Hocking River Rises to Flood Stage in Ohio
River rises rapidly over two days of rain in Athens area forcing power outages on the Southern Ohio Electric plant and flooding lowlands. Water covers roads from Rockbridge to the Fairfield line, delaying traffic as weather office forecasts colder conditions and more precipitation.
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France
Columbus Weather Bureau
Hocking River
Ohio
Hocking
Athens State Hospital
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Athens - Glouster - Nelsonville
C. N. France
Athens-Columbus
Rockbridge
Fairfield County
Lancaster
Athens
Court Street
United States Weather Bureau
Flood conditions rise as Ohio rivers swell after snows
Ohio rivers and tributaries climb toward flood stage across central and southern areas. Rain and warmer temperatures melt heavy snows, causing ice jams and swollen creeks, with the Ohio at Gallipolis near flood level and the Miami and Scioto rivers elevated.
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Columbus
Ohio
Kanawha River
West Virginia
Otto Marmet
Galiapolis
Raccoon Creek
Ohio River
Gallipolis
Miami River
Scioto
Scarlet fever closes West Shade School in Chester
Miss Gladys Roush, teacher at West Shade school, Chester, is confined at home with scarlet fever. The school is dismissed for the rest of the week to prevent an epidemic. A substitute will teach Monday if no new cases arise.
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Pomeroy
Gladys Roush
West Shade
Chester
Miss Roush
Ford experiments on rebuilding old cars at $60 each
Ford Motor company tests a standardized rebuilding form at its Highland Park branch for $60 per car. Officials say value not yet proven and no decision on practicability. If standardized, the plan will spread to Ford plants nationwide, with rebuilt cars offered to dealers under a "new car" guarantee.
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Oit
U.2
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park
Ford
Girl, 16, Sentenced in Car Theft and Escape
Leota Marple, 16, McArthur, was sentenced to the Marysville reformatory by Juvenile Judge John G. Evans for stealing a car owned by John S. Grey at Wellston and driving it to Athens. On return she burned out a bearing near McArthur, then hid the license tags. County officials suspect a male accomplice, but she refused to identify him.
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Jackson
Leota Marple
McArthur
Marysville Reformatory
John G. Evans
John S. Grey
Wellston
Athens
Bottles and Milk Destroyed When Truck Is Wrecked
Chauncey January 20. Twenty five gallons of milk and ninety quart bottles broken and destroyed when a wheel came off a milk truck sending it into a ditch near the infirmary. Carl Morris of Morris dairy bringing milk to the city for local merchants. twenty one gallons saved. Carl and Clarence Morris, brothers, conduct the dairy. Morris uninjured.
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Chauncey
Carl Morris
Morris Dairy
Morris
Carl
Clarence Morris
Rose Fever Again Forces Coolidge Back To Treatment
President Coolidge resumes treatment for rose fever after months of relief. He drove to his nose and throat specialist’s office last night following several days of irritation. The condition has troubled him for years, and recovery was hoped after his Adirondacks trip last fall.
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Washington
U.P
Coolidge
Adirondacks
Tabler Fined for False Pretense in Fence Posts Case
William Tabler Stewart pleaded guilty before Magistrate Pearl W Helwig to obtaining money under false pretense. He had sold fence posts to Andy McGraw, received payment, then sold them again to another buyer, and was fined with costs after arrangements for payment.
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William Tabler
Stewart
Pearl W. Helwig
Tabler
Andy McGraw
Election of Officers at First Christian Church
Annual election of officers for the Board of Elders at the First Christian church in Athens was held in the pastor's study last night. Wesley H. Maurer was chosen president, Guy Flerce vice president, and Everett Persons secretary for the coming year.
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Board of Elders
First Christian Church
Athens
Wesley H. Maurer
Guy Flerce
Everett Persons
Ohio Farm Bureau leaders urge packers and stockyards bill
L. B. Palmer president and Henry H. Ballard attorney of the Ohio Farm Bureau federation appeared before the House agriculture committee today to urge the packers and stockyards bill. The measure would prevent packers from maintaining concentration yards near principal livestock markets where they buy live stock.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
L. B. Palmer
Henry
Chaplin Worth at Least 908000 in Cash
Receivers say Charlie Chaplin is worth at least 908000 in cash, as his wife sues for divorce. They note money in multiple banks in Los Angeles Hollywood New York London and Paris, plus 55155 in bonds notes and real estate and 548000 cash in the Chaplin Film Corporation.
