Knight Urges Immediate Tax Cut At Akron Speech
Former Congressman Charles L. Knight warned at the Exchange Club in Akron that heavy taxes strain business and urged the president to veto the Mellon bill. He argued Congress stalls reform while booster for lower taxes remains unmet, calling for executive action to rally public support and shape votes.
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Akron
Exchange Club
Charles L. Knight
Mellon
Knight
Congress
Senate
Abraham
Taxation Changes in State Considered by Ohio Group
The Ohio Tax association advisory committee discussed a proposed constitutional amendment to tax all real estate and tangible personal property under a single rule while prohibiting taxation of evidences of ownership. Malcolm Jennings proposed state power to tax other property forms, with two additional amendments by Henry Waldrath aiming to pave the way for a new income tax and exempt tangible personal property from the general property tax.
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Henry F. Waldrat
Ohio State University
No marriage licenses issued in Putnam county this month
Probate court officials trace a farm slump to the lack of marriage licenses in Putnam county with not a single license issued this month. Farmers delay marriages as they face hardship while the county typically issues about 125 licenses monthly. Easter is hoped to soften agriculturists' hearts.
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Ottawa
Putnam County
Iars
Ex-King George of Greece Decries Plebiscite Terror
In a Daily Mail message the ex-king claims terrorism ruled the Greek plebiscite that proclaimed a republic and says he awaits the moment Greeks recall him to the throne.
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London
George
Greece
Daily Mail
Spanish pilgrims depart for Holy Land from Marseilles
About 150 Spanish pilgrims travel from Marseilles toward the Holy Land led by Marquis de las Torres, secretary to King Alfonso. The delegation includes his aide and other church affiliates as they begin the journey.
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Holy Land
Marseilles
Marquis de Las Torres
Alfonso
Broadway's New Angel Born Here Ensign Maude Hazelwood Takes Post
Salvation Army Ensign Maude Hazelwood, from Ashland Kentucky, replaces Rheba Crawford Nightly in Broadway as a tambourine calling card worker. The Athens Ohio native will organize girls educational units across 22 eastern states and study flapperism while evaluating its influence on youth.
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Maxwell Hyde
NEA
New York
Broadway
Rheba Crawford
Salvation Army
Maude Hazelwood
Army
Ashland
Mason-Dixon Line
Ensign Hazelwood
Athens
Ohio Coal Output Edges Up Amid Rising 1920s Production
Ohio mined 40 726 215 tons in 1923 up from 27 526 555 tons in 1922 signaling an upward trend. Officials note 1923 ranks among the top output years, with 1929 peak and 1925 machine mined totals surpassing 1922 despite a pick mined decline.
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Columbus
Ohio
Witter
Strassburger Leads Pinchot In Pennsylvania Primary
Ralph Beaver Strassburger of Norristown wins decisively over Governor Gifford Pinchot for delegate at large to the Republican National Convention. Early returns show Strassburger leading by more than 200,900 votes with gains in Adams Allegheny Montgomery Philadelphia and several other counties. Strong urban support contrasts with Pinchot’s weaker statewide showing.
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Pittsburg
Gifford Pinchot
Ralph Beaver Strassburger
Norristown
Strassburger
Adams
Allegheny
Armstrong
Erks
Delaware
Elk
Erie
Lebanon
Montgomery Northhampton
Philadelphia
Electric line adds twelve new cars on routes
The Cleveland, Columbus, and Southwestern Electric Company has put twelve new cars into operation between Cleveland and Bucyrus and Cleveland and Wellington with branches to Wooster, Grafton, Amherst and Lorain. The move is expected to cut power costs and improve efficiency.
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Elyria
Cleveland
Columbus
Three Women Named to Jury in Bribery Trial
In Columbus Ohio on April 23 three women have been seated on the tentative jury for the Bribery trial of Franklin County Sheriff Frank I Holycross. He is accused of soliciting and accepting a $1000 bribe from David Unger Leider of Wheeling West Virginia in a case involving alleged liquor law violations.
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Columbus
Frank I. Holycross
Franklin County
Holycross
David Ungerleider
Wheeling
W. Va
British Ship Yard Strike Ends
London reports the longstanding British ship yard strike concluded today ending work stoppages across major yards and allowing repairs and construction to resume under normal operations.
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London
The
Upshaw Proposes Cabinet Members Elected by People
Washington April 23. Representative Upshaw Democrat of Georgia introduced a plan in the House to elect cabinet officers on the same ticket as presidential electors. The proposal would allow the President to fill cabinet vacancies by appointment if a cabinet member dies or resigns.
