Board blocks hearing on local health survey
State board of health and Dr. William F. King blocked action on a sanitary survey of Washington water. a special meeting was adjourned amid a restraining order from the superior court. Washington officials and citizens attended, hoping for progress, while hearings on Dr. King’s petition to restrain the board faced potential court action.
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State Board of Health
William F. King
E- Board
Washington
King
Dr. King
Romar
Wrishington
John Green
North Bees
Health Yard
T. Victor Keene
Aes
Turner
Homer Haas
McCarty
Spencer
Carl Seman
Washington Water
T & Power Company
Pierterich
Meetoni
Bankers Oppose Parole Release Of Bank Robbery Convicts
West Baden Indiana Bankers Association sharply opposed parole or pardon for a bank robbery convict. Resolutions endorsing the stance will be sent to Governor Jackson and the state pardons board. The group also urged vigilance committees to curb banditry and preserve the statewide organization. Senator James E Watson spoke at the banquet urging tax publication reform and state rights.
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West Baden
Ind
Indiana Bankers’ Association Tooli
Jackson
State
James E. Watson
Watson
Officers Find 325 Bottles Home Brew
Morton Sexon 42 of Sandy Hook awaits hearing on possible prohibition charges after deputies found a large quantity of homemade beer in a shack near his home. Officers destroyed 252 pints and took 53 bottles as evidence, also seizing a capping machine and many empty bottles.
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Morton Sexon
Sandy Hook
Sexon
Jones
Death of Miss Laura Hastings in Philadelphia
Miss Laura Hastings died after a weeklong illness in Philadelphia where she served as night superintendent of the Jewish Hospital. Her father Tara Hastings traveled from Washington to be at her bedside. she left Washington about a year ago for Philadelphia. She had trained as a nurse in Macon and at Walter Reed, with prior posts in Daviess County and Los Angeles. She was 29, born in Washington, and survived by her parents and several siblings. The body will be sent to Sumianden for burial with arrangements forthcoming.
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Paris
A. Hasting
Laura Hastings
Philadelphia
Hastings
Washington
D. C
Washington High School
First Christan Church
Washington Rebekah
Eastern Star
Legion 5
Capt
Frank Hastings
United States Army
Philippine Islands
Mra
Ritter
Charles
Newas State
Paul
Losis
Siumniaden
Two-Year-Old among Serious Injured in Washington Crash
A two year old child of Mr and Mrs Curtis Wilson of Knox county sustained suspected skull fracture in a collision near Washington while Mrs Fred Wimmenauer and Joe Harder escaped injury. Mrs Wilson and a four year old boy were treated at home then at Vincennes hospital. The Ford touring car overturned in a ditch and both vehicles were wrecked.
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Curtis Wilson
Knox County
Wilson
Fred Wimmen
Washington
Bicknell Road
State Heer
White Rivers
Jennings
Vincennes Hospital
Aide
Wimmenauer
Harder
Reliance Garage
Drake Hotel Bandits Must Hang For Crime
Chicago, Sept. 17. The Drake hotel bandit must hang after a night of balloting a jury found Joe Holmes and Jack Woods guilty of first degree murder in the killing of Frank Rodkey, assistant cashier, during a July hotel holdup. Five bandits took part. two were killed, two captured, one escaped. Sentencing after motions on Oct. 3. State's Attorney Crowe calls it a victory for law and order. The widow expresses satisfaction and justice.
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Chicago
Drake Hotel
Joe Holmes
Jack Woods
Frank Rodkey
Rodkey
Praon
Crowe i
Big land deal reported closed in county
Princeton Indiana September 17 report today states a large land deal involving several hundred acres in the county’s western part has closed at Washington Indiana. The three corner arrangement includes landowner O B Rodrick of Mt Carmel and interests from Washington and St Louis. Details on the consideration were not disclosed.
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Princeton
Ind
Washington
O. B. Rodrick
Mt. Carmel
Washington, Ind
St. Louis
Probe of National Napoligy Opens in Washington
Washington September 17 the nine member presidential board met at the White House to probe the national military air policy and administration. Hearings will be held for the war and navy departments with a December report to President Coolidge, addressing efficiency, regulatory legislation, and preparedness while contrasting American and English air service results.
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Washington
Pres. Coolidge
White House
Coolidge
Congress
War and Navy Departments
Wiliam Mitchell
S*r and
Navy Department
England
Barring of British Communist Sparks Mixed Reaction
London and Washington react to Secretary Kellogg barring British MP Shaturji Saklatvala from entering the United States to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union session. Critics praise the move as firm policy, while others condemn it as suppressing radical voices. Saklatvala plans to seek entry via Canada, insisting the action is unjustified.
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London
England
Shaturji Saklatvala
United States
Kellogg
Canada
New York
Inter-Parlamentary Union
Washington
Unitedates
Inter- Parliamentary Union
Ito
Hughes
Karyi
Ungary
Coolidge to Visit Farm Federation Convention
President Coolidge plans a western swing to address the American Farm Bureau Federation in Chicago after a call at the White House. He also intends to travel to Omaha early next month to speak at the American Legion convention, according to O. EB. Bradfute president of the federation.
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Washington
Coolidge
Chicago
American@Parm Bureau Federation
O. EB. Bradfute
Fedee
Te House
Omaha
American Legion
Three Workmen Electrocuted Near Detroit Steeple
Three workmen were electrocuted and a fourth injured when a guy wire on a church steeple arced across power lines. A fifth worker escaped with minor injuries as crews battled the incident. Nearby Daviess county apples are being displayed in show windows along Main Street.
