Fifty-Seven Die From Christmas Whisky Poisoning
Springfield Massachusetts December 27 Fifty seven deaths from drinking wood alcohol liquor were reported for Chicopee Holyoke Springfield and Hartford as of noon today with many more ill or dying. The death toll includes 35 in Chicopee 6 in Holyoke 13 in Hartford Connecticut and 3 in Springfield. Eleven more Chicopee deaths occurred last night and today. Twenty one in Chicopee and Holyoke remain in hospital or at home dangerously ill. Federal action to curb wood alcohol sales may include a prohibitive tax and amending the pure food law to make selling wood alcohol as a beverage a crime. Government offices are seeking to stop sales and arrest sellers nationwide.
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Springfield
Mass
Chicopee
Holyoke
Hartford
Washington
Congress
Internal Revenue
Partisan Debate Delayed Senate Treaty Action
Disjointed text shows a UPI report on league politics and an ongoing fight over a treaty. Mention of senators, Democrats, and groups like the nationists and middle rather suggests pressure for action or delay in ratification. The piece notes ultimatums and caucus considerations shaping the decision.
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K& C
Martin
United Press
Washington
Dec
League of
Senate Aote
Senate
Mis
Mith Nationists
Middle Greater
Hitchcock
Deadly wood alcohol whiskey blamed for multiple deaths
Federal state and city officials cooperated in a New York search for those who mixed wood alcohol with whiskey killing at least thirty in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Twelve barrels were reportedly made in the Bronx and sold to New England dealers for about $1,000 per barrel, authorities said.
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New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Bronx
New England
Wood alcohol poisonings across cities claim many lives
Fifty people die and thirty eight are seriously ill from wood alcohol poisonings. Thirty deaths and seventeen illnesses stem from poisoned whiskey allegedly shipped into New England for Christmas trade. Victims are spread across Chicopee and Holyoke in Massachusetts, New York City, Chicago, and Cleveland with ongoing arrests expected.
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New England
New York
Chicago
Chicopee
Mass
Holyoke
Hartford
Conn
Ill
Cleveland
Wood alcohol blamed for two deaths in Syracuse cider
In Syracuse New York two men died after drinking hard cider laced with wood alcohol. John Presser and Stephen Lie, close friends, were found dead within hours after an evening of drinking the tainted beverage.
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Syracuse
N. Y
John Presser
Stephen Lie
Aged Eliza Northup Dies at 83 in Carbon Hill
Mrs. Eliza Northup formerly of Hebbardsville died December 26 at the home of her daughter Mrs. C. P. Stacy in Carbon Hill after a brief illness. She was 83. Funeral services are set for Monday at 10:30 at the Hebbardsville church with burial in the adjoining cemetery. Survived by three daughters Mrs. Lara Matheny Mrs. C. P. Stacy and Mrs. Jennie Oliver and two sons W. H. Northup and Frank. Seventeen grandchildren also listed. Preceded in death by husband Warren R. Northup and two daughters Ollie Ieenour and D. N. Higgins. The Northup family is noted in Hebbardsville.
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Eliza Northup
Hebbardsville
C. P. Stacy
Carbon Hill
Hebbardsville Church
Lara Matheny
Jennie Oliver
Sandusky
W. H. Northup
Crooksville
Frank
Topeka
Kas
Northup
Warren R. Northup
Ollie Ieenour
D. N. Higgins
Three Days After Fare Cut Chicago Man Returns Home
Chicago dispatch reports street car fares were reduced three days ago and take effect today. Emory Brown stayed away from home for three days and said he waited until he could ride home for six cents.
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Chicago
Emory Brown
Belle Isle sentence of death amid isolation in Quebec
Dec 27 reports say twelve to fourteen people are marooned on Belle Isle, the Sentinel of Canada. Two lighthouse keepers with wives and children and three Marconi operators are stranded. no provisions have reached them for weeks due to storms and ice floes.
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Quebec
Que
Belle Isle
Sentinel
Canada
Marconi
Child Dies In Colorful Home On Christmas Day
A young child died in a color ed home in Bone Hollow near Nelsonville on Christmas Day. An undertaker was summoned, and during the visit a newborn arrived to the grieving mother.
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Bone Hollow
Nelsonville
Gophers Eats Crop Pests Debate in North Dakota Senate
A North Dakota legislator argued that exterminating gophers was a mistake and failed to pass a law forbidding gopher poisoning. He said gophers helped destroy grasshoppers that threatened crops last year and may worsen next year.
