Miss Mercer Swerves To Avoid Pedestrians In Flood Incident
Miss Lillian Mercer driving a Maxwell sedan escaped collision with a man and a small boy at Second and Chestnut streets in Brownstown. A fire plug shattered, water flooded the area, and both Mercer and companion Miss Gertrude Lucas were briefly injured. Repair crews replaced the plug and restored water service within hours.
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Maxwell
Lillian Mercer
First National Bank
Brownstown
Gertrude Lucas
W. F. Peter
Seymour Water Company
Peter
Mercer
Second Street
Chestnut Street
Miss Mercer
Planing Mill Fails to Obtain Mechanic's Lien
The Seymour Planing Mill Company failed to secure a mechanic's lien on Mrs. William Combs's Rockford property for a 229 claim tied to materials bought by her husband. Judge James A. Cox ruled against the company for not filing suit within the 60 day limit after purchase, despite judgment against Mr. Combs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seymour Planing Mill Company
William Combs
Rockford
James A. Cox
Meenanic
Combs
Masonic Notice for M M degree gathering
Masons urged to attend as the lodge opens at 6 00 p m for work in the M M degree led by Travis Carter W M and all members urged to be present
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Carter
W. M
Tip's Yellow Taxi Ad Notice
Local ad noting Tip Richardson operates Tip's Yellow Taxi with a phone and residence listed as 67. Service offered anywhere at any time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tip
Tip Richardson
Sunshine And Snowballs From Denver On The Move
Denver delegates plan to ship snow from the Continental Divide to Cleveland by express for the Rotary International convention. The snow will travel in a refrigerator car via the Moffat Railroad and then by express to back Denver’s slogan Sunshine and Snowballs Denver 1926 spent next week in Ohio.
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Denver
Colo
Cleveland
Rotary Clubs
Ohio City
Moffat
Daily Vacation Bible School Opens At First Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church will conduct Daily Vacation Bible School starting next Monday at 8 in the church gym. Open to children ages six to fifteen, the four week program runs three hours each morning from 8 to 11. Enrollment stands at 108 with possible walk ins.
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First Baptist Church
Sherwood Speaks at Rural Education Conference
Dr. H. N. Sherwood Indiana superintendent urged equal opportunity for Indiana school children at a noon luncheon during a rural education conference. The event drew educators from twenty southern counties and local businessmen. 87 attended the luncheon as described by Harry B. Henderson.
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H. N. Sherwood
Indiana
Harry B. Henderson
Brownstown
Jackson County
Sherwood
United States
Knights of Pythias Memorial Service Notice
All Knights will meet in Castle Hall at 10:00 Sunday morning for a memorial service at the First Baptist church. This follows Supreme Lodge Law to be obeyed. Signed T. R. Carter K. RB. & 5.
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Castle Hall
First Baptist Church
Supreme Lodge
Knights of Pythias meet to decorate deceased brothers
All Brother Knights are summoned to Castle Hall at 6 50 Sunday morning to decorate the graves of deceased brothers.
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Castle Hall
T. KR. Carter
K. BR
Columbus Fair Gears Up for July 3 4 Celebrations
At the Columbus fairgrounds a large two day event unfolds on July 3 and 4. Racing events anchor a program featuring twelve major free acts and a bigger brighter celebration than before.
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Columbus Fair Grounds
No Loophole in Local Ordinance
Supreme Court decision in Real Silk Hosiery Mills v Portland appears not to affect the local ordinance on transient merchants and peddlers. Seymour requires an adequate bond to protect consumers but adds no license requirement. Local attorney T Harlan Montgomery notes the ordinance remains in effect despite the high court ruling.
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United States Supreme Court
Indianapolis
Portland
Ore
T. Harlan Montgomery
Bankers favor vigilantes here in Seymour Indiana
Indiana bankers push local citizen vigilante committees to guard banks against bandits. Banks have distributed firearms to merchants and business men within reach, with plans modeled after the Iowa Vigilantes system. National guardsmen are unlikely to be stationed in Jackson county banks.
