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...born in County Monaghan, Ireland; brought to this country at the age of 5. At 17 his feats of strength began. He walked 100 miles from his home town, Garrett, Ind., to get a job behind the lunch counter in the Indianapolis railroad station. In ten years he had a small hotel. At 30 he got a $50,000 a year county job, against incredible odds, and held it for eight years. For six years he was Mayor of Indianapolis. Marion County had gone Democratic the year Taggart was born. He brought it into the Democratic column again when...
Died. Thomas Taggart, 72, of French Lick, Ind., longtime Democratic boss; of stomach trouble; in Indianapolis...
...Akron, Ind., Mrs. Jenny Rader last week sued Flyer Oscar Crabill and his passenger, Arthur Coblentz, for $1,000 damages because recently, "Although the portals of the plaintiff's home are always open to friends and guests," they entered the house by crashing through the roof...
Leavings. Mr. Coolidge left stacks of photographs autographed for memento-beggers (he signed 256 at one sitting); 553 handshakes on his last day in office; two last button-pressings (one was supposed to wreck with a blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business...
Married. Gordon C. Thorne, 36, thrice-married son of the late W. C. Thorne, (early partner of Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc., Chicago mail order house); and a Mrs. Molin Bolin, 25, registered nurse, of Hammond, Ind.; in Crown Point, Ind...