Harding declares prohibition must stay and enforcement urged
President Harding wades into the prohibition fight in Denver urging that the Cascade States hold fast to Prohibition and that enforcement rests with states and local authorities. He warns a federal police authority could threaten state sovereignty and says neither party will repeal the eighteenth amendment.
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Harding
Dent Harding
Tam
al Smith
New York
Guernor Smith
Washington
Mr. Harding
Aged Pomeroy Woman Involved In Fatal Wreck
An elderly woman from Pomeroy remains in critical condition after a motor vehicle crash. Authorities report she may die from injuries sustained in the accident.
Wife of Captain Ebersbach Injured Seriously in Auto Crash
Pomeroy June 25 Mrs Amelia Ebersbach wife of Captain Frederick Ebersbach was badly injured when a Buick collided with another car near Cheshire. She suffered two broken legs and severe bruises. a passenger in her car and Captain Ebersbach also received injuries. The other vehicle fled the scene. the wounded were taken to local homes as doctors fight to save Mrs Ebersbach's life.
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Pomeroy
Amelia Ebersbach
Frederick Ebersbach
Cheshire
Ebersbach
Ezersbach
Pershing outlines national defense plan for coast protection
General John J. Pershing disclosed a mobilization and defense plan approved by Secretary Weeks to be tested during summer camps. The plan assigns every regular army division and National Guard unit to specific coastal sectors and features a wire barricade along surf lines to deter landing attempts. He argues such defenses could have shortened World War I if in place.
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Washington
John J. Pershing
United States
Pershine
Regular Army
National Guard
Organized Reserve
Pershing
France
Encampment of Union Veterans Draws Thousands to Columbus
In Columbus Ohio on June 25 crowds gather for the Civil War 2,600 veterans encampment. Committees from the Women’s Relief Corps Ladies of the A R Daughters of Veterans and related groups hold concurrent meetings. Governor Donahoe and Mayor Thomas welcome visitors as David Pugh will address the veterans with others from affiliated organizations.
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Columbus
Memorial Hall
A. R
Daughters of
Overnor Donahoy
Thomas
Cashier Foils Newport Roadhouse Raid
In Cincinnati on June 26 three would be bandits raided a Newport Kentucky roadhouse. Miss Pearl Ifageman, cashier, watched the glare from her eyes as she stuffed the cash into her dress and ordered the robbers to leave. A shot was fired at the bartender before the bandits fled empty handed.
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Cincinnati
Newport
Correct Data in Phone Directory Vital to Athens
The Nome Telephone Co. collects data for a new Athens directory. Dr. Jones urges immediate correction of addresses as the directory serves as a city guide and is updated every six months to reflect business changes.
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Athens
Nome Telephone Co
Dr. Jones
Vinton County Ties For Low Death Rate In May
In a May vital statistics report Vinton county shares the Ohio low death rate. Athens and Hocking show varied May-April changes, while Meigs rises in death rate. Athens city reports fewer deaths and births in May. Logan Nelsonville Wellston see mixed rate shifts. Overall county totals: Athens 86 deaths, 74 births. Hocking 14 deaths, 39 births. Meigs 41 deaths, 49 births. Vinton 5 deaths, 11 births.
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State Department of Health
Vinton County
Ohio
Athens County
Hocking County
Meigs County
Athens City
Athens
Logan
Nelsonville
Wellston
Boulay Named Ohio State Director of Highways
L A Boulay 45 a consulting engineer and president of Boulay Harrison Co Toledo is named state director of highways and public works by Governor Donahey to replace Leon Herrick effective July 1. He is a veteran of the Spanish American and World Wars and has 25 years of engineering experience with work in the Philippines China Mexico and Cuba headquartered in Toledo since 1997.
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Columbus
L. A. Bulay
Boulay-Harrison Co
Toledo
Donahey
Leon @. Herrick
Boulay
Philippines
China
Mexico
Cuba
Tle
Prince of Wales Celebrates 259th Birthday in London
The Prince of Wales marked his 259th birthday in London on June 25. He received a flood of presents and messages of congratulations including many from the United States.
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London
Prince of Wales
United States
Coast Guard Vessel Captures Liquor Carrier Off New Jersey
The 110-foot Seminole pursued the Mary E. Gully for 16 miles off the New Jersey coast and fired three shots across her bow before stopping the liquor carrier. The seized ship carried 15,000 cases of Scotch whiskey valued at $155,000, according to revenue agents.