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Jackson County
Indiana Bankers Association
D. Billings
First National Bank
State Bankers Association
Seymour
Indiana
Indiana State Bankers Association
Iown
Corn for Cal Preserves for Mrs Coolidge Visit by Indiana Club Winners
President Coolidge met ten Indiana children chosen from 15 000 members of the Indiana boys and girls club in Washington. They earned prizes for corn raising baking canning sewing and promoting state health. The group presented the President with prize corn and Mrs Coolidge with a jar of preserved pears. Harold Peter of Evansville was among the winners.
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Coolidge
Indiana
Indi
Harold Peter
Evansville
New Postal Rates Expected to Boost Local Revenues
Postmaster H. Lett predicts higher revenues from the new postal rates effective April 15. He notes gains in the late April and May period, estimating an average increase of about $300 per month, totaling roughly $3,600 for the year over 1924.
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H. Lett
Red Cross Awards Reviewed Friday For Tornado Relief
The Indianapolis Red Cross chapter chair William Fortune and national disaster relief director Henry M. Baker met with Jackson county local committee to review relief progress after the March tornado. The tri state commission overseeing Indiana Illinois and Missouri allocated 12731.01 to date and discussed remaining work.
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William Fortune
Indianapolis
Painleve Arrives in Fez Amid Franco Spanish Offensive Plans
Premier Painleve arrives in Fez as Paris reports a Franco Spanish offensive against Ajdir Rif region. German ships Leipzig and Dortmund released after proving they carried fish. Franco Spanish conference to open next week with a blockade policy outlined.
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Paris
Leipzig
Dortmund
Mediterranean
Foreign Office
Morocco
M. Painleve
Paris Midi Today
Berlin teachers on scopes case
Berlin professors Reibel and Ubersch comment on the Scopes trial in Tennessee. They say the issue is freedom of lecturing, not science, and express regret over prosecuting evolution teaching while noting the law bans it. They stress America should decide the matter.
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Berlin
America
John Scopes
Tennessee
University of Berlin
Dayton
Tenn
Scopes
Franz Kiebel
Anatonomical and Biological Institute
Professor Kiebel
Death sentence carried out in Sofia cathedral bombing case
In Sofia on June 12 M. Perchemlyieff was hanged for harboring cathedral bombers. Madame Nicolova, once sentenced to death but commuted, begged to be hanged for life without her beloved, while Perchemlineff died on the same scaffold used for Friedmann and others who killed 160 people in the Sveti Karl catastrophe.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Perchemlyieff
Sveti Karl
Madame Nicolova
Perchemlineff
Friedmann
Gill Makes Defense Plea In Read Case
George W. Gill a 23 year old Loyola University law student allegedly killed Robert Read a 21 year old Centenary College student and star athlete. He claims the motive was to protect his wife s honor according to a confession authorities say Gill made to them.
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George W. Gill
Loyola University
Robert Read
Centennary
Caddo Parish
Gill
Stephenson Cad e 15 Nearing Trial In Oberholtzer Death
Noblesville Indiana June 12 attorneys in the murder trial of D S Stephenson Earl Klinek and Hari Gentry seek a dying statement and a page from a Hammond hotel register in the case against the three accused for Madge Oberholtzer death Defense aims to obtain strongest state evidence ahead of the June 16 hearing to admit the men to fail to trial ongoing before Judge Fred Hines.
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International News Service
Noblesville
Ind
D. ©. Stephenson
Earl Klinek
Hari Gentry
Madge Oberholtzer
Fred Hines
Hamilton Circuit Court
Miss Oberholtzer
Eohinman
Memorial Services Call At Armory Hall And Church
Attention U. R. K. of P. members must attend memorial services at First Baptist Church in full uniform Sunday at 10 o'clock. Recorder A V Lowell notes the event and urges punctual presence. People's Grocery lists produce including melons greens peppers and more with phone contact.