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Bismarck
Dpd
North Dakota
Coal Shortage Could Force Shutdowns Across Ohio District
In Cincinnati on December 27 a fuel director warned that several industrial plants in the Ohio Indiana district may be forced to shut down soon due to a coal shortage. The shortage stems from a lack of coal cars at West Virginia mines supplying southern Ohio's fuel needs.
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Cincinnati
Ohio- Indiana
West Virginia
Ohio
Ohio railroad inspector says car shortage not serious
L C Smith of the state public utilities commission stated that Ohio railroad car shortages are not severe enough to materially halt coal shipments. He said current supplies will sustain ongoing distribution despite the brief shortage.
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Columbus
L. C. Smith
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio
Adopted Father Retains Custody Of Cleveland Boy
In Cleveland Ohio on December 27 two men fought over six year old John McCready Jr. The court reaffirmed the adoption by Police Lieutenant John McCready after natural father John O Boyle challenged it. Probate Judge Hadden granted re adoption to the step father.
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Cleveland. O
John McCready Jr
John McCready
McCready
John O'Boyle
Hadden
Esther Gahan and Emory Higgins Wed After Divorce
In Cleveland Mrs. Esther Gahan, just divorced, walked to the marriage license bureau with Emory W. Higgins of Cadillac Michigan. They obtained a marriage license and left for their honeymoon.
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Cleveland
Esther Gahan
Emory W. Higgins
Cadillac
Mich
Athens Businessmen Volley Team Challenges Nelsonville
The Athens business men volley team issued a challenge to Nelsonville business men for a game any time anywhere. Dr H S Shrig ley is responsible for this challenge.
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Athens
Nelsonville
H. S. Shrigley
Toledo to Seek Ordinance on Non Wood Alcohol Sales
Secretary F D Meffley of the Toledo Auto Club will ask the city council to regulate sale of non wood alcohol sold by garages to prevent radiator freezing. The substance has caused serious illnesses in Toledo and is sold to protect radiators from freezing.
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Toledo, O
F. D. Meffley
Toledo Auto Club
City
Toledo
Farmers Yield To Bandits In San Luis Potosi
In central Mexico farmers adopt a pragmatic policy toward bandits. When attacked they meet demands for food or supplies and avoid resistance to preserve their livelihoods. Federal forces fight banditry, while locals claim the approach slowly brings peace and farm work resumes.
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Ralph H. Turner
United Press
San Luis Potosi
Mex
West Virginia
Carranza
Prisoner Hangs Self in Lucas County Jail
George Erd, 45, hanged himself in his Lucas County jail cell Friday night. Jail officials found the body during their routine inspection. Erd was serving a one year sentence for an assault on several young girls and had previously attempted suicide by slashing his throat with a sharpened tin cup handle.
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Toledo
George Erd
Lucas County
Erd
Wife Is Freed After Husband's Death Linked Case
Ruth Brown and her cousin Lloyd Provost were released from Macomb county jail after the funeral of Ruth Brown's husband J Stanley Brown. He was found shot to death in his car on a rural road last Wednesday, anchoring the investigation into the case.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Ruth Brown
Lloyd Provost
Macomb County
J. Stanley Brown
Moonshining Sentences Handed Down in Toledo Court
Federal Judge Killits sentenced Adam Roma and Iloma Molodom in Toledo Ohio to thirty days in county jail each and fined $190 for moon shining.
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Toledo
Killits
Adam Roma
Iloma Molodom
State employee pay study to begin deliberations Monday
Columbus Ohio December 27 The legislative committee investigating the need for higher wages for state employees will begin its deliberations Monday according to clerk Paul Bainter.
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Columbus
Paul Bainter
Wood alcohol poisoning kills four in Chicago spree
Four men died and six remain in serious condition after wood alcohol Christmas celebrations in Chicago. Health Commissioner Dr. John Dill Robertson issued a statement listing symptoms such as excitability severe stomach pains and kidney involvement with blindness common. He advised immediate stomach pumping or an emetic to remove poison, noting there is no antidote and systemic poisoning has limited remedy.
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Chicago
John Dill Robertson
Hartford Whiskey Poisoning Toll Grows After Wood Alcohol Found
In Hartford Connecticut thirteen people are dead and eight are gravely ill from whiskey tainted with wood alcohol. Two deaths occurred early today and doctors warn more fatalities could follow as victims succumb to poisoning.
