Doctors Warn Against Working Off Diseases Amid Flu Surge
Influenza sweeps Athens County with several deaths and 73 cases in the past week. Dr. J. M. Higgins reports 13 new cases Monday. nurses say many cases unreported. The health official has been home ill since Friday but improving. epidemics reportedly worse in New Marshfield and Gusville as physicians work long hours to curb spread.
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Athens County
J. M. Higgins
Higgins
New Marshfield
Gusville
Epidemic of flu keeps town on edge
A Messenger reporter finds Monday morning filled with flu stories as everyone on the beat reports illness. At the Studebaker garage five workers are confined at home including Lisle Coon and family, H A Smith, Frank Coon, Ida Burke, and Harley E Moler.
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Clara Bow
Fiu
Messenger
Studebaker
Lisle Coon
H. A. Smith
Frank Coon
Ida Burke
Harley E. Moler
Athens Physician Warns of Recurrent Influenza Symptoms
An Athens physician compares current influenza effects to the 1918 19 epidemic noting whole families bitten by illness and neighbors aiding at home. He urges bed rest for those with cold like symptoms to avoid relapses and warns against returning to work too soon as a local druggist reports busy Sunday night with cold remedies.
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Athens
Christmas Day Reaches Around the World in 1928
The Christmas Day of 1928 began at 6 40 a m Western Standard Time in New York and spread around the globe from the Friendly Islands to America. It notes Bethlehem’s observance starting at 6 p m Eastern Standard Time as the sun moves across time zones.
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New York
Friendly Islands
Pacific
Fiji Isands
New Zealand
Australia
India
Japan
China
Africa
Europe
America
Bethlehem
Christ
Cracksmens pursuit ends church safe cracking bid in Cleveland Heights
Three cracksmen were captured in Coventry Road Cleveland Heights after a failed attempt to blow the St Pauls Episcopal Church safe. A wounded assailant fled as police fire and residents pursued them, leaving nitroglycerin drills hammers and a switch behind. 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 Koestle
Coventry Road
Fire Destroys Central Grade School in Glouster
Fire, likely from an overheated furnace in the basement, gutted the Central Grade School Building early Sunday. Only base walls remain as the department fought the blaze from about 4 a.m. until noon. Superintendent Dillon saved the permanent records. eight grade pupils face temporary quarters and new seats after the loss. The 1892 building had served as a high school earlier in the city’s growth.
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Glouster
Dillon
Board of Education
Bulloch
Quiet Christmas Expected in Athens Says Police Fire Officials
Athens police and fire department officials report a peaceful week with no arrests and no fire calls. They warn to be cautious with candies on trees and home decorations as candles and electric lights raise fire risk. Merchants report steady to slightly better business. Christmas tree prices fall as stores clear remaining stock.
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Athens
Will Preserve Cabin Where Lincoln Lived
The War Department announced plans to renovate and preserve Abraham Lincoln's old log cabin at Hodgenville Kentucky. Improvements include upgraded facilities for visitors, new fences, better roads, and planting of shrubs and native Kentucky trees along the approach road.
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Washington
U.P
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgenville
War Department
Kentucky
Guarding all those with part in trial
Fear of reprisals by an extortionist ring led Chicago police to guard judge, jurors, and witnesses in the Ranieri kidnapping trial. Angelo Pettiti and Andrew Capellano were convicted of abducting 10 year old Billy Ranieri and sentenced to 25 years. Jurors were sent home under guard, and protection continued at the homes of Judge Robert Gentzel, the Ranieris, and several threatened witnesses.
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Chicago
U.R
Ranieri
Angelo Petitt
Andrew Capellano
Billy Ranieri
State Penitentiary
Robert Gentzel
Ranieris
Pettiti
Cappeliano
Baby Smiles Amid Fatal Throat Injury In Cincinnati
Eighteen month old Frankie Brooks lies in Cincinnati hospitals as doctors struggle to remove a toy motorcycle lodged in his throat for nine days. He was brought from Ascot, West Virginia, by his worried parents Mr and Mrs Charles Brooks. Medical staff monitor his condition hoping to stave off death despite his slow starvation.
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Cincinnati
Frankie Brooks
Frank
Asco
W. Va
Charles Brooks
Death toll in Ohio rises from self harm and accidents
Columbus reports a heavy toll from personal crises and accidents over the weekend. Marie Ayres, 24, a Barnesville waitress at the YWCA, was found shot to death as a suicide. Emile Cutone, 45, an Ohio Power Co. worker at Philo, was found dead from poison believed self-administered.
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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 Christmas Day. Its workers in Athens and the district observe the day as a holiday. The Messenger wishes friends and readers a merry Christmas.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Messenger
Bell Seeks Turnover Of Mine Workers Relief Records
Robert Bell president of Sub-district No. 1 of District No. 6 United Mine Workers files in Athens County Common Pleas Court asking for all relief records and receipts from Oral Daugherty who led the district March 31 1927 to April 27 1928. He alleges funds were misused and records are concealed and seeks a temporary order and a mandatory injunction at 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 US on reparations meeting
The invitation from Allied and German sides to the United States for the Paris reparations talks 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 plans White Christmas aboard Utah voyage
President Elect Herbert Hoover and his South American tour party will celebrate a White Christmas aboard the Utah as the ship returns homeward after nearly 10,000 miles in Latin America. Mrs Hoover will autograph Christmas cards for crewmen and hand out gifts while the group decorates a tree with glass balls and cotton “snow.” The Utah sails from Rio de Janeiro and is due Key West January 6 for cabinet planning ahead of Hoover’s administration.
