Classified ads and local notices from a midcentury page
A mixed page section includes rate details for classified ads and a series of small notices. It lists promotions for vigor tonic tablets from Hamilton and Rexall Drug Stores, savings plans offered by Farmers & Mechanics Federal Savings & Loan Assn in Bloomfield, a beautician notice for Marian Hagaman, and a flower shop West Side Flower Garden offering funeral baskets. It also notes the Willamette National Forest in Oregon has 40,000,000 board feet of timber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Fork
Sun Ran
Salem
Ore
U.P
Willamette National Forest
Oregon
United States
Ontario Raises Civil Servants Pay 5 to 10 Percent
Ontario announces wage increases for about 6000 civil servants ranging from five to ten percent this year. Toronto report notes the raise applies to public sector workers across the province.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
Cities of Indiana Begin Campaign Against Decision
Indiana cities that own public utilities plan to challenge a state supreme court ruling allowing the state to tax city owned utilities. South Bend Elkhart and about fifty cities pledged support to appeal to the U S Supreme Court saying the law could overcharge users and raise taxes, with Linton facing about four thousand dollars more yearly.
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Indiana
Indiana Supreme Court
South Bend
Elkhart
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States
A. M. Beasley
Linton
Indiana Municipal League
Indiana Court
Beasley
Eagles Plan Open House for July entertainment
Eagles lodge members, families, and the public will be invited to a July public entertainment after a meeting last night. Miss Miriam Clayton and Betty Spinks performed piano and violin solos before delegates Guy Moss and Herbert Priest reported on their state convention activities held in Conn ersville. The event marks the first gathering in the newly decorated hall after repaint and repair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagles Lodge
Miriam Clayton
Betty Spinks
Guy Moss
Herbert Priest
Connersville
Rites Held for Mrs Mabel Poissant in Bloomington
Funeral services were held at the Lincoln Street Church of Christ in Bloomington for Mrs. Mabel Poissant 35 daughter of Mr and Mrs John Deckard and wife of a New York City resident. She died from injuries after a car crash near Allenton Massachusetts while returning home from a visit to Bloomington. Poissant taught at Bloomington High School for ten years retiring in 1935. She is survived by her husband her parents and several Greene county relatives.
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Lincoln Street Church of Christ
Bloomington
Mabel Poissant
Rufus Edington
Poissant
John Deckard
Allenton
Mass
New York City
Robison urges 25 percent local share in relief bill
Senate debate shifts as Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson proposes amending the 1.59 billion relief measure to require local communities to cover 25 percent of work relief costs. The move contrasts with Byrnes plan for a 40 percent local share.
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Washington
Joseph T. Robinson
Ark
Senate Today
Robinson
James F. Byrnes
8. C
President Seeks To Block Low Interest Farm Loans
President Roosevelt urged balancing the 1938 budget in a letter to House Agriculture Committee member Marvin Jones. He warned that extra appropriations or obligations could derail balance, and new taxes would be required to restore it. A national debt rise accompanied the release.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Marvin Jones
Tex
House Agriculture Committee
Treasury
Jones
Soviet campaign vows to annihilate traitors across USSR
From the Baltic to the Pacific a merciless drive targets alleged traitors including Troskyists and various enemies of the people. Reports say hundreds are involved as newspapers denounce lists of names. A White Russia leader died by his own hand amid notes on traitor activity and industrial plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Baltic
Black Seas
Pacific
A. G. Cherviakov
White Russia
Communist Party
Valery Mezhlauk
Soviet Union
Nationalists advance on Bilbao amid heavy bombardment
Insurgents push toward Bilbao from all sides under heavy artillery and air attack. Tanks and armored cars move into position opposite the Basque capital as Gen Francisco Franco awaits the word to begin entry under sunny skies and continued air and machine gun fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bilbao
Francisco Franco
Hospital Report Details Surgeries This Week
Homer Curnutt of Linton rural route and Miss Annabelle Owens of Lyons had operations this morning. Miss Inez Switz of Switz City underwent a operation Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer Curnutt
Linton
Annabelle Owens
Lyons
Inez Switz
Switz City
Linton Merchants Trial Thrift Day Plan Sparks Trade Push
A News-Story Editorial urges Linton merchants to try a new buying day, renaming a Saturday sale Thrift day and shifting from Community day. It stresses real incentives, continuous advertising, attractive stores, and friendly rivalry to draw buyers from the region to Linton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton Merchants
Linton
Treasury seeks law to close income tax loopholes
Treasury officials urged Congress to pass legislation this session to close income tax loopholes. Secretary Morgenthau promised to publicize names of individuals who allegedly avoided federal taxes and described the issue as unethical avoidance requiring practical reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Treasury
Congress
Secretary of Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
House
Senate
Meeting Arrangements Tied to Parsons Kidnapping Case
Stony Brook, June 17. Arrangements for a meeting between alleged Parsons kidnapers and the missing society woman's brother were reported. An investigator said contact was planned last night on a boat off Port Jefferson. The informant did not confirm if the meeting occurred. Frank McDonnell, her brother, was said to have arranged it. Parsons disappeared eight days ago after a note demanding 25 000 dollars.
