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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1926
Page
1
Meigs agent urges farmers to study market conditions before scheduling work. The push highlights economic factors guiding agricultural planning and risk management amid uncertain supply and demand.
More than 40 witnesses will testify before a Canton grand jury considering evidence tied to the murder of Don R. Mellett publisher of the Canton Daily News. Witnesses implicate at least five persons. tensions rise as prosecutor McClintock faces criticism amid political fallout.
The American Railroad association reports an unusually prosperous year with freight loadings totaling 31,364,930 cars through August 14 the highest for the period. No car shortages are reported nationwide and a surplus of 179,771 serviceable freight cars remains available as of August 8.
Glouster miners speculate on tomorrow's Columbus meeting of coal operators after Ohio mine leaders refused to meet. Some expect no major result, others fear some mines may suspend operation, risking a statewide standstill. Day laborers earn $7.50, while loaders earn far less.
More than 1,000 Republican and Democratic representatives arrive in Columbus for state conventions opening tomorrow. Democrats meet at 10:30 a.m. with platform drafting the main business, while Republicans start at 4 p.m. and aim to finish by noon Wednesday. Thomas J. Duffy leads Democrats as temporary chair. Simeon D. Fess expected to keynote for Republicans.
Cleveland police report Harvey Elam age 30 shot and killed Mrs Helen Nickels then attempted suicide. His condition is listed as serious.
Authorities sought cause of death for Dorothy Kirk formerly of Lorain. She had been missing since Friday evening and was brought to a hospital Sunday morning by a man, dying a few hours later.
Five drivers injured in a one hundred mile negro drivers race at Northampton motorhome, two believed fatally. Cars crashed through the fence, signaling a severe accident scene and prompting emergency response.
In Ravenna on August 23, 16 year old Donald Loomis accidentally killed his brother William, 18, while shooting at a woods target. Local authorities investigated the fatal accident.
Seven laborers riding on top of an oil tank car were killed and three injured when a freight train near Wyanett, Princeton derailed after a brake rod broke. The victims, members of an extra gang bound for a work camp near Galesburg, fell from the toppled cars as ten cars toppled down an embankment.
Presidential camp officials indicate sentiment from farmers supports tariff revision proposals. West highlights agricultural concerns as central to the administration's policy response.
Senator Capper, head of the Western farm bloc, says tariff revision will continue with a restated push for the McNary Haugen bill at the December session. He warns that farm pressure may target aluminum duties and oppose Coolidge unless agricultural legislation advances, signaling potential Western demand for a separate Republican candidate at the national convention.
Chicago crime leader known as Poland Joe Saltis was indicted for the shooting of rival beer trafficker Mitters Foley. Saltis, arrested in Wisconsin, is to be transported to Chicago with three lieutenants, including Lefty Koncil, to face trial alongside Three Fingered Pete Kazinski and bodyguard Nick Kramer. The northern raid involved heavy arms but no use of weapons.
Newark August 23 Chief Justice William H Gummere refused to act on a bail application for Henry De La Bruyere Carpender and Willie Stevens who remain in Somerset county jail on murder charges tied to the deaths of Rev Edward W Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills. The men had been held without bail for grand jury action after a preliminary hearing led by Special Prosecutor Alexander Simpson outlining the case.
In Cincinnati on August 23 Ruth Mitchell a 16 year old girl plunged into Black Lake to save Mrs Jane Paulus from drowning. Four men watched as she acted with courage and pulled her to safety.
Rudolph Valentino famed screen star died at Polyclinic hospital New York after an operation for appendicitis and gastric ulcers. Doctors fought infection and pleurisy with a blood transfusion and x rays but he did not recover. Valentino, born Rodolpho Qquliemi in Castellaneta Italy, rose from farm boy to cinema icon via New York and Hollywood.
Charles W. Elliot, a leader in American education for 69 years and Harvard president for four decades, died at 92 in Northeast Harbor Maine. He influenced public affairs, edited the Five Foot Shelf, and advised on a serene, active old age, continuing work until age 90.
Frank Davidson dies from a bullet wound inflicted a week earlier when his stepfather Fili Escott went on a gun rampage. Escott killed his wife before dying from a self inflicted wound in a related incident.
Congressman James Begg of Sandusky declares in Cincinnati that no one in the United States is in a more favorable position for the Republican presidential nomination two years hence than Speaker Nicholas Longworth at a Blaine Club outing.
William Howard Taft granted United Press an exclusive interview from Pointe au Pic Quebec discussing flaws in U S criminal law. He cites weakened judge powers and disorganized judicial force as key issues, but believes remedies exist and praises English liberty traditions and public attention to reform.
United Press correspondent Carl D. Groat reports 1926 copyright restrictions extend to Canada. The piece outlines how U S works may be protected abroad and the potential legal implications for publishers and authors.
The mine workers union head denounces a report that blames pay scales for living standard declines. He calls it a gratuitous attack on wages and living conditions, urging correction and fair treatment for miners.
John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, denounces an Interstate Commerce Commission examiner's report denying a readjustment of Indiana and Illinois coal freight rates to Chicago. He argues the ruling attacks miners' wages and calls for reversal, noting 1915-1920 rate disparities and ongoing wage controversy.
Athens August 23 Admiral Paul Coudouritis accepts the presidency following a successful military revolt led by General Georges Condylis that toppled the Pangalos government. Salonika recognizes the new regime as Pangalos is captured or escapes to a destroyer and is pursued by revolutionary forces.
Notch to Reed Springs Missouri residents mourn the death of "Uncle Ike" Morrill the oldest postmaster in the country who died after a sudden illness during a planned ten day birthday celebration in honor of his eighty ninth year Morrill who was born and educated in Portland Maine worked as a printer on the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley and became the archetype of the Ozarks in Harold Bell Wright's The Shepherd of the Hills
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