Indiana News Roundup From Various Cities
Indiana reports cover actions in Indianapolis Shelbyville and Fort Wayne with business labor and political notes. Warnings on taxes water quality oil fields and road funding feature alongside university commencements and public works plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelbyville
Victory Harvest
Shelby County
Anderson
Madison County
Ft. Wayne
Board of Health
Indianapolis
Hartford City
R. J. Sidney
Montpelier
Sidney
Connersville
Harrison Township
Board of County Commissioners
Board of Commissioners
Conner & Sherby
United States Grain Corporation
Jeffersonville
Erasmus T. Sage
State Highway Commission
H. K. Bishop
Washington, D. C
Bishop
Bureau of Good Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
New Jersey
Washington
Indiana
War Department
Lewis Taylor
Indiana Farmers’ Association
T. A. Coleman
H. W. Widney
St. Joe
Indiana Farmers’ Associations
State Employment Commission
Statehouse
Hayes Ef. Buskirk
Evansville
Terre Haute
Kokomo
Muncie
Lafayette
Hammond
South Bend
Chicago
James ‘P. Goodrich
John W. McCar‘ale
Public Service
Omtbission
Goodrich
State Board of Health and State Food Production and Conservation Committex
É Alene Ke
Y M C A Work for Army Abroad
George W. Perkins reports on the Y M C A war work in Europe. He notes difficulty in securing efficient workers among 11 229 sent abroad and argues 95 percent were successful. 14 Y M C A secretaries were killed and 126 wounded. The organization sold canteen supplies to near cost, not given away, and handled huge volumes of cigarettes, chocolate, cigars, jam and candy in France.
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New York
George W. Perkins
Europe
Mr. Perkins
France
Pershing
Nurses Rescued From Quicksand At North Shore Resort
At Win netka a trio of nurses Grace Williams Helen Conrad and Clara Babroth were rescued from quicksand by Harold Rubin University of Chicago athlete and his cousin Fat Rubin. Rubin hearing cries sprinted to aid and returned with a resort attache and shovels to pull them free before collapsing back from exertion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
North Shore
Winnetka
Harold Rubin
University of Chicago
Grace Williams
Helen Conrad
Clara Babroth
Lake Shore
Willow Street
Rubin
Fat Rubin
Alexandria Seeks Modernization Amid Ancient Legacy
Read as fragments about Alexandria in Egypt striving to shed its ancient past under Alexander and Cleopatra era influences. The text hints at a desire to modernize while retaining key historic associations and trade links.
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Alexandria
Alexander the Great
Cleopatra
Glass egg fatal to snake in Pennsylvania tale
In New Bloomfield Shermandale recounts a turkey nest theft by a black snake. Mrs. Ford hid the real eggs with a glass egg, the glass vanished, and a large snake disappeared. Neighbors later found a snake skeleton and the glass egg along Shermans Creek, suggesting the creature died after unable to digest the eggs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Bloomfield
Shermandale
Thomas Ford
Sherman’s Creek
Rubber Heels Save Boy From Charged Wire
Chicago tale of twelve year old Ben Franklin and his older brother John who touch a live electric wire. Lawrence Ramm removes his rubber heels and presses them to the wire to free Johns hand, demonstrating practical electricity savings.
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Boy
Chicago
Lawrence Ramm
Ben Franklin
John
Lawrence
Soldier's return celebration ends on hotel ledge in St Louis
Ralph M Harrigan of Higginsville Arkansas a discharged soldier chose a two foot ledge around the tenth floor of the Hotel Jefferson in St Louis as the site for his homecoming celebration. Spectators and volunteers urged him to come down from the ledge after the hedge detective intervened.
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St. Louis
Jeffersonbere
Ralph M. Harrigan
Higginsville
Ark
Garth
Remarkable tale of finger tingling and neck fracture
Insurance solicitor James C. Snow suffered a tingling in his little finger. A vibrator and barber manipulations fractured his axis vertebra, leading to a plaster neck cast at St Joseph's hospital. Doctors Grovenor and McKenna treated him, and he is improving.
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Chicago
Charles E. Hamiston
Chicago Medical Society
James C. Snow
Snow
Glenlake Avenue
St. Joseph’s Hospital
St. Joseph's Hospital
W. F. Grovener
Hugh Mc Wenna
Doctor Trostier
Grovenor
McKenna
Pairing system urged to guard Senate from casualties
In Washington the Senate debates a pairing plan to keep Republican control by ensuring any Republican absence is offset by Democratic pairing. Names named include Henderson Nevada Jones Washington McNary Oregon Pittman Nevada King Utah Sterling South Dakota New Indiana. The gaggle of aviators fears vacancies could shift power.
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Ashington
Washington
Congres
Senate
Wilson
Henderson
Nevada
Senate Jones
McNary
Oregon
Pittman
King
Utah
Sterling
South Dakota
Senator New
Indiana
James Whitcomb Riley
Lawmakers Sure New Child Labor Law Will Stand
Washington observers note Congress attached a new child labor tax to the revenue bill. The 10 percent excise tax on mills and factories employing under fourteen and etc sixteen, plus eight hour rule, aims to enforce via discretionary IRS funding rather than explicit bureau authority.
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Washington
Congress
Supreme Court
United States Congress
United States Supreme Court
John Jay
Court
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Secretary of Labor
Children’s Bureau
Legionary movement aims to industrialize domestic service
In the postwar period London traces a Legionary plan to organize demobilized women into a household section with badges stripes and optional uniform. The program seeks defined hours recreation minimum wage and work terms to elevate domestic service to parity with other paid labor.
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United States
Great Britain
England
London
United States Department of Labor
Legionary
Lady Londonderry
Women’s Legion
Legion
Split Is Threatened In The National Highway Plan
The Discussed federal main line roads project splits highway boosters into rival camps after Chicago meeting. A federal highway council aims to steer the national campaign and Congress in Michigan Senator Townsend's bill. The surface harmony hides deeper divisions on the national system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Federal Highway Council
Congress
Townsend
Michigan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fasel
Indiana News
Collins
Peter J. Kruger
Internal Revenue Collector
Elwood
A. W. Konald
North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
Wood Township
Clark County
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Department of Labor
North Central States
Purdue University
School of Agriculture
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Grand Army of the Republic
Elkhart
James L.harman
General Committee
James P. Goodrich
Linton
New ‘Home Telephone Company
Central Union Wire
Garland Brook
Nentrup
Public Service Commission
Commission
Fred’ T. Woods
Ben Wemt Mer
John Pasternak
Y.M.C.A
Army Abroad
George W. Perkinson
Organization
Mr. Snow
Springfield
Mike Dadarin
Harry Thompson
East St. Louis
Dadarin
Cadarin
Mark
Atlanta, Or
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