Indiana Solons Close Noting Suppression of Radicals
Governor Ed Jackson awaits signatures on many bills as Indiana's 74th legislature adjourns. The session enacted constructive measures while suppressing radical legislation, boosting state revenue through a higher gasoline tax and a comprehensive two year budget of 46.5 million dollars.
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Indianapolis
Assembly
Kissinger
Senate
Penrod
House
Jackson
Riley Memorial Hospital
Cummins Backs Warren Confirmation for Attorney General
Senator Cummins of Iowa urged the Senate to confirm Charles B. Warren as attorney general amid vigorous defense from Republicans and opposition from Democrats and Progressive critics. The administration pressed its final drive to secure Warren's appointment.
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International News Servicl Fashington
Charles B. Warren
Senate Today
Cummins
Iowa
Warren
Summins
Fowler and wife hurt in dynamite blast at Illinois store
H O Fowler father of Glenn Fowler and bodyguard of the late Glen Young suffered severe injuries and his wife was hurt when a dynamite blast wrecked their Herrin grocery store early today. They were thrown from their beds on the second floor. No arrests have been made.
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Ts International News Service
Herrin
Ill
H. O. Fowler
Glenn Fowler
Glenn Young
Fowler
Girl Dies in Flames After Smoke House Fire
Helen Kent age six died from burns sustained while playing in a smoke house on her father’s farm near Cloverdale Indiana. Her mother and father were badly burned trying to put out the fire. In Goshen Indiana Mrs John Colosky perished when fire destroyed her home as she fled from the kitchen.
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International News Service
Evansville
Cloverdale
Helen Kent
Harry Kent
Linternational News Service
Goshen
Ind
John Colosky
Six men jailed in Niles street fighting incident
Six men are jailed in Niles with three more held in Warren on concealed weapons charges after two street corner clashes. Police deny Ku Klux Klan involvement, noting only three shots fired and that a deputy fired into the air to disperse a crowd.
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Niles
Ohio
Warren City
L. J. Round
Finney
Harry Williams
Joe Davis
Davis
Chief Round
Cold Wave To Replace Spring Weather Tonight
A northwest blizzard with 35 mile winds moves in to replace recent springlike warmth. Temperatures are forecast to drop to about 20 degrees in many middle western cities according to the weather bureau.
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Linternational
News Service
Chicago
Mercury
Weather Bureau
Starving Elks Move To Save Wyoming Herd
Dr Frank M Welch a local Izaak Walton League member has organized a drive to raise funds to purchase Jackson Hole land in Wyoming to feed and protect the elk herd now roaming the western mountains. A meeting at the public library tonight aims to mobilize local members and attract supporters to the effort.
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Frank M. Welch
Izaak Walton League
Izaak Walton League of America
Jackson Hole
Wyoming
Welch
South Linton girl in critical condition after stabbing
Two weeks ago at the South Linton school grounds, fourteen year old Marga ret Shearn was stabbed in the right leg with a pocket knife by Thomas Tuttle. The wound reached the bone and blood poisoning followed. an operation was performed yesterday and the mother has shown signs of illness from care.
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Margaret Shearn
Wiliam Shearn
South Linton
Thomas Tuttle
Willoughby Wins In Lower Court Election Challenge
Judge Benjamin M. Willoughby retains Indiana supreme court judgeship as Special Judge C. C. Shirley sustains the defense demurrer to Denton’s motion. Denton of Evansville alleged three county returns miscounted, but the court upheld the incumbent.
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International ‘News Service
Indianapolis
Bnjamin M. Willoughby
Indiana Supreme Court
George K. Denton
Evansville
C. C. Shirley
Superior Court
Shirley
Denton
Willoughby
Gold standard urged as key to world recovery
Belgian foreign minister Paul Hymans told the League of Nations council that restoring the gold standard would greatly aid global economic recovery. Secretary Chamberlain’s statement on the Geneva Protocol was postponed to Thursday.
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International Nws
Geneva
Paul Hymans
League of Nations Council
Chamberlain
Council
It Was His Lower Berth and He Meant to Have It
Mansfield Ohio March 10 a traveling salesman caused a woman to give up an upper bunk her reservation had titled for and claim the lower berth after the porter and conductor failed to deter him. He removed his clothing and declared the berth his own leaving the woman to seek the upper.
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Mansfield
Ohio
Crop reports show U S farm stocks and yields for 1924
Washington March 10. Agriculture department releases show corn on farms March 1 at 801,609,000 bushels 32.9 percent of the 1924 crop and 1,153,847,000 bushels 37.8 percent of 1923. Wheat on farms 113,928,000 bushels 18.1 percent, with 187,717,000 bushels in country mills and elevators 17.3 percent of 1923. Oats 55 342 000 bushels 25.7 percent, barley 43 127 000 bushels 23 percent, hay 37 386 000 tons 83.2 percent with 1924 stocks and 1923 crop comparisons.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Nine Year Gould Estate Suit Nears End
The Gould estate legal fight moves toward closure as last testimony was heard by Referee James A. O Gorman. Attorneys from 35 firms prepared for March 20 arguments with a referee report anticipated this summer in the $82,000,000 case that has produced 10,000 pages of testimony over nine years.
