Swyers to face second degree murder charge in booze case
Ote Swyers of Doanville and Henry B. Hays of Duncan Falls are jailed in Muskingum county facing possible second degree murder charges over a "poison booze" party on April 14 in Philo that ended with the death of Ivan Dye. Hays pleaded guilty to three counts for illicit liquor and Swyers paid a $1000 fine for transporting liquor. Prosecutor Maxwell says Swyers produced a deadly liquor by mixing water with denatured alcohol and will pursue murder charges. coroners inquest expected early this week as liquor is analyzed in Columbus.
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Doanville
Ote Swyers
This
Henry B. Hays
Duncan Falls
Muskingum County
Philo
Ivan Dye
Chandleraville
Hays
Swyers
Dye
Bethesda Hospital
Zanesville
Abell
Zaneaville Force
Deanville
Mays
A. Max- West
Meskingum
County
Maxwell
Columbus
Blind Knight Frederick Fraser Knighted by King Edward
Frederick Fraser once a student at the Perkina Institute for the Blind in Watertown Mass returns to his alma mater with the title Sir after being knighted by the late King Edward of England for his efforts aiding the blind. He is touring the United States.
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Frederick Fraser
Perkina Institute For the Blind
Watertown
Mass
King Edward of England
Sir Frederick
United States
Daugherty Aides Face Anti Trust Probe Of Justice
Washington April 21 The Daugherty investigation shifts to alleged laxity in enforcing federal anti trust laws under Senator Wheeler's plan. Houston Thompson FCC chief to testify on complaints against trusts and possible enforcement gaps. Rail cases focus on court decrees forcing separation from water and trolley links. Borah committee postpones fitness to hold office hearing. witnesses travel from Montana to testify Wednesday.
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Washington
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Enator Wheeler
Mgontana
Tobacco Trust
Houston Thompson
Federal Trade Commission
Thompson
Commission
Department
Wheeler
Borah Committee
Montana
Borah
Idaho
High School Boy Disappears After Track Meet
Police search for Ross Albaugh, 14, of the May High School track team Cleveland, who strayed from teammates after a track meet at Ohio State University stadium. Principal K F Goodman was with the group but left on business during the event.
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Columbus
Ross Albaugh
Cleveland
Ohio State University
K. F. Goodman
Wilmington
Ten Hurt in Columbus Auto Accidents Sunday
Ten persons were injured in automobile accidents in or near Columbus on Sunday with two in serious condition. Police detained Joe Smith after his car struck Mrs Sophie M Rieser fracturing her skull. A second crash involved R C Howard’s car hitting a steam roller injuring all six occupants.
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Columbus
Joe Smith
Sophie M. Rieser
R. C. Howard
Howard
Miss Ella Putnam Struck in West State Street
Miss Ella Putnam 19 West Carpenter Street was struck by an automobile on West State Street near the Square Deal grocery and narrowly escaped serious harm. The driver C A Ewing 35 Brown Avenue could not stop in time. she was taken to a physician and home with injuries to the side knee and head bruises and no internal injuries yet noted. The incident occurred about 9 o clock.
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Ella Putnam
West Carpenter Street
West State Street
Square Deal
Putnam
Carpenter Street
Famous Woman Novelist Marie Corelli Dead
Marie Corelli, renowned novelist admired for Shakespearean ties, died at Mason Craft in Stratford on Avon after six weeks of illness. She was 60, of mixed Italian and Scottish parentage, and adopted in childhood by writer Charles Mackay.
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Stratford-On-Avon
England
Marie Corelli
Miss Corelli
Mason Craft
William Shakespeare
Charles Mackay
Red Heads Plan Washington Wedding Trip
In Cleveland April 21, Mr and Mrs Charles Timbers plan a wedding trip to Washington to greet the nation’s first red headed president since Thomas Jefferson. The couple, married at St Philomena’s Church East Cleveland, chose bridal attendants with matching hair color. Guests wore varied hair colors.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Washington
Thomas
Jefferson
Charles Timbers
St. Philomena’s Catholic Church
East Cleveland
Joseph Bresnan
Evelyn Nesbit fights for her boy in Thaw sanity case
Evelyn Nesbit said she is fighting for her son Russell 14 not the Thaw fortune. She urged the court to consider his rights, aiming to secure education and a stable life while criticizing Harry K Thaw and his mother for past actions.
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Philadelphia
Harry K. Thaw
Russell
Evelyn Nesbit
Evelyn
Thaw
Ruasel
New York
Palais Royale
Atlantic City
Mary Copley Thaw
Harry Phaw
Harry Thaw
Sandstone Could Surpass Granite as Building Material
Washington reports that sandstone may rival granite in strength. Tests at the United States Bureau of Standards show soaking sandstone in melted sulphur for several hours and cooling increases strength from about 200 to 200 percent.
