Government Plan to Fairly Distribute Fuel Amid Strikes
President Harding backed by Hoover and Daugherty implements an emergency plan under ICC to route cars and distribute coal and food. State committees coordinate with operators and railways while governors organize state efforts to supply regions in need and curb profiteering as mine and railroad strikes persist.
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Bavaria
Berlin
Harding
Washington
T. de Witt Cuyler
American Association of Railway Executives
Jewell
Railway Labor Board
White House
Cuyler
New York
Western Roads
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Daugherty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interior
Fair
Commerce Hoover
Aitchison
Indiana Brevities in the Elwood Area Canning Season Advances
In Madison county seven packing houses plan an earlier start to canning with tomatoes due by August 10. VanCamp has contracts for 1,000 acres and Frazier Packing 1,500 acres. the latter will run into January on catsup contracts, much of it for the United States Navy. Factories seek fuel and water from the state as coal supplies run low.
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Elwood
Madison County
VanCamp Company
Frazier Packing Company
United States Navy
Valparaiso
Porter County
Pine Township
Furnessville
Isaac Huffman
Burdick
Lafayette
Lesh
Indiana
Indiana State Soldiers’ Home
Gary
Lake County
Monticello
White County
Evansville
Vanderburg County
Anderson
Union Traction Company of
General Headquarters
Thomas Harvey
Marengo
Indianapolis
Public Service Commission
Commission
Wimberg Park
Wimberg Avenue
Cynthiana Road
Memorial Park Cemetery
Nashville
Brown County
Jacob Beach
Madison County Farmers’ Association
Federated Marketing
Indiana Federation of Farmers’ Associations
Federated Marketing Service
Hammond
Milk Products Co-Operative Marketing Organization
St. John
American Farm Bureau Committee
Pat
South Bend
Whitley County
Noble
Starke
Dekalb
Jasper
Steuben
Kosciusko
Jeffersonville
Oscar Johnson
St. Joseph
United States
Decatur
Adams County
Marion
Indiana State Federation of Labor
Warsaw
Joan Zehner
Roann
J. C. Hay
Silver Lake
C. F. Kelly
Zehner
Hastings Man Recalls Indian Arrow Through Two Brothers
Nat Martin, now 74 and living in Hastings Nebraska, survived being shot with an Indian arrow that went through his body into his brother Robert. The boys were struck while returning home from haying with their father wounded at least once. the father fled but returned with the family to find them alive. The brothers endured injuries, crawled to the barn, were treated next morning, and Nat remains in Hastings with the battle scar and a tale of the incident.
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Hastings, Neb
Hastings
Nat Martin
Robert
Nat
Boye
Fort Kearney
Ragged Miser Leaves $69,000 in East Side Home
A penniless East Side resident named Leopold died leaving $69,000 in stocks bonds and valuables in his dingy New York home. The stash was found during a search for his real name to register the grave marker with a white headboard in the potter's field.
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New York
Leopold
New York City
Potter's Field
Woman’s testimonial touts Lydia E Pinkham's remedy
A letter from Mrs. A M Burk of Wauseon Ohio praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for a daughter's backache leg ache and renewed strength. The notice urges mothers to consider the remedy and allows publication as a testimonial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Wauseon
Ohio
Sixth Sense Saves Train From Likely Wreck
Sunbury engineer Robert Getz felt something wrong under his locomotive and halted the train carrying 100 passengers. A brake rigging hung by a shred of chain under the tank. its drop could have caused a severe wreck, railroad men warned.
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Robert Getz
Sunbury
Getz
First Young Doctor and Judge Talk Prohibition Era Practice
A dialogue sketch shows a judge commenting on starting medical practice before prohibition and a young doctor answering that progress is fine. The exchange contrasts readiness and restraint, with the judge offering cautious nods.
Charles Performs First Stage Appearance
Charles participated in holiday exercises marking his first stage appearance. He felt nervous, but his mother praised his effort while he admitted his voice was the real source of fear rather than his nerves.
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Charles
One or the Other Flubb Age on Women
An old New York Sun item hints that if Flubb-Age does not reveal something about a woman her best friend will. The note frames social expectations and backchat among women in a brief column style.
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Dubb
New York Sun
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