County Commissioners Debate Athens Road Improvements
Athens county officials consider road projects at February meeting. Carthage Township pledges cooperation on a two mile Carthage Gap stretch on the Parkersburg Athens road. A Nelsonville Buchtel Murray City delegation seeks state aid for the inter state highway repair. Waterloo trustees request one mile slag road work on Marshfield Carbondale road. Beebe road graveling approved near Stewart. slag possible for Chappelhill road. County home monthly meeting follows.
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Athens County
Carthage Gap
Parkersburg
Athens
Carthage Township
Nelsonville
Buchtel
Murray City
Link” Murphy
Conrad Wein
Hocking
Andrew Murphy
EB. Hewitt
Castor Bobo
N. Hunter
Waterloo Township
Marshfield
Carbondale
Beebe
Stewart
Rome Township
Chappelhill
Fisher Station
Moonshine Fight Leaves One Dead in Kentucky County
In Bull Creek Letcher County two men fought over moonshine whiskey. John Jent, 20, shot and killed Ira Ingle, 30, and wounded Thomas Jent, ? father of the shooter, who tried to stop the bloodshed.
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Whitesburg
Bull Creek
Letcher County
John Jent
Ira Ingle
Thomas Jent
Roads Topic at Chamber Address by Division Engineer
Division Engineer E. W. Davis will speak at the Chamber of Commerce meeting on road programs for eight counties Athens Fairfield Gallia Hocking Jackson Meigs Vinton and Washington. He will outline future plans and discuss maintaining roads with bitulithic asphalt and answer questions, including pre submitted ones. Davis has recently moved to Athens and aims to boost efficiency in local road activities.
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Chamber O Commerce
E. W. Davis
Athens
Fairfield
Gallia
Hocking
Jackson
Meigs
Vinton
Washington
Davis
Athena
Letter from Mary Miles Minter Found in William Taylor’s Effects
Detectives discovered a crest bearing the name Mary Miles Minter among William Taylor’s belongings in Los Angeles on February 7. A note read I love you nine times and closed with Yours always Mary. Minter reportedly did not deny authorship of the letter.
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Los Angeles
William Taylor
Mary Miles Minter
Mary
Hollywood stars call for cleanup of film colony
Frank Mayo urges purge of undesirables in Hollywood while praising Nazimova Clara Kimball Young and Mabel Normand. Adolph Zukor Carl Laemmle defend morality clauses and deny excess immorality in Hollywood. Universal has long used morality clauses since the Fatty Arbuckle case.
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Mildred Morris
New York
Hollywood Film Colony
Frank Mayo
Hollywood
Universal Company
Mayo
Nazimova
Clara Kimball Young
Mabel Normand
Taylor
Adolph Zukor
Famous Players
Hollywood Colony
New York Stock Exchange
City Federation meeting outlines charity work and plans
The City Federation met Monday afternoon with thirty members. Reports from Red Cross and PT A detail clothing for 16 families and 63 children and nourishment for underweight students. An invitation extends to Genevieve Cline to speak February 20 in Athens. March’s program to be led by the Social Literary Club.
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Gard
Red Cross Society
Hughes
Munn
Wolfe
Fuller
East Side
Genevieve Cline
Cleveland
State Federation
Athens
Presbyterian Church
Green turtles reach weights over seven hundred pounds
A conservation report notes green sea turtles achieving weights surpassing 700 pounds, highlighting unusually large individuals. Researchers discuss possible factors including food availability and genetics, with implications for turtle populations and conservation planning.
Dope Fueled Hollywood Plot Tangles Over Taylor Slaying
Los Angeles police pursue a leading film actress tied to William Desmond Taylor's murder. They cite jealousy after volatile New Year’s Eve parties, dope rings, and secret visits to his Alvarado street home, with detectives focusing on the star amid drug-fueled revelations and rival romances.
