Word: kokomo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that he "would rather not discuss" the matter at all. A Southern speaking tour was arranged for Mrs. Willebrandt, on Nominee Hoover's heels through Tennessee later this month. She was also scheduled to speak next week at a State convention of the W. C. T. U. in Kokomo, Ind. Mrs. Willebrandt returned to her duties as Assistant Attorney General in special charge of Volstead violations. While she deplored the position she found herself in, she said: "I suppose it is inevitable. I am sort of a personification of Prohibition...
Died. Jonathan Dixon Maxwell, 64, famed pioneer of the automobile industry; of pneumonia; at his home in Chesterton, Md. Starting his career as a bicycle tinker in Kokomo, Ind., Maxwell, with two others, Elmer Apperson and Elwood Haynes, built the first automobile manufactured in the U. S. (now stabled in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.). His plant at Tarrytown, N. Y., founded in 1904, became a thriving automobile centre, turned out the first cars (Maxwell-Briscoe) at the $500 mark. Maxwell's large Detroit works were used by bankers, who acquired control of the business during the pleasure...
...this time bought an airplane and with one Court Asher, a onetime army aviator, his secretary, clerk, and majordomo, he toured Indiana, talking to the crowds that came out on the fields to hear him. Sometimes he talked in the afternoons; sometimes at night by searchlights. Once, at Kokomo, there were 75,000 listeners around his golden plane and when he told of the dangers of Catholicism and described his hatred for Negroes and Jews, women pulled jewels* from their fingers and men tore their pockets to give him money for "the cause." Mr. Stephenson would save them. America...
Died. Elwood Haynes, 67, automobile pioneer; in Kokomo, Ind., of influenza. On July 4, 1894, he drove his first "horseless buggy" into Kokomo at the rate of eight miles an hour. When he took it to Chicago, he was ordered to "get that contraption off the streets." His original invention is now in the Smithsonian Institution, Washington...
...Elks and the Moose having refused to buy the 15 buildings of Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Ind., to save the University from financial collapse, the buildings have been offered to the Ku Klux Klan in solemn Konklave at Kokomo. In the meantime Henry K. Brown, formerly President, son of the founder, and member of the realty company which owns all the stock in the school, has commenced proceedings to regain control of the buildings. The Invisible Empire says nothing...