Sign Language Rules Aid Kansas Drink Seeking
An eastern man in a Kansas town learns drink and cigarette signs used to signal vendors during prohibition era. The piece lists common signals for beer whisky gin and cigarettes, with humorous anecdotes of misread meanings and a noted wedding of Miss Irma Orphin Calamara and Signora Creatore accompanied by Italian music.
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Topeka
Kansas
Angers
Ricky
Patsy Con“nor
Mme
Signora Creatores
Irma Orphin Calamara
Justice Teagan
Mme. Calamara
Angelo Calendo
Creatore
Italian bandmaster Creatore bows at Wayne Casino
Detroit audience heard Frances Creatore, a young Italian bandmaster, bow to listeners a week earlier at Wayne Casino as part of a short order platter.
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Detroit
Frances ‘Creatore
Wayne Casino
Steel interests near purchase of Southern Indiana coal fields
Terre Haute Oct 6 The mystery surrounding John R Walsh’s Southern Indiana holdings centers on United States Steel seeking the property rather than J J Hill. H C Frick is expanding coal fields along the Indiana Illinois line and a 14 mile branch from St Bernice to south of Clinton is planned to serve the trust’s coal fields. The Gary area demand looms large and quarries and flax stone are being repurposed for furnaces.
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Terre Haute
John R. Walsh
Indiana
J.J. Hill
United States Steel Company
H. C. Frick
Danville
Ill
Chicago
Illinois
Bedford
Walsh
Dering Company
Frick
St. Bernice
Clinton
Ind
Trust
Elks appoint district deputy for southern Indiana
Princeton update reports C. A. Shubart of Princeton named district deputy for the south half of Indiana. The appointment covers twenty three lodges and marks Shubart's three year term as exalted ruler of the local Elks lodge.
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Princeton
C. A. Shubart
Lodge of Elks
Indiana
Four Generations Fight Over Custody of Charles Moltner
In Evansville four generations contest custody of three year old Charles Moltner. In habeas corpus proceedings the mother Clara Fein asks to remove the child from his grandmother Amelia Allis. The dispute began when Charles lived with great grandmother Emma Cole and led to a trespass charge against Mrs. Fenn in city court last week.
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Evansville
Charles Moltner
Clara Fein
Charles
Amelia Allis
Fenn
Emma Cole
Big Gains in Banks Signal Prosperity Statewide
The State Auditor reports 2000 private banks show total resources of 28.77 million dollars, up 2.6 million from February. Deposits rise 2.385 million, loans up 1.553 million, and available cash up 904,900, indicating broad economic strength despite February–September condition differences.
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Office of the Auditor of States
L. A
State Examiner
Colonel Lewis Brooks of Wildwood Farm in Martin County
Colonel Lewis Brooks a Civil War veteran and longtime Martin County figure visited the city. Known for his service as county treasurer when the county had no vault he often guarded funds overnight. He remains active in Republican politics and farms breeding livestock and experimenting with farm products.
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Lewis Brooks
Wild
October Markets Signal Fresh Fall Produce Rush
Market reports from Columbus Indiana on October 6 describe brisk arrivals of cabbage pumpkins sweet potatoes and apples with prices noted. Ironically Alonzo Fable currently jailed for assault and battery with intent to murder claimed an accidental discharge when the revolver hammer snagged on a cigarette pouch.
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Kraut Deason
Columbus
Ind
Alonzo
Monroe Berry
Licenses at stake as county hosts six applicants
Vincennes reports six liquor license applicants including Nicholas Hulen and Chris Ehart. Police and Taxpayers league oppose one or more could be denied. Nearby notes cover the death of Obe Strader in Greenville and a nine year old death in Linton, plus Indianapolis Sunday baseball legality questions.
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Vincennes
Nicholas ‘Hulen
William DeJean
Charles Tanquary
Francis E. Murphy
Chris Ehart
John J. Ryan
Nicholas Hulen
Taxpayers’ League
Ehart
Washington
Linton
Floella Huffman
Bon Ton
Midland
Sisson
Vincennes to Mull oil field special train eyed
reports from Vincennes indicate merchants plan a new B and O Southwestern Rail Line special between Vincennes and Mitchell similar to the oil field shuttle. Petitioning set to push officials to install the service to boost visitors and shoppers along the line.
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Vincennes
Watson
Boards of Works
B. & QO. Southwestern Railroad
Mitchell
Illinois
Cincinnati
B. & O. Southwestern
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Geo. F
Warsen
St. Louis Shoe Company
Colon Brooks
Greenville
Obe Strader
John Greenwood
Kentucky
North Carolina
Blue Gras
James Greenwood
Indianapolis
James A. Pritchard
Criminal Court
Charles C. Carr
Supreme Court
Pritchard
Bloomfield
YoQo
John T. Young
Jane Roberts
Stafford Township
Joseph, Frame
Laura Catherine Watkins
Newark
Jesse Martin Todd
Greene County
Hazel Clare Terhune
Wright Township
John Henry Wolf
Alma May Gentry
John L. Clark
Plainville
Davies County
Saran E. Small
Little Rock
Ark
Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad
Hillard
W. P. Brown
Gf DeSoto
H. Hart
Henry Horn
Louis Gaigiers
Trippet
Embrose
Clyde McGary
Frank B. Posey
Thomas Duncan
Utica
N. Y
Richard Updyke Sherman
Sherman
Eleanor Millar
Calvary Episcopal Church
Taggart
Tom Taggart
Democratic Party
Marshall
Democratic State Committee
Raynor
Maryland
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