Governor McCray Urges Dresser Memorial Donations
Indiana governor issues a proclamation calling all residents and others to contribute to a fund for a Paul Dresser memorial to be built beside the Wabash at Terre Haute. The remains will rest on the Wabash banks near the national road and a birth home near Riverside Park will be bought for the memorial. Funds are to be sent to the United States Trust Company in Terre Haute with donor names preserved.
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Paul Dressers
McCray
Terre Haute
Chicago
Paul Dresser
Riverside Park
Wabash
Warren T. McCray
State of
Five Years Ago Frost Devastated Indiana Corn
Five years ago last Saturday June 23 1918 a sudden frost swept northern and central Indiana killing much of the corn crop. Spring prospects had been excellent as wartime demand urged bumper yields but the temperature plunged to freezing during June 22 night. Thousands of acres ruined replanting with 60 day seed corn. Some blamed the Kaiser for the freak freeze.
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Indiana
United States
Weather Bureau
Bath for the Plants Bathing solution for houseplants uses ammonia in water
A home tip suggests monthly plant care by bathing household plants in a water and ammonia mixture. Use about a teaspoon of ammonia per a quart of water to encourage bloom and growth.
Jaywalkers’ Luck at Crossing Delays Car Boss Urges Hurry
A Boston Evening Transcript snippet recalls a driver slow to restart after a breakdown. The employer exclaims, Hurry up, Henry, there are many pedestrians we are missing as they cross the street.
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Henry
Boston Evening Transcript
Gotham bootleggers most accommodating in all United States
New York, June 25. Pueblo Colorado police chief J. Arthur Grady, visiting Gotham, says New York bootleggers are the most accommodating in the world. He notes they give a tin cup and six pencils with every drink sold on Broadway and that the potent liquor would not pass for a chaser in his town. Grady observed 100 users of Bowery Smoke, with the strongest hootch passed for sentence. he marveled that all are alive, remarking that back home they’d be sent to the coroner, not the court.
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New York
J. Arthur Grady
Pueblo
Colorado
Gotham
Grady
Bowery
My Wild Irish Rose Film At Grand Theatre
A special production treating Irish life directed by David Smith will be shown at the Grand theatre on Wednesday. The film, My Wild Irish Rose, comes from Dion Boucicaults The Shaughraun and is expected to appeal to a wide audience amid Ireland’s Free State news coverage. A Citizen Want Ad will sell it.
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David Smith
Grand Theatre
Dion Boucicault
Irish Free State
Ireland
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