Athens County Budget Faces Higher Tax to Pay Mine Riot Judgments
Athens County plans a 1930 budget with a tax-rate increase to cover court judgments against the County Commissioners from mine strike riots in 1928. A public hearing is set for August 12, with budgets from most districts on file and a Board of Election precinct readjustment due August 15. Total added expenses amount to 9,482.06 dollars, while tax collections on the 1928 duplicate total about 1.155 million, leaving 277,931.76 unpaid.
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Athens County
Athens County Board of Commissioners
J. Clyde Edmundson
Edmundson
State Bureau of Inspection
Board of Election
General Assembly
Sliding Scale Plan Is Abandoned in Sugar Tariff Debate
Washington Aug 19 The Senate Finance Committee Republicans urged action on a flat rate tariff per pound for sugar and decided to discuss the rate to be applied Monday.
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Washington
U.P
Senate Finance Ti Cies
Mrs Mercer Returns Home After Visit to Athens
Mrs. W. F. Mercer widow of Dr. Mercer arrives at 200 East State Street Athens on Friday night to conduct business and will stay several days. She is accompanied by Burr Jowles her nephew and Grace Mercer her cousin and plans to return to Otto New York to make her permanent home.
Three Burned in Charleston Mt Hope House Fire
Two children and a housekeeper died when a fire destroyed the Monroe Pew home in Mt. Hope near Charleston. The blaze left the town in shock as investigators began work at the scene.
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Charleston
Bath
Monroe Pew
Mt. Hope
Here
Dr Snook Testified as Firearms Expert in 1911 Hocking Case
Logan records show Dr. James Howard Snook former Ohio State University professor appeared as an firearms expert in the 1911 trial of Harry Lehman for murder in Ward Township. Lehman was convicted first degree with mercy and sent to life imprisonment. Snook testified in Hocking County years earlier in the case of James Wilson.
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Clinton Webb
Logan
James Howard Snook
Ohio State University
Theora K. Hix
Columbus
Hocking County
Harry T. Lehman
James Wilson
Ward Township
Snook
H. E Spannon
Lehman
George E. Martin
Common Pleas
Sparnon
O. W. H. Wright
Allen R. McBroom
C. V. Wright
D. M. Soliday
E. B. Allen
Ohio
Wilson
Nhat
Woman 70 pleads guilty third liquor offense
Rosa Hedrick about 70 is found guilty of a third liquor offense before Magistrate Gilmore and held to the October Grand Jury in 1000 dollars. She is jailed with two sons, Clarence and James, amid wire theft suspicions tied to Bowman's Run. Officers report seven people in the old Bowman's Run school house and a long-handled wire cutter. Hedrick mother of ten. one son executed for murder long ago.
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Pomeroy
Rosa Hedrick
Gilmore
Clarence
James
Bowman's Run
Bowman’s Run
Today Looking West And East, a by Alligator Reply
Reading across a clipped column titled Looking West and East the piece blends commentary and clipped jokes. It references cloud talk and tests por genius with a playful tone typical of the period.
Hearst Ranch Described as Vast Pacific Frontier
On August 19 in Simeon California a description notes the Hearst ranch stretches fifty miles along the Pacific and back across two mountain ranges, totaling 240000 acres and too large to fit on a Mercator map. It imagines a straight Pacific path ending at Yokohama with smart Japanese cruisers nearby.
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W. R. Hearst
Pacific
Yokohama
Zeppelin World Run Passes East of New York
At 7 15 p m Eastern Standard Time the giant dirigible Zeppelin is about 800 miles east of New York while bound east on a trip around the world.
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Atlantic
New York
Hearst Supports World Flight With Frequent Wireless News
W. R. Hearst, whose enterprise and generosity enabled the round-the-world trip, receives frequent wireless messages here, providing news of the voyage.
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W. R. Hearst
Airship Missions and Daily Reports From the Clouds
A progressive era advance enables airships to fly long missions and transmit hourly updates from crews stationed far aloft, spanning thousands of miles. The piece highlights technological progress and the growing role of aerial reconnaissance and communication in distant operations.
Zeppelin Crew Includes Dog and Baby Alligator?
In a curious travel note, a Zeppelin carries twenty two passengers and a forty strong crew along with a dog and a baby alligator. The text humorously questions why animals would travel if they cannot know the destination.
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Zeppelin
The Baby alligator muses on mankind’s aimless travel
The fragment imagines a baby alligator asking why humans travel on the spinning earth and laments the lack of clear direction among people who also do not know their destination.
Tacticia Sails By At Speed Off Pacific Coast
A fragment describes the British ship Tacticia passing at 72 miles per hour beside a typewriter near the Pacific edge. It notes Tacticia sounding its siren and fading from view while breakfast is mentioned in the scene.
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Wiegand
Pacific
Tacticia
Maximum Jones Law Penalty Is Imposed
Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle imposed the maximum Jones Law penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine on Henry Blair a 41 year old Saginaw County road house operator Blair pleaded guilty to sale and possession of liquor and maintaining a nuisance. Blair his brother Lester 30 and Andrew Wilson 42 were arrested when federal agents raided their road house two months ago.
