Indiana News Highlights Across The State
Indiana cities show demand for workers near the supply except East Chicago. State health officials seek reports on cold storage licenses. A Citizens' Independent Telephone workers strike hits Terre Haute. Clark county townships form farm union groups while road debates rise. Flyers report strong Indiana hospitality crew returns with two planes lost and 160 enlistments. Government delays fuel payments. gas standard set in Indianapolis. County road plans announced. major upgrades listed. Discharged Tenth Infantry unit forms (July rally planned). Fatal crashes near South Bend. Call for memorial hospital in Johnson county. German cannon gifts proposed. coal committee nominees named. Tax levies prepped. fruit crop optimism grows. milk sanitation lists created. Postal service delivery skepticism. cutworms threaten Petersburg crops. Purdue notes crop disease concerns. no major wheat loss feared.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Chicago
United States Employment Service
Avhich
Indiana Employment Commission
Harry B. Barnard
Terre X[faute
Citizens’ Independent Telephone Company
Central Union
Shelbyville
Blair
Nellie Heck
Edna Heck
John Heck
Minnie Engle
Lizzie Martin
William Talbert
Ray Heec x
Jeffersonville
Clark County
State Federation of Farmers’ Associations
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Iil
Washington
D. C
Watson
Indiana Coal Trade Bureau
Gas Heat Unit Committee
B.T. U
Public. Service. Commission
L.H. Wright
State Highway Commission
the .Commission
Terre Haute
Stikesville
Hikhart County
South Bend
Leighnier
Greenwood
National Coad
Miss Ion County
Michigan
Marshall County
Plymouth
Niles Road
Wayne
Cambridge City
Werrick
Spencer
Boonville
Alles
Ville
Will Ine Hela
Janet ‘Anderson
Benjamin Willis
C8velas
Mhien
Twentieth’ Century’ Limited
I York
Wham
Gleason
Goodrich
Connersville
Frank N. Wallace
State Conservation Commission
Russell G. Rinst
Shelby County
Washington, D. C
Bland
Franklin
Johnson County
Will R Wood
Crown Point
Monticello
Battle Ground
West Lebanon
A. V. Bureh
Evansville
Central
Illinois
State Board of Tax Commissioners
County Auditors’ Association
State Board
Logansport
Indiana State Board of Health
Hable’ Td
Harry E. Barnard
County Farmers’ Association
Petersburg
Legislative Reference Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
Lafayette
Purdue University
Agricultural Experiment Station
United. ‘States
Henry Starr Freed After Four Years Of Thirteen Year Term
Henry Starr the Oklahoma outlaw and former bandit has been released from the state penitentiary after serving four years of a 125 year sentence. He began life in the Cherokee Nation, drifted into crime after a dispute with his stepfather, and endured multiple incarcerations including bank robberies and a long federal sentence. Starr’s parole followed efforts by his wife and former U S marshal associates, and friends describe him as a quiet, older man with a new philosophy toward life.
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Tulsa
Okla
Henry Starr
Oklahoma
Gee Sue
Starr
Nowata
Fein
Floyd’ Wilson
Wwarshak
Fort~ Smith
Ark
Columbus
Roosevelt
Starrw
Colorado
Amityville
Iis 4
United’ States
Mersha
Typhus Spreads in Eastern Europe Reports Reach Red Cross
Reports from Red Cross agents in eastern Poland Russia Serbia and Macedonia describe worsening typhus fever conditions. Experts form a committee to advise on combat measures and potential new Red Cross organization as forecasts indicate greater danger.
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Poland
Russia
Serbia
Wereuneer Red
Cross Edi
Macedonia
Red’ ‘Cross
Redross
England
America
Fishermen Detectives Reclaim Purse From Chimney
Chicago detectives Finn and Sally traced a stolen purse to a Logan Square lodge meeting at the Ranier building. They crept to the roof through a trap door and retrieved the pocketbook from the chimney after arresting janitor George Crozman, who admitted the theft. Mrs Scholton valued eyeglasses at fifty dollars and described the septuagenarian fishing retrieve.
