Light Company Extends Lines And Equipment
The Indianapolis Light and Heat Company reports improvements and extensions valued near 900000 this year. Five months saw 186108.95 spent on renewing and upgrading power equipment at Mill St and Kentucky Ave stations. The remaining seven months plan 882639.24 in underground transmission lines downtown. By year end total investments over 5600000 in five years.
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Indianapolis Light and Heat Company
Mill St
Kentucky Ave
Hold ups Reported In City On Monday Night
Two robberies were reported to police. Harold Green and Bertha Pointer were robbed after leaving a relative’s home by a large touring car as two men approached. Green lost $3.16 and car tickets. Guy McDowell reported a separate incident near the State House where he woke at City hospital missing his watch and $35 after being offered a drink.
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Harold Green
Prospect St
Lieut
Johnson
Bertha Pointer
Capitol Ave
E. Riverside Pkway
Green
Guy McDowell
Kokomo
Ind
State House
McDowell
City Hospital
Bondsmen Face Suit Over Unpaid Fines in City Court
Prosecutor William H. Remy announced plans to sue bondsmen who have failed to pay more than 10 000 in fines. He said the State board of accounts and city officials highlighted the delinquent list and demand city court judges refuse accepting these bondsmen until full payment is made.
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William H. Remy
State Board of Accounts
O. L. Hays
John W. Rhodehamel
Police arrest ten at Washington Street gambling house
Police squads led by Lieutenant Jones and Sergeant Nagelson raided a second floor room at 546 W. Washington St. early today and arrested ten alleged gamblers. Variban Bateff, 23, charged with keeping a dice game and others with visiting a gambling house and gaming. A. C. Davis, 29, of 1109 College Ave. charged with keeping a gaming device and baseball pool tickets.
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Jones
Nagelson
Washington St
Varbian Bateff
A. C. Davis
College Ave
Flying Police Needed Panel Discusses Aerial Flier Rule
Indianapolis board of safety met to enforce an ordinance banning non government fliers. Park superintendent R Walter Jarvis sought approval to take air pictures of parks and boulevards. Board urged limiting pilots and joked about catching an elusive aviator.
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Indianapolis
Board of Safety
R. Walter Jarvis
Patrolman's Wife Dies At Home In City
Mrs James Frank 38 wife of patrolman Frank died early today at 1070 W Twenty Seventh St Funeral services set for 2 30 p m Wednesday at the residence with burial in Crown Hill Cemetery Born Greensburg Kentucky she had lived here sixteen years
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James Frank
Frank
Twenty- Seventh St
Crown Hill Cemetery
Greensburg
Four men convicted of operating a blind tiger in city court
Four persons were convicted of operating a blind tiger, fined 100 dollars and costs, and sentenced to thirty days at Indiana State Farm before Judge Dan V. White. Sentence suspended for Hanna B. Means on payment of the fine. Others: Harry O'Haver, Fred Magsham, and Horace Boyd.
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Indiana State Farm
Dan V. White
Hanna B. Means
E. Thirty- Fourth St
Harry O'Haver
Illinois St
Fred Magsham
Delaware St
Horace Boyd
Lafayette St
Destruction Ordered for 1550 Cases of Prohibition Whisky
Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell orders 1550 cases of prewar bonded whisky seized in 1921 at W P Squibbs distillery Lawrenceburg Indiana destroyed. Deputy Marshal Simon T. Hickman helped secure the liquor which will be poured into a sewer beneath the Federal Building in Indianapolis as agents proceed.
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Prohibition
W. P. Squibbs
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Robert C. Baltzell
Simon T. Hickman
United States
Indianapolis
Linus P
Meredith
Squibbs
Indianapolis School Housing Crisis Cited by Board Member
Fred Bates Johnson, a school board member, told a Scientech Club luncheon that over 7,500 Indianapolis students are improperly housed. He described one room frame portables with poor lighting, ventilation, and heating and urged tax support to fix the conditions.
