Woman Is Fined For Operating A Booze Still At Wilkes Home
Police and state prohibition officers raided the Jerseyville Pike home of Albert Wilkes and Mary Pughline near Athens and Glouster. They seized four gallons of corn whiskey a complete home brew outfit and a case of beer. Mrs Pughline pleaded guilty to possessing liquor and was fined 400 plus costs and jailed for nonpayment. Wilkes was fined 200 plus costs and sent to jail for nonpayment.
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Albert Wilkes
Athens
Mary Pughline
Glouster
Wilkes
Jerseyville Pike
Allege
Mariner
Raynham and
Hutchinson
Helwig
Ohio State Professor Joins Lehigh College Staff
Columbus report notes Prof. George S. Chapin, longtime Ohio State University faculty member and former assistant superintendent of the Ohio School for the Blind, has accepted a professorship at Leita College.
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Columbus, O
George 8. Chapin
Ohio State University
Ohio School For the Blind
Ietta College
Excursionists on Stranded Vessel Close Call Near Disaster
Four hundred excursionists aboard the steamer Victor were stranded on mud flats near Old Ferry Point when a shaft crank failed. A piston break caused a crash and engine shutdown, plunging the ship into darkness. Calm officers kept panic at bay as 200 passengers were rescued by a launch and motor boats, with the Macon taking the rest.
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New York
Old Ferry Point
Victor
Qre
Clason Point
Macon
Sixteen Horses Burned at Huron County Fair Grounds
Norwalk Ohio August 4 Dave Jackson Greenwich was hospitalized with severe burns after a fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Huron county fair grounds stalls and 16 race horses. He and other attendants barely escaped as flames trapped a barn and forced them to flee through a window. Notable horses destroyed include Donna Dillon Reject Worthy Boy Irma J Jack Wines Moke Eina and Barney Delight.
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Norwalk
Dave Jackson
Greenwich
Huron County Fair Grounds
Jackson
Donna Dillon
Reject
Worthy Boy
Irma J
Jack Wines
Mokeeina
Barney Delight
Herman Gamper Dead at Capital
G Herman Gamper aged 59 died here today after pancreatic surgery. He built the electrical plant at the Xenia Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home and at Wilberforce University. His work extended to Cleveland Erie and Athens Ohio where he helped erect a large power plant in the Hocking Valley at Floodwood.
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Columbus
G. Herman Gamper
Xenia Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphan’s
Wilberforce University
Gamper
Cleveland
Erie
Athens
Hocking Valley
Floodwood
Former Michigan Senator Townsend Dies Suddenly in Jackson
Charles Elroy Townsend former U S Senator from Michigan died suddenly in Jackson while saying good night to neighbors after visiting Dr I J Harris and his wife and mother in law Townsend collapsed at the bottom of the steps after feeling dizzy Townsend served 1910 to 1922 and was defeated by Senator Ferris in 1922 in a political fight over Newberry.
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Michigan
Town‘send
Harris
Townsend
Mexicans kill British ranch owner near Puebla
Mrs. Rosalie Evans a British subject was shot 10 times near her ranch in Puebla state by assailants believed to be agrarians seeking the property. The killing heightens Mexico England tensions as Britain protests seizure of British owned property and the British charge d affaires Cummins is affected.
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Mexico City
Mexico
England
Rosalie Evans
Puebla
Obreton
Cummins
Vans
London
Davis to Speak at Athens Rotary Tuesday
Harry W. Davis former Ohio governor and candidate for a second term will address the Athens Rotary at noon Tuesday in Hotel Berry. He will meet with friends and political acquaintances while in town and Kiwanis guests will hear his remarks. Rotarian John Patterson now in Athens leads the local club as new superintendent of city schools.
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Harry WL. Davis
Cleveland
Ohio
Athens
Athens City
Athens Club
Patterson
Rotary Club of
Fostoria
Proportional representation praised in Cleveland council race
Chester C. Maxcy of Western Reserve University, after studying results since January, says proportional representation in Cleveland has not unseated the boss but remains a valuable and promising experiment though not a miracle for voters.
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Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Chester C. Maxcy
Western Reserve University
End of Murder Trial for Leopold and Loeb
Chicago reports plan to mount a six alienist defense for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb with experts to argue mental sickness and "Folie a Deux" influence. Defense aims to show no normal minds conceived the Franks crime while countering with state witnesses. Dr Healy was set to testify as the second defense alienist.
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Chicago
Nathan F. Leopold, Jr
Richard A. Loeb
Bobby Franks
John R. Caverly
Caverly
Babe
Dickey
William J. L’ealy
Boston
Bernard Glueck
New York
James Witney Hall
William J. Hickson
Ralph Hamill
William A. White
Washington
Glueck
White
Leopold
Loeb
Bahe
Pr. Healy
Wrecked Boston Plane Drifts Toward Unknown Grave
Lieut. Leigh Wade, one of three U.S. Army air pilots circling the globe, stood on the USS Richmond at dawn watching the disabled Boston drift toward the Faroe Islands' rocks. Wade, exhausted and silent, retired to his bunk after declaring he was all in for sleep.
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Richmond
North Atlantic
Leigh Wade
U. S. Army Air
Faroe Islands
Boston
Wade
Smith
Hornafjord
Dillingsley
Third American flyer fails to reach Iceland in ocean crossing
Lieut. Leigh Wade and mechanic Sergeant Ogden aboard the Richmond after Wade wrecked his plane attempting the leg to Iceland. Wade had covered about 118 miles of the Iceland run before the crash, while Lowell H Smith and Erik Nelson completed the Kirkwall to Iceland segment. Wade had logged about 19,000 miles overall when the accident ended his attempt.
