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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1928
Page
14
Butler University awarded 254 degrees including three honorary at the Irvington campus gymnasium rain delayed exercises. Dr Edward C Elliott urged graduates to perform meaningful work without pay and uphold high ideals. Dr Robert J Aley spoke on mental honesty and open-mindedness.
Rabbi Morris M. Feuerlicht of Indianapolis will preside at group meetings of Hebrew Union College graduates during the Central Conference of American Rabbis in Chicago from June 27 to July 2. He serves as alurani president and will be among the discussion leaders for the reform element of Judaism.
Funeral services for Mrs Marie Dexheimer 59 wife of H P Dexheimer photographer were held at Flanner Buchanan mortuary and the body sent to Marion Indiana for burial Tuesday. She died Saturday at Indiana Christian Hospital after an eighteen year illness. She was a member of First Christian Church and the Eastern Star of Marion. Rev William A Shullenberger officiated with contralto Mrs Mary Traub Busch singing. Survivors include husband a daughter Mrs Gerald Carson a sister Miss Hattie Lloyd and a brother Genny Lloyd of Canton Ohio.
Police discovered a subterranean cella at 16 S Capitol Ave with a secret passage, sawdust on the floor, a bar and eight gallons of alcohol including whisky gin wine and brandy. Officers charged Joe Brant of 330 N East St with blind tiger operation.
Times Special reports from Logansport Indiana on June 16 noting Burrel W Booth at 94 remains active serving as an official for forty years since the May primary He is described as the oldest Elks Lodge member in the world and Logansport’s oldest citizen born November 11 1833 with the memorable meteor shower night.
Eighty eight IU 1928 graduates win interne ships at leading hospitals. Fifty one stay in Indianapolis. four go to London, England. others to hospitals in Cuba Hawaii Panama and across the United States. List includes Balch Billings Carney Ferrara Flora Grandstaff Kirklin Metzger Rettig Sage Wiseman and many more.
Howard Ferguson and Alex Thompson are jailed on vagrancy and operating a blind tiger after 2:30 a.m. arrest by Lieut. Otto Petit while he hunted two filling station bandits. Ferguson stood by his car near a closed station at Blackford and Washington Streets. Thompson had a cut hand from an alleged fight. both denied owning a bottle of white mule found with them.
Edwin T. Meredith former secretary of agriculture and Democratic leader died in UNES Iowa at age 52 after weeks of high blood pressure and complications. He had been a favorite son candidate for the presidential nomination and founded the Successful Farmer journal in 1902. He leaves widow Edna Elliott of Des Moines and two children.
The National Association of Chiropodists-Podiatrists will discuss high heels and foot health August 7 to 10 in Rockland Mass. Five years of research show right foot heels are not harmful, low heels help when on feet long, and changing shoes daily prevents many foot problems. Dr. C. M. Wilder of Indianapolis leads the Indiana association hosting the event.
Funeral services for Albert Newton Holloway 83 Civil War veteran were held at his home 6243 Central Ave this afternoon. He died Saturday and будет buried at Oak Hill cemetery Lebanon. A native of Lebanon he served in the 11th Indiana Infantry under Gen. Lew Wallace. He lived in Lebanon and Cloverdale in the lumber business before moving to Indianapolis eight years ago. Surviving are his widow Flora Holloway three sons Everett Jesse Holloway Glenn Holloway Clayton Ind two daughters Jeanette Holloway Indianapolis and Edith Monroe Chicago and twin brother Milton Jasper Holloway Washington Kan.
Former Indianapolis businessman Joseph O Connor was granted a divorce from Caroline O Connor in Los Angeles. The court awarded Mrs. O Connor costs and fees, found cruelty unfounded, dismissed claims of familiarity with an Indianapolis post office clerk. It set O Connor's wealth at 100000 rather than 325000. O Connor left Indianapolis years earlier.
Semi official reports show 63 dead after boiler explosion on Colombian gunboat Hercules in the Magdalena River. Twenty two crew members were saved, with the rest reported lost by the ministry.
Hayward Kendall a Cleveland coal operator and Cornell graduate offered to will the university 1 009 000 under conditions Fraternities be abolished Co eds moved to a separate college and the male students kept away Kendall complained of bare kneeed cuties scented with black narcissus and cited drinking and sex as campus ills The offer went unpublicized and was filed away with no action taken during commencement speakers ignored him
Stutz Motor Car Company reports that a Stutz Black Hawk speedster owned and driven by E H Brisson finished second in the 24 hour Le Mans race at Le Mans France. Brisson led from hour three to thirteen and posted the fastest single laps. The Bentley won by one lap, with both cars beating the previous Le Mans record.
A welfare worker Mrs Mary King of Indianapolis testifies Konjola improved her neuritis kidney and liver function after weeks of pain weakness and night awakenings She praises the remedy and urges others to try it The Konjola Man displays the product at Hook s drug store Illinois and Washington streets Indianapolis selling Konjola in Hook drug stores and through leading pharmacists.
Miss Irene Gillespie aged 15 of 1710 E Ohio Street is in serious condition at city hospital after a skull fracture sustained when she fell from a pony during a Walnut Gardens picnic on Sunday.
George L. Winkler, deputy federal dry administrator for Indiana and Marion County sheriff candidate, was found eligible for reappointment after a reconsideration. He had previously failed the city service exam, but a new announcement marks vindication as he plans to resign if elected. Silk deemed unclean by Mohammedans due to worm-origin.
Crown Machine Company officials say an enemy is suspected after two fires shut down operations in three months. The latest blaze at their Newton Ave and Tuxedo St plant caused about 40 000 in damage to machinery and stock. Three months earlier a fire at 24 S Forrest Ave caused 3 500 damage before the move to the new site. The firm, known for bird cages under Sears Roebuck contract, had fifty employees at the time of the second fire.
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