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New York
James A. O’gorman
Jay Gould
Supreme Court
Woman leaps to death from Washington Monument
In Baltimore on March 10 an apparent suicide occurred when 20 year old Margaret Koontz leaped from the 180 foot high Washington Monument after witnesses watched in horror.
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International News Shervice
Baltimore
Margaret Koontz
Washington Monument
Man Sentenced to Hear Sermons by Ohio Evangelist
Theodore Neave was sentenced by Ellen L. Leland to listen to three sermons at the tabernacle in Painesville Ohio instead of prison for disorderly conduct. Dr. George Wood Anderson, the evangelist, will lead the sermons and the magistrate said the preaching would do him more good than months in jail.
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Painesville
Ohio
George Wood Anderson
Theodore Neave
Ellen L. Leland
Neave
Tabernacle
Anderson
Colorado Blizzard Halts Southwest Rail Traffic
Durango Colorado March 10 Rail road traffic in southwestern Colorado is at a standstill due to the season s worst blizzard. Snow and wind halted travel between Durango and Silverton and blocked Gumbores and Lizard Head passes locking the Denver Rio Grande Western and Colorado Southern lines. No suffering or stock losses reported.
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Col
Colorado
Here
Silverton
Gumbres Pass
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Lizard Head Pass
Colorado & Southern
Marcellus Seeks One Man for Water Works and More
The Michigan village of Marcellus advertises for a water works superintendent street commissioner town marshal and library janitor in one candidate. The town clerk adds in the ad that the successful applicant must provide his own life insurance.
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Elkhart
Ind
Michigan
Marcellus
Insull Gains Control Of Indiana Service Corp
A $20 million Indiana service corporation passes under Samuel Insull of Chicago and associates with a new board. Insull named chairman, Charles Chase and Samuel Insull join as directors. Robert Feuster re-elected president to continue managing power and street railway services across multiple Indiana cities.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Samuel Insull
Chicago
Insull
Charles Chase
Gary Street Railways Company
Robert Feuster
Indiana
Nine Year Old Recovers After Near Funeral Ordeal
Roscoe E. Qualis nine of Madisonville Kentucky fell skating on a farm pond causing brain concussion and paralysis. Doctors feared death and his parents planned funeral arrangements but the boy woke hours later and began to recover after a long crisis.
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Madisonville
Maron
Roscoe E. Qualis
Roscoe
First Fish Story of 1925 Season Nets Large Bass
In Terre Haute on March 10 Clarence Gossage of 1023 South Ninth street caught what is believed to be the largest inland bass in the central states. The seven pound nine ounce fish was pulled from Greenfield bayou south of Terre Haute after a brief fight begun at about 6am with a white-bodied red-headed plug. Gossage fished with Dave Sonier Charles Kantmann and Ray Kruzan.
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Terre Haute
Central States
Greenfield Bayou
Clarence Gossage
South Ninth Street
Gossage
Izaak Walton
Bayou
Dave Sonier
Charles Kantmann
Ray Kruzan
Bishop Quayle Dies Suddenly At Home
Bishop William A. Quayle of the Methodist Episcopal church died at Greenhaven Baldwin Kansas after a heart attack left him unconscious. He had been bedridden for days but dictated articles and letters for over two hours yesterday morning before his death.
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Baldwin, Kas
William A. Quayle
Methodist Episcopal Church
Greenhaven
Quayle
German election day set for March 29 in Berlin
The Reichstag adopted the government proposal designating March 29 as presidential election day and April 26 for a possible second ballot to elect a successor to President Ebert. The bill also had its second reading appointing Dr. Walter Simons as acting president.
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Berlin
Ebert
Reichstag
Walter Simons
Insurgent Senators Lose Committee Seats in Senate Shakeup
The Senate voted 64 to 11 to remove four insurgent Republicans from standing committees. James E. Watson of Indiana becomes Interstate Commerce chair, replacing Robert M. La Follette who drops to a lower rank as the coalition with insurgents collapses.
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Washington
Senate
Administration
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Ellison D. Smith
South Carolina
Interstate Commerce Committee
James E. Watson
Indiana
Mystery man dies on Beaver Island in exile from Russia
Beaver Island mourns Dr. Proter a longtime benevolent figure who aided locals without charge. Rumored to be Baron Pletn a political exile from Russia and former German newspaper publisher in Rock Island Ill he arrived in 1893 and shared his life with the poor until recent destitution.
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Beaver Island
Mich
Dr. Proter
Pennsy plans to buy C and E I railroad
Evansville nd March 10 Purchase of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad by the Pennsylvania system is proposed in a communication from Samuel Rea, president of the Pennsy lines, made public here. He also says the company contemplates acquiring the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh and New England lines to create a through system from New York to St Louis, with reach to Chicago and southward.
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Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
Pennsylvania
Samuel Rea
Pennsy Lines
Rea
Lehigh Valley
Lehigh & New England
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Ansville
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