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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1930
Page
2
Berlin voices a potential race with Britain for Asian minor air routes as Germany plans aviation subsidies over $1 million above 1929 outlays and Britain approves a ten year air transport subsidy bill exceeding $5 million annually.
Departmental intermediate chorus from School 72 on Troy and Carson avenues presents a May day cantata titled The May Queen in the school auditorium at 1 45 p m and 7 45 p m Approximately 200 pupils perform under director Miss Ruth Gorman with proceeds benefiting the Parent Teachers Association The article also notes a historical reference attributing gunpowder’s invention to Berthold Schwartz the German monk between 1320 and 1354.
Jolson returns to minstrel style in Warner Brothers Mammy opening Saturday at the Apollo. The film, partly in technicolor, is directed by Michael Curtiz and co-stars Lowell Sherman Louise Dresser Lois Moran Hobart Bosworth and others. Irving Berlin contributed songs and music.
In Chicago on May 16 a steel worker shot his wife and two sons after receiving an interest notice on a $100 loan she used to buy a kitchen stove. The 14 month old boy died, the mother and two sons are in critical condition at Roseland hospital, the daughter was outside. The husband escaped.
An advertisement extols Konjola a 32 ingredient medicine claiming lasting relief for indigestion stomach liver kidneys and rheumatism based on trials and a testimonial from Mrs Rosa I Nelson of Indianapolis. It urges readers to visit the Konjola Man at Hook Dependable Drug Store Illinois and Washington streets Indianapolis to hear the full story and try the product.
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