Ohio Solons Take Rest After Taxing Session
Ohio's 83rd General Assembly heads home weary after a week of taxing debates and special bills. Deadlock over breaking the Smith law persists. a conference committee will try to resolve it. Cities gain relief from an emergency bill allowing deficits funded to July 20, 1920, with bonds to follow.
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Columbus
Ohido
83Rd General Assembly
Senate
Chester
Paulding County
Legislative Committee of Reorganization
Hocking Valley Mine Supply forms in Athens
The Hocking Valley Mine Supply Company is organized to operate in Athens occupying the Athens Brick Company’s machine shop on East State Street. James Austin will serve as business manager while continuing road work for Cook-Wilson. The plant will offer electrical repairs, armature winding, general machine shop work, mine car building, and handling secondhand machines and locomotives with six to ten workers hired initially. C A Glover of New Lexington will manage the plant.
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Hockfing Valley Mine Supply Company
Athens
Athens Brick Company
East State Street
James Austin
Cook-Wilson Company
Morgan-Gardner
Austin
New Lexington
C. A. Glover
Coal Smoke and Ashes Darken Athens Streets This Winter
Athens woke to a manufacturing town scene with coal smoke drifting from chimneys as gas shortages push coal use. Ashes on icy sidewalks and campus walkways helped prevent slips during frigid days.
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Athens
Icey roads force Miller to cancel Sunday visits
Rev. James A. Miller calls off Sunday appointments in Albany and Hebbardsville due to icy road conditions.
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James A. Miller
Albany
Hebbardsville
Surgeon General cautions on influenza panic
Washington January 24 Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the public health service warned the nation against panicking over influenza. He said there is no indication the disease is beyond local authorities to fight and urged calm in the face of rising case numbers.
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Washington
Rupert Blue
United States Public Health Department
Two New York Farmettes Volunteer for Nebraska Ranch
Linda Schroeder and another New York City farmette joined three girls sent to start the first farmette unit in Nebraska. They spent over three months on a 4000 acre farm, plowing, harrowing, haying, mowing, driving binders, and tending horses, hoping for the plains freedom and planning to return when summer arrives.
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Linda Schroeder
New York City
Far Agricultural West
Nebraska
Plains
Fight to Free Ice Bound Boat Near Chicago Harbor
The freighter Sidney O Neff, trapped by ice four miles off Chicago harbor, faced a renewed effort after a forty mile gale piled floes against its wooden hull. Food and fuel dwindled as a Coast Guard Alpine expedition of eight men failed to reach the vessel. Fifteen crew members remain aboard the stranded steamer despite a dangerous search.
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Chicago, Ill
Sidney O. Neff
Chicago
Low
John QO. Anderson
Coast Guard
Holland Rejects Allied Extradition Request for Kaiser
The Dutch government refused to extradite the former Kaiser to the Allies. The foreign office received the note late last night and called the Allied demand legally unjustified. It said Article 228 of the peace treaty does not bind Holland as it is not a party and that Dutch law and tradition prevent any withdrawal of the former emperor.
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Paris
Holland
Foreign Office
Germany
Germany rejects extradition request on Kaiser figure
Berlin reports Germany will decline any demand to press Holland to extradite the former Kaiser. The Gazette notes no treaty obligation compels Germany to pursue such a plan and no allied note has been received demanding extradition.
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Berlin
Germany
Holland
Bersen Gazette
Allgemaine Zeitung
Flu Masks Return at Lakeside Hospital Precaution
Lakeside hospital in Cleveland requires all visitors to wear masks as a precaution against influenza. Thirteen new cases were reported in 24 hours, bringing January total to 63. Public health officials anticipate broader adoption nationwide in coming days.
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Cleveland, O
Lakeside Hospital
Stewart Man Injured In Mine Friday
Ray Oliver twenty year old Stewart resident and mine driver for Canaan Coal Company suffered a broken upper left leg and back injuries when a mine car ran over him after a horse frightened it. He was treated at Logan hospital with the fracture reduced and was not to have amputation.
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Ray Oliver
Stewart
Canaan Coal Company
Logan Hospital
Newsom-Walburn
Oliver
Chicago inventor tests spark plugs in airtight chamber
A Chicago inventor develops a device to test spark plugs by sealing them in an airtight chamber with an observation lens and a pressure gauge to monitor performance.
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Chicago
Krupp Gun Aims to Terrorize Paris Backfires
German industry head Krupp and experts discuss a long range gun built to strike Paris as a psychological weapon. The device is not in practical use, with plans to repurpose Krupp plants for peacetime production.
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Carl D. Groat
United Press
Essen
Germany
France
Paris
Herr Krupp von Bohlen
Krupp Works
Testa
Krupp
Prof
Rausenberger
Dunkirk
Krupp Informaon
Protection drive formed for motion picture exhibitors
New York reports the creation of a gigantic combine to protect motion picture exhibitors, controlling about 250 theatres nationwide and linking to roughly 8 000 theatres in its circuit. Messmore Kendall, president of Capital Theatre Realty Co and the new firm, says the organization is backed by millions of dollars. Officers include James Clemmer Seattle Saul Harris Little Rock Ark H H Wellenbrick Newark N J Harry Crandall Washington. Plans call for production and purchase of films.
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New York
Messmore Kendall
Capital Theatre Realty Company
Associated Exhibitors Incorporated
James Clemmer
Seattle
Saul Harris
Little Rock
Ark
H. H. Wellenbrick
Newark
Impounding Owners Instead of Dogs In Marietta Policy
Marietta Ohio sheriff Roberts enforces dog license law by imprisoning owners who neglect to buy tags. He announced the change as a cheaper remedy than feeding and killing unlicensed dogs, arguing it deters owners from shirking licenses.
