Deacon George Helms Breaks Ground for Woodruff Place Church
George Helms, oldest deacon of Woodruff Place Baptist Church at E Michigan and Walcott Streets, led a ground breaking for the new church. Fire destroyed the old structure on January 7, and worshippers had met in the Woodruff Place club house since. The project is estimated to cost about $132,000.
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George Helms
Woodruff Place Baptist Church
E. Michigan
Walcott Sts
Woodruff Place
Prolific Weekend Burglars Roam City Sowing Fear
A spree of prowlers and bandits challenged police late Saturday into Sunday. Residents Jesse Milligan and Clara Shoultz narrowly escaped, while attackers held up Ward England and Noble Little, stealing cash, a watch, and auto items. An armed suspect was detained on vagrancy charges as officers pursued leads and found evidence at several scenes including a tire shop burglary and a damaged pay phone area.
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Jesse Milligan
Cornell Ave
Milligan
Clara Shoultz
E. Twenty- First St
Noble Little
W. Ray St
White River
Raymond St
Little
Everson
Rausch
Park Ave
Fred Sanders
Eleventh St
Rushville man sentenced in Connersville crime chase
Chase Taylor of Rushville Ind was sentenced to one to two years at Pendleton Reformatory after a Saturday Circuit Court conviction for a fight with Trafficman Hod Eller of Indianapolis. He was fined ten dollars after a Friday night arrest following a two mile chase in which liquor was found in his car.
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Chase
Chuck) Taylor
Rushville
Ind
Pendleton Reformatory
Connersville
Taylor
Hod Eller
Indianapolis
Man Charged With DWI After Weekend Collision
L. E. Putney of 913 N Capitol Ave is held on driving while intoxicated and drunkenness charges after a Sunday collision with a City Ice and Coal Co truck at 345 Virginia Ave. Injured in weekend crashes include Robert Tomlinson 44 of 1226 N Illinois St Mrs Charles Cosler R R H box 360 and John Rain 8 of 952 N Illinois St.
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L. E. Putney
Capitol Ave
City Ice and Coal Company
Virginia Ave
Robert Tomlinson
Illinois St
Charles Cosler
R. H. Box
John Rain
Ilinois St
Gas tank blast burns man and damages Indianapolis salvage yard
Cliff Weaver, 1005 S East St, suffered leg burns when a gas tank exploded while he was fueling an auto. The blast at 35 N Capitol Ave damaged the Indianapolis Salvage and Auction Company basement. firemen saved the building. Firemen Irvin Fossatti and others were treated for injuries and smoke. Second alarm called by Assistant Chief Roy Phillips.
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Cliff Weaver
S. East St
Indianapolis Salvage and Auction Company
N. Capitol Ave
Irvin Fossatti
Roy Phillips
Middle aged women claim vitality from Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Thousands of women in mid life report renewed vigor and health thanks to Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. They say good health lets them enjoy books, plays, grandchildren, church and civic life, and active community involvement.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Puzzle a Day Mission adds land on West Third
The Chinese Mission sits on a rectangular plot three times as long as wide. A donated strip adds 77 square yards and extends the dimensions by three feet in each direction, yielding new length and width. The puzzle asks to compute the updated measurements from those changes.
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West Third Street
Fourth Avenue
Chang Fu
Bob
Dan
Davis Denounces Communists in Elwood Flag Day Speech
James J. Davis secretary of labor condemned communistic and red organizations in the United States at a flag day address in Elwood Indiana. He warned their unchecked activities would ruin the nation’s foundations and noted he once worked in the local tin plate mills as a boy.
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United Press
Elwood
Ind
United States
James J. Davis
Labor
Davis
Eighteen Graduated From St Josephs Catholic School
Eighteen students were graduated at Sunday night exercises. Certificates were conferred by Monsignor F. B. Dowd on graduates Howard W. Burr, Francis J. Cunningham, Frank J. Calabrese, John J. Hickey, Harry E. Mahoney, James O. Summers, Herman G. Schneider, Leonard J. Thomas, Carl G. Weilhammer, Louise M. Addington, Margaret L. Hewes, Eleanor C. Holmes, Catherine Co Johnston, Marjorie M. Meyer, Frances I. McGraw, Myrtle E. Mitchell, Marjory R. Snyder and Dorothy A. Trisler.
