Cleveland Senator and Bender clash over malt and hops sale
An open feud erupts between the Anti-Saloon League and Senator George H Bender of Cleveland over malt and hops sold in Benders hardware stores. Bender offers to donate profits to the dry league to aid those harmed by liquor and defends his sales as stock on hand. The league accuses clerks of advising beer production while a bill he backs seeks to curb judicial fees and salaries.
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Columbus
Anti-Saloon League
George H. Bender
Cleveland
Justices of the Peace
Bender
League
Dry League
Nils Johnson
Youngstown
Senate
Lisbon Threatened Revolution Turns City Into Battlefield
Portuguese revolution threatens to make Lisbon its main battlefield as sailors police Republican guard and infantry align with revolutionists. Foreign affairs and interior ministers have been arrested and a revolutionary committee set up in the capital.
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City
Lisbon
Interior
Weather report retro: record highs and lows noted
A historical temperature summary describes February 7 with a high of 42 and a low of 1 below zero set in 1895. It mentions a record single day high of 61 previously and includes a two hour interval table showing temperatures around 38 to 44 degrees across the day.
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the Mercury
All at Sea Mystery by Carolyn Wells Opens The Messenger
The Messenger presents All at Sea by Carolyn Wells about Garrett Folsom a wealthy bachelor killed in a swimming scene. The plot asks why a man with few enemies was murdered and features a diabolically clever underwater stabbing.
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Garrett Folsom
Folsom
All At Sea” the Messenger
Carolyn Wells
Six Convicts to Hang Friday in Illinois
Six men convicted of leading a break from the state prison in Joliet last summer will be hanged Friday for the death of Deputy Warden Peter Klein. The condemned are Gregorio Rizo Robert Torrez Charles Shader Charles Duschowsky Bernardo Roa and Walter Stalesky. The execution will occur at the Will County jail with limited attendance and unlikely clemency.
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Illinois
Joliet, IH
Peter Klein
Gregorio Rizo
Robert ‘L'Orrez
Charles Shader
Charles Duschowski
Bernardo Roa
Walter Stalesky
A. E. Markgraf
Will County
Rail Merger Moves Open Coal Mines to Non-Union Fields
News from New York reports a series of railroad mergers led by John D Rockefeller involving Western Maryland Wheeling & Lake Erie and Baltimore & Ohio. The changes place non-union access routes under control of three major lines, with Nickel Plate and New York Central also acquiring stakes. L. F. Loree’s merger plan loses northern control while southern end remains unfriendly. The trio seeks neutral lines to serve operators during union strikes.
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New York
U.R
New York Central Railroad
Wall Street
John Dbd. Rockefeller
Maryland
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Baltimore & Ohio
van Sweringen-Nickel Plate
New York Central
Rockefeller
L. F. Loree
Murder Business Sweeps United States in January
In January there were 102 murders across 19 large U S cities, far exceeding England's per-year averages from 1920–24. Cities listed with counts include Chicago 26, New York 16, Philadelphia 12, Detroit 11, Pittsburgh 8, Dallas 6, Houston 4, San Francisco 4, Los Angeles 4, Seattle 2, Indianapolis 2, and several others.
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New York
U.P
United States
United Press
Home Office
London
England
Chicago
Denver
Detroit
Washington
D. C
New Haven
Conn
Hartford
Houston
Texas
Portland
Ore
San Francisco
Dallas
Fresno
Calif
Los Angeles
Seattle
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Payment of $200 Got Soft Job In Pen Charged
Cleveland February 8 Charges that payment of 200 dollars obtained a soft job in the Ohio penitentiary for a Cuyahoga county embezzler and two friends blackmailed a bank employee for 10 000 dollars were investigated by County Prosecutor Edward C. Stanton in connection with George J. Mackay. Another charge alleged Mackay paid 1 000 dollars to an official to escape indictment.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Edward C. Stanton
George J. Mackay
Mackay
Gilbert M. Souid
Mortgage & Guaranty Company
Stanton
Soul
F.A. Starer
William Hasselman
QO. J. Eshelman
Coolidge Not To Be 1928 Candidate Declares
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, told Riverside Republican Club that Coolidge will not seek a 1928 renomination. He warned the party faces defeat if the third term issue is injected and urged the next president to oppose Prohibition, saying the eighteenth amendment has no place in the Constitution.
