Geddes Named In War Warning Discussion With American Press
London newspapers name Sir Auckland Geddes the British ambassador to the United States as the high official who discussed Anglo American affairs with American correspondents at the foreign office. The incident, widely publicized, is said to have been anonymized in dispatches until London papers revealed Geddes.
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London
Wdlondon
Morning Post
The
Daily Chronicle
Daily Herald
Sir Auckland Geddes
United States
Foreign Office
America
United Press
Ambassador Geddes
Geddes
Daily Express
Atlantic
Child Fatally Shot by Revolver in Bed
Benny Horner seven of Hundred West Virginia was probably fatally wounded when a revolver under a pillow discharged striking his head. The mother kept the gun in bed and the boy was playing with it at the moment of the accident. The bullet went through the pillow and lodged at the base of the brain.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Benny Horner
Hundred
Government air mail plane crash kills three in LaCrosse
Governor Preus ordered an aviation investigation after a government air mail plane crash near LaCrosse Wisconsin killed three aboard. The aircraft, once junked in Germany, was rebuilt in America and entered service before its fatal descent of about six hundred feet.
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ST. Paul, Minn
J. A. Preus
W. C. Garis
Minnesota Aviation Section
LaCrosse
Wis
Germany
America
Road Meeting At Guysville To Be Held Saturday
Canaan Rome Carthage Community Road Club calls a 1 PM Saturday meeting at the Guysville Masonic Hall. About 400 to 500 members are urged to attend with a prospective member. County Farm Agent Raymond and Athens Chamber of Commerce secretary C H Bryson plan to attend as road boosters.
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Guysville
Canaan
Will of John Werner Leaves Daughter Grim Bequest
In Salem Massachusetts under John Werner's will a daughter is to receive $1 to buy a rope to hang herself. The document claims the daughter caused the arrest of her father for the sake of a worthless husband, revealing a chilling motive within the estate.
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Salem
Mass
John Werner
Public Dance at Junior Hall This Saturday
Community dance to be held in Junior Hall on Saturday evening February 12. Admission 75 cents for gentlemen and 25 cents for ladies. Proceeds to benefit local activities.
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Geo. Minamyer, N. B
Senate panel backs 15 month immigration curbs bill
United States Senate immigration committee recommended emergency legislation restricting immigration for 15 months starting April 1, 1921. The measure accompanies the Dillingham bill and was reported favorably by the committee.
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United Press
Washington
United States
Senate Immigration Committee
Dillingham
Senate weighing limited immigration under Dillingham plan
Senate immigration panel signaled limits on yearly arrivals at five percent of nationals residing in the U S based on the 1910 census. The Johnson bill's total exclusion was rejected. Asian immigration would be treated separately and Canada Cuba Mexico and Central and South American citizens would be exempt.
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Washington
Senate Immigration Committee
Colt
Rhode Island
United States
Italy
America
Canada
Cuba
Mexico
Central America
South America
Knights Templar Social Set for Banquet and Ball
Knights Templar plan a grand social event on Thursday February 24 featuring a banquet and ball. A committee met Wednesday evening to arrange the affair which draws Knights and their ladies and aims to meet high expectations.
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Knights Templar
Knights ‘Templar
Painted Face Fashion Sparks Birmingham Patrols
In Birmingham on February 10, Mrs Hulda Newsom a police woman warns that urban girls with chalky white complexions and bright rouge will be escorted to a washroom for a soap and water cleansing. She vows to enforce the makeover on sight.
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Birmingham
Ala
Hulda Newsom
Taxing limit law proposed in Ohio legislature
In Columbus Ohio on February 10 a bill set a maximum of 15 mills on the dollar for local taxes. The measure, led by Representative Silver of Preble, permits voter approval to raise levies. Backed by city leaders and former lawmakers and favored by Governor Davis, the proposal arrives as other actions move through the legislature including a soldiers bonus measure and farm cooperative marketing exemptions from antitrust rules. The Senate also reviews highway code changes and personnel shifts as the Freeman school fund distribution and Carpenter electoral college funding bills pass the chamber.
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Columbus
Ohio
Representative Silver
Preble
Davis
Senate
Hopley
Freeman
Carpenter
Three Die In Auto Crash At Grade Crossing Near Cleveland
Three people are killed and one injured when a car collides with a flyer train at a grade crossing near Cleveland. The victims are H. D. Rawlings 35 Mrs. Fred Kerslake 33 and Gladys Hornbrook 20 all residents of Bedford. Survivors say Rawlings tried to speed away after being waved to stop causing the collision.