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Stony Brook
N. Y
Alice McDonell Parsons
Society
Port Jefferson
Frank McDonnell
Mass Meeting Planned by Chicago Industrial Union Leaders
Committee for Industrial Organization leaders advanced plans for Chicago's largest mass meeting in Chicago on June 17. John L. Lewis announced from Washington that circumstances would keep him away.
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Chicago
Committee For Industrial Organization Leaders
John L. Lewis
Washington
Linton Plans Major Fourth of July Celebration
Plans for the 1937 Fourth of July in Linton are shaping up with a predicted biggest and best parade. Five bands have been engaged by the Greater Linton club, and various day organizations pledge strong cooperation. Local leaders praise the event’s patriotic spirit and announce new features, more floats, and broader participation from groups like the Sons of the American Legion and Delta Theta Tau.
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Linton
Greater
Delta Theta Tau
Marie Ecker
American Legion Auxiliary
Jasonville Man Dies From Heart Attack On Job
Sam Price 45 a WPA road project truck driver died Wednesday after a heart attack while trying to free his stuck truck in heavy rain near Jasonville. Arthur Maddox helped as Dr George Porter Greene county coroner investigated and ruled heart attack the cause. Mr Price, a World War veteran, lived on North Harrison Street with his wife and two children. Funeral plans have not been announced.
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Sam Price
Jasonville
Arthur Maddox
Price
George Porter
Greene County
North Harrison Street
Industrial Personnel Institute to be held at Purdue
Lafayette Ind June 17 The Institute will address organization and administration of personnel work industrial relations and social security in industry. Topics include training programs methods and techniques and new emphasis on industrial relations. The program runs June 28 to July 3 at Pur due University under Purdue Institute of American Policy and Technology.
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Lafayette
Ind
Industrial Personnel Institute
Purdue University
Purdue Institute of American Policy and Technology
Purdue
Schools of Engineering
Ten Thousand Notre Dame Fans Apply for 1937 Season Tickets
Notre Dame officials announced that ten thousand applications for season tickets to the 1937 home football games will be mailed early next week. Sale of season tickets begins June 21 and individual game tickets go on sale August 1.
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South Bend
Ind
U.P
Notre Dame
J. Arthur Haley
Notre Dame Athletics
Haley
Pleasantville Girl Dies After Nose Bleed Struggle
Betty Bell Alsman 13 daughter of Mr and Mrs Bynum Alsman of Pleasantville died at Sullivan county hospital after two years of severe nosebleeds. She was in eighth grade at Pleasantville schools and had prior hospital treatment. Survivors include her mother the postmistress, father a Sullivan county trustee, two brothers, grandmother in Terre Haute and other grandparents. Funeral set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Pleasantville Baptist church with Newkirk funeral home in charge.