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Uath
Herbert Hoover
Utah
Latin America
Key West
Rio Harbor
Hoover
Christmas Morning Service At Presbyterian Church
The annual Christmas morning service will be held at the Presbyterian Church at 10 o clock Tuesday. Dr A Y Wilcox will speak on The Significance of the Lord s Nativity joined by Miss Genevieve Chase. The one hour service invites all church members in Athens to attend.
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Presbyterian Church
A.Y. Wilcox
Wilcox
Genevieve Chase
Athens
Atten
Bolivia Denies Troop Movement Toward Bahia Negra
Bolivia rejects Paraguayan charges of Bolivian troop redeployments in the Chaco dispute. La Paz notes from December 24 state no aggressive moves toward Bahia Negra near the Paraguay River and says a note was sent to the League of Nations.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
League of Nations
Chaco
Bahia Negra
Paraguay River
Brooklyn perfume maker hailed after poker party raid
Peter Cardone a Brooklyn perfume manufacturer killed two of four gunmen during a kitchen poker game hold up. Two players die and Cardone is wounded. Police Commissioner Grover A. Whalen commends him as an honest man and courageous.
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New York
U.R
Peter Cardone
Brooklyn
Frank Rendino
Cardone
Rendino
Anthony de Angelis
Police
Grover A. Whalen
Whalen
Youth Rescues Girl From Car Submerged in Frozen Sandusky Bay
Miss Dorothy Winkle saved from death in icy Sandusky Bay by Irvin Moyer 22 of Tiffin. He dived into the four inch ice, pulled her from the submerged car after it plunged from the Columbus Street wall, then the pair were driven home for medical help.
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Sandusky Bay
Sandusky
U.R
Dorothy Winkle
Irvin Moyer
Tiffin
Moyer
Columbus Street
Miss Winkle
Meyer
Man Wanted in Dynamiting Is Placed in Jail
Wanted in connection with the dynamiting of a boarding house at Mine No. 10 Derthick Jess Gilmore was arrested in Muskegon Michigan and returned to Athens Saturday afternoon by Sheriff William Williams and Mine Officer O F Sachs. Gilmore pleaded not guilty and was held on five thousand dollars bond for the January Grand Jury after arraignment in Trimble Mayor E B C Johnson's court. In default of bond he remained in the Athens County Jail.
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Trimble
Athens
Devil Is at Dance Minister Asserts
Cincinnati dispatch reports Rev. John R. Gipin pastor of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church says opponents of his anti dancing campaign are bluffers and vows to continue the fight. He warns that Parent-Teachers' dances in Amity Public School will bring the devil into the town.
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Cincinnati
John R. Gipin
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
Rossmayne
Amity Public School
Christmas Brings Peace Across World Amid Festive Cheer
United Press reports a global Christmas of peace with nations calm aside from Afghanistan. Pilgrims reach Bethlehem as King George improves and Hoover sails home aboard the Utah. John D. Rockefeller plans a Florida Christmas party at Ormond Beach.
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Afghanistan
Bolivia
Paraguay
England
Buckingham Palace
George
Athens Post Office Faces Record Christmas Mail Load
Athens Postmaster Harry McKinstry reports record Christmas mail with about 25 000 letters mailed daily last week. Illness among clerks and carriers slows operations, but substitutes cover routes. Delays persist for late trains and many packages await delivery before Christmas.
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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 Loot Cleveland Antique Shop Tapestries
Thieves broke the Jules Ratchkowski shop rear window in Cleveland and stole rare tapestries valued between five thousand and twenty thousand dollars.
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Cleveland
Jules Ratchkowski
Businessman Charles Tiedtke Dies in Toledo
Charles Tiedtke 63 a founder of one of Toledo s largest department stores died today from pneumonia.
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Toledo
Charles Tiedtke
Double Tragedy Strikes Hastings Family in Cleveland
Frederick L. Hastings deputy county clerk died from injuries after a taxicab and street car collision. His wife Marion died earlier after an appendicitis operation. Hastings was hurrying to his wife's bedside when the accident occurred.
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Cleveland
U.P
Frederick L. Hastings
Hastings
Marion
Farm relief bill drive sparks White House push
President Coolidge informs leaders in Congress he wants a farm relief bill passed before his term ends. McNary's measure and Jardine favor immediate adoption, while supporters debate whether Hoover should appoint a farm board and whether an extra session is needed to finish the legislation.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
Coolidge
Congress
White House
McNary
Votary of Agriculture
Jardine
Hoover
Watson
Indiana
Riblican
Big Stock of Narcotics Allegedly Unattended in Philadelphia
Philadelphia daily reports $20,000,000 worth of used narcotics in an unguarded bonded warehouse along the waterfront. An agent for a major international drug ring allegedly prepared a dummy case for customs to inspect if questioned, while the narcotics were said to be aboard a French vessel from Europe posing as cargo. Federal agents reportedly sought a signer known only as Brenner.
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Philadelphia
Philadelphia Daily News
The
Daily News
Europe
China
Federal Age
Brenner
Mother and Children Die in Aniston Fire Tragedy
In Aniston Alabama a mother Mrs Albert Calhoun and her children Eulala 11 Freeland 4 Robert Lee baby Albert Jr were burned to death when a fire destroyed their home yesterday. The father Essie 16 and two visiting children Ella Bright 12 and Herald 13 may die from injuries. Ramond 17 Linos 12 and others were slightly burned. Cause of the blaze is undetermined.
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Anniston
Ala
Dee
Albert Calhoun
Eulala
Ett
Freeland
Robert Lee
Albert, Jr
Essie
Ella
Bright
Herald
Ramond
Linos
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Jess Gilmore
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