Capone Involved In Chicago Murder Contract Plot
New York police accuse Ciro Terranova known as the Artichoke King of hiring a Chicago gunman to kill Frankie Yale and Frank Marlow. A dinner robbery during a December 7 meeting allegedly stole the contract and weapon linked to Capone era gang activity.
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New York
Ciro Terranova
Bronx
Chicago
Frankie Yale
Frank Marlow
Joseph J. Donovan
Police Criminal Detection Bureau
Terranova
Police Department
Arthur C. Johnson
Grover A. Whalen
Donovan
Special Police Secret Service Squad
Whalen
Albert H. Vitale
Yale
Marlow
Johnson
al Capone
Cicero
Capone
Iwo
Messar
Wedding and Death Within 12 Hours in Cincinnati
A marriage and a death occurred within 12 hours at the home of Municipal Judge William D. Alexander. Mrs Elizabeth Alexander aged 56 died early today. Their daughter Catherine married last night to Hugh S Johnson a professor of mathematics at Western Kentucky Normal College Bowling Green Kentucky.
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Cincinnati
Uri
William D. Alexander
Elizabeth Alexander
Catherine
Hugh S. Johnson
Western Kentucky Normal College
Bowling Green
Serial order mix up delays Messenger installment
A Thursday publishing error by the Serial Editor placed an installment of The Messenger novel The Avenging Parrot out of sequence. Readers may miss continuity as the misfiled chapter appeared today instead of after last Tuesday's, with completion next Tuesday and a new serial Rash Romance starting January 1 as a full-page insert.
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Messenger
Rash Itomance
Mother Recovers From Poison Kiss as Baby Dies
In Tacoma a mother injured herself attempting to ingest cyanide laced to save her five year old Rita Bond who died after father Edward Bond killed himself with cyanide following a Christmas spree. Authorities say drunken melancholy was the motive.
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Tacoma
Wash
U.P
Ravena Bond
Rita
Lone Gunman Robs City Savings Vault Near Cleveland
A lone gunman bound and gagged stenographer Elsie Bell and janitor Fred L. Knapp at a City Savings and Loan branch in Cleveland. He forced the vault to be opened, taking about $6,000 before fleeing with accomplices in a waiting sedan.
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Cleveland
U.R
City Savings and Loan Company
Fred L. Knapp
Knapp
Elsie Bell
New Year Health Warning From City Medical Officer
In a 1930 era warning New York City's medical officer urges restraint during the bootleg period. He cautions against drinking away from medical help and advises immediate medical care if intoxication occurs to avoid lasting harm.
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New York
Prohibition Era Parblets and Stock Market Parcheesi
A brief collage notes a cheeky plan to use a stomach pump at a party and suggests first class stores sales of such pumps with silver shakers surging during prohibition. It also cites a philosophical stock market loser comparing fortune building to parcheesi, where progress reverses and you restart.
October Stock Crash Descriptions Echo Quake Impact
In a few days of October stock values plunged sharply, described as an earth quake by observers. Analysts say the decline equaled fifteen thousand million dollars, vastly surpassing the fifty times the sum spent to build the Panama Canal, signaling uncertainty for many investors.
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Panama Canal
Alberson Dies at 83 Former Postmaster in New Philadelphia
William T. Alberson, 83, longtime newspaperman and postmaster during the Wilson era, died at his home in New Philadelphia after a stroke two years ago. He founded The Daily Times and published The Ashland Press Mansfield Shield and Coshocton Daily Times. Survived by daughters Jessie and Susie.
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New Philadelphia
William* T. Alberson
Wilson
Ohio
Alberson
Daily Times
Ashland Press
Mansfield Shield
Coshocton Daily Times
Jessie
Susie
Wine and officer charged with contempt over home brew case
Zanesville December 27 Lloyd Wine a state prohibition officer and former Buckeye Lake warden is charged with contempt of court in Muskingum County Probate Court. Grover Smith claimed home brew for personal use led to a dismissal and suppression order. Wine refiled possession charge in Common Pleas Court prompting contempt action.
