Wife of Oliver Holmes Dies at Home
Mrs Fanny B Holmes wife of Associate Justice Oliver Wendel l Holmes of the United States Supreme Court died last night at her home in Cambridge Mass. The couple married in 1872 and later lived in Boston before moving to Washington in 1902 when the justice joined the Supreme Court. Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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Fanny B. Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Holmes
Fanny Dixwell
Cambridge
Mass
Baster
Washington
Supreme Court
Commencement Exercises Set at Free Town High School
Commencement exercises for Pershing township and Free Town schools take place at Free Town High School Thursday night with 382 pupils across 22 grades and 10 high school diplomas to be awarded. Judge James A. Cox of Crothersville will deliver the commencement address and James H. Tatlock will present diplomas. Recipients include Claude Weekly Raymond Scott Charles Green Amerikus Orban Norma Sullivan Josephine Neale Cary Spurgeon Melvin Hanner Robert McKain Donavon Tinch Carl Sprague Donald Thompson Flossie Spurgeon Madine Eller Margaret Sprague Thelma Cornett Ruby Reed Hazel Waggoner Violet Hunnicutt Clyde Owens Vena Garbet Wayne Spicer Edith Weekly Loretta Weekly Amy Cornett Paul Sprague Marvin Denny Russel Denny Orville Mann Delmar Wilson Esther Waggoner Russel Spurgeon.
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Pershing Township
Freetown
James A. Cox
Crothersville
James H. Tatlock
Claude Weekly
Raymond Scott
Charles Green
Amerikus Orban
Norma Sullivan
Josephine Neale
Cary Spurgeon
Melvin Hanner
Robert McKain
Donavon Tinch
Carl Sprague
Donald Thompson
Flossie Spurgeon
Madine Eller
Margaret Sprague
Thelma Cornett
Ruby Reed
Hazel Waggoner
Violet Hunnicutt
Clyde Owens
Vena Garbet
Wayne Spicer
Edith Weekly
Loretta Weekly
Amy Cornett
Paul Sprague
Marvin Denny
Russel Denny
Orville Mann
Delmar Wilson
Esther Waggoner
Russel Spurgeon
Movement to erect drinking fountain in Bourbon scene
A Bourbon May 1 report notes former residents now in South Bend joining Bourbon citizens to form the South Bend Bourbon Club backing a campaign to place a large drinking fountain on the site of the former Old Town Pump location.
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Bourbon
South Bend
Bourbon Club
Music graduate joins Earlham College faculty
Miss Ruth Bachmann, Oberlin Conservatory of Music graduate, has been added to the Earlham College faculty in Richmond. The appointment boosts the college music program as it expands its instructional staff.
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Richmond
Ruth Bachmann
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Earlham College
New $11,000 Generator Purchased for City Plant
Goshen reports the city owned electric plant adds an $11,000 generator. Installation is to be completed by August 15.
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United Press
Goshen
Monticello Club opposes Baltimore Ohio Monon merger
The Monticello Luebeog Club adopts a resolution opposing the planned merger of the Baltimore and Ohio and Monon rail systems. The move reflects local sentiment as of May 1 in Monticello.
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Monticello
Luebeog Club
Baltimore and Ohio
Monon
All College Parents Day Observed at Wabash College
Parents' Day in Crawfordsville Indiana set for May 11 at Wabash College with activities for families and students. Organizers announce program details and campus events to celebrate the day.
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United Press
Crawfordsville
Imd
Wabash College
Editorial on Lindbergh by Don R. Mellet brother
Lowell Mellet editor of the Washington Daily News and brother of Don R. Mellet writes an editorial on Charles A. Lindbergh and the mudslinging incident. The piece, reproduced in Editor & Publisher, recalls initial praise and warns against public swing to cynicism after initial awe.
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Don R. Mellet
Lowell Mellett
Washington
DP. CC
Daily News
Sthe Hite
Donald R. Mellett
Columbus
Charles A. Lindbergh
Brownstown High Alumni Banquet Planned for May 4
The Brownstown High School Alumni Association will hold its annual banquet and entertainment Saturday night May 4 at 8 00 in the high school building. The event includes a surprise program with instrumental music readings and an Salem orchestra. The senior class will be initiated into the organization and toastmaster Harold Gossman of Indiana University will preside. Classes ending with seven will answer toasts this year, with a different number used annually. The event draws a large spring crowd and is a major yearly highlight.
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Brownstown High School Alumni Association
Welock
Salem
Tiarold Gossman
Indiana University
Alumni Association
County Attendance Report Details By Township and School
Cline Forgey, county attendance officer, released the final report for this year outlining attendance statistics for township city and parochial schools in Jackson county. The Browntown Township figures list multiple classroom counts with percentages and room numbers at Medora High School and other Medora rooms.
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Cline Forgey
Jackson County
Uphold Man's Right to Slay Murderer
May 1 in Waxahachie Texas a grand jury freed Henry Hempkins after he killed Dr Harry Dowling a Temple physician who had murdered Hempkins niece Lola Roland a Temple stenographer. Hempkins and Dowling were both involved in a violent confrontation after Dowling followed Hempkins to his home and forced entry.
