Navy to repatriate all naval officers and sailors
The Navy Department plans to bring home bodies of all navy officers sailors and marines buried abroad within months. Relatives decide burial at private or Arlington national cemeteries, with full honors or prepay of expenses up to delivery. insurance refunds up to 100 dollars per case. Relatives of navy and marine dead urged to respond to respective bureaus.
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Ashingtoon
Navy
Navy Department
Arlington
National
Department
War Risk Insurance Bureau of the
Bureau of the Treasury
Naval Reserves
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Marine Corps
Corps
Debutante Slouch Gone War Shapes Women’s Bodies
War work redefines female form as measurements show hips shrink and chests rise across hundreds of cases. Women’s service in canteens and ambulances tightens waists, strengthens arms, and improves carriage, ending old fashion pressures and promising lasting change.
Form Clothes for Men Predict Sprightly Year in Fashion
The National Association of Merchant Tailors outlines a lively masculine style for the year. Expect form fitting, youthful, inspirational looks with sporty joggery and fringe details. Coats feature high waists, long vents, and practical pockets, while seashore and mountain wear push boundaries causing amusement among Rockies guides.
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National Association of Merchant Tailors
Rockies
East
Middle West
Rocky Mountain National
No Great Rush of Foreign Laborers to Europe After Armistice
Immigration records show only 2374 applications by aliens to return to European nations since the armistice. Over half did not obtain or take up permits. about 2000 were Italians, with others from Scandinavia Greece and Great Britain. No enemy aliens receive permits. Agent H R Landis notes applications were heavy after the armistice but have dwindled. transport difficulties and local business needs lessen concern.
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Europe
Bureau
Immigration Department
Greece
Great Britain
H. R. Landis
Indiana Legislature Faces Scramble to End War Legislation
The Indiana Senate weighs tax reform in committee of the whole while the house moves to pass a water plant condemnation bill for East Chicago. Debate centers on public service commission power and war related rate increases as Republicans and Democrats clash over policy and funding.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Senate
House
Assembly
Conservation Commission
Public Service Commission
East Chicago
East Chicago & Indiana Harbor Water Company
Indiana Water Company
G. H. Geist
Philadelphia
Representative Day
Hamilton
South Bend
Joseph M. Cravens
Madison
Axbey
Truck Bill Amended to License Large Vehicles
The Dean bill to license motor vehicles by horsepower and tonnage was amended to set a $60 fee for trucks over ten tons and $30 for each trailer. The committee made no change to the amendment barring ten-ton trucks from state roads, with questions raised about army trucks' validity.
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Committee
House
Permanent Highways Urged at Vincennes Road School
At the southeastern Indiana road school in Vincennes the final day featured an automobile inspection trip over improved highways in Lawrence county Illinois. Purdue highway expert Professor R C Yeeman urged larger units of control for road building and cited lagging legislation. J P Scott discussed Illinois highway construction and a shift toward a business like system. Numerous road superintendents and farmers attended the two day session.
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Indiana Road School
Vincennes
Lawrence County
Illinois
Wabash River
R. C. Yeeman
Purdue University
J. P. Scott
Yeeman
State Highway Commission
Senate passes and defeats bills on roads schools and licenses
The senate approved a county line road in Huntington county and a joint resolution on constitutional review of bills by the state Supreme Court. It supported the McCray bill on state commissions and advanced a Wabash river dam proposal. Bills on Beardsley auto fees failed, Wright bone dry rules amended, and a county engineers office measure passed in the house. Henry county memorial for Wilbur Wright funded.
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Senate
Huntington
State Supreme Court
Aldredge
Munton
Beardsley
McCray
Wabash River
Cass County
Henry County
Wilbur . Wright
Dayton
Indiana Board of Tax Commissioners Issues Spring Letter
The Indiana Board of Tax Commissioners prepares its annual spring letter to assessors. It directs them to list all property at true cash value and, if enacted, to use 50 percent of true valuation as the tax base. It notes the law governing oath administration.