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Cleveland
Here
H. D. Rawlings
Fred Kerslake
Gladys Hornbrook
Bedford
Rawlings
Gladys Garrett
Martial law declared as mutiny seizes Petrograd
Berlin dispatches report Kronstadt mutiny spreading to Petrograd with fighting between mutinous sailors and Moscow troops. Bolshevik troops were said defeated as mutineers entered the city, and martial law was proclaimed in Petrograd.
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Berlin
Petrograd
Kronstadt
Helsingfors
Moscow
Rail Labor Board Denies Immediate Wage Cuts
The United States railroad labor board rejected the National Association of Railway Executives bid for immediate abrogation of national working agreements and a wage cut. It said decisions require evidence of fairness and that hearings on the national agreements will continue with the employees' side represented.
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Chicago
United Press
United States Railroad Labor Board
National Association of Railway Executives
Cleveland Crime Survey Promises Pitiless Publicity
Felix Frankfurter executive director of the Cleveland Foundations crime survey said the city will face pitiless publicity. He stated there is no motive to whitewash anyone as 31 local business and professional leaders under Raymond Moley assist in data collection with help from two noted Boston lawyers.
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Cleveland, CO
Cleveland
Felix Frankfurter
Cleveland Foundations
Frankfurter
Boston
Cleveland Business
Raymond Moley
Foundation
Will of Thomas A Burkett Leaves All to Wife Bertha Burkett
The last will and testament of Thomas A. Burkett of Athens County was admitted to probate on Wednesday. It leaves all real and personal property to his wife Bertha E. Burkett. The family has no children, aside from an adopted son Guy Burkett. No appraisal has been made.
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Thomas A. Burkett
Athens County
Bertha E. Burkett
Guy Burkett
Lillian Lorraine Hurt in New York Accident
Vaudeville and film star Lillian Lorraine severely injured in a New York accident. Doctors at a sanitarium reported her condition serious and said she might never return to the stage.
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Lillian Lorraine
New York
Citizens Discuss Roads and Schools in Athens County
A group of Athens and Canaan township residents met at Clark's Chapel to review the road between Athens and Clark's Chapel and to discuss extending and repairing it. Rev Browning and Supt Miller were present. a school building proposal was debated with the township school board.
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Athens
Canaan
Clark’s Chapel
Carpenter
Rev. Browning
Supt. C. E. Miller
Athens Township
Miller
Athens County
Banquet Raid Seizes Liquor at Newark Dinner
In Newark New Jersey on February 10 a testimonial dinner for Mayor Charles P Gillen was raided by six prohibition agents led by Harry E Sands. They alleged a violation of the Volstead act and seized wine whiskey and champagne from the Krueger auditorium open bar. Sands said $30000 worth of liquor seized earlier was intended for the banquet.
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Newark
WN. J
Charles P. Gillen
Krueger
Prohibition Enforcement
Harry E. Sands
Washington
Sands
Damascus Origin Dates Past Recorded History
The origin of Damascus predates written history, with myths and early traces suggesting ancient settlement before extensive historical records. The city’s beginnings remain a subject of scholarly debate as later civilizations documented its prominence.
Mooney supporters hopeful after McDonald affidavit
In San Francisco Mooney and wife Rena express hope after John McDonald repudiates testimony against Mooney in the 1916 preparedness day bombing case. Mooney, jailed for life at San Quentin, says new affidavit props up their claim of innocence as he describes his missing “props” of persecution being toppled and awaits exoneration.
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United Press
San Francisco
Cal
Thomas J. Mooney
Mooney
Rena
John McDonald
San Quentin Prison
Tom
Mrs. Mooney
San Francisco Bay
San Quentin
Warren Billings
Captain Dreyfus
Bergdoll corruption charge denied by U S attorney
United States district attorney Charles D. McEvoy testified before the house military commission that no one in the war department was corrupt in the Bergdoll case. He described Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia millionaire draft dodger, as wrongly stating he would bribe officials with 100000 dollars to avert arrest.
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Bergdoll
Washington
War Department
Grover Cleveland
Philadelphia
Charles D. McEvoy
United States
House Military Commission
McEvoy
Athens Sees Unseasonably Calm Springlike Day
A mild sunny spell hits Athens with a 34 degree reading at seven in the morning. forecaster warns of a mucky and colder night followed by a cooler tomorrow.