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Texas
Henry Hempkins
Harry Dowing
Hempkins
Hompkins
Lola Roland
Temple
Dowling
Becker Family to Present WHAS Radio Program
The Becker family quartet Arthur Becker and sisters Olive Alice and Evelyn will air on WHAS at 6 o clock Friday for twenty five minutes. Arthur plays ukulele Olive accompanies on piano and sings with Aline and Evelyn. other pieces feature the sisters singing with Olive at the piano. Local friends and many receivers in the county are expected to tune in.
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Arthur
Olive
Alice
Evelyn Becker
Becker
Arthur Becker
Evelyn
Louis H. Becker
WHAS
Aline
Monday Tax Day Keeps Jackson County Court Busy
Jackson county court house in Brownstown braces for a busy May term as the board of county commissioners meets and the May term of Jackson circuit court opens. Tax payments surge as half the spring taxes are paid. jurors are summoned and cases like involuntary manslaughter and first degree murder await action. A special joint meeting with Lawrence county is scheduled May 11 to discuss the county line road.
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Board of County Commissioners
William Judd
Aml
Nora Kiete
Donley B. Tull
Carr Township
Charley Bultman
Slamilton
Thenry Hageman
Washington
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Hamilton
James Enos
Redding
George Snow
Salt Creek
William Dickmeyer
Driftwood
Horace J. Dorsey
Vernon
John O. McCrary
Petit
Roy Nicholson
Jackson
Charley Luckey
Ray Peters
Edward Nierman
L. Nl
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Frank Ramp
Owen
Virgil Duncan
Girvassy Fork
Edward Claycamp
William Kindred
Lawrence
Walter H. Droege
Mr. Droege
Millions Celebrate May Day Across World Amid Tense Security
May Day observances spread from Seymour where three Baptist Union girls placed flowers at elderly church members. Police in capitals from Budapest to Paris and Berlin mobilized forces to deter riots and radicals as demonstrations were banned or restricted. In Moscow Red Square hosted mass events while Mexico City fortified the US Embassy with guards after last year’s unrest. The piece notes large May Day activity and cites a 1.6 billion dollar value of Indian wealth in 1928.
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Miriam Plantten
Phyllis Barnett
Mary Austin
Baptist Young Peoples’ Union Service Commission
Baptist Chureh
Cick
Budapest
Paris
Ministry of the Interior
Russia
Andre Tardieu
Berlin
Reichstag
Moscow
Red Square
Mexico City
United States
Haymarket
Blonde fails an alibi witness in New York murder case
Earl Francis Pemacox a radio lecturer and self styled amateur detective confessed to killing his wife on their first wedding anniversary. In White Plains he faces a likely murder charge as investigators describe a bungled crime aided by an alibi witness Francesa Newman a housewife dated from Mount Vernon. The case links Pemacox to past crime puzzle solving and a prior attempt to hide the slaying of Dorothy Tlemzeliwn Pemcox.
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New York
Earl Francis Peacox
Tinself
Pemacox
White Plains
Dorothy
Peacox
Miele
Pearox
Dot King
Joseph RB. Elwell
Francesa Newman
Spirea Streets Draw Tourists to Seymour
Seymour earns a growing reputation as the city of spirea streets. Tourists and visitors remark on drooping white blossoms lining lawns across town, a result of a multi-year beautification campaign that planted spirea citywide.
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Seymour
Border port surrenders as federal troops take control
United States soldiers patrol Nogales border after a peaceful surrender ends the Yaqui revolt. About 1500 Yaqui Indians from Sinaloa laid down arms, General Lucas Gonzales enters Nuco to raise the central government flag, one rebel executed for unruly conduct.
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United Press
Nogales
Sonora
Mex
Revolutionary Army
Soforn
Sinaloa
Mazatlan
Lucas Gonzales
Nuco
United States
CONTINUE ARGUMENTS OVER MELLON STATUS IN SENATE
Washington May 1 Senate judiciary committee enters fourth day of executive arguments over Secretary Mellon status. Panel split 10 to 7 or 9 to 8 in Mellon's favor as Walsh discloses 1924 aluminum deal associations. Norris rewrites report to widen its findings while Mellon signs a letter asserting complete disassociation from implicated companies.
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Washington
Secretary of Treasury
Mellon
Senate Judiciary Committee
Mellor
Hime
Commencement Exercises Set for June 14 at Indiana State
Terre Haute May 1 United Press says Indiana State Teachers College will hold commencement June 14 with Dr. Elmer J. Bryan president of Ohio University as speaker. The ceremony marks the anniversary of Bryan’s Indiana State graduation and there will be no baccalaureate service this year. an invocation is planned for June 13.
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Terre Haute
Indiana State Teaches College
Elmer J. Bryan
Ohio University
Bryan
Indiana State
Tnstead
Weather Records Report by Riley Goble Official Forecaster
Riley Goble of the Seymour Water Co office at the pumping station issues a weather record report based on official data. The document notes measurements and observations from the local weather observer.
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Riley ‘Goble
Seymour Water Co
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