Monday Creek Bridge Closure Triggers Burr Oak Detour
Monday Creek bridge on the Nelsonville road shuts for the morning with a temporary detour around Burr Oak construction. Northbound traffic may use Glouster and Murray City routes while crews install a new concrete girder bridge and officials monitor conditions for a midweek reopening. The Athens County Automobile Club confirms the detour via Glouster Hollister Murray City New Straitsville Shawnee New Lexington, with earth roads in parts. State highway workers remain onsite to assist stalled motorists.
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Monday Creek
Nelsonville Road
Beore
Glouster
Murray City
Athens County Automobile Club
Burr Oak
Athens
County
Hollister
New Straitsville
Shawnee
New Lexington
Murray
Merrell
State Highway Department
Department
Logan
Germans Sign Dawes Protocol at Reparations Conference
German delegates at the reparations conference signed the protocol with the inter allied commission and unconditionally accepted the Dawes plan. The move is seen as a formality until a general conference agreement, with the commission to release necessary German securities for service on a German loan. A separate item notes a German patent for a process to make power metal tops.
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London
Girl 18 Hurt In Peculiar Car Accident
Miss Goldie Williams 18, daughter of Marshal and Mrs Henry Williams, is likely to have a fracture of the right hip after an automobile backed down a grade with brakes failing and caught her between two cars near her Spring Street home. She was taken to a Columbus hospital for X ray and accompanied by her mother and Dr Le Fever.
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Glouster, CO
Goldie Williams
Marshal
Henry Williams
Spring Street
Miss Williams
Columbus
le Fever
First New Orleans Couples Under Eugenics Law
Only one of 43 couples seeking marriage licenses in New Orleans under the new eugenics law had his medical certificate. Alexis J. Crovetto Jr. and his bride Elizabeth Ohler are shown amid postponed weddings as brides await required documentation.
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New Orleans
Alexis J. Crovetto, Jr
Elizabeth Ohler
Local Scouts Depart for Camp Luke Chute Stay
Eighteen Athens area Boy Scouts left Saturday for a 10 day camping period at Camp Luke Chute on the Muskingum river near Marietta. The trip used Athens Rotarians autos and Kiwanians will return them. Camp serves several counties with about 100 boys per session, under Scout Executive Bob Cole of Marietta.
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Boy Scouts of America
Athne
Camp Luke Chute
Athens
Scout
Bob Cole
Marietta
Lookout Methodist-Protestant Church Property Sale Motion
Theodore Hawk of Waterloo township filed a common pleas court request to sell Lookout Methodist-Protestant church property in Lee township. He states the church has disbanded and the property is deteriorating. Michigan leads states with 125000 acres in sugar beet production.
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Lookout Methodist-Protestant Church
Lee Township
Common Pleas Court
Theodore Hawk
Waterloo Township
Michigan
Vidrine's Final Act Freeing Innocent Man Before His Death
In Ville Platte Louisiana on August 9 Eugene Vidrine, condemned killer of five, died on the gallows after a spree that included freeing an innocent man from prison. Vidrine admitted four more murders, including one linked to Frank Smith of Orange who remains imprisoned on murder charges. The Orange taxi driver Lee Duke was slain December 12, 1921, with Smith convicted on circumstantial evidence.
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Ville Platte
Eugene Vidrine
Louisia
Vidrine
Frank Smith
Orange
Lee Duke
Smith
Aged Priest Rev William Boden Dies at 86
Nelsonville Ohio August 8 Rev William Boden age 86 longtime pastor of St Andrews Catholic Church in Nelsonville died at his home Saturday morning Complications of age ended his long tenure he had served four churches earlier in Athens Nelsonville Buchtel and Murray City Funeral at St Andrews Nelsonville Tuesday August 12 at 10 am with Bishop Hartley of Columbus present and many visiting priests expected. he will be buried beside his mother in Monte rose Missouri
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Nelsonville
William Boden
St. Andrews
Father Boden
Athens
Nelson- Ville Buchtel
Murray City
Montrose
Missouri
Aul Nev
Boden
St .Andrews Church
Hartley
Columbus
Owen
Voting place changed for Fourth Ward precinct
Owing to repairs for the F. J. Beasley garage the fifth precinct voting place has moved to Spragine's taxi office on East Carpenter Street. David Johnson, clerk of the election board, announced Saturday. Near Copenhagen a granite block weighing over 400 tons was lifted from the ocean bed and moved miles away.
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F. J. Beasley
Spragine
East Carpenter Street
David Johnsson
Election Board
Copenhagen
Not Intellectual Giants in Murder Debate
A psychologist and alienist denounces Loeb and Leo pold murderers as not intellectual giants, calling them depraved and misdirected with rotten heredity. The piece contrasts intellect with courage and cites Dwight W. Morrow on international finance and bond markets, noting the flow of money from savers to buyers. Continued on Page Four.
