Bank wrecking ring broken by arrests in Chicago
Chicago reports reveal Frank L. Taylor president of First National Warren Mass arrested on embezzlement charges of 209000 as authorities pursue Joseph B. Marcino. Marcino linked to several financial collapses and controlled Niagara Life Insurance of Buffalo and Mechanics and Merchants Bank of Philadelphia before a February 14 takeover. Philadelphia bank failure followed with 130000 shortage last week.
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Chicago
Frank L. Taylor
First National Bank of
Warren
Mass
United States
Joseph B. Marcino
Biatia
Moffere
Marcino
Taylor
Marccino
Hadley
New York State Insurance Commission
Burns Detective Agency
California
Niagara Life Insurance Company of
Buffalo
The
Mechanics and Merchants Bank of
Philadelphia
Insurance Commissioner
France to Open Talks With Soviet Russia on Moscow Recognition
French cabinet votes unanimously to start negotiations with Soviet Russia despite Premier Millerand opposition. A mission to Russia is planned within a month to discuss political and financial issues, with Lausanne cited as laying groundwork for a Russo French accord. Russians avoided criticizing the Ruhr occupation at Lausanne.
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Paris
Millerand
France
Russia
Munist
Moscow
L’pcho National
Athens Country Club Hosts Second Monthly Stag Dinner
More than 70 members attended the Athens Country Club stag dinner west of the city. The event included dinner cards and a social evening, with John Swanson announcing a complete golf program for the coming summer. Tournaments and handicaps are planned. details will be mailed to members.
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Athens Country Club
John Swanson
Greens
Ford plans 1 MLO canals and rail line expansion
Congressmen Thompson cites a Ford plan to operate a canal barge line from Cincinnati to Toledo before double tracking and electrifying the Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad. A waterway expert corroborates a Mississippi Ohio river fleet to move coal from West Virginia to Ironton. US engineers survey Cincinnati to Toledo route with $160,000 appropriated for the study.
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Defiance
Cincinnati
Toledo
Detroit, Toledo and
Ironton Railroad
Henry Ford
Charles J. Thompson
Ford Organization
St. Louis
Congressmerp Thompson
Ford
Two Children Die in Fire While Mother Absent
In Los Angeles on February 21 a house fire claimed the lives of two children of Mrs. Robert Butzke who were alone at home while their mother was away. The cause of the blaze was not immediately known.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Robert Butzke
Tax Valuations Of Ohio Utilities Rise Over Past Decade
Columbus Feb 22 Tax valuations of Ohio public utilities have jumped 446 percent in 12 years. In 1910 valuations were 261 425 092 dollars, rising to 1 428 085 850 for 1922 tax payments due 1923. Electric light and power firms lead the surge with 1490 percent, water utilities 1008 percent, natural gas pipelines 639 percent, telephones and steam railroads also climbing.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Tax Commission
Patrol suspensions follow Cincinnati black belt riot
In Cincinnati's black belt area a near riot erupted after an automobile carrying officers struck a white boy. One patrolman was suspended, two faced inquiries, and five African Americans were jailed as several shots were fired. Police say officers resented a group of Black residents attempting to write down the car's license tag.
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Cincinnati
Colum bus Music Memory Prizes to Be Decided
Columbus set to decide prizes in the state music memory contest at a February 24 meeting chaired by Joseph Wylli Toledo supervisor of music. Prizes have already been offered by the Cincinnati Conservatory.
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Columbus
Joseph Wylli
Toledo
Cincinnati Conservatory
Government loan proposed for Astoria sewer rebuild
The Ways and Means Committee recommends a $1,068,000 government loan to Astoria Oregon to rebuild sewers and other municipal projects wiped out by a recent fire.
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Washington
Astoria
Oregon
Ways and Means Committee
British deny further Ruhr concessions report
Foreign office says Paris claim of Britain surrendering more Cologne sector territory and railways to France is untrue. The item notes the denial as published, clarifying Britain has not made additional Ruhr concessions. Sunday School Night is announced for Friday at the Christian Church revival services with Highy Class invited at 6:45.