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Chicago
Ranier
Finn
Sally
Logan Square
The
Eastern Star
Benjamin W. Scholton
Alex Raety
George Crotzman
Kansas Man Clings to Cribbed Corn Belief
In Burlington, Kansas a probate complaint sought a guardian for a feeble minded man. A guardian sold hundreds of bushels of cribbed corn at a discount after rats and weevils damaged the stock. The man, living alone, relied on the grain as staple diet and claimed planetary forecasts warned of future crop failures.
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Burlington
Kan
Guardian
Whitley
Walking Guide for Men 45 and Older from Walter Camp
Senior Service Corps Instruction Book advises daily four mile walks and outdoor activity. It promotes breathing through the nose, open windows, loose clothing, dry feet, hydrating water, regular sleep, and walking to prevent illness while noting blood pressure rises with indoor sedentary habits.
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Senior Service Corps
Walter Camp
A Glass House Reminder and Other Quips From A Page
A collection of aside remarks offers sharp lines on discipline hope life and appearances. It contrasts teachers and pupils with a rod, lampoons glass houses, and notes the dull shine of silver plated knives.
Nobody Knows the Puzzle Behind Wartime Deceptions
A quirky monologue lists secrets and suspicions about wartime German moves and consumer prices. The speaker claims to understand border eaters, overshoe nibs, egg sandwich costs, and porterhouse steak bargains, hinting at hidden knowledge and subversive schemes.
Prohibition Bill May Spare Men from Signing Pledge
An Indianapolis Star commentary notes a cracked voice argues the prohibition bill could save many men from taking the pledge. The piece contrasts past praise for rising “worth while” men with a view that mothers’ harsh tactics push youths to oppose giving until it hurts.
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Indianapolis Star
Stealers Move House While Owner Was Away
Almont Eaton of Toledo bought a home and left for a year. On return he found his cottage missing, moved and rebuilt a mile from the original site. Police located the displaced house after an empty woodshed and brick remain.
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Almont Eaton
Toledo
Eaton
Burglars Steal Adding Machine From Columbus Office
Burglars broke into a local Columbus business office and stole an adding machine. Police ask anyone with information to come forward. No injuries reported. The incident prompted a temporary shutdown of nearby access while investigators secured the scene.
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Columbus
Breeding cattle as Abyssinia’s chief industry
A battered OCR snippet notes cattle breeding as Abyssinia's main industry. It mentions sugar from sixteen palm varieties in Ceylon and a bat unable to rise from a perfectly level surface. It claims nearly half of France’s population farmed before the war, and that Switzerland spends more on poor relief per capita than any other country.
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France
Switzerland
Ruggles orientator aids war pilots training
The War Department adopts the Ruggles orientator a flying training device with two coaxial steel rings driving a suspended boat. Instructors or pupils operate controls via wire batteries to simulate looping and other maneuvers testing nerve heart and stomach fitness for flying.
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Wismocron
War ‘Department
Senator New pushes red flag ban in new bill
Congress faces pressure to outlaw red flag demonstrations amid May Day protests. Indiana Senator New plans a bill aimed at curbing anarchist propaganda by banning displays of flags or emblems signaling overthrow by force, with penalties up to $5000 fine or five years in prison.
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United States
Senate
New
Indiana
Congress
Fireproof Wood Aims From Madison Lab to Safer Homes
United States forest products laboratory experts at Madison Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin announce progress toward fireproof wood. They claim to create strong wood through bonding and improved seasoning and foresee wooden houses rivaling stone in fire resistance and durability. They attribute fires mainly to careless use and seek safe building methods to widen wood’s role in construction. War accelerated the lab’s activity and many wartime findings may apply to peacetime use, the authors say.
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United States
Forest Products Laboratory
Madison
Wis
University of Wisconsin
Half Cent Piece Sought to Aid Tax Payments
Treasury officials report agitation in Chicago and other cities for a new half cent coin to enable exact revenue tax payments. Such action would require congress, as extra half cents already collected in taxes support revenue. Internal Revenue aims to curb profiteering while enforcing luxury tax rules and penalties.
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Treasury Department
Department
Chicago
Treasury
Congress
Internal Revenue
Revenue ‘Bureau
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