Word: ind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indiana University wrestling team: the national collegiate championship, in a tournament at Bloomington, Ind.; with 13 points, to 11 for Oklahoma Agricultural & Mechanical College...
...costs about $100 to dye a horse. . . . Before you put the dye on it's necessary to sweat the horse and dry him out. . . . "When we rung Aknahton as Shem at Havre de Grace, I shipped the horse back to Jamaica, then sent him to Crown Point, Ind., where . . . the Pinkertons located him. . . . I gave a certain police official $500 . . . and they never saw him again until at Hialeah. . . . Well, the Pinks had a picture of me taken in England in 1917, when I was sentenced for three years for ringing a horse. I got trapped going...
...started with a few men sitting around the lobby of the Elks Club in Muncie, Ind. Tired of talking about national unemployment and the Depression, they decided to do something about joblessness in their own town. They canvassed homes and factories, asked everyone to make one extra job, bought newspaper space first to tell their plans, later to detail their achievements...
...Tottenville, N. Y. a clam digger found 22 silver dollars in a tin box in the mud. He sped them to a bank. ¶ Near Fort Wayne, Ind. a farmer hid $250 in an old bureau drawer. Rats chewed the bills to bits so small that banks refused to redeem the trash. ¶ At Los Angeles a 10-year-old boy found a tin can, used it as a target for rifle practice. Out of the can his father extracted eleven $1,000 bills, perforated with bullet holes. A broker accepted the currency in payment for securities...
Connersville, Ind...