Indiana Brevities Highlights From Across the State
Indiana brief items cover events in Indianapolis Richmond South Bend and other cities. Plans for a state War Mothers convention in October. freight rate collaboration at the Indianapolis chamber. Richmond bids for a $240000 junior high school. a radio motion picture transmitter by C Francis Jenkins. South Bend expansion at Studebaker to 20000 employees. civil and professional licensure cases in Indianapolis. new Wabash river bridge at Attica. Mason grand officers named. tax office rehearings and appraisals. tomato paper culture trial near Fairmount. St Joseph Catholic Federation elections. Grand Army meeting site chosen. Michigan City Masonic temple plans. rye harvest forecasts. osteopathy lobbying for unrestricted practice.
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Indianapolis
American War Mothers
Indiana
State Chamber of Commerce Traffic Bureau
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
Richmond
Richmond Board of Education
C. Francis Jenkins
Washington, D. C
South Bend
Studebaker Corporation
George W. Hereth
State Board For
Registration of
Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors
American Association of Engineers
Wabash River
Attica
Fountain County
State Highway Department
Highway Department
Grand Lodge of
Robert W. Phillips
Charles .A. Lippincott
Lee Dinwiddie
Fowler
Albert W. Funkhouser
Evansville
Frank E. Gavin
William TW. Schntz
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Fairmont
Fairmount
Hawaii
Florida
California
Evimsville
Mllinois
Kentucky
Indiana Osteopathic Association
Wayne
F. Guy Sprague
Allen County Grand Jury
Sprague
Ft. Wayne
Hammond
Merchants’ Improvement Association of
Liberty Light and Power Company
Richmond Municipal Light Company
Brookville Company
James FB. Roberts
Marion County
Indianapolis Foundation
Brooksville
Franklin County
Tobacco Growers’ Cooperative Association
State Highway Commission
LeRoy F. Wertz
John D. Williams
Wertz
Williams
Lawrence Lyons
Commission
Lawrence Sheridan
Camp Pike
Ark
Rail workers' pay slashed by 1 to 5 cents an hour
Chicago May 30 1920 400000 maintenance of way employees face wage cuts of 1 to 5 cents an hour starting July 1 saving about 448 million annually. The Labor Board notes the scale reverts toward pre federal control levels with limited rate changes on select divisions amid a dissent warning the cuts fail to meet basic living standards.
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Chicago
Railroad Labor Board
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
A. O. Wharton
Albert Phillips
W. L. McM2nimon
Cook County
Smuggled Gems Seized in Chicago Vault
Federal agents seized $35,000 in diamonds hidden in a safety deposit vault in the Masonic Temple building. May Grenneder and Anna Herzog allegedly ran a diamond smuggling operation from Austria, with three more suspects including a physician linked to the case. Detective Sergeant John Bahm notes the arrests will extend the inquiry.
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Chicago
Grenneder
Anna Herzog
Austria
Masonic Temple
Vienna
Max Grenneder
North Shore Roadhouse
John Bahm
Bahn
North Side
Bryan gifts Lincoln estate for hospital use
William Jennings Bryan announced via Methodist church pulpits that his ten acre Lincoln estate named Stair View will be presented to the Lincoln Methodist hospital board. The Bryan home will be remodeled immediately for hospital use.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Stairview
Lincoln Methodist Hospital Board
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Akron factory grants 10 percent wage increase
Akron May 30. The Firestone Tire and Rubber company announced a 100 percent wage increase for factory departments. The rise is attributed to a shortage of skilled tire workers and aims to attract and retain labor.
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Akron
Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Bandit and Homeowner Die in Los Angeles Duel
In Los Angeles on May 30 a teenage bandit about sixteen and the house owner were killed during a confrontation as the thief was discovered robbing the residence. The incident ended in a deadly duel between the intruder and the homeowner.
