Foremen Wanted at Federal Prisons Across Several States
Foremen to act as instructors at United States penitentiaries in Atlanta Georgia Leavenworth Kansas Chillicothe Ohio and McNeil Island Washington are needed. Open lines include automobile mechanic baker and cook brick burner brick layer carpenter electrician laundry plumber and steamfitter printer shoe repairman and tailor. Applications accepted until July 5. Other vacancies announced include associate librarian Naval Observatory landscape architect Park and Planning Commission Senior physicist Signal Corps laboratory associate hide specialist Bureau of Chemistry and Soils associate mineral economist Bureau of Mines engineering field aide Geological Survey rodmen and chainmen Interstate Commerce Commission.
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United States
Atlanta
Leavenworth
Kan
Chillicothe
Ohio
McNeil Island
Wash
Henry M. Trimpe
Civil Service
Naval Observatory
Park and Planning Commission
Signal Corps Laboratory
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
Bureau of Mines
Geological Survey
Interstate Commerce Commission
Boy Breaks Arms After Box Slips Under Jump
John Wolf nine suffers double arm fractures when a box slips during a jump at home. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Jake Wolf of 3826 North Pennsylvania Street. His father serves as president of the White Furniture Company.
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John Wolf
Jake Wolf
Pennsylvania St
Nhe White Furniture Company
State Parks Ready for Holiday Rush Across Indiana
Indiana state parks fill for summer with new pools, hotel space, and shelters to host an expected half million visitors. Dunes Park gains land grant access and road improvements. McCormick Creek and Turkey Run enhance inns and cottages while nature guides and boating add appeal across Pokagon Muscatatuck and Clark County forests.
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Indiana
Richard Lieber
Conservation Department
Clifty Falls
Madison
McCormick’s Creek Canyon Park
Pokagon Park
Lake James
Dunes Park
Samuel Insull Jr
Clark County State Forest
Muscatatuck State Park
Claude Bowers Keynoter Picked For Democratic Houston
Hoosier editor and historian Claude G. Bowers, born in Hamilton County Indiana in November 1878, will deliver the keynote at the Democratic convention in Houston Texas. Once editor of the Ft Wayne Journal Gazette and later the New York Evening World, he rose in Indiana politics before moving to New York. His Jackson Day speech in Washington boosted support for his Houston nomination, and his address will reach millions via radio.
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NEA
New York
Orly
Claude G. Bowers
Bowers
Indiana
New York Evening
Andrew Jackson
Thomas Jefferson
Jackson
Jefferson
Houston
Hamilton County
Indianapolis Sentinel
Terre Haute
The
Star
Congress
John E. Lamb
John Worth Kern
United States
Washington
Ft. Wayne Journal-Gazette
News-Sentinel
Journal-Gazette
New York Evening World
G A R Meet Closes as Martinsville Chosen 1929 Encampment
Columbus Ind June 21. Final business sessions and auto trips marked the closing four day encampment of the Indiana Department Grand Army of the Republic. Martinsville named 1929 encampment city. A parade with 300 veterans and a campfire night highlighted Wednesday.
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Columbus
Martinsville
Times
Ind
Indiana Department
Grand Army of the Republic
God Is Far From Gotham Taxi Mission Reveals City Life
Rev. Thomas H. Whelpley, Chelsea Presbyterian Church pastor by day, taxi driver by night, spent a week in Manhattan to study life on the streets. He observed that many New Yorkers drift from church, encounter vice and despair, and feel God is distant, using taxi work as a desperate social laboratory.
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NEA
York
Gotham
Thomas H. Whelpley
New York
God
Chelsea Presbyterian Church
Manhattan
Mr. Whelpley
Aoree
Esseare
Rabies Scare After Dog Bites Six in Indiana
In Wabash Indiana six people and several head of livestock were bitten by a dog believed rabid at Mrs. Jacob Rousch’s home north of town. The incident follows a string of animal alerts in the area.
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Wabash
Ind
Jacob Rousch
Here
Powder Plant Fire Spurs Community Building Plan
Discussion at Fletcher Place Methodist Church outlined plans to add a social settlement building. Dr O W Pifer presided with a second meeting at the YMCA Friday and another at the church Monday.
