Senate Gears Up To Ratify Armament Treaties
The Senate foreign relations committee began a survey of the seven wartime treaties from the armament conference. Members expect a slow path to ratification with the naval pact likely first due to broad support and to align navy appropriations. Senator Lodge plans a Boston address on conference outcomes after a needed rest.
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J. Bart Campbell
N.S
Estington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harding
Senate
House
Senator Lodge
Massausetts
American Legation
Uch
Boston
Lodge
Borah
Idaho
Miners and rail unions plan defensive alliance meeting
John L. Lewis announced a Chicago conference for February 21 with the United Mine Workers and fifteen of sixteen major railroad unions joining. He said the meeting aims to protect workers interests and deny any link to a former labor party, with a likely pledge from the remaining union soon.
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Indianapolis
Chicago
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Lewis
Killed While Cleaning a Gun
Clarence J. Curby vice president of Smith and Davis Manufacturing Co. was found dead in the gun room of his St. Louis home. Family members say an automatic pistol he was cleaning accidentally exploded, shortly before he left for his office.
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ST. Louis, Mo
Clarence J. Curby
Smith and Davis Manufacturing Co
Curby
Pennsylvania unemployment peaks at over 316000
Harrisburg Pa Feb 11 The state labor department chief says employment reports show about 316860 workers idle in Pennsylvania an insane over January by roughly ten thousand indicating the peak of unemployment may have been reached and the downturn appears to have slowed.
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Meystone
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Cc. B. Connelley
State Department of Labor and Industry
Weather outlook for Ohio Valley next week
The Weather Bureau reports a week of cloudy periods with rain or snow. Cold start, then warmer days midweek in the Ohio Valley.
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Washington
Weather Bureau Today
Ohio Valley
Athens Bride Remembers Coldest Day and Year
The item notes two extreme temperatures in Athens County on February 10 in 1899 and 1922. It pairs the harsh cold with a bride’s memory of a wedding that happened on that date, calling it the most memorable year of her life.
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Athens County
Athens
Public Conference on Commercial Engineering Set
Washington notes a second public conference on commercial engineering scheduled for May 1 and 2 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology, announced by the commissioner of education.
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Washington
Commissioner of Education
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Edison claims new era of invention on 75th birthday
West Orange New Jersey February 11 Thomas A Edison marked his 75th birthday by predicting a coming inventive era and extended prosperity for America He spoke of broadcasting advances and amplified radio messages while noting he arrived late for work after supervising 4 000 employees and working overnight.
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West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
America
Edison
Pig Case Brings Millfield Man to Court
Russell Male of Millfield faces a malicious injury charge after allegedly shooting a pig belonging to Fred M. Keirns, a wound so severe the animal was killed. At arraignment before Magistrate Pearl W. Helwig, Male claimed the pig trespassed, and he was released on recognizance pending Feb. 16 hearing.
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Russell Male
Millfield
Mariner
Fred M. Keirns
Male
Keirns
Pearl W. Helwig
Maie
Notable Ohio Religious Figures and Edison Birth
Entries recount Philander Chase becoming Ohio’s first Protestant Episcopal bishop in 1819, Thomas A. Edison born in Milan in 1847, Robert Cary of Clovernook dying at 80 in 1866, and Rev. John Keep’s death near Oberlin in 1870. These items reflect 19th century religious and scientific milestones tied to Ohio locales.
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Philander Chase
Ohio
Thomas A. Edison
Milan
Robert Cary
Alice
Phoebe Cary
Clovernook
Cincinnati
John Keep
Oberlin
Massachusetts
Blood stained cap linked to Taylor murder suspect
After a four hour meeting between Mabel Normand and District Attorney Woolwine, investigators press on with the William Desmond Taylor case. A blood stained cap, possibly worn by the man seen leaving the Taylor home, was found in Walter Thiele's possession and is being examined. A secret-identified informant remains under surveillance by Woolwine’s team.
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Los Angeles
Mabel Normand
Screen Star
Thomas Lee Woolwine
William Desmond Taylor
Taylor
Walter Thiele
International News Service
District Attorney
Woolwine
District Attorney’s Office
Tragic War Romance Ensnared by Death in Cleveland
American dough boy Hobart F. Bormans died at Marine hospital less than a week after his French bride Mille Suzette Scherr died in a Neveland hospital. The pair married after meeting amid World War I service, disinheritance followed, and Bormans learned of her death as he recovered. His funeral and World War I veteran services were planned for Marietta.
