Hotel work to continue after plan commission approval
Builders of the 3 million Marott Spink Hotel Meridian Street and Fall Creek Boulevard resume construction after city plan commission approval at a public hearing. The halt was due to technical violations on height and boulevard proximity. The commission order allows installation of storerooms with access only from the hotel and requires the surrounding lawns to remain open yards. Two property owners objected to the plans.
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Meridian St
Fall Creek Blvd
Convision
Speeders rounded up as eight motorists face charges
Eight motorists were arrested for speeding at the city jail Tuesday night. Two also face additional charges. Names and addresses listed include Robert Huffman 17 821 S Randolph St and Henry Kley 27 432 E St Clair St among others. Harry Oder 29 Edinburg Ind is charged with speeding and driving while intoxicated.
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City Prison
Robert Huffman
S. Randolph St
Henry Kley
E. St. Clair St
Brooks
Euclid
Spencer Page
Paris Ave
Charles Badgley
Lebanon
Ind
James C. Qualters
Thorntown
Arthur Queisser
Elkhart
Harry Oder
Edinburg
Auto driver escapes after collision at Kentucky and Senate
Police seek the intoxicated driver who fled Tuesday night after a crash at Kentucky and Senate Ave. He faces charges of driving while intoxicated and failure to stop after an accident. Clarence Sleet reported the incident, saying the driver fled after not paying the taxi hand.
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Kentucky
Senate Ave
Clarence Sleet
Seventeenth St
Yeggs Crack Safe At Standard Oil Office Heist
Yeggs blasted the Standard Oil office safe in Bicknell Indiana and escaped with 121 dollars. Residents heard the blast and mistook it for railroad car movement. Police investigation underway.
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Yeggs
Times Special
Bicknell
Ind
Standard Oil
Double Murder and Suicide Shocks Indianapolis Family
Coroner prepares Thursday inquest into a triple shooting at 326 E McCarty St in which William J Carpenter 62 shot his wife Adelaine 55 and stepdaughter Grace McDonough 34 then killed himself. Children Helen 10 and Mark 8 survived to recount the tragedy while relatives across states were notified.
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Helen McDonough
Mark
E. McCarty St
Paul F. Robinson
William J. Carpenter
McCarty
Carpenter
Helen
Carpenters
Lillian Butler
Detroit
Mich
Son John Works on Vacation at Plymouth Home
John Coolidge son of the President spent the vacation day in Plymouth Vermont, shingling the home of his grandfather John C. Coolidge and helping Ed Tole, the village mason, build a new chimney in Swampscott Massachusetts during the summer break.
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United Preas
Plymouth
Collins Hears Appeal On DUI Sentences
James Ahern of 133 W Twentieth St was fined ten dollars and costs and sentenced to ten days in jail after an appeal from city court where he got a similar fine and twenty days. George Davis of 937 N Meridian St was discharged on DUI and drunkenness charges. George Sims and Earl Coghill were discharged on operating a blind tiger. all appealed from city court.
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James Ahern
Twentieth St
James A. Collins
Ahern
George Davis
Meridian St
George Sims
New Jersey St
Earl Coghill
East St
Man and Boy Missing Spark Police Appeal
A 35 year old man Thomas Higney of 628 Lexington Ave and an 8 year old boy Ralph Strange of 1005 S Noble St were reported missing to police. Higney was last seen Sunday night in the 500 block on California St and the boy is described as blue eyed with light hair and a fair complexion.
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Thomas Higney
Lexington Ave
California St
Ralph Strange
S. Noble St
Auto salesman disillusioned by Indiana farm scam
H. P. Lambert of Summitt New Jersey, in Indianapolis, was duped by a man named Frank OBrien who promised him a farm share for driving him to Sultana Indiana. They picked up a 17 year old boy, left Lambert, and disappeared with Lambert discovering women’s clothes in OBrien’s possession before reporting to police.
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H. P. Lambert
Summitt, N. J
Indianapolis
Indiana
Frank O’brien
Summitt
Sultana
Ind
Lambert
O’brien
Frank
Spark from Engine Triggers$50,000 Suit in Syracuse
The Northwestern Wrecking Company of Syracuse and Hartford Fire Insurance Company sue the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for 50,485 dollars over a warehouse fire blamed on a spark from a passing locomotive. Damaged property from the blaze prompted the action.
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Syracuse
Ind
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Northwestern Wrecking Company
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Dr William C Farabee Dies at 60 Noted Anthropologist
Dr William Curtis Farabee, 60, renowned anthropologist, died in a Washington hospital. Three years earlier he contracted a mysterious illness while leading a South American expedition and endured extensive treatment including over thirty-five blood transfusions in a bid to survive.
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United Press
Washington
William Curtis Farabee
Farabee
South America
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Plan Commission
U. K
Grace McDonough
E. Carty St
Mrs. Mewborn
Mre. Carpenter
June Guthrie
Jasonville
Chester Buffington
Marion, Ind
Thomas Buffington
Smith's Row
John
Collins
Ary-Elizabeth
Mary-Elizabeth
Lambert Pharmacal Company
Saint Louis
O'Brien
ASK
SPARK
Railroad
W. C. Farabee
FAUR
Washington Street
Princess
Batiste
Palm Beach
Heaoy
Gennine Tropical
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