Kellogg May Resign as Secretary to Ease Coolidge Burden
Friends of United States Ambassador Kellogg say he might resign as Secretary of State on arrival in Washington to spare President Coolidge embarrassment over the Paris financial agreement. Kellogg plans to depart London February 17, with March 4 anticipated as his start date. The embassy dismissed links to Senate criticism as not personally disturbing him.
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London
United States
Kellogg
Coolidge
Paris
Charles Jr. Hughes
Senate
London Telegraph
Telegraph
Christmas Card Unites A Long-Scattered Family
A Charleston West Virginia man Henry Boyles visited a girl and found a Christmas card signed Glenna Boyles. The card linked Glenna in Athens with family members in Charlestown and connected him with his sister who works for the West Virginia State Police.
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Athens
Charleston
W. Va
Henry Boyles
Glenna Boyles
Charlestown
Harley
West Virginia
Amnesia man in Birmingham held over murder claim
An unidentified white man in Birmingham claimed he remembered killing a preacher’s wife and was held by police while amnesia was considered. Authorities checked the 1920s Sheatsley furnace murder in Columbus for possible links as doctors called his tale unlikely. The case echoes an unsolved parsonage death.
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Birmingham
Ala
C. V. Sheatsley
Columbus, Ohio
Sheatsley
Columbus
Campaign Expenditure Reform Faces Senate Attack
Senators Garbrandt Borah and Shipstead push for strict limits on national campaign spending and civil service reforms. LaFollette and supporters call for stronger action to curb money in elections, and to remove patronage for minor offices. Report totals show Republican spending at 4.37 million, Democrat 903,908, Progressive 281,977. The corrupt practices bill passed the Senate as a rider to the postal bill.
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Washington
Senate
Robert M. LaFollette
Borah
Benator Wheelser
Montana
LaFollette
United States
Shipstead
Minnesota
House
Dry referendum in New York pressed in legislature
Albany N Y Feb 13 The dry wets battle over a statewide prohibition enforcement bill continues in the New York Legislature with both sides claiming momentum The wets expect Senate defeat if the measure clears the Assembly the drys foresee sufficient Republican votes to pass it Governor Alfred E Smith could veto if both houses approve arguing current law suffices and enforcement is needed after the repeal of the Mullan Gage act three years ago
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Albany
N. Y
New York
Senate
Alfred E. Smith
Smith
Pulling A Leg Apart Prohibition At Work
Arthur Brisbane writes on universal themes of inequality and reform. The column notes the spread of prohibition era debates and social tensions across cities from Nome Alaska to Los Angeles and Sarasota, highlighting the strange, changing news landscape even on a train ride.
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the Times-Dispatch
Arthur Brisbane
Universal Service
Nome
Alaska
Los Angeles
Sarasota
Times-Dispatch
Richmond
Virginia
Court Candidate Narrowly Wins Sympathy in County
S Robert Garrett of Cumber county runs for court amid sympathy for her husband, a former clerk jailed five years for shooting Reverend J Pierce. Continued on Page four.
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S. Robert Garrett
Cumbercounty
J. §. Pierce
Senate Deadlock Aims to Defeat Dry Bill This Year
The ongoing struggle over prohibition heats up as four Republican Senators signal they will not back a dry bill. With all Democratic senators opposing, those four GOP votes could defeat the measure.
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Ture
Midland man admits crime in killing of 11 year old
Victor Baegley, 29, a farmer, was held in the county jail in Bay City after police say he admits slaying Margaret Todd, 11, whose body was found last night in woods north of Coleman Michigan.
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Midland
Mich
Victor Baegley
Bay City
Margaret Todd
Coleman
Century of Love Keeps Aged Woman Single to the End
Okmulgee Oklahoma February 13 Miss Nancy Boyd aged 119 has remained unmarried since girlhood love Jem Turner of a poor family. Her father blocked their union fearing aristocratic marriage. They planned to marry after his death, but Jem was killed in 1861, ending their hopes. Nancy remains devoted and believes they will reunite.
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College Inn
North Court
Istreet
Athens
Preety
Harley
Vanaugh
Glenna
Shrewsbury
West Virginia
Fitness J
Boyles
Fred Lee Tom
Henry
Miss Boyles
Vonaugh
Okmulgee
Okla
Nancy Boyd
Tennessee
Jem Turner
Turner
Miss Boyd
Jem
Father
Nancy
Southlands
University to reopen probe into O S U strychnine deaths
Ohio State University will restart a probe into the strychnine poisoning deaths of two students with Dr. E F McCampbell in charge. Police Prosecutor Chester and City Detective Carson will assist as officials plan to question Pharmacy upperclassmen and hold a mass meeting with Dr W O Thompson urging aid. The dispensary at the Pharmacy College remains closed for now.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
E. F. McCampbell
College of Medicine
Chester
Carson
College of Pharmacy
W. O. Thompson
Pharmacy
Pharmacy College
Germany Mines Mass Casualty Tragedy Shocks Dortmund
Flags flew at half mast as Dortmund and other German cities counted dead from a major mine disaster. More than a hundred bodies recovered and two rescuers suffocated by fresh gas explosions. The blast traces to an engine spark igniting fire damp in the tunnels. Chancellor Luther restored from vacation to direct rescue efforts.
