State safety rules require safer school busses statewide
Jackson county will convert all school busses to safety glass and other equipment under a new state law effective May 1. New contracts begin July with many buses rebuilt or bought. oldest busses face retirement. inspections and penalties include fines and possible jail time for violations.
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Jackson County
Law School
Jackson
Carr
Driftwood
Washington
State Superintendent of Schools
State Board of Health
Public Service Commission
State Director of Safety
Brecher stock sale underway on South Chestnut street
The Illinois Sales Company in Chicago continues the Brecher stock sale on South Chestnut street with daily special reductions across departments. Thousands have visited the store, and large crowds persist each day to take advantage of the discounted items and rapid-moving stock.
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Brecher
South Chestnut Street
Illinois Sales Company
Chicago
The
Daily Tribune
No Change in Menu Seen for Jail Prisoners
Sheriff William Barkman reports Jackson county jail will likely stay on current meal plan after reviewing new state board of accounts rules. He notes the jail serves about 930 meals a month and outlines the updated per meal allowances ranging from 20 cents to 15 cents based on monthly meals.
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Indiana
Jackson County
William Barkman
State Board of Accounts
Rain and Gold Continues in Seymour Weather Notes
The article notes the longest day of the year with extended daylight and ongoing rain in Seymour. Farmers face delays in crop care due to wet weather, with wheat nearing harvest within a week as rains cause stalks to fall. Night temperatures ranged from 53 to 64 degrees, with daytime high around 68, and fires reported in homes.
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Seymour
Yale Wins Two In Har vard Yale Regatta Preliminaries
Regatta course New London Conn June 21 Yale swept the two morning preliminaries of the 73rd Harvard Yale Regatta. Franklin D Jr son of President Roosevelt rowed in a losing boat as Yale crews finished with margins of 0.2 and 0.5 seconds.
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New London
Conn
Roosevelt
Franklin D., Jr
Yale
Child Hurt When Auto Crashes Into Tree
Mary Esther Dart, daughter of Mr and Mrs Hezzie Dart of Paris Crossing, is recovering from facial cuts after the automobile she rode in struck a tree in Crothersville Sunday.
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Mary Esther Dart
Hezzie Dart
Paris Crossing
Crothersville
Car Recovered After Stolen Report
An automobile owned by Glen Loper of this city, reported stolen Wednesday, was recovered Thursday afternoon north of the city.
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Glen Loper
DeMolays Conclave Kicks Off In South Bend
Seymour Chapter DeMolays travel to South Bend for the Indiana DeMolay Conclave at the Masonic Temple. The program includes business sessions, a guided tour, a large street parade with Seymour DeMolays and a 96 piece band, a free swim, and a concluding ball with a 16 piece orchestra.
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Seymour
Order of DeMolay
South Bend
Indiana
Seymour DeMolays
Mrs Margaret Earhart Dies at Sister's Home
Mrs. Margaret Earhart age 79 died at 5 15 this morning at the Crothersville home of her sister Mrs John Lambert after a three year illness. Born July 26 1855 she was daughter of Jacob and first wife of Willis Earhart who died seven years ago. She leaves brother James H Spall Uniontown two sisters Mrs Adaline Perrine Uniontown and Mrs Lambert. Funeral at 2 Sunday from the Lambert home with Rev Walter Moseley Uniontown Burial in Spall Cemetery Vernon township.
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Margaret Earhart
Jackson-Jennings County
Here
John Lambert
Crothersville
Earhart
Jacob Spall
Willis Earhart
James H. Spall
Uniontown
Adaline Perrine
Lambert
Delayed Vote on Baptist Consolidation Sparks Debate
Colorado Springs June 21 National Convention of the Northern Baptist Church postponed a decisive vote on consolidating mission activities after committee proposals to abandon consolidation drew sharp retorts. The matter was referred to the order of business committee to preserve harmony.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
National Convention
The
Northern Baptist Church
Order of Business Committee
Police Chief Warns on Air Guns and Slingshots in City
Chief Julius G. Harlow issued a warning that air guns and slingshots found with children will be confiscated. He appealed to parents to help enforce the city regulation prohibiting their use. A gun was confiscated after a child was struck by a pellet, Harlow said.
