Indiana News Roundup Reports Farm, Tax, and Rail Merger News
Indiana County Superintendents meet at the statehouse June 19 and 20. Indianapolis stockholders ratify merger of Indianapolis Street Railway with Indianapolis Traction. East Enterprise Fair grounds sold for 6150. Marion hosts district Indiana Federation of Farmers. Shelbyville corn planting and crop notes. City tax assessments rise under new Indiana law. Wayne County raises assessment on a 65 acre farm to 10000. High court tax decision prompts rate concerns for Hoosier users. Governor apportionment funds lead to looming deficits for institutions. Two Clinton men sentenced to life, tied to taxi driver shooting. Randolph county real estate value braces for total increase. Bicknell to spend 150000 on street improvements. West Hammond police brutality probe ordered. Peru pea packing expected at 200 workers. Boiler explosion kills three in Michigan creamery. Governor weighs ratification timing for Susan B Anthony amendment. State offices adopt Saturday half-holiday. Indiana tax board totals property assessments at 1.01 billion. Farmers plan corn planting and tomato expansion in Jeffersonville area. Knights of Columbus membership up 50 percent in Indiana. High school intelligence tests show wide variation among 10 000 seniors. Columbus Hope group oversubscribes centennial fund by 3000. Lieutenant Governor Bush signals Republican gubernatorial bid.
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Indianapolis
Indiana County Superintendents’ Association
House of Representatives
Statehouse
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Indianapolis Traction and Terminal Company
Aurora
East Enterprise Fair Association
Marion
Indiana Federation of Farmers
Adams
Blackford
Grant
Huntington
Miami
Tipton
Wabash
Wells
Federation
Shelbyville
Shelby County
Indiana
National Administration
United States Supreme Court
Federal Telephone Administration
Columbus
City of
Richmond
Wayne County Board of Review
Princectons
Goodrich
Rockville
Otto Aumann
Carl Griffin
Clinton
Parke
Clifton Taylor
Winchester
Randolph
Vincennes
Bicknell
Hammond
West Hammond
Peru
Peru Canning Company
Elkhart
Hopkins
Mich
George Horner
Walter Hazen
Menno Kraft
L. F. Seeley
A. Marquardt
Vivian Keith
Burgee
Burt Lindsley
United States Congress
Marion County
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Jeffersonville
Scott County
Sullivan
Sullivan Community Club
Sullivan County Pure Bred Live Stock Association
Farmers’ Organization
Izs
Bartholomew County Farmers’ Association
Knights of Columbus
Stephen W. Calahan
Ft. Wayne
Oscar H. Williams
Williams
Indiana University
Army
Columbus-Hope
Seymour
M. E
New Albany
Edgar D. Bush
Man Sees Spirit Voice Warn Him Before Shot Bursts
London Ark W D Studer seventy four recalls telepathy and psychic visions from wartime and family tragedies. He recounts a Civil War volley stopped by a mysterious whisper to move just as a bullet struck where he had stood. He cites similar premonitions in 1888 and 1890 to argue for telepathy.
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Minnie Ball
London
Arki
W. D. Studer
Mr. Studer
Gettysburg
Longstreet
Studer
Wheelan’ Springs
Ark
Oklahoma
Social Circle
Do Wrong and Act Right Henderson Case in Georgia
Do Wrong Henderson and his brother Act Right Henderson from Walton County Georgia faced burglary charges in Monroe after breaking into homes and taking edible goods. Do Wrong had previous five year sentences, not concurrent, risking five more years. Act Right petitioned the state prison committee to align sentences concurrently to save five years.
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Act Right
Georgia
Atlanta
Do Wrong
Henderson
Act Right Henderson
Walton County
Monroe
New Method of Baffling Holdups by Sneezing Norsemen
In Chicago two Vikings guests of the Svea hotel, Nels Olsen and Knut Anderson, faced two robbers at Orleans Street. The Norsemen handed over silver snuff boxes and sneezed so vigorously that the robbers fled as windows shattered from the spray, ending with the bandits showered in snuff.
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Chicago
Nels Olsen
Knut Anderson
Copenhagen
Nels
Knut
Svea
Chicago Avenue
Orleans Street
Yeta
Wisdom and Witty Observations From Everyday Life
A collection of epigrammatic maxims on manners, relationships, and social folly. It riffs on human foibles from railway robbers to barbers, widows, and churchgoers, offering pithy observations about status, charm, and truth in common life.
Wry Social Satire From Chicago American
A caustic note on vanity and pretension in society life, mocking beauty trends, overdressed chorus girls, and the idea of poets who do not work. It counsels restraint in drinking, warns against pity for rival spouses, and ridicules society ladies who pose with dogs.
Pointed Paragraphs and Parables in City Life
A collection of witty, aphoristic musings on health, pride, humor, and social behavior. Observations contrast personal virtue with public action, noting how jokes, professions, and manners shape daily life in the bustling city.
Mother's Tip Leads to Arrest of Car Bandits
Ashtabula Ohio residents Ora Hinkle eighteen and Luther Ricker seventeen, both New York Central employees, are in custody on charges of rifling United States mail bags and parcel post in the station baggage room. Police found goods valued at over $100 in their homes. A mother tipped off authorities after discovering stolen items under her son's bed.
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Ashtabula
Ora Hinkle
Luther’ Ricker
New York Central
United States
Wandering Willie Feasts in Jail After Hold Up
A Jackson county jail inmate nicknamed Wandering Willie found a lavish jail meal waiting in his cell including chicken oysters and cranberries. The owner Earl Keith, jailed for a daytime hold up of Michigan Iron and Metal cashier 165 dollars, later returned to find the feasting thief calmly rolling a cigarette and ordering Keith to remove the dishes showing the inmate’s hunger and humor.
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Jackson
Mick
Willie
Jackson County
Earl Keith
Durance
Michigan Iron & Metal Company
Keith
Farm Journal Snippets on Bids, Morals, and Markets
A collection of aphorisms and observations on farming life.Advice on speed and effort, honesty, debt, secrecy, milk production, planting risks, shingles versus roofings, reading habits, and stock exchanges. The tone echoes practical agrarian wisdom and cautionary maxims from rural life.
Congress on daylight saving bills and repeal efforts
Debates crowd the Congressional Record as bills seek to save daylight and set standard time nationwide. Supporters cite economic and wartime energy savings while rural opponents push repeal arguing local solar rhythms.
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Romine
Andrews
Nebraska
United States
Homeward Bound Exodus of Foreign Born Americans
In the sixty sixth congress session the question of four year immigration suspension looms as emigration of foreign born residents grows. Workers leaving permanently may influence immigration debate. Two main groups return home: those aiding war torn kin and those fleeing tyranny from liberated European regions like Czecho Slavs and Jugo Slavs seeking stability in their homelands.
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America
American Federation of Labor
Europe
Soccor
Helgoland Considered as a Bird Sanctuary by Britain
A British meeting of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds favors turning Helgoland into a sanctuary. The island once a German naval fortress would become a paradise for birds, a stark reversal of its wartime role.
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Helgoland Island
British
Royal Society For the Protection of Birds
England
Helgoland
North Sea
Germany
Great Britain
Aerial Mapping: Birdmen With Cameras Eye Alaska Topography
Scientists from the geological survey Maj J W Bagley and J B Mertie report that mapping by aerial photography will soon yield detailed topographic maps. They describe evolving devices to capture elevations from the air enabling rapid coverage of remote regions at high speed.
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F. H. Moffit
Geological Survey
J. W. Bagley
Engineer Corps
J. B. Mertie
Survey
Coast and Geodetic Survey
National Park Service
Alaska
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