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New York
United Preas
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Riverside Republican Club
Coolidge
Butler
Cold Wave Forecast Hits Chicago Area
A new cold wave is expected to hit the Midwest with a sharp drop in temperatures. Officials predict temperatures around 10 degrees above zero and possible snow and high winds by Wednesday morning.
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Chicago
U.R
Middlewest
Weather Bureau
Co ed Marian Meyers Held In Vermillion Unresolved
The fate of Marian Meyers the co ed who attempted a bank robbery remains undecided. The county insanity commission ordered her sent to the Yankton state hospital for observation but the county sheriff and State's Attorney oppose moving her from the county jail.
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Vermillion
U.R
Marian Meyers
First National Bank
Yankton
H. O. Perkins
Policeman-In-Training Finds Car Tire Stolen Hours After School
Paul Burt, newly appointed policeman in Columbus, attended police school on February 8 and learned robbery prevention methods. After lectures he left the training to find the rear tire of his automobile stolen from the city street.
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Columbus
Paul Burt
Testing Cows in Athens District Nearing Tuberculosis Completion
Dr J M Higgings announced testing of cows in the Athens district for tuberculosis will likely finish by March 1. Farmers may not sell milk until cows are tested.
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Athens
J. M. Higgings
Upholstery Tack Saves Eye of Columbus Man
Charles Lamet an upholsterer in Columbus escaped eye injury when a broad flat head on an upholstery tack shielded his eye after a tack flipped up and pierced toward the eye. He will not lose sight of the eye.
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Columbus
U.P
Charles Lamet
Plans For County Pensions And Relief
County commissioners yesterday arranged a loan of 1100 to Athens National Bank for mothers pension and 100 for soldiers relief. Unsettled tax conditions and bad weather hinder promise of aid to road delegates. A Lodi delegation request to cut assessment from 10 to 5 percent was not granted but is being considered.
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Athens National Bank
Robert Tompkins
Lodi
Pomeroy Mason City Bridge Bill Passes House
Residents of Pomeroy and Mason City celebrate after Representative Harry C. Woodyard announces the House passed the Pomeroy Mason City bridge bill over the Ohio river. Dravo Construction of Pittsburgh to build the Pomeroy bridge with plans to be announced later this week.
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Pomeroy
Mason
St. Marys
W. Va
Point Pleasant
Thomas Jenkins
Ohio
Gallia County
Mason City
Dravo Construction Company
Pittsburgh
Robert Hogg
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Club
Rotary Club of
Congress
Charles Ke, Holzer
Walter A. Windsor
Ohio River
Charleston
iCharleston
Finish wage offer for Ohio coal operators at Miami meeting
Finishing touches on the wage offer to be submitted at a joint meeting of coal operators and miners in Miami Florida are being made by the scale committee of the Ohio Coal Operators association Inc Ohio operators are not optimistic over the outlook for negotiations on a scale to replace the Jacksonville agreement which expires March 31.
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Columbus
Miami
Fla
Ohio Coal Operators’ Association, Inc
Ohio
Jacksonsville
Committee Kills Compulsory Auto Insurance Bill
In Columbus on February 6 the House insurance committee killed the compulsory automobile liability insurance bill by an 8 to 1 vote to postpone indefinitely. The bill, proposed by Rep J G Ehrlich of Cleveland, would have required motorists to carry insurance or post a bond to indemnify accident victims. Several legislators opposed the measure, with insurers arguing it would not achieve its aims.
