Wright trial weighs habitual criminal fate for Homer Wright
Homer Wright 27, linked to the Broadmoor Country Club holdup and an interstate gang, faced a felon in possession case as jurors were sworn. Prosecutors planned habitual criminal charges if convicted, with Wright already having two prior felony convictions and ties to the Egan's Rats gang. Police nabbed him Aug 21 in his Indianapolis apartment where a machine gun and revolver were found.
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Ira M. Holmes
William H. Remy
Wright
Edward Traugott
Edward Ewald
St. Louis
Clinton
Ind
North Alabama Street
Traugott
Broadmoor
James Walker
Walker
Charles Phayer
Phayer
Country Club
Young Men to Meet Marmon Motor Chief in Indianapolis
G. M. Williams, president of Marmon Motor Car Company, will speak to Indianapolis young men tonight at Spink-Arms to complete their organization. The talk on Indianapolis and its possibilities will be broadcast on WFBM. E. E. Whitehill, group president, will outline aims of the club with the slogan Youth must be served. Williams favors a big game hunter approach over shotgun bird hunting.
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G. M. Williams
Marmon Motor Car Company
Indianapolis
Spink-Arms
WFBM
E. E. Whitehill
Williams
Penalty Paid in Chair for Mount Union Murder
United Press reports Charles Lovell of Huntingdon County was electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary in Bellefonte, Pa., today for the April 6 murder of John P. Drake of Mount Union. The story includes stray weather data and an advertisement.
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United Press
Prisoners form a baseball team to play in Leavenworth
Eleven prisoners sentenced in a state automobile theft conspiracy head for Leavenworth with a jail yard sendoff as Eddie Traugott plans a prison team lineup. The group includes former Klansmen and various professionals, with Traugott serving as manager and shortstop. They anticipate a road season and practice before their arrival.
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HAC
Leavenworth
Kan
Omer Hawkins
Hawkins
Alfred O. Meloy
United States
Edward Traugott
Louis Windt
Chicago
Traugott
Jacob Wohlfeld
Wilborn Caldwell
Muncie
Sal Cox
Restless Sunday in North Meridian Street Scene
A bustling Sabbath in 1940s North Meridian, Indiana, with families rushing to meals and errands. Fire vehicles roar by, a peanut vendor named George Longas works the corner, and remnants of a sale tempt shoppers outside English's theater as a chilly wind bites the street.
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Meridian
New York Street
George
New York
Pennsylvania
George Longas
University Place Park
North Meridian Street
Emmy
Rabies Fatalities Reported In Indiana Youth And Tularemia Case
A hydrophobia death, 15 year old William Lowe of Crawfordsville, occurred after rabies was found in brain tissue at Riley hospital. A tularemia case involved Danville resident T. J. Shorter, reported to state lab head Dr. C. F. Adams by Dr. W. T. Lawson. Adams cautioned against infection from handling slow moving rabbits.
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State Board of Health
William Lowe
Crawfordsville
Riley Hospital
T. J. Shorter
Danville
C. F. Adams
State Laboratories
W. T
Fire damages Edgewood home with $7500 loss
A Saturday night blaze destroyed the Edgewood residence of G. A. Smith. Fire officials blamed a defective flue for the incident and estimated the loss at 7500 dollars.
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Edgewood
G. A. Smith
Harvard Coach Horween Marries After Yale Victory
Harvard head coach Arnold Horween wed Marian Eisendrath in Chicago after Harvard defeated Yale last Saturday. The couple, longtime engaged, postponed the wedding until Harvard’s victory. They and their families, both Chicago residents, were expected to arrive in Chicago the day of the report.
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United Press
Chicago
Harvard
Yale
Cupid
Arnold Horween
Marian Eisendrath
Horween
Crimson
New Haven
Eisendrath
Williams falls to death from room above feed store
Columbus Indiana William H Williams age 72 fatally injured when he fell from a room above his feed store onto the first story concrete floor in Columbus Indiana on November 26.
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Times
Columbus
Ind
William H. Williams
Winter blaze spurt as Indianapolis endures cold snap
A weekend cold wave brought 21 degree low at 7 am and 19 at 4 am. Fire dept logged 41 alarms from Sunday to today including 25 roofs fires causing about 6000 dollars in damage. Belmont Avenue church fire caused 300 dollars. several homes suffered scattered losses up to 2000 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Mercury
J. H. Armin
United States
Ender
Belmont Avenue
United Brethren Church
Miller Street
J. Burnett
King Avenue
Mary Byrne
Middle Drive
Woodruff Place
A. Rhodes
North
Kealing Avenue
J. Jones
Fletcher Avenue
Charles Stackhouse
Warman Avenue
Agnes Stromberger
Hudson Street
Brand New Idea in Thanksgiving Features
The Times launches a five part series by Bruce Catton on what Americans have to be thankful for in 1928. Today's chapter highlights prosperity gains for workers and hints at broader themes to follow on labor, social conditions, education, and health.
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the Times Today
Bruce Catton
NEA
Robs With Toy Pistol End in Romance and Downfall
Herbert Preston a 21 year old San Francisco man was arrested in New York charged with holding up taxi drivers with a toy pistol. He displayed a note about his last job and fled to a dance hall where he married Mary Mordzecka after wooing her. A detective joined the couple. Preston fled and was wounded by a bullet. He blamed romance for his downfall.