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Wallace Smith
Chicago Evening American
Los Angeles
Hollywood
William Desmond Taylor
Beauty
Alvaredo Street
Taylor
Mabel Normand
Alvarado Street
Utilities commission fixes date for freight rate probe
Columbus, Feb 7 The state utilities commission set February 28 to begin examining intrastate coal freight rates for reasonableness. The move follows a request by Governor Davis. Hearings begin February 15 on agricultural freight rate investigation.
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Columbus
Ythe State Utilities Commission
Davis
Fire destroys Parker building in Covington
Creased electric wires are believed to have caused a fire that late last night totally destroyed the Parker building interior on East Pike street with an estimated loss of 120000 dollars.
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Covington
Parker
East Pike Street
Births and milestones in Ohio history
A brief recap notes Leicester Converse the first white child born in Ohio after Marietta, the 1789 event in Marietta. Huron County’s 1809 formation. John Patterson born in Treavid in 1771 and St Clairs ville mayor. Robert Lucas Ohio governor 1932 36 died in Iowa City. William McKinley promoted to first lieutenant in 1863.
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Leicester Converse
Marietta
Ohio
Huron County
John Patterson
St. Clairsville
Treavid
Robert Lucas
Iowa City
Iowa
Virginia
William McKinley
New Location for Mill Might Be Chinaville Site
Reports say Newport Rolling Mill officials may move to Chinaville Kentucky opposite Hanging Rock offering favorable C and Q yard switching facilities and flood mark advantage. Negotiations continue for sites in other places but Chinaville is viewed as cheaper with better shipping potential.
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Ironton, O
Newport Roling Mill Company
Newport
Chinaville
Little Kentucky
Hanging Rock
C. & QO. Yard
Speeding Trial of Negro Killer Progresses in Columbus
In Franklin County Ohio only 13 jurors were examined to panel the jury in the progress of the trial of Clarence Moore, colored, charged with killing John Gaines, also colored. One peremptory challenge was used, setting a new court record.
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Columbus
Clarence Moore
Franklin
Moore
John Gaines
Operator Gets Big Verdict in Court
Huntington West Virginia March 7 a circuit court grand jury returned a 61685 verdict against the Lake and Export Coal corporation the largest ever in Cabell county J J Rogers a Logan operator charged the firm failed to buy coal it had contracted to take
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Huntington
W. Va
Cabell County
Lake and Export Coal Corporation
J. J. Rogers
Logan
Lake and Export Corporation
Harding Aims to Send Arms Treaties to Senate This Week
Senator Lodge said President Harding hopes to forward the six principal treaties from the Washington arms conference to the Senate by week’s end after a White House meeting.
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Washington
Harding
Senate
Lodge
White House
Makes a Fight for Her Child in Parkersburg Court
In a midnight custody hearing Judge Johnson heard Ruth Holbert of Parkersburg WV seek return of her three year old son from her husband Robert C Holbert. She said the couple lived in Texas before moving to Parkersburg with the boy and that the father abducted the child. The child was located with the father at the Russell Hotel after police traced him to Athens. The mother was awarded temporary custody until a hearing set for Wednesday at 1 PM.
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Judge Johnson
Ruth Holbert
Parkersburg
W. Va
Robert C. Holbert
Texas
Athens
Regular Legion Meeting Tonight at Chamber of Commerce
The American Legion holds a regular meeting in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at seven tonight. Important business to discuss. A good attendance is desired, led by Adjutant W. G. Silvus.
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American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
W. G. Silvus
Adgt
Miners Reject Proposed Wage Cuts in Ohio
Lee Hall of the Ohio United Mine Workers says miners will not accept a lower wage scale set to take effect April 1. He notes the cost of living has fallen only 19.5 percent in 18 months, while a 31 percent cut is proposed and miners received a 27 percent increase in April 1920.
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Ohio
Columbus
Southern Ohio
Lee Hall
Ohio United Mine
President Hall
Bituminous Coal Commission
Labor and Agricultural Leaders Plan Nationwide Political Movement
A conference of labor and agricultural leaders set for Chicago on February 20 aims to influence congressional elections from within the major parties. They deny plans for a third party and seek progressive liberal candidates who will oppose reactionary forces in Congress.
