Big Four Route Offers Varied Vacation Trips
The Big Four Route promotes two summer travel plans to the New England, Eastern and Southeastern States. One short trip up to sixteen days with few stops, and a longer circle tour with extensive stops at reduced rates. Destinations include Niagara Falls and Virginia Beach with detailed itineraries and mixed rail and water travel options.
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Big Four
New England
Niagara Falls
Virginia Beach
Indianapolis
America
Falls
Great Gorge
Niagara River
Queenston
Norfolk
Atlantic Coast
Coolidge and Hoover Travel Plan Expands National Trips
The travel circle may shrink and cost cut by direct rail or water routes to Boston or New York, then continue to Washington and Norfolk. Southeast and regional reverse routes possible via Eastern New England and Canada. The ticket office at 112 Monument Circle offers full trip details across the United States Canada and Mexico.
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Cleveland
Detroit
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Montreal
Quebec
Portland
Boston
New York
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Newport News
Staunton
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
New England
Monument Circle
United States
Canada
Mexico
Chute Jump by Dog Opens Walnut Gardens Season
A novelty parachute leap by Billy the trained dog will open the 1928 season at Walnut Gardens on Sunday. A triple chute leap thrill is also planned. Opening day features a baseball game between the Indianapolis Cubs and Shanklin's A. C. A forty piece boys band from Coney Island will perform. Walnut Gardens sits thirteen miles southwest of the city off State Rd. 67.
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Billy
Walnut Gardens
Indianapolis Cubs
Shanklin
A. C
Coney Island
N. Y
State Rd. 67
Memorial Day Plans In Elwood Face Unobserved Day
May 26 Elwood Indiana reports no local arrangements by the G A R or American Legion for Memorial Day. It would be the first time in the town’s history without a formal observance as the national holiday nears.
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Elwood
Ind
American Legion Thussar
Michigan Lakes Described as Gems Across Western Coast
The piece extols Western Michigan lakes from the Indiana line to the Straits of Mackinac as dramatic, varied, and abundant jewels. It notes lakes ranging from tiny dots to vast sheets, visible from air travel, with Glen Lake highlighted among many rivals. It closes with an odd aside about two German schoolchildren aged 5 and 6 who are expert shorthand writers.
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Indiana Line
Straits of Mackinac
Michigan
Western
Glen Lake
Palace to Install New Cooling System at Cost Over 100000
Palace theater manager Wallace Allen says a new cooling plant will be finished in two weeks and be in operation. The system, costing more than 100000 dollars, promises even cold air with no drafts throughout the house. Next Saturday star Gilda Gray will perform in person and on screen in The Devil Dance.
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Wallace Allen
Palace Theater
Gilda Gray
New Car Gifts Frustrate Crash Victims Careful Sheriff
Hammond Indiana May 26 Mrs Esther Emery 78 and her son Will Whitney both of California were in a wreck near Indiana Harbor when their old car was crushed by a large Chicago coupe driven by J W Shipman. Shipman took them to Chicago and bought them a new car after noting their poverty. In a separate note nails spikes and other metal debris are being cleared from state highways by powerful electromagnets under trucks.
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Hammond
Ind
Esther Emery
Will W. Whitney
California
Indiana Harbor
J. W. Shipman
Chicago
Atlantic City Hall Seats 40000 at World’s Largest Hall
United Press reports Atlantic City builds the world’s largest convention hall costing about 15 million dollars. The hall seats 40 000 with unobstructed views and no pillars for the roof using ten three hinged trusses weighing 220 tons per pair. Structural totals include 12 million tons of steel 42000 cubic yards of concrete 65000 barrels of cement 25000 tons of sand 53000 tons of mining stone 2000000 square feet of concrete forms ten million bricks and three hundred sixty thousand feet of piling. Completion is set for January 1929.
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United Press
Atlantic City
N. J
Woman Fined For Brick Attack On Child In City Court
Jeffersonville Indiana May 26 Mary Green 22 Nego was fined 15 dollars in city court for hitting Kenneth Lackey 4 with a brick The woman aimed at the boy s mother who dodged into a house to escape and the brick struck the boy on the porch.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Mary Green
Nego
Kenneth Lackey
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Southeast
Niagara
Ocean View
Chesapeake Bay
Cape Henry
Ft. Story
Willoughby Beach
Old Point Comfort
Fortress Monroe
Buckroe Beach
Old Point
New York Central
Lie Circle
Coolidge and Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Coolidge
Black Hills
South Dakota
Hoover
Pennsylvania
Dodge
Vonnegi
Vonnegut
Sterno
Pan
Tray
Heat
Baseball
Kampkook
E. Wash. St
Playground of Nation
Germany
Wawasee
Indi
George Stcherban
His
Petrushka Club
Gypsy Orchestra
Leonard Hicks
Hotel Lorraine
Walter L. Gregory
Palmer Howe
Wawasee, Indiana
Eest Argent Hel Lake
Atlantic City Hall
Sandy Beach Resort
Dewey Lake
Dunagher
Pacific Coast
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Tacoma
Seattle
Circle Tours
Hudson River
Mackinac Island
Topinabee
Grayling
Indian River
Cape Cod
Plymouth
Gloucester
Nantucket
Marblehead
Mass
Rockland
St. Lawrence
Bala
Muskoka Lakes
City Ticket Office
Union Station
J. N. Lemon
TIMES
Kner Boiss
Willis-Knight
Willys-Knight
Willys-Overland
Toledo
Ohio
Willy S- Knight
Capitol Motors Company
Capitol Avenue
Michigan Streets
Gibson Bldg
Phillips Haynes Auto Sales, Inc
West Michigan Street
Lohzman Sales, Inc
East
Washington Street
C. L. Scott Whippet
Knight Sales
North Meridian Street
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