The Indianapolis Times masthead and policy note
The Indianapolis Times presents its masthead with Roy W. Howard as president Felix F. Bruner as editor and affirms membership in the Scripps Howard alliance and Audit Bureau. It lists publication details at 214 220 West Maryland Street and a weekly rate of ten cents locally and twelve cents elsewhere, followed by a constitutional pledge on free speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Felix .F. Bruner
Scripps- -Howard Newspaer Alliance
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Indianapolis Times Publishing Co
Maryland St
Indianapolis
Bus Fight Over Indianapolis Transit Monopoly
A public service commission dispute pits motor bus interests against the Indianapolis Street Railway Company over who should control city transit. The quarrel centers on legality and whether free competition should decide who runs buses, rather than whether either side truly serves public travel needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Motor Bus
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Peoples Motor Coach Company
Indianapolis
Abe Lincoln of the Sea sails to Europe for new seaman laws
Drew Furuseth, famed for improving sailors rights in America, plans a European mission to persuade Holland Denmark Sweden Norway Germany France and England to adopt international statutes aligned with the 1915 Seamen's Act and to enact a Magna Charta of seamen on par with the La Follette law. He argues Western nations mistreat mariners by keeping a slave clause that makes desertion illegal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Furuseth
Abe Lincoln
Europe
America
Holland
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Germany
France
England
Watson Defends Prohibition Tactics Amid Trade Commission Shift
The piece argues the Administration plans to enforce prohibition until public resistance appears and questions a new FTC stance. Led by William Humphrey, the agency pursues a hands off approach to unfair trade with publicity for offenders largely halted. A reorganization preceded a shift toward secrecy between offenders and regulators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Humphrey
Federal Trade Commission
Trade Commission
Commission
Park plan for dunes in Indiana gains support
Gaylord Nelson argues for immediate state purchase of 500 acres with options for more in the Indiana dunes to form a state park. A $1,000,000 levy funds are planned, $200,000 already available, while long delay risks erasing dunes amid rapid industrial growth and worsening grade-crossing dangers in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teen Jackson
Indiana Dunes
Hoosiers
Dunes
Removing a Death Trap at New Carlisle Crossing
Wyse has begun on grade IV separation at Death Cross i ing in New Carlisle Indiana. The four track railroad with high speed trains and two electric interurbans intersects the heavily traveled crossing, long known for deadly accidents in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Carlisle
Wyse
New Carlisle
Ind
Garbage money in Indianapolis hides a profitable waste system
The Indianapolis sanitary commission seeks an injunction to stop a private firm from collecting downtown waste while other private collectors have been ordered to desist. The disposal plant last year earned profits of ten thousand dollars over costs, selling grease and tankage totaling eighty five thousand dollars from twenty three thousand tons of garbage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Sanitary R! Commission
Sanitary Commission
Waste to Wealth: Colors, Medicines and Soap From Garbage
A concise meditation on turning waste into value, noting the rainbow of colors and medicines derived from discarded material. It highlights soap production as a tangible result of industrial reuse and frames waste utilization as the romance of contemporary civilization.
Graduation Address Credits Thinking Over Education
Homas R. Marshall urges Columbia City High School graduates to value thinking over rote learning. He contrasts modern curricula with Daniel Webster era study, critiques evolution bans in Tennessee classrooms, and warns that schools must cultivate independent thinkers rather than mere rote knowledge.
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Homas R. Marshall
United States
Columbia City
Ind
Daniel Webster
Dartmouth College
Webster
Harvard
Indiana
Air crash narrowly averted by local aviator Nelson
Edward Nelson, a La Porte, Indiana aviator, narrowly avoided disaster during a booster tour when his aircraft faced danger from Henry Ford’s Maiden Dearborn air freighter emerging from cloud. He dove beneath the giant all metal ship to avert a head on collision by inches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
LA Porte
Ind
Edward Nelson
Dearborn
Henry Ford
Nelson
Questions and Answers on History and Geography
A reader asks about Cloth Halls of Belgium their locations and purpose. The reply lists Ghent Bruges Louvain and Brussels with Ypres as notable, notes cloth halls housed cloth makers guilds and cites their medieval beginnings and architecture.
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Belgium
Ghent
Bruges
Louvain
Brussels
Ypres
Quotable Bites from 1925 Newspaper Gag Column
A collection of snappy, unsourced quips on politics work money laziness and society. Notable lines reference a 2000 weddings minister in Coweta Oklahoma a long tale of a 100 year old golf ball found at Rutgers and a defiant presidential question. Also mentions New Yorker cigar habit and a cheeky take on vacations debt and opportunity.
