State Fair Opens With Big Turnout For Displays
The state fair opens drawing thousands to the grounds for live stock shows and household device displays. A parade of animals is planned for tonight as part of the event.
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04 Sep 1922
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Indianapolis Times in Indianapolis, Indiana
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1922
Page
1
Indianapolis Streetcar Service Maintained to State Fairgrounds
Officials said transportation between the city and the State fairground would run via the Illinois Central and College Avenue routes with cars routed across Fairfield Avenue from Thirty-Fourth Street. As many cars as needed to handle crowds will be pressed into service, and uninterrupted service north of Thirty-Fourth Street will be maintained.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Bstreet Railway
City
State Fairground
Illinois, Central and
College Ave
Fairfield Ave
Thirty-Fourth St
Opening of the State fair draws crowds to Indianapolis grounds
Thousands of residents and visitors flocked to the fairground by streetcar car and on foot for opening day. Farmers arrived with families and hampers to view farm machinery while wives eyed home appliances. The Midway bustled with curiosities, balloons, and treats as exhibitors showcased cattle swine and poultry growth. Energy-filled concerts and vaudeville will run daily and a grand horse show plus a fireworks display are scheduled. admission remains 75 cents with children under 12 admitted with a parent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Monon Bridge
Fall Creek
Dad
Cervone
Heart of China
Engine Blast Kills Two at Lehigh Valley Roundhouse
Two men died and two badly injured when the crown shield on an engine blew off in the Lehigh Valley Railroad roundhouse in Sayre Pennsylvania. The victims included a white man and a Black man. the incident occurred on September 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lehigh Valley Railroad
United Press
Sayre
Quotable Odds and Pithy Anecdotes From TOM SIMS
A collage of snippets on wages, manners, and world matters. Jocular musings touch on skirts and mice, a living wage, a mad dog, a 1929 outlook, mining, soap wraps, an actress’s life, marriage, and weather. The voice shifts across topics with witty observations.
End of Hope for 47 Miners Trapped at Argonaut Shaft
Jackson California September 4 There was no Labor Day demonstration as most miners from Kennedy and Argonaut reported to rescue crews still fighting to reach forty seven men trapped in the Argonaut shaft for over a week. Officials fear the imprisoned men are dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Jackson
Cal
Kennedy and
Argonaut
Kennedy Mine
City Council Predicts Big Cuts Likely in 1923 Budget
Councilmen forecast that the 1923 civil city budget and tax levy will face heavy cuts or be blocked. They note Chamber of Commerce recommendations totaling 136000 may be trimmed due to lack of interviews by the civic affairs committee. Some seek to block passage to keep the 1922 levy through 1923, risking chaos. Controller Hogue proposed a 1061 levy on an estimated 597.9 million valuation, yielding about 6045786, versus the 1922 levy’s 5319670.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Civic Affairs Committee
Joseph L. Hogue
Pet poodle linked to suicide pact of Hess couple
United News reports in Chicago that Jimmy the pet poodle was found dead from poison beside the bodies of Mr and Mrs William Hess in their basement on Francisco Ave. The elderly couple, listed as in ill health for months, apparently carried out a suicide pact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United News
Chicago
Jimmy
William Hess
Francisco Ave
Hess
Labor Day Parade Draws 9000 St. Louis Strikers
Four thousand striking shopmen joined St. Louis Labor Day events as banners declared opposition to injunctions and criticized railroads and safety slogans amid a large organized labor demonstration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
ST. Louis
Labor Day Parade Highlights Labor Unity And Court Hope
A Labor Day march drew over 5 000 protesters with a 400 member rail shopmen delegation carrying a simple white and black banner. Donated funds of 11 61 were tossed along the line as divisions marched to Tomlinson Hall for speeches by T N Taylor and L V Hart urging obedience to the injunction and support for labor candidates. A dance followed as parade officials led by Herbert L Wright and Wayne Williams organized the event and its committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RK. R
Tomlinson Hall
T. N. Taylor
Indiana State Federation of Labor
L. V. Hart
Will
Taylor
Hart
Herbert L. Wright
Wayne Williams
Karl Wehle
Rudy Westberg
F. M. Beckett
R. Wycoff
J. F. Ryan
D. Ramsey
C. G. McCall
Boy Drowns in River Near Ft Wayne
