Word: ind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Muncie, Ind. for a State Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. Past Moose Director General James John Davis, long-time (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, and now Senator from Pennsylvania, recalled that Muncie's George Alexander Ball, millionaire fruit jar manufacturer, had 40 years ago let a "young, broke and discouraged'' jobseeker sleep on straw beside a warm boiler. To Muncie's Ball, Moose Davis proffered 25 cents for his night's lodging...
...summer evening, when she was in her early teens, a stranger appeared at the gate of the family home in Knightstown, Ind. and asked if it were the home of John Lehmanowsky. On being informed that it was, he came through the gate, and was met by her father, who had hurried from his chair on the porch at the sound of the stranger's voice. The two embraced and cried, talking in French and giving every evidence of being friends long parted who had had no hope of meeting again. They talked most of the night...
CHARLES EDWARD THOMAS Indianapolis, Ind...
Story broke when Daughter Mary Belle eloped from her home in suburban Chicago Heights to La Porte, Ind. with a 6-ft. 4 in., 21-year-old, 200-lb. onetime high-school athlete named J. Edward Wright. When this news was announced by Mrs. Spencer, the Hearstian Evening American gave it an eight-column, front-page streamer headline. Col. William Franklin Knox's Daily News front-paged the story with a two-column picture of the bride. The tabloid Times devoted its entire front page to Mary Belle, followed up inside with strips of pictures, additional copy...
...Fifty-nine-year-old Benjamin F. Cheek, Clinton, Ind. garage owner: the Grand American Handicap, No. 1 event of U. S. trapshooting; at Vandalia, Ohio...