Tenth Concert Recital at Morris Studios Tuesday Evening
Fred Newell Morris Studios presents a Tuesday evening recital at Chapel House Tabernacle Presbyterian Church with tenors sopranos and pianists from Columbus Greensburg and local groups. The program includes operatic arias songs and instrumental pieces featuring Ruth Huffer Grace Tidball Mrs A B Grafton and others with Olga Porter at the piano.
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Fred Newell Morris
Chapel House
Tabernacle Presbyterian Church
Thirty-Fourth
New Jersey Sts
Ruth Huffer
Grace Tidball
A. B. Grafton
Anna Newell Brown
Columbus
Ross Reed
Greensburg
Dorothy Sandefur
Norna France
Bernice Church
Fred Hum
Neweil Brown
Josten
Brahms
Bernice Chure
Ballo
A Manchy
Verdi
Ieee
Cropsey
Harriet Hofer
Ruth Crail
Florence Hofer
Frederick Hocker
William and
Clarence Caesar
Lorence
Teagmo Tider
Saco
Nelson “Jolly Sales
Harvey Clarence
William Caesar
Hans and
Gretshee
Bieh
Darooy Tin
Enas
Sartorio
Helen Short
Eme Biehl
Elizabeth Hocker
Geo Waus
Piaetesh Viewegh
Gael Ean
Esther McKee
Tor City
Hugh Porter
Calvary Episcopal Church
New York City
Memorial Presbyterian Church
Westminster Guild
Oratorio Society of
New York
Irvington Concerts Highlight Local Music Week
Miss Adelaide Conte presents Virginia Mally Clarke soprano and Mildred Martinez Smith pianist in recital at Irvington Masonic Temple Thursday night. Other performances include Karl Theo Frommberg conducting the Indianapolis Saengerbund Orchestra Sunday at Saengerbund Hall, with a cast list featuring Gwendolyn Short Edward Green Norma Justice and more. Additional recitals and ensemble evenings are planned by Adelaide Conte and the Irvington School of Music with students and teachers performing at local venues throughout the week.
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Irvington
Adelaide Conte
Virginia Mally Clarke
Mildred Martinez Smith
Irvington Masonic Temple
Gwendolyn Short
Edward Green
Norma Justice
Charlotte Brown
Edwin Jones
Bernice van Sickle
Miss van Sickle
Ernestine Bradfield
Virginia Schey
Richard Lowther
Martha Mealy
Henry Marshall
Anita Wandel
Earle Howe Jones
Frances Berk
Irvington School of Music
Carol Coapstick
Helen Owen
North Side Branch Music
Thirty
Eighth St
College Ave
Mace Batt. Belee
Don Gio
CONTE
Bing
M Schubert
Jane Wiliams
Mi 1
Bizet
Helvie
Schubert
Hofman
Loraine King
Metropolitan School of Music
Odeon
Edward Nell
Voice
Nell
Helen Louise Quig
Lura Doerflin
Loretta Guedelhoefer
Susan Woodbury
Adolph Schelischmidt
Ernestine Baker
Lula Brown
Reomica Peages
Miss Baker
Quig
Giarntha Oenib Gr
Program invites public to enjoy a day of music
The public is cordially invited to a daytime program featuring selections from a listed repertoire. The event promises a varied musical offering and an open invitation to all community members to attend.
Saengerbund Orchestra Plans Anniversary Concert
The Indianapolis Saengerbund, honoring its 40th anniversary this fall, will stage a concert Sunday at 8 p.m. at Saengerbund Hall. Karl Theo Frommberg conducts. Also, May Day recital events feature Irvington School of Music pupils at Irvington Masonic Temple hosted by Miss Delgmeter and Miss Weaver.
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Caleb Mills Hall
Willard E. Tallentire
Tallentire
Indianapolis Saengerbund Orchestra
Indianapolis Saengerbund
Saengerbund
Delaware St
Karl Theo Frommberg
Margaret E. Delgmeter
T. C. Weaver
Irvington School of Music
Irvington Masonic Temple
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Gaylord Nelson
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Fred Newell Morris Studios
Dorothy Haught
Mavine Ingram
Charles J. Payne
Florence Rathert
Vera P. Nicoles
Mary H. Houdyshell
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Margaret Huston
Lee Wolf
Kathryn Scoles
Mildred Howard
Mable Rider
Grace Marcum
Ruth E. Dale
Evelyn Hall
Yvonne Percifield
Justine McCain
Max Stockton
Walter Wandel
Christina Lohrman
Grace Rose
Lorene Gra
Forshee
Saengerbund Orchestra
Helen Sommers
Irene Hoffman
Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts
HINK
Interstate Public Servic Company
Indiana Power Company
Consumers Power Co
Knox & Sullivan County Light & Power Co
Scottsburg
Bedford
Bedford-Bloomington
Intersify PLC Service Company
Wild Building
E. Market St
Interstate Public Service Company
Wild Bldg
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