Payne Proposes Detour Care Bill In Indiana Senate
Indiana Senator Earl W. Payne of Bloomington introduces a measure to require state highway officials to repair and maintain detour roads not only during construction but also after traffic returns, preserving their original condition for local travelers. Senator George W. Sims and others discuss education bills and other proposed measures while Senator William E. English files a dog kennel licensing bill.
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Indianapolis
Earl W. Payne
Bloomington
Monroe
Brown
Greene
Senate
State Highway Commission
Payne
Highway Department
George W. Sims
Terre Haute
Sims
William E. English
Drug stores face ban on serving meals in Indiana
Indianapolis druggist William Werner proposes a bill banning public eating places within drug or cigar stores. He argues meals in drug stores are insanitary and warns the measure could affect common noonday repasts at corner drug stores.
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Indianapolis
William Werner
Werner
Burns boy runs to Evansville to find father
Ten year old Eula Columbus Burns escaped Boonville orphanage seeking a home and his father John Burns. Police aided in locating the father who agreed to try and care for the boy. The boy said he left the orphanage after his mother died to find a home and his father.
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Evansville
Ind
Eula Columbus Burns
Boonville
John Burns
Nine Children Burn to Death in Two Fires
Two separate blazes killed nine children in North American farms. In Waterbury Connecticut four Loomis children perished in bed as parents and grandparents slept below. In Elk River Minnesota five Bedach children aged one to seven died in a farm home fire.
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Waterbury, Conn
Harry Loomis
Middlebury
Elk River
Mins
Frank Bedach
Bedach
Sunday Base Ball to Be Saved in Blue Law
Indianapolis readers learn that the blue sky bill faces tighter restrictions as the legislature reopens. Some lawmakers say the current terms favor large investment firms, and committee action is expected to refine them. Sponsors indicate no resistance to an amendment legalizing Sunday baseball.
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Indianapolis
Yale Graduate Hears Wife Witness Suicide Attempt
Philip Corbin a Yale graduate and member of New York and New England clubs severed wrist arteries and cut his head in his West Palm Beach home. Doctors said he probably would recover. The self harm occurred in the presence of his wife after a pneumonia relapse during a Palm Beach visit with his wife and young son.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Philip Corbin
Yale
New York
New England
Corbin
Palm Beach
Plot to blow up British ships foiled by arrests in Portsmouth
Police in Portsmouth arrested five men and a woman in connection with an alleged plot to blow up British battleships at the naval base. The International News Service report from London dated January 19 notes police claim a coordinated conspiracy targeting the fleet.
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International News Service
London
Portsmouth
England
Moonshine Whisky Causes Four Deaths in Chicago
Moonshine whisky killed four Chicagoans yesterday and another remains unconscious in hospital. Liquor has claimed ten lives in Chicago in the first eighteen days of the new year.
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Chicago
Plane crash kills man and injures pilot in Little Rock area
George Turner died while a passenger in a commercial air plane with pilot Inman. The aircraft nose-dived over North Little Rock and burst into flames as bystanders worked to rescue the occupants.
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Little Rock
Ark
George Turner
Inman
North Little Rock
Life sentence for murder of his wife in Marion
Pete Waskins of Johnston City was found guilty by a jury in Marion of stabbing his wife to death and was sentenced to life imprisonment. It was the first criminal conviction of the new state's attorney Artie O Boswell who urged the death penalty.
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Marion
Ill
Pete Waskins
Johnston City
Artie O. Boswell
Eviction of Union Miners Charged in West Virginia Mines
Chicago, Jan 19. Capt. Tetlow of the miners union accuses Warren S. Stone and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of backing non union Coal River Collieries in Kanawha West Virginia. He alleges evictions of union families, import of strikebreakers, and court seizures of miners property. Stone counters miners at Coal River are satisfied and well paid, urging workers to accept wage levels and praising cooperative plans. The dispute widens as Cleveland unions are urged not to buy coal from the engineers own mines.
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Chicago
United Mine Workers
Warren S. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Railway Brotherhood
West Virginia
Capt
Percy Tetlow
Miners’ Union
Miners’ Organization
Stone
Coal River Colleries
Brotherhood of Engineers
Kanawha
Tetlow
Coal River Collieries Company
Capt. Tetlow
Alabama
Virginia
Kentucky
Union Locomotive Engineers
Locomotive Engineers’ Journal
America
The
Cleveland
Engineers’ Bank
Miners Officials Strive To Avert General Strike
Scranton Pa January 19 district No 1 United Mine Workers executives meet to avert a threatened general strike by 60000 miners. A three day deadline was set for Pennsylvania walkout talks with a Wilkes Barre grievance committee meeting to decide on a possible general strike order.
