Effrontery That Amazes and Other Indiana Editorials
The Indianapolis Times argues Republicans seek re election on records of mis management and lax state governance. It praises Clark as Mexico ambassador and criticizes highway and school fund handling. Also notes unemployment concerns, business mood, and the sinking of the last Great Lakes windjammer Our Son and Italy’s high speed traffic under Mussolini.
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Indiana
Board of Acts
Great Lakes
Ocean
Detroit
St. Clair
Middle West
Fish Finds Communists Weak as Probe Opens in San Francisco
Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, chairing the house red investigating committee, reports plenty of communist activity but not a menace. He prepares a two day inquiry in San Francisco to study western industries and perhaps the Mooney Billings case. The piece notes fear of unemployment as a major, pervasive worry.
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Hamilton Fish
New York
House Red
Fish
San Francisco
New York Statesman
America
Dispatches
Mooney-Billings
Cleveland
Morak
Harry R, M‘phiase
Covington, Ind
Jones tops North in golf and Roosevelt eyes 1932
A satirical collage cites Robert Tyre Jones of Atlanta as leading golf champions while predicting Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 New York governorship and a presidential nomination. It also notes Hazel Groves’s memory lapse recovery and other assorted political and sports quips.
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Georgia
Robert Tyre Jones
Atlanta
North
Hazel K. Groves
East Chicago
Ind
Ranklin Roosevelt
New York
Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Heavens Present Sights of Rare Beauty This Autumn Nights
Astronomy column notes at midnight show Mars and Jupiter rising with Castor and Pollux in Gemini and Orion visible. Jupiter shines brightest as Mars reddens. Venus sets early. Castor is a four-star system, Mars and Jupiter reflect sunlight while Castor and Pollux are true suns.
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Mars
Jupiter
Castor
Pollux
Orion
Venus
Astor
Gemini
Hercules
Apollo
Leda
Zeus
Juno
Jimming
Earth
Henry Norris Russell
Birth of John Hay Highlighting Career and Life
The entry recalls John Hay born October 8 1838 in Salem Indiana. A Brown graduate and Lincoln confidant, he served as secretary of state and ambassador to England. He helped shape open door policy in China and led efforts toward the Panama Canal era. He died in 1905.
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John Hay
Salem
Ind
Brown University
Springfield
Ill
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
Washington
Lincoln
Hay
Paris
Vienna
Madrid
New York
McKinley
England
Great Britain
United States
China
Orient
Panama Canal
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Prison Set For Film At Long Beach Factory
The motion picture The Big Hosse was filmed using the Pacific Woolen and Blankets Works factory at Long Beach California as a prison setting. Bars were placed on the windows to resemble a jail, and the workers portrayed convicts inside the jute mill.
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Pacific Woolen and Blankets Works
Long Beach
Cal
Goggles Save Sight in Industry Eyes Hazard Study
Dr Morris Fishbein reports on a National Society for the Prevention of Blindness survey of 1,800 plants during 1927. Glass goggles prevented eye injuries in 583 plants saving nearly 20 million dollars by avoiding blindness through shattered lenses and molten splashes.
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National Society For the Prevention of
State police under fire in Indiana letters to editor
Readers condemn the state police for political involvement and inefficiency. A critic cites road danger from unlit trucks and claims police neglect at night, while alleging officers show bias during campaigns. A second writer blames autos for crime and economic imbalance, calling the car a curse. Additional letters reminisce on 1893 hardship and criticize lenient punishment for a hit and run.
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Times
Indiana
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Milo Hershey
D. C. Stephenson
Hamilton County
Joseph Shinn
Coffin
Secretary of State
Answers and Questions About Railways and Etiquette
The text presents trivia on United States rail mileage 249,309.48 miles and a historical steamer Merida sinking on Oct 20, 1918 with twenty lives lost. It asks what anchovies are and notes greeting customs among Eskimos Polynesians Laplanders and Tahiti natives. It defines thoroughbred as lineage recorded in stud books across generations.
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United States
Merida
Lake Erie
Tahiti
Welch's Grape Juice Roots in Westfield Plant History
The Westfield plant along Route sixty miles from Buffalo to Erie produces about 11 000 tons of grapes yearly and 2 500 000 gallons of juice sold in America and 61 foreign countries led by China. Dr Welch, a dentist, founded the business to meet sacramental wine needs and abstinence ideals, reallocating much profit to missionary work. He died about four years ago and the firm operates three other plants in Pennsylvania Arkansas and Michigan. The piece notes grape juice as a pre Prohibition product and reflects on its place in the machine age.
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Buffalo
Westfield
Erie
Lake Chautauqua
Welch
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Michigan
America
China
United States
Dr. Welch
A History of Alcohol and Temperance in Human Affairs
A reflective essay traces alcohol's role from ancient times to modern reforms. It notes how civilizations both embraced and regulated drink, linking temperance to law, power, and social control while warning against moral coercion in pursuit of virtue.
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Marion County
Roy W. Howard
Clark
J. Reuben Clark
Mexico
Dwight Morrow
Teresa de Prevost
Clairgs
State Department
5Ry Knox
Mexico City
Morrow
Hoover
Industrial Conference Board
Deak Lane
Italy
Mussolini
Frederick Landis
John W. Wesley
France
Pete” Alexander
St. Louis Cardinals
Charles Lathrop
George Washington
David Dietz
Caster and Pollux
Daily Thought
Addison
Boorieaaa
Daily Health Service
Morris Fishbein
The
American Medical Association
Hygeia, the Health Magazine
Times Voice
William Cooprider
Clay City
J. J. Henning
Uncle Sam
New York Avenue
Washington, D. C
Bulletin
M. E. Tracy
Tartary
Caesar
Gaul
Julius Caesar
Farmers Trust Cosh Rasy
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