Doctors Urge Against Working Off Influenza Strain
Influenza outbreaks spread through Athens County as families fall ill and doctors report long hours and several deaths. Dr. J M Higgins, county health commissioner, lists 73 cases in the last week with 13 new cases reported Monday. Higgins himself is recovering at home while physicians in New Marshfield and Guysville intensify efforts to halt the spread.
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Athens County
J. M. Higgins
Higgins
New Marshfield
Guysville
Flu Epidemic Strikes Meessen Reporter Beat
A Meessen reporter finds the town gripped by a flu outbreak over three weeks. Every workplace reports illness as employees fall sick. at a Studebaker garage five workers, including Lisle Coon and H A Smith, are confined at home with the illness.
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Clara Bow
Fiu
Meéessenger
Studebaker
Lisle Coon
H. A. Smith
Frank Coon
Ida Burke
Harley E. Moler
In Athens Influenza Echoes 1918 Epidemic
A Athens physician warns influenza echoes the 1918 1919 epidemic with families ill in bed and neighbors aiding care. He urges rest for those with cold symptoms to prevent spread and relapses urging bed rest at least 24 hours after temperature drops. A local druggist reports busy Sunday due to cold and flu symptoms.
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Athens
Christmas Day Across Time Zones 1928
The Christmas of 1928 began at 6 40 a m Eastern Standard Time in New York as the sun moved around the globe from the Friendly Islands to Fiji and New Zealand. Bethlehem marks the event at 6 p m EST.
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New York
Friendly Islands
Pacific
Fiji Islands
New Zealand
Australia
India
Japan
China
Africa
Europe
America
Bethlehem
Christ
Cracksmen Captured After Attempt to Loot Cleveland Church
Three burglars identified as veteran "old time geggs" were captured in Cleveland Heights after an unsuccessful safe blowing try at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. They fled after police intervened, wounding one intruder, leaving nitroglycerin, a switch, drills and hammers at the scene. The loot was the church collection worth several thousand dollars.
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Cleveland
O.R
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Cleveland Heights
George Koestie
Coventry Road
Fire destroys Central Grade School in Glouster
Fire, believed caused by an overheated furnace in the basement, gutted the Central Grade School Building in Glouster early Sunday. Walls remain as base, with only permanent records saved by Superintendent Dillon. Insurance on the structure stood at $20,000. Board of Education authorized Dillon and Clerk Bulloch to secure quarters for eight grade pupils and arrange new desks and books for January 2 restart.
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Glouster
Dillon
Board of Education
Bulloch
Ntd
Quiet Christmas Ahead in Athens Officials Report
Athens police and fire officials forecast a quiet Christmas with no arrests and no fire calls over the weekend. The past month saw only two arrests, and firemen warn to avoid candle use on trees as electric lights rise. Merchants report solid business, turkeys and poultry selling cheaper, Christmas tree stock selling off.
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Athens
Will Preserve Cabin Where Lincoln Lived
The War Department announced plans to renovate and preserve Abraham Lincoln's log house at Hodgenville Kentucky. Improvements include modernized facilities fences roadway upgrades and planting of shrubs and native trees along the approach road to handle growing sightseer numbers.
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Washington
U.P
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgenville
War Department
Kentucky
Guarding All Those With Part in Trial
In Chicago police guard judge jurors and witnesses after the Ranieri kidnapping trial. Angelo Petitti and Andrew Capellano were found guilty of abducting 10 year old Billy Ranieri and sentenced to 25 years. Protection extended to homes of Judge Robert Gentzel and threatened Ranieri family and witnesses.
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Chicago
U.P
Ranieri
Angelo Petitti
Andrew Capellano
Billy Ranieri
State Penitentiary
Robert Gentzel
Ranieris
Petitti
Cappellano
Baby Smiles Amid Grim Fight Over Toy Motorcycle Throat
In Cincinnati on December 24 an eighteen month old, Frankie Brooks, smiles wanly as doctors and nurses battle to save him. A toy motorcycle remained lodged in his throat for nine days causing slow starvation. He was brought from Asco West Virginia by his worried parents Charlie and Mrs Brooks.
