Indiana to spend 9 million on highways in 1927 plan
Indiana plans about 9 million dollars for concrete paving on state highways this year and a 3 million dollar bridge over the Ohio at Evansville funded by taxes and state funds. The state will not issue bonds, with Kentucky and Vanderburgh County covering half the bridge cost and the project aimed to open western Kentucky areas.
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Expert Adviser on World Tours Never Left U. S.
New York May 3 Miss Ruth M Bain a young woman who never left the boundaries of this country tells scores of people where to go how to get there and what to see when they leave the shores of the U S S A She is an expert tour adviser chief of the American Express bureau in New York with seven years in the field She hawks Europe the orient Hawaii and the Mediterranean and even Cape Horn She lists travel times routes weather and notable sights and describes places as if she had visited them herself She plans her first trip abroad in August to test her theories
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Pennies to Buy Denver Poet Eugene Field House
Denver children will fund the purchase of the Eugene Field house with penny collections. Mrs. J J Brown plans school entertainments to finance the project and has enlisted Katherine Craig in support. The home near the civic center will be renovated and opened as a shrine for Field relics if gifts suffice.
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Colo
Eugene Field
J. J. Brown
New Yoork and
Newport Society
Trm Reid
Denver Tribune
Brown
Katherine Craig
A Cane for Haate Rustic I see you are painting old trees
A fragmentary dialogue shows two unnamed speakers, one remarking on painting trees and the other telling the other to stay out of his business while asserting progress on his work and mentioning personal stakes and a name Bootsman.
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Bootsman
Construction of State Fair grandstand and education building begins
Des Moines reports the start of work on the mammoth grandstand and a vast educational building at the fair grounds. The project aims for completion by August 17, offering about 938,240 square feet of exhibit space and seats for roughly 12,000 spectators. J I Lovejoy awarded the construction contract with Keffer and Jones as architects.
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State University
Iowa State College
State Teachers College
State Board of Control
Iowa
Wel
J. I. Lovejoy
Keffer & Jones
Umbrella Men Fight Backstage Attacks on Women
In Monte Carlo a system of umbrella porters shields women from staring public attention outside venues. Waterloo residents tease a man named John J. Shackleford who claims he has been dead 12 years and refuses a life of ease despite his inheritance going to the county school fund. His hotel cronies seek reconciliation with the living dead man.
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Monte Carlo
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John J. Shackleford
Missouri
Man Declares He Is Dead and Will Remain So
John J. Shackleford, disowned 12 years ago after inheritance rumors, told kin in Hardin Missouri to believe he is dead. He eluded detectives then returned to Denver living in a shabby hotel, earning a pittanced wage, while his mother and sister pursued the estate.
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Cole
John J. Shackleford
Hardin
Shackleford
John
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Rockefeller
Henry Ford
H. E. Corbin
Hardin Methodist Church
Mean Little Hotel
Minnesota Farmers Seek Relief From Wild Game In North
Northern Minnesota farmers petition the state legislature for relief as wild deer and prairie chickens increasingly raid crops. The region faces restrictions on hunting yet rising animal numbers. A representative has filed a bill seeking 300 dollars for crop damage.
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Minnesota
American to Attempt Historic Irish Sea Swim
American swimmer Henry Sullivan plans to cross the treacherous Irish Sea this summer, challenging tides and currents after previous feats from England to France and from Santa Catalina. Irish sports circles weigh the North channel distance and dangerous currents off County Down as Sullivan contemplates a Donaghadee to Donaghadee-Dartpatrick passage in a bid likened to Webb’s English Channel feat.
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Associated Press
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Irish Sea
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T. J °. Burgess
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France
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Dublin
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Sunday School Lesson by Rev P B Fitzwater
Rev P B Fitzwater presents a Sunday School lesson from Moody Bible Institute focusing on practical scriptural applications for teaching young people. The piece emphasizes clear teaching, moral guidance, and leveraging church study to build faith.
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Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Peter and John at the Empty Tomb in John Chapter Twenty
A devotional study on John chapter twenty detailing Mary Magdalene’s discovery of the empty tomb, John and Peter’s investigation, and Jesus’ restoration of Peter. It highlights faith, love as the motive for service, and Christ's calls to feed and shepherd His followers across all ages.
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Seek Endowment for Poor Professors at Yale
New Haven Conn May 3 Ins Yale university urged alumni to raise a 20 million endowment fund to raise faculty pay. Critics noted organizers asked poorly paid professors to contribute. Yale students challenged the drive saying funds should not be raised from faculty.
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Yale University
Yale
Armenia
Mrs Leys Morrows Endorses Pierce Remedies in Iowa
Mrs Leys Morrow of Clinton Iowa praises Dr Pierces Golden Medical Discovery Favorite Prescription as effective for general ailments. She and her daughter benefited and recommend them claiming powerful alterative blood enricher effects. The ad invites readers to obtain medicines from druggists and to seek free medical advice from Dr Pierce in Buffalo New York.
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Clinton
Iowa
Sleepless Nights Alleviated by Cystex Compound Offer
Sleepless nights linked to bladder weakness may ease with Cystex Compound. Five days of treatment promised with money back if not feeling younger stronger healthier. One week course priced at 60 cents from Wangler Bros Co.
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Wangler Bros. Co
Nu Tone tonic brings relief to nervous indigestion patient
Mrs. M Frentress of 326 State Street Iowa describes numb hands and feet, gas, bloating, and insomnia relieved by Nu Tone. She praises the tonic and cites widespread endorsements from Towans. The ad promises refund if no benefit and lists Waterloo druggists C Miller and Noher Drug as sellers.
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Waterloo
C. Miller Drug Store
Noher Drug Company
Prohibition Not Needed in Spain Coffee Favorite
May 3. Prohibition laws will never have to be made in Spain. A drunken Spaniard is a rarity. Cafes are full from morning to late night with coffee and milk the main drinks. Horchata and curiously mixed beverages appear, tea grows popular among ladies, and meals run two to three hours later than in other nations.
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Madrid
Spain
Altho
Tailor and Shoemaker Barter Over Late Bill
A Scotsman exchange reveals a buyer unable to pay a shoemaker today due to awaiting a tailor. The shoemaker notes the debt, while the buyer confirms the tailor is expected and promises payment later. The brief captures a domestic financial snag.
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Tallor
Weekly
Scotsman
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