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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1928
Page
5
Linton churches and Sunday schools completed Christmas programs including cantatas readings and recitations. Many children will participate in presentations scheduled across the last days before Christmas in local houses of worship.
The church schedules a Christmas program tomorrow night at seven featuring piano preludes, carols, a Sunday School Cantata The Glory of Bethlehem and various choir solos. Be present for the service with the pastor delivering The Song of the Angels and a B Y P A meeting at six o clock.
Last Sunday before Christmas offers a morning service with the theme The word that was made flesh and a 9 15 orchestra and 10 30 worship. The Christmas Cantata King All Glorious will be sung Sunday evening December 23 at 7 09. The program lists Behold the Morning Cometh and Unto Us a Child is Born with solos by Mrs. C C Hamilton and Joe Nixon.
Indianap olis December 22 Thirty widows and families of victims from the Francisco mine disaster will share a thousand dollar Christmas present check. Bond forfeitures approved by Governor I Jackson will be divided among the widows and families of thirty seven miners killed December 9 1025 after a Gibson circuit court Princeton citizens petitioned for the allocation.
London report says the king had a fair night and his condition remains serious but less alarming. Physicians note a continued stabilization after a 12 day improvement sparked by the Prince of Wales arrival and the return of Prince George.
Peter Meisberger 73 and his wife Kate 72 died in Rushville Indiana within eighteen hours of each other. Pneumonia listed as the cause for both. The couple had been married 47 years and Kate’s funeral was postponed until today when both were buried.
Fast Chicago and Indiana Harbor merchants were hit by forged checks today with hundreds of thousands of dollars cashed. One merchant reported a loss of two thousand dollars.
The Ranieri kidnaping case moves toward verdict as rebuttal and closing arguments proceed. Angelo Petitti and co defendants deny charges while the state seeks the electric chair. testimony included Cappellano and son Tony. Court paused for the funeral of slain witness Ole Scully.
Indiana Attorney General Arthur J. Gilliom sues to revoke the Ku Klux Klan charter and appoint a receiver. Circuit Judge Freddy Hines says no further steps until January 14 when the new term opens, the case moved from Marion county on venue change.
Crystal City Missouri December 22 A forty thousand dollar payroll robbery was foiled by a thirty minute miscalculation by three bandits who kidnapped Crystal City State Bank officials W. W. Bradley cashier and J. K. Blake assistant. They freed the pair after seizing five thousand dollars and fled toward St. Louis. Had the delay persisted a special Pittsburgh Plate Glass payroll would have been hit.
The new Riverside Church in New York City, the largest in the world, was destroyed by a spectacular blaze last night. Loss estimated at $1,000,000. financier John D. Rockefeller Jr. contributed to its construction. Flames rose high, seen for miles along the Hudson. cause under investigation.
Police dispersed a riot in New York as twenty five thousand children queued since early morning for Edward W. Browning known as Daddy Browning. Traffic blocked and dozens of children were injured or forced through a glass window as he ran low on gifts during the Santa distribution.
A white Christmas forecast by the weather bureau covers the middle west as snow blankets Iowa Kansas Minnesota Indiana Michigan Wisconsin and Ohio. Ten deaths attributed to the cold weather include four in Chicago, with temperatures near freezing and a waning influenza outbreak in the region.
President and Mrs. Coolidge will leave Washington on Christmas Day to spend the holidays on the Howard Coffin estate on Sapelo Island off Brunswick Georgia. He may extend his stay beyond January 3 and the island offers deer wild game and fishing.
In Carmi Illinois a grade school teacher and secretary-treasurer of the White County Teachers Institute Miss Anna Preher, about 46, was found nearly decapitated in her home. A fire was started to hide the crime and a three foot square area was burned in the floor. Evidence suggested a struggle but no sign of ransacking.
Official results from the Dee IL election of officers for District No 11 United Mine Workers of America show that voting for a district president or district vice president will occur in a second election on Jan 8. Names named include Mitch and John R. Morgan with several others filling district roles and a slate of opponents listed for international board, vice president, and district posts.
President elect Herbert Hoover continued Latin American talks in Rio de Janeiro. He met with President Washington Louis at Catteoe palace and planned discussions with officials and business leaders on coffee regulation policy.
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