Indianapolis Times masthead and motto
The Indianapolis Times announces its editorial leadership Roy W. Howard president Felix F. Bruner editor and notes its Scripps Howard alliance Audit Bureau membership and Indiana constitution quote. The paper publishes daily except Sunday from 214 220 West Maryland Street Indianapolis with ten cent weekly rates locally and twelve cents elsewhere.
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Indianapolis Times
Roy W. Howard
Felix F. Bruner
Scripps-Howard Mewurpeper Alliance
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
Maryland St
Indianapolis
Why We Don’t Understand Taxes
A reflective piece argues taxation is too complex for the average citizen. It blames a costly tax machine of city state and federal departments and a crowd of specialists. The author calls for visibility and simplicity to reveal true costs and reduce bureaucracy.
Who Are These Warring Riffians
A critique of French actions in North Africa and Rif resistance, questioning democracy, self-determination, and humanitarian ideals. The author accuses France of imperialism and calls for restraint, asking what gains justify continued bloodshed and why peaceful methods are overlooked.
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Europe
Germany
France
Africa
Ruth Page to Lead Dancer Star Tour From Indianapolis
Ruth Page Indianapolis artist to be featured leading solo dancer with Adolph Bolm and Thamar Karsavina on a continental tour beginning January 1926. The Wolfsohn Bureau, New York, announces a Russet-international company including Pierre Vladimiroff and Page, with Page gaining notice after a Chicago Bolm Ballet Intime success and a Diaghileff Ballet stint in Monte Carlo. Indiana College of Music recital in June 1925 features pupil performers under Clarence M. Weesner. Ferdinand Schaefer plans European summer study before fall return.
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Ruth Page
Indianapolis
Adolph Bolm
Thamad Karsavina
Wolfsohn Bureau
New York City
Plang
Stravinsky
Ruseitn
Diaghileff Ballet
Thamar Karsavina
Pierre Vladimiroff
Miss Page
Bolm Ballet Intime
Chicago
Monte Carlo
Quotations on Love and Life from 1925
A collection of wry maxims on marriage gender faith and work from 1925. The remarks touch on bossing women success and failure of life work matrimony and social mores. The piece ends with a copyright notice from NEA Service Inc.
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NEA Service, Inc
Grotius and Sciences Featured in Edited Queries and Answers
A reader asks about Hugo Grotius and the question leads to a discussion of his role as founder of modern international law. The column also covers religion in Czechoslovakia with Catholics dominant, Dr. Florence Sabin as first woman in the National Academy of Sciences, and a note on the weight of a cubic foot of mercury at about 847 pounds.
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Huig van Groot
Hugo Grotius
National Academy of Sciences
Washington, DC
Florence Rena Sabin
Sabin
Johns Hopkins Medical School
Baltimore
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA by GAYLORD NELSON
The piece lauds Indiana ice cream soda makers like a Gosport druggist 7 M. Cooper and other soda fountains on tourist trails. It argues prohibition failed, cites bootleggers and crime, and contrasts American fondness for sodas with European limits, noting public sentiment remains not wet.
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Ind
Indiana
Bar of Justice
England
M. Cooper
Gosport
Where Is The War Apublic Plea On National Guard Discipline
A letter questions use of jail for National Guard drill absences. The writer condemns punishing privates, notes adjutant generals claim militias may discipline, and argues confinement is excessive for peacetime absent without warrants and due process.
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OY DE Long
Indiana National Guard
Marion County
National Guard
Law Respect and Overreach Echoed by Myers at Terre Haute
Democratic mayoral candidate L. Myers critiques excessive legislation and cites disrespect for laws as products of hurried acts. He argues laws gain respect when aligned with public will and moral standards, urging lawmakers to follow public opinion rather than dictate it. Also notes a Washington dentist sued for 506000 damages over a tooth extraction.
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Myers
Indianapolis
Democratic Editorial Association
Terre Haute
America
A White Elephant Mansion Offers City Park Hope
The Laurel Hall estate near Millersville, a 658 acre grand mansion with grounds and greenhouses, is open to Indianapolis citizens today and tomorrow as Mayor Shank weighs acquiring it for a city park. The piece, valued with improvements at 1 687 500 dollars, may be bought for less, seen as a costly private showplace likely to become a park instead.
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Laurel Hall
Stoughton B. Fletcher
Millersville
Indianapolis
Shank
Frank ‘Wheeler
Riverside Park
Astor
New York
Dollar a Week Pitch Hopes to Buy Household Goods
A1925 NEA Service comic monologue shows a family debating a weekly five dollar plan to purchase a washing machine and other items. The dad hesitates while the mom and child urge agreement, recalling paid-off appliances and memories.
Washington’s Revolutionary Hero Honored by Congress
Documents released by the Library of Congress reveal Reuben Harvey, Cork merchant and consul for several nations, as a hero praised by George Washington. Washington thanked him in 1783 for aiding American prisoners and Congress resolved to transmit the thanks to Harvey for his benevolence during the war.
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Tvenwe
Ashington
George Washington
Library of Congress
Berthon Parker Harvey
Cork
Ireland
Reuben Harvey
Prussia
Sweden
Norway
Portugal
Brazil
Mecklenburg Schwerin
Harvey
Washington
Congress
Kingdom of Ireland
United States of America
G. Washington
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NEA Service
Rance
Weesner
Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts
Lucile Vivian Keller
Helen Bonnell
Paul Bechtold
Eunice Brenner
Rozella
Wild
Joan Baker
Helen Schul- Sans
Ophelia Johnston
Arabelle Chambers
Grace Parris
Mary Margaret Hill
Helen Hill
Elsie Hancock
Virginia Marcus
Ruth L. Horner
Clarence M. Weesner
College
Schaefer
Ferdinand Schaefer
Spudz
Tom Sims
Times Washington
Czechoslovak Republic
Slovakia
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
Womans Dentist
Mariel
Chine
Washington’s Letters
WFBM
Merchants Heat & Light Company Service
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