Floyd B. Walker a 12 year old resident of the Indiana School for Feeble Minded drowned while swimming in the St Joe River at Ft Wayne Indiana. The incident occurred yesterday under a Times Special report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times Special
FT. Wayne
Ind
St. Joe River
Floyd B. Walker
Indiana School For Feeble Minded
Indiana State Fair Monday and Tuesday Program Highlights
Opening of automobile and airplane shows and all exhibits. Music programs and band concerts mornings and afternoons. Better babies contests, horse, cattle, pig and poultry judging. Harness races with vaudeville. Hippodrome shows in Coliseum at 7 p m with livestock parade and fireworks. Purdue judging contests and state horse shoe tournament. Delights include Goer s Lantern show and Lanardo pacer exhibition mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heart of
China
Chamabter
Purdue
Poland
Geers
Lanardo
Miss Indianapolis Heads to Atlantic City Pageant
Miss Indianapolis Thelma Blossom and chaperon Mrs C Rost Eggleston depart Indianapolis for Atlantic City aboard the Keystone Express. Flowers candy gowns and gowns by Ayres mark a lavish sendoff as they receive city and state good wishes before the pageant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Atlantic City
Thelma Blossom
Miss Indianapolis
John B. Dubuc
Michael Maroney
Eggleston
C. Rost
Pennsylvania
J. C. Millspaugh
Jack Quill
J. B. Weaver
Pullman
W. T. Brown
Steamer Loaded With Arms Captured By Free State
A British destroyer handed a Cork harbor seized steamer to the Free State Government. The vessel, bound for Ireland’s west coast, left Hamburg loaded with arms and munitions believed intended for Irish insurgents. The article also details a theater party for Miss Indianapolis and a lavish Peacock Inn supper menu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Indianapolis
Mrs. Eggleston
State Theater
Peacock Inn
Illinois St
Eggleston
Herb Jennings
Dublin
Free State
Cork
Hamburg
Germany
William M. Moy
Labor Day unrest as 5000 marshals seek Daugherty injunction
The A F of L denounces the injunction while 5000 deputy marshals monitor demonstrations across cities. Hi Noonan faces contempt as he is arrested in Chicago for deriding railroad workers, with a court appearance planned. William Z Foster speaks at a Fed meeting urging unions to ignore the order. Bert M Jewell remains elusive to marshals amid conflicting whereabouts reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army OF Deputy
U.S. Marshals
United Press
Chicago
United States
Hi Noonan
Noonan
Chicago Federation of Labor
William Z. Foster
Colorado
Jewell
Bert M. Jewell
Railroad Department
American Federation of Labor
Canada
Washington
Samuel Gompers
Honorable Industrial Peace Advocated by Unions
National union leaders urged workers to organize for honorable industrial peace in Labor Day messages. Samuel Gompers called labor to rally against antilabor war as Daugherty seeks rail strike injunction, with support from Warren S Stone and John L Lewis who warned peace is essential to civilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Ashington
General Daugherty
Samuel Gompers
A. F. of L
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Bunaroque Fire Kills Seven at Railroad Shops
Seven shopmen burned to death with eleven others seriously injured after a Sunday blaze destroyed the bunkhouse and commissary at Pennsylvania Railroad shops in Pittsburgh. Five investigations proceed as sixty workers were trapped in their bunks and the structure, an old wooden and steel frame building, burned under heavy guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad
Arrest of Bud Gibson and wife in drunkenness case
Police take former political boss J. H. Bud Gibson aged 38 of 1212 Spink-Arms into custody on disorderly conduct profanity and drunkenness charges. His wife Lena Gibson was also arrested on disorderly conduct and drunkenness charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H
Bud” Gibson
Spink-Arms
Lena Gibson
Fugitive Noble Fletcher Sought in Greenfield Robbery Case
Noble Fletcher, 43, of 306 E Michigan St, arrested on a fugitive from justice charge. Police say he is wanted in Greenfield Indiana to answer robbery charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble Fletcher
Greenfield
Michigan St
Ind
Six Observers Report Various Street Scene Incidents
J M A notes six men at Alabama and Washington Streets unloading dirt from a sewer trap with tasks from sitting on a wagon to lowering a bucket. A J K witnesses a payphone collector entering a drug store spilling chocolate syrup, while others observe a boy drinking two bottles of soda on N Capitol Ave. W H sees a policeman speaking with a drunk man. A H reports a man attempting to squirt water into an open radiator cap in the middle of the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Washington Sts
Co. W. H
N. Capitol Ave
A. H
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A. F. OF
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