Coolidge Signals Policy Shift in First Message to Congress
President Coolidge outlines domestic and foreign policy in a blunt address to a fractious Congress. He backs Mellon tax cuts, opposes a soldiers bonus, endorses the world court with reservations, and calls for railroad rate reforms and orderly labor action. He also supports keeping the railway labor board temporarily and emphasizes fiscal restraint.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Harding
World Court
Railway Labor Board
Mellon
Time for House Recess As Committees Form
Washington dispatch notes the House will recess for Christmas after dispatching the Coolidge message to committees. Republicans begin naming members to key committees, including Appropriations and Ways and Means, while Democrats push for committee on committees and rule revision.
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Washington
Dec
House
F Coolidge
Republican Committee
Imm
Madden
Apggés Priations
Neep butter stored in cool, covered place
A brief note advises keeping neep butter tightly covered in a cool location to avoid taints or contamination.
Congress Opens With Record Bill Flood Across Both Houses
In Washington on December 6, the new Congress sees over 1000 bills and resolutions filed in the Senate and House, with Senator King of Utah leading in number of introductions. The Dyer anti lynching bill becomes the first House measure as King reintroduces a plan for adhesion to the permanent court of international justice and a five member Senate committee probes stock and commodity exchange practices.
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Kenneth W. Clark
I. N
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
King
Utah
Permanent Court of International Justice
Harding
Federal Reserve System
New York
Overlooked Depositor Motives Over Old Car
An O A depositor from Hendrysburg berated his old tin Lizzie after the National Bank of Barnesville closed weeks ago. A friend asked why he would pursue faith in that flivver, and he replied he had driven the battered vehicle for years instead of a costly car.
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Hendrysburg
National Bank of
Barnesville
Tin Lizzie
Mail Plane Falls Near Castalia in Flames
Government mail plane burst into flames and crashed about two miles south of Castalia around 10:30 this morning. An ambulance headed to the scene.
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Falls
Sandusky, C
Castalia
Coolidge Addresses Congress First Message Highlights
President Coolidge outlines foreign policy aims urging independence and global responsibility. He backs entering the world court with reservations, opposes league of nations, and calls for debt noncancellation and cautious Russia recognition only after debts are paid. Domestically he endorses tax cuts, opposes veterans bonuses, supports railroad regional consolidation, and scopes labor, tariffs, shipping, prohibition, immigration, child labor, civil service, and farm credit.
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Senate
Russia
America
Congress
Railway Labor Board
Harding
Mr. Coolidge
League of Nations
Railroad Labor Board
Coast Guard
Fire devastates Buckeye Pipe Line tank in Corning field
Meager reports say a 30 000 barrel storage tank at Buckeye Pipe Line Co in Corning Ohio burned after a violent storm and cloudburst. The tank was half full of crude oil and will be a total loss with over 50 000 dollars in damages. Emergency crews are on site and fire expected to burn 36 hours. Roads bridges and farm property across western Washington eastern Athens Hocking and Perry counties suffered flood damage.
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Marietta, O
Buckeye Pipe Line Co
Corning
Ohio
Hocking River
Federal Creek
Sunday Creek
Washington
Athens
Hocking
Perry
Postal Receipts Show a Gain During November
The post office department announced that postal receipts in fifty cities totaled 26,530,823 dollars for November, up 1,718,418 dollars or 6.93 percent from the prior November. Los Angeles led gains with a 22.75 percent rise.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Los Angeles
Deadly Cigaret Has Sinned Once More
Edward Reynolds of East Liverpool is in a hospital in serious condition after a hotel fire started by a bandage soaked with turpentine wrapped around a sore foot being ignited by a cigarette.
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Youngstown
Edward Reynolds
Waterloo Avenue
Liverpool
Robbery Suspect Wounded. Companion Arrested
Hugh Knapp was sent to Memorial Hospital with severe buckshot wounds from 2006 while caught in the act of robbing deputy Ralph Ives’s hen house at LaGrange. His companion John Felter of Elyria was also arrested.
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Elyria
Hugh Knapp
Memorial Hospital
Ralph Ives
LaGrange
John Felter
Kidnaps Babe at the Point of Gun in Steubenville
Anthony Rizzorio of Toronto used a .38 revolver to seize his 10 month old baby from his wife and relatives last night in Steubenville Ohio and vanished in a taxicab. Police efforts to locate the child today were fruitless.
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Steubenville, O
Anthony Rizzorio
Toronto
Flood risk eases as Hocking River rises in Athens area
Rain and a swollen Hocking River threaten minor flooding but officials report danger abated for now. At 9 am the C N France gauge near East Bridge stood at 13 feet four feet below flood level, while river rise slowed to inches per hour. In Amesville Federal Creek caused panic before subsiding as dawn neared.
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Hocking
Athens
C. N. France
East Bridge
Amesville
Federal Creek
Women restricted from smoking in Akron county jail
Sheriff J Chris Weaver states no smoking facility exists for women inmates in the county jail. He says requests to smoke are denied and women will not be permitted to smoke cigarets in custody.
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Akron
J Chris Weaver
Weaver
Arm Woman Threatens in Pittsburg Court Disarmed
A county court judge in Pittsburg disarmed a woman witness who drew a revolver from her dress and threatened the life of Attorney Delmont K. Ferree during testimony in a crowded courtroom.
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Pittsburg
Delmont K. Ferree
Verdict of guilty murder with mercy plea in Ohio case
Adams county jury returned a verdict of murder in the first degree with a mercy recommendation against John Spires in the death of Cincinnati man Robert J. Morris. Morris' body was found June 15 on Brush creek by fishermen. Spires was arrested after police found him with a new car and a large sum of money. The defense offered no evidence.
