Town promotion notes on growth and new industry
An editorial reflects on the Board of Trade’s role in promoting town growth through attracting industries. It discusses personal outreach, reputational building, and the balance between inviting outside investment and keeping local residents engaged. The piece contrasts past May Day traditions with modern urban mobility and suggests productive celebration through work and civic effort.
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Board of Trade
Clogan Quen
Europe
Historic Eleutherian College Building Condemned in Lancaster
The Old Eleutherian College in Lancaster is condemned by health officials and will no longer serve as a schoolhouse. Once a prewar educational site for African Americans and later a high school and church, the landmark played a key role in local pride and history.
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Eleutherian College
Lancaster
Lancaster Township
John A. Cravens
Cravens
Presbyterian
Methodists
Roger Carey Cravens
Don't Wait Kidney Back Ache Ad From Madison Dairy
A Madison man recounts kidney trouble and bladder inflammation and credits Dean's Kidney Pills with relief. The advertisement notes the product costs 50 cents and is sold by dealers. Foster Milburn Co. is listed as the maker.
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Madison
K. W. Galusha
Mulberry St
Dean
Mr. Galusha
Foster-Milburn Co., Props
Buffalo
N.Y
Adv
Farmer Suffers Sunstroke In Record 110 Degree Day
Oliver Peters, 50, plowing near Vevay Indiana, suffered sunstroke as a heat wave gripped the region. A physician resuscitated him but he remains in serious condition. Government thermometers recorded 110 degrees in the sun, the hottest for sixty years at this date.
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Vevay
Ind
Oliver Peters
Movies in Sunlight Opens New Exhibition Era
In New York on April 24 reports note open air moving picture theatres will offer afternoon and evening shows. Albert Oswald Buechner of Zurich and Antal Fodor of Paris have invented a device enabling moving pictures in bright sunshine, recently demonstrated in perfected form. The invention promises a major expansion for the industry.
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New York
Albert Oswald Buechner
Zurich
Antal Fodor
Rural areas bear higher death toll in state last month
State health board reports 3,732 total deaths with 1,945 in rural areas and 1,787 in cities. Births reached 5,07)0 with 2,685 boys and 2,485 girls. Quake county tops birth increase at 368 percent.
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State Board of Health
Quake
Car hits man injuring cousin of W L Baker in Indianapolis
Maurice Baker twenty five son of W L Baker of 2167 North Meridian street was struck by a touring car driven by George Stein of 443 West Thirty ninth street near the Washington street and South Capitol avenue corner. Witnesses say Stein's car ran at high speed and the traffic officer did not grant right of way. Baker suffered a broken leg and other injuries and was taken to St Vincent's hospital. Stein was arrested on assault and battery charges.
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Maurice Baker
W. L. Baker
North Meridian Street
George Stein
West Thirty-ninth Street
Baker
South Capitol Avenue
West Washington Street
Stein
St. Vincent's Hospital
Ned Stewart
North Illinois Street
Tonneau
Indianapolis News
Trade Of All Allies Suffered Far Less Than Britain
The U S department of commerce reports Britain and allies show reduced exports to the United States during seven months ending January with Britain down about 200 000 Belgium and others showing varied losses and gains while Germany posts larger gains in leather wool goods and art works The overall allied export losses to America total 43 million versus Germany 15.8 million and Russia accounts for negligible trade.
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Washington
Great Britain
Department of Commerce
France
United States
Belgium
Germain
Dritain
Germany
America
Russia
New Milton Christian Church to Dedicate in May
The new Christian church in Milton Kentucky built last summer for two thousand dollars will be dedicated on the third Sunday in May. Elder H T Martin will preach the sermon.
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Milton
New Christian Church
H. T. Martin
Russia Seeks American Goods After War Ends
Sazonoff the Russian foreign minister urges strong U S relations and a flood of American manufactured goods. He notes Germany cut off Russian demand, and Russia will seek supplies from the United States once the war ends, urging American manufacturers to deploy agents to learn Russian markets.
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Chicago
Petrograd
Tribune
M. Sazonoff
America
Germany
Russia
Woman Swallows False Teeth in Bedford
Mrs Adaline Dodd of Bedford Indiana swallowed her fake teeth and lies in serious condition at her home. Doctors expect to perform an operation to remove them.
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Bedford
Ind
Adaline Dodd
Tramp’s Thanksgiving Ends With Rescue of Pup
A photo feature story tells of a tramp who befriends a sick fox terrier on a freight train. He risks his life to save the pup when he leaps to the ground at Forest Hills. In a hospital, the dog is found by a nurse and the man asks to be allowed to eat, then joyfully reunites with the terrier as he thanks God for mercy.
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Boston
Forest Hills
Firearm discharge in sleep shocks Kansas City neighborhood
Joseph Sharder a Roumanian was arrested after firing a revolver near his home while asleep claiming he dreamed chickens were being stolen. He was overpowered by Patrolman P L Savidge and awoke only when taken into custody. The incident rattled the north side of Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Joseph Sharder
North Side Court
P. L. Savidge
Sharder
Charles Clark
False teeth removed after Mrs Dodd’s coughing spell
Bedford Indiana April 24 Mrs Frank Dodd wife of a prominent farmer east of the city recovering after swallowing eight false teeth during a severe coughing attack. The teeth lodged above the stomach and have been removed safely.
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Bedford
Ind
Frank Dodd
Sykes suit settles with McMillan Stone Co for 2400
In Bedford a case by John Sykes against McMillan Stone Co for 10000 settled out of court with the company paying the plaintiff 2400. In Tipton thieves stole 11 hams and 10 shoulders from Fred Foster’s smokehouse on Normanda pike. In bourbon Tippecanoe canning factory burned after a lightning strike, loss about 4800 with two thirds insured. rebuild planned. Malaga Spain exports orange peel by the ton.
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Bedford
John Sykes
McMillan Stone Company
Tipton
Fred Foster
Normanda Pike
Bourbon
Tippecanoe
German plans to boost Belgium farming via crops shift
German authorities in Belgium aim to make the country self supporting by increasing corn potatoes and other crops and reducing reliance on sugar beets. This shift underscores wartime agricultural priorities as authorities seek domestic food production.
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Belgium
Berlin
With Your Eyes Shut
A short instructional note urges readers to test spatial awareness by actions with eyes closed, such as placing paper on the floor and attempting to tread or lift it and locating a pin in the wall without groping. The piece then states forty five towns in Great Britain have populations over 100,000.
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Great Britain
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