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Detroit
Daviess County
Trustees Meet at Eastside Park for Da viess County schools
County Superintendent Gilley and the township trustees met at Eastside Park to discuss school matters and township management ideas. They were joined by families for a noon basket dinner in the pavilion, praising the park as the finest in Indiana despite complaints about park expenses.
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Gilley
Daviess County
Easteide Park
Trina
Indiana
Oil field activity continues in Veale township
Operations persist at Big Windy Oil Field with several wells in progress. A Gaither lease second hole sits about 500 feet deeper amid drilling trouble from a crooked hole. A Greenwood lease hole begins 500 feet northwest of Gaither 1. Peek lease spudding halted with spudding near Peek 1 area. Lee Singleton farm spudding starting west and south of Gaither well.
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Veale
Gaither Jease
Gaither
Greenwood
Gaither Humber
J. M. Peek
Peek Number 1
Lee Singleton Farm
Gaither Well
Jack-the-Grabber on Trial in Columbus County Court
Brown, 40, known by police as Jack-the-Grabber, was to go on trial in Bartholomew county court in Columbus Indiana charged with attempting to assault four girls and women. He reportedly confessed to walking in alleys at night and grabbing the victims with intent to commit criminal assault. He pleaded not guilty and remained jailed.
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Columbus
Ind
Orre
Brown
Bartholomew County Court
Indiana Kiwanis state convention opens in Fort Wayne
Kiwanis clubs from across Indiana attend the state convention in Fort Wayne with Thomas Coleman of Lafayette as district governor opening the first session. C Ward of Fort Wayne delivers the welcome as convention committees are named and group luncheons held. A half dozen addresses and reports are planned, with Senator Watson speaking at tonight's banquet.
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Ft. Wayne
Ind
Kiwanis Club
Indiana
Thomas Coleman
Lafayette
C. Ward
Man of ninety nine oldest to cross sea
Liverpool Sept 17 An American Old Men of the Sex is visiting in England today Patrick Ferris a 99 year old Civil War veteran says he feels like a boy He fought as artilleryman under General Joe He was wounded four times He came to England to visit a sister at Newport Mere While enroute he was known among passengers as The Old Man of Sea as he was the only male on the ship to make the trans Atlantic
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Liverpool
England
Patrick Ferris
Ferris
Joe
Newport
Mere
Water surrounds 900 villages as Yellow River floods Shan Tung
Pekin reports the Yellow River overran 900 villages in Shan Tung province, destroying crops over a 60 by 13 mile area as dykes broke and the river changed course. Emergency relief is under the International Famine Relief Commission which is sending boats to reach the inundated region.
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Pekin
Yellow River
Shan Tung
International Famine Relief Commission
Hunt for strange man in murder of Edna Rose Well
North Bend Ohio residents seek a blond haired stranger after 14 year old Edna Rose Well is found dead in a ravine near her home. She was attacked on a wooded path returning from the grocery store. Villagers recall seeing the girl with a blond man.
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North Bend
Edna Rosewell
Names of six more petit jurors drawn
The jury commissioners under Judge Hastings drew six additional petit jurors to replace those excused by age or other legal reasons. The new jurors are Emil G. Mangin Bert O Dell Alpha O Bowman George E Pershing Roy M Lynch and Dan D Winterbottom. Floyd Delay was injured in a fall from a box car on the B&O railroad at Osgood suffering shoulder a broken arm and multiple bruises with medical care provided at Seymour.
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Hastings
Emil G. Mangin
Washington Township
Bert O’dell
Washingship
Alpha O. Bowman
Madis Township
George E. Pershing
Elmore
Roy M. Lynch
Dan D. Winterbottom
Veale
Floyd Delay
North Vernon
Medora
Osgood
Delay
Rallios
Bedneck Memorial Hospital
Seymour
Miners and railroad seek rate compromise in Indiana hearing
In Indianapolis on Sept 17 representatives from Clinton coal fields and Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad met with the state public service commission to negotiate hauling rates for miners. Led by Tyler Lawton of District 11 UMW, with William Mitch and Harold Henderson, railroad reps attended as the session aimed for a later agreement. A decision may be submitted for the commission’s approval after progress reported in the afternoon. Nearby notes mention a Frankfort motorist incident and Gary-Calumet hotel construction plans with a 180 foot frontage costing 400,900 dollars.
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Indianapolis
Clinton
Chicago & Eastern Ilinoig
State Public Service Commission
Tyler Lawton
District 11
United Mine Workers
William Mitch
Harold Henderson
Terre Haute
Ing
Communis
Owl Cave
Debris removal ends for Shenandoah wreck in Ohio fields
Caldwell Ohio reports final cleanup of the Shenandoah dirigible debris. Salvaged parts were sold to Aluminum Company of America with three cars sent to Lakehurst New Jersey and five to Pittsburgh. The Niswonger farm near Ava, once ground zero for the crash, remains quiet as cleanup closes. Lieutenant Havill notes Commander Kleinving departed yesterday with final receipts settled.
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Caldwell
Ohio
Nodble County
Navy
Aluminum Company of America
Lakehurst
N. J
Pittsburgh
Niswonger
Ava
Havill
Jacob H. Kleinving
Eto
Car TURNS OVER In Ditch Saturday Night
A car driven by Ralph Law yer rot IoTwee plunged into a ditch near the city limits Saturday night about 9 o clock. The coach and a rider named Mr. Lawyer and Charles were cut and bruised on the head and face.
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Ster
Ralph Lawyer Rot
Charles Se
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