New $1,000,000 State Library Delayed Until 1933
Hoosier legislators approved a million dollar library levy this session but construction faces delays. State librarian Louis J. Bailey said a special library building commission must be appointed within sixty days to select a site near the statehouse and hire an architect. Funding starts July next year with installments of 125,000, 250,000, and 500,000 over three years.
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Hoosier
Louis J. Bailey
Bailey
Statehouse
Lightning ruins Ted Wright home decorations in fire
Lightning struck near the Wright home at 532 Division Street, igniting a blaze that destroyed the house, furnishings, and a radio repair shop. Ted Wright, his wife, and his mother were asleep as firemen fought the flames. An additional $100 fire hit the Mormon Motor Car Company plant at Morris Street and Kentucky Avenue.
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Ted Wright
Division Street
Wright
Mormon Motor Car Company
Morris Street
Kentucky Avenue
Celebrate in Death claim marks 79th birthday tragedy
Frederick Sutter and his wife planned a birthday celebration when a nephew found them dead on a living room divan with arms about each other. An unlit heater vented gas in the room, indicating a gas leak may have caused the deaths.
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United Press
East Orange
W. J
Frederick Sutter
George Sutter
Scientific Farmer Decades From Birmingham Newsboy to Frocks Executive
C Elbert Mike Israel, 28, promoted to first vice president in charge of sales at Harford Frocks Inc a $2 million annual business. Purdue graduate and former door to door dress salesman rose from sales manager in 1926 to second vice president in 1927 and now leads national expansion including agents in the United States Porto Rico Hawaii and Alaska.
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Birmingham
Ala
Harford Frocks, Inc
C. Elbert
Mike) Israel
Porter M. Farrell
Real Silk
Harford Frocks
Israel
Purdue
Raith & Sons
Mike
United States
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Alaska
Harvard Dean Attacks Private Snob Schools
Harvard dean Henry Holmes and MIT professor Robert Rogers clash over snobbery in American education. Holmes says private schools attract families seeking class status, criticizing the motive behind private schooling for girls and the public system as similarly driven by snobbery. The piece notes St. Louis bridge foundations lie 136 feet below high water.
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Bu United Press
Boston
Henry Holmes
Harvard Graduate Education
Robert E. Rogers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rogers
Dean Holmes
St. Louis
Famine Report in China Confirmed by State Department
The state department affirmed to Representative Louis Ludlow that famine in China is real with about 4,000,000 people in imminent danger of starvation. The envoy at Peking said the figures reflect crop failure rather than political strife, though more people face hunger. Relief drives were noted in Indianapolis.
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Washington
China
Indianapolis
State Department
Louis Ludlow
Ludlow
Department
Peking
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Davis Credit Shoe Store
Massachusetts Ave
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New York St
Riley
Harvard
Dr. Holmes
Edw. Lesch
Podiatrist
Roosevelt Bldg
Cone Riley
The
Panama Canal Zone
Victor
Guaranteed Furniture
Washington Street
Illinois Street
Anhinote
S. Illinois St
South
Linois ST
South Alling
S. Illinois
Wash
Maryland Sts
Elgin
He Globe
Usc
Rosenye
Goodyear West
W. Wash
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