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Coast Guard
New Jersey
New York
Mary E. Gully
United States Coast Guard
Seminole
United States Customs Office
Mary Hk. Gully
Rail Eager System Offered as Cure for Present Evils
Washington June 25. Backed by agencies under the Harding administration the United States government plans to consolidate the nation’s 590 railroads into 18 to 22 transcontinental systems by next Congress. A draft calls for federal ownership as a fallback, with a path to return to private control via bonds if voluntary consolidation fails.
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I. N
Washington
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Dragging a Lake for Body of Missing Woman in Cincinnati
Police end another fruitless search for 36 year old Mrs Anne Bedinger who vanished after a fake hospital summons. Officers dragged nearby Burnet Woods lake and sought the source of threatening unsigned letters received in recent weeks.
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Cincinnati
Anne Bedinger
Good Samaritan Hospital
Burnet Woods
Foreign ships carry large liquor stocks under seals
New York reports cargoes of wine beer whiskey and liquors aboard five steamers listed as medical supplies as customs and prohibition officers prepare to act. Paris led with 19000 gallons of beverages while other ships held substantial quantities. Washington guidance awaited.
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New York
White Star
Cedric
Caronia
Lloyd-Sabaudo Line
Providenes
Paris
Berengaria
Baltic
Washington
Killing in Brooklyn Seen by Hundreds in City
In New York on June 25 two unidentified men in a passing taxicab shot and killed Roasario Z Ounto in the Brooklyn business district as hundreds of pedestrians watched. The killers escaped.
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New York
Roasario Z Ounto
Brooklyn
Ditch Cave Kills James Given in Avondale Ohio
Avondale Ohio June 27 James Given 59 died of suffocation when a ditch he dug caved in and buried him alive. His wife and police traced his absence and found the body beneath soft earth with a foot projecting from the soil marking the tragedy.
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Avondale
Jas. Given
Brutal Husband Beats Wife and Kills Self
In Chicago on June 25 Tony Stec aged 45 faced a court for beating his wife after the birth of their eighth child. He struck her with a baseball bat, shot her in the mouth, then killed himself as police arrived.
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Chicago
Tony Stec
Etna Settles After Violent Days
Mount Etna’s eruption, which forced about 100000 people from homes, appears to ease with lava flow down to roughly 16 yards an hour. At this pace Lingualoossa would be reached in about two weeks. Salvage work continues as peasants return home.
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Rome
Mount Etna
Lingualoossa
Brokerage Feinstein Ward & Co. Crashes Into Bankruptcy
New York June 25 a Feinstein Ward & Co brokerage firm was placed under receivership today amid a bankruptcy filing bond set at nineteen thousand dollars.
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New York
Feinstein-Ward & Co
Heatwave Toll In New York Area Claims Five Lives
Five people died and dozens collapsed as a heat wave struck the New York territory. High humidity pushed the 10 am reading to 83 degrees as the thermometer rose around three degrees per hour. A man died after drinking alcohol, another hanged himself, one fell from a roof while sleeping, and two drowned while swimming to cool off.
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New York
Dynamite Strike Damages Socialist Paper Plant in Muenster
In Muenster during June, the plant of the Socialist newspaper Volksville was dynamited overnight. Police reported no injuries but structural damage halted production. Authorities investigate possible political motive as local residents react with concern.
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Muenster
Germany
Volksville
Narrow Escape as Car Plunges Down Bank at Sand Rock
Mr and Mrs Forrest McCune Mrs Len McCune and Frank Morris were injured when their car stalled on a hill near Amesville Ohio Sunday morning. Brakes failed the vehicle rolled back over a ten foot embankment and flipped twice landing on a rock. The auto was only slightly damaged. Mrs Len McCune broke a wrist Mrs Forrest McCune cut arm Frank Morris injured back and hips. Father Fr M McCune ill in Sand Rock area treated at home.
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Len McCune
Forrest McCune
Frank Morris
Morris
Ff. M. McCune
A Severe Storm Lays Waste Across Steubenville Area
A violent electrical storm damaged property and crops across Steubenville, Wellsburg, and Follansbee causing over 106000 dollars in losses. Three storms in one hour struck from different directions. Homes and businesses were hit, Wellsburg city hall suffered a belt strike, and fires followed the chaos. The Secrest residence in Follansbee was shifted 250 feet onto Main Street.
