Flu epidemic expanding in Athens County and area
The report tallies 186 flu cases county wide with 149 unofficially reported at Guysville and Amesville. Dr J M Higgins notes 26 new cases this week with nine in Dover and six in Butler Township, while officials say many city cases go unreported. Authorities report few critical cases and several workers ill but improving, with dozens in hospital and post office staff off duty.
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J. M. Higgins
Athens County
Dover
Buchtel
Trimble Township
Sugar Creek
Viola Fell
Guysvilla
P R McLaughlin
Guysville
Amesville
Athens
Blaine Goldsberry
Athens Postolice
Bethals Grocery
Search still on for child from Orrville
Det 28 U R Although 40 hours have passed since Melvin Horst son of Mr and Mrs Raymond Horst disappeared the mystery remains deep. Hundreds search the countryside including vacant buildings railroad rights of way fields and highways as authorities weigh accident kidnapping or voluntary disappearance.
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Orrville
U.R
Melvin Horst
Raymond Horst
No Services At Athens Churches On Sunday
No services will be held at the Athens Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning or evening. Dr. A Y Wilcox, pastor, is bed bound with flu. Bible School and young people's services proceed at the usual time. In the Methodist Church, Rev M Coulter announced there would be no evening service Sunday night, with the marking service held instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Presbyterian Church
A. Y. Wilcox
M. Coulter
Methodist
Schools of the Air Reach Ohio Students via Radio
The Ohio Department of Education announced a new “School of the Air” program. Daily broadcasts from WLW Cincinnati will run 1:30 to 2:30 PM starting January 7, featuring university educators, state officials, and current events. The Stuart Walker Players will present drama for upper grades on January 10, with a world tour feature and foreign stories planned. Descriptions of foreign countries will be read by residents, and Damrosch’s program is tentatively planned.
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Sir
WLW
Crosley Radio Corporation
Chncinnati
Jemetry 7
John L. Clifton
B H. Darrow
Education Department
Stuart Walker Players of
Cincinnat
Damrosch
Darrow
Salvation Army Leader Ill as Sister Arrives in London
General Bramwell Booth, leader of the Salvation Army worldwide, is gravely ill and not informed of Commander Evangeline Booths arrival in London for a High Council meeting set for January 8 at Sudbury-on-Thames. Evangeline Booth, leader of the Army in the United States, arrived with aides as questions swirl about succession and autocratic powers.
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Salvation Army
Sister’s
London For Council
Clifford Lt. Day
United Press
London
Bramwell Booth
England
Evangeline Booth
United States
High Council of the
Sudsurn-on-Thames
Booth
Migs Booth
William. Peart
Chicago
Adam Gifford
Gates
High Council
Man Fatally Injured After Breakfast Quarrel and Crash
Indianapolis on December 23 A man identified as U Pory Lewis 4% quarreled with his wife at the breakfast table and warned I will be dead before night. A few minutes later his motorcycle collided with a truck and he was taken to a hospital perhaps fatally injured.
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Indianapolis
Pory Lewis
Lewis
Hoover Clears Up US Policy On Intervention In South America
President elect Herbert Hoover, awaiting report on his goodwill tour, says intervention in other nations is not a U S policy. He notes cases where protecting Americans abroad may require action, but intervention ends once local authorities restore order. The mission sees strengthened relations with South American republics and personal contact ahead of his presidency.
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Thomas L. Stores
Utah
Herbert Hoover
Coolidge
South America
Hipolite’ Irigoyen
Argentina
Hoover
Irigoyen
United States
McDonald to review Lucas County probe findings
Governor Donahey refers a letter with questions from Lucas County Commissioners to Prohibition Commissioner B F McDonald. The letter concerns alleged wholesale release of violators in Lucas County. McDonald will confer with the governor to decide next steps and responses to affidavits filed by the governor and county prosecutor Leroy.
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Columbus
U.R
Lucas County
Vic Donahey
B. F. McDonald
McDonald
Donahey
Leroy
Romanian Queen to Visit London and Paris trip planned
The Romanian regatta announced Queen Maria plans a visit to Paris and London soon and to travel to the United States. She may combine business with pleasure and back a loan to the Romanian government. Trials to start in Cleveland on December 29 include a chaser case against a former precinct election official.
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Mare
Roumanis
London
United States
Maria
Paris
Cleveland
Wadnedldey
Piens
Irving Carpenter
Norwalk
Paal Oe
Pata
Opposition to tariff revision grows in Congress
Washington reports opposition to general tariff revision is rising as Congress nears discussing new schedules. Speaker Longworth leads tariff reform critics while other leaders fear an early action after the Republican victory could unleash an excessive schedule that harms party supremacy.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Longworth
Richeson Elected Head At Ohio Tariff Talk Meet
Ohio delegates at the annual holiday convention elected John J. Richeson president of the reading association. The discussion centered on tariff revision as a farm relief measure with several speakers urging a broad new tariff and postponement until after the Hoover administration settles. Dr Will Durant addressed the gathering.
