May Restore State Power Over Freight Rates
Washington December 31 A campaign to lower freight rates nationwide would return rate making power to state railroad commissions. Rep Genet Tow republican said the bill restoring state rate making will be reported to the House in January with strong chances of passage. Hearings on the bill concluded last session by the House Interstate Commerce Committee. The Sweet bill would strip the Interstate Commerce Commission of jurisdiction to fix rates within states. Immediate rate reductions in nearly every state would follow.
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Genet. Towa
House
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Last Great Flood Dam In Miami District Completed
Dayton Ohio reports the last load of fill dumped at noon completing the Miami conservancy district dam project. The five dams tested successfully last week and Cincinnati’s river gauge dropped to four feet while protecting cities and farms from 1913 flood levels though some flooding may occur with heavy rain until final channel work finishes.
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Dayton
Miami
Main Street
Market to Continue Under County Bureau After Closure
The public market started last summer by Mrs. R. E. Woodworth for the Federated Women's clubs is discontinued as to the Federated clubs and the building lease is surrendered. The market will continue under a new subsidiary of the Athens County Farm Bureau led by Mr. Fred Linscott. The same North Court street room will host the market on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
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R. E. Woodworth
Federated Women’s Clubs
Federated Clubs
Athens County Farm Bureau
Fred Linscott
Farm Bureau
North Court Street
Fifth Annual New Years Day Trophy Shoot Planned
Athens Gun Club members plus honorary Nelsonville Gun Club attendees prepare for the fifth annual New Years Day trophy shoot at East Mill Street grounds on Monday January second. The silver loving cup trophy is held by John Poston, January 1, 1921 champion. Nonmembers may shoot but are ineligible for the cup.
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Athens
Nelsonville
Limit set for cruise capacity by naval committee
Washington December 30. The naval committee today agreed on a ten thousand ton cruise limit.
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Washington
Navaliament Committee
City Federation Meeting Postponed to Thursday in Athens County
The City Federation regular gathering is rescheduled from Monday January 2 to Thursday January 5 at 2 PM in the First Presbyterian Church auditorium. Speaker Mrs. Thomas P. Pierce will address mothers and teachers. all Athens county federated clubs and farm groups are urged to attend. In Orange Texas officials report a new Humble Crosson No 5 oil well flooding marshes and bayous, with 15 000 to 20 000 barrels daily stored after spouting at 30 000 barrels.
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Thomas P. Pierce
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Grange
Farm Bureau
Orange
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Humble Company
Wells appeals divorce ruling in Supreme Court
Thomas H. Wells of Youngstown filed an appeal in the state Supreme Court seeking a review of his divorce from Mrs. Stacia Wells. The move comes after a lower court ruling in Columbus, Ohio, dated December 31.
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Thomas H. Wells
Youngstown
Millionaire Doughboy
Supreme Court
Stacia Wells
Ohio Bell seeks to sell notes to meet debts
The Ohio Bell Telephone Company filed a petition with the Public Utilities Commission to sell 2500 dollars of 4 percent notes to cover outstanding obligations.
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Columbus
Ohio Bell Telephone Company Today
Public Utilities ‘Commission
Two Die At Crossing In Corbin Kentucky
Investigation opened into a railroad crossing accident in Corbin Kentucky that killed two people and injured five others late yesterday.
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Corbin
Sid Him Helen Suit Sets Breach of Promise in New York
Miss Helen Young a 24 year old cloak model files a $100000 breach of promise suit in New York City alleging Franklin Fischer forced her into marriage with another woman aged seventy. She describes the incident as a coercive act and seeks damages for breach of engagement.
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New York
Helen Young
Franklin Fischer
Athens Merchants Hire Night Policeman To Guard Shops
County robbery wave spurs merchants in Athens to fund a special night watchman. Judge Sam Johnson says the extra officer will patrol only contributing stores while a local leader suspects a roaming gang. Knights of the road cited as rising in the district amid economic blues.