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Julius G. Harlow
Harlow
Bedford Council Approves Police Short Wave Radio
Bedford City Council approved the purchase of a short wave radio set to be installed at the police headquarters. The device will receive police calls from state police broadcasting stations, enhancing communications.
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Bedford
Refractures Wrist In Crothersville Coaster Ride
Bobby Smith son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Smith of Crothersville fractured a wrist Monday afternoon while riding a coaster wagon. The same bones had broken over a month earlier and were healing well.
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Bobby Smith
Orville Smith
Crothersville
Arabella musical stage hit by EM BS Club
The EM B S Club presented Here Comes Arabella a three act musical comedy at the Alperin Strauss Company venue. Directed by Miss Lucie Metcalf the cast included Hortense Taylor as Arabella and Glen Curtis as Bob Adair with scenes in an artist studio Uncle Josh's living room and Personality School. The audience praised the performance and a repeat show was planned.
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BE. M. B. S. Club
Alperin Strauss Company
Baptist Gymnasium
Lucie Metcalf
Wayne P. Sewell
Uncle Josh
Personality School
Arabella
Hortense Taylor
Glen Curtis
Bob Adair
Streets Improve Crothersville With Relief Labor Project
A crew of nineteen Crothersville residents under Town Marshal Sampson Mitchell is laying concrete sidewalks and upgrading streets as a relief project. Cements sidewalks are completed at Applegate on South Armstrong and work will begin at Fred Garriott's, Estes Langdon's, and other nearby properties when weather allows. Additional walks have been laid at the Harry Norton and Kenneth Weddle homes. Property owners pay only for materials. labor is provided free to employ idle men.
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Crothersville
Sampson Mitchell
Applegate
South Armstrong Street
Fred Garriott
Estes Langdon
Harry Norton
Kenneth Weddle
Three Convicts Escape Prison In Illinois
Three inmates named Jack Ellis Vernon Guthrie and George White escaped from the Illinois state penitentiary in Joliet while at work near the quarry. Guards gave chase in a fast automobile but could not at once catch the trio who were serving one to ten years for grand larceny in Chicago.
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Joliet
Ilinois State Penitentiary
Jack Ellis
Vernon Guthrie
George White
Chicago
Britain and France seek easing of tensions over armament
Paris June 21 Britain envoy Captain Anthony Eden met Premier Laval to urge talks on arms limits with Germany. France, annoyed by Britain's naval agreement with Germany, scrapped navy limits and pressed for multilateral security pacts including a Danubian accord and an eastern non aggression pact linked to the Franco Russian treaty. Germany’s refusal to sign these pacts could shape France's stance as Eden faced Laval.
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Associated Press
Paris
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Pierre Laval
France
Austria
Germany
League of Nations
Eden
London
England
Versailles
Washington
Reich
Costs of traffic accidents hit one cent per mile
Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club cites insurance data placing annual accident costs at 1.5 billion dollars, or one cent per mile for motorists. He notes wage losses medical expenses overhead insurance and property damage and calls for stricter road safety and education across schools and clubs nationwide.
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Todd Stoops
Hoosier Motor Club
National Headquarters
Mr. Stoops
Lindbergh Develops Mechanical Heart Lung System
New York June 21 Col Charles A Lindbergh pivots from flight to science with a Rockefeller Institute project unveiling a mechanical heart and lungs. The device preserves whole organs from animals in artificial chambers, providing artificial blood and enabling organs to live after removal for study. It marks a century‑long medical objective to observe living organs outside the body.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Rockefeller Institute
Four Illinois Tourists Missing After Day Trip Disappearance
Gov. Clyde Tingley of New Mexico takes charge of a wide search covering 300 square miles for four Illinois tourists last seen a month ago near Ili nois. Mr and Mrs George Lorins of East St Louis TL and Mr and Mrs Albert Heberer of Duquoin Ill vanished after sending a postal card from Ili nois. Police, National Guardsmen, sheriffs and volunteers seek leads amid evidence including an abandoned car and forged travel checks.