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Hartford
Conn
Church to Fight Deadly Cigaret and Prohibition Drive
The Presbyterian church pledges a worldwide reform program to abolish the cigaret and introduce prohibition. It plans regulation of theatres and dancing, study of marriage and divorce, Christianization of penal institutions, closer supervision of motion pictures, and a $50,000 funding start for its foreign mission anti liquor campaign.
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New York
The
Presbyterian Church
Board of Temperance and Moral Welfare
Assiis
Church
Four escapees believed to flee Toledo jail by ice route
Police think four men who escaped Lucas county jail on Christmas morning fled Toledo by car onto Maumee Bay and Lake Erie. A street car crew and Point Place residents saw an auto speeding toward the bay and stopping near shore. The fugitives may have used the ice route to reach near Monroe, Michigan, avoiding Dixie Highway surveillance.
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Toledo
Lucas County
Maumee Bay
Lake Erie
Point Place
Christ Wyras
Monroe
Mich
Kissless Bride Testifies in Los Angeles Divorce Case
Mabel Moore seeks a divorce alleging extreme cruelty after her husband returned from the army. She testifies he hugged her so hard it hurt, describing the change from a kissless marriage to a harsh, abusive relationship.
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Los Angeles
Mabel Moore
Weather forecast for next week in Ohio Valley and Tennessee
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions in the Ohio Valley and Tennessee region. Light snow is likely near the Great Lakes with snow totals and normal temperatures expected overall.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Tenessee
Great Lakes
Bread price rise announced by Cleveland bakers
In Cleveland on December 27 bread prices are set to rise effective Monday. The pound loaf goes from nine to ten cents and the pound and a half loaf from thirteen to fourteen and a half cents. Bakers cite higher material and labor costs while claiming price hikes require justification.
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Cleveland
Ohio
R. C. Rousche
Fair Price Committee
Negroes Plan Own Political Party in New York
Albany December 27 New York state will soon have a new state political organization composed entirely of negroes The movement aims to protect and advance colored interests In charge is J W Thompson of Albany who says about 300 000 negro votes will be in the fold An unofficial convention is planned for next May
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
J. W. Thompson
Sty
Marines Feast On Boiled Turtle Eggs
At Guantanamo Bay Cuba Marines add boiled turtle eggs to mess after capturing two 200 pound turtles. Each turtle yielded over 100 eggs with soft shells and yolk like a chicken egg. Eggs are boiled hard and peeled like fruit.
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Guantanamo Bay
Cuba
United States
Naval Station
Vital year end events to shape U S industry in 1919
Washington reports a week of key happenings set to influence the 1919 industrial climate. The industrial commission will publish its first report, a three man tribunal will meet on the cook controversy, railroad unions plan wage actions, and reforms aim to curb strikes to restore production and labor harmony.
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Washington
United States
Wilson
Industrial Commission
Cook
Doctor Vermilye Missing Bridegroom Found in Brooklyn Hospital
Dr William Vermilye a Brooklyn physician who failed to appear for his Christmas wedding to Miss uth Keeney of Monson Massachusetts was located Christmas morning in Cumberland Street Hospital Brooklyn. Police were informed by Dr William Jacobs the doctor is a patient under care and the hospital refused to disclose details.
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New York
William Grey Vermilye
Brooklyn
Uth M. Keeney
Monson
Massechusetts
Cumberland Street Hospital
Meade
Vermilye
William F. Jacobs
Missing Persons Bureau
The
Police Department
Massachusetts
Miss Keeney
Bucknell University
Louisburg
Dr. Vermilye
Steel outlook for small firms eases but holds premia
The steel market remains unsettled for small concerns with many out of the market for the first quarter and some booked into the second. Most expect near capacity by year’s start as buyers pay premiums for preferred delivery while producers avoid risking their regular trade.
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New York
Uncle Billy Peyton Dies At Estimated 100 Years
Coolville Ohio December 27 Uncle Billy Peyton an elderly man reputed to be about a century old has died at his home three miles from Hocking in Washington County. He worked forty years in a coal mine near Charleston West Virginia and was never sold during slavery. Funeral rites will be held at Decatur church near Hocking with local grandsons caring for his needs in recent years.
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Coolville
Billy” Peyton
Hs Little
Hocking
Washington County
Billy
William Creel
Parkersburg
Charleston
W. Va
Decatur Church
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