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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1924
Page
4
Smiths top the 1924 Indianapolis directory from R L Polk Co with 2 262 entries followed by Johnsons 1 404 Joneses 1 370 and Browns 1 226 Alza Aaron 1218 Deloss St listed first and Elie Zyker 647 Maxwell St last Directory size notes population gains and a wealth of civic data including finance, housing, industry and transportation figures from 1923 totals and city institutions.
Excavation ongoing for the north pier of the new county bridge over Fall Creek at Delaware Street. Steam shovels work on the south bank while a cofferdam supports foundation. The widened Delaware Street will create a major north south thoroughfare.
Indianapolis woke to a cold wave with 44 degrees at 7 am, 17 degrees below normal. Frost potential Sunday, with a low around 3 or 4 degrees and rain totaling .18 inch last night. monthly rainfall 2.54 inches, about .25 inch below average.
A cigar salesman sold x cigars in week one. He then sold x plus 7000 in week two, and 7000 more each new week for weeks three to five. The total over five weeks is 100000. Solve x plus (x+7000) plus (x+14000) plus (x+21000) plus (x+28000) equals 100000, giving 5x + 70000 = 100000, so x = 6000.
A partial OCR note on the book title reveals the classic Kipling work The Light That Failed. It discusses missing letters filled to form the proper author and title.
The Indianapolis Speedway management announced an added purse of 10000 dollars for the International 500 mile race next Friday. It will go to drivers who do not participate in the 50000 dollar purse for the first ten finishers, distributed in proportion to laps driven. This marks the first time cash prizes are awarded to losing entrants. Total race purse nears 100000 dollars with other sponsors.
Clarence Yockey of 1632 Roosevelt Ave. is in the city hospital today with a knife wound in the abdomen. Fred Butcher, 29, also of the same address and a brother in law, is charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Police say Butcher was intoxicated.
Doris Keane, who has been acting in a revival of Romance in Los Angeles since Welted closed, will tour the Keith and Orpheum circuits this summer with a sketch from the German.
H E Negley president of A R Home Association asks for cars to transport veterans and wives to Crown Hill cemetery on Memorial Day from Illinois and Michigan Streets to the G A R Home at 512 N Missouri Street. Coffee and sandwiches will be provided. Notify Miss Bolander at Main 857 to supply vehicles and mark cars with a G A R card.
In open hearings Senator Norris of the Senate Agriculture Committee says he is the target of a blackmail plot linked to his opposition to Henry Ford's Muscle Shoals offer. Mrs B A Edmundson of Decatur Alabama testified at Senator Heflin's request, but Norris accuses her of instigating the plot and of falsely accusing him of kissing a girl at Muscle Shoals.
Attorneys for the public service commission State Chamber of Commerce and twenty one railroads agreed after a hearing before Superior Judge Linn D Hay that coal freight rates between Indiana points would not drop before July 1 at the earliest. The railroads sought an injunction to block the new rates and Judge Hay took the case under advisement.
A free eye clinic opens Monday at 8 a m in Lincoln under the Indiana Association of Optometrists. It offers free eye examinations for those unable to pay. The organizing committee includes H E Woodward C M Jenkins J H Hammond all of Vincennes H A McDaniel Lebanon James L Wolf Franklin M A Bixler Decatur John H Ellis South Bend and L N Winebrenner Muncie.
Dr. Emiy Lukenbill of 219 Bankers Trust Ride was arrested after an accident at New York and New Jersey Streets. Miss Lillian Whitsett of 235 N. Tuxedo Street rode with William Williams. both were cut about the nose. Clarence Barcus of 1496 N. Lineis Street and Joseph Welling of 2604 Ashland Avenue were cut by flying glass when a taxi was struck by a southbound auto driven by a minor of 426 Fayette Street on Meridian Street.
Hendricks County observes its one hundredth anniversary with a postponed Friday pageant rescheduled for Community Park in Danville. Over 1,000 cast members take part while a Friday night recital, a Red Men drill, and a noon pitchin dinner draw thousands. Indianapolis delegates join the celebration, with city officials and lawyers among the guests.
Eugene C Foster director of the Indianapolis Foundation and Frank L Jones president of the Indianapolis Association of The Underwriters spoke at a Lincoln luncheon Friday.
Meet the world's first official feminine baseball scorekeeper. Alive Carey of the University of California writes for the college paper and handles ABs errors hits and assists as capably as male veterans. She plans to keep sport writing under the name Al Carey after graduation.
Robert M. Feustel president of the Indiana Service Corporation estimated property damage at 17 000. He said death and injury claims may exceed 25 000 and will be covered by insurance after the Roanoke interurban wreck last Monday in which five people were killed.
Three Indianapolis youths Abe Simon Anthony Guerrie and Fox Thompson are identified as members of the local Boys Club in a community report. The piece highlights their activities and involvement with youth programs in the city.
The club will leave the city next Saturday on a motor trip to Pittsburgh for the national convention of the Boys Club Federation. Superintendent Will Wertz will accompany the boys.
Crawford Fairbanks 81 a wealthy Indiana capitalist and former Democratic power is ill in his hotel room in Terre Haute after weeks of indisposition. The public figure is considered one of the state’s wealthiest men.
Crawfordsville street car No. 240 known as the Yellow Peril has had a stormy career with incidents including a collision with a truck that left windows broken and a later crash into a fire truck. Driver G. B. Guire is nearly recovered from a horse bite to his shoulder and is expected back at work soon.
The Franklin College class of 92 holds its ninety second commencement with 28 men and 24 women receiving degrees. Notables include Dr Arnold Bennett Hall of Wisconsin and Hillsdale College leader William Gear Spencer. Activities include senior class day, May Queen Mary Miller, and play Cappy Ricks at Artcraft Theater.
The American Lumberman reports quiet lumber markets with the South busiest, midwest and eastern construction fair, dealers cutting stock and taking small orders. Industrial activity slows, prices ease favoring buyers, and outlook hints at gradual improvement after Congress adjourns. Southern pine and Douglas fir steady. hardwoods show mixed demand with lingering shortages in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Am herst residents hunt the slayer of Louise Gerrish, 19, whose body is found in a shallow grave. Mrs Woodrow Wilson suffers a slight shoulder fracture from a fall. Bandits rob the State Bank of Burbank Oklahoma for the second time in three days. William Jennings Bryan named vice moderator by Presbyterian Church leaders.
William Fox to produce a special motion picture for the coming season adapted from John Fleming Wilson story and Jules Eckert Goodman stage play. George OBrien stars with Dorothy Mackaill opposite him. cast includes Cyril Chadwick Ralph Lewis Emily Fitzroy and Harvey Clark.
Georgia Whitaker found Evelyn Hazelman in her room at 5651 Warren Ave with a note claiming death by own action. Hazelman fainted but revived. doctors found no poison. Police say the incident was prompted by a love affair hoax.
A National Electric Light Association survey projects vast development in northern Indiana over 30 years with giant electric generating stations near Lake Michigan and the Wabash and St. Joseph rivers. Indianapolis is named a major future power center as railroads reach electrified terminals in the Chicago district. New York leads gas manufacture at 21 percent of U.S. output.
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