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Zanesville
U.R
Lloyd Wine
Buckeye Lake
Muskingum County
Clarence Crosslind
Grover Smith
Wine
Smith
Baker
Common Pleas Court
Crossland
Probate
Five charged in mallcious shooting emerge after Mob kills Fuagate
Five of six suspects tied to a fatal shooting surrendered to police after Chester Fugate died from mob wounds. Fugate, 35, was slain last week by Green Watkins’s relatives, leading a mob to abduct Fugate from jail, strip him, shoot him nine times and dump him in a snow drift.
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Jackson, Kky
U.pfive
Chester Fue
Fate
Green Watkins
Fugate
Harrison Request to Start Federal Term Under Clemency Review
The Ohio Board of Clemency weighs releasing Dwight Harrison to federal custody. Harrison, former official of the defunct Hill Dollings company, is serving 3 to 5 years for false statements about corporate property and faces a 6-year federal sentence in Atlanta for using visits to defraud after Ohio term ends.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio Board of Clemency
Dwight Harrison
Ht. L. Dollings Company
Harrison
Atlanta
Ohio
Farm Bargains in The Messenger Classifieds
Classifieds list Jersey cows aged four and five years priced to sell. Used machinery such as ensilage and fodder cutters and farm light plants offered at your own price. Timber land includes 50 acres for sale.
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Messenger
Jersey
Hoover Faces Big Problems in New Year
President Hoover enters 1930 facing knotty domestic and foreign issues. Prohibition enforcement, high tariffs, naval limits, and government reorganization loom large. London Naval Limits Conference with Britain’s Prime Minister MacDonald could affect both administrations if it fails.
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Washington
U.R
Hoover
America
London
MacDonald
Great Britain
Congress
White House
Lodi Township Trustee Election Declared Illegal
The attorney general ruled that Lodi Township Athens County trustee T. R. Phillips was disqualified for serving as presiding election judge during the same election. The elected position was declared vacant and a new trustee must be appointed by the township justice of the peace.
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T. R. Phillips
Tunney Wins Default Judgment Against Fogarty Suit
In Bridgeport on December 27, Gene Tunney was granted judgment in his favor in a suit by Mrs. Katherine Fogarty seeking 500000 damages for alleged breach of promise. The action was unopposed and Judge Carl Foster issued an injunction barring further action, ruling the suit injurious to Tunney’s character.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Gene Tunney
Katherine Fogarty
Carl Foster
Tunney
Fogarty
Japan Deliberates on Naval Ratio after British American Talk
After a Cabinet Council meeting, Baron Shidehara said Britain and the United States had not accept Japan's 10-10-7 naval ratio and its underwater fleet recommendations. The government will study the Anglo American stance to propose possible substitutes.
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Tokio
U.R
Baron Shidehara
Great Britain
United States
Japan
Cromer elected president of Ohio Schoolmasters Club
Columbus December 27 Daytonian Paul E Cromer was chosen president of the Ohio Schoolmasters Club at today’s meeting in Columbus Utah? Correction: Columbus Ohio. Cromer will lead the organization and represent the state’s teachers in statewide activities and professional initiatives.
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Columbus
U.R
Paul E. Cromer
Dayton
Ohio Schoolmaster’s Club
Greendale Grant Jury Probes Killing After Self Defense Claim
Arch Weakley, Greendale merchant, bonds out at 2000 after pleading not guilty to manslaughter in the death of Otho Lambert. Prosecutor Henderson to present to a grand jury after Weakley claims he acted in self defense amid a postmortem noting gunshot death. Weakley was questioned by Deputy Farbearn and others before arraignment.
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Arch Weakley
Otho Lambert
Logan
Doc
Greendale
FB. J. Fright
Phil A. Henderson
Weakley
Henderson
Joe Vearbeann
Edwin D. Ricketts
Farbearn
T Hat
Lambert
J. P. Miller
MH. Cherrington
Ricketts
Teachers Will Have Group to Support Bills
Ohio Education Association delegates create an authoritative committee to draft and submit proposed legislation to the legislature. The group will handle all school related matters including taxation and serve as the official outlet for opinions and suggestions from Ohio schools.
