Get-Rich Scheme Exposed For Local Investors
A Louisville Times investigation uncovers a Boston funded ruse using the Ford name to push “bankers’ shares” in a Hoboken based outfit. The scheme, run by Arthur Marshall, offers $750 a Ford share via a $7.50 hundredth share, with New Jersey blue sky laws permitting it while New York court actions chase the promoters.
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Lebanon
Ford Motor Company
Louisville Times
Louisville
Hoboken
N. J
United States
Kentucky
Eastern National Company
Canada
the Times
New Jersey
Arthur Marshall
New York
Ford
Marshall
Henry Ford
Kutz Sentenced to Reformatory for Grand Larceny
Evert Kutz, 22, of Kirklin, pleaded guilty to grand larceny in Boone circuit court and received a term from one to fourteen years in the Indiana Reformatory. He was arrested June 10 for the theft of a cow from Ed Linton near Slabtown, while J. A. Staton serves a prior similar sentence in the state prison.
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Evert Kutz
Kirklin
Indiana Reformatory
Boone
Kutz
Ed Linton
Slabtown
J. A. Staton
Ruby Shelburne files action for divorce
Ruby G. Shelburne of Zionsville sues Gerald S. Shelburne for divorce citing cruel treatment and seeks restoration of her maiden name Ruby G. Hoover. She works as a filing clerk for Indiana's Industrial Board. Attorney Roy W. Adney represents her.
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Ruby G. Shelburne
Zionsville
Gerald S. Shelburne
Ruby G. Hoover
Industrial Board of
State of
Indiana
Roy W. Adney
Man Freed After Serving Six Months For Two Wives
Evansville Ind July 7 Charles Vaught left the state farm after a six month sentence for having two wives He re married the second wife both wives had divorced him after his sentence Vaught had drawn attention as a financier supporting both wives and an automobile on thirty dollars a week
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Evansville
Ind
Charles Vaught
Indiana State Farm
Vaught
Dayton Brushing Up as Time Nears for Scopes Trial
Dayton Tennessee prepares for the Scopes trial as Judge Gore denies an injunction. William Jennings Bryan is due to arrive at 12:20 p.m. with fanfare planned including a station turnout and a brass band. Bryan will speak tonight as Rhea County readies for the high profile court event.
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Dayton
Tenn
Robinson’s Drug Store
Gore
John T. Scopes
William Jennings Bryan
Rhea County
Bryan
Stephenson Case Delayed by Hamilton County Court
Indianapolis July 7 A council of war was held today by attorneys for D C Stephenson former grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry to consider further legal moves. Immediate trial in Hamilton county court at Noblesville on charges of murdering Miss Madge Oberholtzer was blocked when Judge Hines adjourned court until October after a day of bitter argument over trial order.
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Indianapolis
D. C. Stephenson
Indiana
Ku Klux Klan
Earl Klenck
Earl Gentry
Hamilton County
Noblesville
Madge Oberholtzer
Hines
Brokerage Firm To Be Reopened Today
Chicago July 7 Re opening of the Dean O Nativia Brokerage firm which closed last week with liabilities of 35000000 was anticipated after conferences that raised capital to meet creditors demands. Failure was expected to have little effect on the stock exchange or creditors with rehabilitation in sight. Creditors reportedly pledged 20 percent of claims and friends subscribed 300000 for outstanding obligations.
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Chicago
Dean O’nativia
Stock Exchange
Friends of the Pompany
Enoug
Search for girl who answered ad in Terre Haute
Terre Haute Indiana July 7 police opened a belated search for girls who answered a local newspaper ad seeking six young women to meet “Mr C C Wells” at a hotel Maurine Bent ley 16 disappeared a week ago and has not been seen since no forwarding address was found among responders
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Terre Haute
Ind
Maurine Frances Bentley
Police Today
Maurine
C. C. Wells
Rum ships seek to land liquor near White House
Swampscott Massachusetts July 7 coast guard destroyers move to battle the rum fleet off the rock bound coast while dry navy boats hover between ships rumored to target landing liquor near Mr Coolidge's summer home at White Court. Local authorities had recently raided a $30 000 bootleg cache near rose gardens and say smugglers seek a victory by landing liquor near the president's summer residence.
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Swampscott
Mass
White Court
Coast Guard
White House
Mr. Coolidge
Massachusetts
Officers Probe Gruesome Death in La Salle County
La Salle Illinois July 7 police and county authorities work with the coroner to solve a murder of 17 year old Marie Sejack found by a roadside. Autopsy shows skull fracture and two buckshot wounds with a vermouth bottle nearby suggesting no criminal assault.
