Just Like Jim and the Indiana Farmers
An Indiana Times opinion piece questions farmer relief and tariff policy, linking Senator Watson to broken promises and political stagecraft. It recalls Watson’s World Court stance and primaries, and reflects on the farm lobby and public trust while noting a veteran soldier’s widow in New York who found strength by casting bitterness aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
Indiana
Watson
Congress
World Court
Coolidge
White House
Watsons
Senate
Steel
Supreme Court Deliberately Delays Key Senate Inquiry Rulings
The piece critiques the Court for delaying decisions on two high profile cases the FTC power to compel trade information and the Wheeler Daugherty inquiry. It notes eighteen month delays, pressure on the Court from divided justices, and the Senate’s powerful investigative role being questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
Federal Trade Commission
United States Senate
Commission
Senate
Supreme Court
Daugherty
Wheeler
Department of Justice
Harry Daugherty
Washington Court House
Ohio
Mal” Daugherty
Harry
Daugherty Brothers
Woodrow Wilson
Adams
Secretary of the Treasury
Mrs Custers Secret on the Hudson Civil War Romance
The item recalls a romance from sixty two years ago on the Hudson between a West Point soldier and a young woman who married during the Civil War. The soldier earned a general’s rank after notable battles from Gettysburg to Appomattox and served in the West amid railroad expansion and hostilities with Native tribes.
Crooked Elections Prompt Call for Responsible Authorities
An editorial accuses the grand jury of missing the true perpetrators behind primaries frauds and urges organizing citizens to curb election crooks. It links fraud to a machine-dominated government, questions accountability, and calls for the next grand jury to name the powerful handlers rather than the tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Jury
Opinion on Government ownership and post office deficits
A collection of brief observations arguing the politics of government enterprise, noting the post office deficit, 1928 budget promises, Muscle Shoals debate, a bridge expert lecture, a New York cartoonist suicide attempt, Ford on change, and a Florida senator’s wife testimony about a medium and a lost violin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Post Office Department
Post Office
Federal Treasury
Lord
Florida
Be Yourself by Mrs Walter Ferguson
A defense of old fashioned integrity and individual conviction against fashionable decadence. The author argues that many fear voicing beliefs and urges girls to hold to their own modest standards and not abandon their honest views for popular trends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Walter Ferguson
Boston's changing trade winds and bold cash abroad
The Boston article notes the city shedding Puritan roots and expanding into wider commerce. It cites declines in traditional New England industries, rising national and global investments, and a cautious mood among politicians about local business prospects. It mentions John F. Fitzgerald urging citizen engagement and discusses Ponzi schemes and novel navigation tools like the sun compass.
Brown of Harvard and Good and Naughty in Ohio and Apollo bill
Film notes praise William Haines in Brown of Harvard with Jack Pickford and Mary Brian as standout cast members. Pola Negri stars in Good and Naughty with Ford Sterling and Tom Moore, while Norman Kerry leads The Love Thief at the Colonial. all venues include comedies, news reels, and musical features.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter D. Hickman
Ann
Brown
Harvard
William Haines
Tom Brown
Jack Pickford
Willam Haines
Haines
Freship
Freshie
Tom
Hooch
Doc
Mary Brian
Mary Alden
Francis X. Bushman Jr
Bill
Helen and Warren
Joe Wong
Ohio
Ey A
Pola
Tom Moore
Ford Sterling
Stan Holmes
Lester Huff
Emil Seidel
Dolly Gray
Ralph Duncan
the Apollo
Readers Voice Against City Market Plan in Indiana
A Times reader denounces a proposed 1,000,000 market house as wasteful, blaming high taxes and monopolistic pricing for economic decline. He urges restraint, warns of police and state tax consequences, and laments government extravagance harming taxpayers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Times
Indiana
James M. Gatiss
Detour
A humorous travel lyric by Hal Cochran celebrates road trips and family car voyages away from the city. The open road offers beauty and freedom until a detour sign interrupts the idyll, forcing a shift from carefree cruising to caution and implied challenge.