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Steubenville
Wellsburg
W. Va
Follansbee
Ohio Valley
Alexander Secrest
Follawsbee
Five killed as two elevated cars crash in Brooklyn
Five people died and at least 40 were injured when two Fifth Avenue elevated line cars jumped the rails and crashed to the street at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues in Brooklyn. Investigators began tracing cause as rescue squads worked through the wreckage.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Atlantic and
Flatbush
Brooklyne
Tragedy at Harding Trip Kills Three in Canyon
Denver June 25 The Harding party tragedy at Bear Creek Canyon raises death toll to three with Thomas Dawson former US Senate secretary Sumner Curtis GOP committee rep and Thomas A French of Denver killed. Donald Craig Washington Herald correspondent was severely injured but expected to recover.
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Denver
Colo
Harding
Bear Creek Canyon
Thomas Dawson
United States Senate
Sumner Curtis
Republican National Committee
Thomas A. French
Donald Craig Washington
New York Herald
Ford predicted to win Democratic nomination if nominated
Ottawa reports Senator James Couzens of Detroit predicting that Henry Ford would be an easy victor if he secures the Democratic nomination. Couzens says capturing the nomination would be Ford’s greatest difficulty.
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Ottawa
Ont
Henry Ford
James Couzens
Detroit
Ford
Couzens
Ex-Con Knight to Speak at Athens Kiwanians Gathering
Charles L. Knight, Akron newspaper publisher and former gubernatorial candidate, will address the Athens Kiwanians this evening at 5 30. Knight is a well known figure in Cato and has a history as a convicted ex congressman.
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Charles L. Knight
Athens Kiwanians
Mr Knight
Akron
Cato
Etna eruption seriousness overstated says Rome dispatch
Rome dispatch in the Morning Journal today argues the Mount Etna eruption was greatly exaggerated, noting diminished danger and urging calmer assessment from the public.
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London
Mount Etna
Rome
State awards case over disability for 12 year old victim
In Columbus on June 25 the state industrial commission reviews a claim for total disability by 12 year old David Ripley. The boy was employed in a gravel pit in Madison county when he was caught in a cave and severely injured.
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Columbus
State Industrial Commission
David Ripley
Madison County
Liquor Donated to Hospitals After Arrest in Lima
Twenty four quarts of bonded liquor seized after the arrest of im Murphy were donated to St. Rita's and Lima City hospitals in Ohio. The bottles will be tested for purity before being used for medicinal purposes.
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Lima
Im" Murphy
St. Rita’s
Lima City
Reds Riot in Eisleben Probed After Fatal Clash
Rioting communists in Eisleben Germany on June 25 left one dead and 25 wounded in clashes that erupted during protests. Police wrestled control as authorities prepared inquiries and public safety measures.
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Eisleben
Germany
Toa
Walker Leads Band Trip Through Athens and Little Hocking
Dr. A K Walker of Buchtel tours with his Walker Minge trel band of 16 string players. They pass Athens Sunday on a truck ride to Little Hocking to perform at Children’s Day and enjoy river swimming and picnicking. Walker also organizes local boys baseball teams.
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A. K. Walker
Buchtel
Walker
Athens
Little Hocking
Ohio River
Suring
Escape Follows Jail Break at Pomeroy Meigs Prison
Wert Mattox, held on charges of breaking into a freight car at Hobson and awaiting indictment, escaped from the county jail in Pomeroy on a Saturday night. Sheriff Reeves was away with an insane patient, and prisoners had access to corridors. Mattox reportedly dug through a brick wall with an old window weight to flee, unnoted until Sunday morning.
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Pomeroy
Wert Mattox
Hobson
Reeves
Athens
Weaver
Mattox
Two Teens Held After Robbery Suspects Apprehended
In Bucyrus Ohio fidalis Thompson 16 of Mansfield and Marchike Humphrey 17 of Loudonville were detained by juvenile authorities after a four AM police stop at a local restaurant. The girls said they traveled from Mansfield with two men they did not know.
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Bucyrus
Fidalis Thompsson
Mansfield
Marchike Humphrey
Loudenville
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