Word: inde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tree-shaded Marion, Ind., onetime stamping-ground of the Ku Klux Klan, three Negro boys last week were hurried to the Grant County gaol. One of them, Thomas Shipp, 18, confessed he had dragged Claude Deeter, 23, from an automobile parked in Marion's outskirts, shot him to death. Shipp's companion, Abe Smith, admitted attacking Deeter's fiancee, Mary Ball...
...crowd gathered about the gaol, increased during the day to more than 1,000. About 9 p. m. Hoot Ball, father of Mary, called to confer with Sheriff Jacob Campbell. A weak & sickly man, he emerged to find the crowd augmented by a group of men from Fairmount, Ind., Deeter's home. They pressed in on him, knocked him down...
...seven children of an Indiana farmer-schoolmaster, he had ambitions to become a doctor. He studied Greek, borrowed a collar & tie to graduate respectably from Hanover College (Hanover, Ind.), taught Greek and Latin to put himself through Indiana Medical School. He secured his M.D.* then entered Harvard as a freshman, took examinations for 17 days, graduated a B.S. in five months. Next year (1874) he became professor of chemistry at newly opened Purdue University...
Last week Manhattanite directors of Ulen & Co., international engineers, traveled to Lebanon, Ind., in a specially chartered Ulen & Co. car. There Henry Charles ("HC") Ulen extended them the hospitality of Lebanon's Ulen-built country club, entertained them in his Florentine mansion at Ulen, suburb of Lebanon, and held a directors' meeting at which was declared the company's first common dividend - 40? for the quarter on a $1.60 annual basis. It was also announced that the company's first quarter net was $231,235 and that the year had begun with the company...
...Lebanon, Ind., 24 years ago Joseph A. Sandlin decided on precisely how he wanted his funeral conducted. He assembled his tribe (lodge) of Red Men, lay down in his coffin to show how his body was to be placed. Photographs were made of each stage. The other day four old, rehearsed pallbearers studied the old pictures, buried provident Mr. Sandlin, 90, precisely, definitively...