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Cincinnati
Frankie Brooks
Frank
Asco
W. Va
Charlies Brooks
Deaths From Self Inflicted Acts Reported In Ohio
Columbus dispatch notes a weekend toll of suicides in Ohio with Marie Ayres a 24 year old waitress at Zanesville YWCA found shot and despondent over health and Emile Cutone a 45 year old Ohio Power Company worker at Philo found dead from poison believed self-administered in separate incidents.
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Columbus
Ohio
Zanesville
Marie Ayres
Barnesville
Emile Cutone
Ohio Power Company
Philo
No Messenger for Christmas Day
The Athens Messenger will not be published tomorrow in observance of Christmas Day. Its staff across Athens and the district keeps the holiday as a sacred, joyful annual occasion.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Messenger
Bell seeks relief records from Daugherty in mining union case
Robert Bell of Sub-district 1, District 6 of the United Mine Workers sues Oral Daugherty in Athens County Common Pleas Court. Bell alleges Daugherty, district president 1927 03 31 to 1928 04 27, diverted relief funds and kept records secret. requests a temporary order to turn over all records and a mandatory injunction after final hearing.
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Athens County Common Pleas Court
Robert Bell
United Mine Workers of America
Oral Daugherty
Daugherty
Allied and German invitation to U S reparations talks
Washington receives word the Allied and German invitation to join the Paris reparations conference will be delivered to the State Department today by British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard.
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Washington
United States
Paris
State Department
Esme Howard
Hoover party to celebrate White Christmas aboard Utah
President-Elect Herbert Hoover and his South American delegation on the Utah prepare a tropical Christmas aboard the battleship. Mrs. Hoover autographs cards for crew, with a real tree and gifts exchanged as the voyage home nears Key West.
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Uath
U.P
Herbert Hoover
Utah
Latin America
Key West
Rio Harbor
Hoover
Christmas Morning Service at Athens Presbyterian Church
The annual Christmas morning service will be held at 10 o'clock Tuesday at the Presbyterian Church. Dr. A. Y. Wilcox and Miss Genevieve Chase will discuss "The Significance of the Lord's Nativity" in brief talks. All church members are invited. the service lasts one hour.
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Presbyterian Church
A. Y. Wilcox
Wilcox
Genevieve Chase
Athens
Bolivian Denial Over Chaco Forces Move Claims
Bolivia sent a note to the League of Nations denying charges from Paraguay that Bolivian troops are massing near Bahia Negra in the Chaco region. Unofficial Paraguayan circles had claimed 3,500 Bolivian soldiers advancing toward the Paraguay River area.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
U.P
League of Nations
Chaco
Bahia Negra
Paraguay River
Honest Man Commended After Poker Room Killings
Peter Cardone a Brooklyn perfume maker killed two of four gunmen during a holdup at Frank Rendino’s kitchen poker game. Two players died, Cardone and others injured. Police Commissioner Grover Whalen praised Cardone as honest and courageous.
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New York
U.R
Peter Cardone
Brooklyn
Frank Rendino
Cardone
Rendino
Anthony de Angelis
Grover A. Whalen
Whalen
Youth rescues girl from car submerged in frozen Sandusky Bay
In Sandusky on December 24 Miss Dorothy Winkle was saved from drowning after a car slid off a retaining wall into five to six feet of icy water. Irvin Moyer 22 of Tiffin plunged through four inches of ice to reach her, surfaced with her unconscious, and the pair were later treated at home by a physician. Police had searched for them before the car was raised.
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Sandusky
U.P
Dorothy Winkle
Sandusky Bay
Irvin Moyer
Tiffin
Moyer
Columbus Street
Miss Winkle
Meyer
Man Wanted in Dynamiting Placed in Jail
Jess Gilmore, sought for the dynamiting of a boarding house at Mi No 10 Derthick, was arrested in Muskegon Michigan and returned to Athens by Sheriff Williams and Officer Sachs. He was arraigned, pleaded not guilty, and placed under a $5,000 bond for the January Grand Jury. in default, committed to Athens County Jail.