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Washington
United States Bureau of Standards
Birth of Marroquin’s twenty fourth child sparks dreams of power
Mrs. Sebastiana Marroquin of San Francisco, aged 44, has just given birth to her twenty fourth child. The piece notes Italian lineage, a teenage marriage, and imagines Napoleonic motherhood while lamenting infant deaths due to poverty and ignorance. It contrasts Japanese and American views on war and empire, concluding with a playful palace metaphor and a page continuation.
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Sebastiana Marroquin
San Francisco
Napoleon
Caruso
Last Curtain Call Taken by Actress Eleonora Duse
Mme Eleonora Duse the 64 year old Italian tragedienne died in Pittsburg at 2 30 this morning after two weeks of influenza. Dr Barone and companion Catherine Onslow were at her bedside at the hotel when she died. Le Duse a death was unexpected as she had been reported somewhat improved yesterday.
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Pittsburg
Mme
Eleanora Duse
Charles J. Barone
Catherine Onslow
le Duse
Presbyterians Host Annual Meeting This Evening
The Presbyterian church of Ath ens will hold its annual meeting this evening at 6 o'clock with a picnic supper. Reports on the year will be presented, four elders and one trustee elected, and Session appointments announced. All connected with the church are urged to attend.
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The
Presbyterian Church of Athens
Married Under Guard in London Registry Office
Police surrounded a London registry office to deter John Harrison’s fiancée’s mother from interrupting the wedding. The ceremony proceeded amid the angry woman’s screams and tears in an outside corridor.
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London
Registry Office
John Harrison
Warmer Days Ahead Forecast For Ohio Valley
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts a return to normal conditions by Wednesday and steady mild weather through the rest of the week in the Ohio Valley and Tennessee for the period ending April 26 1924. Temperatures are expected below normal Monday and Tuesday then near normal. Normal Cincinnati highs reach 67 and lows 47 with a 67 mean.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Gas stoves blamed for many Ohio deaths this winter
Fifty of sixty one carbon monoxide fatalities in Ohio last winter were from gas heated rooms without vents or flues. Ohio Public Health Council records cited in Columbus reveal the toll. Officials urged educational campaigns and the installation of outside-air flues and removal of gas heaters from bathrooms and small rooms.
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Columbus, CO
Ohio
Ohio Public Health Council
Lof
C Une
Council
Iron Makers of Ohio and Other States Face Antitrust Charges
Federal indictment targets 47 entities including Malleable Castings Co of Zanesville for alleged price fixing on malleable castings. Arrest warrants issued. 5,000 dollar bonds set for both corporations and individuals. Ohio defendants pled not guilty while 36 out-of-state parties challenge federal court jurisdiction with June 1 demurrer deadline.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Malleable Castings Co
Zaneaville
Capluses
Federal Court of the
Northern
Ohio District
Senate to pass world war veterans' insurance bonus bill
Washington April 21 The world war veterans insurance bonus bill, providing paid up policies for about four million veterans, has House approval and is forecast for Senate passage by a wide margin. President Coolidge's stance remains unclear with reports of possible approval of the insurance plan amid administration pressure. Republican leaders say they can override a veto if needed.
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Washington
House
Senate
Coolidge
White House
Harding
Mr Coolidge
Congress
Ohio progressives plan May 18 meeting in Columbus
In Columbus Ohio on April 21 E B Lane temporary chairman of the committee of 48 says Ohio progressives will meet May 18 to select delegates to the National Farmer Labor Progressive convention at St Paul June 17. Lane says Robert M La Follette is slated to be chosen presidential candidate and calls La Follette the creator and instigator of the present investigation at Washington.
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Columbus
Ohio Progressives
E. B. Lane
Toledo
Farmer-Labor- Progressive Convention
St. Paul
U. S
Robert M. LaFollette
Wisconsin
Lane
LaFollette
Washington
Papudas Belief on Murderer’s Afterlife in Swamp
The Papudas hold that a man found guilty of murder faces punishment in the next world, banished to a swamp. This belief reflects their view of justice and the consequences of killing within their culture.
Defend of Child Labor Amendment Faces House Vote
Collier's Weekly April issue highlights Congressman I M Foster of Athens as the leading defender of the child labor amendment. The piece notes the House is expected to vote on the measure in April.
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Collier's Weekly
William Hard
I. M. Foster
Athens
House
Mother and three children escape fire in Nelsonville
Neighbors awakened by a blaze at Joe Stanley's Fairview street home around 6 am this morning. A defective flue reportedly started the fire, badly damaging the Beerman property after the flames were extinguished by firefighters. Mrs Stanley and her three children, who were sleeping, were alerted in time, and household goods were partially saved.