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Dortmund
Germany
Luthers
Nome diphtheria epidemic abates in Alaska
Governor Bone reported to Secretary Work the Nome diphtheria epidemic has abated with no new cases for five days and ample anti toxin on hand to meet possible emergencies in the future.
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Washington
Bone
Alaska
Admiral Sir Percy Scott Will Leaves Large Estate
London February 13. The will of Admiral Sir Percy Scott, noted British naval gunnery expert, leaves more than 500000 dollars to his two children with a directive to the executors to keep their heads straight.
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London
Percy Scott
Hoodoo Day Friday the 13th superstitions urged for luck
The piece warns of bad luck on Friday the 13th with old time superstitions. It jokes about a black cat, broken mirrors, salt spills, ladders and the seventh son who votes Republican, offering a farcical remedy involving a golden horseshoe and four leaf clovers tossed into the Hocking river while reciting verses from the Koran to a song.
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Black Cat
Hardtack
Miss Fortune
Mecca
Hocking
Unlucky Friday Thirteenth for Charles Miller in Marion
Charles Miller a 30 year old painter was robbed by two men who took all his possessions leaving only his clothes. He was found half frozen in a shed this morning as Cecil Gibson of Marion and Fred Yazel of Lima are held as suspects by police.
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Marion
Charles Miller
Miller
Cecil Gibson
Fred Yazel
Lima
Senate panel adds projects to rivers and harbors bill
The Senate commerce committee added a dozen new projects to the $43,000,000 rivers and harbors bill and approved a $275,000 appropriation for a St Lawrence river survey for President Coolidge.
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Washington
Senate Commerce Committee
House
Coolidge
St. Lawrence River
Cavern Rescue Efforts Stalled By Floods at Sand Cave
Cavern rescue work at Sand Cave in Land Cave Kentucky faced renewed delays as earth deluges buried the shaft. A diamond drill continued into a 54 foot depth while three caverns resisted timbering, and fresh crews met similar flooding conditions.
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Land Cave
Sand Cave
Nature
No shortcut found in search for entombed cave explorer
Land Cave Kentucky February 13. After long drilling and digging all night there is no fissure or tunnel aiding the rescue of Fwyd Collins. The cove drill reached sixty five feet in the shaft but tests at the bottom found no tunnel.
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Land Cave
Underground rescue efforts stall as cave-in search continues
Amid bitter cold and ice coated timbers at the shaft site, workers push to sixty feet deep seeking Floyd Collins’s underground tomb. Authorities in Cave City prepare to show Kentucky’s case on rescue feasibility while the inquiry continues and the test of acetylene torches is debated.
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Cave
Floyd Collins
Sand Cave
Kentucky
Collins
Cave City
H. H. Denhardt
Blanchard Sentenced for Abandoning Illegitimate Child
Vergil Blanchard is in the Columbus penitentiary today after being convicted of abandoning an illegitimate child. He was sentenced by Judge Worley in Harrison County Common Pleas Court.
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Pendadiz
Vergil Blanchard
Columbus
Worley
Harrison County Common Pleas Court
Prohibition Boosts Irish Book About Poteen
In Belfast on February 13 Patrick MacGill described how prohibition in the United States revived a book detailing poteen production in Ireland. He said the work failed financially before prohibition but has since sold widely and brought him a fortune.
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Belfast
United States
Patrick MacGill
Ireland
America
Senate Probes Move From Oil to Bread and Gas
Washington reports the Senate shifts from oil and Justice to probes on bread and gasoline prices and the electric and tobacco trusts. Two inquiries were sent to the Federal Trade Commission while a Van Sweringen Nickel Plate merger probe remains a Senate committee pursuit with authorization expected before adjournment.
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Federal Trade Commission
Senate
Howell
Republcan
Nebraska
Whales Stranded at St Helens Beach Tasmania
Seven seven whales stranded on a beach about twenty five miles from St Helens. Most were small ranging from fifteen to twenty five feet in length. The black variety offered little commercial value.
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ST. Helens
Tasmania
New Pocket Flashlight Alarm Wired For Banks
A new burglar alarm reacts to light. A tiny pocket flashlight flashed in a dark room triggers the alarm, promising early warning in banks and similar premises.
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Washington
Ench
Home Folks Divided Over Collins Death Mystery
Albany reports Harry J. Brown, dog fancier, receives a letter from E E B Miller of Lebanon Junction Ky stating locals believe Floyd Collins may be alive and that the rescue saga is exaggerated by the press. Miller accuses some of fraud or a newspaper frame up and cites claims the shaft progress was misreported.
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Albany
Harry J. Brown
E. E B. Miller
Lebanon Junction
Sand Cave
Floyd Collins
Miller
Collins
End of world prediction fades in Cleveland forecast
In Cleveland Ohio on February 13 believers from the Reformed Seventh Day Adventists prayed for the end of the world. A noon sun dimmed as a northeast snowstorm blew in and darkness fell for about an hour. As light returned the sect’s hopes waned and Friday the 13th mood persisted.
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Cleveland
Seventh Day Adventists
World
Questions on Social Etiquette and Courtesies Explain Rules
A list of etiquette questions covers divorcee invitations, initials on visiting cards, salutations on letters, greetings with a handshake, calling etiquette for a host, and dining manners. The piece notes artichoke eating and whether hosts should wait for all guests to arrive, ending with a note about enclosed return stamps.
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