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Columbus
U.F
House Committee On Insurance
J. G. Ehrlich
Cleveland
Earle Stewart
Ironton
Gray
Morgan
Cady
Cincinnati
Doty
Holmes
Hiser
Highland
Knapp
Medina
Roberts
Youngstown
Adele
Beck
Montgomery
Wigran
Ten Thousand Tons Of Coal Mined From Mine 255
Mine No 255 of the Ohio Collieries Coal Co near Jacksonville produced ten thousand tons of coal in the last week with Friday yielding 1800 tons. Plans call for a new tipple shaker screens and loading boom to raise capacity to 2000 2500 tons daily. Superintendent Walter Ferrer, a veteran Hocking valley miner, led the effort with Richard Swarth key to the Jackson ville mine’s large output.
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Ohio Collieries Coal Company
Jacksonville
Walter Ferrer
Hocking Valley
Sugar Creek
Study of Ohio Airways Proposed by Chamber Committee
Columbus Feb 8 The aviation committee of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution urging the legislature to appoint a committee to study Ohio airways and consider creating a department of aviation to be merged with the highway department.
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Columbus
Ohio
Department of Aviation
Highway Department
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Bridge project promises faster eastward travel and West Virginia access
Local backers say the bridge will shorten distances to the east, ease use of the National Pike, open vast parts of West Virginia, create new travel arteries, and revive the Pomeroy Bend area with industrial and social growth.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Pomeroy Bend
Co ed in Vermilion bank attempt fails
A 19-year-old University of South Dakota student Marion Meyers from Woonsocket South Dakota tried to obtain $24 for tuition and was found by police inside the First National Bank at Vermilion. She carried an electric drill and tools but did not obtain any money.
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Marion Meyers
First National Bank
Vermilion
S. D
University of South Dakota
Woonsocket
Prison Camp Is Suggested to Ease Crowded Pen
Columbus February 8 A plan to build a prison camp at Chillicothe to relieve crowding at the state penitentiary was endorsed by officials. A committee from Governor Donahey’s office and the general assembly may visit Chillicothe to study options, starting with telephone discussions. Consideration includes using the federal reformatory site and stockading old Camp Sherman barracks as temporary relief until permanent measures are funded.
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Columbus
U.R
Cmp
Chillicothe
Camp Sherman
James W. Huffman
Huffman
Buckner Outlines 1921 graft Case in New York
U S Attorney Emory R Buckner again outlined the government’s graft case against the 1921 operations of the attorney general office and alien property custodian in New York. The remarks came as part of ongoing proceedings detailing alleged corrupt influence in official actions.
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Buckner
New York
U. S
Emory R. Buckner
State seeks capital punishment for Ben Rudner
Canton, Feb 8. The state will seek the life of Ben Rudner in the trial for the assassination of Don R. Mellett editor of the Canton Daily News. Special prosecutor C. B. McClintock said a jury may be impaneled tonight with eleven talesmen tentatively seated.
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Canton
United Press
Ben Rudner
Don R. Mellett Crussading
Canton Daily News
C. B. McClintock
Rudner
Venice
Pat McDermott
Armed Guards Battle Planned Burial Near Chicago Cemetery Fight
In Alsip near Chicago, residents led by township collector William Roule Jr defend against a new funeral ground built by a Chicago syndicate of negroes. They argue state laws prevent start of a cemetery within a mile of an incorporated village and restrict burials in new tracts. Guards patrol the site to stop today’s scheduled funeral.
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Chicago
Alsip
William Roule, Jr
Cold in Infants Tied to Adenoids and Diet, Doctor Says
Dr A B Helmigk notes that infant colds may stem from adenoids or dietary sensitivities. He urges mothers not to rely on fever tablets or sedatives, and recommends proper room ventilation and avoiding unnecessary nose drops. Adenoid removal is discussed only with medical advice, as improper timing can harm younger children.
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A. B. Helmigk
County Medical Idea
Berry
Mick
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Higgins
Bank
Construction Company
Martha Foulk
Thompson Messenger
Coal Operators’ Association
Don R. Mellett
Medical Association of County
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