Drug evil now being whipped in the states
United States Public Health service reports 110000 to 150000 narcotic addicts in the nation downsizing from 264000 a year ago. Convictions rise 93 percent of narcotic cases. 5028 years imprisonment imposed. Smuggling via borders and ports remains a concern. legitimate imports near medical needs. Switzerland leads in per capita legitimate use.
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States
Lawrence Kolb
Public Health Service
Prohibition Unit
New York
San Francisco
Federal
North Contreal Board
State Hughes
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Scretary of
Commerce
Hoover
Switzerland
Canada
United State
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Wooster Woman Commits Suicide After Tragedy Murders
Mrs Frank Musser aged 39 of Wooster took strychnine today amid grief over Floyd Collins cave tragedy and alleged student poisonings at Ohio State University. She died an hour later at her home.
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Wooster
Floyd Collins
Foe Cave
Ohio State University
Frank Musser
Brishbane on eyes flaws and imagined extra finger
Arthur Brisbane notes British worry over declining eyesight with alarming statistics. He argues human senses are inherently defective like teeth and imagines adding a extra finger to improve arithmetic and instrument playing under a duodecimal system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haeckel
Fragmentary quote about British statesmen and a "poor fish"
The clipping presents a critical, unnamed remark about British leaders and a distant American politician described as a "poor fish." It appears as a clipped continuation note on page four with no clear event or identification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Statesman
Obscure Inventor Wins Huge Verdict After Struggle
George Campbell Carson, a 58 year old mining engineer, was awarded a 20 million dollar verdict by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco against the American Smelting and Refining Company for patent infringement. His furnace treatment process revolutionizes ore refining and allows 700 tons of ore to be treated in a side charging furnace versus 240 tons in the old top charging design. He designed the furnace in 1906 after nearly twenty years of struggle to gain recognition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Campbell Carson
United States Circuit Court of Appeal of
San Francisco
American Smelting and Refining Company
Carson
Solons Move to Tax Foreign Corporations in Ohio
Ohio lawmakers advance the Williams Farnsworth bill allowing foreign corporations to elect by April 11 to pay 1924 taxes within 1060 days to avoid listing stockholdings for capital stock tax. Dempsey plans a separate bill imposing net worth taxes on domestic and foreign firms. Court ruling last year voided the prior foreign corporation tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Senate
House
Dempsey
Cuyahoga
State Tax Commission
United States Supreme Court
Side charging furnace idea born in early life
I was born in Kenton Ohio fifty eight years ago and started work young in copper mines. Watching furnaces fed from the top inspired me to innovate and in 1996 the reverberatory side charging furnace idea took shape though I found resistance to trying it.
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Miller Holland
I. N.S
San Francisco
Kenton
Arizona
Dry Detective Savage’s country home burned in Ohio
The country home of Dry Detective George Savage in Ironton Ohio was burned to the ground last night. Savage a noted dry official has made many enemies and some are suspected of setting the fire.
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Ironton
George
Savage
Grandmother at 32 Paris born in Algiers
Mme. Lombardo, a French woman born in Algiers, is described as a grandmother at 82. She married at 15 and became mother to a girl at 16. Her daughter married at the same age and has her first baby at 16.
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Paris
Mme. Lombardo
Algiers
Oldest government pensioner is 105 year old Mrs Mahala Huff
Washington reports Mrs Mahala Huff of Louisa Kentucky is the oldest pensioner on the federal rolls at 105. She is the widow of War of 1812 veteran James Huff and receives thirty dollars monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mahala Huff
Louisa
James Huff
Axe falls on young army air chief in clash over aviation future
Washington February 19 The War department ousts Brigadier General William Mitchell from the Army Air Service, reducing him to colonel and assigning him to an outlying post after his March 26 expiration. President Coolidge approves after debates with Weeks and Wilbur. Mitchell resigns but plans to stay in the army as colonel. The dispute centers on air power’s role versus older officers who want aviation as auxiliary.
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Army Air Service
Union OF Air Branches
Washington
War Department
William Mitchell
Mitchell
Air Service
Coolidge
Weeks
Wilbur
House Aircraft Committee
Army
Navy
America
Coolidge blasts tax evils and calls for reform
President Coolidge denounces abuses in the federal and state tax system in Washington. He urges simplification, warns that overlapping inheritance taxes threaten estates and may confiscate wealth, and argues the government should withdraw from this field. He lists three dangers and contends social policy should not masquerade as revenue.
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Congress
Coolidge
Local Youth Impersonates Official Fined in Court
Iron ton correspondent notes Lester Bowman, after completing a correspondence course, raided Charlies Lansford's blacksmith shop seeking alcohol. Lansford objected and alerted police, Bowman was charged with impersonating an officer and fined 28.80 dollars in police court.
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Tronton
Ironton
Lester Bowman
Charlies Lansford
Lunsford
Bowman
Gas masks to be worn in next war says Haldane
British chemist J B S Haldane warns that all residents of large cities would be required to wear gas masks in the next war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
J. B. S. Haldane
Magnesium Promises A New Auto Era From Abundant Metal
Promoters push a plan to revive salt wells in Athens County and the Hocking Valley. The first article highlights magnesium as a revolutionary, light strong metal for automobiles, noting its light weight, heat resistance, and potential to replace aluminum in parts.