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Marietta, O
United Press
Roberts
Eight-Day Ice Spell Dims Local Roads and Travel
The ice has lingered about eight days, the longest spell in years with no relief in sight. After a cold Friday, temperatures dropped again and a heavy coating made roads slippery, causing autos to slide into ditches and horses to fall on hills.
Bishop censures Rev Percy Grant for radical utterances
The Reverend Percy Stickney Grant, recently cleared by a vestry committee of radical remarks, is censured in a letter from Bishop Burch. The bishop says Grant’s statements risk creating the impression of disloyalty to both church and civil government.
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New York
Percy Stickney Grant
Burch
Spirit world appeals to Doyle over English murder wave
English women have appealed to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to contact spirits of murder victims as a means to reveal the guilty. The London crime wave has produced many unsolved murders and Doyle has not yet responded to the requests.
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London
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
England
Ita
Doyle
Obituary: N C Kinksbury Dies in New York
N C Kinksbury first vice president of American Telephone and Telegraph Company died in New York last night. He was born in Mentor Ohio, graduated from Oberlin College, and practiced law in Columbus for six years before leaving in 1906.
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Columbus, CO
N. C. Kinksbury
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
New York
Mentor
Ohio
Oberlin College
Columbus
Kidnapper James Boyle Dies in Penitentiary
Pittsburg report says James Boyle died in Western penitentiary soon after 1 PM yesterday from double pneumonia. Boyle was convicted in 1909 of kidnapping Willie White at Sharon, Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburg
James Boyle
Western Penitentiary
Boyle
Willie White
Sharon
House Rules Expected to Decide Pal mers GAOs Today
House Rules Committee to vote on compelling Attorney General Palmer to testify on sedition legislation. Rep Rodenberg of Illinois says he will move for Palmer to appear. Decision hinges on Palmer indicating a greater need for passage than in his prior letter.
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House Rules Committee
Arenndtee
Palmer
Rodenberg
Illinois
Red Cross Agent to Visit Albany Next Week
Attorney M. D. Hughes will be at Albany Citizens Bank in Albany Ohio on Monday January 26 from 10 a m to 3 p m to discuss Red Cross matters. Ex service men or relatives with government claims should see Mr Hughes. The chains special price five days. Carpenter Hdw Co.
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M. D. Hughes
Albany Citizens Bank
Albany
Red Cross
Mr. Hughes
Ban Socks Salt and Pepper His Long Life Recipe
A fragment mentions a fan and a man who believes a life recipe includes campaign phrases and restraint. It references sixty or seventy five and a claim about living habits and attire. The text is unclear but hints at a public figure and personal philosophy.
Premier accord with Clemenceau on Adriatic dispute
An official communique from January 28 reports Italy and Yugoslavia reaching a Premier agreement with Clemenceau to settle the Adriatic issue. It confirms Nitti’s stance with allied leaders from Paris and outlines key negotiation points including honoring the Pact of London and seeking concurrence among interested nations.
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Cleamenceau
Yd Fm Bis
Adriatic
Italy
Jugo-Slavia
Notenmeau
Nitti
Paris
Belgrade
London
Actiow
Slavia
United States
Turkey
Asia Minor
Conductor Fatally Injured In Toledo Train Collision
T 8 Me Isaac 62 of Toledo was killed when his caboose was demolished by a backing freight train. He died en route to a hospital.
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Toledo
MeIsaac
Hoff man and Hin ton wed after five hour courtship in Canton
William Hoff man and Ida Hin ton married in a rapid five hour courtship to secure a fortune of 75000. They left Canton for a honeymoon trip by auto after visiting her parents at Middle Branch overnight. He plans to send inheritance papers to Olean lawyers soon and will pose for photos on return.
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Canton
William Hoffman
Ida BH. Hinton
Middle Branch
Ito
Olean
N. Y
Hoffman
Shire dispatch details Powhatan towline failure
Army officer report from Halifax says Powhatan was adrift after the hawser towed by the Canadian steamer Laurier parted. Additional ciphered wire notes from New York recounts of ship operations and a shipment of passengers including Margy and others arriving from Chicago Cleveland and Willport amid weather and vessel issues.
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Halifax
N. 6
Andy Laurier
New York
Gers
Paul A. Flanders
Chicago
Fayette Willport
Cleveland
Auto Magnate Taken Home in a Special Car
Horace Dodge of the Dodge Brothers, ill with pneumonia at a New York hotel, will be moved to Detroit this afternoon in a special car after doctors approved the transfer. The move follows his illness and the death of his brother John Dodge.
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New York
Horace Dodge
Detroit
Dodge Brothers
John Dodge
Sledding farmer Elihu Glover dies en route to town
In St Clairsville Ohio on January 24 Elihu Glover aged 65 a farmer fell dead in his sled while driving to town that afternoon leaving no immediate cause known and prompting a brief local notice.
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Clairsville
Elihu Glover
Weekly Forecast Sees Cold Week Ahead For Ohio Valley
Washington reports cold weather dominates the week across the Ohio Valley and Tennessee region with little or no precipitation, potential change after midweek.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Bread price uptick reported by local grocers
A two cent advance on Columbus bread is noted by local grocers while bakeries have not raised prices. The loaf prices cited include a 10 cent loaf increasing to 12 cents and a 15 cent loaf rising to 17 cents.
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Columbus
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