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Los Angeles
U.P
Charlie Chaplin
W. S. Gilbert
Herman Spitzel
Chaplin
Hollywood
New York
London
Paris
Chapin
Chaplin Film Corporation
Ban Johnson to be removed from office next week
Ban Johnson, president of the American League, earning 45000 dollars annually, will leave his ceremonial post next week as the circuit meet convenes to referee a bout between Johnson and Commissioner Landis. Plans to muzzle the outspoken official were discussed in New York after exposure of baseball scandals centered in Chicago.
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New York
Ban Johnson
Johnson
Landis
Chicago
Fire destroys C. E. Morris Iron Works plant
A fire in Columbus caused by unknown origin destroyed the C. E. Morris Iron Works plant yesterday with an estimated loss of 25000 dollars. Local fire crews battled the blaze as investigators began examining the ruins for the cause of the fire.
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Columbus
C. E. Morris Iron Works
Bill to Abolish Nonenforced Laws Across State
Representative introduces bill to strike out over two hundred sections from fifty year old laws. The measure targets unwieldy statutes including the so called One Per Cent Act.
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Old Smith
Assembly Probes Obsolete Laws and Tax Reform
The 87th General Assembly reviews old statutes after Rep. Gilbert Morgan proposes repealing about 200 sections deemed unconstitutional. Sen. George H. Bender and Rep. Jones back similar bills in the upper and lower houses. The tax measure would limit levies to two purposes and unify procedures in one act.
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Co. H. Jones
Jackson County
Joint Committee On Taxation and Economy
Jones
Martin
Dodd
Toledo
London Calls Top Leaders on China Difficulties
London London January 20 Sir Austen Chamberlain Foreign Secretary summoned Ramsay MacDonald and David Lloyd George to the Foreign Office to confer on the British difficulties in China formally recognized as of major importance.
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London
China
Austen Chamberlain
Ramsay MacDonald
David Lloyd-George
Foreign Office
River Captain Gordon C. Greene Dies at 63
Captain Gordon C. Greene, 63, prominent owner of the Green Line packet steamers and notable river figure, died suddenly at his home in Gallipolis. His favorite steamer, the Tom Greene, will convey his body to Newport, Ohio, for funeral and burial services.
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Gallipolis
Gordon C. Greene
Green Line
Greene
Tom Greene
Newport
Miners Repudiate One Big Union Plan in Ohio
In Columbus on January 20 the Ohio district miners at their annual convention rejected the idea of a single central union. Delegates backed old-age pension legislation for Ohio, limited magistrate jurisdiction to municipal boundaries, and approved a workers compensation amendment ending self rule and granting industrial mission exclusive control. The convention also supported penal day actions and wash house maintenance.
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Columbus
U.P
Ohio
Imagors
Justices of Peace
Workmen's Compensation Act
Selfcoum
Industrial Mission
Lauking Imi
Jack Lockwill debuts as new clean adventure strip
A new illustrated comic feature introduces Jack Lockwill, descendant of Frank Merriwell, to Athens Messe readers. The strip, drawn in Gilbert Patten’s wholesome style under Burt L. Standish, will run 24 installments and replace Everett True and The Papers Say with continuous, boy friendly action and no objectionable content.
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Everett True
Frank Merriwell
Athens Messe
Jack Lockwill
Jack
Gilbert Patten
Patten
the Messenger
Messenger Comics
Miner Injured at L. D. Poston Mine Near Chauncey
Walter Wharton sustained a hand injury and body bruises while at work in the L. D. Poston mine north of Chauncey. He was treated by Dr. Warren V. Sprague and later returned to his home at The Plains.
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Chauncey
Walter Wharton
L. D. Poston
Warren V. Sprague
the Plains
Order All Women And Children To Leave Foochow
An outbreak of rioting in Foochow prompts U S consulate action as authorities order all women and children to depart. Civil unrest intensifies with foreign consular involvement and evacuation measures underway.
Priest Is Held After Anti Foreign Riots In Foochow
United States consul in Foochow orders all women and children to leave as riots flare. Fifty seven women and children had already quit the city amid demonstrations that led to gunfire. Chinese authorities report 100 rioters arrested. Three dozen Spanish priests and six sisters flee, are chased by a mob that seized a priest as a hostage before allowing departure from Amoy.