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Washington
Conference of Labor and Agricultural Leaders
Chicago
Congress
Bethany College selects 1923 football coach and athletic director
Wheeling report states former W. and J. star Dave Morrow is chosen as Bethany College football coach for 1923 and R. A. Easterday, ex-Pitt star, is named director of athletics.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Dave Morrow
W. & J. Gridiron
Bethany College
R. A
Katy) Easterday
University of Pittsburgh
Moonshine Made Stronger With Hazardous Additives
West Virginia illicit distillers mix rough-on-rats fusel oil lye and borax into moon shine whiskey to give it an undertaker’s kick. Federal chemist W. W. Wheeler of the prohibition office confirms the practice in Huntington on February 7.
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Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
W. W. Wheeler
Prohibition Office
Strike continues as Johannesburg talks fail
A Reuters report from Johannesburg says the February talks between Premier Smutz of South Africa and striking workers did not end the dispute, leaving the strike unresolved in Johannesburg.
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London
Smutz
South Africa
Johannesburg
Reuter
Pope Pius XI May Name Two New Cardinals
Expectation in Washington that Pope Pius XI will appoint two new American cardinals as one of his first ecclesiastical acts after his February accession. The move would elevate prominent U S church figures and shape American Catholic leadership abroad.
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Washington
Pius XI
Fear for Schooner Frederick A. Duggan Shrinks Hope
Shipping circles fear for the schooner Frederick A. Duggan which sailed last week for South America and is reported in distress in the South Atlantic after ships arriving today relayed alerts.
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Pensacola
Fla
International News Service
Frederick A. Duggan
South America
South Atlantic
Peggy Promises Real Sensation Ahead of Book Release
New York report says Peggy Hopkins Joyce plans a sensational tell all about her marriages to three millionaires. She sails on the Aquitania bound for Europe with a manuscript started, promising that one story about a single ex husband will be worth thrice the book’s price. Ex husbands allegedly sent no flowers.
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New York
Chuck Margot Asquith
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Aquitania
Europe
Belgium
Regular army hears of shock dreams at Senate inquiry
Washington reports that regular army officers testified before the Watson committee about soldiers in the A F F allegedly witnessing wholesale hangings and executions. Colonel Halstead Dorey described such tales as shock dreams caused by severe actions, noting soldiers repeated them as true experiences.
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Washington
International News Service
Regular
Senate
Halstead Dorey
Watson
Entertainment to benefit local children at college auditorium
How would you live to entertain one of the children of the Children's Home tonight You can do it There is an entertainment by a great cartoonist and humorist at the college auditorium Professor Hoover has hosted these children several times this year Why not stop at McKee's and purchase a ticket for one child Every cent of the purchase price will go for local charity Will you do your bit
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College
Hoover
McKee’s
Genoa Economic Conference Decision Delayed
The White House announced a final decision on U S participation in the Genoa economic conference will be made at next Friday's cabinet meeting. Indications point to non participation as the armament conference adjourned prompting cabinet review amid outside pressure from bankers and trade advocates. The Genoa meeting is set to begin in about a month.
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Feorge R. Holmes
I. N
Washington
White House
United States
Soviet Russia
Son Is Given Life For Mother's Murder In Ohio
Akron, Feb. 7. Joseph Mack received life imprisonment after confessing to kill his mother on November 28, 1920, when she refused to permit marriage due to his unemployment. He will spend each anniversary of the crime in solitary confinement under the court.
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Akron
Joseph Mack
Mack
Vic Donahey Governor Bid Uncertain After Dinner Talk
Vic Donahey remains undecided on running for Ohio governor after a dinner at the Portage hotel, a social event intended to elicit a firm public statement on his political plans. The gathering, held yesterday evening in Akron, reflects ongoing uncertainty about his candidacy.
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Vic
Akron. O
Vic Donahey
Ohio
Portage Hotel
Husband sues for divorce over wife smoking and alleged kidnapping
Cincinnati February 7 Clifford Guenther sues for divorce alleging his wife smokes cigarettes stays out all night fourteen times in three months and that their four year old child was kidnapped through her actions.