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Loeb-Leopold
Dwight W. Morrow
J. P. Morgan & Company
United States
Vote of Women Doubtful Over State 45 Last Hours Pass
Ohio primary election race ends with women voters seen as pivotal in choosing nominees. Davis's camp claims drift toward him while Democrat Governor Donahey faces Beatty in a platform fight. Full state ticket to be named, with local races expected to boost turnout across Ohio counties.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Thaeeekily Davis
A. V. Donahey
James B. Beatty
East Liverpool Pottery
Beatty
Supreme Court
Congress
Cuyahoga County
Davis
George B. Harris
Harry Clay Smith
Funeral Party Struck By Train At Rail Crossing
Two killed and two seriously injured when a northbound Southern Railway freight train struck a car carrying a Covington family en route to Mason Kentucky for a funeral. The dead are Eva Johnson 46 and her daughter Thelma 9. Injured are George Johnson 54 and his son Robert 10. Kenneth Johnson 11 escaped by leaping from the auto before impact. The husband drove and stopped at a grade crossing to let a passenger train pass, then failed to notice the freight.
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Cincinnati
Southern Railway
Mason
Corinth
Eva Johnson
Thelma
George Johnson
Robert
Kenneth Johnson
Covington
French Premier Entreats Ruhr Evacuation Plan Debate
Paris Aug 9 Premier Edouard Herriot presented London reparations proposals for Ruhr evacuation to ease the Dawes plan to the French cabinet at the Elysee. Herriot seeks views from Poincare and aides amid a delicate balance between a hostile senate and preexisting Poincare policies.
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I. N
Paris
London
Edouard Herriot
Merriot
Elysee Palace
Doumergue
Herriot
Ruhr
Foreign Office
Himaecife
Poinacre
France
Germany
Paria
Poincare
Dawes
Campaign Night Predicts Narrow GOP Front Runners
Central party sources forecast tight results for the Tenth district primary with Tom Jenkins and M D Foster leading in different counties. Estimates include Jenkins carrying Lawrence and Gallia while Foster targets Athens and Jackson counties with hoped for majorities and speeches planned in Sugar Creek, Jacksonville and Glouster.
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of As
Tom Jenkins
Emmett Riley
Athens County
Jenkins Club
M. D.hughes
Foster Organization
I. M. Foster
Gallia County
Jenkins
Foster
Lawrence
Riley
Hughes
Meigs County
Winston
Jackson County
Lawrence County
Sugar Creek
Jacksonville
Glouster
Fireman Buried With Honors After Crash
Wellington D. ReY Pau, 35, a volunteer fireman, was buried with full military honors after a piece of fire apparatus he was driving crashed into a tree. Two other firemen sustained minor injuries in the crash.
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Wellington
Rey Pau
Bloodhounds Help Track Burglary to Lathrop Store
Bloodhounds aided by Constable Ed Mariner and dog owner James Edmundson traced stolen goods from the Hogg general store at Lathrop to a company store in Bern Township. The burglary occurred Friday night with entry by forced door and lock tampering. Items included hundreds of pounds of sugar cracked corn shoes tobacco and related items. Three affidavits for arrests were to be filed Saturday.
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Hogg
Lathrop
Mariner
James Edmundson
Driverless Car Wrecks in Logan
A Ford coupe parked in front of Mrs. Claude Rusen’s residence on Hunter Street in Logan was left running after its owner entered the house. The car rolled away and struck a big elm tree, causing extensive damage to the vehicle but only minor scratches to the tree. No injuries are mentioned.
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Logan
Amanda
Ford
Ahiy Goss
Claude Rusen
Hunter Street
Absentee ballots surge in Meigs County primary
Meigs County reports a heavy use of absent voters ballots with about two hundred ballots sent by Clerk Harry Houdashelt. Some voters who applied late lose ballots for not indicating party or proper polling location. An anecdote notes a Republican candidate’s neighbor voting Democratic by mistake.
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Pomeroy, O
Meigs County
Harry Houdashelt
Election Board
Legion Post Plans Special Meeting at Athens Armory
A special meeting of the K. T. Crossen Post American Legion will be held at the Athens Armory on Monday night August 11 at 7 30 according to post adj W G Bilvus. Topics include the fair grounds committee work and the trips to the state and national convention of the Legion.
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K. T. Crossen Post
American Legion
Athens
W. G. Bilvus
Fair Grounds Committee
the Legion
Another Speeder Gets Fine in Mayor's Court
R. M. Ferrell of Athens was arraigned before Acting Mayor R. J. Jones on a speeding charge Friday evening. He received the usual fine of $5 with costs suspended, the charge filed by Chief Herb Parker.
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R. M. Ferrell
Athens
R. J. Jones
Ferrell
Herb Parker
Brains and Bones Expose Minds in Murder Trial
Chicago defense alienists reveal skulls and X ray evidence to show the two young suspects Leopold and Loeb are unbalanced. Dr Harold Hulbert testifies their glands and brain development suggest abnormality as a basis for leniency. Proceedings described as clinical and sensational in judge Caverny's courtroom.
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Richard Loeb
Nathan Leopold Jr
Bobby Franka
George R. Holmes
Chicago
Braincome
John R
Epold, Jr
Alienista
Debonair Peir
Caverio
Harold
Hulbert
Nathan
Judge Caverly
Debert
Leopold
Loeb
Bert Bary
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Carbon Hill
LOGAL
Athens Rotary and
Kiwanis
Wm. Boden
Arthur Brisbane
Harry L. Davis
KLAN
William J. Huske
1. N.S. State Corp
Frank E. Mason
Foster and Jenkins
Bern Township
Legion Post
Haskin
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