Democrats Face Fight Over The Liquor Question
Houston reports outline a brewing Democratic split over Prohibition as Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York signals a law enforcement stance. Dry factions argue he is wet while Smith backers push for a clear preconvention position, amid preconvention prayer sessions and shifting support among Reed forces and dry women supporters.
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Houston
Texas
Alfred B. Smith
New York
Kansas City
Smith
Democratic Assembly
Gov. Smith
Norman B. Mack
Buffalo
Drys
Rice Hotel
Reed
Jessie Nicholson
Chevy Chase
National Capital
Nicholson
Smyth
Indiana G. A. R. Favours Annual National Meeting
Columbus Indiana June 22 Indiana G A R adopts resolution urging a national meeting each year as long as three or more comrades survive. The resolution was approved during the Hoosier veterans forty ninth annual encampment and allied groups meetings in session since Monday.
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Columbus
Ind
Indiana
Man Dies by Suicide Over Prohibition Jail Fear
Vincennes Indiana June 22 74 year old Fred Bertram shot himself to death rather than be jailed over a prohibition violation. Officers found liquor in his home after a raid and ordered him to go to jail. He asked to change clothes then fired a pistol in a bedroom, dying about an hour later.
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Vincennes
Ind
Fred Bertram
Bertram
Unclear fragment hints at family health note
A brief, messy OCR fragment mentions Mrs George M Coney and a short health update, with unclear context and date. No concrete event or action is discernible from readable text.
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George M. Coney
Walter a Be concert night during the ae
A fragmented note references a cashing event and a concert night involving Walter a Be during the ae period. readable details are limited, but the entry signals a performance and related timing.
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Walter
N'T
Studebaker and Pierce Arrow Co's to Merge
Financial circles heard today that the merger of the Studebaker Corporation and the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company is nearing consummation. Consolidation would create a fourth major and wealthy motor industry player with assets near 160 million dollars, joining General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler-Dodge in size.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Studebaker Corporation
Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company
General Motors
Ford Motor Company
Chrysler-Dodge
Christie Presented With Farewell Gift
Lafayette Indiana June 22 a silver coffee service has been presented to Dr George L Christie director of the Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station as a farewell gift He is leaving to become president of the Ontario Agricultural College Guelph On the gift was from the Indiana ry Agents Association member of which have been in state session with agriculture teachers.
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Lafayette
Ind
George L. Christie
Purdue University Agricultural Experiment Station
Ontario Acumcurel College
Guelph
Indianary Agents Association
Indiana Business Club elects Ella Smith state program chairman
At the Lebanon Business and Professional Women's Club June meeting Mrs. Ella Smith of Lebanon was named state program chairman of the Indiana Business and Professional Women's Club. The ceremony included an initiation, a program by Miss Effiernsworth, musical moments, and guests from Oxford, Massachusetts. The group discussed attending the state luncheon in Indianapolis and the National Convention in New Orleans, with plans for yellow satin capes bearing the Indiana map for delegates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lebanon
John Moran
Effie Farnsworth
Helen Heflin
Crela Herr
Flossie Perkins
Elsie Shaw Smith
Roxie Campbell
Danville Aistocrats Club
Indiana
New Orleans
Elit
Alma Abbitt
Pauline Beck
Dora Kernodle
Olga Rosencrance
Maude Hollenbach
Eftiernsworth
Naomi Saunders
Schubert
Garnet Wells
Michigan City
Emma Riley
Pauline, Garrett
Olive Miller
Emma Powell
Lolita Thomas
May West
Hazel Whittinghill
Chicago
Campbell, Smith & Ritchie Company
Belle Crooks
Caroline Selby
Nora Smith
Lillian Walters
Bond
Thrysa McKinley
Isa Pollard
America
McKinley
Coonville ‘Histocrats Club
Maydle Carroll
Ruth Schooler
Dorothy Clark
Oxford
Massachusetts
Prizes Announced for Fourth of July Contests
Announcement lists prizes for tennis doubles and singles at Memorial Park Fourth of July celebration sponsored by Emmett Brown Post American Legion. Events include tennis doubles first prize a box of six tennis balls and second prize three balls. singles first prize six balls and second prize three balls. Continued on page three.
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Memorial Park
Emmett Brown
Lebanon Boys Enroll For Camp Tecumseh Visit
Four Lebanon youths Howell Roberts Don Porter Elliott Hooton and Miriam Hickson have applied to attend Camp Tecumseh near Delphi Indiana. Rev Arthur E Cowley in charge announced attendance July 9 to 19 with athletics boating and swimming supervised by Glen Coolman and Francis Peacock.
