Four Men Die In Morning Freight Wreck Near Newark
Four Columbus crew members died and three were seriously hurt when a Pennsylvania freight train collided with a standing wreck train near Newark Ohio. Oil lamps exploded and flames engulfed the wreckage as rescuers worked through burned bodies.
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Newark
Pennsylvania
Here
Columbus
William Williams
Cook
M. A. Peck
C. O. Roush
John Zimmer
H. L. Withers
Robert T. Weygandt
J. M. Kennedy
Oreww
George L. Hartman
Dennison
Ohio
H. H. Harrison
Kennedy
P. Mitchell
H. H. Stump
Legislature Nears April Adjournment In Ohio
Road Vision Columbus reports tentative agreement among state legislators to adjourn early in April. Rep Crabbe notes a March recess to finish reorganizations and committee work on apportionment and finance. House considers Hopley highway inquiry. Senate already passed it.
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Columbus
Crabbe
House
Hopley
State Highway Department
Senate
State Oil Department
London
LeFever
Athens County
Atwood
Deweese
Cope
Columbiana
Albany Lawmakers Debate Oddly United Animal Spam
In Albany a state senator proposed combining bills on birds animals baseball players and fish saying the groups be considered together. The remarks were part of a morning session introducing related measures in the legislature.
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Albany
N. Y
Walker
Stockholders Meeting Set by Hocking Sunday Creek Traction
The annual meeting of the stock holders of the Hocking Sunday Creek Traction Company will be held at the company offices 2914 West Columbus Street Nelsonville Ohio at 1 o clock in the afternoon of February 9 1921. Athens stockholders have received notices.
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Hocking-Sunday Creek Traction Company
Columbus Street
Nelsonville
Ohio
Athens
Conspiracy Charge Looms In Railroad Labor Row
Chicago report says conspiracy to crush railroad brotherhoods and lower wages will be charged before the U S railroad labor board. B M Jewell of the AFL headlines hearings as railroads seek to void national shop agreements amid alleged mismanagement and financial woes. W W Atterbury cites potential savings of 300 million yearly unless wage cuts follow.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Jewell
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Lines
Wilson
Atterbury
Public dance at Junior Hall on February 2
A public dance is held at Junior Hall on Wednesday February 2. Gents admission is 75 cents.
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Public Dance
Fear Mob Faces Kidnapper Case In Los Angeles
In Los Angeles on February 1 fear of a lynching surrounded Floyd L. Carr and Arthur Watson Carr after their confession to kidnapping Mrs. Gladys Witherell. Police increased guards at the county jail to deter any mob action as the plan to rush them to prison stalled while Floyd Carr seeks delaying evidence through counsel. Mrs. Witherell, kidnapped a week earlier for $20,000, was rescued in a shack raid seventy miles from the city. Floyd Carr was captured in that raid and Arthur Watson Carr in Los Angeles. She remained unharmed.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Floyd L. Carr
Arthur Watson Carr
Gladys Witherell
Floyd Carr
Floyd Carr Said He Can Present Mitigating Evidence. Mrs. Witherell
Witherell
Saints to Rule Cities With Blue Law Iron Rod in New Campaign
Misses Helen Buchmann and Belle Schelhorn, Zion City advance guards, warn New York of a coming blue law regime. They predict a future of no jazz, no Sunday amusements, no tobacco, no alcohol, and strict ten hour Sunday church services as cities including Chicago and Des Moines fall under saintly rule. They set up at 45th Street to distribute literature from a small room lit by the Great White Way, planning their anti-sin campaign with an oil stove and coffee pot nearby.
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New York
America
Helen Buchmann
Belle Schelhorn
Zion City
Wilbur Glenn Volva
Satan
Canada
West Coast
South
Forty-Fifth Street
Suspect Prowler Tied to East End Murder Case
Cleveland February 1 a prowler preying on East End homes for two months is believed responsible for the murder of Gretchen Brandt 37 a robbery motive and over 1000 in jewelry missing Indications point to a hard struggle before she died and resemble the earlier assault on Verna Chipman 19 in her room about a month prior.
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Cleveland
East End
Gretchen Brandt
Verna Chipman
Salvation Army Opens Athens Branch Service
The Athens Salvation Army opened Monday in the City Building council chamber. Brigadier A. W. Baillie led the opening with 125 attendees as Captain Devon assume future charge and daily services seven evenings a week to invite public attendance.