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Athens County
Hocking Valley
America
Union
Muscle Shoals Bill Faces Filibuster Risk in Senate
The Feb 18 report notes fear of a filibuster delaying adjournment as Muscle Shoals legislation nears final Senate debate. Opponents warn debate may last two days and threaten three major appropriation bills and a possible special session. Norris says no filibuster planned.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Norris
Republican
Nebraska
House
Longworth
Jury uses Bible to reach verdict acquitting Jersey City slayer
In Jersey City on February 19, a jury acquitted Marie Zelio, 19, after three hours deliberation on a murder charge over the October stabbing of John Renne. The Bible verse was found open in the jury room but not disclosed as the reason for the verdict. Zelio collapsed when announced not guilty, with her husband and a five year old daughter nearby.
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Jersey City
N. J
Marie Zelio
John Renne
Man Hangs Himself After Note For Burial Beside Wife
East Liverpool Ohio February 19. Ore McMillen seventy year old laborer commits suicide by hanging in an apple orchard on the farm of his son in law Harry McCoy near ere after leaving a note asking to be buried beside his wife in a Cleveland cemetery.
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East Liverpool
Cleveland
Ss. McMillen
Harry McCoy
Auto Mishaps Caused Deaths of Many
CHICAGO February 19 At least 20 000 persons were killed in automobile accidents in the United States during 1924. C B Auel president of the National Safety council announced here today. The council’s figure shows an increase over 1923 of between 1000 and 2000 due to greater use of automobiles. Mr Auel urged a concentrated study of the problem by public officials and the adoption of uniform traffic regulations across states to curb accidents.
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Chicago
United States
C. B. Auel
National Safety Council
Auel
Writer James Jane Allen Dies at 75 in New York
James Jane Allen, famed author of The Kentucky Cardinal and The Choir Invisible, died this afternoon at Roosevelt Hospital in New York at age 75.
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Amous
New York
James Jane Allen
Kentucky
Roosevelt Hospital
Economy Starts At Home In White House Budget
President Coolidge urges trimmed spending with a White House economy contest open to staff. General Lord estimates possible cuts of about 12500 dollars, prompting Noah Webster to launch a savings plan contest. Each employee submits ideas and the best saves ten dollars from Webster’s pocket.
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Washington
Coolidge
General Lord
White House
Noah FP. Webster
Noah
Protesting Lisbon Stamp Tax Resistance
Lisbon shopkeepers refuse to collect the new stamp tax on bottled goods including wine mineral waters and perfumery. Several prominent businessmen have been arrested in connection with the protest.
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Lisbon
Ohio House set for bus law clash and tax reform votes
Columbus, Feb 19 A tense House session centers on the Collinter city home rule bus bill to regulate all motor bus traffic inside city limits and a possible clash over interurban regulation. The Taxation committee will report the Tallentire home rule tax bill, while other measures may be taken up next Wednesday. A Senate auto probe is planned after a governor’s son served a speeding sentence and a collision involving a state car. Second-reading items include auto tag transfer penalties Armistice Day holiday and a proposed inheritance tax distribution amendment.
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Columbus
Collinter City
State Utilities Commission
House Taxation Committee
Senate
Miller
Butler County
Hal Donahey
Springfield
Edwards
Licking
Roberts
Mahoning
Aigler
Huron
Japan Objects to General Ruling on Arms Limitations
Tokyo signals Japan would accept limits on submarines aircraft and ships but objects to gun size limits and cruiser counts. Semi official International News Service report says Japan wants its own position distinct from other nations while backing broader disarmament aims.
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Tokio
Japan
Servine
Nations not favorable to arms talk meet
Informal diplomacy signals aim for a new international arms conference as officials in Washington and capitals abroad weigh chances of success. France and Japan resist, Britain potentially supports, with talks focusing on limiting submarines and aircraft and a possible Washington conference next fall around November 11.
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Washington
London
Paris
Tokio
Rome
Coolidge
France
Japan
Great Britain
United States
Kidnapping Gang Seizes Jewelry Worth 26000 in Chicago
Four bandits kidnap a young messenger in Chicago and seize jewelry valued at about $26,000 before releasing him near the car area. The incident leaves police seeking suspects and details of the theft.
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Chicago
Maxine Johnson Scalp Injured in Auto Incident
Maxine Johnson, G, was struck by a car in Marion Ohio on February 19. The wheel clipped her hair causing a partial scalp injury. Driver G C. Den was absolved of blame.
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Marion
Maxine Johnson
G.C. den
How Many Rats Do You Feed
An editorial notes the large rat population in the United States costs 206 pore a year to feed and the harm caused by disease and filth. It criticizes ineffective trapping and urges a scientific approach. The piece references a 24 page government booklet with illustrated results and calls readers to request it.
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United States
Aed
Eclentife
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