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Fred Bates Johnson
Scientech Club
Chamber of Commerce
Indianapolis
School construction costs fall sharply in decade
A speaker notes school buildings now cost from one half to one fifth of the amount spent eight or ten years ago and criticizes the Indiana Taxpayers Association for opposing any tax increase.
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Indiana Taxpayers Association
Bus Petitions Set For hearings on Hiner lines
Two Hiner company petitions go before the public services commission Thursday and Friday. One seeks a new Indianapolis to West Lafayette bus line, challenged previously for excessive speed. Another requests a Martinsville route via Franklin.
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Hiner
Red Bull Bus Lines
Indianapolis
West Lafayette
Frank Wampler
Public Services Commission
Frank Singleton
Commission
Martinsville
Beginners
People’s Motor Coach Company
Brightwood
Clede H. Jones
Builders sue Indiana over 32000 damages in bridge project
The F K Vaughn Building Company of Ohio filed a Superior Court Five complaint against the State of Indiana seeking 32000 in damages. The suit claims extra work was required during bridge construction for the State Highway Commission due to quicksand.
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State of
Indiana
F. K. Vaughn Building Company
Ohio
State Highway Commission
Swedish gas from charcoal fuels vehicles
Stockholm reports Swedish researchers have developed a charcoal derived gas used successfully as a motor fuel. The discovery marks a notable advance in alternative energy applications and is already showing practical use in test drives.
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Stockholm
Dependable Drug Stores Backed by Hook's Message
A messaging blurb promotes Hook's Dependable Drug Stores and other reliable drug retailers urging readers to persevere and try products today. The text emphasizes trust and everyday health needs without listing specific products or locations.
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Hook
Butler claims he is winner in vice fight
Philadelphia’s Gen Smedley Butler, director of public safety, says crime and vice have fallen 50 percent since he took charge. He notes doubts about his future and insists honesty and tools are needed to enforce the law amid graft concerns among some officers.
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Butler
VICE
United Pr
Philadelphia
City Hall
Gen. Smedley Butler
The
Marines
Public Safety of
United Press
United States
Police report shows theft totals fall and insurer return
In the first six months this year the total was 527000 dollars. Auto thefts decreased enough that two insurance firms that had left Philadelphia due to high risk have re entered the market.
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Philadelphia
Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm Calls Versailles Treaty Scrap
Wilhelm II says the Versailles treaty must be scrapped as nations around his disarmed Germany arm for security. Admiral von Reubeur Paschwitz, acting chief of His Majesty's household in Doom, sent the UPI cable with the emperor's views from the Dutch countryside.
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Janewetwdt
State highway panel orders rail company to remove tracks
The State highway commission ordered Hammond Whiting East Chicago Street Railway Company to remove its tracks from Indianapolis Blvd leading into Chicago or have them removed by the commission. Refusal to remove tracks stalled the paving plan. A delegation protested on the tracks.
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State Highway Commission
Hammond, Whiting & East Chicago Street Railway Company
Indianapolis Blvd
Chicago
Widow La Follette Declines Senate Run Opening Seat for Son
Mrs Belle Case La Follette widow of the Wisconsin independent leader declined to enter the race for her late husband’s U S Senate seat. Her decision clears the path for her son Robert M La Follette Jr to pursue election to succeed his father with a Madison announcement expected soon.
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United Prene
Washington
Belle Case la Follette
Senate
Robert M. la Follette Jr
Young la Follette
Madison
Wis
hotel woman Katherine Stout dies after forty years in Trafalgar
Mrs Katherine M Stout 83 who ran a Trafalgar hotel for more than forty years died Monday at the home of her daughter Mrs David Smith 2417 Bellefontaine St She was born in Wooster Ind and had lived here seven years Survived by three sons and three daughters Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 p m with burial Thursday at Trafalgar
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Katherine M. Stout
Trafalgar
Ind
David Smith
Bellefontaine St
Wooster
P. m
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Indiana Trust CO
OLD Trails Automobile Insurance Assn
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Banner Furniture
Ompary E Marchand
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