Indiana firms expand hiring as new coal field eyed
Monroe County Mining Company announces test drillings show large coal deposits on 138 acres, signaling potential expansion of Indiana coal output amid a broad survey of employment in five cities. Other notes include Muncie adding 2,000 jobs and 2 million dollars in wages, Studebaker departments moving to South Bend adding 1,500 workers, and multiple plants resuming or increasing operations across the state.
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Charles C. Stone
the Times
Monroe County
Indiana
Muncie
Studebaker Corporation
Detroit
Mich
South Bend
Commercial Solvents Corporation
Terre Haute
Reliance Manufacturing Company
Bedford
Bay Piano
Bluffton
Wild Cat” Company
Goose Pond
Linton
Maurer & Bugg Oil Company
Vanderburgh
Seymour
Seymour Woolen Mills
Lady Seymour
Indiana Truck Corporation
Martin O’hara
Brockway Truck Corporation
Elwood
G. I. Sellers & Sons Co
Chicago Furniture Mart
Sellers Company
Decatur
Holland-St. Louis Sugar Company
Union City
Backstay West Company
Chicago
Canada
Graham-Paige
Chevrolet
Hudson
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Kraft Cheese Company
Crawfordsville
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Mid-States
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Schendt Rubber Company
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Oper
Red Grange to Visit City Schools This Week
Grange the Galloping Ghost will visit Indianapolis for a Lyric Theater engagement and a four day football field tour. He will appear Monday at Technical High, Tuesday with Manual, Wednesday at Butler, Thursday at Shortridge, and Friday with Cathedral High students, in a miniature musical comedy titled Seventy Seven.
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Indianapolis
Lyric Theater
Red
The
Lyric
the Times
Butler University
Technical High Field
University of Illinois Pigskinsters
Manual
Grange
Collegians
Butler
Patsy Clark
Shortridge
Cathedral High
Illinois
New York
Woman dies in kerosene stove blast at Warsaw home
War sa w Indiana October 5 Mrs William Faurote 75 was fatally burned at her home south of Warsaw in an explosion that followed her attempt to start a fire in a kitchen stove with kerosene.
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Times
Warsaw
Ind
William Faurote
Here
Boy 11 Dies After Horse Kicks Him Near Winchester
Gerald E. Wolfe, 11, son of Mr and Mrs Orville Wolfe near Winchester Indiana, died from injuries after a horse kicked him. Authorities reported the accidental death on October 5.
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Times
Winchester
Ind
Gerald E. Wolfe
Orville Wolfe
Here
North Side Community Center Proposed by Butler-Fairview Club
Butler-Fairview Civic Club officials asked the park board to establish a north side community center. Park Commissioner Michael E. Foley said the board will consider the request and provide the north side community house if funds can be obtained. Foley called the suggestion deserving and said they will seek to comply. Assistant Park Superintendent George Moran recommended discharging thirty laborers to trim the payroll by about $500 a week for the winter season.
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Butler-Fairview Civic Club
Park Board
North Side
Michael E. Foley
Foley
George Moran
Leslie Campaign Says Engagements Controlled by Campaign Manager
Harry G. Leslie Republican bid for governor has speaking engagements arranged solely by campaign manager Bert C. Fuller and not by the Republican State speakers bureau. Fuller guards Leslie’s date book while public announcements may come through the publicity department. George Stout of Lafayette Journal and Courier is placed in publicity offices to prep and disseminate the nominee’s speeches. Crawfordsville note: National Horse Thief Detective Association changes name to National Detective Association due to automobiles reducing horse theft references.
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Harry G. Leslie
Bert C. Fuller
Leslie
Fuller
Publicity Department
George Stout
Lafayette Journal and Courier
Crawfordsville
National Horse Thief Detective Association
National Detective Association
Committee bans Willebrandt inquiry in race funding
The house campaign funds committee rejected 3 to 1 a Black motion to probe injecting religious issues into the presidential race and Mrs Mabel Willebrandt's activities. Willebrandt will speak next week in Kentucky and Tennessee under the Republican National Committee. Her dates include Mardinsburg Owensboro Princeton Hopkinsville and Knoxville.