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London
Paris
Great Britain
France
Cologne
Foreign Office
Legion demand seeks Bettman retract statements
A petition to Springfield American Legion members asks state commander Gilbert Bettman to retract remarks about legionaries in certain organizations. Bettman had said members of the Ku Klux Klan would have to quit or be expelled from the Legion.
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Springfield
Gilbert Bettman
American Legion
E. C. Stewart
Women Strike In Chicago Garment Industry
Two thousand women workers from the International Ladies Garment Workers union in 290 wholesale dressmaking shops began a strike for renewal of the 1922 wage agreement. Over 1,560 non union dress makers threaten to join in sympathy.
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Chicago
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
G A R Notice for Columbus Post 89 Meeting Time
Regular meeting notice for Columbus Gold en Post 89 to be held Saturday at 1 39 p m J L Pickering P C announces the session and appoints the time and presiding officer.
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Columbus Golden Post
J. L. Pickering
P. C
Wife of Convict Seeks Pardon After Confession
Mrs. LeRoy McKinney, whose husband LeRoy McKinney is jailed in Ohio for murder, awaits pardon from Governor Donahey after Louis Vandervort confessed. A dramatic meeting at Withington showed Vandervort admitting the act, but offering no pledge of clemency. McKinney’s release hinges on executive clemency and court records remain unchanged.
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Cincinnati
Neb
LeRoy McKinney
Ohio
Columbus
Louis Vandervort
Wilmington
McKinney
Wlezai
A. V. Donahey
Emory McCreight
Jife
LeRoy
Withington
Vandervort
King Victor Emanuel Signs Washington Naval Treaty
Rome reports King Victor Emanuel of Italy signed the Washington conference treaty limiting naval armaments. The ceremony marks Italy’s official commitment to the pact amid broader European disarmament efforts.
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Rome
Victor Emanuel
Italy
France expects German retreat in Ruhr settlement
Paris reports a high authority says Germany will back down and offer a settlement on the Ruhr within two weeks, indicating France anticipates a complete settlement move.
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Paris
France
Germany
Ruhr
Harding party invites friends for house boat trip
President and Mrs. Harding plan a South coast trip aboard the house boat Pioneer toward St. Augustine and Palm Beach. The entourage includes Weeks Daugherty Christian Sawyer Lasker and Brg Gen McLean will host aboard with EF H Kluge ownership. The voyage sails March 5 from Washington and returns early April with stops at Florida golf courses.
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Washington
Congress
Plains
White House
Harding
South
St. Augustine
Fla
Weeks
Daugherty
Christian
Sawyer
Lasker
Shipping Board
Have. House Boat
FE. B. McLean
Florida
McLean
Pioneer
EF. H. Kluge
Englewood
N. J
Palm Beach
Dying woman Would Save Neighbor In Toledo Gas Blast
In Toledo on Utah street a gas explosion wrecked a home wounding Mrs. Delia Ducet and two others. Mrs. Noah Parquette, 72, is dying after aiding Ducet to escape suffocation. her life is described as unlikely to survive the day. The other injured are in a hospital and expected to recover.
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Toledo
Noah Parquette
Delia Ducet
Utah Street
Fat Man Frank Lewis Dies of Influenza in Spencer
Wellington Colorado reports the death of Frank Lewis a 30 year old man weighing 480 pounds from influenza in Spencer He had declined multiple offers to join a circus as the fat man indicating prior circus interest.
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Wellington, CO
Frank Lewis
Spencer
Lewis
Federal ruling limits Ohio canal land disposal
War department engineers in response to Congressman C. J. Thompson ruled that disposal of the Miami and Erie canal lands by Ohio is subject in all cases to the rights of the United States government.
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O— War Department
C. J. Thompson
Miami and Erie Canal
Ohio
United States
Wolford Sentenced for Burglary to Boys' Industrial School
Walter Wolford 15 confessed to burglarizing two Londonville stores and received a suspended sentence to the Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster.
