County Drive Tops Finish in Athens County Fund Drive
Probate Judge S. M. Johnson led Athens County Community Chest drive to a total well over twelve thousand dollars with town contributions from Glouster Trimble and Amensville. The home sector donations topped the fund by small gifts while a special sub fund covered the social secretary’s salary. A civic council will distribute the funds, and praise goes to workers including Wheatley Link for signs and Mrs. Everett Parl for clerical work.
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Athens County
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Amensville
Marshfield
Canaanville
D. Irma Stanfield
Red Cross
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Rotary Clubs
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Johnson
Wheatley Link
Link
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Everett Parl
NAB BOOZE DEALERS NETS FORTY ARRESTS IN CINCINNATI
Police dry law squad conducted weekend raids across Cincinnati, with most arrests in the Black Belt district. The operation seized unlawful liquor activities and shifted focus to alcohol enforcement during December.
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Cincinnati
Beasley Garage Opening Moved to Tuesday Night
A typographical error in Sundays Messenger misstated Beasley garage opening as Thursday. The correct date is Tuesday night with the program starting at 7 30 and including dancing.
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Beasley
Beasley Garage
Messenger
Storm Breaks Draught Ends Eight Month Drought
Nashville reports one dead and several injured as a severe storm across middle and western Tennessee causes over 100000 dollars in damage to public service firms and private property. The system finally ends an eight month drought, with rain hail wind and thunder.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Connolly Sets Untouched Umpiring Record in Baseball
Boston reports Tommy Connolly, famed American league umpire, has a three year span with no ejection. He surpasses Billy Evans, who held the prior best record of two full seasons with no ejections by August of his third year.
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Boston
Tommy Connolly
American Ague
Connolly
Billy Evans
Diplomat Harry Dayton Dies After Belgrade Shooting
Harry Dayton United States vice consul at Belgrade died after a Lithuanian woman shot and wounded him. The dispatch to the State Department confirmed his death last night.
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Washington
Harry Dayton
United States
Belgrade
State Department
Storms Hit Atlantic Shipping Toll, Coast Guard Reports
Storms off the Atlantic coast continue to take a heavy toll in shipping, the United States Coast Guard announced today.
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Washington
Atlantic
United States Coast Guard
Explosion damages Daily Dawn in Coffeyville
The pro Ku Klux Klan newspaper Daily Dawn in Coffeyville Kansas was blown up in an early morning blast causing about 75000 dollars in damage. The incident is under investigation and no injuries are reported.
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Coffeyville
Kas
The
Daily Dawn
Nelsonville Cars In Serious Wreck Near Rockbridge
Two cars collided on the Athens Columbus road above Nelsonville at 9 AM Monday. Three occupants were seriously injured including Ralph Paris Parks and his wife, with several others receiving minor injuries. All were taken to Cherrington hospital by ambulance.
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Lew Rice
Cherrington Hospital
Iiler
Parks
Mr. Parks
SLICKER TAKEN BY NEWARK POLICE
John Moore a Pittsburgh resident was arrested in Newark on an affidavit charging larceny by fraud and artifice. He allegedly obtained $9000 from Mrs Josie Lautenslager by promising stock in a company on October 17. Five other indictments await in Pittsburgh and he will be returned there to face charges.
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John Moore
Pittsburgh
Josie Lautenslager
Moore
Lautenslager
Mob in England protests murder verdict and calls for mercy
In Hall England a crowd of about ten thousand to sixteen thousand protested a murder verdict. They demanded clemency for veteran W G Smith facing execution while another murderer received ten years. They threaten a general strike and plan to storm the jail if Smith is not freed. A petition was sent to London and the Archbishop of York joined the protests.
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England
W. G. Smith
Smith
Archibishop
York
London
Home Secretary
Suspect Wife of Mate's Murder Dawned in Dayton Case
Police were urged by relatives to probe the death of Mark Hapner a 42 year old man who died November 18. Relatives say Hapner's wife had threatened to kill him and the husband allegedly spoke to brothers in Xenic before his death. Requisition sought autopsy and stomach examination of the body.
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Dee
Mark Hapner
Hapner
Brothers
Xnenic
Church splits over Klan issue in Cincinnati
The Richmond Street Baptist Church in Cincinnati has divided with part of the congregation following former pastor Rev. W. W. Baylor who resigned. Reports say Ku Klux Klan activities fueled the schism with Baylor listed as a Klan adherent.
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Cincinnati
Richmond Street Baptist Church
W. W. Baylor
Ku Klux Klan
Cold Wave to Hit Athens from West this Week
The Weather Bureau warns of a "Wild Cat" cold wave moving from the West toward Athens, expected to arrive late Monday night. Forecasts predict rain with mild temps Sunday night, then snow flurries and much colder conditions Monday, continuing until midweek before some warming. Normal Cincinnati highs reach 43, lows 27, mean 35.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Washington, D. C
Athens
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Hailstorms Devastate Western Crops in 1923
Severe hail storms across western states caused extensive crop losses in 1923, damaging wheat corn and other staples and triggering relief efforts as growers counted the damage and sought aid.
Unreasonable Curley Drives Chicago American Ambition
ARTHUR BRISBANE profiles Young Bill Curley editor of The Chicago American born on Manhattan Island and rising in Chicago. He boasts the paper is nearly tied with Daily News in circulation and vows to exceed by 100,000 to prove progress, noting price differences and his relentless drive.
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Chicago American
Manhattan
Chicago
America
Daily News
The
News
Young _ Bill" Curley
Count Hopes Heiress Millicent Will Return To Paris
Paris, Dec. 8. Count Ludwig von Lohgstraten expresses hope his wife Millicent Rogers, New York heiress, will arrive in Paris by week’s end. He recalls she was taken to New York with their child by her father H. H. Rogers and cites Millicent’s impaired health as delaying her return.