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Washington
Upshaw
Georgia
Auto accident damages awarded to two women
In a common pleas court jury ruling, Hazel Hickman and Lena Davis received 2500 and 1050 dollars respectively for injuries from a December 26 1921 crash near Nelsonville. The driver Peter McLaughlin of Nelsonville was alleged to have been intoxicated and speeding.
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Hazel Hickman
Lena Davis
Common Pleas
Peter McLaughlin
Nelsonville
McLaughlin
Seven Balloons to Start from Kelly Field in Texas
Brisk southerly winds and moderate temperature greet seven entrants in the national elimination balloon race to start from Kelly Field at 4 pm. Captain H. B. Honeywell, veteran aeronaut of Kansas City, calls conditions perfect for record breaking ballooning. Wives are often better men than their husbands.
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San Antonio
Texas
Kelly Field
H. B. Honeywell
Aeronaut
Kansas City
Who Will Get the Ships Gussie and Her Baby
After Germany sank its own fleet at Scapa Flow, seventy four battleships lie at the bottom. Britain plans nine years of ship raising while debates begin on future ownership among European nations. The United States is told to refrain from boosting its armaments.
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Gussie
Ford
Scapa Flow
England
Ee & Great German
Hanarine Cock Dock
Jek
Sam
Civil War telegram carrier recalls Murfreesboro news
Mrs. M. M. Copeland of Stewart, now over 80, recalls delivering the death telegrams of three Canaan boys after the Battle of Murfreesboro. The message reached Warren Station, now Canaanville, with only the 18 year old girl available to relay it. None of the families have surviving members to whom she delivered the news.
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Stewart
M. M. Copeland
Canaan
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Warren Station
Canaanville
Thaw Freed After Jury Declares Sanity
Harry K. Thaw voiced relief after a jury ruled him sane in the Madison Square killing case. He said he plans to dodge the limelight and may travel to New York to face a kidnapping charge, while remaining under hospital custody in Pittsburgh for mental health treatment per Judge Monaghan’s order.
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Philadelphia
Harry Kk
Thaw
Stanford White
Madison Square Roof Garden
Pittavurge
Monaghan
Tennsylvania Hospital
Canton raid witness testifies in Curtis hearing
Patrick W. Riffie testified as Governor Donahey resumed the Curtis hearing. He described going with Detective Martin Pilcher into Canton’s southwest section to arrest suspicious women.
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Columbus
Patrick W. Riffie
Donahey
Riffie
Martin Pilcher
Canton
Officer Troy C. Stewart and shooting in Columbus
Funeral arrangements proceed after Patrolman Stewart dies from a bullet wound in a Tuesday gun battle with Columbus residents returning from a dance. Three alleged assailants Charles Thomas Charlies Summers and Frank Moore are hospitalized or in custody amid a wider manhunt for two fugitives. Moore had been charged with killing Joe Taylor.
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Columbus
Troy C. Stewart
Charles Thomas
Officer Stewart
Charlies Summers
Thomas
Frank Moore
Moore
Joe Taylor
Stewart
Slayer James Petrucci Dies in Chicago Jump
James Petrucci alias F. De Joy confessed as the slayer of Anna We Joy whom he had married after deserting his wife and two children. He leaped from a third story window in the Detective Bureau and fatally injured himself. Detectives who arrived to take his photo were pushed aside as he sprang to the street.
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Chicago
James Petrucci
F. de Joy
Anna We Joy
Detective Bureau
Waren
President Coolidge Signals World Arms Conference Move
President Coolidge returns to Washington to balance his campaign with European policy moves. Officials say his stance broadens U S influence in European adjustments while signaling potential support for a new world armament conference once Europe’s reparations settlement stabilizes under the Dawes plan.
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H. K. Reynolds
I. N
Staff Corp’t
Washington
Coolidge
Atlantic
United States
Congress
Ieaders
Pepper
Pennsylvania
Senate
Mit Naval and
Europe
Final Bonus Vote Expected This Afternoon In Senate
Washington April 23 The senate met under an agreement to a final vote on the soldiers bonus bill in the afternoon. Debate was limited to one long speech by Senator Oscar W Underwood of Alabama, who opposes any bonus as part of his Democratic presidential bid.
