Special reports sighting a man near Grand Central who resembles Thomas A. Edison, while a deli catessen dealer and others resemble figures from history. Dr. van Bemmelen explains blood-relations theory for lookalikes. Winston Churchill and President Wilson also noted for likenesses. A 1916 New York incident saw crowds mourning a deputy fire commissioner who resembled Wilson.
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Py Times
Chicago
Grand Central Terminal
New York City
Thomas A. Edison
Mousik
Nicholas
Russia
Leo Tolstoy
Kaiser Wilhelm
Germany
van Bemmelen
University of Groningen
Holland
Michel Mok
Popular Science Monthly
Dr. van Bemmelen
Winston Churchill
Titus
Woodrow Wilson
W. Holden Weeks
New York
Wilson
Death Drivers To Go On Trial
Two involuntary manslaughter trials set this month with 100 jurors drawn. George Sutton faces the death of Miss Ethel Irquhart in an Indianapolis crash after allegedly fleeing the scene. Max Kos wheels on East Washington Street around New Year’s Eve, charged with killing two street railway workers and drunk driving.
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George Sutton
West Tenth Street
Ethel Irquhart
Indianapolis
Scotland
Sutton
Max Kos
West Maple Road
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
East Washington Street
Kos
The Janissaries Institute in the Late 14th Century
The Janissaries, famed Turkish army corps, were established in the latter half of the fourteenth century, marking a pivotal development in Ottoman military structure and state power.
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Janissaries
Music fund is low for Indianapolis parks
A survey to Walter Jarvis, park superintendent, shows Indianapolis spends only 2400 dollars annually on music for its park system, lower than any similarly sized city except New Orleans which allocates nothing for public music.
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Indianapolis
Walter Jarvis
United States
New Orleans
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Hickory
Hickory Rocker
Sander
Rocker
Meridian
Maryland
Richman’s
Fuehmar
Richman
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Washington Hotel
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