Thirteen Die In Tenement Blaze In New York
Thirteen people including seven children die when a five story tenement at 397 Madison Street bursts into flames on a bitter February morning in the Lower East Side. Police believe a pyromaniac started the fire in a baby carriage in a lower hall and 200 officers hunt a suspect linked to earlier similar fires.
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William M. Barrett
Nellie Barrett
Margaret Barrett
William Barrett, Jr
Three Year Mine Contract Agreed On By Joint Body
After a week of wrangling a sub-committee settled wage scale differences for a three year contract in the central competitive district. The plan renews the present schedule with a three year term. Some Illinois operators and others pushed for one year but were outvoted by operators from three other states. The deal is to be reviewed by the miners policy committee and then a district referendum.
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Central States
Jacksonville
Fla
General Conference
General Assembly
Miners’ Organization
Ilinois
Indianapolis
Strangest Railway Wreck Sets Fire To Town
A burning freight train wrecked on a high bridge at Ludwigstadt near Coburg today and ignited a fire that consumed much of the village. The incident is described as one of the strangest railway disasters in history with potential heavy loss of life. A tubular automobile foot rest is mentioned as a new multiuse accessory.
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Berlin
Ludwigstadt
Coburg
Founder's Day Festivities Highlight Ohio University Event
Ohio University celebrates Founder s Day with a large campus convocation drawing students faculty and townspeople. President Bryan opens then alumni secretary Clark Williams guides program featuring the Girls Glee Club under Prof C C Robinson piano solos by Mrs Frances Ruggles Hizey and an address by Prof T N Hoover on the historical background of Ohio University.
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Ewing Hall
Bryan
Clark Williams
C. C. Robinson
Bemberg
iClutson
Williams
T. N. Hoover
Lounder
Hoover
Frances Ruggles Hizey
School of Music
Poldini
Chopin
Man flees after bringing dead theatre usher to hospital
Baltimore reports a city-wide search for a man who early today carried a dead 23 year old theatre usher Josephine Fox to University Hospital. Fox was identified after two hours in the morgue and authorities said she was about to become a mother. A man fled in an automobile as the incident unfolded.
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Baltimore
University Hospital
Josephine Fox
Streetcar Crash Injures 25 on West Side in Chicago
Twenty five men and women en route to work were injured, some seriously, when two crowded street cars collided at a West Side intersection. Slippery rails blamed. brakes failed on the Chicago Avenue car, shoving into an Ashland Avenue car and throwing it from the rails. Passengers trampled in the rush to escape.
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Chicago
Nelsonville Merchants Back Local Traction Line
Nelsonville Retail Merchants Association votes to support the local traction line over bus competition. Members ordered display cards in business houses urging wider support for the traction company in Nelsonville and the valley. In Spain, Saragosa police round up bandits who had terrorized the countryside.
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Nelsonville
Saragosa
Spain
Landis Attacks Mellon Plan Antibonus Postscript
Former baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis denounced the Mellon tax cut as a colossal bribe to a great people. He said Congress postponed veteran claims payments and that adjusted compensation lets 4,000,000 veterans feel they paid a debt.
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Public
the Treasury
Andrew Mellon
America
Landis
British dock strike disrupts mail flow in Plymouth
London reports a dock workers strike spreading to all British ports. Mails to America loaded for shipping remain on Plymouth docks while the court inquiry proceeds. Unions refuse to pledge compliance with court decisions, signaling possible emergency legislation as food prices rise amid shortages.
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London
United States
America
Plymouth
House of Commons
Ramsay MacDonald
One License Tag Only Half Enough Warned
Athens county motorists are warned by County Traffic Officer P. H. Barrows that one license tag on a machine is half the legal requirement. Three drivers were warned Monday for displaying only one tax tag and future offenders may be brought to court rather than given a warning.
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P. H. Barrows
Barrows
Drowning After Ice Breaks On Pond Near Columbus
Harold W. Grubbs, 15, sank when ice under him broke while skating on a pond in Columbus. His brothers Russell, 15, and Walter, 11, attempted rescue but failed. The incident occurred late yesterday with local gardener involved in plantings noted in dispatches.
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Harold W. Grubbs
Fried Russell
Walter
Whitney fails to appear before Senate panel
Washington February 19 Harry Payne Whitney millionaire sportsman and ally of Harry F Sin clair was under subpoena to testify before the Senate committee today but did not answer the summons. The committee waited for more than an hour.
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N.S
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New York
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Harry Payne Whitt
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Harry B. Benkard
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York, KE
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Cincinnati
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Atlee Pomerencé
Delaware
Doheny
Wadeington
California
Wyeoming
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Tate
Wye
Harry Payne Whitney
Mellon Plan Sures Fall In House Debate
The tax reduction fight resumed in the House as administration readers concede the Mellon plan is doomed. Democrats say they have enough votes with Republican insurgents to substitute their rate schedule. Negotiations continue by Speaker Gillett and Longworth to secure a vote on income tax rates.
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Web
House
Gillett
Longworth
Food costs rise 3 percent in year to January 16
Washington February 19 The retail cost of food in January decreased one percent from December yet for the year ending January 16 there was a three percent increase in all articles of food according to the department of labor.
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George BR. Holmes
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Teapot Dome
Daugherty
Department of Labor
Water Service Off In East End Wednesday Morning
Due to today's storm the service department cannot complete planned water line changes in the East End and the Children's Home. Work will proceed Wednesday morning, with about three hours of water outage in the affected area.
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Service Department
East End
One Language For All Americans Aims For Fluency
A note promotes a free Word Booklet from the bureau to improve speech and writing. It covers mispronounced, misspelled, and misused words. Send two cents in stamps for return postage and keep this reference at hand to aid social and business advancement.
Athens Messenger Information Bureau Contact
Frederic J. Haskin directs the Athens Messenger Information Bureau in Washington DC. Name Street City provides a contact identification for correspondence.
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Frederic J. Haskin
The
Athens Messenger Nfation Bureau
Washington, D. C
Warburg Elected Washington President in February
A cryptic note reports M. Warburg being elected president in Washington on a February date. The text is garbled and lacks clear context or full names, but indicates a leadership change at a federal department or agency.
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Washington
M. Warburg
New
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