Birchfield Bandits Escape Plot Thwarted at Tucker Prison
Little Rock reports a Birchfield gang bank robbery plot to poison guards and inmates and to blow up the stockade was halted at Tucker Prison Farm Sunday. Eight dynamite sticks and poison were intercepted in mail to inmates. John Birchfield, jailed for murder, led the gang while Tyre Clark, linked to the case, has a death sentence awaiting potential retrial.
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Little Rock
Ark
Tyre Clark
Vicksburg
Clark
Sulphur Springs
Supreme Cowrt of Arkansas
Supreme Court
Riley family reunion and community notices in Nine Mile area
Nine Mile section reports the Riley family reunion at Theodore Riley home with Eva and Gladys Riley among attendees from Terre Haute Sullivan Lyons Switz City and West Atlas. Also notes visits, sick lists, missionary society gathering at Linton, and typhoid fever cases including John Bohley and Hazel Hirth.
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Jess Miller
D. Q. Edwards
Indianapolis
Clint Beasley
Jessie Light
Edna Hoffeditz
Riley
Theodore Riley
Clifford Forsyth
Henry Scott
Louis Hancock
Myrtle Moore
Terre Haute
Reed Lucas
Willis
Mary
Bobby
Harold Page
Sullivan
Otis Bartley
Madonna
Lyons
Eva Simons
Joe
Hamilton Sharp
Switz City
Howard Lucas
Elmer Lucas
Ellsworth Riley
Gladys
Eva
Claude Martindale
Ward and
Wade
West Atlas
John Blanton
Fidna
Iva
George Arney
Coalmont
Fred Kramer, Jr
Clint Bohley
Howard Bills
Hazel Hirth
Thurmen
Floyd
Lloyd
Alverna
Linton
John Bohley
Clifford Miller
Paris Miller
Betty Grey
D. O. Miller
Adam Miller
Edwin and
Gairl
Vincennes
Fred Strietelmeier
Elmer
Melvin
Marion Bohley
Harold
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Homer Bechtel
Henry Bohley
Abel
Nine Mile Church
Leonard Joffeditz
Tom Mitchell
Vicksburg
Hudson defeated for great junior Sagamore
James M. Hudson, of Greene County, ran for great junior Sagamore at the Improved Order of Red Men sessions in Indianapolis but lost on the first ballot to a city rival. Despite the defeat, Hudson secured solid support from Greene County representatives and many southern Indiana tribes and is expected to contend again next year.
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James M. Hudson
Wilson Smith
John W. Mood
Chas
Lester
Pyers
Oliphant
Great Council of the Improved Order of Red Men
Indianapolis
Hudson
Paramore
Greene County
Indiana
Bloomfield News
Quirks From Hoosierdom A Patchwork of Local News
In Anderson bathers await a nearly finished pool two months late. Manchester reports George W. Smith loses a finger in a sausage grinder. Rochester notes a blooming apple tree despite freezes. Kosciusko county shifts from net importer to shipper of potatoes. Etna Green sees forty high school boys dig a 45 by 16 basin for showers under coach Dickson. Milford records John Bradley, 21, left with a broken back after jacks failed.
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Etna Green
H. D. Dickson
Worker crushed under wagon during lift collapse
A laborer was crushed when a wagon he was beneath collapsed after a lift failure. Emergency crews arrived but the man died at the scene. No further details on identity or location were provided.
King Lightning embroidery needle demo at Variety Store
A factory representative will demonstrate the King Lightning embroidery needle at the Variety store all day Saturday and Saturday evening. The rep has shown over 4,000 needles at the Indiana state fair and a similar number at Ohio and Illinois fairs. A square dance follows at Moose hall Saturday night with music and good times. everyone is invited.
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Indiana
Ohio
Illinois
Moose Hall
Olive Branch Church Welcomes New Members This Sunday
Olive Branch Church invites fellowship for new members during Sunday morning services with the Lord's Supper observed. Sunday night features a young people's night with Rev. Harry Beckman delivering the sermon titled Life's Beginning Corner. Good music will accompany all services.
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Olive Branch
Harry Beckman
New Bus Line From Linton To Spencer Scheduled
A new bus line will run from Linton to Spencer via Switz City Worthington and Freedom starting Monday October 26. Departures from Linton are 7 45 am and 2 30 pm while Spencer departures are 11 00 am and 4 39 pm. H J Pritchard Linton phone 99 2218e.
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Linton
Spencer
Switz City
Worthington
Freedom
H. J. Pritchard
Linton Phone
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First National Service
Birchfield
Tyre Clark Ane
Sagamore
Hoosierdom
United Press Dispatch
Anderson
Manchester
George W. Smith
Rochester
Elmer Gordon
Warsaw
Kosciuske County
Milford
John Bradley
Ryeck Bros
Main Street
America
Columbia
Millon Bat’ery
N. Main’ St
Gore For
Oldsmobile
Germ Sales & Service
Moses
Olive Branch Church
Humphreys, Schloot & Co
Greene County Loan Company
Welch
Nash
Linton Nash Motor Co
Ford
Overland-Hodges Co
Chas. E. Goodman
Main and
Vincennes Sts
Lemuel Buis
Ind
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