Four Deaths Mark Snow Storm Sweeps Ohio
Ohio faced heavy snow and slick roads as a Sunday storm brought multiple fatalities. In the Cleveland area four deaths were linked to the cold and accidents while statewide reports described numerous injuries and travel hazards. A separate incident near Columbus saw a man, wife, and son perish when two trains struck their auto nearly simultaneously.
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Columbus
Dec
U.R
Cleveland
Wilbert Schmuck
Mary
James
Athenians Wake To White Christmas Snow
Athenians awoke to six inches of snow covering streets and sidewalks. Drivers faced slick roads as residents rushed to clear snow with shovels and brooms. The fall is described as the heaviest in recent years, disrupting traffic and daily routines.
Snowbound Ohio Strikes Trains and Roads Amid Fatal Crashes
Snow blanketed Central Ohio leaving five inches on ground as emergency crews battled fires and icy roads. Three members of a Cleveland area family died when trains hit their car while another man perished after skidding off a road. Children rescued from a burning farm home near Gallipolis as plows and workers battle drifting snow and submerged roads.
Shields announce birth of triplets in Chauncey
Mr and Mrs Henry Shields of Chauncey welcomed three baby boys Sunday at their home bringing their count of children to twelve. The family now has nine prior children and the new triplets increase their household to twelve.
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Harry Shields
Chauncey
Dre
Henry Shields
Burke tied to St Valentine’s Day massacre, Chicago report says
Chicago reporter notes Major Calvin Goddard testified ballistic evidence linked a Burke machine gun to cartridges found at the St Valentine’s Day massacre scene. The inquest into the killings resumed as authorities pressed the case against Fred Burke, a hunted gangster in the Central West.
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Burke
St. Valentine Day Massacre
Chicago
Uri
Fred Burke
Central West
St. Valentine's Day
Calvin ©. Goddard
Goddard
Herman Bundeeen
Largest breach of promise verdict in US history awarded
Miss Bertha A. Cleavenger of Detroit won a record $450,000 verdict in a breach of promise case. A jury ordered payment, marking the largest such award in the country to date.
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Miss Bertha
Japanese Envoys in New York Ahead of Naval Conference
Japanese envoys travel to London for the naval conference, favoring fast cruisers over capital ships and resisting talks on abandoning submarines and airplanes as Britain pursues a business first approach. The Prince of Wales hosted Russia’s ambassador while George V avoided him for political and theological reasons. Bootleggers and hijackers remain a familiar, violent aspect of prohibition era crime.
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New York
London Naval Conference
Prince of Wales
St. James’ Palace
Russia
Great Britain
George
Church of England
Raiders Hijack Government Warehouse Saturday
A group of armed men raided a government warehouse on Saturday causing a disruption. Reports indicate the incident ended without immediate casualties, with authorities investigating the motive and securing the facility. Continued on Page 4.
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Ouite New
Teach the Children Etiquette Rules of Etiquette
A Washington Bureau etiquette booklet helps parents train children in good manners. It suggests setting a personal example and offers the booklet by requesting with name and address and six cents or a stamp for postage.
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Washington
Modern Man Ners booklet request note
A brief notice states an enclosure of six cents in coin or stamps for a copy of the booklet titled Modern Man Ners. It provides a name street city address placeholder and indicates a request for mail delivery.
Snowstorm Across Nations Delays Christmas Travel
A heavy snow blanketed much of the United States and parts of Europe. The Midwest faced renewed blizzard conditions while the East Coast, Texas, and Florida saw fresh snowfall. London and the British Isles reported numerous deaths as France and the Riviera area received snow.
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United States
Enyland
France
Middlewest
Seaboard
Washington
Texas
Florida
Louisiana
Carolinas
Virginias
British Isles
Riviera
Governor Cooper Buys Hats For Reporters At Capitol
At Columbus on December 23 Governor Myers Y. Cooper invited reporters to his office and escorted them to a department store. He urged them to pick new hats citing dissatisfaction with their current headwear. No injuries occurred as extra clerks were summoned to assist.
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Columbus
U.P
Myers Y. Cooper
State House
Bandits Foiled by Youth as One Kills Self
In Detroit a 12 year old boy Jack Cochill saw two bandits robbing a gas station. He alerted nearby patrons and the attendant fired. One bandit was shot and fell. the other fled and later died by his own hand. Police captured the surviving gunman.
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Detroit
U.P
Jack Cochill
Jack
Clarence G. Blandon
Aged Chesterhill Resident Stricken With Stroke
Mrs. Elizabeth Frishey 75 a Chesterhill resident for 50 years suffered a paralysis stroke at her home yesterday noon. Daughter Mrs. Bertha Moody rushed from Columbus last night to aid. Frishey a long time village resident with a widely known family faces critical condition this afternoon.