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Lebanon
Howell Roberts
Don Porter
Elliott Hooton
Miriam Hickson
Camp Tecumseh
Indiana
Delphi
Arthur E. Cowley
Mr. Cowley
Perry Wilson
Cowley
Three Slayers of Officer Executed in DC and Arizona
Washington reports the district of Columbia hanged three men for the murder of Policeman W K Busch including Nicholas Lee Eagles Samuel Moreno and John Proctor. Proctor’s confession attempt and his collapse are noted. In Arizona four Chinese men convicted in a tong murder were hanged at dawn B W Sam Chen Chin Jew Har and Gee King Long.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Surratt
Lincoln
W. K. Busch
Nicholas Lee Eagles
Samuel Moreno
John Proctor
Eagles
Moreno
Proctor
Lorence
Ariz
Tom King
State Penitentiary
B. W. L Sam
Chen Chin
Jew Har
Gee King Long
Services Held Today for Mrs A Courtney
Death of Mrs Anna Courtney at Indianapolis due to Brights disease. Funeral services were conducted at her residence in Indianapolis at one o'clock. She formerly lived in Lebanon and was sister in law to Mrs Ida Cogswell and Mrs Jack Graham and aunt to Clarence Gogewell.
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Anna Courtney
Indianapolis
Bright
Courtney
Ida Cogswell
Jack Graham
Clarence Gogewell
Lebanon
National Air Tour set to begin June 30
More than twenty airplanes from leading American manufacturers will start a four week Western United States tour on June 30 from Ford Airport Detroit. The Third Annual National Air Tour, sponsored by the Detroit Board of Commerce, will visit thirty cities in fifteen states, covering about 6000 miles with a Pacific coast first in 1928. The caravan will pass through St. Louis Indianapolis Wichita Springfield Tulsa Fort Worth and other stops before returning to Detroit July 28.
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Detroit
Ford
Manufacturers of
America
United States
Detroit Board of Commerce
Pacific Coast
St. Louis
Indianapolis
National Air Tour
Wichita
Kan
Springfield
Tulsa
Okla
Ft. Worth
Tex
Waco
San Antonio
el Paso
Covington Man’s Body Found in River Near West Union
Attica Ind June 22 The body of Isaac N Tharp 60 who disappeared from Covington Ind almost three months ago was found today in the river at West Union according to word received The cause of death was not yet determined pending a coroner's inquest
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Attica
Ind
Isaac N. Tharp
Covington
West Union
Poison Taken by Accused Cashier in Bank Embezzlement Case
Omar G. Patterson cashier at Citizens State Bank Noblesville Indiana faced embezzlement charges for $147000. He allegedly swallowed poison in a suicide attempt after confessing to theft from his hospital bed. Bank officials moved to protect depositors as the bank faced possible loss with $100000 capitalization.
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Noblesville
Ind
Citizens State Bank
Omar G. Patterson
Thomas D. Barr
Patterson
Harry Craig
State Bank
T. G. Inwood
B. G. Edwards
J. A. Parrett
Houston
Barr
Former town clerk short in accounts in Indiana
Samuel G. Noftzger, former town clerk and water works superintendent of North Manchester, Indiana, is allegedly short 8272.19 in his accounts after a field examination reported to the state accounts board. The town board instructed its attorney to file charges. The shortage extends over six or seven years.
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North Manchester
Ind
Samuel G. Noftzger
State Accounts Board
Noftzger
Miss Ruth Campbell Guests in Indianapolis
A fragment notes Miss Ruth Campbell in Indianapolis with Mrs Oway and daughter Mrs Gannolloway Monroe of Chicago. It mentions Mrs Ana who met in Indianapolis recently died, and will stay with her mother for some time.
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Ruth Campbell
Indianapolis
Oway
Gannolloway Monroe
Chicago
Ana
Paneapolis
Mutiny Quelled Aboard Australian Ship Jervis Bay
London reports from June 22 saying the Australian liner Jervis Bay, with eight stowaways aboard, faced a serious mutiny under the hatches with an attempted incendiarism. The captain pledged everything under safe control and expected Colombo arrival Monday morning. The Enterprise cruiser was advised of the danger as the ship steamed toward Colombo.
