Two Meager children drown in Dry Branch flood
Gordon eight and Mildred seven Meager of Crawfordsville drowned after falling into Dry Branch while playing near their home on Tuttle avenue. Their bodies were found hours later. In Daviess County residents fled rising floodwaters as White River bottoms overflowed and rail lines were washed. Damages from the high water were extensive with trains delayed and tracks submerged near Wabash and Martinsville.
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Crawfordsville
Gordon Meager
Mildred Meager
William Meager
Dry Branch
Tuttle Avenue
White River
Daviess County
Jesse Williams
Indiana Service Corporation
Wabash
Peru
Points Weet
Newabiy
Indiana Services Corporation
Lmits
Union Traction Company
Martinsville
Indian Creek
Big Four
Mahalasville
Morgantown
Church Reunion Voted in Indiana Evangelical Conference
Plymouth April 3 Two major actions marked the Indiana conference of the Evangelical association now in Bremen. Reunion of the Evangelical association and the United Evangelical church scheduled for October 1. A $150000 contract let for the Old People's Home to be built near New Carlisle in LaPorte County. Indiana conference to contribute $50,000 to the building fund.
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Plymouth
Indiana
The
Evangelical Association
Bremen
United Evangelical Church
New Charlisle
Laporte County
Reservoir work speeds up in Salem project on Etzler Hill
April 3 report notes rushing construction of a million gallon reservoir to support a new water supply system. The facility on Etzler hill will provide water under oil conditions and fire protection for town additions.
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Salemn
Wieter
Etzler Hill
Miss Mary Brown Escapes Fireball Injury Then Fractures Arm
New Albany reports Miss Mary Brown daughter of Charles C. Brown escaped serious harm when a case line heated iron exploded at her home. Fragments blew through the ceiling and the next day she tripped on a yard wire fracturing her right arm. She is in City hospital.
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Civl
New Albany
Mary Brown
Charles C. Brown
City Hospital
Two Suspects Arrested in Des Arc Bank Robbery Attempt
Two youths identified as A. D. McCandish, twenty, of Attica Indiana, and H. Co. Larch of Tab, Indiana, were arrested in Little Rock as suspects in an attempted Des Arc bank robbery. They were driving a small car with Indiana license 68688.
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Little Rock
Ark
A. D. Mce- Candish
Attica
H. Co. Larch
Tab
Ind
Des Arc
Indiana
Bank Robbery Targets Safety Boxes in Rush County
Yeggmen robbed safety deposit boxes in the First National Bank at Mays in northern Rush county. The money safe was not entered and officials could not estimate losses due to no records of private box contents.
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Rushville
First National Bank
Mays
Rush County
Isaac B Waters Dead in Pittsboro at Ninety
Isaac B Waters aged ninety, longtime Pittsboro furniture dealer and undertaker, died at his home April 3. He was the town’s oldest resident, born in Brown County in 1832 and had lived in the same house for many years.
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Isaac B. Waters
Pittsboro
Isaacc B. Waters
Mr. Waters
Brown County
Pacts Approved and Naval Limits Backed In Senate
The Senate ratified the Washington conference naval limitation pact by 74 to 1 with France voicing lone opposition. It swiftly approved the poison gas ban and submarine restrictions, and cleared nine power China pacts. Debate on military strength and budget followed as administration and party factions clash over army and navy sizes.
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Hives
Senate
France
Maryland
Washington
United States
Borah
Johnson
California
Pacific
Navy General Board
J King
Utah
Wadsworth
New York
United States Army
China
Wilson
Naval treaty urged cuts threaten smaller navy than Japan
The naval appropriations subcommittee led by Representative Pat Kelley plans to reduce enlisted personnel to 65 000, a cut that would leave the U S navy far smaller than Japan despite the treaty establishing parity with Britain.
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Great Britain
Japan
Naval Appropriations
House
Pat Kelley
Michigan
War Department budget mocked by pork barrelling river work
The House passed an army appropriation of about 288 million dollars, but lawmakers added 15 million more to the river and harbor continuation fund. Budget officials favored 27 million, while Mann of Illinois led the pork barrel push, despite Mondell Burton and others objections. President Harding criticized the defiance of the budget system and pledged to uphold it.
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War Department
Budget Bureau
Appropriations Committee
House
Mann
Ilinois
Mondell
Wyoming
Burton
Ohio
Harding
Great coal strike shuts down mines across the nation
Midnight Friday saw 595,000 miners walk out in all unionized bituminous and anthracite mines. Leaders say the walkout could last about sixty days as both sides prepare to push wage and production contract demands amid potential nonunion labor use in Pittsburgh, southern Ohio, Kanawha and Illinois.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
Kanawha
Illinois
International
Indiana
Lloyd George policy on Cannes Genoa conference at stake
The article outlines Lloyd George's plan to submit the Cannes Genoa basis to the House of Commons for approval with party allies warning a 300 vote majority is required for him to remain in office. It notes Britain’s cautious stance toward Russia and describes Near East diplomacy and the Greco Turkish settlement with Greek and Turkish positions, plus a woodland tale about Effie Elf and Pink Lady's Slipper.
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House
Senate
Rogers
Massachusetts
Mearthur
Oregon
Skolai Lenin
Soviet
Russia
Genoa
Italy
Riga
Berlin
Lenin
Dremier Lloyd George
House of Commons
Supreme Council
Cannes
Lloyd George
Asia Minor
Paris
Constantinople
Smyrna
Thrace
Rodosto
Adrianople
Black Sea
Golden Horn
GalHpoli
Dardanelles
Gounaris
Lord Byron
Effie Init
Daddy
Effie Elf
Peeling
Wood Fairy
Effie Eff
When Will John Smith Be Thrice His Son
John Smith is forty five and his son twelve. In four and a half years John will be forty nine and a half and his son sixteen and a half, making John three times his son's age.
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John Smith
Gossip and Slander Sermon Precedes Hymn in Suburban Service
In a Boston Transcript brief a suburban minister finished a sermon titled Gossip and Slander and announced the hymn I Love to Tell the Story as the service moved to its closing chorus.
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Slaving
Boston Transcript
Ideal Husband Yet Honest Man Hard to Find
A reflective line questions whether a truly ideal husband exists, noting the rarity of an honest partner. The remark frames expectations of marriage with wit and skepticism.
The Charm of a Spotless Bathroom Advertisement
A vintage advertisement extolls a bathroom as spot free with Red Cross Ball Blue. It claims cloths and towels stay white until worn out, promoting the product as a whitening aid for laundry.
Laugh and the world laughs with you line
A wry saying notes that humor bridges gaps as laughter is contagious even when aimed at the world. The quip reflects social amusement and shared mood in gatherings and everyday life.
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Katherine Thompson
Wilmington
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Leonard Wood
Prince of Wales
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King Edward VII
Delhi
Rotary International
C. C. McCullough
Navy
Denby
Rotary
Arlington Cemetery
Edward W. Pickard
Congress
Pershing
Starbord
Anthony
Kansas
Weeks
Hawaii
Panama
Tinois
Ireland
Free State
Ulster
Freeman's Journal
Dublin
Pink Lady
Effie
Lady
Darry Graham Bonner
Iter
Mastin
Fletcher
Doan
G. Hatfield
Cor. S. Washington
McKinley Sts
Jasonville
Dean
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Dggett Lycra
King Pin Plug Tobacco
Neusexcello
Labes-Hsus-Ondeer
Phospoor Bronze
Nu-Way Street Suspender Co
Mirs
Adrian, Mich
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