Indiana State News Highlights Across Cities and Counties
Hartford City begins work on an 85,000 memorial statue for Blackford ex soldiers. In Petersburg the Atlas mines hire 375 workers after a 12 week shutdown, with payroll around 40,000 dollars. Purdue extension plans a state fair exhibit with a brief agricultural course. Indianapolis reports city valuation at 585,901,250 for 1922, down from 1921. Civil war survivors hold reunion in South Bend. next year’s meeting set for August 15-16. More notes on ballots, industry shifts, crop markets, highway projects, and local elections across Indiana counties.
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Hartford City
Blackford County
Petersburg
Pike County Coal Company
Atlas Mines
Lifayette
Agricultural Extension Department
Purdue University
Purdue
Oliver
Indianapolis
State Board of Tax Commissioners
South Bend
Seventy-third
Indiana Volunteer Regiment
United States
State Board of Election Commissioners
Statehouse
E. D. Donnell
Hammond
Calumet
Indiana Harbor Belt Railway
United Boiler and Foundry Company
Belt Line
Pike County
Indiana
Lafayette
J. J. Davis
Terre Haute
State Line
Range Line
Kokomo
State Highway Commission
Lawrence Lyons
State Highway Department
Lyons
Omar Brown
John Shrock
Isaac Wright
Theotal
Theemocrats
B. C. Moon
Bethany Park
Young Peoples
Ray Seely
Board of Registration
Seely
State Board
Mark Cunningham
Washington, D. C
Advance
Marion County
Cunningham
Shelbyville
Shelby County
County Board of Review
United Mine Workers of America
Qa State
Laporte
Elkhart
Wayne County
Delaware County
Winchester
Randolph County
Live Stock Breeders’ Association
Novel Airplane With Folding Wings
A new aircraft by G Edward Earnhardt features folding wings and twin motors. It recently flew over Los Angeles and is praised by Secretary Wagner of the Aero Club of Southern California as a near solution for commercial flight. The design allows the wings to fold and the aircraft to be drawn by an attached automobile through streets or rough roads.
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G. Edward Earnhardt
Los Angeles
Cal
Wagner
Aero Club of
Southern California
Lab tests expand reach of alcohol checks to everyday items
Dr William Linder leads internal revenue lab experts who decide what counts as alcohol. Once hair tonic and cologne were overlooked but now tests extend to baby milk flavorings and many perfumes. Bureau laboratory tests cover almost all scented products and tonics.
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William Linder
Internal Revenue
Bureau
Prince Yamashino Graduates as Naval Aviator
Prince Takehiko Yamashino, head of the Yamashino line, graduates from the Japanese naval aviation school at Oppawa near Tokyo with the rank of second lieutenant. At twenty three he is a senior member of the Go Seki, one of the five families that can supply an heir if no direct issue exists.
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Takehiko Yamashino
Japanese Naval Aviation
Oppawa
Tokyo
Yamashino
The human side of Warren G Harding builds popularity
A vivid portrait of President Harding as accessible and attentive to a wide range of Americans. The article describes how he greets thousands daily, from schoolchildren and orphans to delegations and journalists, balancing brief meetings with personal favors while keeping the White House a busy, open space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warren G. Harding
Washington
Christian Science Monitor
National Industrial Committee formed with high level backing
The National Civic Federation with Harding Davis and Hoover approval forms a national industrial committee. Taft Ze mper, Hammond, Du Pont and Ryan join a cross section of conservatives employers and public figures to foster sane Americanism and avert radicalism as seen in Russia, by creating a middle ground for labor and management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Civic Federation
Harding
Davis
Hoover
Taft
Samuel Zempers
John Hays Hammond
T. Caleman du Pont
John D. Ryan
Plight of the Water Power Commission in First Year
The federal water power commission faces staffing and funding gaps after its first year. It has borrowed personnel from other departments, has no field force, and unused appropriations. By June 30, 1921, 229 applications covering 14,675,000 horsepower affected 33 states plus DC and Alaska, vastly exceeding current U.S. water power development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Federal Water Power Commission
United States
Commission
Washington
Treasury
District of Columbia
Alaska
Southern California Edison Company
Colorado River
Niagara Falls Power Company
Many Women Find Rail Jobs Growing in Nation's Systems
A forthcoming Interstate Commerce Commission report estimates nearly 100000 women work in railroads, up from 5 percent of 2 million employees in 1920. The 1921 census shows women in all rail roles from attendants to clerical work, with some tasks performed more efficiently than men.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Chicago, South Bend
Brazil
Samuel M. McGregor
Clay and Putnam
Richmond
Bescher
Lebanon
Indiana State Dairy Association
Boone County
Seymour
Jackson County
Columbus
Columbus High School
North Vernon
L. N. Hines
Smithsonian Institution
Africa
Kaffirs
Addo Bush
Tropics
National Museum
Graciela Martin Rivera
Mexico
Thomas N. Ransdell
Portland
Teeeral
Warding
Ore
Prince
Retinal Capital
White House
People’s House
San Domingo
the Water Power Commission
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