Howdy Joins Fox Special for Third International 500
Indianapolis driver Howard Wilcox, longtime racer nicknamed Handsome Howdy, has been nominated to drive the Fox Special in the third annual 500 mile International Swepstaken Race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30. He began racing as a boy, winning the Five mile Southern Championship in New Orleans in 1909 and holding speed records on the stock chassis beach straightaway and the five mile Atlantic Pablo course.
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Howard Wilcox
Indianapollis Motor Speedway
Indianapolis
New Orleana
Atlantic Pablo
W- Cox
Handsome Howdy
Europe Sends Cars to Indianapolis Race Trial
European cars led by a Sunbeam and two Peugeots will enter the third annual International Sweepstakes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 29 and May 30. Speedway director Charles Sedwick negotiated with Sunbeam and Peugeot officials in Europe to bring top European machinery to challenge American entries. He argued the Speedway offers a faster course than Brooklands and the dual race would showcase European and American competition at the premier event.
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Indianapolis Moteor Speedway
Sunbeam
Brookelds
England
Indianapolis Speedway
Charles W. Sedwick
Speedway
Evgrove
Indianapolis
Sedwick
New York
Ahern
Indiansapoli Fv
Automaie
Eurojis
Peugeot
Tate
Charles W. Fedwick
Europe
Brookfields
Manor Motor Speedway
Amer
Spring millinery and Rexall Shop notices dominate local ads
A busy column of local notices lists millinery designs from M Sargent and Laughlin Sisters plus Rexall Store promotions on dyes paints seeds and fish. Residents including Raph Gintz Pearl Seneff Fred Toon and others travel to nearby towns with multiple Monday Wednesday and Tuesday movements. The Oscar Perkins livery barn at Elnora is offered for rental or sale and local businesses urge attention to spring offers.
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Oscar Perkins
Elnora
O'Donnell-Banows-Cochran Co
Corner Store Promises Low Prices In Odon Ad
A poem extols Still town commerce highlighting the Corner Store in Odon offering low prices and friendly service. It praises lighted streets from a nearby power plant and notes a wide drugstock and biscuits from Odon's flour mill as customers visit despite bad weather.
Footlights and Dreams Return as Actress Contemplates Stage
A mature actress sighs by the fireside recalling a hundredth Gimlet performance at Van Rensselaer. She studies photos of herself as Fiiesie Floom and Toto Bongo, muses on theater life, and questions sewing and art before returning to the stage.
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Fiiesie Floom
Toto Bongo
Minerva van Skinner
van Rensselaer
House Split Upon the Sand at Newton Gas and Electric
The Newton Gas and Electric Company faces receivership due to neglect of a Scripture backed warning about its sandland plant. The firm, described as a large concern, risks suspension of business unless it moves to firmer ground. no funds exist for relocation and a receivership petition is contemplated. Liabilities include 146000 in bonds and 3654 in other claims.
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Newton
N. J
Bende
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Tal Hewitt
Rexall
Fred Toon
Burns City
J.B. Anderson
M. Sargent
Stella Gillaspie
Daniel
Kelsey, Odon
A. D. Jackson
Wm. Brammitt
Riverside
F. Myers
North Dakota
A. P. Chinn
Hazel
Clarence Pownall
Nora
Claude Sipes
Linton
A. A. Lane
Severe Haute
Ww. T. Dearmin
Terre Haute
J. M. Henson
Jasonville
Lillie Sommers Cox
N. B. Inman
Indian Springs
Laughlin Sisters
Fiolla Smiley
Castle Myers
Wes Neideigh
Newberry
Hever Ledgerwood
Cale Yuesday
T. A. Williamson
L D. Vickershare
Jas. Watson
Worthington
Mrntty Quackenbush
Ladies of
M. E. Harch
Payne & Stotts
Main Street
Kathryn Goosey
French Auick
Jasper Laughlin
J. D. Laughlin
M. B. Fisher
Washington
The
W.C. IT. U
Mt. Olive
Fred Myers
Robert
Storch
Washington, Ind
Indiana
Still
Odon
Bly's
London
Norfolk
W. J. Danner
Odon Drug Co
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