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Columbus
U.R
Ohio Education Association
Education Council
E. W. Christhe
Christie
Ohio
Ch. L. Morton
Ohio University
Saat Seld D. J. Bone
Lorain
Congress to declare complete independence at Lahore
The Indian National Congress will pledge full separation from England and immediate creation of a revolutionary Indian government. The move will be announced when the congress plenary sessions open in Lahore on Sunday.
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Indian National Congress
Connie
England
New York
U.P
India
Congress Bbegin
Lahore
Ghost Town of Pioneer Reclaims Life in Brid Day
Rutte Mont Dee 27 Pioneer once a ghost town of Montana’s first rush gears up for revival as workers move in, old buildings give way to modern machinery, and a new highway is built to mine the gold. One decayed structure will be torn down to make room for a new town named New.
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Rutte
Mont. Dee
Pioneer
Montana
Mose Dezeil
Confessed Slayer of a Rich Farmer Brought Back for Murder Charge
Edward Sowards of Ringsgold confessed murderer of H. Hailey, wealthy Ontario County farmer, taken to New York in sheriff M. Corwin’s custody. After a weeklong search across Cleveland Glouster and Chauncey Sowards was found at a brothel in Chauncey. He is charged with first degree murder for killing Hailey on December 14 by shooting and hatchet.
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Edward Sowards
Ringgold
Ontario County
N. Y
East
Kedward Sowardas
Ringsgold
Hailey
New York
M. Corwin
Ontario
Corwin
Athens
Myers J. Cooper
Ohio
Sowards
William J. Jures
Edward la Savarda
Huniley
Halley
Balley
Cabinet meets around Adams table in White House
President Hoover's Cabinet gathered in the Lincoln room around a table once used by John Adams and four chairs once used by Lincoln's era. The session marked the first in White House proper since Roosevelt, after a fire last Tuesday night forced relocation to the State and War Building until repairs finish.
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Washington
Hoover
John Adams
Lincoln
White House
Roosevelt
Dawes to Become Youngest National Bank Examiner
Carlos B. Dawes, age 27, passed the required examination and will soon receive his commission as the youngest national bank examiner in the United States, announced today in Columbus.
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Columbus
U.P
Carlos B. Dawes
United States
Connor to be state director of public works in Ohio
Will get post Columbus December 27. Albert T Connär of Zanesville Republican named state director of public works to succeed Richard T Wisda Democrat. Appointment set for next week and will run for one year as defined by the state constitution. Connär has served on the Muskingum County Board of Commissioners and as county engineer for nine and six years respectively.
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Albert T. Connar
Zanesville
Wisda
Columbus
U.R
Richard T. Wisda
Connor
Muskingum
Death of 89 year old man in Youngstown
William Trier aged 89 was found dead in his home in Youngstown. A blanket wrapped around his head with a rubber tube from a gas stove was observed, and Patrolman J. Smith reported the discovery.
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Youngstown
U.P
William Trier
J. Smith
Quiet reshuffle hints at broader changes in enforcement ranks
Washington reports say five administrators were moved and a sixth dropped recently as White House officials signal more personnel shifts in the prohibition enforcement apparatus. The episode followed tensions between President Hoover and Senator Borah over enforcement leadership and potential congressional action.
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Washington
White House
Borah
Idaho
Detroit
Harris
Georgia
United Press
Law Enforces
Trent Commission
Mitchell
House
Senate
Treasury
Justice
Congress
Border Patrol
Hoover
Cong
Mr. Hoover
Perry County dog license rush tops 250 in a week
In Perry County, as dog owners rush to meet the January 30 deadline, more than 250 have already purchased licenses in the past week, with coverage centered in New Lexington.
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New
Lexington
Perry County
Impressive Post Office Volume Before Christmas
The Athens City post office recorded 178,600 stamp cancellations in the 15 days before Christmas, excluding handstamped mail. On a single day before Christmas over 22,000 pieces passed through the cancelling machine, officials said.
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Athens City
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