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Nelsonville
Joe Stanley
Fairview Street
Wheeling Toll Raises Auto Casualties and Arrests
Wheeling West Virginia reports a Sunday crash spree with seven injured eight arrests and four wrecked cars. Five people narrowly escaped death when their autos plunged over an embankment on Mozart Hill.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Mozart Hill
Worley W. Brown Becomes Acting Mayor of Middleport
Worley W. Brown, popular K. and M. conductor, autom atically became Mayor of Middleport after G. K. Bradford resigned. He assumed office late last week as president of the council.
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Middleport
Athens county W C T U institute to be held in Nelsonville
The Athens county W C T U institute meets at Glenster M E church in Nelsonville on Thursday April 24 with an all day session. An executive meeting is set for 8 30 AM and a bus will depart the public square at 8 30 AM. The state offers a prize of 6 dollars to the county with the largest attendance.
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Nelsonville
Athens County
W. C. T. U. Institute
Glouster M. E. Church
Romance of Kids Ends in Arrest After Elopement
In Dayton Ohio Harry Tindall of Dayton and Mildred Moore a Ward of juvenile court at Muncie Ind wed in Richmond Ind then traveled to Newport Ky to marry last Friday police intervened spoiling Easter dinner Muncie authorities seek detention of Mildred and extradition for the groom with bond likely as case unfolds.
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Dayton
Ohio
Harry Tindall
Mildred Moore
Muncie
Ind
Richmond
Newport
Jana
Muncie Munele
Mildred
Bond
Expert Opposes Thaw Release Asylum Sanity Trial
Philadelphia April 21 Dr Charles W Burr a Philadelphia specialist in mental and nervous diseases in the University of Pennsylvania testified in the Thaw sanity trial that Harry K Thaw had not been restored to a normal state of mind He warned that if released Thaw would likely commit another abnormal act Burr was the first witness on the stand
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Philadelphia
Harry K. Thaw
Charles W. Burr
University of Pennsylvania
Thaw
Burr
City of Portland in Distress Off New Jersey Coast
The schooner City of Portland is reported in distress off the New Jersey coast and the cutter Manhattan is rushing to its aid per a Coast Guard update. The incident prompts emergency response actions from maritime authorities.
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Washington
City of
Portland
New Jersey
United States Coast Guard
Manhattan
Had Perfect Record at Hocking Primary School
In Carbondale Illinois on April 21, the Hocking primary school reports 19 pupils taught by Miss Mary McCann who did not miss a day in the past month. Named honorees include Virgene Arnold Ruth Vernon Jesse Francis George Gabriel Paul Clyde Beveridge Floris Haddox Orvil Carrie Marks Eloise Mace James McKinley Beatrice Edwards Paul Griffin Thelma Stoneburner Freda Zimmerman and Marcell Stanley.
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Carbondale
Hocking
Mary McCann
Virgene Arnold
Ruth
Vernon
Jesse
Francis
George Gabriel
Paul
Clyde Beveridge
Floris Haddox
Orvil
Carrie Marks
Eloise Mace
James McKinley
Beatrice Edwards
Griffin
Thelma Stoneburner
Freda Zimmerman
Marcell Stanley
Grand Central Terminal Considers New Ceiling Sky
The New York Central Railway directors weigh a redesigned ceiling at Grand Central Terminal after leaks stained the current sky with patches of black white and green. The ceiling spans an area two blocks across and features painted stars.
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New York
Grand Central Terminal
New York Central Railway
Discovery of inland Maya city in British Honduras
An expedition backed by a London syndicate reports the inland ruins of a great Mayan city in the jungle of British Honduras. A massive 36 foot high pyramid is among the excavated structures uncovered by American and British explorers.
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London
British Honduras
Deviltry of box costs Chicago big annual sum
Chicago pays 75000 dollars yearly to replace smashed street light globes caused by boys. The Gas and Electricity Commissioner issued a report lamenting the vandalism and noting the losses as he called the behavior “deviltry” that costs the city dearly.
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Chicago
Unusual wind turbine project on leaf Peak Mountain
Readings describe a set of wind turbines atop Leaf Peak Mountain near Leaf City with the aim of producing up to 44 000 horsepower of hydroelectric energy. Engineers report a tall structure with rotating sails and a top mounted electrical system, while construction relies on concrete foundations and metal framework.
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Balt Lake City
Apetl @s
Arta
Los Angeten
Ventor
Desert Valley
Diane Peak
Fe Delta
Young couple wins license after coin flip in Springfield
In Springfield, O Neill aged 26 and Ming 23 flipped a coin to decide their single life fate with heads showing they would get a license. Cec Harrison aged 23 noted the result as the couple readied to marry after the heads outcome.
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Springfield
O’neill
Ming
Cec Harrison
Talis
Finch
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Tellig
Arthur Brisbane
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