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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1926
Page
11
The Federal Court orders an inquiry into charges that law violators control police, focusing on overt corruption and its impact on federal enforcement. Civic leaders, business groups, and taxpayers are urged to push for a city manager charter and deeper probes into government, corruption, and taxation.
In a period of looming bankruptcy and social upheaval France debates a sacred union of ministers. Briand seeks a tenth cabinet coalition to unite parties, but the public clings to fantasy figures of Aladdin. Risk of Mussolini or Lenin looms as unity proves elusive.
Weeks pass since council debate on using interest from Barrett law public improvement funds. The treasurer collects interest from banks, not ownership, while banks handle most work. Critics accuse possible influence or bias due to former treasurer mayor and demand clear action or decision.
A historic transfer of thirty seven acres in the Ala Moana area signals a major Waikiki expansion. Dredging to create drainage and a wider beach will transform the district into a prime residential zone as Honolulu grows. Investors eye Hawaii as a booming market beyond its romantic image.
Mariano Montes, a Mexican bullfighter, was gored and killed in Madrid after facing three bulls that afternoon. The opinion piece laments bullfighting as brutal and questions the sport's humanity and risk to animals and riders.
Seventy five Tunisian Arabs at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial contrast desert women with American styles. They mock short skirts unveiled faces and heavy makeup while noting American notions of fashion and womanhood as seen through local life and incidents.
In Rockville Center a fire squad scandal unfolds as three trusted volunteers face accusation after arsons intended to beat rivals to the scene. Investigators probe motives of a captain, lieutenant, and private amid a town stunned by the series of fires and alleged motives for glory.
The speaker questions Pittsburgh’s use of 50,000 hired watchers to monitor registration and voting, pondering how such a large force could be needed if the city were truly idle and suggesting civic management by prominent figures like Secretary Mellon.
The piece contrasts Mellon’s stance on the Haugen bill with protective tariff arguments and argues the bill mirrors tariff logic. It condemns a circulating tirade against Governor Smith’s Monticello speech honoring Thomas Jefferson as religious liberty principles are invoked.
Mrs Walter Ferguson James Branchbell argues men chase elusive love while women cling to romance. The piece notes men marry and become disillusioned but do not try to change wives, while women keep hoping their ideal knight exists behind everyday spouses.
A spectator notes that temperance and liquor policy dominate the New Jersey primary race. The writer argues that the electoral climate reacts to wet propaganda and warns against extremes, urging temperance both in law and in liquor policy.
Scholarship medals were awarded and certificates given at exercises at St. John's Academy in Maryland Street and Senate Avenue. Harlan Bowers received the K. of C. medal for seventh and eighth grade scholastic standing. F. Berting won the fifth and sixth grade award. B. Connelly the third grade honor.
Randolph La Salle Coats earns praise from an eastern art jury acting for the sesquicentennial Philadelphia exhibition. His painting Firenza shows an oriental maid in cerise with a yellow Spanish shawl against an oriental pattern. Painted on Cape Cod last summer, it hung at Herron Art Institute and won a state figure painting prize. Coats runs a Provincetown painting school and will stay in Indianapolis to finish portraits before heading to Cumberland Falls, Kentucky, for months.
J Arthur MacLean announces the International Water Color Exhibition now hung in Gallery VII and the Court with foreign artists from England Scotland Norway Sweden Denmark and Germany and an American section in upper Gallery VII. New print room accessions include etchings by Heintzelman Besnard and Brouet.
A reader asks when to plant daffodils with fall timing and early September tips. The column cites other religious sources for the Golden Rule including Hillel Confucius and Epictetus. It covers Antonio Moreno's birth in Madrid 1888 his height weight and hair color and notes Luther Burbank funeral details. Additional Qs address alligator aging care moving pictures costs and the meaning of Sheikha.
A light verse piece humorously critiques domestic life and parental patience as children run wild and mothers juggle duties. It contrasts chaotic youthful energy with adults seeking rest, ending with a dated punch line about a diamond mine worker.
Slight improvement noted at city hospital for patrolman George Rubush 315 Trowbridge St injured when his car collided with another at Sixty-Second St and Keystone Ave Rubush facing assault drunkenness and operating a vehicle while intoxicated charges Three others in the second car were injured Five Parker family members injured in a Belt Railway Jefferson Ave crash remain hospitalized Parker died in the wreck
Formation of the Citizens' Bank of Forest in Clinton County is completed after receiving a state charter. The bank will start with a capital of 10 000 dollars and a 1 000 dollar surplus. A S Davis serves as president and L A Tranbarger is named cashier.
Letter to the editor corrects a Q and A claim about a fowl called turken. The writer states no chicken turkey cross exists, noting turken is a cross between hen and turkey and cites Donahue Market in Pittsburgh in May with fifteen on display.
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