Ohio Senate to consider Broadstone murder by masked killer bill
Ohio lawmakers debate Broadstone measure passed 79 to 22 by the House. It says a masked killer attempting a felony shall be guilty of murder and face the death penalty unless mercy is recommended by the jury. The bill excludes the Ku Klux Klan.
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F‘olumbus
Senate
House
Broadstone
Green County
Johnston
Richland County
Cope
Columbiana County
Kasch
Summit County
Petor Walsh Urges Halt to Coal Exports Across the Line
Prices rise as demands grow for mines to push out better fuel.Petor Walsh calls for stopping coal exports across the line amid price pressures and supply concerns.
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Petor Walsh
French Say Ruhr Peace Strike Crushed Mine Output Returns
French army officers report the German peace strike in the Ruhr and Dusseldorf broken and mine production now virtually normal. Trials ongoing as Paris signals possible shift in policy if Berlin stirs further trouble among workers.
Charges Filed Against Mother for Not Providing Home
Mrs. Sarah Sharp of Hocking was arrested at the Chris Handley Home in Sugar Creek on a charge of failing to provide a proper home for her three children. Deputies say she stayed at the Handley residence rather than with her husband Nesbeth Sharp, who pressed the charge. She was arraigned before Magistrate Helwig and returned to the county jail to decide a plea.
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Sarah Sharp
Hocking
Chris Handley
Sugar Creek
Oman
Depu
Maurice Guthrie
Senate bills harden divorce rules and seeks constitutional amendment
Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas introduced a national marriage and divorce law in the senate. The measure aims to make divorces more difficult and to curb what Capper calls hasty and foolish marriages, with an enacting resolution proposing a constitutional amendment.
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Washington
Senate
Arthur Capper
Kansas
Capper
Prohibition Conference Set Over Steubenville Laxity
Columbus January 23. Prohibition enforcement laxity in Steubenville to be discussed at a conference between State Prohibition Commissioner McDonald and Detective Nye. Nye sought Governor Donahey but was referred to the prohibition chief.
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Columbus
Steubenville
McDonald
Dettive Nye
Officer Nye
As Ee
Donahey
Prohibition Office Allows Flu Doctors Extra Prescriptions
Washington reports emergency orders freeing extra liquor prescriptions for physicians treating flu patients as quotas exhausted. Acting Prohibition Commissioner J. E. Jones said the measure helps doctors care for the ill and will not be abused, though it applies only to physicians with exhausted prescription blanks.
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Washington
National Prohibition Enforcement Headquarters
Prohibition
J. E. Jones
Jones
Marion Stoll Elected Justice of the Peace in Marion
Marion Ohio announces the election of Marion Q. Stoll as justice of the peace replacing detained Ernest Weideman who awaits grand jury action on embezzlement charges. Thirty one applicants contended for the seat.
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Marion, O
Marion Q. Stoll
Ernest Weideman
American flag to be hauled down at Ehrenbreitstein
In Coblenz on January 23 the American flag above Ehrenbreitstein will be lowered at noon tomorrow as the U S Army of Occupation on the Rhine sails home aboard the transport St Mihiel. French guard of honor salutes as the Americans depart. Upon US arrival, married men under staff sergeant rank will be honorably discharged unless exceptions apply. The German people mourn the departure of the doughboys after four years here.
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Coblenz
Ehrenbreitstein
United States Army of Occupation
Rhine
Antwerp
St. Mihiel
United States
Chamber noon forums canceled amid tag licensing rush
The Chamber of Commerce announces there will be no noonday lunch Wednesday and the noon forums are canceled as auto license tag renewals take priority. No replacement date is listed.
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Chamber of Commerce
Cheer Yanks Coblenz As German Prisoners Are Moved
German coal magnate Thyssen and fellow prisoners were escorted toward Mayence in the American occupation zone. They cheered the Americans as doughboys stood by the railway, and the U S soldiers replied with hearty cheers.
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Coblenz
Jvritz Thyssen
Mayence
Defense Will Deny Murder State Charges
In Bastrop Louisiana two men charged with murder plan to challenge the bodies identification and the alleged deaths of Watt Daniel and Thomas I Richards. Defense chief Judge William C Barnette says a formal statement will outline the case after the open hearing and may censure the klan when needed.
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B. V. Sturdivant
I. N
Daniel
Richards
William C. Barnette
International
Barnette
Navy enlistment sailor drowns on Ohio River at Wyk
Frank Lewis 21 recently completed navy enlistment drowned after falling from a sand barge into the Ohio River at Wyk. Body recovered.
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Beltaire
Frank Lewis
Navy
Ohio River
Wyk
Senate to curb coal exports to Canada amid shortages
Senator David Walsh will push a senate resolution to embargo coal shipments to Canada until U S supply meets domestic demand and to probe combustibility of coal sold in the United States. He seeks ICC-backed controls on interstate transport and to curb shipments of high quality coal at lower border prices amid rising costs and widespread suffering.
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Tr. N.S
Washington
Congress
Canada
David Walsh
Massachusetts
International News Service
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Walsh
United States
New England
Commission
Northwest
Lorain toll road contract awarded to local company
Elyria January 23 The Highway Construction Company of this city won a 227000 dollar contract to improve five miles of the Lake Shore road west of Lorain and the main Cleveland Sandusky highway.
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Elyria
Lake Shore
Lorain
Cleveland Sandusky Highway
Lima man brought back on grand larceny charge
Charles Grossop, 28, moulder of Sidney, arrested by Ft. Wayne police in connection with several robberies, has been brought back to Lima to answer the grand larceny charge.