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Cleveland
Hobart F. Bormans
Marine Hospital
Mille
Suzette Scherr
Neveland
Bormans
Theodore Bormans
Borman
Marietta
Susette
Tax Help at Athens Post Office March 1 7
The Internal Revenue Department and A. McBride will assist in preparing income tax returns at the Athens post office building from March 1 to March 7. Staff in Room 21 will operate daily from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to aid filers.
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McBride
Internal Revenue Department
Athens Post Office
Ohio Alumni to Erect Memorial on University Grounds
Ohio Alumni Association votes a nationwide drive to raise 300000 for an Alumni Memorial Hall on Ohio University campus. National headquarters will be Columbus. James P. Wood Jr. chairs the drive. Martzolff secretaries the meeting. committee heads named including Eickenberry Sayre Crooks Foster Liggett. The executive committee to reconvene later this month.
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Columbus, CO
Ohio University
Ohio Alumni Association
Hotel Deshler
James P. Wood, Jr
Cleveland
Martzolff
Athens
Columbus
E. C. Eickenberry
Camden
E. D. Sayre
Fr. S. Crooks
I. M. Foster
Washington, D. C
Clarence Liggett
Belfast Riots Escalate as Police Use Machine Guns
In Belfast on February 11 police faced violent mobs of Orangemen and Sinn Feiners. After initial pistol fire failed to quell the unrest, machine guns were deployed to disperse attackers who challenged curfew in the nightlong clashes affecting workers en route to jobs.
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Belfast
Start Posse After a Murder Suspect at a Lonely Cabin
Sheriff Jones led a Fresno county posse to surround a river cabin after rancher Cobb reported a man named Sands matching the LA murder suspect description. The man had been living there for several days near the San Joaquin river, prompting the search.
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Fresno
Cal
International News Service
W. F. Jones
Fresno County
San Joaquin
Sands
Edward Sands
W. D. Taylor
Los Angeles
J. M. Cobb
Judge Patterson Assigned After Treash Death
Akron Ohio February 11 Judge Frank M Patterson of the Ashland appeals court is assigned to temporary duty on the two county appeals court replacing Judge Philip Treash who was killed weeks earlier when struck by an auto truck Patterson steps into Treashs vacancy and assumes duties in the two county appellate panel
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Akron. O
Frank M. Patterson
Ashland Appeals Court
Philip Treash
Pay of Death Dealer Drops at Sing Sing
Nine teen twenty-one year old Ossining report shows State Executioner John Hulbert earned less in 1921 with 11 electrocutions, down from 16 the previous year. He receives 150 dollars per execution plus a 1500 dollar salary for another state service. Three more executions are planned in 1922 as 25 inmates remain on death row.
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International News Service
Ossining
N. Y
John Hulbert
Hulbert
Lincoln birthday holiday not observed Monday
School children will not get a day off Monday as Lincoln's birthday falls on Sunday. Superintendent Guy Dinsmoor's office confirmed no holiday for Lincoln's birthday when the date lands on Sunday, despite inquiries from teachers across the county.
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Lincoln
Guy Dinsmoor
Lincoln's
Bullet Holes Cut Athens Phone Cable Wires
A celebrant and a rifle are believed to have conspired to damage about 100 telephone lines in Athens. Investigators traced the break to a bullet through a lead cable along Park Place behind Boyd Hall, piercing the cable center and severing over half of its 200 wires.
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Athens
Trepehone Company
Park Place
Boyd Hall
After Supper Special at Square Deal Grocery
Strictly fresh county eggs offered at 35 cents a dozen by Square Deal Grocery in a nightly bargain notice.
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Square Deal Grocery
Senate Finance and Ways and Means Talk Over Soldier Bonus Tax
Republican members of the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee conferred at length in Washington over the tax schedule designed to raise 359 million dollars for a soldiers bonus but failed to reach agreement.
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Washington
Senate Finance
House
Ways and Means Committee
Paris claims the sun dial capital of the world
The city of Paris is described as possessing more sun dials than any other city globally, highlighting its unique historical and architectural interest in timekeeping devices.
