All Street Paving Approved and Light Fund Grows
City council finalizes assessment for C Street paving from First Street to south and north sectors, allowing full payment in 30 days or ten yearly installments. Municipal light fund hits about 25 000 with a plan to place 5 000 on time deposit while Indiana Power contract may renew, potentially lowering future rates.
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Municipal Light Fund
Moss
Municipal Light Plant
Indiana Power Company
Light Committee
Electric
Senate rift widens as La Follette exit reshapes GOP lines
Washington dispatch reports four insurgent Republicans barred from the party conference as Coolidge era tensions surface. The split pits Coolidge loyalists against anti Coolidge forces with deeper rifts among regular Republicans and insurgents shaping the coming short session.
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Linternational News Service
Washington
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Capitol
Senate
Coolidge
Congress
White House power shift under Coolidge plan analyzed
The piece argues Coolidge would curb new laws and cut government activities in the next four years. It predicts executive dominance over policy with Congress reduced to passing necessary appropriations and minimal legislative action.
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Coolidge
Congress
Two Firemen Injured in Capital Crash
At Indianapolis on December 3 two firemen were in critical condition and three others seriously injured after a collision between a fire truck and an automobile at a street intersection.
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Linternational News Service
Indianapolis
McDonald Chosen Labor Leader in Parliament
London reported that Ramsay McDonald former premier was elected by Labor members as their leader for the upcoming parliamentary session. The decision highlights continuity in Labor leadership as the new session begins in London.
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McDonald
LABOR
International News Siervice
London
Ramsay McDonald
Plan New Bridge Over White River Between Knox and Daviess
Joint action by Daviess and Knox counties plans a new 18 foot bridge over the west fork of the White river linking Sandborn in Knox with Elnora in Daviess. Estimated cost about 76000 dollars with Knox paying two thirds and Daviess one third.
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Ind
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Sandborn
Knox County
Elnora
Daviess County
Boards of County Commissioners of
Daviess
Knox Counties
Knox County Board
Charter of Miners Voix Orders Work Return
Scranton reports that ten Pittston area locals of the United Mine Workers had their charters revoked after an outlaw strike. Union leaders issued a last warning for a return to work or loss of charters. Authorities warned that unrest could spread.
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Scranton
Pittston
United Mine Workers of America
Woman fined for gossiping under old Kentucky law
Owensboro Kentucky December 3. Mrs Maud Basham 40 wife of a Davie s county farmer was fined under Kentucky anti gossip law after she told witnesses that Owensboro police were fifty fifty with bootleggers. The police judge imposed the punishment after evidence was heard.
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Owensboro
Kentucky
Maud Basham
Daviess County
Owens‘boro
Smallpox Quarantine Hits Philadelphia District
About 8,000 residents in Philadelphia's Frankford area were placed under quarantine after two smallpox cases were found nearby. The action marks a rapid public health response from city officials.
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Philadelphia
Uinternational News Service
Frankford
Coolidge Seen as Precedent Maker in Plain Train Trip
Washington reacts to President Coolidge travelling to Chicago as an ordinary passenger with no special equipment or schedule, a move many call a deliberate display of economy. Some praise the simplicity, others worry about safety and comfort for the chief executive.
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International
Washington
Coolidge
Chicago
Capital
Twenty Communists Shot in Reval Revolt Court Martial
Riga dispatch reports twenty communist leaders executed after a brief court martial for their role in the Reval revolt. The group is said to have killed three army officers in their beds and murdered five others. One bomber struck Karl F Kinbund’s home. the former minister escaped death by a narrow margin.
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Reval
Karl Fkinbund
Anonymous note ties arson case to Buffalo postmark
In Columbus Ohio an anonymous note reading You kill my wife and I kill yours was given to detectives by Rev C V Sheatsley after his wife's body was found largely burned in the parsonage furnace two weeks earlier The letter bore skull and cross bones and was mailed from Buffalo New York at 9 30 p m November 24 The pastor's wife was discovered November 17 establishing a link to the arson case
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International News
Servic
Columbus
Ohio
C. V. Sheatsley
Sheatsley
Onio
Buffalo
N. Y
No Congressmen for 14th Illinois This Winter
Washington reports the Fourteenth Illinois district will lack a representative this winter after William J. Graham resigned in June. John C. Allen, elected November 4, is shown to serve only for the term beginning March 4, widening the Republican majority in the House to 228 Republicans and 208 Democrats.
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Fourteenth
Illinois
House
William J. Graham
John C. Allen
Illinois Secretary of State
Corn Shredder Wrecks Hand Of Charles Haper
In Bicknell Indiana Charles Haper 42 suffers a severely mangled left hand after his glove caught in a corn shredder while feeding corn at Hagemeier brothers farm. The little finger end was torn off and the hand badly mashed.
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Bicknell
Ind
Charles Haper
Haper
Hagemeier Brothers
Thomas W Lawson in serious illness in Boston and Maine
Thomas W Lawson once prominent financier is now near poverty on the Maine coast. He is seriously ill in Boston where a nurse has been brought in to undergo insulin training and diabetic dieting as a last resort to save his life.
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Boston
Mass
Thomas W. Lawson
Maine
Lawson
Infant Burns to Death in Newark Fire
Four year old Eugene Pickens played with matches and ignited his 15 months old sister Eloise’s dress while their mother Mrs Charles Pickens was away at a grocery. The children fled to the porch and cried for help as she beat out the flames but the infant died shortly after. The mother sustained serious burns.
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Newark
Charles Pickens
Eugene Pickens
Eloise
Pickens
President Coolidge Urges Fiscal Oath for Lame Duck Session
President Coolidge tells Congress the nation prospers when in a strict public economy path. He urges to avoid spending sprees and near-term tax cuts, proposes limited tax revision until the new Congress, and favors further talks on international affairs but keeps American plans in abeyance.
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Coolidge
Congress
America
United States
League of Nations
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