This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 32 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1925
Page
3
The Indianapolis Times reports on a sudden hog market fall prompting a lawsuit. The piece references 50 repossessed cars and an array of dealership ads amid a broader business and legal notices section.
New York May 23 Week end surveys show conditions in mercantile lines favorable against a year ago easing recession fears. Speculative sentiment remains confident but heavy weekend profit taking dampened advance as constructive operations continued in fertilizer, paper, and rail issues. Market closed lower.
Bank clearings Saturday totaled 2,597,000 with weekly clearings at 17,336,000. Bank debits Saturday stood at 5,735,000 and weekly debits reached 3,581,000.
New York on May 23 saw mixed foreign exchange activity with several currencies quoted. The report lists bids and conversions for lire marks Holland Scotland Russia Hong Kong Shanghai Yokohama and related indices, indicating steady demand and fluctuating values across major currencies.
A detailed survey describes multiple riverfront parcels in sections 14, 23, 34 and 33 of Township 35 N, Range 2 W, Second Principal Meridian. Total areas include about 273.69 and 308 acres with values around 2.50 per acre, listing conditions for bids and approval by the governor and land commission.
Cleveland May 23 market report lists fresh eggs at Northern hip extras 34 cents and Ohio firsts 32 cents. Poultry prices show fowls 27 to 28 cents, roosters 15 to 16 cents, ducks 25 to 28 cents, and turkeys around 22 to 30 cents depending on type. Butter prices include extra tub butter 44 to 45 cents, firsts 41 to 42 cents, and packing stock 24 to 25 cents. Potatoes quoted at New York 1.85 to 1.90 per top, Florida 6.50 a barrel, Alabama 8 per 100 pounds, Maine 2.15 to 2.25.
Public notices state the Indianapolis Park District will issue twenty eight thousand dollars in bonds for a reinforced concrete bridge and park improvements under Improvement Resolution No 6 1925. Bonds are 28 in number of 1000 dollars each with interest up to 5 percent semi annually. Bond sale authorized by the Board of Commissioners pending taxpayer election. Also bids invited for paving on Indiana State Normal School campus and Mt. Lebanon Missionary Church hearing notice before City of Indianapolis Board of Zoning Appeals.
Grain futures closed the week with notable gains on the Chicago board of trade. Bullish crop news propelled wheat, while Canadian frost and light snows spurred buying as shorts covered. Corn gained on wheat, oats barely rose, and provisions recovered losses amid a broad grains rally.
Primary receipts show wheat and corn figures with oats totals and shipments. Carlots for May include 125 wheat, 174 corn, and oats, with comparisons to previous periods.
Market notes show bid quotes and prices for corn oats wheat and barley from the Chicago and Indianapolis grain exchanges. Listings include No 2 and No 4 white corn No 1 red wheat No 2 white oats and mixed grain with volumes by car and prices around 1.0 to 1.15 per bushel and a clover hay price of 13.50 to 14.00 per ton.
The City of Indianapolis Public Works Board invites sealed proposals by June 1 1925 for street paving and drainage improvements on Market Street from 135 ft east of Noble Street to 300 ft east, with 5 inch asphalt paving 3 inch vertical fiber brick gutters and concrete foundation, stone curbing, and related work including catch-basins and drainage connections. Bids per Improvement Resolution No 12492 may be seen in the Board office. the city reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
A heavy run of receipts estimated at 8,500 caused a drop in hog prices by 40 to 50 cents. Hog ranges were $12.30 to $12.70 with many at $12.40 to $12.70, sows steady around $11.25 to $11.50, and light hogs up to $12.75. Cattle trade quiet with demand weak, steer ranges $7.00 to $11.50, cows $4.50 to $8, and calves down to $10.50. receipts about 400. Sheep and lambs steady but quiet with 64 head observed.
The report lists hog receipts and prices from Chicago and Cincinnati with fat cows and steers weak to steady, cattle and sheep receipts and price ranges, and regional notes from Cleveland. It notes changes from prior weeks, with better grades up modestly and many classes easing or steady.
Death notices from New York show multiple individuals linked to hospitals and conditions. Names include G tt Terhune 73 nephritis arterial sclerosis, Maye K Young 57 nephritis, Albert T Killinger 58 cerebral anaplexy, Wilhelm Aldag 64 diabetes, Sale Foxall 58 cerebral hemorrhage, James Albert Dawson infant five days supertrophied thyroid obstruction, Harriet Bartholomew 74 anemia, Sara Ramsey 58 hypostatic pneumonia.
Claude M. Worley filed seventeen affidavits in Criminal Court. Fourteen individuals including Jesse R. Clark Carl Bricker Marrietta Baker Clarence Ballard Roscoe Hark Ernest Cole Earl J. Lockhart Joseph Ballard Cleo McConnell Clarence Davidson Edward A. Pritchett Andrew Smith Lester Shue and John Tangley face charges of vehicle taking grand larceny and unlawful possession.
Indianapolis pledges drive for Indiana Methodist Hospitals needs local gifts. Arthur V. Brown, chairman of trustees, said success rests on Indianapolis contributions. Final push by workers will run the first three days next week. The drive closes Wednesday midnight. Indianapolis has given about $200,000. statewide subscriptions total around $1,000,000.