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Armory Hall
First Baptist Church
A. V. Lowell
For Sale Household Furniture Notice
For sale a range of household items including a Victrola bedroom set a Davenport table a spinet desk and an electric range. Contact Mrs. Mary Bacon by phone at X-204 W-2120 662 for details.
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Mary Bacon
Governor Smith denies retirement plans after term ends
Albany June 12 Governor Al Smith rejected reports that he would retire from public life at the end of his current term. He said he had made no retirement plans and could not be responsible for others pipe dreams.
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International News Service
Albany
N. Y
al Smith
Roachdale Veneer Mill Fire Fells Building and 40 Workers
A blaze at the American Veneer and Lumber Company in Roachdale Indiana reduced the veneering mill to smoldering embers. The loss is estimated at 75000 with 40 plus workers left unemployed. Origin of the fire remains unknown.
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Roachdale
Ind
American Veneer and Lumber C Company
Agenda Food Sale at Kessler Hardware Store
Trinity Method t ebured will hold a food sale at Kessler Hardware Store on Saturday June 13. Regular taxi service to Pauley's Cabin is available. Phone 333 m2odtt.
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Trinity
Tebured
Kessler Hardware Store
Pauley
Missing bodies sought after yacht disaster near Atlantic City
Atlantic City authorities and thirty government vessels hunted for several missing young men and women after a mysterious explosion and fire aboard the pleasure yacht Crystal. One girl died and thirteen others were seriously burned. Captain William Young faced a $2000 bond as a government inquiry began.
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International News Service
Atlantic City
N. J
Crystal
Lillian McKnight
Pleasantville
Mildred Mack
Jack Linder
John Hanna
Ralph English
Estelle Banning
Warren Dilks
Dick McGlynn
Curtis Lyle
Dick Myers
Lawrence Price
Mary Toner
Katherine Arnold
Martha Weiss
William Young
Government Troops to Arrive in Nova Scotia
Four hundred government troops were due today in New Waterford Nova Scotia as 2000 striking miners held the power plant of the British Empire Steel Corporation. One miner was killed and forty miners and a company police injured ten seriously in rioting. Police chief Noble was badly injured. priests aided, and the mob seized the plant and store, looting provisions and cloth ing and burning the building.
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Halifax
New Waterford
N. S
British Empire Steel Corporation
Noble
Tipton Bankers Organize Mutual Protection Vigilance Committee
Tipton Indiana June 12 a vigilance committee to protect all county banks from robbery is nearly finished. Members will be armed and trained to shoot to kill as part of the mutual protection effort backed by the international news service.
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Tipton
International News Service
Ind
Fish and Game Regular Meeting at Carter's Friday
Regular meeting of the Fish and Game group will be held at T. R. Carters on Friday night. Members are reminded to pay 1925 dues to Secry T. R. Carter.
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T. R. Carter
Baltimore & Ohio Veterans Hold Regular Meeting
Regular meeting at 7 30 p m on June 12 at the Masonic Temple to receive the Pull report of the Baltimore convention. Jld K Maseman serves as secretary.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Masonic Temple
Baltimore
Jld K. Maseman
Seey
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International Rotary
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Tunity
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Chiren
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Knights of Fythias
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Cision
arms—Business Houses
Co-oper
Cal
Mrs
Washington, D. C
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Washington
Dent
Mrs. Coolidge
RED Cross Awards
Tri-State Commission
Painleve
Fez
Aidir
Fish Carriers
Love of
France
German University
Reibel and
Ubersch
U. S
Sweetheart
Death
Loyola
University
Fense
Dis
Shreveport
Stephenson Cade
Ister
Hammond
People’s Grocery
Agenda Food Sale
Velcelo
Stroys
Nova Scotia
Fish and Game
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