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Ashland
Walter Wolford
Londonville
Boys’ Industrial School
Lancaster
National Insanity Looms Over United States
Indianapolis February 22. Dr J N Hurty a nationally known health figure warns that national insanity will rise. He notes a state health official resigns after 26 years to join the Indiana legislature and argues for reform of marriage and health laws. He predicts the last sane person will disappear in 2128.
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Indianapolis
United States
J. N. Hurty
Tie
State Board of Health
Indiana
Hurty
Senate subsidy bill sails amid filibuster stalemate
Washington February 22 The ship subsidy bill remains blocked by the filibuster as leaders maneuver between a Ladd filled milk bill substitution and a final vote. Administration hopes hinge on defeating the Ladd motion to restore the subsidy position before March 4. The army appropriation passed, but only ten days remain before adjournment and the filibusters vow 70 hours more speeches.
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Washington
Senate
Battalion of Death
Jones
Manhole Opened At Bank In Bucyrus
A passerby reported a manhole in front of a Bucyrus bank opened and a man entering the cellar. Police arrived to find the janitor had raised the cover to reach the furnace for night work.
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Bucyrus
Mechanicsburg Man Brings Old Spanish Coin to Messenger Office
F. Chapman of Mechanicsburg brought an old Spanish coin from Shade Creek near Orange Church, found years ago. The silver coin is dated 1754 and has been in his pocket until the date became hard to read.
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Mechanicsburg
Shade Creek
Orange Church
Deaths From Fire Blamed on Ex- Cook in Atlanta Case
In Atlanta area headlines, Dimple Nix identified as the suspect in an arson at John McDowell's Decatur home. McDowell's daughters Willie Mattie and Marian died in the blaze as four suspects, including Nix and her husband Johanny, were moved to Fulton county jail amid threats from a mob.
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Atlanta
Dimple Nix
John McDowell
Decatur
McDowell
Willie Mattie
Marian
Nix
Johanny
Fulton County
DeKalb
Negress
Thea McDowell
DeKalb County
Lima protests enforce of employment bureau licenses
A Lima Trades and IW Labor council representative filed a protest with the city commission against enforcing the employment bureau licenses and permit ordinance. The law aimed to curb unreliable employment agencies from sending Lima workers away from home for work.
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Lima, O
Lima Trades and IW Labor Council
City Commission
Lcenses
Lima
Salt yields from evaporated sea waters vary by source
An estimate notes that a ton of Atlantic water yields 81 pounds of salt, a ton of Pacific water yields 79 pounds, and a ton of Dead Sea water yields 187 pounds of salt.
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Atlantic
Pacific
State to fund Athens Marietta road upgrade with new money
Athens Chamber of Commerce announced a revival of the Athens Marietta road project after state funds were augmented. Secretary Bryson outlined that an $26,000 redistribution from main market contracts brings state total to $107,900, covering half the brick road cost and enabling a winter completion. The work ties into the Coolville Washington county line route and positions the road as part of Ohio’s primary highway system.
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Athens Chamber of Commerce
Athens-Marietta
Chamber of Commerce
C. HH Bryson
Orga
Athens County Commissioners
Athens Chamber of Commerc
Coolville
Columbus
Ohio
West Virginia
Athens
Guysteville
Carthage Gap
State Highway Department
Washington County
Athens County
Herrick
Rector Herrick
Washington County Line
Marietta
Judge upholds raid warrant against Ku Klux Klan HQ
Springfield Ohio police raid on local Ku Klux Klan headquarters is upheld as legal. Police Judge Davis denies defense request for return of seized property in the William Cortner case, noting the warrant's legality and Cortner's riotous conspiracy charge.
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Springfield
Davis
William Cortner
Muncie
Ind
Death of Theophile Delcasse, Father of Entente
Paris reports from Nice that former French foreign minister Theophile Delcasse has died. He was regarded as the "father" of the recent Franco British entente shaping postwar diplomacy.
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Vather
Entente
Paris
Nice
Theophile Delcasse
M. Delcasse
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