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Betty Bell Alsman
Bynum Alsman
Pleasantville
Sullivan County Hospital
Sullivan Hospital
Bell Alsman
Bynum
Sullivan County
Bynum, Jr
Paul
Alsman
Terre Haute
Jacob Garrett
Greene County
Baptist Church
Newkirk Funeral Home
State to Increase Field Parole Men
Indiana releases from eight to fifty eight parole agents with a plan to reach one hundred soon. John Klinger reports to Thurman Gottschalk on parole supervision expanding into county districts and welfare department coordination.
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Indianapolis
Ind
John Klinger
Correction Division
Thurman A. Gottschalk
State Department of Public Welfare
Pendleton Reformatory
Michigan City
Women’s
Public Welfare Department
Frank D. Hope
Klinger
State Board of Parole Review
Dog Travels Alone From Swansea to Derby
A dog sent by train from Swansea to Derby arrived on schedule after a poem on a card attached to its box said it had a date at Derby at exactly half past one. The dog was delivered on time.
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Derby
Eng
U.R
Swansea
Milk Congress to Berlin to Convene in August
Berlin plans the 11th International Milk Congress from August 22 to 28 at the Kroll Opera House. Preparations are underway as delegates assemble in the German capital.
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Berlin
W.P
Kroll Opera House
Reichstag
Chicken thieves active in Fort Worth area
Residents on Fort Worth eastern edge report a chicken theft surge with more than 70 birds stolen in the past month across a few adjacent blocks. Local authorities are investigating the string of pilferies and urging residents to secure coops and report suspicious activity.
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Fort Worth
Tex
U.P
Perkins Chooses Mediation Board for Steel Strike
Secretary Frances Perkins named a three man board to mediate the seven state steel strike with Charles P. Taft as chairman Lloyd K. Garrison and Edward F. McGrady as members. The board will operate from Cleveland and act on Roosevelt's consent to intervene amid rising violence and threats of a national steel walkout.
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Washington
Frances Perkins
Miss Perkins
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati
Lloyd K. Garrison
National Labor Relations Board
Edward F. McGrady
Roosevelt
Cleveland
Martin L. Davey
Ohio
Taft
Garrison
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin Law School
Davey
Canton
A. F. of L
John L. Lewis
Steel Workers
Chicago
Indiana Bell Begins Bloomfield Underground Phone Line Project
Workmen start laying underground cables from the West Main street building to the courthouse and public square in Bloomfield. The project includes sidewalk removal, street digging, and later reconstruction as part of upgrading to battery phone service by early fall, replacing the old magneto system.
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Indiana Bell Telephone Company
Bloomfield
West Main Street
Court House
Public Square
Main Street
Telephone Company
Livestock Market Report Hogs Cattle and Sheep Results
Hogs 3,000 head with holdovers 297. Market mostly 15 cents higher. Lights 10.80 to 11.30, mediums 11.16 to 11.40, heavies 10.60 to 11.25, packing sows 9.50 to 10.25, top 10.35. Cattle 600, calves 400, steers and heifers steady to strong. Cows fully steady, old head 900 lb yearling steers 12.76, a few heifers 12, common and medium beef cows 6.86 to 6.55, cutter grades 4 to 5.75. Veal steady, good and choice 9 to 9.59. Sheep 360, lambs steady, bulk good and choice 11 to 14.60, slaughter ewes steady at 3 down.
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Indianapolis
Ind
U.P
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Hamilton and
Rexall Drug Stores
Farmers & Mechanics Federal Savings & Loan Assn
John C. Cravens
Marian Hagaman
Marie Freund
Vanity
West Side
West Linton
Lions Club
Sandborn
Hamilton Drug Co
Green Gables
Geneva Gilligan
West
Vincennes St
Business Directory
W. H. Wakefield
Farmers & Mechanics Federal Savings and Loan Assn
Newberry Tankage Company
Johnson Tire Service
Abie and Harry
Telephone
N. Main Street
Frayser Shop
Elmo Boriff
Sixth St. S. EF
N. Main
Letterman
N. Main St
Square
Sullivan
Eads Hatchery
Elnora
Eagles
Lodge
Russia
Spanish City
Perkins
Mediation Board
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