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Mi No. 10
Derthick
Jess Gilmo
Muskegon
Mich
Athens
William Williams
O. F. Sachs
Michigan
Williams
Gilmore
E B. C. Johnson
Trimble
Devil Is at Dance Minister Asserts
Cincinnati dispatch reports Rev. John R. Gilpin pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church says he will finish his campaign against dancing. He blames opponents for starting the fight and vows to keep fighting as long as Parent-Teachers' dances occur in Amity Public School.
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Cincinnati
O.R
John R. Gilpin
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
Rossmayne
Amity Public School
1928 Christmas Finds Peace On Earth and Cheer
News reports a worldwide Christmas mood with religions observing the nativity story. Pilgrims head to Bethlehem and ships adjust schedules for Christmas Eve. Hoover returns from Latin America aboard the Utah, while Rockefeller plans a Florida Christmas party at Ormond Beach.
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Haifa
Bethlehem
Church of the Nativity
Mary and Joseph
Christ's Birthplace
Record Broken By Mail Rush At Athens Post Office
The Athens Post Office handles its largest Christmas mail volume, with an average of 25 000 letters mailed daily last week. Illness reducing staff slows delivery as clerks and carriers stay home with influenza. substitutes are in place for some routes. Delays persist on Hocking Valley and B and O trains, with parcel post heavy and several unreadable or missing return addresses delaying postage.
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Athens
Harry McKinstry
Howard Goodwich
J. L. Duncan
8. R. Coen
Pearl Carr
Oden Johnson
Eugene Jacoby
Elvie Wilson
Fred Smith
Jerseyville
Frank Pierce
Athena
Athens City
Hocking Valley
McKinstry
Thieves Enter Antique Shop Steal Tapestries
In Cleveland on December 24 thieves broke a rear window of Jules Ratchkowski’s shop and stole rare tapestries valued between 5 000 and 20 000 dollars.
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Cleveland
Jules Ratchkowski
Businessman Charles Tiedtke Dies in Toledo
Charles Tiedtke age 63 founder of a major Toledo department store died today from pneumonia.
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Toledo
Charles Tiedtke
Deaths Follow Taxicab Streetcar Crash
In Cleveland on December 24, Frederick L. Hastings deputy county clerk died from injuries after a taxicab and street car collision. His wife Marion died hours earlier after an appendicitis operation. Hastings was en route to his wife’s bedside when the accident occurred.
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Cleveland
U.P
Frederick L. Hastings
Hastings
Marion
Farm Relief Bill Showdown Divides Congress
President Coolidge urged quick action on a farm relief bill before his term ends. The White House backing splits over timing with Hoover to be consulted. McNary and Jardine push for a board of 12 to be appointed, while rivals seek immediate passage to avoid extra sessions. Negotiations hinge on farm bloc support and adjournment timing.
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Coolidge
Congress
White House
Nary
Senate Committee
Stabilization Board
Cong
McNary
Jary
Agriculture Jardine
Jardine
Hoover
Ney
Les Sanders
Watson
Indiana
Tee
Big stock of narcotics hidden in bonded Philadelphia warehouse
The Philadelphia Daily News reports a bonded waterfront warehouse held an unguarded $20,000,000 value of gled narcotics. An agent for a global drug ring kept a dummy chinaware case ready for inspectors, while the narcotics were aboard a French vessel from Europe disguised as fingernail china. Federal agents pursue the signee Brenner.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Daily News
The
Daily News
Europe
China
Federal Age
Brenner
Mother and Children Perish in Aniston Fire Tragedy
In Aniston Alabama Mrs Albert Calhoun and five children Eulala 11 Emmett Freeland 4 Robert Lee 3 and infant Albert Jr died in a house fire. The father Essie 16 and two visiting children Ella Bright 12 and Herald 13 may die from injuries while Ramond 17 Lines 12 1 Calhoun 9 and three Calhoun heirs were also slightly burned. The origin of the fire remains under investigation today.
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Anniston
Ala
Albert Calhoun
Eulala
Emmett
Freeland
Robert Lee
Albert, Jr
Daug Essie
Ella Bright
Herald
Ramond
Calhoun
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