Thieves Led to Death by Clever Detective Pal
A Pittsburg private detective Stephen A. Marczewski, hired for steel strike work, infiltrated an Orwell Ohio I W W ring and signaled the bank robbery plan. Sheriff Eldred and villagers ambushed the bandits, two dead and two wounded, while the lookout escaped as Marczewski feigned death. The sleuth was unharmed and praised for his “day’s work.”
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International News Service
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Monessen
John Zneskki
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Bank
Shriners Convention to Draw 75 000 Visitors to Portland
Portland faces a housing crunch as 75,000 Shriners arrive for their annual convention next June. A housing committee is negotiating with hotels, private homes, clubs, and temples. J. P. Jaeger warns every available room will be filled, with Shriners occupying spaces from lampposts to closets. Cities including Rochester Calgary Regina Dallas Tulsa Muskogee Minneapolis Milwaukee Spokane St Joseph Shreveport Kansas City Pittsburg Springfield Seattle Tacoma Detroit St Paul Fort Worth Philadelphia and Honolulu have sent housing orders.
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London Strike Delayed by Labor Ministry Action
London reports the ministry of labor has intervened in negotiations to avert a theater strike. Notices delaying any strike have been issued, with a possible resumption on Monday at the earliest if the strike proceeds.
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London
Ministry of Labor
British Spy Exploited German Gold To Fuel Explosions
A British secret service agent deceived German paymasters by staging or arranging explosions in British munition works. Paid through German channels in Spain, he earned 5000 dollars per incident and an extra 2000 for special cases. The scheme funded harmless blasts, with news suppression delaying exposure.
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International News Service
London
Secret Service
Germany
Spain
England
St Mark's Christmas Service at 10:30 AM
St Mark's Episcopal church holds a Christmas celebration starting at 10 30 this morning. The choir directed by E K Pickell with Mrs W K Gaily at the organ will perform a rich program including Adeste Fideles Venite Te Deum in C Jubilate in D and How Lovely Are the Messengers with notable soloists Mrs Borcher Nazareth Agnus Dei Nunc Dimitis and Te Deum soprano solo by Mrs L Owen contralto by Mrs J Lightowler and bass H B Saunders.
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Woodward
Weigant
Warren
Borcher
Nazareth
Gounod
H.&. Saunders
Mendelssohn
Clemson
Games
New Suit Steals Night at Gregson Dance Hall
Onlookers watch as a man debuts a striking Broadway style outfit arriving by train at Gregson. The tight coat and trousers with suspenders, russet shoes, and bold hat draw attention while he moves with cautious confidence toward a hotel and a dance booth. A companion’s exclamation confirms the suit’s striking effect.
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Butte
Exio
Georgia Tobacco Fields to Double in Size
Valdosta Georgia Lowndes county will double its tobacco acreage next season and a large tobacco warehouse will be built in Valdosta. The Valdosta Chamber of Commerce leads a campaign to expand tobacco growing in the area. Last season South Georgia produced over 11 million pounds sold at nine markets at an average of 18 cents per pound, with occasional top prices near $1 and low sales for poorly grown crops. Farmers anticipate higher prices in 1920 as methods improve.
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Valdosta
Lowndes County
Retreat severed in Denikine volunteers fate
A Bucharest dispatch reports the retreat of General Denikine's volunteers has been completely severed. Their only remaining recourse is to seek refuge in Romania.
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Geneva
Denikine
Bucharest
Romania
Berlin Declares Itself Immoral City Before War
Berlin experiences a moral decline with rising drunkenness immorality and obscenity theaters and dance halls drawing crowds while many citizens abandon propriety. crime including robberies and murders increases with burglaries averaging about a thousand weekly.
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London Daily Express
Berlin
Farmer Friedrich Jesse Prepares His Own Grave Monument
Akron Col. Friedrich Jesse, 78, a hale farmer, designs and finishes his own grave monument in local cemetery. His dark granite stone bears his name birth date and a German Bible quote with a blank space for his death date. He quips that granite prices rise and the line When I die I know everything will be all right. It's such a blessing.
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Col
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Five more communists sentenced to death in Budapest
On Saturday in Budapest five additional communists were sentenced to death. Eugene Lascio, an author journalist and lawyer, is among the executed. Nine others received long prison terms as warrants are issued for former premier Alexander Garbai for instigating 204 murders. Garbai is said to be under Romanian jurisdiction in Klausenberg reports.
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Budapest
Eugene Lascio
Alexander Garbai
Garbai
Klausenberg
Obregon Planks to Amend 1917 Constitution At Mexican Convention
Gen Alvaro Obregon, candidate for Mexico's presidency, will push the liberal constitutionalists to amend the 1917 Carranza Queretaro constitution so provisions objectionable to foreigners are removed and changes adopted at the party convention in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Texas
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Partido Liberal Constitutionalists
Carranza
Powers of the Executive and Cabinet Officers Impounded
Advice received in this city today from Obregon states that the executive holds broad powers and may be impeached for offenses beyond treason. The document specifies the executive can face impeachment for interference in state and municipal elections as an additional accountability measure.
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Obregon
D Annunzio message reaches New York from Naples
Mrs. John Adams Drake, president of America free milk and relief for Italy, brought a message from Ga briele dAnnunzio aboard the Giuseppi Verdi. The poet-warrior praised the American people as ardent and ready for a future greater than the past.
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New York
John Adams Drake
America Free Milk and Relief
Italy
Giuseppi Verdi
Naples
Genoa
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Whiskey Robbery At Lake Forest Estate
Ten masked thieves in motor trucks stole whiskey valued between 10 000 and 20 000 from broker C. H. Ackert’s summer home in Lake Forest. A butler was tied up and cut down after a chauffeur and his wife escaped a closet where they were locked in hours later.
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Chicago
C. H. Ackert
Lake Forest
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