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Athens
Salvation Army
Council
A. W. Baillie
Devon
Jim
Attention B P C E meeting and search update
Attention BPC E session tonight at 7:30 led by Ura Butcher exalted ruler. Report notes searching for petroleum in Ecudor with promising indications at several points in the republic.
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Ura Butcher
Ecuador
Repub
Attorney arraigned for offering bribe to federal agent
In Cleveland on February 1 attorney Samuel F. Rembrandt was summoned before Federal Judge Westenhaver for arraignment on attempting to bribe federal prohibition agent Fred Counts. He is charged with offering $4000 to pass 460 cases and ten barrels of whiskey held during permit investigations.
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Cleveland, O
Samuel F. Rembrandt
Westenhaver
Fred Counts
Rembrandt
Wedding March Drowns Sound of War in Balkans
In Athens on February 1 the Greek royal household sent members to Bucharest to witness the marriage of Prince George to Princess Elizabeth of Romania. The Bucharest ceremony will be followed by a Athens celebration uniting Crown Prince Carol and Princess Helene. Prince Nicholas and his wife and Princess Helene depart for Bucharest, and Queen Marie will return for the Athens nuptials.
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Athens
Balkan
Royal House of
Greece
Bucharest
George
Elizabeth
Romania
Carol
Helene
Nicholas
Marie
Bergdoll Kidnap Attempt Probed by German People’s Party
In Berlin on February 1, the people’s party demanded an interpellation on Grover Cleveland Bergdoll’s entry into Germany and his actions since. Party leaders warned the Bergdoll kidnapping attempt could worsen American sentiment. Reports say Colonel Stone apologized to the German commissary for U S soldiers role, while General Allen denied responsibility.
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Berlin
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Germany
Peoples Party
Laaders
Stone
Allen
Turk Leader Ready to Talk with Allies
Constantinople February 1 Mustapha Kemel head of the Turkish nationalists says he will seek a negotiation with the allies for a return of Turkish territory if the cabinet resigns. He has ordered his troops to cease hostilities against French and British forces pending the London conference with observers from his side.
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Constantinople
Mustapha Kemel
Kemel
London
Ford Holds World Status Amid Plans for Change
Henry Ford, at Dearborn, says he sits on the top of the world and is charting industrial changes with bold innovations. He remains solvent, rejects Wall Street veto power, and considers new financing on his own terms while preparing for personnel shifts and guarding against external pressure.
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United Press
Detroit
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Ford
Ford Motor Company
General Motors
Ford Company
Wall Street
New York
Boston
Michigan
New York House
America
Vatican
Woodrow Wilson
White House
G. Liebold
F. J. Klingensmith
Ford Organization
Highland Park
Ground Hog Day Forecast McHog Weather Note
The report notes a mild February start with 26 degrees at 7 am and a cloudy forecast for tomorrow. It mentions the sun rising at 7 04 and predicts whether a shadow will appear.
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G. Hog
Monsieur Ground Hog
Kidnap Plot Targets Chicago Policeman Framed as Hijack
Fred Schoel, a Chicago police officer, was held up and abducted by two highwaymen who drove him around the city. He declared, I am not a coward life is a precious thing.
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Chicago
Fred Schoel
Jail trusty Joseph Toales finishes task then walks away
Joseph Toales, a trusted county jail employee in Warsaw New York, swept the front walk as usual and then walked away. The brief note records a routine task followed by his departure. No further details are given.
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Warsaw
N. Y
Joseph Toales
Ralph Bingham to Perform in Athens Tonight
Ralph Bingham, noted humorist, appears at Ewings hall auditorium as the third number in the Athens Lecture Course this evening at eight o clock.
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Bingham Tonght
Ralph Bingham
Athens
Ewings Hall
Trading Slow As Stocks Open In 100 Share Lots
Trading opened slowly in New York with most transactions recorded in 100 share lots. The market showed little early movement as traders waited for direction.
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New York
Cleveland Officials Charged in Lever Act Violations
Federal Judge Westenhaver set arraignment dates for eleven officials of five Cleveland coal firms indicted for alleged Lever Act violations. The indictments allege unreasonable profits on multiple sales by The Goff-Kirby Company Glenville Coal Company George J Markley Company Federal Clay Products Union Coal Company and executives named in the charges.