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Fletcher Place Methodist Church
Methodist Missionary Workers
O. W. Pifer
Luther League of Indiana Delegates Tour City
Delegates to the thirty first annual Luther League convention in Indiana toured the city by automobile and will close with a banquet at St Mark s Lutheran Church. J S Albert of Muncie was re elected head, with Verna Schwab Louisville Ky as vice president, Cordelia Nickel Batesville as recording secretary, Florence Butler as recording secretary and Katherine Loemker Louisville Ky as treasurer. Louisville Ky was chosen as the next meeting site. The Rev L F Gruber of the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary spoke on liberal doctrine, and officers were later installed by the Rev W C Donaldson at a candle light service.
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Luther League of Indiana
St. Mark’s Lutheran Church
C. A. Sundberg
Springfield
Ohio
J. S. Albert
Muncie
League
Verna Schwab
Louisville
Kills 2 Wounds 4 In Belgrade Parliament Clash
Report from Belgrade states the Skupština adjourned sine die after a violent clash in which radical deputy Puisha Ratchich drew a revolver and fired on opponents. Two deputies, Paul Raditch and Djura Bassaricek, were killed and four others injured including Stefan Raditch who was seriously wounded. The assassin fled after leaping from a window.
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United Press
Vienna
Belgrade
Skupschtina
Paul Raditch
Djura_ Bassaricek
Stefan Raditch
Ivan Pernar
Granda
Jelasitch
Puisha Ratchich
Bassaricek
Fire Threatens Trojan Powder Kilns After Explosions
In Allentown on June 21 fire swept toward three large powder kilns at the Trojan Powder Company after an earlier blast destroyed seven kilns. All 300 employees had left. night watchman Albert Fritzinger escaped debris unharmed as further explosions jeopardized the remaining loaded kilns and hindered firefighting efforts.
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United Preas
Allentown
Trojan Powder Company
Albert Fritzinger
Convicted in bombing case Kleihege faces prison term
A Lake County jury found William Kleihege guilty of conspiracy in the State Theater bombing last November. The verdict carries a ten to twenty year sentence. Kleihege, said to be a wealthy theater owner, wrecked the venue after leasing it due to business slump. In New York, four Methodist bishops officiated at the marriage of Edith Mary Warne to Herbert Francis Fisher.
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Hammond
Times
Ind
Lake County
Criminal Court
William Kleihege
Kleihege
United Press
New York
Methodist Episcopal
Edith Mary Warne
Herbert Francis Fisher
Miss Warne
Francis Wesley Warne
Woman Hit by Street Car Injures Sallie Wharton
Mrs. Sallie Wharton, 61, of 2513 James Street, was struck by an E. Washington street car at Washington and Pennsylvania Streets late Wednesday. She suffers a cut on her left hip and was taken home for treatment.
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Sallie Wharton
James St
E. Washington
Washington and
Pennsylvania Sts
Ford Plant Wins Stoppage of Street Closures at Elevation
The board of works overruled protests and approved closing Oriental Street between Southeastern Ave and the railroad tracks and opening Leota Street to Washington Street when tracks are elevated. The decision aims to avoid disturbing Ford Motor Company’s assembly plant on East Washington Street, despite threats to move. Citizens warned of property damage and potential injunction.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Ford Motor Company
E. Washington St
Board of Works
Oriental St
Southeastern Ave
Leota St
Washington St
Ford
Ford Company
Slack
Henry Ford
Richard H. Neff
Park Ave
Charles Holtman
William Foley
S. Oriental St
Charles L. Riddle
City asphalt plant saves city $134 daily
City Engineer A H Moore reported the asphalt plant now saves the city about $134 each day. The plant reduced production costs to $11.73 per ton from the former $13.69. Over fifty three working days 3,591 tons were used to repair streets, with 41,238 square yards laid at a total cost of $49,168 and $1.92 per square yard for material and labor.
