City plans bids on $450000 bonds despite delays
City officials, led by controller Sterling Holt, seek to issue 450000 in bonds to cover utility bills from Indianapolis Water Company and Indianapolis Power and Light. An ordinance to fund the judgments is to be prepared for the council, with bids hoped from Chicago Cincinnati and New York firms.
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City Hall
Sterling R. Holt
City Legal Department
Indianapolis Water Company
Indianapolis Power and Light Company
L. Ert Slack
Charles Remster
Matson, Carter Ross & McCord
Supreme Court
Joseph L. Hogue
Chicago
Cincinnati
New York
Indianapolis
Holt
Indian club attack nets suspect after auto theft
Lieut. Patrick O'Connor was struck on the left eye with an Indian club while climbing into a parked car near Lovers Lane on the White River east bank. A Negro suspect Loren Swansgon, 19, of 172 Allegheny St., was taken into custody after the car stolen from Elmer Durham, 324 Douglass St., was recovered. Swansgow faced charges of resisting arrest and assault and battery.
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Patrick O’connor
Auto Pioneer 81 Dies In Indiana
Louis J. Reed 81 of Peru Indiana died. He enlisted as a Union soldier at age 14 and is credited with building the first automobile body. Reed was Miami County’s youngest Civil War veteran and later worked with Elwood Haynes at Kokomo, helping build the body for the Haynes car now exhibited by the Smithsonian in Washington D C.
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Peru
Ind
Louis J. Reed
Miami County
Reed
Elwood Haynes
Kokomo
Pioneer Automobile
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C
Two Held in $50,000 Fire in Rockport
In Rockport Indiana on a Saturday blaze that wrecked the business district led to the arrest of Frederick E. Holly of Rockport and Elmer Crabtree of Mt. Vernon. Police dogs trailed the suspects for six hours before the arrests.
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Times Special
Rockport
Ind
Frederick E. Holly
Elmer Crabtree
Mt. Vernon
Farmers Seek Democratic Aid at Houston Convention
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation leaders plan to travel to Houston to press for farm relief pledges at the Democratic National Convention after protesting Republicans. W. H. Settle and others stress nonpartisanship while coordinating post Houston talks with farm groups in Des Moines. A separate incident at Broad Ripple Park saw a sky chute balloon ignite and burn. pilot C. R. Huggins suffered minor facial burns.
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Ed Bush
Jack Maroney
Otto C. Mayes
Ferris Jay
Indiana Farm Bureau Federation
Houston
Tex
Bush
Farm Federation
Kansas City
Middle-West
W. H. Settle
Des Moines
Broad Ripple Park
C. R. Huggins
S. la Salle St
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E. E. Taylor
Drexel
Woodlawn
PR TA
Pearson
N. Penn
Berlin
Marx
Reichstag
Hermann Mueller
Herr Mueller
Hunt
Sander & Rocker
Meridian
Maryland
MAAR
Ewis Furnitureco
Outfitters
Menard Boys
Guarantee Tire & Rubber CO
Brannum-Keene Lumber CO
Kentucky Avenue
Ayres
Men’s Athletic Union
Marcy Lee
Ecru
Congoleum
Armstrong
Georgette
Women’s Athletic Union
Nile
Silk
Gordon Brand
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