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Bay City
Mich
U.P
Arthur J. Tuttle
Henry Blair
Saginaw County
Blair
Lester
Andrew Wilson
Gill Fined One Dollar For Parking Violation
M ayor E C Woodworth court fined M Gill one dollar for parking an automobile on Court Street over an hour violating the city traffic ordinance on Friday.
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Co. M. Gill
E. C
Woodworth
Gill
Court Street
Don Juan with Tatooed Love Finger In Lawrenceburg Case
Ohio report from Cincinnati notes Thomas Gray 31 known as Don Juan suspected of stealing six Batesville Indiana High School typewriters. He once bore the word love tattooed on his right hand. He admitted identity and police say his tattooing urge is now stopped. He will be sent back to Batesville for his term.
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Cincinnati
U.P
Thomas Gray
Thomas
Batesville
Ind
Gray
Athens Messenger Publishes Dahlia Growing Booklet
The Athens Messenger notes dahlias, imported from Mexico, flourish in the United States using ordinary outdoor culture. Government experts prepared an illustrated booklet on growing dahlias around the average home. The Washington Information Bureau will mail a copy for four cents postage and handling with the coupon.
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Europe
Mexico
America
United States
Washington Information Bureau
DAHLIAS FOR THE HOME BOOKLET REQUEST
A requester from The Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington DC encloses four cents for a copy of the booklet titled Dahlias for the Home. The note provides only name street city and state.
Graf Zeppelin Captain Fulfills Birthday Wish in Germany
Commander Hugo Eckener steered the dirigible Graf Zeppelin to Friedrichshafen to celebrate his sixty first birthday on German soil. The trip set a record for Atlantic crossing time, and Eckener hoped for no official birthday observance despite his secret wish.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
U.R
Hugo Eckener
Atlantic
Doctor Eckener
Nervous traders scramble as rediscount rate hits six percent
New York reports continued selling on Wall Street amid fears over the six percent rediscount rate. Observers estimate paper profits fell by hundreds of millions as brokers try to reassure clients and small traders fear government moves against stocks.
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New York
U.P
Wall Street
Federal Reserve Board
States Woman Should Be Off County Board
Formal charges filed with Secretary of State seek removal of Mrs. Bernice S. Pyke of Cleveland from the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections. Saul S. Danaceau, sponsor of a Cleveland charter amendment, accuses Pyke of aiding charter opponents and organizing booth officials to defeat the measure. He cites a meeting where she urged Democratic women ward leaders to oppose the amendment and claimed the board of elections is with them.
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Columbus
Bernice S. Pyke
Cleveland
Democratic National
Cuyahoga County
Pyke
Danaceau
Board of Elections
MacDonald Asked To Attend Hague Conference
Paris August 10 The continental allies will use diplomatic measures to compel Premier Ramsay MacDonald to personally attend The Hague Conference. MacDonald may be urged to confirm Snowden’s position or seek a compromise to save the conference.
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Paris
U.P
J. Ramsay MacDonald
Hague
United Press
MacDonald
Philip Snowden
Two Die in Ohio Air Crashes In 36 Hours
Two people died and three men were seriously injured in two separate air crashes in Ohio over the past 36 hours. One victim was a woman and another may have been fatally hurt.
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Columbus
Ohio
Snook murder trial opens with medical lecture and drama
Columbus jury in the Snook case heard a medical lecture on drugs and their effects from Dr Clayton Smith while witnesses testified. The defense lawyer accused prosecutor John Chester Jr of unethical conduct, prompting a tense courtroom moment before adjournment to Monday.
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Oy Mores DE Haven Tracy
United Press
Columbus
U.R
Janes Howard Snook
Theora Hix
Clayton 8. Smith
Miss Hix
Ohio State University
Mies Hix
Snook
Frank W. Harrah
Western Union Telegraph Company
T. K. Hix
New York
Howard
M.T. Meyers
Meyers
L. DP. McCullough
Buckeye State Building and Loan Association of Columbus
John F. Seidel
Seidel
John J. Chester Jr
Chester
Jack Chester
Labor keeps up state industry output in July
Ohio State University report shows industrial employment in July near wartime highs with July up 11 percent from 1928 and seven month totals up 11 percent. Construction up 4 percent. Increases in chemicals lumber machinery paper printing and misc firms while iron and steel rubber stone glass textiles and vehicles decline.
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Columbus
U.P
Viva Boothe
Monthly Review
Bureau of Business Research
Ohio State University
Showers Probable In Coming Week Forecast
Weather outlook from Washington forecasts a period of showers and thunderstorms in the Ohio Valley around Tuesday and again Thursday or Friday. Temperatures will run near or above normal for August 12 to 17 inclusive.
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Washington
U.P
Ohio Valley
Youth prisoner trapped in sealed tunnel at Ohio Penitentiary
John McQuire, 21, from Cleveland serving 10 to 26 years, slipped into an abandoned tunnel beneath Ohio State Penitentiary in Columbus. He fled back to the sealed entrance when bricks collapsed, panicked, and was captured after guards secured the area and confined him in the dungeon.