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Athens
Sam Johnson
Knights of the Road
Pittsburgh Vein Operators Assn Refuses Mine Workers Meeting
The Pittsburgh Vein Operators Association of Ohio meeting in Cleveland adopted a resolution declining to meet United Mine Workers in Pittsburg on January 6. The group covers about one hundred mines and eighteen thousand miners. The move follows southern Ohio operators who abandoned the four state agreement and ended the check off system for dues. Wage negotiations are slated for April.
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Pittsburgh Vein Operators Association of
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United Mine Workers
Pittsburg
Lewis
Southern Ohio
Futures lose hard game to YMCA juniors at Nelsonville
The Futures basketball team from Judge Sam Johnsons Sunday school class fell 19 to 10 to a YMCA squad of 16 year olds at Nelsonville Friday evening.
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Sam Johnson
Nelsonville
Colder Weather Expected After Strong Winds
A brisk wind swept the city as a warm spell gave way to a drop in temperature. The thermometer near the courthouse reported around 44 degrees at noon and the forecast warned of colder weather with possible snow flurries ahead.
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Court House
Illinois bank safe blown. robber escapes with cash
Dec. 31 in Pleasant Hills Citizens Bank as Yegemer blew the safe and fled with about $4,000. Police hunt for the suspect as authorities investigate the break in.
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Pleasant Hills
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Citizens Bank
Toledo Man Slated as State Industrial Relay Statistician
W. J. Bibeshimer of Toledo was slated for appointment to succeed George F. Miles of Columbus as statistician and mediator for the Ohio department of industrial relations.
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Columbus
W. J. Bibeshimer
George F. Miles
State Department of Industrial Relations
Giant fossil snake found in Mine 210 display in Athens
Remains of an eight to ten foot snake, discovered Thursday morning by miners Clarence Luman and Earl Schneider of Sugar Creek in Mine 210, was brought to Athens and placed in Cline's window. The find suggests a prehistoric giant snake era.
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Earl Schneider
Sugar Creek
Athens
Cline
French Repudiation of War Debt Tensions at Naval Conference
The French delegation resisted threats to pay up before a large naval program. M Sarraut defended France’s wartime debts and noted funds aided wartime US prosperity. His remarks mollified Britain and clarified Paris’s stance against submarine ruthlessness, while the Root resolution to outlaw submarines looms over Paris’s reply.
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France
America
M. Sarraut
United States
Sarraut
Germany
Britain
Naval Committee
Paris
Naval Disarmament Committee
Tariff Makes Potash Costly
Washington December 31 farmers would pay a twenty percent rise in potash fertilizer cost if the tariff of two and a half cents per pound is approved. Wilbert Larue for the American Potash Association said the tax would cost about twenty five cents an acre on cotton and two cents an acre on potatoes and that farmers support it with no opposing farmers' organizations.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Wilbert Larue
American Potash Association
Wholesale Grocery and Nation Department Closed for Inventory
Our Wholesale Grocery and Nation Department will be closed on Saturday December 31 1921 for inventory. The C C Stedman Co.
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Wholesale Grocery & Nation Department
C. Stedman Co
Cleveland Garment Workers Strike Looms Over Wage Scale
In Cleveland Ohio a six hundred worker garment strike was anticipated with walkouts at seven to eight women’s clothing factories. The Ladies Garment Workers Union planned a noon call for 300 members if the new wage scale isn’t accepted, with a second call of 300 to 400 more workers expected next week unless several key employers agree.
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Cleveland
Ladies Garment Workers Union
Meyer Perlstein
Chinese and Japanese clash over Shantung question at arms conference
The December 31 arm s conference session saw renewed friction between China and Japan over the Shantung railway. Chinese delegates demanded presenting the Shangtung issue despite Japanese insistence it remains under negotiation, while China accuses Japan of delaying a settlement as tensions rise.
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Washington
Shangtung
Shantung
China
Japan
Anthrax Claims Victims in Ohio
Ohio health officials report the death of Oden Guick in Cleveland from anthrax after exposure in a brush factory. The state has seen three anthrax cases this year, with incidents in Norwood Newark and Cleveland, prompting warnings against cheap shaving brushes.
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Sniavely
Oden Guick
Cleveland
Ohio
Norwood
Newark
Chesapeake and Ohio shops to reopen after holiday layoff
Huntington reports 1000 C and O employees will return to work January 3 after a December 17 shutdown. Steady rehiring expected to resume until the full 2,600 work force is restored.