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Cincinnati
Clifford Guenther
Young Woman Held on Arson Charge in Hazard
Miss Nazola Vanover, 18, arrested at Osborn's Gap on the Virginia border charged with arson. She is alleged to have set fire to her brother’s home causing its complete loss two weeks ago.
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Hazard
Nazola Vanover
Osborn’s Gap
Virginia Border
King George Opens Parliament Urges Irish Settlement
In a throne speech from London, King George I calls for an early Irish settlement and awaits the Irish free state's final establishment. He notes Washington conference work toward European peace and unemployment relief, and describes a Pacific peace treaty awaiting ratification replacing the Anglo Japanese alliance.
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David M. Church
London
Europe
George
Pope Pius XI Seen Reconciler of Vatican with Italy
Rome reports Pope Pius XI will continue Benedict XV’s policy toward Italy and support wartorn Europe’s reconstruction. The former Milan archbishop’s election is widely praised, with congratulatory messages flooding the Vatican. Coronation slated for Sunday in St Peters and the Sistine Chapel.
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Frank KE. Mason
I. N
Rome
Pius XI
Benedict XV
Vatican
Papacy
Wartorn
Europe
Milan
St. Peter
St. Peters
Sistine Chapel
Sheep and Wool Growers to Convene in Amesville
Amesville hosts the Ames Bern Sheep and Wool Growers association annual meeting at 1 PM on Saturday February 11. C D Henry serves as president and issued the call for the gathering.
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Amesville
Ames-Bern
Parking Restrictions Implemented by Mayor Roush
A new city order by Mayor Roush, backed by the council, bans parking on West Washington street between Pratt street and Lancaster street to prevent long daytime holds and bans parking more than four hours from 8 PM to sunrise on all streets. Violations carry a $25 fine.
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West Washington Street
Pratt Street
Lancaster Street
Carpenter Street
Roush
Twenty Missing and Other Bodies May Be Found
Richmond, February 7. Four men killed and fifteen injured in a fire at the Lexington Hotel. At least twenty are missing and more bodies may be found in the ruins as firemen fight remaining hotspots at nine o'clock. Three victims have been identified: M. J. Fox of Williamsport Pennsylvania, Hiram P. Austin of Fincastle Virginia, and A. Johnson of Charlottesville. The blaze is among Virginia’s worst in years with crews still battling the flames to stop spread.
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Richmond
Lexington
M. J. Fox
Williamsport
Hiram P
Austin
Fincastle
A. Johnson
Charlottesville
Virginia
Arbuckle Manslaughter Trial Set for March 13
Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle will face a third manslaughter trial in San Francisco starting March 13. Judge Harold Louderback fixed the date, with the suggestion of Arbuckle’s chief counsel Gavin McNab and agreement from state counsel.
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San Francisco
Roscoe
Fatty” Arbuckle
Harold Louderback
Gavin McNab
Arbuckle
Court Refuses a Divorce Over Inadequate Grounds
Judge L. G. Worstell of the Athens common pleas court refused to grant a divorce to Mrs. Hattie Galbraith of Glangster. She charged Frank Galbraith with gross neglect and extreme cruelty but testimony focused on his drinking. Since the defendant did not seek a divorce and the plaintiff failed to prove her charges, the judge advised reconciliation and dismissed the case.
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L. G. Worstell
Athens
Worstell
Ulster Boundary Stand Resists Any Adjustment
London reports Sir James Craig premier of Ulster unionist government sent word to Premier Lloyd George that Belfast will definitely refuse any adjustment of Ulster's boundaries. The stance signals a firm position in ongoing border talks.
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London
James Craig
Ulster
Lloyd George
Belfast
Child in Wheeling Undergoes Coin Removal Operation
Ruth Bramball aged 3 of Middlesbourne Wheeling underwent a hospital operation today to remove a cent swallowed and lodged in her wind pipe.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ruth Bramball
Middlesbourne
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