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Washington
Senate
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
Underwood
Owen
Oklahoma
Poincare
Sauid Owen
Isvolsky
Paris
St. Petersburg
Tiut Reagon
Bootlegger testifies at Curtis hearing on protection racket
Clyde Goldfas of Canton testified before Governor Donahey that he paid 350 a month for protection from a Dr Hill. Goldfas admitted operating several bootleg joints and accused the arrangement as part of bootlegging schemes in Columbus.
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Columbus
Hill
Clyde Goldfas
Canton
Curtis
Donahey
Goldfas
British Empire Opens Its Great Exhibition at Wembley
King George Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales opened the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. An estimated 100000 people from across the empire attended despite damp weather, with crowds lining up before gates from 6 am.
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London
King George
Queen Mary
Prince of Wales
Wembley
Empire
Oberlin residents repair after six-home burglary
Oberlin Ohio residents polish firearms following a six-home burglary. Only small sums of money were taken. Local authorities investigate motive and suspect none yet identified. Community urges vigilance as police cordons and patrols increase in the neighborhood.
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Oberlin, O
Oberlin
German Methodist program to be made at meeting
Dr. F H Melle director of the Frankfort Seminary will speak at the Ohio District conference of German Methodists in Columbus Ohio. The session opened last night and plans will be formulated to continue the church program after its June expiration.
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Columbus
F. O. H. Melle
Methodist
Frankfort
Germany
Ohio District Conference of
Ancient Nelsonville landmark fires after move
In Nelsonville Ohio on Myers street the old Ier building, moved last week by Alfred Richardson to clear space for a shoe factory, caught fire from a spark amid high winds. Firefighters battled the blaze with hoses for about a half hour, damaging the roof of the relocated house.
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Nelsonville
Ireer
Myers Street
Alfred Richardson
Richardson
England Welcomes Coolidge Address On Dawes Plan
President Coolidge urged Dawes plan support and disarmament in a London speech warmly received by officials. Premier MacDonald seeks U S backing to align France, while British papers stress reparations as key to easing European tensions and aid for a world conference on air warfare.
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MacDonald
America
London
Coolidge
England
Ramsay MacDonald
United States
France
Dawes
Daily News
Europe
Manchester Guardian
Warness
Daily Chronicle
David Lloyd-George
Four new wells boost activity in local gas field
Four newly drilled wells accelerate production in the Carthage township gas field. Bradford OH & Gas Co reports a dozen producers on the Dunlavy farm with No 5 and No 6 planned at nearby sites. Logan Oil and Gas Co adds a 800 000 foot well on the Cole farm while Ohio Fuel Supply hits 300 600 feet on W H Barnhart farm. A new Athena led gas and oil company forms with investors Watkins Townsend Bailey and Tinker, moving a rig to Fisher Station and awaiting further site operations.
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Bradford OH & Gas Company
Dunlavy
Carthage Township
Lythia Company
No. 5
Bradford
Logan Oil and Gas Company
Cole Farm
Ohio Fuel Supply Company
W. H. Barnhart
McBride and Company
Russell
Carthage Gap
Athena
Fisher Station
Bert Watkins
A. D. Townsend
J. B. Bailey
O. G. Tinker
Snow Farm
Pittsburgh
Robert Jones
Relentless War on Gun Toters Ordered in Columbus
Columbus police will conduct a city wide drive focused on gun violators with special attention to African American districts where authorities say lawlessness has increased. The order came from Safety Director McCune.
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Columbus
McCune
Senate officials attack French war debt linking reparations
U S officials and lawmakers oppose tying France's 4 million dollar war debt to reparations as risks to Germany and Europe. Senators Reed Smoot and King state the United States should pursue separate settlements while urging careful handling of inter Allied claims. They caution against pressuring France to accelerate payments before the election year and deem the proposal financially destabilizing for Germany and Europe. Senator Owen criticizes the move as harmful and argues for responsible, independent debt terms.
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Imp
Germany
Sion
Reed Smoot
Utah
United States
Coolidge
France
King
Democrat
Europe
Ladd
Kota
Torch Sparks Fire In Bucyrus Home
A torch used by a painter to remove paint oil started a fire in the home of John Menninger in Bucyrus, causing about 1600 dollars in damage.
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Bucyrus, CO
John Menninger
Teach the Children to Sew
Public notice urges mothers to teach children sewing for emergency preparedness and to obtain a booklet by writing for a two cent postage stamp. copy and distribution encouraged.
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David M. Church
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Kenneth Clark
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