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A. H. Moore
Board of Works
Moore
Edward Rochat
Rochat
Property Transfer at Capitol and Eighteenth Streets
Dr Joseph Rilus Eastman purchased the northeast corner lot at Capitol Avenue and Eighteenth Street from Mrs Laura M Reyer for $18000. The parcel fronts eighty feet on Capitol Avenue opposite the new Methodist Hospital Nurses Home.
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Joseph Rilus Eastman
Capitol Ave
Eighteenth St
Laura M. Reyer
New Methodist Hospital
Radio interference control urged in 1929 city budget
William A. Boyce Jr. asks City Controller Sterling R. Holt to include funding for two municipal radio interference engineers in the 1929 city budget. The goal is to investigate interference complaints and inspect utility lines, power, light, and the local Gamewell system to protect radio reception for residents.
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Sterling R. Holt
William A. Boyce Jr
Boyce
Holt
Kiwanis Golf Tourney Closes International Convention
Kiwanis delegates wrap up their twelfth annual international convention in Seattle with a championship golf tournament the final event of the four day program. Election of a president and next convention city were debated as final actions before the body. Samuel Cummings of Kansas City appears not to have secured the presidency, while the contest centered on Detroit and Milwaukee. A separate item reports Christine T. Lombardi of New York finding a $100 bill and seven people claiming it. a magistrate will decide ownership.
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United Press
Seattle
Wash
Kiwanis
Samuel Cummings
Kansas City
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Christine T. Lombardi
Houston Lynchers Hunted After Hospital Lynching
City and county officials pursue five to eight gang members who abducted a wounded prisoner from a hospital and hanged him Tuesday night. Robert Powell, held on murder charges against Detective A W Davis, was taken from a hospital bed and hanged. Rewards over ten thousand dollars have been offered as witnesses are questioned. The crime shocks Houston and nearby South Texas communities amid Democratic convention tension.
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Houston
Texas
City Hospital
South Texas
Robert Powell
A. W. Davis
Davis
Powell
Sunnyside Approves 30000 Bond Issue for Water Plant
Sunnyside council approves a 30000 bond issue to fund a new well, large storage tank, and extended firefighting equipment. County action includes bids, sale and construction with protest period likely delaying start until autumn.
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Sunnyside
Harry Dunn
State Tax Board
Cassius L. Hogle
State Church Body Re-Elects Officers in Indiana Session
The Indiana Council of Religious Education re-elected officers during its three day session in Logansport Indiana. William Lowe Bryan was named president with G E Bugnot and Harry Eller as first and second vice presidents respectively. A fourth vice president post was created and W B Farmer was elected. Shelbyville chosen as 1929 convention city.
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Logansport
Ind
Indiana Council of Religious Education
William Lowe Bryan
Bloomington
G. E. Bugnot
Harry Eller
Indianapolis
A. D. Gray
Richmond
G. H. Gearhardt
F. M. Dickerman
W. B. Farmer
Shelbyville
Hartford City chosen 1929 Epworth League convention city
Hartford City was selected as the 1929 convention city of the Muncie district Epworth League at its meeting. Officers elected include Miss Gertrude Crouch Fortville as president and Miss Marjorie French Alexandria as first vice president.
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Fortville
Ind
Hartford City
Muncie
Epworth League
Gertrude Crouch
Marjorie French
Alexandria
Joy Anderson
Pendleton
Mildred Cary
Ruth Clemens
Florence Schwartz
Fortvilles
Robert Hamilton
Eaton Junior League
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AL Smith
State Highway Department
Plan Big Hotel
Duneside Inn
Turkey Run
Yan Is
Claude Bowers
Hoosier
Claude G.bowers
Buddy
Lower East Side
S. S. Majestic
Cherbourg
Paris
Fletcher Place
Works Board
Oriental
Seota
Air Partners
Thea Raasche
James A. Stillman
North Star
Aviatrix
Kiwanis Golf Tourney
Stirs City
Indianapolis Water Company
Charles Brossman
Water Company
Henry Campbell
Coffin-Hawkins
William McQueen
Religious Council
Jean Riley
Leona Kramer
Fred Wyeth
George Kramer
Kramer
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