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United Press
New York
Herbert Preston
San Franciscan
Preston
Mary Mordzecka
Pennsylvania
Theater Lights Blink as Officer Bound by Robbers
Milwaukee report says Palace Orpheum sign flickered while officer Jack Sullivan, a merchant policeman, was found tied with theater tapestry cards. He escaped one arm and said four bandits seized him at the theater entrance, attempted to dynamite the safe twice, and stole $80 from the cash drawer.
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United Press
Milwaukee
Palace Orpheum Theater
Jack Sulllivan
Rides Sky to Rout School Cobwebs
Miss Anne Cornell, Latin instructor at Franklin college, flies solo in a biplane from Hoosier airport amid near zero weather, brushing away cobwebs from classrooms to dusty tombs of Cicero and Virgil. In municipal court Harry Aldridge faces assault and battery charges after a Day's casino marathon, where he danced twelve hours and used a 16 year old as partner before the manager halted the contest. He is accused by his wife Iona Aldridge of laziness and beating Friday night, with the couple living at 1716 Fletcher avenue.
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Cicero
Plutarch
Virgil
Anne Cornell
Franklin College
Miss Cornell
Hoosier Airport
Aldridge
Thirty-Eighth Street
Keystone Avenue
Casino
Southeastern
Emerson Avenues
Dan Cummings
Iona Aldridge
Fletcher Avenue
Moore
Stock seats hit new high on New York Exchange
A New York Stock Exchange membership sold for 575000 dollars today, a new record and 25000 dollars above last week’s previous peak. The sale marks continued demand for exchange seats in the current trading climate.
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United Press
NEW York
New York Stock Exchange
State to Open Bids for 68-Mile Highway Section
Bids for the first sixty eight miles of the 1929 state highway program will be opened by the state highway commissioners at the statehouse annex Tuesday, John D. Williams, director, announced today.
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Statehouse Annex
John D. Williams
Rader Preaches on Jazzamania With 100 Saxophones
Chicago evangelist Paul Rader will deliver a Thanksgiving morning radio sermon titled Jazzamania about the largest saxophone band ever assembled, as announced in the program press notice.
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United Press Chicago
Paul Rader
Chicago
Navy withdraws Bluejackets from Nicaragua for west coast voyage
The Bluejacket battalion of 326 men has been withdrawn from Nicaragua and is returning to the west coast aboard the navy vessels Vega and Kanawha, per the Navy Department announcement. In Berlin, Admiral Reihold, who led the German high fleet at Jutland, died of heart disease.
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United Press
Washington
Nicaragua
Navy
Vega
Kanawha
Navy Department
United Preas
Berlin
Reiphold
Jutland
Harmony Ills Silent Store To Harbor Gilpin Gambler
Harmony Illinois once peaceful is in a uproar after sheriff raids the general store owned by Carl Gerschel a former Bloomingdale officer. Gerschel faces gambling and liquor charges while forty farmers were jailed in a hay wagon and promised to pay fines after chores.
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United Preas
Comstock
Til
Harmony
Ill
Carl Gerschel
Bloomingdale
Garden of Eden
Cy Sanford
Woodstock
Gerschel
Woman forges path to save child from oncoming streetcar
Mrs. Mary Danna of 918 Woodlawn avenue dashed into traffic to pull her five year old son Samuel from the street as a southbound car neared. The boy stumbled on northbound tracks and fell in front of the car. Motorman Arthur Smith braked hard but could not avert disaster. A doctor treated both now and they were sent home.
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Mary Danna
Woodlawn Avenue
Samuel
Virginia Avenue
Danna
Train Kills Detective At Kokomo In Fatal Accident
Timea special from Kokomo Indiana reports detective lieutenant Isaacs F. Burns of Richmond Pennsylvania was killed after being struck by a freight train at the north limits of Kokomo when he fell from the railroad yard track.
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Timea
Kokomo
Ind
Isaacs F. Burns
Richmond
Pennsylvania
Huis
King George S Researcher Illness Worries Britain
Crowds gathered at Buckingham Palace as physicians reported King George IIs illness remained unstable. A restless night and fluctuating fever followed a day of uncertain progress with pleurisy spreading. doctors urged calm while officials briefed the public. The Duke of York and Queen consort visited, and a 11 a.m. bulletin was posted for the first time.
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Keith Jones
United Press
London
King George
William Joynson-Hicks
Sir William
Palace
Buckingham Palace
Duke of York
Piccadilly
Mary
Duchess of York
Daily Express
Prince of Wales Bags Five Lions Near Bubati
The Prince of Wales reportedly shot five lions near Bubati in the Tanganyika area of East Africa. The largest lion measured 8 feet 8 inches from nose to tail. He is in good health and enjoying his hunting holiday while the Bubati region lies about 160 miles north of Dodoma.
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United Press
Dar-Es-Salaam
Tanganyieka Colony
East Africa
Prince of Wales
Bubati
Dodoma
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Ted Baldwin
Sal’s
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Henry Slick
Madison Road
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Robert C. Baltzell
Woman's Prison
York
Neb
Alderson
W. Va
Arch Steines
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Mom
Sis
Johnny
White House
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Harry Aldridge
N. Y. Exchange
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