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la Salle
Ill
LaSalle County
Marie Sejack
French in Morocco face tense Taza stand against Krim
Paris reports French HQ in Morocco struggles to hold tribes near Taza amid the Abd el Krim clash. Fez dispatches say Taza is a cloud on the horizon as troops may side with Krim or France, threatening France’s position in the Rif region.
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Paris
Morocco
Taza 'Oyal
France
Fez
United Press
Taza
Abd el Krim
Krim
Half Day Slowdown On 25 Mile Holiday Drive
Holiday traffic on the Dunes highway Gary Indiana which links Chicago with northern Indiana and Michigan stretched to half a day for a 25 mile trip as 85 000 automobiles jammed the route for five days the greatest volume ever recorded.
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Gary
Ind
Chicago
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan City
Oldest Boone County paper contest lead taken by TS40
Tuesday's paper shows TS40 leading The Reporter contest for the oldest newspaper. George B. Loveless of Thorntown displayed The Log Cabin from 1840 Defiance Ohio and four other copies. The prize is a year's subscription.
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Boone County
George B. Loveless
Thorntown
Defiance
Ohio
North Street
Adler and Co Big Clearance Sale Opens Soon
Adler and Co announces a four page Adler section in today’s Reporter detailing a July Clearance sale famed for price and quality. The event aims to set a new Lebanon record, with 11 000 Boone area families mailed copies. The sale begins Thursday morning with full details inside.
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Adler & Co
Adler
Reporter
Lebanon
Boone
Household Tragedy: Franzen Kills Wife and Son Then Ends Life
In Minneapolis Ernest Franzen 42 slashed his wife Ellen 89 and son Morris 9 to death with a butcher knife then wounded four other children and killed himself. Four elder children fled outside in night clothes, all seriously hurt. Ethel 11 in serious condition with knife wounds to the neck. Ingard 16 Delmar 15 and Margaret 13 also seriously cut. Police found the mother and younger son dead in the kitchen and Franzen had slashed his throat upstairs.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Ernest Franzen
Franzen
Ellen
Morris
Ethel
Ingard
Delmar
Margaret
Yunnanese Officer Fails Assassination of Chinese Officials
London July 7 Hong Kong dispatch says a Yunnanese officer at Canton attempted to assassinate Wu Han Min commissioner of foreign affairs and General Hsu Chung Chi as they rode back from the inauguration of the new government. Both were slightly injured and their bodyguard sustained fatal harm to the assailant.
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London
Canton
Wu Han Min
Hsu Chung Chi
Hong Kong
The
Times
American minister J W McMurray arrives in Peking
A large crowd of prominent Chinese and Americans greet the new American minister J W McMurray on his arrival in Peking to assume duties in American diplomacy.
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Peking
J. W. McMurray
Local boy among 19 on Wabash honor roll
C. O. Bennington of this city is one of nineteen students on the Wabash College honor roll for the second semester. Each student averaged above 90 percent. Bennington is a junior in college.
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C. O. Bennington
Wabash College
Fred C. Domeroese
Mr. Bennington
Death of Mrs Sarah Laughner at 70 in Indianapolis
Mrs Sarah Laughner aged 70 lifelong Boone county resident died at 2 00 am at the home of her son Ora Laughner in Indianapolis after weeks of illness from injuries in an auto accident She is survived by two children Ora in Indianapolis and Nellie McGaughey near Sheridan three grandchildren and three brothers Miles Riley Ottinger Samuel Ottinger and two sisters Mrs Joe Bennington and Mrs John Waggoner Funeral services will be held at the Lutheran church Whitestown Thursday at 2 pm burial in the Lutheran cemetery
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Sarah Laughner
Boone County
Ora Laughner
Indianapolis
Laughner
Ora
Nellie McGaughey
Sheridan
Miles
Riley Ottinger
Whitestown
Samuel Ottinger
Joe Bennington
John Waggoner
Lebanon
Davis and Graham to hear on vehicle taking charge
In Frankfort Indiana Otto Graham and Raymond Davis of Lebanon are jailed awaiting a preliminary hearing Thursday on vehicle taking charges. They were stopped by Patrolman Cue after being observed driving Charles Staton’s car in Lebanon. Attorneys Ross Hollingsworth and William Robison are defending them. Graham recent parolee from Pendleton Reformatory is linked to a prior car theft in the county.
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Frankfort
Ind
Otto Graham
Raymond Davis
Lebanon
Cue
Proerty
Chas. Staton
Ross Hollingsworth
William Robisoff
Graham
Reformatory
Pendleton
Sheriff Power
Harshman
Poison mother will face trial Thursday morning
Crown Point Ind July 7 Mrs Anna Cunningham Garys poison mother is scheduled to go on trial here Thursday charged with the murder of one of her three children. She is indicted with having poisoned three of her children but will stand trial on the charge that she murdered her youngest son Walter 13 A special venue of 65 repetitive jurors has been called for service.