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Los Angeles
Battle in Ireland as Ulster police seize Belleek village
London reports Churchill says Britain will not withdraw all troops from Dublin. In Belleek district fighting erupts along the County Donegal Fermanagh border after Ulster police seize Belleek village and Mugserenens castle. Five republicans and one constable killed. looting and arson accompany the week end clashes.
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London
Winston Spencer Churchill
House of Commons
Great Britain
Dublin
Belfast
Ulster Special Constabulary
Donegal
Fermanagh
Belleek
Ulster Police
Mugserenens Castle
Free State
Lough Ernes
Talbot Street
Shaftesbury Avenue
Navy's New Fog Screen Could Cut Costs and Increase Obscurity
Washington reports the U S Navy is testing a dense fog screen to replace black smoke. Rear Admiral Robinson testified before a Senate committee that the fog screen would be more impenetrable, cheaper to produce, and reduce boiler wear by feeding above the boilers below the outlets.
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Washington
Jutland
Robinson
Bureau of Engineering
Senate
Admiral Robinson
Engineering Bureau
Audrey Munson Improves After Poison Incident
Miss Audrey Munson the former Queen of the Studios and famed model was pronounced markedly improved after swallowing poison in a personal crisis. Her physician expressed hope for a full recovery in Syracuse on May 30.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Audrey Munson
The Burning of a Good Book in Jeremiah Time
Lesson text traces Jeremiah 36 on Jehoiakim burning the roll read by Baruch. It notes the king's destruction of the book, Baruch and Jeremiah's arrest, and its rewrite by divine command. Themes include the indestructibility of God's Word and the dangers of rejecting scripture.
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Jeremiiah
Jehoiakim
King
Jeremiah
Israel
Judah
Baruch
Michaiah
Jehudi
God
The Route to Heaven Feltham Quote Card
The Route to Heaven. Show me the man who would go to heaven alone, and I will show you one who will never be admitted there. The line asks readers to consider humility and shared virtue as essential paths to salvation.
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Heaven
Feltham
Satisfied Mindset Promotes Quiet Confidence
A short maxim urges be satisfied with one's own work and let others judge. It emphasizes inner contentment over external validation and suggests quiet confidence derives from steady effort rather than public praise.
Dampness of Error Refrains From Truth
Quote attributed to Tupper about how error distorts truth, noting that nothing remains perfectly true when dampened by error.
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Tupper
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Praised by Woman
Kenosha Wisconsin mother extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for postnatal female troubles. She says it helped her after childbirth and urges other women to try it with confidence. The advertisement notes the remedy has been used for nearly fifty years and comes from mothers and grandmothers.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Carlyle on Insight and the Business Mind
The quote argues that true likeness comes from sympathy and a businesslike faculty to discern reality, not mere surface appearance. It emphasizes that genuine perception requires interior insight and the capacity to see the essential type in objects and situations.
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Carlyle
Its Clever to Utilize the Present for Future Strangle Hold
Fragmentary musing notes emphasize shaping the future through present actions. The line highlights strategic thinking about momentum and control, implying foresight and deliberate planning.
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St. Joseph’s Catholic Federation of Societies of
Otto Kreuchberger
A. W. Miller
Frank G. Rupp
Edward Dietz
Connersville
Munele
Grand Army of the Republic, Department of Indiana
Michigan City
Bloomington
Psi Iota Xi
Rainbow Veterans’ Organization of Indiana
Robert H. Tyndall
One Hundred and Fiftieth Field Artillery
Organization of Rainbow Veterans
Austin Seward
Paul N. Fechtman
Ralph H. Phelps
Public Service Commission
U. S
France
Pryan Home
Secretary of State
Methodist Church
Henry H. Marmaduke
Merrimac
Ireland
Republican Army
NAVY
Queen OF Studios
P. EB. Fitzwater
D. DD
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Pythagoras
Bright
Doan
Emma
Wins
E. Dowling St
Kendallville
Ind
Dean
Foster-Milburn CO
Buffalo, N. Y
Allen
Intento
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