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Chesterhill
Elizabeth Frishey
Bertha Moody
Columbus
Accuse Hoover in Probe in Congress
Congress debates Sugar tariff influence with Democratic and Republican leaders accusing President Hoover of involvement. Texas Representative Gardner portrayed documents from the Senate Lobby Investigating Committee as showing the President’s hand in tariff plans.
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Hoover
Congress
Washington
U.R
Representative Gardner
Texas
House
Senate
Former Farm Hand Confesses in Ontario County Murder
Edward Sowards 21 of Ringgold was arrested in Chauncey by Burns Agency detective and local officers for killing farmer H. Bailey, taking cash and clothing. He allegedly confessed the motive and led police on a cross state chase stopping at his mother’s Ringgold home before capture in Chauncey. He awaits extradition as Ohio and Ontario County officials coordinate.
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Edward Sowards
Ringfold
New York State
H. 8
Bailey
Ontario County
New York
Ira Sowards
Chauncey
William J. Burns International Detective Agency
Elveland
Jed Heek
Jenry Williams
Glouster
Sowards
George Stump
Ringcold
Millfield
Idward la Sowards
Duane Bailey
Talley’s
Athens County
Ohio
Cleveland
Klinggold
Zanesville
New Lexington
State
Hong Kong Steamer Lee Cheong Capsizes in Gale
In Hong Kong a small coastal steamer named Lee Cheong capsized in a gale. About 300 Chinese are believed drowned in the harbor disaster.
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Hong Kong
U.P
Lee Cheong
San Dusky Coach In Serious Auto Crash Condition
San Dusky, December 23. Kenneth Mills, coach of Sandusky High School football, was in serious condition after a two car collision last night. Mills was injured in the accident and hospitalized locally.
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Sandusky, Dec
U.P
Kenneth Mills
Sandusky
Mills
Huckins Surrenders on Fugitive Warrant in Wisconsin
Huckins, financier who paid 26 and 42 percent to investors, surrendered to Wausau authorities after a Cedar Rapids warrant. He was arraigned, released on $5,000 bond, and denied fleeing while planning to face charges in Iowa and civil suits.
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Wautona
Wis
Huckins
Wushara
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Driver sought in hit and run that fatally injures Mrs Shayne
County officials investigated a hit and run that fatally injured Mrs. Alice Clark Shayne of Sugar Creek on Saturday afternoon. Licenses traced to Terrence McSweeney of Dallas City, but he could not be located in Athens County. Authorities planned to file an affidavit on Monday and Dallas City officials were asked to arrest McSweeney if found. Shayne remained unconscious at Sheltering Arms Hospital after being dragged about 40 feet by a light roadster as she walked near the Marietta Athens bus stop before boarding. She had crossed in front of her father John Clark’s home, where she lived with him. Her brother-in-law John F. Gleason transported her to the hospital.
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Alice Clark Shayne
Sugar Creek
Shayne
Terrence McSweeney
Dallas City
Athens County
McSweeney
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Marietta-Athens
Athens
John Clark
Inlaw
John F. Gleason
Clark
Individual Gifts To Be Given To Ohio Children
Columbus officials announced today that individual gifts will be given to state dependent children. The welfare director Hal H Griswold said three hundred dollars have been appropriated by the division of charities and contributions have been received from the Shriners Ohio State sororities Elks and other organizations.
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Columbus
U.R
Hal H. Griswold
Division of Charities
Hriners
Ohio State
Elks
Emery Thierwechter Milling Plant Destroyed by $175,000 Fire
Oak Harbor reports the Emery Thierwechter Milling Company plant lay in ruins after a 175000 dollar fire that also badly damaged a nearby dwelling.
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Oak Harbor
Emery Thierwechter Milling Company
Bandits Raid Mexican Town Injuring Four
Thirty armed bandits attacked El Lotrera, 56 miles from Vera Cruz, last night. Dynamite bombs killed two residents and wounded two others while they robbed several stores of money and merchandise.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
el Lotrera
Viennese pianist works as hotel dishwasher in Cleveland
Walter Buxbaum, 32, a noted Viennese pianist, in Cleveland to study the hotel business, works days washing dishes at Hotel Statler and evenings entertaining wealthy Cleveland Heights friends. Son of renowned cellist Friederich Buxbaum, he has played across Europe and was lured from concert stages to hotel life to protect his hands.
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Vienna
Cleveland
Hotel Statler
Cleveland Heights
Walter Buxbaum
Friederich Buxbaum
Europe
Francs Santi
Federico Santi
Mattre de
The
Statler
Lausanne
Switzerland
Paxbaum
Paris
London
Glasgow
Berlin
Tariff Bill Delayed in Senate Amid House Support
Washington reports the Hawley Smoot Tariff Bill remains stalled as the Senate nears months of indecision since President Hoover urged a limited revision in April. Leaders from both parties seek speed but no single figure controls the process, with forecasts pegging passage around February to April.