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Scranton
United Mine Workers of America
Wilkesbarre
Pennsylvania
Sandborn Girl Missing in Florida Mystery
Kathry n Hart 25, of Sandborn Indiana disappeared from Midway Florida where she had been teaching. Her father Abraham Hart traveled to Florida and reports no trace. Hart had written she would quit teaching to travel as a companion to a wealthy woman. trunk remains at a Midway boarding house and bank account untouched.
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Sandborn
Ind
Kathryn Hart
Abraham Hart
Midway
Fla
Florida
Miss Hart
Robbers assault Brown County couple in Nashville
Noah Hamblen and Arthur Tracy, both of Helmsburg, were arrested by Brown county sheriff for the burglary and brutal attack on James Richardson 77 and his wife Mary 70 at their Nashville area home. The men forced Mrs Richardson to reveal the hiding place for 250 dollars in gold and ransacked the house finding 950 dollars in cash. The sheriff declined to reveal evidence. Additional arrests were anticipated soon.
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Nashville
Ind
Noah Hamblen
Arthur Tracy
Helmsburg
Brown County
James Richardson
Mary Richardson
Richardson
Southern floods suspected to claim nine lives across five states
International News Service reports heavy rains in Georgia Alabama Louisiana South Carolina and Mississippi. Floodwaters overran rivers destroying homes and property leaving hundreds homeless as nine people are believed dead.
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Georgia
Alabama
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South Carolina
Mississippi
Walker D Hines Named NL Rhine Danube Commissioner
Geneva January 19 Walker D Hines of New York was appointed by the League of Nations as commissioner of economics and administrative details for Rhine and Danube navigation. Previously he was connected with Louisville and directed railroads in 1919 20.
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Geneva
League of Nations Today
Walker D. Hines
New York
Louisville
Stone Approved for High Court by Senate Panel
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Attorney General Harlan F. Stone for the U.S. Supreme Court after a two week delay. The hold related to Stone's ties to J. P. Morgan & Co. litigation is said to be resolved with findings that his activities were purely professional. Confirmation by the full Senate appears assured.
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International News Service
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Harlan F. Stone
United States Supreme Court
Borah
Idaho
Walsh
Montana
Stone
J. P. Morgan & Co
Senate
Secretary Hughes Denies U S Entanglement Over Paris Pact
Secretary of State Hughes issued a formal statement denying that the United States is legally or morally entangled in the Paris reparations agreement signed by Kellogg. The move followed Senate charges of being duped and marked a break with precedent.
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International News Service
Washington
Senate
Paris
Designate Kellogg
United States
Hughes
Record Decree Grants Louisa Sack 300000 Alimony
In Providence R I a divorce granted to Louisa W Sack from A Albert Sack Jr owner of the Providence Oil company carries a reported alimony settlement of 300000 dollars Judge Barrows who signed the decree previously revoked decrees for Minta Durfee Arbuckle and Nina Wilcox Putnam negotiating the settlement remains unnamed in this report
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Providence
R. J
Louisa W. Sack
A. Albert Sack
Providence Oil Company
Barrows
Minta Durfee Arbuckle
Fatty Arbuckle
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Boy Kills Brother in Sunday Play Tragedy
Marietta Ohio police report a deadly accident as 9 year old Norman McNutt shot his 18 year old brother Harold during a game of Indian. Norman seized a shotgun and fired while Harold’s gun was unloaded.
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Marietta, O
William McNutt
Norman
Harold
Parole Push for Ex Governor McCray
Friends in Indianapolis press for Warren T. McCray parole from Atlanta federal prison where he serves ten to twenty year sentence for mail fraud.
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Indianapolis
Warren T. McCray
Atlanta
Police Capture Chapman in Muncie After Gunfight
Gerald Chapman known as the king of crooks was arrested in Muncie Indiana after a chase with detectives. Officers found $5 000 in currency $3 000 in bonds jewelry worth $500 nitroglycerin and burglary tools on him. He said don t jar the grip and warned there is soup in there enough to blow up the courthouse.
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Indianapolis
Gerald Chapman
Marion County
United States
Atlanta
Muncie
Ind
Chapman
Meredith
New York City
New Haven
Conn
Long Island
Fort Wayne
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