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United Press
Washington
House Campaign Funds Committee Today
Representative Black
New York
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
U. S
County Road System 15 Hit at Hearing
Marion County faced tax remonstrances over a .325 cent 1929 levy including .145 general fund .125 sinking fund .03 gravel and maintenance and .025 Sunnyside Sanitorium. Taxpayers urged trimming gravel spending while supporters cited needed equipment and a patrol-like road system, with School levy discussions also ongoing.
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Marion County
Indiana
Indianapolis
House of Representatives
Sunnyside
Willis E. Nusbaum
Harry B. Meisse
Indiana Taxpayers’ Association
Charles E. Sutton
Harry Dunn
Sutton
Ptrol
Hiker 75 Keeps Love of Living Amid Long Road Trek
Jack Taylor, 75, given two months to live sixteen years ago, journeys through fifteen states and parts of Canada in a three wheeled cart with a dog named Nippy. He camps near Yankee Stadium to watch the World Series and hopes to meet Landis and Babe Ruth. He sells picture cards to cover expenses and dreams a book, cherishing the joy of living and baseball.
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Jack Taylor
Jack
Landis
Babe Ruth
Taylor
Pup
Montreal
Thoreau
A. R. Whitemob
Victor Shaw
Ferracane Plea Arguments Hear in Chicago
United States district attorney Albert Ward travels to Chicago for Saturday oral arguments on the appeal of Tony Ferracane Indianapolis Leo Stabile Jes Feldhaus and Charles Gay Louisville from their liquor conspiracy convictions in Federal Court here. Ferracane and Stabile are serving sentences at Leavenworth Feldhaus was arrested in Louisville September 28 when raiders found 270 gallons of alcohol in a hidden cellar at his home local officials said.
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Albert Ward
United States
Chicago
Tony Ferracane
Indianapolis
Leo Stabile
Jes Feldhaus
Charles Gay
Louisville
Ferracane
Stabile
Leavenworth
Feldhaus
Leslie speech attacks halos in Indiana campaign talk
Walter Myers of Indianapolis accused Harry Leslie of using Frank C. Dailey's alleged phoney halos to attack the political gang backing Leslie's bid. The remarks were made to the Womens Smith-for-President Club in Bloomington.
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Leslie Gang
Times Special
Bloomington
Ind
Harry Leslie
Frank C. Dailey
Leslie
Walter Myers
Indianapolis
Womens Smith-for-President
Seek Rate Change Sparks Indiana Chamber of Commerce Debate
The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce freight and traffic department argued against the Interstate Commerce Commission’s proposed iron and steel freight rate report citing removal of the current group system and a mileage based scheme as too high. The committee intends to seek a hearing on class rates from Indiana to southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Iron and Steel
Freight and Traffic Department
Indiana State Chamber of Commerce
State Chamber
R. B. Coapstick
Freight and Traffic Committee
Indiana
Missouri
Kansas
Rotten to the core in Logansport fire dept exposed
Loganport city council hears a scathing report from the investigating committee on the fire department. Councilman A W Jones accuses the mayor and public works board of lacking control over the chief, calling the situation a fine state of affairs.
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Logansport
Ind
Indiana
A. W. Jones
Public Works Board
Citizens to vote on incorporation of Alfordsville for electric lighting
About 300 residents in Alfordsville Ind plan to elect to incorporate the village as a town to gain electric lighting service. An engineer has platted a 24 block area for the new town.
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Alfordsville
Ind
Voters urged practice booths push gains partial victory
Civic and political groups win a partial victory as county election officials consider placing a few model voting machines in public spaces for practice. They caution against exposing regular voting equipment before Election Day. County officials split over custody and potential machine damage. Bids for election supplies were opened. awards set for Saturday.
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County Election Board
James E. Deery
George O. Hutsell
Ira M. Holmes
Hutsell
Pressing Kills Germs Plates Coats and Blankets Sanitized
Berlin scientists report that pressing coats trousers and blankets sterilizes them of disease bearing bacteria. Professor M Hahn of the Berlin Hygienic Institute notes the method safely kills germs during cleaning.