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Senate
House
Hoover
Washington
U.R
Congress
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
900 Auto Tags Sold Here By Noon Today
The weekly report by David Johnson shows 357 passenger car plates sold for 1 572, 60 truck tags for 1515 95, nine trailer licenses for 141 10, and two motorcycle plates for 5. A total of 3 253 45 was handed to county auditor J Clyde Edmundson. About 9600 plates had been sold in the Athens district by Monday noon. Beasley Milling and Grocery Co received seven passenger car tags, 10 truck tags and one trailer. Office hours extended to evenings through January for license purchases.
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David Johnson
Athens
J. Clyde Edmundson
Beasley Milling and Grocery Company
Johnson
Men to be grilled over Fisher Brothers safe caper
Youngstown report says three men captured after a Sunday chase were to be grilled today in connection with an attempt to crack the Fisher Brothers store safe in Warren.
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Youngstown
Fisher Brothers
Warren
Movement to Form Chamber of Commerce in New Lexington
Plan to organize a Chamber of Commerce shortly after January first in New Lexington. The town already has a Kiwanis Club, and residents seek broader civic enterprise through the planned chamber.
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New Lexington
Chamber of Commerce
Millfield Man Killed in Mine Shale Fall
Chauncey, Dec 23 Edward McManaway Sr 60 of Millfield was killed instantly by falling rock and shale at Proeport Mine while his son John was seriously injured Miners cleared the rock within three minutes coroner called death accidental Funeral plans to be set after word from relatives He leaves a widow 12 children a sister and a brother and was born in Union Furnace later living in Athens County for 16 years
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Chauncey
Edward McManaway
Millfeld
John
Jw. Jones
Athens County
McManaway
Leste
Edward
Millifield
Mabel Brooks
Logan
Mary Banfield
Orbieton
Mra
Esther MekKoe
Buchtel
Jewett Burgeese
Maude
Millfield
Sloan
Walter
Storm Blankets Midwest Train System Amid Slush
The Midwest endures fresh storm after heavy snow with mild temperatures creating slush in Chicago and surrounding states. Train schedules face renewed disruption as snow plows and crews work to clear routes while post offices rush to move mountains of mail. Disruptions extend to roads and air travel as travelers face delays and possible multi day waits.
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Chicago
Middlewest
Chicas Ko
Jimola
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Wisconsin
Crea
Post Office
Midwest
Ripley Attacks I C C Railroad Merger Plan
Harvard professor William Z. Ripley criticized the Interstate Commerce Commission plan to merge railroads at his Newton home. He said the proposal fails to create substantial equality and would break the cardinal principle of limiting each system to a definite rate territory. Ripley, a renowned railroad authority, helped draft an earlier ICC consolidation plan in 1921 that was later scrapped.
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Newton, Maass
U.pd
William Z. Ripley
Harvard University
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Ripley
Pilots Reach Icebound Ship in Siberia Search
Two Alaska Airways pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam reached the icebound trading ship Manuk near North Cape Siberia establishing a base to search for missing pilot Carl Ben Eielson and mechanic Earl Herland. Other planes and crew headed to the Coast Guard Cutter Chelan.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Carl Ben Elcison
Alaska Airways
Chelan
Joe Crosson
Harold Gillam
Manuk
North Cape
Siberia
Eielson
Earl Herland
Crosson and
Gillam
Teller
Alaska
William Shaw Arrested for Intoxication in Athens County
William Shaw one of the Luhrig names was arrested Sunday afternoon on a charge of intoxication by Sheriff William Williams and placed in Athens County Jail. He faced arraignment Monday afternoon before Magistrate Carl H. Porter.
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William Shaw
Luhrig
William Williams
Athens County
Carl H. Porter
Parachute Flier Joseph Reported in China Escape Plan
Paris December 28. Joseph, a famed French ocean flier, was said to be aboard a flight aiming to flee China when the plane crashed in India. Messages received quote Coane confirming the peril and escape attempt but accuracy remains unclear.
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Paris
Joseph
Sene
China
India
Coane
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James Pracek
Wraik Mauzick
Gallipolis
Mary Naike
State Highway Department
A. Cleavenger of
John H. Castle
King Features Incorporated
Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D.C
Tute
Ringgold
State Capitol
Governor Cooper
Santa Claus
Edward Sewards
Brother
Bandits
A.R
Buxbaum
Herman Friedman
Friedman- Riau-Parker Company
Ld Dive Stork
Clifford T. Currin
Omaha
Neb
Helen Theodora
Clifford, Jr
Plan Commerce Body
Edward McManaway, Sr
Illinois
Central States
Winnipeg
Harvard
Inter. State Commerce Commission
Crosson and Gillam
Kielson
Borland
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