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Westville Indicator

Location

Westville, Indiana, United States of America

Date

Jan 22, 1920

Page

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Indiana Ratifies Woman Suffrage and State News Roundup

The Indiana legislature ratified the federal amendment, making Indiana the twenty sixth state to do so, with 43 to 3 in the senate and 90 to 0 in the house. The state also discusses a war memorial site plan, a public work audit totaling 8224.48, high influenza illness in South Bend, and various local and statewide notices including elections, law actions, and agricultural reports.

Wabash Roann Co-operative Shipping Association Pawpaw Township Indianapolis Indiana Senate House Meridian Pennsylvania Vermont North Streets Citizens’ Committee Jesse E. Eschbach State Board of Accounts Goodrich Attorney General’s Department South Bend Lawrenceburg Charles A. Lowe Dearborn Lowe The American Legion Vincennes Raymond Springer Jeffersonville Clark County Washington, D. C Supreme Court Interstate Commerce Commission Indiana Supreme Court Western Union Telegraph Company Chicago Fort Wayne Ind Terre Haute Indiana Coal Fields Clinton Linton Sullivan Brazil Bicknell Fields Clinton Fields Monon Evansville Notre Dame University Gary Charles Greenwald Lafayette Preston Moody Fremont Steuben County Purdue University Vernon Jennings County Muscatatuck Sand Creek Grahran Creek James P. Goodrich Tauglog Wayne Colony Eastern Hospital For the Insane Colony Farm New Albany New York Bloomington Broadway William Lowe Bryan Indiana University Hoosier St. Joseph County Chamber Bedford South Central Superintendents of Schools Research Club Spencer Fred Bourns Greencastle Edwin C. Dodson Martinsville Willis Holman E. BE Ramsay Charles P. Kellar Mitchell J. H. Stupp Washington R. N. Threy Orleans L. L. Hoover Salem McKinzey E. W. Montgomery Edward Lux Shelby County Indiana Corn Growers’ Association Flo Peter J. Lux Waldron Johnson County State Prison Reformatory and Woman’s Prison Amos W. Butler Indiana Board of State Charities

Postscript Highlights From Early 20th Century Innovations

Reported vast iron ore deposits in Transvaal. A police fingerprint photograph camera with built in lights is described. A bulb syringe for cleaning pipes gets a patent. A German firm markets a serial bosom paper shirt that peels a fresh front daily. Stamp issue total near 2,000 since December 1918, with about 1,500 from new European states.

Transvaal

Escaped Armenian Girl Refugee Tale Reaches New York

Miss Vartenousch M Karagheusian the first Armenian girl freed from Arab slavery arrives in America after rescue by Near East relief. Tattooed with the mark of slavery, she endured a Turkish march, survived, and reached Beirut then New York where her brother John Karaghousian, a Minneapolis rug merchant, meets her.

Miss Vartenousch M Karagheusian America Near East Miss Karagheusian Vartanousch Jerusalem Beirut New York John Karaghousian Minneapolis

Seminole Indian Customs and Self Enforced Law

Seminole Indians enforce their own laws with penalties including banishment and even death. A recent enforcement case involved the hanging of a Seminole wife of a white man and the destruction of her child by other Seminoles, highlighting strict tribal rules against intermarriage and maintaining blood purity.

Hall of fame for trees opens. largest shade tree debate grows

The American Forestry association inaugurates a hall of fame for trees to honor famous specimens. Notable entries include the Liberty tree at St John’s Annapolis, the Wil liam Penn Treaty tree, the Huntington elm, the Wye Mills Oak, and others. Nominees claim larger spreads and circumferences across Indiana California Georgia and Ohio.

Washington Oberlin Oberlin College Huntington Ind Long Dumont Kennedy Crawfordsville Wye Mills Easton Lisbon Ralph G. Smith Circleville Logan C. C. Royce

Army Adopts Polo as Peace-Time War Drill

The War Department announces polo will be encouraged across the army to develop horsemanship and daring. Division camps training centers and regimental posts will host teams. A central polo committee will coordinate activities with the American Polo Association and issue polo mounts equipment and instructions on matches and training.

War Department Chief of Staff American Polo Association

Wired wireless to link continents via single wire system

Maj. Gen. George O. Squier previews a "wired wireless" method allowing 10 to 50 conversations to run simultaneously over one wire. Long distance calls from Argentina to Alaska could become routine as currents travel near the wire, improving reliability and secrecy.

George Oo. Squier Army Argentina Alaska Telephone and Telegraph Companies Squier

The Frost on the Pumpkin Figures in Kentucky Talk

A passage from the Congressional Record quotes Representative Thomas of Kentucky describing adjournment in rustic terms. He praises a country feast of ham, lye hominy, biscuits, blackberry jam and possum, then invokes memories of rural life and sleeping in a log stable.

Congress Thomas Kentucky Congressional Record

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