Keith-Albee Plans European Tour and Debuts
Edward Darling, Keith-Albee booking director, sails to Europe to seek material for the circuit and to confer with Max Reinhardt in Germany possibly bringing a major spectacle next season. Ruth Chatterton and Ralph Forbes debut in Keith-Albee vaudeville with The Conflict. Albert Lewis presents Lew Welch and George Bickle in a condensed musical version with a 15 member supporting cast. Mary Eaves launches another vaudeville tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward ¥. Darling
Europe
Max Reinhardt
Germany
Ruth Chatterton
Ralph Forbes
Vincent Lawrence
Aaron Hoffman
Keith Albee
Albert Lewis
Lew Welch
George Bickle
The Very Idea of Keeping It From You
A 1926 NEA humor piece on mood shifts and optimism, noting that setbacks trigger worry yet endurance brings a smile. It contrasts blue and pleasant sides, jokes about married life hidden money troubles, and ends with a quip about keeping secrets from a wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEA Service, Inc
Movie verdict and love theme in 1920s fare
Ohio review hails Brown of Harvard as a pleasant college life film with Jack Pickford and William Haines. Colonial displays Greta Nissen and Norman Kerry in The Love Thief with warm romantic demonstrations. Apollo finds Good and Naughty clever light entertainment with Pola Negri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Brown
Harvard
Jack Pickford
William Haines
Greta Nissen
Norman Kerry
Apollo
Pola Negri
Question and Answer from the Indiana Bureau page
A reader quiz page covers fertilizers like bonemeal humus and nitrate of soda and asks about Adam and Eve's sons. It answers about Levelers Come-outers ambassadorship three elements in US appointments and other topics including poison ivy, The Four Horsemen film, The Apocalypse, leather protection, Norma Talmadge and Constance Talmadge, and Peace Conference languages.
New Art Commission and Shubert Revue News
Hungarian artist Andor Novak is hired to paint twelve bas relief works for the Winter Garden lobby with twelve young women from The Great Temptations to model. One piece already graces the lobby as the others are completed. Fivelyn Herbert of The Merry World has a three year contract extension with the Shuberts. The next Shubert revue will be A Night in Paris with rehearsals starting July 15. Cast includes Jack Pearl Marty ONeal Ruthe Ann Watson and Loretta Rhodes from A Night in Paris at the Casino de Paris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George A. Custer
Cashes
Worcester
John F. Fitzgerald
Boston
Democratic Party of
Massachusetts
New England
Fitzgerald
Poizi
Houston
Texas
Binford
Russell Scott
Harry Stoddard
Circle
Stoddard
Pell St
Mulberry S&t
Italy
Broadway
Aes
Walter Pidgeon
Miss Nobody
Louise Fazenda
Mitchell Lewis
Clyde Cook
Arthur Stone
Circle All Week
the Observer
Andor Novak
Winter Garden
the Great Temptations” Company
Fivelyn Herbert
Merry World
Imperial Theater
the Messrs. Shubert
Shubert
Paris
Jack Pearl
Marty O'Neal
Ruthe Ann Watson
Loretta Rhodes
Gasino de Paris
Army Relief Fund
Omeers’ Club
Governors Island
Mrs. Summerall
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Indianapolis Times
Roy W. Howard
Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Audit Bureau of Circulations
WM. A. Mayburn
Mgr
United Press
NBA
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
Maryland St
Indianapolis
Wilbur C. Whitehead
Detroit
Ford
Tracy
Back Bay
M. E. Tracy
Lowell
Cabot
Pittsburgh
Dakotas
California
Hong Kong
South America
United States
Byrd
North Pole
U. S. Bureau of Standards
I . Pola
Kerry
Faust
Persod
Miss Nissen
Valentino
Arthur Lake
Times
English
Earth's
Uptown
Buck Jones
Isis
Lyric
Palace
Anna Q. Nilsson
Hal Cochran
Keith-Albee
Mary Eaves
Houser
Indiananaliq Bureau
Newton
Adam
Eve
Cain
Abel
Seth
Oliver Cromwell
Rex Ingram
Rudolph Valentino
Alice Terry
Talmadge
Norma Talmadge
Constance
Norma
Joseph M. Schenck
Capt. Alstair
William MacIntosh
Conestance
John Pialoglou
Shuberts
Gertrude Burecell
Voltaire
Billy B. van
Mr. van
Emily Boreo
Park Ave
Grace Glover
Sne
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