Twenty three persons pleaded guilty at arraignment before Judge Robert C. Baltzell in Federal Court. Fourteen years and 1700 dollars in sentences and fines were imposed. Only fifty three were arraigned, twenty seven from Indianapolis. Names and charges span conspiracy to forge prescriptions, narcotics transportation and sale, and illegal narcotics sales with varied sentences including a year and a day to Leavenworth for several defendants.
State police captured 32 motorists on rural roads near Indianapolis Friday night with 18 on speeding charges and 14 for auto-law violations. City police detained three suspects H A Hoover Orman Feed W B Chatman Harrison Collins. Eleven drivers faced city court fines totaling 205 dollars plus costs for light law violations and muffler offenses.
A powerful Japan quake devastates a health resort with many guests unaccounted. Rescue trains rush to the scene as traffic halts along the Sea region. Toyooka railway station and 200 homes are demolished. fires burn in seven locations. Kumihama in Kyoto prefecture is nearly wiped out as clocks halt at 11 10 a m.
Washington May 23 The American Red Cross which raised 10 million dollars for victims of the 1923 Japanese earthquake will extend relief to the current quake area if early digger reports prove true Red Cross officials in session to plan relief as official reports arrive President Coolidge as Red Cross head is expected to cable sympathy and offer aid.
Tokio dispatch reports a train near Toyooka missing and believed entombed in the collapsed Ashiya tunnel. A train near Genbudo overturned, and shafts at the Ekuno silver mine caved in, per the message.
President William Thompson of Ohio State University will retire from active service on November 6 and become president emeritus for life at a salary of $10,000 a year. After accepting his resignation, the board of trustees named him president emeritus. He will relinquish the title on his seventieth birthday. no successor has been named yet.
The State tax board reduced 1925 valuations for interurban lines by about 36 percent. Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company and Union Traction Company saw major cuts as interurbans face bus and truck competition. Total statewide interurban valuations drop to 42.46 million from 54.04 million, with specific cuts for T H I E and Union Traction.
Dr Karl Inhoff of Essen switched on the new $3,000,000 sewage disposal plant at the Sellers farm in a formal ceremony attended by C H Hurd and sanitary commissioners. The plant, praised as a premier engineering project, includes a two mile interceptor sewer under White River and is to operate continuously. Construction began four years ago and the facility is expected to yield 60,000 to 80,000 pounds of fertilizer daily according to city engineer Frank C Lingenfelter.
The bandits forced by revolver to sit on the curb looted the bank safe after 1 a.m. in Indiana. A window was broken to blast the air safe as nitroglycerin and railroad iron were left behind. Sheriff searches span Kosciusko and Marshall counties as alarm spreads.
Several couples received marriage licenses including Lloyd B. Gladgon age 23 from R. R. C. Box 118 with Frances D. Friddie age 19 of 704 N. Capital. William W. Bauermister 22 of 493 N Alabama with Doris M. Procter 21 of 2434 Cornel Edwin Whitaker. George L. and Lois O. from 209 E. Michigan and other names appear in the list.
James C. Callan local politician was held on 2500 bail after being accused of approaching juror Phillip J. Barry to influence the Shepherd germ murder trial. Barry testified Callan asked him to favor the defense. Callan denied the accusation and said he did general work for defense lawyers. Trial jury selection at Judge Thomas Lynch's court continued with four jurors sworn in and eight more to be chosen, from varied occupations including a truck driver and a florist.
Marion county posts of the American Legion prepared a county membership drive to run next Monday through Friday. An intensive house to house campaign will be conducted with special mass meetings and stunt nights. John A. Rouse, Seventh District chairman, predicted success. Statements by William P. Evans Memorial Post commander, James A. Crain National commander, and Russell Creviston National adjutant stressed civic service in peace and military service in war.
Park board members are urged to follow recreation director Ed ward E. McBride who plans a larger summer park program. He will seek approval for thirty-three playgrounds six swimming pools and two community houses plus 185 summer staff. The plan adds Christian Park Alley Hospital for Children and School 70, which had been dropped in 1924.
A PTA demand near School No 43 and the Fortieth Street community building led A Smith Bowman of the People's Motor Coach Co to file a modified petition with the public service commission. He asks rerouting buses to Thirty Ninth Street to protect kindergarteners, affecting the Meridian 8 and Kenwood avenue plan the company seeks for approval.
William H Price aged 58 brother of J W Price undertaker will be buried Monday at Crown Hill Cemetery after funeral services at 2 p m at Ragsdale and Price funeral parlors 1219 N Alabama St. He died Wednesday after more than a year illness. He was a receiver for Younger Construction Company. He was a Mason. A son Frederick another brother J G Price and sister Mrs Charles Johnson all of Indianapolis and two brothers B S Price and B H Price of Atlanta Ga survive.
The State Board of Election Commissioners forwarded to Bloomington election officials an opinion that a special primary may be held in early June to name a candidate for an office where a tie vote occurred.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.