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Ohio State Penitentiary
Columbus
Ang
U.P
John McQuire
Cleveland
McGuire
McQuire
Hoover Observes 55th Birthday at Shenandoah Camp
President Hoover marks his fifty fifth birthday quietly at his mountain top camp in Shenandoah National Park Madison Virginia. His entire family is present for the first time with no birthday celebration planned and guests including Henry M Hirde Charles A Lindbergh and other officials. Allan Hoover remains at camp recovering from a stomach ailment and shows improvement.
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Hoover
Madison
Shenandoah National Park
Hoovers
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry M Hirde
Charles A. Lindbergh
Mra Hough
Confession Reveals Dr Silver Killing by Edelman
New York report says Joseph Edelman confessed to killing Dr Horace G Silver in Faton in 192% after entering the home with Ed Thompson They took two diamond rings and attempted to open the safe until the doctor returned Ed struck him with a hickory stick and they fled to California where a later San Diego holdup was staged.
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New York
U.P
Joseph Edelman
Horace G. Silver
Faton
John K. McGeehan
Edelman
Ed Thompson
California
San Diego
Speaker Attacks Plant Relocation Policy
Williamstown Massachusetts, August 16. American workmen lose jobs as manufacturers move plants abroad under new foreign loans and investments policy. Mathew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, spoke at the Institute of Politics on the issue.
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Williamstown
Magrs
U.P
Mathew Woll
American Federation of Labor
Institute of Politics
Berger Buried AfterMilwaukee Memorial with Crimson Banner
Victor L. Berger was buried in Forest Home Cemetery after a historic Milwaukee funeral. A procession far surpassed prior city events as 196000 viewed the body at City Hall in two hours. Stores closed and crowds saluted the Socialist leader who spent 30 years promoting his theory of government.
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Milwaukee
U.P
Victor L. Berger
Eugene V. Debs
Forest Home Cemetery
City Hall
Fatten the Pocketbook With Wantads
Messenger Classified Ads highlight services and goods for sale. An suit cleaning and pressing for $1 with home delivery, a Crosley Model 42 Electric Radio for $150, a modern six room rental near Sunnyside Drive, Athens, and a 44 acre farm within three miles of Athens with a six room house offered at $3,600.
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Messenger
Sunnyside Drive
Athens
Pageant at World Jamboree Marks Scout Anniversary
About 1300 American Boy Scouts at the world jamboree in Arr ow e Park Dirken Head Eng celebrated the twenty first anniversary of the Boy Scout movement with a grand pageant here today, postponed from last Wednesday.
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Arrowe Park
Dirkenhead
Eng
U.P
Boy Scout Movement
Tank collapses at Lupfer Company in Columbus
Firemen battled a flooded scene when a 13,000 gallon water tank atop the George B R Lupfer Company building in Columbus collapsed on August 10. No injuries reported as crews controlled the spill and assessed damage.
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Columbus
U.P
George BR. Lupfer ‘Company
Pilot Injured As New Plane Demolished After Crash
A pilot is injured when a new plane costing 1800 dollars is demolished in a crash. Authorities investigate the incident and assess damage to the aircraft and surrounding area.
Meigs County Plane Crash Kills Howard Dye. Paul Dye Dies Expected
Aug 10 in Pomeroy Ohio report details a fatal aircraft crash near Harrisonville Meigs County. Howard Dye 21 died in Gallipolis hospital after injuries from the Lincoln Page NC-85 crash piloted by Asa Jordan 22, who survived but seriously hurt along with Paul Dye 23, expected to die soon. Witnesses say engine failure led to a 60 foot ground impact and a 26 foot rebound. The Dye brothers, visiting from Meigs County on vacation, were passengers invited by Jordan. Paul Dye worked in Girard electric lighting. Howard Dye worked in Columbus investment firm.
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Pomeroy
Howard Dye
Paul Dye
Meigs County
Harrisonsville
Asa Jordan
Howard Len
Binet
Gallipolia
Ams Jordan
Harrisonville
Kate French
Gallipol
Jordan
Pitt
Wee
Rhert A. Willock
Portamouth
Sandys
Dye Brothers
Ounty
Columbus
Girard
Electric Light Bulb Manufacturing Company
Plane crash tests faith as sons repair after lift
The Jordan family narrative centers on Asa Jordan son of Mr and Mrs W kh Jordan living north of Cownington. After training at a flying school he returned home and a contested take off led to a crash injuring his father who is now recovering. In Albany last Sunday he reportedly damaged a new plane costing 1800 dollars. The Dye brothers sons of the late Martin Dye and their mother Mrs F M Jordan live near Harrisonville.
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Asa Jordan
W. Kh. Jordan
Cownington
Albany
Harrisonville
Paul
Howard Dye
F. M. Jordan
ML Dan
W. R. Jordan
Dye Brothers
Martin Dye
Hghtaim
George Arnold
Bonville
M. Jordan
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William Allen White
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