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Times
Berlin
M. Hahn
Berlin Hygienic Institute
Massachusetts Ave Merchants Plot Wider Thruway and Lights
At 635 Massachusetts Ave the Massachusetts Ave Merchants Association discussed widening the avenue from Ohio to Tenth Street, with city officials promising plans this winter and spring construction. President A. E. Chambers urged beautification and window displays to attract more customers as the group, organized Aug 15, aims for 150 members, and listed George J. Marott Charles Rauh Ervin Bettermann George L. Clark Sidney Stout and Bonnor Brown in leadership roles.
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Massachusetts Ave
George J. Marott
Charles Rauh
Ervin Bettermann
George L. Clark
Sidney Stout
Bonnor Brown
Baldness myths disputed by Prof Mildred Trotter
St Louis Oct 5 Bald men seeking hair growth by sun exposure face false hopes according to Prof Mildred Trotter of Washington University School of Medicine who has studied hair growth for years. She also says women using petrolatum on eyebrows and lashes to boost growth are deluded.
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ST. Louis
Mildred Trotter
School of Medicine
Washington University
Trotter
Dailey and Leslie flare in Indiana governor race
Republican candidate for Indiana governor Harry G. Leslie brands his opponent Frank C. Dailey as a Tammany figure and vows to present his own record in a Ft Wayne speech to be aired on WOWO. Leslie plans a prepared address crafted in Indianapolis by George Stout with adviser Henry W. Marshall.
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Times
Hammond
Ind
Tinto
Frank C. Dailey
Indiana
Harry G. Leslie
Dailey
Leslie
Tammany
Ft. Wayne
WOWO
Indianapolis
George Stout
Lafayette Journal and Courier
Henry W. Marshall
Eternal Spirit Lingers At Riley House On Anniversary
On the seventieth birthday of James Whitcomb Riley visitors will tour his Lockerbie Street home where he spent the last twenty five years. The room, mantel and desk reveal how he wrote in bed, dreaming fragments that became Raggedy Man Little Orphan Annie and other verses.
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James Whitcomb Riley
Lockerbie St
Irving
Florence Cavein
George Beeman
Lockerbie
Hewlett Howland
Orphan Annie
Armazindy
Ruling on crime quash motions set for Saturday in Indianapolis
Twelve men indicted or charged in connection with the Traugott clothing store blast face motions to quash filed Monday as Criminial Court arraigns about 70 others. Judge James A. Collins will rule Saturday on the motions amid liquor conspiracy and false personation cases involving several named defendants.
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Indianapolis
Traugott
James A. Collins
Collins
Edward Traugott
Frederick Pickles
O'Roark
Homer Wright
St. Louis
Paul Scharffin
Conrad Underwood
Marion County
Josephine Fairhead
Illinois St
Ray
Railroad) Smith
Joey Jacobson
Harry Burton
Sally Epstein
Clifton R. Cameron
Hymie Nahamis
Max Goldsmith
No Panacea for Farm Needs, Bankers Told
Philadelphia Oct 5 Dean Harry Lyman Russell of the University of Wisconsin told the American Bankers Association that no universal remedy exists for the farm problem. He warned that methods successful for Southern crops could harm Northern stockmen or Western ranchers.
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United Press
Philadelphia
Harry Lyman Russell
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
American Bankers’ Association
Robber Carnes Identified in 1913 Payroll Heist Link
Clinton Indiana police connect Atlanta church official Carnes, recently arrested in Canada and accused of misusing church funds, to a 1913 payroll robbery of the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul Railroad. Identifications by local residents follow photos released by Police Chief Wilmot Bonner. In Princeton Indiana, James W Vitito escaped during a Gibson Circuit Court delinquency hearing, aided by school attendance officer Rhoda Fithian.
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Buy Times
Clinton
Ind
Carners
Atlanta
Chicago, Milwaukee É St. Paul
Wilmot Bonner
Carnes
Canada
Timea
Princeton
James W. Vitito
Gibson Circuit Court
Rhoda Fithian
Gibson County
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