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Huntington
W. VA
Chesapeake and Ohio
Lorain Street Railway Faces Heavy Six Month Loss
Lorain December 31 The Lorain Street Railway company has averaged a loss of four thousand dollars a month during the last six months F. W. Coen told the chamber of commerce investigating committee here last night.
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Lorain Street Railway Company
F. W. Coen
Chamber of Commerce
Boy Dies After Bicycle Plunge Into Canal
Earl Lyon aged 12 died when he turned his bicycle to avoid a wagon and fell into a canal in Dayton. His body was recovered at six feet of water.
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Dayton
Earl Lyon
Allies Agree on Plan to Rebuild World Finance
The divorce decree of Lady George Cacneeeen, formerly Clara Taylor of New York, has been made absolute in London. She is the daughter of Charles H. Taylor of New York and went to London as a show girl in one of Charles Rohman’s companies. She married a British army captain, who obtained a divorce, and then she became their Lord Cholmondey in 1911.
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Clara Taylor
New York
London
Charles H. Taylor
Charles ¥Rohman
Lord
Police question dozen in opium den deaths in New York
Fifty women were being questioned by police over the deaths of two Chinese in an opium den linked to the limousine trade. Detectives found a list of fifty American women and suspect the Chinese deaths may involve blackmail fear. Neighbors note some patrons arrived in their own limousines.
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New York
New Year Holiday Closure for Sunday Observed
Athens retailers will close all day Monday in observance of New Year’s Day after the holiday falls on Sunday. This marks the second Sunday occurrence this season, with Christmas having been observed on Monday and Christmas will not fall on Sunday again for several years.
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Athens
Economics Must Be Placed Upon New Basis at Once
Paris reports a two day allied financiers conference reached a definite agreement on international economic reconstruction. The plan calls for systematic reorganization of European economics focusing on transportation and will be submitted for approval at Cannes by allied governments. American banks are likely to be included and another conference may meet in February to advance the plan.
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United Press
Paris
Allied Suprem Council
Cannes
Foster to Aid Roosevelt Plan for National Stadium
In Washington D C an organization plans a three million dollar Roosevelt memorial stadium near the Lincoln Memorial. The national group aims to standardize sports nationwide and to bring the Olympic games service games national and interstate events to Washington. The stadium would seat about one hundred thousand with Hon I M among eleven original members.
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Washington, D. C
Roosevelt Memorial Stadium
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
United States
Hon. I. M
Special Sears of Paras muthia Lodge Jan Work in Master Mason Degree
Special Sears of Paras muthia Lodge No FP A and A holds a Wednesday meeting on January 8th with Master Mason degree work at 3:30. W. W. Lee serves as Worshipful Master and J. A. Palmer as Secretary.
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Sears
Parasmuthia Lodge No. FP. & A
Twenty Three Drown As Sarema Sinks Off Finish Coast
Stockholm reports that twenty three people drowned when the Estonian ship Sarema sank after colliding with the ice-breaker Vi off the Finnish coast early today. The accident occurred in freezing conditions and involved a Swedish port area as the Sarema faced the sudden disaster.
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Stockholm
Sarema
Dartmouth Falls to Ohio State in Close Finale
In Columbus, Dartmouth narrowly loses to Ohio State 26 to 25 after a furious late rally, with Bate tiling furiously until the final second in the college basketball game last night.
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Ohio State
Columbus
Bate
Dartmouth
Ohio Star
The Messenger Calendar for 1922 Free Offer
The Athens Messenger announces a free 1922 calendar via its Washington Information Bureau. Readers may request a Navy calendar printed in colors by mailing the coupon with two cents for return postage, and writing name and address clearly.
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Washington Information Bureau
Navy
Babson forecasts 1922 business conditions and cooling markets
Babson outlines a cautious 1922 outlook with partial recovery after 1921’s sharp deflation. He notes declines in commodity and stock prices, high unemployment of inventories, and uneven price relations while predicting gradual improvement and regional differences. Europe’s chaotic trade and agriculture depressions are highlighted as ongoing headwinds.
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