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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1929
Page
16
In Rome May 31 United Press reports bishops campaign against immodest fashions expands with industrialists threatening employment over skirts four inches below the knee. Genoa youths form group to shun indecent dress while Loreto diocese posts church door notice barring women not fully covered from entering.
Butler University hosts a June day festival replacing the usual pageant with Shakespeare's As You Like It performed by Trespis at the outdoor campus theater. The program includes tennis finals swimming archery a faculty baseball game a noon Butter Glider Club exhibition and a 1 PM band concert followed by the Thespis production and ends with an all school dance at the Claypool hotel.
Jewelry valued at 1020 dollars stolen from Herbert W. Alford home on North Pennsylvania. Burglars entered through a rear window. A cafe on Massachusetts avenue lost 10 dollars from a broken rear door panel. A vegetable stand on North Illinois street reported 12 dollars from a cash register. Hotel room robberies noted with 12 dollars, a wrist watch, and clothing from a trunk at Washington hotel. Items worth 375 dollars taken from a cafe on the National road.
Chaplin is ill with lumbago and confined to his home delaying production on his new film. United Press reports from Hollywood that the comedian has fallen back to rest at his residence, postponing studio work and schedules.
Mrs. Mable Adams and her son Marion were injured when Frank Adams’ car collided with Earl Hill’s at Sixteenth and Haugh streets about 8 30 this morning. Hill’s vehicle stopped on a lawn after the crash.
Pentecost observance set for Tuesday at Central Christian church. The Indianapolis Christian Church Union sponsors the Marion county rally with speakers including Rev. Mrs. Effie L. Cunningham and Rev. W. G. Loucks among others.
Adolph Sadowski aged 12 was struck in the eye by a ball driven by Salem Smith at the public links in Richmond Hills and died. Smith was not arrested.
Funeral services were held for Henry D Pierce at 1450 North Meridian street. Pierce died May 23 in Atlantic City New Jersey. The Rev Jean B Milner of the Second Presbyterian church led the service. Burial was set for Crown Hill Cemetery.
Igor Sokoloff, a cellist with Capitol Theater orchestra and brother of Nicolai Sokoloff, conductor of the Cleveland Symphony, died Thursday in New York by turning on gas in a furnished room. The death is reported from New York.
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