Indiana News Roundup: State Elections And Local Issues
Unofficial returns from a special Indiana election show Amendment 1 for naturalization leading across 8884 precincts with varied margins on other amendments. Reports include tax changes in Marion County, school bond debates, court actions, Purdue fruit experiments, and ongoing public safety and infrastructure matters across Indianapolis Bloomington Gary and Muncie.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Sonotts
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Marion County Council
Ohe
Indianapolis Board of School
Leavenworth
Atlanta
Frederick
Verre Haute
Vigo County
Sullivan County
Honey Creek
Wabash
Manchester College
North Manchester
Otho Winger
Items of Interest From Around the World and Region
The column surveys trivia and facts: Surichat rule in the East, Turks wear yellow lippers Armenians red Jews blue, Australia with about 100 snake species of which three-fourths venomous. Oysters require 37 salt parts per 1900 water. Philippine ts land yields sixty coconuts per tree, some trees bearing 300 nuts. Fifty-four nurses serve with American forces in Germany. Feather fans on long handles once symbolized royalty. The Ribs club forms in Dallas by wives of men in the Bonehead club. German municipalities establish woods schools to counter malnutrition and reduce mortality.
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Australia
Germany
Dallas
Tex
Bonehead Club
Train wreck tears through Victoria hotel lobby
In Springfield Massachusetts the front car of a three-car electric express train jumped the track and drove into the Victoria hotel. The crash shattered the lobby and exposed upper floor rooms as guests were awakened alarmingly early.
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Victoria Hotel
Springfield
Mass
Mrs John A Logan at 83 in Washington garden
Mrs John A Logan widow of the Civil War general remains active and engaged in world affairs. She is pictured in the garden of her handsome old Washington home celebrating her eighty third birthday.
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John A. Logan
Washington
War plans division created in general staff
Secretary of War Weeks announced a reorganization authorizing a war plans division within the general staff. General Pershing heads the new unit, which will work with a war council including the secretary of war and chief of staff to mobilize quickly.
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Ershing
General Harbord
Weeks
General Pershing
Secretary of War
Staf
General Staff
War Plans
Views of Sawyer on Rehabilitation for World War Veterans
Brig. Gen. Charles J. Sawyer argues against separate patient classes and for integrated rehabilitation in civilian hospitals. He advocates vocational training based on academic core, with industrial agricultural and business tracks to improve health, self reliance, and earning power for World War veterans. He stresses equal treatment and warns against hospital entertainment focused care.
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Charles J. Sawyer
Poet Ashleigh in Jail Seeks Presidential Pardon
I W W Poet in Jail Yearns to Be Free Ashleigh prisoner in Leavenworth hopes for pardon from President Harding aided by Vachel Lindsay Harriet Monroe Hudson Maxim and others He was jailed April 25 1921 in Chicago for espionage and selective service act violations as an ILW W member Fined 10000 at age 33 born in London he has worked in South America as a newspaper man and longs for nature and poetry
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Lafayette
Purdue University
University
Department of Horticulture
Indianapolis
War Department
Indiana National Guard
Harry 3B. Smith
Indiana
Oll
Guard
Field Artillery
Warrick County
Chicago
Howard Bates
Newberg
Paul Tanth
Rufus Scales
Sullivan
Robert Veal
Ed Thompson
St. Joe
Mich
Sullivan County
W. H. Bridwell
Sullivan Court
Indiana Reformatory
Andrew Turner
Palestine
Paul Turner
Barker
Sulllivan
Secretary of State
Rt. T. Humes
Indiana State Motor Vehicle Police
Lrs
Lebanon
Joseph Cain
Boone County
Noblesville Road
Paul Joseph Erwin
Ter- Win
Cain
Williams Hospital
Goodrich
State Creamery Board
H. W. Gregory
Beech Grove
Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway
Andrew Tuski
Louis
Charles Ashleigh
Leavenworth
Harding
Vachel Lindsay
Harriet Monroe
Hudson Maxim
Charles Rann Kennedy
Judge Anderson
Boston
Mary Heaton Vorse
Ashleigh
Daugherty
Federal Penitentiary
Landis
IL W. W
London
South America
Women call world disarmament demo on Armistice Day
The National Women's Trade Union League led a world wide disarmament demonstration plan inviting 49 nations and 48 organizations to participate on Armistice Day as conferences open in Washington. Messages from Mrs. Raymond Robins urged unity of women to push governments toward disarmament this anniversary of 11 November 1918.
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Washington
National Women’s Trade Union League
United States
Organized Women In
International Congress of Working Women
Geneva
Raymond Robins
Chicago
Women of 49 Nations
Mrs. Robins
Harding
Armi
Stice
Earth
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Indiana State News
U. S. Lesh
Solon J. Carter
Public Service Commission
Exchange Club
Clinton
Indiana Public Utilities
Indiana Electric Corporation
Muncie
Woodbury-Elliott Company
Progress
Here
Quietus
West Virginia “War
West Virginia
Humber
Hull
England
Russia
Reval
Russell Pattenger
John Flick
W. B. Estes
Henri J. la Mare
X. Kalamatiano
Asbury Park
N. J
Pte
Uncle Sam
Sawyer
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