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Paris
City
Wall street bucket shop ring faces crackdown
New York officials and the New York Stock Exchange move to protect investors amid a wave of failures. Twenty five brokerage firms linked to the bucket shop ring collapsed in two months, with liabilities over 25 million and many customers losing life savings. Juries may indict prominent firms soliciting by mail and long distance calls. Charles J. Seymour warns bucketing will not be tolerated as the exchange pledges to clean house. District attorney and state attorney general offices report overwhelmed by loss tales from the street.
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Charles Parmer
I. N
New York
New York Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Wall
Charles J. Seymour
Seymour
Exchange
Stock Exchange
Old grads are being located in scattered states
The Alumni Association reports progress in locating Ohio University graduates. Secretary L Martzolff says about 500 addresses remain missing, bringing the located total to 3113 with help from Prof Martzolff. Recent finds include A M Post from 1867 now in Columbus Nebraska and George S Van Law from 1872 in Ogden Utah.
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Missiong Ohio
Alumni Association
L. Martzolff
Prof
Martzolff
A. M. Post
Ohio University
Columbus
Neb
Nebraska
Downing
Brunswick
John E. Sanders
Burbank
Cal
George S. van Law
Ogden
Utah
France Seeks Large Navy to Guard Corsica
In Washington on February 11, France told the arms conference its navy is needed to defend possessions in three seas and cited Corsica, a remote Mediterranean island. The piece notes Corsica as Napoleon's birthplace and Columbus's claimed landfall, linking sentiment to defense.
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Washington, D. C
France
Three Seas
Mediterranean
Corsica
Napoleon Bonaparte
Christopher Columbus
Prohibition viewed as 7 percent effective now
Bishop Thomas Nicholson head of the Anti Saloon League says prohibition is 75 percent effective overall and 90 percent in some areas. Washington waits on Italy’s invitation to the Genoa conference as U S policy remains unsettled. The White House contemplates a cautious reply and potential withdrawal.
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Thomas Nicholson
Methodist Episcopal
Chicago
Anti- Saloon League
Washington
Europe
Rome
Richard Washburn Child
United States
France
State Department
Italy
Great Brita
LA Police Intensify Efforts in Taylor Murder Probe
District Attorney Thomas E Woolwine reports LA police work night and day on the William Desmond Taylor murder case while noting no substantial clues yet. He dismisses press claims that authorities lack effort and stresses ongoing investigation.
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Thomas E. Woolwine
Los Angeles County
International News Service
I. N
Los Angeles
William Desmond ‘Taylor
Girl Singers From Ohio University Tour Columbus
The university girls glee club of Athens led by Mrs. A. Thompson traveled in a chartered chair car to Columbus to perform at the Hotel Deshler the evening concert. W H Hartsough arranged the trip for 34 co-eds with a special street car plan upon arrival. Alumni gathered at Deshler to discuss an important program of improvements for Ohio University.
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Ohio University
Girls Glee Club
A.&. Thompson
Columbus
W. H. Hartsough
Hocking Valley Railroad
Athens
Deshler
University Girls’ Glee Club
Shall the Devil Foreclose His Mortgage
A church event invites readers to Sunday night services at 7 30 in the evening to discuss a controversial topic. The notice uses dramatic phrasing to draw interest and invites participation from parishioners.
Car Crash on Court Street Injures No One
A Servitts Grocery Co delivery truck driven by Earl Sha was badly damaged Saturday morning when a Ford touring car driven by Clarence Briley backed into it on North Court Street. Briley’s car was backing from a driveway to Athens Implement Co. No injuries were reported and the Briley car had minor damage.
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Court Street
Servittt Grocery Co
Earl Sha
Clarence Briley
Phil Briley
New Marshfield Road
North Court Street
Briley
Athens Implement Co
Brazil leads in coffee consumption by per capita
In proportion to its population Brazil shows the greatest consumption of coffee, highlighting its prominence in global coffee use and cultural reliance on the beverage.
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Brazil
Get Ready For Your Garden Now
Public notice advises planning your garden early with expert guidance from government garden books. Free copies of the Garden Booklet are available by mail, requiring name, address, and two cents for return postage, sent to Frederic J. Haskin in Washington at The Athens Messenger Information Bureau.
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Department of Agricultu
Frederic J. Haskin
The
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D
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