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London
Commonwealth Shipping Line
Jervis Bay
Colombo
Ceylon
Enterprise
Three Die in Jugo Slavia Student Riots in Zagreb
Zagreb reports three killed more than fifty injured and hundreds arrested as Croatian students riot over the Belgrade parliament shooting. Attacks spread from Cape Corso with buildings stoned, windows smashed, and power cables cut. situation under control by midnight.
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Zagreb
Jugo Slavia
Belgrade
Cape Corso
Lebanon Juniors to Play Crawfordsville at Memorial Park
The Lebanon American Legion Juniors will play the Crawfords ville Junior baseball team at 2:30 Saturday afternoon at Memorial Park. No admission will be charged, announced recreation director Jack Heifner.
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Lebanon American Legion
Crawfordsville
Memorial Park
Jack Heifner
Speeding Tourist Fined on State Road 52
Alleged to have crowded three automobiles off the road this morning between Royalton and Lebanon on state road No 52. Charles Singer of New York City was fined one dollar and costs totaling ten dollars for speeding at a hearing before Justice J P Connor. Singer was arrested by Boone county sheriff Clinton Saunders while en route to California from New York.
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Royalton
Lebanon
Charles Singer
New York City
J. P. Connor
Singer
Clinton Saunders
Boone County
California
New York
Mexican rebels and federals clash near Las Puertas
Mexico City dispatch reports an eight hour battle near Las Puertas leaving 22 Rebels and 10 federal soldiers dead. Officials name Guadalajara figures as co-leaders with Bandit Rodolfo Lozy among the Rebels.
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Mexico City
Las Puertas
A. Guadalajara
Rodolfo Lozy
Hoover to depart for Stanford for July nomination ceremony
Washington June 22 Herbert Hoover tentatively plans to leave Washington July 2 for Stanford University California where he will be notified in late July of his Republican presidential nomination. Departure may shift to July 2 5 due to cabinet business. The late July Palo Alto ceremony will include Hoover's explanation of platform ideas and is expected to be his first campaign speech. He also plans to send a letter to Borah opposing repeal of the eighteenth amendment and will continue cabinet work and preparing the commerce department annual report for Congress.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Stanford University
California
Hoover
Palo Alto
Borah
President Coolidge
Wisconsin
Iowa
Interior
Hubert Work
Republican National Committee
Dr. Work
Interior Department
Intensive search planned for men lost Arctic regions
Oslo reports a massive effort to locate Roald Amundsen Umberto Nobile and others from the failed Italia rescue mission. Vessels planes and wireless stations mobilize, with Tordenskjold Krassin Braganza and Hoed among the ships and air forces aiding the effort. More than a dozen men are feared lost as search teams push to reach Foyn Island and North Cape.
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Oslo
Norway
Arctic
Roald Amundsen
Rene Guilbaud
Umberto Nobile
Tordenskjold
Michael Lars
Junkers
Kings Bay
Spitzbergen
Lief Dietrichson
Gen. Nobile
Citta di Milano
Nobile
Krassin
Foyn Island
Cecioni
Chinese to Rename Peking and Chihli Province
Shanghai reports the nationalist council voted to rename Chihli province Ho-Peh and Peking Peiping. The changes aim to align with a future capital at Nanking, sparking nationwide political controversy and rival viewpoints over the historic significance and practical benefits of Peking versus Nanking.
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Peking
Peiping
Shanghai
Chihli Province
Yellow River
North Peace
Kuomingtang
Nanking
Canton
Ten Die In Stockholm Rail Crash Near Bollnas
Stockholm June 22 ten persons were killed and 40 injured when the Northern Express leaving Stockholm at midnight collided with an auxiliary engine near Bollnas at about 50 miles an hour. The first three coaches of the express were wrecked.
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Stockholm
Bollnas
Plan Conference in Balthrip Case
Indian apolis papers report Arlie Balthrip 26 pleaded guilty to first degree murder of Charles Conrad. A conference of defense and state attorneys is planned this afternoon, with a potential recommendation to Judge Hornaday. Trial set to begin Monday for a second time.
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Indianapolis
Arlie Balthrip
Charles
Conrad
Nogrocer
Foundation
Hornaday
Bathrip
Fort
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Studebaker
Pierce Arrow CO
Christie
Indiana Business Club
Ella Smith
MCA
Bowers
Ieee Borneo
A. Courtney
RIVER
Noblesville Bank
Short
Stanford U
Commerce Department
Congress
Maddalena
Italia
North Cape
Maddilena
Balthrip
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