Lafayette Firm Wins Bid for Street Sprinkling Oil
At a Lafayette city council meeting last evening bids were opened for supplying 50 000 to 70 000 gallons of oil to spray unpaved streets in spring. Four bids were read by City Clerk Gill from Cincinnati Quarries Burke Construction Lafayette Standard and Indian Refining with prices ranging from 6.01 to 6.99 per gallon for delivery to local railway sidings.
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Moss
Gill
Cincinnati Quarries Co
Burke Construction Co
Lafayette
Standard
Indian Refining Co
City
Standard Oil Co
Burke Construction Company
Lafayette Company
Tax policy and city bids frame early Coolidge talk
The speech urges lower taxes and enforcement of existing laws, calling high rates a form of legalized larceny. It notes Lafayette wins the oil bid with a pressure spreading method, plans for a new fire truck, and council debates costs, then emphasizes obedience to law and liberty.
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Coolidge
Local Businesses and Services Directory Listing
Municipal Elec plant KE J Ecker and Son New Home Tel Co Emanuel Dixon State Board of Health Varney Elec Supply Line Material Co Hamilton Drug Co Paul Fry Sales Co Lynch Liston W H McKinney New Home Tel Co Standard Oil Co City Transfer Co
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Municipal Elec
J. Ecker & Son
New Home Tel
Emanuel Dixon
State Board of Health
Varney Elec
Hamilton Drug Co
Paul Fry Sales Co
Lynch & Liston
W. H. McKinney
New Home Tel. Co
Standard Oil Co
City Transfer Co
Robert Owen Rites Corrected Burial Note
Robert Owen died in hospital and was not an orphan as reported. He was the son of Everett Owen of Calvertville and his body was taken there for today’s funeral.
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Robert Owen
Everett Owen
Calvertsville
Woman's Missionary Society Meet at Mrs Bain's Home
The Woman's Missionary society of the First Baptist church will meet Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock with Mrs. Joe Bain at 189 1 street north east.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church
Joe Bain
Former Dugger man killed in Kentucky mine accident
Lloyd Wallace James, 53, formerly of Dugger Indiana and a long time hoisting engineer, was killed at a West Kentucky Coal Company mine shaft near Madisonville Kentucky on March 4. James and two coworkers were at the bottom of a 105 foot shaft when a steel tub used to haul material fell after the top chain broke under the load of sand rock 200 pounds dropped from the tub just before the accident narrowly missing them. James was instantly crushed as the tub fell and broke almost every bone.
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Madisonville
Lloyd Wallace
First American Watchmakers Build Roxbury Plant in 1830
Dennison and How invented machine aided watch parts production and erected the world’s first factory for that purpose in Roxbury Massachusetts beginning American watch manufacture in 1830.
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Aaron Dennison
Edward Howard
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Fry’s Concert
Mgr
Jack Spice
Nic KL
Tonite
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Horse Opera
Harry Carey
Lightning Riders
Eskew
Tyler
Vincennes Street
Nooper
Lothes
AD Osborn
United States
F” St. N. E. Linton, Ind
Old Chase Machine
Burke Co
Wakefield & Miller
Henry Klink
Wilkinson Shr. Co
Baughman Hdw. Co
Linton Water Co
J. B. Curtis
Paul Fry Co
Fechheimer Bros. Co
Jas. Wakefield
New Union Lbr. Co
BE. W. McIintosh
Hamilton Drug Store
Moore-Langen Pty. Co
Sentinel Pty. Co
Wood Preserving Co
Sherwood Service Co
Leather Belting Co
National Meter Co
D, Terhune
America
Broadway
Gayomen
Alan Crosland
Paramount Picture
Saturday Evening Post
Lucy Stone Terrell
Theo Roberts
Viola Dana
Raymond Griffith
Mutual
South Main Street
Terhune
Owen
Baptist Missionary Society
Kentucky
Lloyd Wallace James
First
Well and the Gardner
Crysler
Studebaker
Oakland
Buick
Auburn
North Main Street
Ford
Chevrolet
Star
Maxwell
Dodge
Durant, Gray
E. J. Ecker & Son
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