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Randall Gould
United Press
Peking
United States
Foochow
Amoy
Sayre Improves After Illness At Home
Sayre, judge of the circuit court of appeals, who has been seriously ill at his home at 15 N. Congress street since Saturday with neuralgia of the heart, is a little better today according to the attending physician.
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Sayre
E. D. Sayre
Circuit Court of Appeals
N. Congress Street
Miners' district auditor Frank Burns ill in Columbus hospital
Frank Burns of Union Officer III Glouster is report ed ill with pleurisy and pneumonia at St Clair hospital Columbus. He had traveled to Columbus to aid in auditing district officials and planned to stay for the miners' convention. Mrs Burns joined him after traveling from Wellston.
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Glouster
Frank Burns
Miners’ District
St. Clair Hospital
Columbus
Burns
Wellston
Weather report notes rising Hocking River and heavy rainfall
Rainfall since Tuesday totals almost 1.25 inches with continued rise in the Hocking River to 14.5 feet well below flood stage. Temperatures run about fifteen degrees above normal with a low near 42 and a high around 63. Two hour temperature readings are listed for Wednesday and Thursday.
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Hocking
Ohio
Detective Slater Probes Vinton County Crime Cases
Detective Ora Slater of Cincinnati investigates crime conditions in Vinton county. The report notes Arthur Stout indicted for first degree murder of his stepmother. Abe Young jailed for killing Charles Bickle. and a December robbery of Miss Jane Foster, 80, near Hamden, with $300 stolen.
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McArthur
Vinton County
Ora Slater
Cincinnati
Thomas
Ohio Penitentiary
Abe Young
Hamden
Charles Bickle
Arthur Stout
Jane Foster
Hamden- McArthur Pike
Former Glouster Resident Dies in Ashland Hospital
Arthur Vernon aged 45, a former Glouster resident, died in an Ashland Kentucky hospital after a Monday surgical operation. The body was brought to Glouster and taken to his mother Mrs. Sarah Vernon's home. Funeral services will be held Friday at 10 a.m. at the Methodist church, with burial in Glouster cemetery. He belonged to the Loyal Order of Moose and Fraternal Order of Eagles and is survived by his widow, his mother, one sister Mrs. Emmett Rogers, four brothers Walter and Ernest in Ashland Kentucky and Harry, also in Glouster.
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Glouster
Arthur Vernon
Ashland
Sarah Vernon
Fairlawn Avenue
Methodist
D. L. Browning
Vernon
Loyal Order of Moose
Order of Eagles
City
Emmett Rogers
Corning
Walter and
Ernest
Ashland Ky
Harry Carson
Isnt It Funny Mes senger Intelligence Test Moment
A playful family moment centers on a messenger's daily intelligence test. Little Johnny giggles as he corrects his dad, highlighting the lighthearted challenge of recalling a familiar question. The exchange captures family circle humor around a simple quiz.
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George
Messenger
Johnny
Dad
Miners Debate New Wage Scale and Sub-Leasing Ban
Ohio Indiana and Pennsylvania mine operators meet in Toledo to discuss a proposed sliding wage scale tied to nonunion fields in Virginia and Kentucky. They also condemn sub leasing of mines by cooperative stock companies and urge maintenance of current union protections. Local unions consider biennial conventions and plan to invite Reginald W. Jones to address sessions.
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Toledo
Kentucky
Coal Open Committee
Operors
Ohio
Indiana
Tuft Pennesylvania
Sylvania
Virginia
Columbus
United Workers of America
Coal Committee For
Coop
Agro
No. & Am
West Virginia
Lee Hall
Preal
Ie Virginia Constabulary
Cers
Chamber of Commerce
Reg
Thomas W. Jones
Meiga
Parfitt Suffered Eye Burn At Uma Mill
Painful accident at Uma Mill on Middleport street left Parfitt with a burned eye. John Sai and a brother were nearby when a hot poker end struck the eye. condition improves after several days of rest.
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Middleport
Parfitt
Uma Mill Street
John Sai
John
Revival Service At Central Revenue Method Church Athens
A revival service is underway at the Central Revenue Method Church in Athens with seven attendees and a sermon delivered by The Rev. Tm. 7 provides the service outline.
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Central Revenue Method Church
Athens
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