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Cleveland
Westenhaver
Cleveland Coal Companies
Goff-Kirby Company
Isaac ©. Goff
Harold L. Goff
James L. Deegan
Bertram R. Taylor
Glenville Coal Company
William H. Evans
Byron H. Evans
George J. Markley Company
George Markley
Federal Clay Products Company
George J. Y
C. H. Sawyer
Union Coal Company
M. Ickes
W. B H. Crawford
George W. Gruder
Pretty Actress Wins Prize Cup in Goose Race
Mise Mildred Mann of the Greenwich Village Follies won the goose race at the poultry show in Madison Square Garden. Miss Mann crossed the line first to claim the prize cup amid a lively display before a crowd at the show.
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Mise
Mildred Mann
Greenwich Village
Madison ‘Square
Corden
Sash
San
Miss Mann
Social Life Said To Drive Flunks At Ohio University
A Athens business official cited excessive social life at Ohio University as a factor in more students flunking than in previous years. He noted a student borrowing to attend dances and said many flunked students remain out until the next term on probation. Registration opened as new students enrolled.
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Ohio University
Athens
Ohio
Delayed jury selection in Hatfield case continues at Williamson
In Williamson West Virginia on February 1 the jury pool for Sid Hatfield and twenty others in the Matewan gunfight slaying of seven Baldwin Felts detectives faced delays. Many veniremen were related to principals or disqualified under a judge’s ruling amid a large witness list. Authorities could not identify who fired shots in Williamson yesterday as bullets reportedly fell in the city with no injuries.
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Thomas Felts
Arthur and
Lee Felte
Wiliamson
Thief Follows Sign at Pittsfield Store and Steals $90
A burglar in Pittsfield Maas obeyed a posted notice and lifted $90 from a cash drawer in a general store postal station after reading Dont break in here The safe is unlocked. The incident hinges on the sign and the recovered amount.
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Pittsfield
Maas
Athens Folks Hobnob With Mr. Harding
A letter from A. T. Lawhead of Messenger Printery details President-elect Harding's preinaugural visit to Fort Lauderdale, where he golfed with Lawhead and Art Wolfe. Harding toured the links after discreetly landing, then dined with local residents including F. W. Bush and J. H. Cline.
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Messenger Printery
Harding
Fort Lauderdale
Bigrida
Athen
Miami
Lawhead
Art Wolfe
Wolfe
Harding to Seek Democratic Input in Policy Making
White House aides say President-elect Harding will keep doors open to Democrats in formulating policy. He will not offer cabinet posts to Democrats but will seek advice from leaders such as Senator Underwood and Senator Hitchcock. Harding continued his fishing expedition near Cocolobo before returning to Miami Beach.
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Raymond Clapper
United Press
Miami
Fla
White House
Republcans
Harding
Underwood
Alabama
Senate
St. Augustine
Gilbert M. Hitchcock
Nebraska
Wilson
Cocolobo
Miami Beach
George Grim Returns After Successful Surgery
George Grim of Shade Ohio has returned home after a successful operation at Copeland Howe hospital in Athens. His tonsils and adenoids were removed.
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Hospital Shade
George Grim
Copeland-Howe Hospital
Athens
Germany a rising force in world trade says Mason
In a Beval protest against Allied indemnity the German economy shows resilience. Germany shipped 23 billion marks of goods in five months, near half of the previous year’s total, boosting overseas commerce and shipping. German tech and instruments flood markets, while home rivals fear the influx and Holland and Denmark watch markets tighten.
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J. W. T. Mason
New York
Germany
Alery
Holland
Dinavia
South J
Far East
Mastersch
Icea
Eign Steamship Ines
Nearpany
Liquor Drawals Under Prohibition Totals Reported
National prohibition records show withdrawals for new key purposes reaching 88,814,676 units, while a prior figure was 14,445,161. The figures were noted in a Washington report dated February, indicating sharp changes in liquor use under the policy.
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Washington
Hams
Will Carry Battle to the 8t Cleveland Gas Fight
The office of director of law announced a suit against an Oil Company of New Jersey to stop gas shutoffs at midnight. The Jersey firm owns 99.87 percent of East Ohio Company and 100 percent of Hope Natural Gas West Virginia, from which Cleveland gets 75 percent of its gas.
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Cleveland
An Oil Company
New Jersey
Office of Director of Law
Jersey Company
East Ohio Company
Hope Natural Gas Company
West Virginia
Ohio Company
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