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LIC
Columbus
State Teachers’ Association
John J. Richeson
Neaders
Borah
Youngetown Republican
Idaho
Agricult Richeson
Ture
Vallance
Mension
Light
Barberton
W. Whinnery
Sandusky
Youge Caldwell
Albancas J. V
Ycmiilan
Oxford
Randall J. Con
Cincinnati
H. E. Hall
Ing Green
Miriam Thomas
Youngstown
Dale R. Rice
Mlnds
Harriet
L Hinman
Toledo
Will Durant
York
Police Reopen Murder Inquiry in Massillon Case
Massillon reports the Stone Boyd murder case is reopened. David Pugh the state treasurer admitted embezzling 116000 from state funds and losing it on horse races. He confessed after questioning by the police and sheriff Patten said the money vanished in betting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massillon
Lester Boyd
Salt Lake City
Utah
David Pugh
Ertle
Sherrif Patten
Con Pugh
Patten
Bolivian Forces Reported Concentrating in Chaco
Dispatches from Asuncion quote unconfirmed reports that Bolivia is amassing troops in the Chaco region near Fort Vanguard and along the Otuqui River in Paraguayan territory. Observers doubt Pan American mediation will prevent further border clashes as Paraguay and Bolivia delay official replies.
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Bulnos Aires
Asuncion
Paraguay
Chaco
Bolivia
la Prensa
Washington
Fort Vanguerdia
Otuqui River
Fort Gaspon
Paregusyan Ministry of War
le Mattre
Special Committee On
Cooper Talks In Lakewood Friday Night
Governor Elect Myers defended today’s youth at the Lakewood Community Center remarks during the Lakewood Post dinner. He praised the young generation as capable and ready for responsibilities, while the event honored A F Allen of American Steel and Wire with the year’s community service medal.
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Cleveland
Myers
Cooper
Lakewood
Ohio
Lakewood Post
A Fl Allen
American Steel and Wire Company
Secret Grand Jury Probes Cincinnati Beer Case Faces Delays
In Cincinnati the federal grand jury continues secret proceedings on a beer investigation. District Attorney Haveth E Mau confirms many witnesses are yet to be questioned and refuses to disclose names or connections. W H Walker and W B Bartels testified again as the panel resumes after a Sunday recess with no confirmation of a state official being summoned.
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Columbus
Ur—Prospecta
Cincinnati Beer
Federal Grand Jury
Haveth E. Mau
Cincinnati
May
Grand Jury
Mau
W. H. Walker
Ohio
Michigan
W.B. Bartels
Harry Abrams
Heldman Attorney Seeks Release in Moral Suasion Case
Canton reports Habeas corpus anticipated as Heldman faces a serious case tied to his wife Mar garet. Coroner McQuate notes brutal statements and a public safety incident. Sweitzer plans a show showdown and potential writ of Habeas Corpus before Justice Smyth. Prosecutor Harter targets the county grand jury.
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Canton
U.P
Corpus
Heldman
Wilbur Heldman
Mar
T. C. McQuate
Dr. Stephenson
Indiana
Ku Klux Klan
Madge ‘Qoberholzer
Vernard Fearn
Waco
Pesyn
McQuate
Old Mines to Make Booze Spark Prohibition Plan
Columbus reports Prohibition Commissioner B I MacDonald urges closing abandoned mines and taxing liquor offenses at trial time. He cites flooded, hidden distilleries in small wagon mines and boats used to reach plants, recommending sealing old mines and new legislation to enforce the move.
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Columbus
Prohibition
B I. MacDonald
EB. R. Beetham
McDonald
Ciry
Pasageway
Police blotter shows diverse arrests in 1928 Athens cases
In 1928 Athens police blotter records reveal 274 arrests across occupations including professors, business men, students, and laborers. Violations ranged from minor traffic offenses to bootlegging and disorder, with fines from two to one hundred dollars and many cases dismissed or bound over for grand jury.
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John Violet
Ofj
Dayton
Messenger
Athens
Heyhron
Wanderere
Grobets
Rome
Grandison
Lgoriathon
Sharpes
Bartlett
Permane
Doctors Investigate Spiked Punch After Dance Incident
Stevens Point Wisconsin is investigating a punch incident at a dance hall where several attendees became ill after drinking. Doctors sought to analyze the tainted beverage while authorities search for clues about possible tampering and the motive behind the spiking.
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Stevens Point
Wir
Childhood Romance Ends in Marriage in Ottawa
Dorothy Ann Sandies, fourth daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Sandies, Ottawa, wed Glen J. Pierman of Lancaster in a quiet ceremony at the Sandies home. The pair met in childhood and later attended Ohio State University where the bride graduated.
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Ottawa
Dorothy Ann Sandies
A. P. Sandies
Glen J. Pierman
Lancaster
Sandies
Ohio State University
Haybron Sentenced to Reformatory in Larceny Case
Amon’t Haybron, 22, of Kimberly, received an indeterminate sentence to Mansfield Reformatory after pleading guilty to barslary and petty larceny in Rhode County Common Pleas Court. Haybron and Pyam Bartlett were arrested June 21, 1928, for breaking into a Manhattan Cost Company storehouse in New Flood weed. both pleaded not guilty and were bound to the grand jury on $4,500 bonds. Bartlett posted bond. Haybron, in default, was committed to Athens County Jail.
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Mansfield Reformatory
Amon
Gees
Bartlett
Haybron
Athens
Women to serve on Athena County juries for first time
Athena County adopts female grand and petit jurors for January 7 convening. Five women will sit on each jury as names of witnesses for over 100 cases are filed in the Common Pleas Court. Prosecuting Attorney R. L. announces expected shorter January session with better courthouse accommodations noted.
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Cour
Athena
Athens County
R. 2
Hanis
Martha Parks
York
Arthur Thompson
Ames
Mra
John Ator Athens
Sidney Riley
Alexader
Samuel Carpenter
Athens
J. W. Cecil
Carlow
King George Spends Quiet Night Amid Illness
London reports King George III held a quiet night with slight improvement noted by attending physicians. A new treatment plan was decided after consultations among five doctors, though blood transfusion was not being considered.
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King George
London
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