Buckeye Lake dance pavilion collapse leaves eight dead
At Buckeye Lake Ohio on August 8 a collapsing dance hall floor during a late night picnic effort sent 30 or more revelers into the lake. Divers recovered seven bodies by morning with Charles Jones found later bring the death toll to eight. Several others were rescued or injured as witnesses described a panic and rescues by bystanders and police. Mary Trieb helped save several.
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Samuel J. Gordon
I. N
Buckeye Lake
Rir
Zanesville
Mary Trieb
Newark
Charles Jones
Mildred Lacy
Carl Bell
Athens
Lowell Powell
Chillicothe
Ike Peyton
Glouster
Bell
Peyton
Million Dollar Road Plan For Olentangy Boulevard
An ordinance to establish Olentangy boulevard in Columbus will go to council next Monday night August 4. The project costs about 1 million dollars, increasing total local improvements to roughly 8.845 million.
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Columbus
Carbon Hill Detour Declared Passable For Travel
Auto Club officials report the three mile Gravel Road detour near Carbon Hill is in very fair condition after new dragging methods. Slow packing from gravel and recent rain improve the surface, though heavy trucks may encounter trouble and careful passing is advised along the route.
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Carbon Hill
Travel Auto Club
Nelsonville
C. H. Bryson
Athens County Automobile Club
Hocking County
Hocking Lines Included In AIL Merger
Plans advance for a proposed railroad merger centering on Nickel Plate ownership of four other lines. The deal, valued at about 1.5 billion dollars, would absorb the Erie New York Chicago and St Louis Marquette Chesapeake and Ohio Hocking Valley Wheeling and Lake Erie and Pittsburgh and West Virginia. Inter state Commerce Commission approval, stock swaps, and leases are planned with meetings of directors and stockholders to follow.
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New York, Aug
O. P
M. J. Sweringon
Nickel Plate System
Jor
Nickel Plate
New York
Chicago and St. Louis
Erie
Per
Marquette
Chesapeake and Ohio
Hocking Valley
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Nickel Plate Company
Stock Exchange Plan Details for Reorganized Rail Lines
The plan provides two stock classes 6 percent cumulative preferred and common stock on a 6 per agent dividend basis from issue. Allocation favors certain routes Pere Marquette and other roads with 50 percent preferred and 49 percent common for the new company and varied percentages for Pere Marquette and common stock.
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Pere Marquette
Dam Rebuild Delayed Near Athens Amid Water Flow Hurdle
Work on the Harrold Place dam reconstruction near Athens is delayed as water flow remains high. Ed White said the project will finish after next week with a sewer pipe now diverting flow and cement mixed dry for a cofferdam earlier.
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Harrold Place
White
Glenn Romine
Agriculture must receive equal protection as other industries
Charles V Truax, director of agriculture, warns that rising prices for wheat and other farm products do not translate into a farmer’s prosperity. He urges realism about future prices, notes the need for a national parity with industry, and backs cooperative marketing as a solution to unequal protections.
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International News’ Service
Carl L. Turner
U.S
Columbus
Charles V. Truax
International News Service Today
Truax
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
The
Utilities Commission
Raein Retteeenneef
Agriculture Department
LaFollette Declares He Opposes Ku Klux Klan
Independent presidential candidate Robert M. LaFollette announced opposition to the Ku Klux Klan in a letter to Robert P. Scripps. He cited his record against discrimination and quoted Lincoln and Jefferson to support his stance, calling the Klan fore doomed and detrimental to government.
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Lafollette
KU Klux Klan
Lincoln
Jefferson
Washington
Robert M. LaFollette
Robert P. Scripps
New York City
la ¥Ollette
Acta
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
Springfield
Russia
Know Nothing
Ohio Fruit Prospects Show Poor Outlook Across State
Fruit prospects in Ohio weakened over the past month with tobacco fair, potatoes slightly below last year, hay yields up 25 percent, and apple yields less than half. Pears grapes melons bleak, blackberries plentiful, buckwheat acreage rising. report by C J West of the Federal State Crop Reporting Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
C. J. West
Federal State Crop Reporting Bureau
West
Criminal Court
Chicago
Nathan F. Leopold Jr
Richard A. Loeb
Judge
International tensions and arms trade spark questions
Arthur Brisbane notes Hanihari admits error after anti Asiatic stance. London cable says Vickers turns out 140000 machine guns for Japan while Scutton builds trucks for soldiers. Lenin lies in state as embalming costs 7500 dollars per body and raises questions about future warfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanihari
London
British Vickers Company
Japan
Scutton Company
Bear Wallow Ridge Incident Sparks Bedford Township Turmoil
In Bedford township on Bear Wallow Ridge residents discuss a violent assault claimed by townsfolk to have occurred when Price Howard was struck in the face by broken crockery thrown through a window. Two weeks earlier Bert Logan was beaten by unknown assailants and left with visible injuries.
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Pomeroy
Bedford Township
Bearwallow Ridge
Price Howard
Bert. Logan
New Party Fight on Child Labor Issue in 1924 Campaign
The American Federation of Labor executive council accuses Republicans and Democrats of dodging the child labor amendment. It urges a united campaign for ratification, praising La Follette for supporting child labor abolition and highlighting Massachusetts as pivotal in the fall vote.