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Lima
Charles Grossop
Moulder
Sidney
Ft. Wayne
Too Many Laws For People Now
Columbus Jan 23 That legislators would repeal laws instead of enacting more is the view of Chief Justice Marshall of the state supreme court speaking to the Mercator club He argues the original ten laws by Moses contained more real justice and were easier to obey than modern legislation
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Columbus
Marshall
State Supreme Court
Mercator Club
Moses
Pythian Grand Count to Announce Ohio Officers in Middleport
The Grand count of ballots for Grand Lodge officers will be held at Fides Lodge hall in Middleport on Wednesday January 24. Grand Chancellor Ford G Hunker leads the canvassing board including A H Shagrin William H Booth Wm Reed Tony Bottom and I M Sisson. A reception and program follow the tally with many Ohio Knights of Pythias officers present to welcome locals.
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Middleport. O
Grand Lodge
Middleport
Ford G. Hunker
A. H. Shagrin
Cleveland
William H. Booth
Toledo
Wmn
Reed
Olive Lodge
Tony Bottom
I. M. Sisson
William Beatty
Fides Lodge
Ohio
Knights of Pythias
Knights of Pythias of Ohio
D. Henry Sell
Akron
KR. H. Schryger
Columbus
Albert H. Kunkle
Springfield
William H. Lueders
Cincinnati
Curtis C. Williams
Charles E. Root
Newark
E. E. Cornell
Bowling Green
James Dunn, Jr
Paris sees new clues in Berton case linked to 1921 ambassadorship attempt
Investigating magistrate Juesselin examines documents and statements allegedly showing Germaine Berton, the anarchist who killed Marius Plateau, planned the October 1921 attack on American ambassador Myron T. Herrick. Monarchists attack socialist and communist presses, police intercepts mob plans.
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Paris
Germaine Berton
Marius Plateau
Myron T. Herrick
Juesselin
M. Viateau
L’action Francaise
Leon Daudet
Chamber of Deputies
Action Francaise
Berlin
M. Plateau
Fire Claims Life of Child in Seattle Home Disaster
In Seattle on January 22 Phillip Morgan aged four died in a house fire that completely destroyed his family home. His parents and three siblings escaped by leaping from the front porch to a sixteen foot cliff.
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Seattle
Wash
Phillip Morgan
Benefit Film Aids Sheltering Arms Hospital Plan
The Messenger teams with Athens county business interests to arrange a Service Photographic Company film titled Who Is Who in Athens County. Proceeds go to Sheltering Arms hospital. Ww. C. Whatmar of the company may direct filming in Athens Nelsonville and Glouster, capturing the college team teaching corps manufacturing plants and local officials.
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Sheltering Arms Hospital
Locking Valley
the Messenger
Athens County
Service Photographic Company
Columbus
Athens
Nelsonville
Giouster
Ww. C. Whatmar
Motion Picture Company
Glouster
Bank Heist in Flatbush Nets 656000 Cash
Four armed bandits robs a Municipal Bank of East New York shipment in Flatbush Brooklyn. They force the chauffeur to drive to a secluded spot and flee in the bank’s car with 50000 dollars from a 656000 cash transfer to Borough Park. Three guards in the treasurer car offered no resistance.
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New York
Flatbush
Brooklyn
Municipal Bank of East
Klan Campaign Expands in Central New York
Syracuse report notes the Ku Klux Klan plans a new membership drive in central New York led by N B Mahoney and the king eagle, with no initiations yet but a large outdoor ceremony planned for spring. Mahoney cites two million US members. New York City and Buffalo have active enrollments, while a denial is issued regarding Klan involvement in the Met Rouge murders.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Morehouse Parish
Louisiana
Albany
New York
Winuzhamton
N. B. Mahoney
Atlanta
Imperial Kickard
Klan
King Kieagle
Linghamton
Mihoney
United States
New York City
Buffalo
Imperial Kiokard
Met Rouge
Ku Klux Klan
Ruhr Quiet as Miners Report to Work Amid Occupation
In Essen today many miners and railroad workers remained idle though some had returned to their jobs. French engineers arrive to study mining machinery as trials proceed for Ruhr mine directors in Mayence. Berlin urges Germans to resist, Britain blocks deportation of Von Lanzenauer.
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Essen
Ruhr
Beretti
Thalian
Cxollieries
Belsians
Berlin
Rhineland
Mayence
Germany
Great Britain
Herr Sthamer
Foreign Office
von Lanzenauer
Finance Department
O von Lanzenauer
Arma
Taxation program drawn up by the reformers of Ohio
Columbus January 23. A joint committee is formed by the Uniform Tax League of Ohio and the Corn Stalk Club to draft a taxation plan. They will seek its enactment in the current legislative session.
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Reformers OF
Ohio
Columbus
Uniform Tac League of Ohio
Cornstak Club
Rabbit at Deck of Cards Uncertain Coat Fate
In a whimsical Australian tale a bunny ponders his future as either a felt hat or a sealskin coat, highlighting the irony of animal fates in fashion.
Prison reform urged by Ohio pastor leaders in Columbus
P. E. Thomas, head of the penitentiary, urged a long term state pardon and parole board and indeterminate sentences for all convicted crime at the fourth annual Ohio Pastors association convention in Columbus Ohio. Nearly 600 delegates attended the session.
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Columbus
P. E. Thomas
Addre
Ohio Pastors’ Association
Congo
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