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Vaughn
N. M
Clyde Tingley
New Mexico
Ilinois
Faet
George Lorins
East St. Louis
Albert Heberer
Duquoin
Ill
Lorins
Dallas
Tex
St. Louis
Lorius
Heberer
Hot Springs
Tentative Appeal Hearing Dates Set for Utilities
Public utilities railroads and pipeline firms face tentative appeal hearings on state tax assessments. July 2 hearings include Home Telephone and Telegraph Co Fort Wayne Chicago District Electric Pere Marquette Railroad and Northern Indiana Railway.
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Indianapolis
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Home Telephone and Telegraph Company
Fort Wayne
Chicago District Electric Company
Pere Marquette Railroad
Northern Indiana Railway Company
Dr G Bromley Oxnam Named Leader for 1936 Conference
Lafayette Indiana June 21 Dr G Bromley Oxnam president of DePauw University was chosen by the Northwest Methodist Conference to head a six member delegation to attend the United Methodist general conference in Columbus in May 1936.
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Lafayette
Ind
G. Bromley Oxnaim
DePauw University
Northwest Methodist Conference
General Conference of the Church At
Columbus
Monticello Man Ends Life in Brookston Home
Everett Gay, 58, shot himself at his Brookston home near Monticello yesterday. Brother Ed Gay said he had been despondent since his wife died last April.
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Monticello
Ind
Everett Gay
Brookston
Ed Gay
Everett
Tax ruling stands on retail sales tax despite lower court
Indiana's gross income tax division will continue to treat all sales to consumers as retail taxable at one percent. The decision overturns a recent lower court ruling that large quantity sales to institutions and factories were wholesale at one quarter of one percent. The case will be appealed to the Appellate Court as officials defend a common sense, broadly cited definition of wholesale versus retail.
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State Gross Income Tax Division
Clarence A. Jackson
Grows Income Tax
Attorney General's Office
J. P. Michaels Company
Indianapolis Wholesale Grocers
Capitol Paper Company
Indianapolis
Jackson
Gross
Prisoners Refused at Indiana Reformatory
Pendleton Indiana June 21 AP A V F Miles superintendent of the Indiana reformatory refused to accept custody today of Bas eum Ray Jr age fourteen and Maurice Sheridan age seventeen Huntington W Va youths sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping of Sheriff Ed Leng ers of Jasper early this week Miles said under Indiana law he cannot admit persons sentenced to life imprisonment to the institution The law he said also prohibits admitting persons under sixteen years old The matter was then referred back to Du bois county officials
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Pendleton
Ind
A. VF. Miles
Indiana Reformatory
Baseum Ray, Jr
Maurice Sheridan
Huntington
W. Va
Ed Lengers
Jasper
Miles
Indiana
Dubois County
Bus Fire Destroys Vehicle Carrying Gymnasts Near Groshen
Thirty five passengers most of them gymnasts from Racine Wisconsin escaped unharmed when a passenger bus was destroyed by fire on U S Highway 6 near Groshen Indiana. Driver Rh C Pierce was uninjured as the group was en route to a Cleveland tournament.
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Groshen
Ind
Racine
Wis
U. S. Highway 6
Here
Rh. C. Pierce
Cleveland
Memorial Service Plan by Knights Groups at St Pauls
Members of the Knights of Pythias, Pythian Sisters and Uniform Rank will attend a special memorial service at St. Pauls Congregational Church. The service is scheduled for Sunday morning at 10 oclock.
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Knights of Pythias
Pythian Sisters
St. Paul’s Congregational Church
Leaders Weigh Immediate Action on Roosevelt Tax Plan
Democratic leaders in Washington debated whether to press President Roosevelt's proposed taxes on the wealthy now or wait until next session. Confidants signal possible push in the presidential campaign. Supporters urge quick passage while others fear divisive politics and a 1936 campaign link.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Soon
Harrison
D.-Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Charles Michaelson
Democratic National Committee
Burns
la Follette
Senator Long
D.-La
Coughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means Committee
American Legion
Retary Morgenthan
Treasury
Legion
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Lambert Home
Em.b.s. Club
Commandeer Auto
Britain
Ace
Premier Laval
Lindbergh
Illinois
Dr. Oxnam
Py Associated Press
Gross Income Tax Division
Plan Memorial Service
Riley Goble
Seymour Water Co
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