Look at these statements from headline articles in The La Porte Daily Argus in June 1924. Terminology, capitalization, and what makes headline news can be different. Yet accidents, business, crime, and war still make headlines. Want to read the whole article? It’s on microfilm in the Indiana Room at the Main Library. Staff will be glad to help you access it.
June 2
After a period of quiet extending over several weeks burglars again put in an appearance Sunday night, entered two stores and attempted to rob a third.
June 3
Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, 19-year-old confessed slayers of Robert Franks, 18-year-old Chicago schoolboy, have shown a willingness to assist authorities in clearing up the details of the kidnapping and murder. After their confessions they led detectives to a lagoon in Jackson Park, into which they said the typewriter upon which the ransom letter was written had been dumped. Arrow points to Leopold.
June 4
(Shanghai) – Two of the three American round the world planes flew successfully across the east China sea from Japan to China today.
June 5
Six young men riding in a Chevrolet touring car narrowly escaped injury about 8 o’clock Wednesday night when the machine plunged from the Johnson road near the interurban line power house.
June 6
Al Michael, about 40, of near Westville, died at his home of black smallpox Wednesday it became known today. He, with his brother, was quarantined some weeks ago but broke it and exposed a large number of persons in the neighborhood. His brother, brother-in-law and two other residents of his home are seriously ill from the scourge, it was learned.
June 7
County Attorney Lee Osborn was authorized to start condemnation proceedings against the property of Andrew Renner at Waterford in order to get a right-of-way for the La Porte-Michigan City road to the northeast of the interurban tracks at the town.
June 10
(Convention Hall, Cleveland, Ohio) – Declaring that most citizens “now look to President Coolidge rather than to congress for leadership,” Representative Theodore O. Burton of Ohio, today called for re-election of the president and a majority in the next congress made up of Republicans “tried and true who will stand united.”
June 11
A jury found Edward Troxel, a farmer living near LaCrosse, guilty of conspiracy to commit a felony in connection with the plot to burn the traction station at Sharpsville, Ind. on the night of Feb. 21 and placed his punishment at from two to 14 years in prison and a fine of $25 in the Tipton circuit court at Tipton, Ind. late Tuesday.
June 12
Former Sheriff William E. Anstiss was charged with $3,598.98 in overcharges during his three years in office, 1920, 1921, and 1922, in a report made public Wednesday by the state board of accounts. Examiners of the board are now working on the county books at the court house. The $3,598.98, the examiners, Walter Lealie and O. A. Hutchens, said today, was on overcharges on transportation of prisoners to state institutions, bathing prisoners, posting notices, serving the board of commissioners, and other similar services of the sheriff’s office.
June 13
The Plimpton Press, Inc., a $1,500,000 eastern book printer and bindery company, will erect a western branch plant on five acres of the Warnecke farm just across the Nickle Plant railwkay tracks on Lincoln Way, and opposite of the Traction Foundry plant, at a cost of between $25,000 and $50,000, it was announced today by the Chamber of Commerce.
June 14
The production of winter wheat this year in Indiana will be 7,621,000 bushels less than the amount harvested last year, if the amount estimated on the June 1 condition is maintained at harvest time, according to the report of George C. Bryant, statistician for the co-operative crop reporting service, issued today.
June 16
(Chicago, Ill.) – Recovery of the $3,000,000 in cash and securities stolen in the holdup of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul mail train here Thursday night, is assured, Chief of Police Collins declared today as he directed a hunt for three men, held the ringleaders of the bandit gang which committed the daring robbery.
June 17
(Detroit, Mich.) – Burglars have broken into the home of Edsel Ford, son of Henry Ford, and escaped with $100,000 in jewelry, it was learned today.
June 18
(Los Angeles, Calif.) – Josephine Bartholomew, 15-year-old inmate of the Hope Development school, which burned the night of May 31, causing the death of 23 children and one woman, today confessed that she started the fire.
June 19
(Washington) – The American government has decided the law excluding Japanese immigrants from the United States, beginning July 1, is final, and no attempt will be made by the executive branch of the government to supercede it.
June 20
(Mitchel Field, L. I., N. Y.) – Saturday, the longest day of the year, probably will find Lieut. Russell L. Maughan winging across the continent in an attempt to fly from here to San Francisco between dawn and darkness.
June 21
(Chicago) – If Dr. Robert E. Schaefer, 33, had paid heed to the old ditty “If you talk in your sleep, don’t mention my name –” Dr. Schaefer is in jail here today, charged with bigamy, all because he talked in his sleep of “Shirley.” The doctor said many sweet things about and to “Shirley,” Mrs. Cecile Schaefer told police, for she took notes and will present them in court when the bigamy case is disposed of and divorce proceedings are under way.
June 23
(New York) – A wild dog with web feet, a head like an ant-eater and a bark like the chirp of a bird, was among curiosities brought back from the Amazon Valley today by Dr. William Schurz, commercial attaché of the U.S. Embassy in Rio De Janeiro.
June 24
(Wimbledon, Eng.) – Helen Willis, returning to form and playing brilliant tennis, won her first match in the women’s singles at the Wimbledon Tennis championships today.
June 25
A tangled mass of wreckage is all that remains of Earl Root’s new Ford log truck after the Twentieth Century Limited, crack train of the New York Central line, crashed into it at the Adams street crossing about 2:10 p.m. today.
June 26
Agitation for the construction of a municipal golf course, open to all at a very low green fee, again gained prominence today. Similar action has been attempted before, but so far has failed to bring results. According to reports current about the city public spirited citizens have volunteered to donate several acres of ground adjoining Kingsbury avenue, near the city limits.
June 27
The Municipal Contracting and Supply company of Gary finished laying the asphalt top on this end of the Johnson road today, Deputy County Engineer Earl Alexander said.
June 28
(Madison Square Garden, New York) – Thoroughly enmeshed in the issue of the Ku Klux Klan, the Democratic National convention will reconvene at 3 o’clock this afternoon in a session fraught with every possibility of the most sensational meeting in political history.
June 30
The first instance of an arrest under the city ordinance prohibiting the operation of a shoe shining stand on the sidewalks of the city occurred Saturday when Louis Angeledes, 713 Rose street, was arrested.