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Crown Point
Ind
Anna Cunningham
Gary
Walter
Father and son drown during pond ride in Brazil Indiana
In Brazil Indiana on July 7 Dudley Whitman eight was alive as his brother Billy nine prepared to swim across a pond on their father George Whitman thirty when cramps struck him as he carried Billy. Both father and son died and Dudley raised the alarm.
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Brazil
Ind
Dudley Whitman
George Whitman
Billy
Dudley
Former Lebanon Woman Killed in Tran Auto Crash
Mrs. Mary Jane Gorman, 59, a former Lebanon resident now living in Frankfort, died when the automobile she rode in was struck by a westbound cut of cars on the Pennsylvania railroad at Walnut Avenue crossing in Frankfort. Her husband George Gorman, driver, their daughter Mrs H F Garrett, and six-year-old Lile Lee of Jacksonville, Ill, were in the car. all others escaped serious injury. Gorman suffered a minor head injury and rested well. The party had been returning home from a short ride when the crash occurred.
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Mary Jane Gorman
Lebanon
Frankfort
Pennsylvania Railroad
Walnut Avenue
Gorman
George Gorman
H. F. Garrett
Lile Lee
Jacksonville
Ill
Booze runners escape ring near Watsonville
In Watsonville California on July 7 a band of rum runners broke through a ring of thirty deputy sheriffs after four hours trapped in a hay field. They killed Deputy N N Rader and wounded two others, firing rapidly to flee. One car and two trucks were seized but another liquor-filled truck escaped. Two men were arrested on suspicion.
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Watsonville
Calif
N. N. Rader
Kin of Hawkins Raising Funds
Relatives of Morton Hawkins, head of the Hawkins Mortgage Company now defunct, plan to pursue a pen a mene for his case from pending appeal. Hawkins was sentenced in federal court yesterday by Judge Baltzell. A new trial motion was overruled, and the sentence included 15 years imprisonment for fraudulent use of the mails and a $10,000 fine.
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Indianapolis
Morton Hawkins
Hawkins Mortgage Company
Hawkins
Baltzell
Holy Trinity Church in Gary Faces Internal Dispute
In Gary Indiana on July 7 members of the Holy Trinity Catholic church congregation opposed to the priest and church trustees were under restraining orders to avoid interference or property harm. Father Joseph Judaic argued the dispute in court to secure the orders.
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Gary
Ind
Congregation of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Board of Trustees
Joseph Judaic
Aeolian Orchestra and Mission of the Republic Lecture Schedule
Tuesday schedule lists Aeolian Orchestra with varied instruments at 3:00 p m 3:30 pm marimbaphone duo and harp soloist and a lecture titled The Mission of the Republic by Dr S Parkes Cadman Wednesday features Chicago Mixed Quartet concerts at 3:00 pm and 7:30 pm plus a 3:30 pm entertainment program with Jessie Rae Taylor a unique impersonator of male characters.
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Aeolian Orchestra
The
Mission of the Republic
S. Parkes Cadman
Chicago
Jessie Rae Taylor
Lebanon Opens Second Independent Chautauqua With Aéo lian Orchestra
The Aéo lian Orchestra opened Lebanon's second independent Chautauqua at 9 pm before a sizable audience from Lebanon and Boone County. The program featured pleasing symphonies and popular numbers, establishing the orchestra as a crowd favorite. The ceremony included three women and three men, with Dr Courtland Miller of Lear Chautau Company directing the after program from a large stage. (Continued on page three).
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Lebanon
Chautauqua
Aéolian Orchestra
Boone County
Courtland Miller
Lear Chautau Company
Drowning Victim John Cook Buried After Accident
Funeral services were held for John Cook, 16, who died Saturday in a drowning near Thorntown. Interment followed at a cemetery north of Lebanon. A Sugar Creek fishing party, including Ed Adair and William Adair, searched for him after he disappeared in swift water.
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John Cook
Thorntown
Sindee
Cemetery
Lebanon
Cobb
Stuckey Bridge
William Adair
Morris At
Young Cobb
Mr. Adair
Picnic ends with seven deaths at Ontario boat tragedy
A Sunday school picnic near St. Thomas Ontario ended when a moonlight boat ride capsized on Lake Pinafore. Seven children and one adult drowned. the group included St. John’s St. Thomas and St. Lu Yarmouth schools. Twenty aides and several adults were aboard.
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St. Thomas
Ont
Lake Pinafore
St. John’s St. Thomas
St. Lu School
Yarmouth
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Ruby Shelburne
Stephenson
Coolidge
Guard
Arim
TS40
Greet McMurray
Davis
Mary J. Gorman
Aeolian Concert Orchestra
Dr. S. Parks Cadman
Church Statesman
Chicago Mixed Quartet
Slabtown Church
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