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West Union, O
Adams County
John Spires
Robert J. Morris
Cincinnati
Brush Creek
Spircs
Belmont County Sets Feb Fourth Hearing on Martins Ferry Annex
Belmont County commissioners schedule February 4 for a hearing on Martins Ferry's annexation application covering 117 acres including newly developed additions to the town.
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ST. Clairesville
Belmont County
Martins Ferry
Planned Death Hoax Ends In Confession And Fraud Case
Edward Sailsted a former Eau Claire Wisconsin businessman is in a California jail cell calmly smoking a cigar after confessing to burning his Lake Nebagamon cottage exhuming Andrew McPhee and placing his ring and watch on the ashes before fleeing leaving his wife Leona Sailsted Richardson to collect life insurance. A Chicago linked former secretary Dorothy Anderson known as the Sunshine Girl admitted involvement. Sailsted claimed heavy debt prompted the hoax and a Wisconsin jury awarded his wife nearly 100000 in insurance damages after his August 1920 disappearance.
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Napa
Cal
Edward Sailsted
Eau Claire
Wis
Lake Nebagamon
Superior
Andrew McPhee
McPhee
Leona Sailsted Richardson
Sailsted
Dorothy Anderson
Chicago
Sunshine Girl
Thomas Anglim
Wisconsin
British election endures disorder as vote chilled by fears
London dispatch reports Belfast shooting of Daniel Bradley during clashes as polling proceeds amid plots to intimidate voters. Weather boosts expected turnout of Great Britain’s 7,000,000 women voters while parties debate tariff plans and league of nations versus Versailles revision.
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David M. Church
LN. R
London
Belfast
Daniel Bradley
Great Britain
The
Daily Mail
House of Commons
Stanley Baldwin
Scotland Yard
Evening News
Moscow
League of Nations
Presbyterians to debate church doctrines at national conference
In Cleveland on December 6 the Presbyterian conference prepares to hear findings from a committee on the conflict between fundamentalists and modernists. The anticipated debate is expected to be academic since the conference has no legislative authority.
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Cleveland, CO
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Conference
Woman Cracks Wife Beating Claim in Divorce Suit
Dan iel C. Anthony of Cincinnati seeks a divorce from Alma Anthony claiming she battered him nightly and forced him to work after injuries. Alma denies abuses saying she suspected his infidelity and that she followed him but saw no other women.
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Daniel C. Anthony
Cincinnati
Alma Anthony
Anthony
Columbus Trial Reveals False Ownership Claim
Direct testimony from John J. Beck of Columbus in the Dwight Harrison case centers on alleged false statements used to spur stock sales. Beck says Harrison provided advertising claims that Phoenix-Portland Cement Co owned a Nazareth plant, a fact the prosecution says is false, with cross examination anticipated.
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Columbus, CO
John J. Beck
Columbus
R. L. Dollings Co
Ohio
Dwight Harrison
Dollings Company
Beck
Harrison
Phoenix-Portland Cement Co
Nazareth
Yeaterday
Clearing Air for Coolidge Address Message
Washington calls all radio stations to silence from 8:30 to 8:45 p.m. next Monday to clear the ether for President Coolidge's address on behalf of the Harding Memorial Association.
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Washington
United States
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Coolidge
Harding Memorial Association
Belmont county home workers store summer harvest in food drive
Employees and wards of the Belmont County Children's Home gathered a substantial food reserve, including 600 quarts of corn, 700 gallons of tomatoes, 400 quarts of lima beans, and 200 quarts of peas, accumulated during summer and fall.
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Tacoma
Belmont County Children’s Home
Paper Bag Thief Faces 240 Year Court Action
John Johnson 25 East Cleveland and Detroit is charged with robbery after a police confession to East Cleveland officers. Prosecutor Edward C. Stanton will seek indictment for a series of store and loan-organization robberies where the thief used a paper bag to direct loot. Johnson denies two dozen other similar crimes. He told officers someone stole his stuff. Maximum possible sentence is 240 years.
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Cleveland, O
John Johnson
East Cleveland
Detroit
Edward C. Stanton
Johnson
Fort Defiance Grange marks 50th anniversary
State Senator George Kryder of McClure was the principal speaker at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Fort Defiance Grange. The event featured the old Grange song Keep litica off the farm reflecting ongoing themes.
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Grange
George Kryder
McClure
Fort Defiance Grange
Cleveland men ordered to pay fines in trespass case
Medina Ohio reports W B Chapman a storekeeper and farmer with G Lafayette filed a trespass suit against Adolph Kigua James Koster Otto Borack and John Bazen of Cleveland. Sheriff Hange and Justice Aingw ordered each defendant to pay fines for the privilege.
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Medina
W. B. Chapman
G. Lafayette
Adolph Kigua
Joseph Koster
Otto Borack
John Bazen
Cleveland
Hange
Aingw
Husking corn accident reported in Wellington
Swope of Sullivan involved in a corn husking mishap in Wellington Ohio with an injury described as crushed, details sparse in the fragment.
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Wellington
Ohio
Swope
Sullivan
Chino
Winter Canned Food Recipes Offer Seasonal Meals
Washington Str tion Bureau releases a booklet detailing 28 soup recipes and 17 seafood and meat dishes for winter use. It includes 12 sandwich ideas and 35 additional recipes, promoting fresh garden options as the season begins and outlining postage for the guide.
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Washington
Nally
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