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NEW Party
Kenneth Clark
I. N
Atlantic City
N. J
Executive Council
A. F. of L
Robert M. la Follette
Congress
John W. Davis
United
Matthew Woll
Samuel Gompers
Federation
Massachusetts
LaFollette
American Federation of Labor
America
White to Speak Here Saturday in Athens
James A. White one of eight Republican gubernatorial candidates will address Athens on Saturday evening. He arrives on the 6 o clock train and will speak from the steps of the courthouse at 7 o clock. The White Club of Athens county is notifying all sections of the county.
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James A. White
Athens
White
Court House
White Club of
Athens County
Township files transfer petition to move funds
Petition filed in common pleas court Thursday seeks permission to transfer 61,000 from the Ganaas Township general fund to the road fund, outlining requested municipal financial changes.
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Common Pleas Court
The
Ganaas Township
Highway contracts awarded for southeast Ohio roads
State Highway Director Boulay awarded two contracts in southeastern Ohio. W. J. Hayes of Cleveland bid 47,498.12 to grade and drain Section K of the Athens McArthur road in Knox township Vinton county. W. H. Heiby & Co. of Marietta bid 40,312.18 to grade and pave Section 1 of the Marietta Cambridge road in Salem township Washington county.
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Columbus
Boulay
Ohio
Athens-McArthur
Knox Township
Vinton County
W. J. Hayes
Cleveland
Marietta
Cambridge
Salem Township
Washington County
W. H. Heiby & Co
Captain Authorized to Solemnize Marriage Aboard Ship
An existing maritime rule grants a ship’s captain authority to perform a wedding ceremony on board if the occasion arises, enabling a legal wedding during sea voyage.
Sea Base North for Aviators Contingent on Greenland Stop
Off Reykjavik Iceland August 8. US Navy officials weigh establishing a sea base to support a round the world flight if Angmagssalik cannot be reached. Lieut Lowell Smith and Lieut Erik Nelson face decision as Danish ship Gertrude Rask may fail to break ice. A sea base would source supplies from an American cruiser. Lieut Leigh Wade may rejoin in Nova Scotia or Boston.
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U. S
Richmond
Reykjavik
Iceland
Rmadio
Angmagentik
Teeland
Lowell Smith
Erik Nelson
Angmagealik
Gertrude Rask
Lieut
Leigh Wade
Orkneys
Nova Scotia
Boston
First Marriage at New Hocking County Court House
The first marriage in the new court house of Hocking county was Miss Ruth Six, daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Six, and Floyd Dearth of Greendale. The ceremony before Justice A H Brooke occurred Wednesday afternoon with court attaches and the parents present.
Robbers Brought Back to Meigs for Court
Three Columbus men Bert Mason 42 John Sweitzer 22 and James Claypool 24 were captured after a highway robbery near Pomeroy Ohio. They confessed to Sheriff McKinley detailing the beating and theft from Shumway 18. Evidence included two revolvers and a pistol with ammunition. The trio were taken to face trial in Meigs County.
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Mechanicsburg
McKinley
Cady
Gone Shumway
Pomeroy
Sir Reevea
Moiga County
Bert Mason
John Sweltzer
James Cla
Columbus
Athens County
Sherriff McKinley
Sweitzer
Pool
Shumway
Ride
Noor
Claypool
Shumway Aatch
Mason
Ohio
Reeves
Bott
Meigs County Teachers Institute in Pomeroy
Meigs county teachers institute to be held at the court house in Pomeroy the week of August 18 to 22. Instructors include Lincoln He of Florida and Supt H Helter of Mansfield, deemed among the best for the work by Supt Wagner.
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Pomeroy
Meigs County
Rutland Apples to Begin Packing Fruit This Fall
Plans to start packing Rutland apples under the Buell brand again in the county. State Farm official Ward has been talking with growers as packing operations will begin soon once the early fall harvest is ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frult
State Farm
Creole Cookery Secrets Recounted in New Recipe Page
A fragmentary feature on Creole cuisine highlights the chef's famed dishes and the economy of galinery. It hints at family ties and a bureau offering a new recipe, with references to a free sale and return policy in Na ad.
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Galinery
Haskin Athen Messenger Intereation Note
Frederic J. Haskin of The Messenger in Washington D C encloses a return on cerf the seg bets with a request for reply or action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederic J. Haskin
Athen’ Messenger
Intereation
Washington, D. C
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ST. Clairsville
C. C. Hardesty
John Krockovich
Krockovich
Clarkson Mine
Medina
Asa Dean
Sophie Horne
Atlanta
Mary Roerckmans
Macon
Georgia
Hocking
AIL
Germany
H. K. Reynolds
la Follette
Elijah
Arthur Brisbane
Lenin
Peter the Great
East Fight Centers
Gompers
Albany- McArthur Road
Co. D. McKean
Department of Justice
Ft. Leavenworth
International Association of Poties
North
Yankee
BY Davis J. Walsh
Mr. Cupid
Edward Cochran
Cincinnati
Mary Maginnes
Lone Beach
Calif
Meigs
Meigs Teachers Institute
Rutland
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