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State Board of Tax Commissioners
Indiana
Board
Indiana Pageant of Happenings Reports Local Events
Indiana briefs report on women’s groups telephone sales influenza cases and school calendars in towns like North Vernon Evansville Anderson Bowling Green South Bend Sullivan Rushville Winchester Hartford City Lafayette Columbus Newcastle Lawrenceburg Huntington Hartford City Laporte and Laporte war department campus offer with the Inferlaken school site.
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North Vernon
League of Indiana
Evansville
Post J
Travelers’ Protective Association
Anderson
Herschell Anderson
Bowling Green
South Bend
St. Joseph County
Sullivan
Rushville
Rush County
Winchester
Hartford City
Blackford County
Jackson Township
Lafayette
Indiana
Purdue University
Columbus
John W. Phillips
Homer Phillips
Seymour
Newcastle
Henry County Farmers’ Institute
Lawrenceburg
Clarence C. Madison
Dearborn
F. A. Loew
Little River
Lancaster
Salamonie
High Street
Laporte
War Department
Washington
Inferlaken
Echool
Ilitary
Model Prisoner Uses Silk Threads to Escape Jail
In Geneva Illinois a prisoner quietly sawed through two bars using silk threads hidden in shirts and emery dust. Deputy Herman Vierke confiscated the tools and recaptured the escapee, Meir Gallagher, who later confessed the ruse used to breach the “toolproof” cell.
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Geneva
Ill
Herman Vierke
Vierke
Meir Gallagher
Cedar Rapids
Gallagher
Climber Roused From Pittsburgh Bridge Sleep
Felix Lappelle a Detroit iron worker awoke atop a Pittsburgh bridge over Jack's Run more than 100 feet above ground after a dream inspired climb. Firemen reached him via the bridge columns and lowered him safely to earth as the temperature hovered between freezing and zero.
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Pittsburgh
Felix Lappelle
Jack
Lappell
Ele
Lappelle
Detroit
Old gag steals cash from Greek in St. Louis ruse
In St. Louis a Greek man named Cosmic Stefen was duped by two strangers posing as hotel staff. They offered a security job at Hotel Jefferson, then took his $1,372 cash after wrapping it in a package labeled safe keeping. The pair vanished with the money and job.
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Man
Joe
St. Louis
Hotel Jefferson
Cosmic Stefen
Stefen
Augusta Man Arrested Over Whiskey Trunk Plot
Macon report says J R Lybrand of Augusta tried to smuggle a trunk of whiskey by checking it from Macon to Macon then Augusta as a cushion shot. A government agent spotted him with Cincinnati liquor, leading to arrest by a special agent and a $50 fine.
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Macon
J. R. Lybrand
Augusta
Cincinnati
Steadfast Chicago butcher accused in poison plot romance
Morris Parzio, a West Harrison Street meat market owner, is accused by Eleanor Gayton of drugging and abducting her in December 1916 and again last week. She says he mixed bichloride of mercury, forced poison, and asked her to marry him. police arrested Parzio at the Deering station as he denies the charges.
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Chicago
Morris Parzio
Eleanor Gayton
County Hospital
Parzio
West Harrison Street
Racine Avenue
John Gayton
Lochinvar
Gayton
Fred Pattman
South Wells Street
West Harrison
William Begley
John Adams
Deering Station
Boy Fatally Burned In Boiler Of Water
In St Louis Aug Teska age 5 was fatally scalded when he fell into a water boiler during family washing. His mother had placed the boiler on the floor while her husband repaired a stove pipe.
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St. Louis
August Teska
Teska
Fears Burglars Lead to Shooting in Atlanta Night
Fragmented report describes a shooting in Atlanta after a burglary fear. An individual fired at a suspect near Greenfield woodlands, claiming a Black intruder and a Black woman were involved. The piece mentions an unrelated financial sum and unclear names.
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Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Food and Drug Division
State Board of Health
H. E H. Barnard
Food and Drug Commissioner
Axley
Governor Goodrich
Medill MaeCormick
Republican National Woman’s Party
Republican Editorial Association of Indiana
James P. Goodrich
National League of Indiana
McCormick
Republican National Committee
Goodrich
Watson
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Hays
National Committee
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Atlanta
Blind
Thompson
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Greenfield
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