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Iceland
Ocean
Kirkwall
Scotland
Leigh Wade
United States
Richmond
Wade
Ogden
Reykjavik
Lowell H Smith
Erik Nelson
Nelson
Smith
Army aviators reach Iceland awaiting favorable weather
Lieut. Erik Nelson and Lieut. Lowell Smith of the U S army round the world flight rest at Hornafjord Iceland awaiting conditions to resume their 27 000 mile journey. They report Leigh Wade’s crash and rescue efforts by the Rugby and Billingsley ships. Wade survived after his plane wrecked near Kirkcaldy Scotland.
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Hornafiord
Iceland
Erik Nelson
Lowell Smith
United States Army
Avitaors
Greenland
Smith
Leigh Wade
United States
Kirkwall
Scotland
Wade
Rugby
Billingsley
Boston
Nelson
Orkneys
Hughes Hopeful for Dawes Plan
Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes said his European trip strengthened his faith that the Dawes reparations plan will be adopted. He told American correspondents that the corner has been turned and urged prompt execution as vital to world peace and reconstruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Charles E. Hughes
Hughes
Candidates Explain Platforms to Women Voters Meeting
An open mass meeting for women voters is set for Tuesday at 7 p m in the courthouse. Principal candidates will present four minute talks to help women decide. T A Jenkins leads off as he leaves for another event in Nelsonville.
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Court House
Polla
Mia
H. Bing
Athens
Panene
Women Voters
T. A. Jenkins
Congress
Nelsonville
Showers and Sun Mix Through Week in Athens Area
Weather outlook from the U S Weather Bureau warns of showers at the start and end of the week with fair conditions in between for the Ohio valley and Tennessee region. Temperatures are expected at near normal, with Cincinnati normals listed as a maximum 86, minimum 65, and mean 76 degrees.
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Athens
U. S Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Cincinnati
President and Firpo meet at White House clash over deportation
Arthur Brisbane reports Firpo the Argentine prize fighter met President Calvin Coolidge at the White House. Chase of New York pushes for Firpo's deportation while a young woman accompanying him is sent back to Ellis Island. Firpo’s upcoming bout with Wills could earn him a million dollars.
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Mr. Firpo
White House
Calvin Coolidge
Canon
Chase
New York
Washington
Firpo
Ellis Island
Coolidge
Europe a vast arsenal warns Morel on looming war
London Aug. 4 Edmund Morel, socialist MP for Dundee, says Europe is an arsenal and a single spark could trigger a new world war. He accuses France of controlling arms output via Skoda and Austrian factories, cites orders from Romania Poland and Little Entente, and calls for an international conference on armaments.
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London
Europe
Edmund JD. Morel
Dundee
Morel
United States
Congo
France
Skoda
Czecho-Slovakia
Czecho-Slova
Yugo-Slavia
Romania
Poland
Austria
Bheta
Little Entente
Britain
Conference of Ambassadors
Capital College Seeks 1.5 Million for Building Program
The Evangelical Lutheran joint synod will ask at its Pittsburgh meeting on August 28 for 1 500 000 dollars to support Capital University's building program and a 300 000 dollar endowment fund as part of the general appropriation.
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Columbus, CO
Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod
Pittsburgh
Capital University
Police Nab Bandit Gang After 26 Minute Shootout
In New York on August 4 a 26 minute gun battle with 42 detectives halted a robbery at the American Express Co offices. One alleged bandit wounded six captured three escaped. Detectives brugh six suspects insensible and say the gang had been tracked for two weeks.
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New York
American Express Co
Chickens Canned Monopoly Feathers Feuds Near Steubenville
A bizarre incident near Steubenville involved a flivver veering off road and landing in a tree top with five men inside. Police reported the auto occupants shouting for help but all escaped with no serious injuries.
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Steubenville
Flivver
Butler Fights Dry Law as a Grave Mistake
Dr Nicholas Murray Butler campaigns against the Eighteenth Amendment arguing prohibition fails and Quebec's liquor system offers a model. He criticizes the Anti-Saloon League, defends state monopoly on liquor, and urges study of past enforcement failures to inform a future vote on prohibition.
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San Francisco
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Quebec
Butler
Anti-Saloon League
America
New Jersey
Ontario
United States
British Outrage Over Mexico Assassination Sparks Demand for Reparations
British newspapers roared with outrage over the assassination of Mrs. Rosalie Evans in Mexico. Premier Ramsay MacDonald was seen pressing for full reparation while the breach between Britain and Mexico widens after the recall of H. A. Cunard Cummins.
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London
Rosalie Evans
Mexico
Ramsay. MacDonald
England
H. A. Cunard Cummins
Mexico City
Taxation topics on district Good Roads agenda
State and local taxation problems will be discussed at the district meeting of the Ohio Good Roads Federation in Toledo. The session will also consider county highway systems and related subjects.
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Toledo, O
Ohio Good Roads Federation
Labor to open nationwide move at once
The executive council of the American Federation of Labor voted to back La Follette Wheeler for president. The federation will mobilize its 12,000,000 members with speeches, literature, and a national political machine to support the ticket. The plan condemns both major party platforms as unfriendly to labor and outlines labor demands including a union shop and free speech.
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Americcan Federation of Labor
Federation
Labor
Cision
la Follette
LaFollote
Tion
of Nations
A Freme
Follette
Wheeler
Fn Oee
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Huron County
Fair Ground
Herman Gamper
Charles E. Townsend
Jackson, Mich
Charles Elroy Townsend
Davis
Rotary Club
Leopold and Loeb Case
George R. Holmes
Lieut
Dawes
Kenal
Spain
Arthur Brisbane
Socialist
Charles A. Smith
Capital College
Dry Lawg
Canada
Fred J. Walker
I. N
Kenneth Clark
Atlantic City
N. J
Robert My LaFollette
United
Washington, D.C
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