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Florida
Athens
Capital City Sees Night of Crime in Columbus Vicinity
Police and county officers were busy mopping up after a wild night of crime in Columbus and vicinity. One man was murdered in a quarrel over whiskey, five persons were held up, four women were attacked by purse snatchers, and one woman was wounded in a cutting affair.
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Columbus
Goodyear Plans to Refinance to be Revealed Feb Twenty-Fifth
Akron officials said the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company will not announce refinancing plans at the stockholders meeting scheduled for tomorrow. The meeting will be adjourned to February 25 when the plans will be made public.
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Akron
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Ready to Fight Washington Headline on Democratic Dispute
George White plans arrival in Washington to confront party leaders attempting to unseat him as a member of the Democratic national committee. The timing is set for today or tomorrow.
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Washington
George White
Democratic National Committee
Birthday celebrated by largest in Ohio family
Findlay Ohio February 10 Mrs Angeline Runkle marks her youngest son’s 40th birthday, making the Runkle family the 22 living children, the largest in the county. The Cole family follows with 17 members, including former Congressman Ralph Cole and Congressman R Clint Cole.
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Findlay, CO
Angeline Runkle
Cole
Ralph Cole
R. Clint Cole
Princess Claims Prince-Hubby Can Work But Not Required
Princess Ludovico Pignatell D Aragon, once Miss Ruth Waters of Atlantic City, states the titled husband “can work but he doesn t have to.” Her remark concerns the prince’s refusal of a New York hotel offer from his father in law.
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Ludovico Pignatell D’aragon
Ruth Waters
Atlantic City
New York
Athens Chamber Discusses Rural Roads and Auto Club
The Athens Chamber of Commerce noon meeting focused on rural and state roads and urged forming a 6000‑member county automobile club. Vice President Craig named a committee to organize, noting Franklin County gains from cooperative civic groups and urging business leaders to boost road work year round. John Lastro warned new state road projects could isolate Athens drivers next summer, and proposed bringing in experts and speakers to guide efforts.
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Chamber of Commerce
States
Athens County
Craig
Sam Seigel
Frank Cone
J. J. Schmidt
Athens County Automobile Club
Athens
Hocking
Fairfield
Lostro
Pension fund disburses record 779 thousand to steel workers
Pittsburg report shows 779,766.60 in pensions paid to United States Steel and subsidiary retirees in 1920. There were 3,264 participants, 2,969 active at year end, with 2,940 at start and 324 added and 295 discontinued. Funds stem from a Carnegie United States Steel trust of 12,000,600.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
United States Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund
Andrew Carnegie
The Hague Called One of Holland’s Handsomest Cities
The account praises The Hague as among the most attractive and well kept cities in Holland. It highlights its beauty and charm, portraying the city as a premier destination with notable streets and scenery.
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The
Hague
Holland
France approves Briand German settlement pact in Paris vote
France’s 2 chamber deputies back Premier Briand’s agreement on German settlements and disarmament by 6387 to 125. Briand says London talks in March will be extreme and penalties may follow if Germany resists, declaring Germany’s fate in her hands.
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John DE Gandt
Paris
France
Chamber of Deputies
London
Germany
Hindenburg Firm on Repeal and Disarmament Demands
Marshal Hindenburg, speaking at the launch of a ship named after him in Bremen, declares Germany will not yield to Allied repeal efforts and disarmament. He accuses France of seeking control of the Rus valley coal and vows to stand firm despite threats.
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Hindenberg
Bremen
Hindenburg
Forms
France
Rus
Germany
Taxi Driver Fined for Street Fight in Hashman Athens
AHashman taxi driver pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and fighting in the street near Washington and Court streets. He was fined $10 plus costs in 5th Court after a Wednesday afternoon incident with Samuel Cone. Hashman, a new driver with the taxi corps, got into the altercation at noon.
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Hashman
Athens
Washington
Court Streets
Simmy Cone
Ford outlines Web Motor plant expansion to small towns
Henry Ford told the New York Tribune that Web Motor Company will establish factories in many small towns, offering work to farmers and boosting rural income. He predicted a future without horses or cows as machinery and synthetic products replace milk and meat. Ford denied plans for an impending merger or consolidation.
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New York
Web Motor Company
Henry Ford
N@ York Tribune today
Ford
Senator Hardingg Sworn In On Friday in State Ceremony
Senator Hardingg is set to take the oath Friday in a state ceremony. The event will mark the official start of his term with local officials and supporters in attendance.
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Senator Hardingg
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