Two Die After Canned Heat Party in Dayton
Police report two deaths linked to a Sunday gathering labeled canned heat. Steve David hosted the event at Martin’s rooms. Martin died Sunday and a second man also died later with identity not fully confirmed.
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Dee
Canned Heat
Steve David
David Martin
Martin
Veteran held in death of woman at Dayton Soldiers Home
June Willis inmate of the Soldiers Home is held in the county jail awaiting investigation of the murder of Mrs. Tempest Bird 26 of Woodburn Kentucky. Willis stabbed Bird with barber shears after she attacked him on a street corner. Bird died on the way to the hospital. Willis surrendered to Sheriff Webster. He had prior shooting by Mrs. Bird in December 1922 over an affair. The killing occurred last night.
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Willis
Soldiers’ Home
Tempest Bird
Woodburn
Webster
Bird
Old friend seeks Christian home in Marion passage
An acquaintance of George B. Christian, Harding's secretary, visiting Marion, asks for Christian's father’s house. A local woman redirects him by joking about churches, and he discovers the correct Christian home one block away.
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George B. Christian
Harding
Marion
Christian
Washington
Aged Woman Claims to Have Served as a Man in the Federal Army
Plattsburg resident Mrs. Peter Johnson claims Civil War service under the name Saul Hill as a man in Company B Fifty third Massachusetts Regiment and later Navy service. She describes enlisting at 18, with uncertain records, and says she fought in Missouri and at Antietam. The Red Cross and officials found no Saul Hill records, but noted a Joseph Hill in the Fifty third Massachusetts.
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Chester B. Bahn
I. N
Plattsburg
N. Y
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Massachusetts Regiment
Peter Johnson
Saul Hill
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United States Navy
New York
Massachusetts
Missouri
Corey
U. S Navy
Key West
Tom Hill
Antetam
The
Red Cross
Joseph Hill
Middle party wins as radicals lose power in German elections
In Berlin on December 8 the Constitutionalists narrowly defeated the Nationalists as radical groups collapsed. Social Democrats emerged strongest with 126 seats, German Nationals 125, while Hitlerites and Communists suffered heavy losses. The Germania says the result strengthens the middle parties and hints at a return of the former Marx cabinet.
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Germania
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Professor's Wife Center of Tragedy
Mrs Rosemary Sparkman and her two children Wilford and Lorna Doone Sparkman were found dead in a gas filled room in Salt Lake City. Authorities say she chloroformed the children and then gaspoisoned herself in a suspected murder suicide case.
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Utah
Rosemary Carnavon Sparkman
Colley F. Sparkman
University of Utah
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Lorna Doone
Sparkman
Fatal CO Poisoning Claimed Ash Couple In Ottawa Ohio
Mia Ash seventy and her husband seventy four were found dead in their Ottawa Ohio home from carbon monoxide released by a fire in a hard coal stove. Neighbors forced entry and discovered the husband on the floor.
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Ottawa
Mia
David Ash
Ash
Governor asks for special grand jury in Dalton murder case
Ohio Governor Donahey asked Attorney General Crabbe to arrange a special grand jury to investigate the October 29 murder of John Dalton in Ashland County. The move follows a petition from 3,648 residents of Ashland and Richland counties and letters from groups urging action after a prior Ashland County grand jury probe produced no indictments.
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Dee
Donahey
Crabbe
John Dalton
Ashland County
Ashland
Richland County
Woman Awakens After Seventeen Month Sleep Mystery
Pound Wis December report describes Mrs. Mollie Starkovitz who slept for seventeen months and awoke recovering at her mother’s home three miles north of Pound. She recalls dreams of her home and children while doctors remain puzzled by the prolonged coma and unaroused state.
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Raymond
Shoals Bill Moves Forward in Senate Debate
The Senate advances the Underwood bill to dispose of the Shoals with support from southern lawmakers. Army engineers report favors the lease plan to private interests and aligns with President Coolidge, while Secretary Weeks criticizes parts as unworkable. Senator Underwood meets with War Department officials to press the measure.
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Hays
War Weeks
Army Engineers
Senate
Underwood
War Department
William Bekemater Ends Life After Hospital Return
William Bekemater a 80 year old baker in Cincinnati ended his life by self administered suffocation shortly after being released from General Hospital where he had recovered from an earlier suicide attempt.
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Cgeneral Hospital
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Wiliam Bekemater
Death Follows Fortune Rumor in McClintock Estate
In Wilmette Illinois speculative superstition says death haunts the McClintock fortune. Isabelle Pope, fiancée to William M McClintock the millionaire orphan, is viewed as a potential beneficiary though a string of deaths and near-misses marks the family line. Estimates of the estate range from three to about nineteen million dollars.
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Wilmette
Ill
Isabelle Pope
McClintock
Isabelle
William M. McClintock
Miss Y Pope
Woman's College Burns in Georgia
Fire destroyed the main building of the Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville Ga. The blaze caused an estimated 190000 dollars in damage as eight hundred students were awakened and evacuated from the dormitories. Officials said students may be sent home until lodging and class arrangements are made.
Renowned Scientist Richard W. Proctor Dies at 52
Cincinnati dispatch reports Richard W. Proctor, a nationally known scientist, died Sunday night at his home after a heart attack the previous day. He was fifty two.
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Cincinnati
Richard W. Proctor
French Move Against Reds Expels Sixty Communists
Paris reports the Frenetic government expands anti communist drive with plots for demonstrations. Sixty Communists of various nationalities were expelled including Italians Belgians Poles Serb Swiss Swede and a German. Demonstrations fizzled due to police actions while L Humanite urged instant Reds action.
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Commun
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