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St. Joseph's Catholic School
F. B. Dowd
Howard W. Burr
Francis J. Cunningham
Frank J. Calabrese
John J. Hickey
Harry E. Mahoney
James O. Summers
Herman G. Schneider
Leonard J. Thomas
Carl G. Weilhammer
Louise M. Addington
Margaret L. Hewes
Eleanor C. Holmes
Catherine Co. Johnston
Marjorie
Bo rah Defends Prohibition and Amendments Idea
Senator William Borah told the National Law School graduates that emancipation came before readiness but Southern voters have restored the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as constitutional parts. He replied to wets demanding he push literal enforcement of those amendments guaranteeing Black suffrage.
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Times Special
Washington
South
William Borah
Idaho
National Law School
Wets
Ex-Police Officer Hart Raymond E Fletcher Injured In Crash
Former policeman Hart Raymond E Fletcher was hurt Saturday when his car left the Dandy Trail near Ft. Benjamin Harrison and struck a ditch. A title certificate in the car showed Miss Lenora Haag of Hook Drug Company as owner. Fletcher had been a chauffeur for Miss Haag and was hospitalized with non serious injuries.
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Raymond E. Fletcher
Dandy Trail
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Lenora Haag
The
Hook Drug Company
Miss Haag
Fletcher
Methodist Hospital
Falling Mixer Crushes Worker in City Accident
William Banks 59 of 1719 N Arsenal Ave died when a concrete mixer weighing about one and a half tons slipped from a plank and fell on him near Highland Place on Nineteenth Street. The mixer was being rolled to a truck. Robert Edwards and Wesley Jackson helped lift it off. The body was taken to the city morgue.
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William Banks
N. Arsenal Ave
Highland Pl
C. A. Tolles
Wesley Jackson
Cornell Ave
Banks
Robert Edwards
Hovey St
Edwards
Jackson
Youth charged in pay phone burglary spree
A 15 year old was held at the detention home today charged with several filling station burglaries in which pay phones were taken. A confectionery operator near Thirtieth Street and Northwestern Avenue reported the youth spent many nickels and police found twenty seven nickels on arrest. He admitted stealing phones from three stations.
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Thirtieth St
Northwestern Ave
Struck with Flatiron in Chicago area attack
Detective Irvin Hardy suffered head injuries after being struck with a flatiron by Albert Williams. Williams fled through a second story window. Hardy fired several shots. Henry Compton was charged with interfering with an officer for attempting to take Hardy's revolver. Williams faced assault and battery with intent to kill.
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Irvin Hardy
Albert Williams
Puryear St
Hardy
E. Fifteenth St
Williams
Henry Compton
Columbia Ave
Governor urges old time civic ideals at Finch Park
Governor Jackson addressed the South eastern Civic Association meeting at Finch Park urging a return to native civic pride over worship of the almighty dollar. Speakers included Alvah J. Rucker Horace Carey R Walter Jarvis and Edward C Snethen who spoke at a Chautauqua event under the association's auspices.
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Jackson
Southeastern Civic Association
Finch Park
Alvah J. Rucker
Horace Carey
R. Walter Jarvis
Edward C. Snethen
Federation of Community Civic Clubs
Association
Poisoning inquiry into Elmer Webb case
Police investigate suspected poisoning of Elmer Webb at 434 Blake Street. Webb, a resident in Minnie Dunn’s rooming house, was found by Dunn and is now in City Hospital. He cried to a woman, Don’t give me that poison, as officers search for the unknown female involved.
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Elmer Webb
Blake, St
City Hospital
Minnie Dunn
Webb
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