Storms Cut Off Small Towns Sealed by Bouldered Drifts
Traverse City Michigan describes heavy snows isolating Suttons Bay and surrounding areas. Relief planes from Grand Rapids reach the region to deliver aid while settlers ration meat from cattle killed in the blizzard. Officials fear food shortages and plan further relief as counties like Leelanau and Antrim face days of isolation.
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Traverse City
Mich
Grand Rapids
Suttons Bay
Leelanau
Antrim
Bonus Bill Origins Linked to Congress Priority
The American Legion urges quick passage of the adjusted compensation bill, stressing it originated with Congress and includes farm and home aid, vocational training, land reclamation, settlement, and paid up insurance to aid veterans. Ohio executions follow for Walter Wright and Harry Bland after murder convictions. Bland dies first at 12:19 a.m., Wright at 12:29 a.m.. Wright’s final words center on a Christian conversion.
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Hanford Menider
American Legion
IL N.S
Washington
Mar
The
Congress
Legion
Veterans’ Service
Columbus
International News Service
Walter Wright
Wellsville
Harry Bland
Pomeroy
Ohio Penitentiary
Bland
George Washington Reegle
Tanners Run
Ohio
Wright
Christ
G. C. McGibbon
Church of Christ of Columbus
Walter
M. K. Duty
H. E. Castleberry
James FE. O'Grady
Jim
Elizabeth McDowell
Prescription whiskey crackdown urged by Prohibition
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes warned of a wholesale clean up of Chicago druggists unless they exercise more caution in filling whiskey prescriptions. Prohibition Director S F Gregory reported to officials that many druggists are selling whiskey on forged prescription blanks and steps to break up the practice are under way.
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Washington
Chicago
Prohibition
Haynes
S. F. Gregory
Honeymoon Begin for Viscount Las Celles and Princess Mary
Shropshire notes record Viscount Las Celles and Princess Mary starting their honeymoon at Weston Park near Shifnal. A large village crowd greeted them on arrival from London as they isolate themselves from public view. They plan to visit Italy and stay at Villa Medici in Florence during the tour.
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Shifnal
England
Shropshire
Viscount Lascelles
Mary
Weston Park
Earl of Bradford
London
Lascelles
Rome
Italy
Villa Medici
Florence
Sleeping Woman Slain With a Rifle in Texas
Mrs. Bessie Marschell, 40, was found dead in bed in San Antonio with a bullet wound to the head. Her husband Henry Marschell, a park employee, slept beside her as mounted officers, alerted by a rifle shot, found a discharged 50 30 army rifle in the yard. He denied hearing the shot and was being held for investigation.
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San Antonio
Tex
Bessie Marschell
Henry Marschell
Park Employe
Marscell
Gunnery Practice Suspended to Aid Firth of Forth Fishing
The British Admiralty has halted gunnery drills and naval maneuvers in the Firth of Forth to improve sea fishing conditions. The pause aims to reduce disruption while preserving safety and naval readiness.
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Firth of Forth
Admiralty
Madame Lang Charms Washington Society
Madame Karl Lang wife of the German charge d affaires in Washington is making many friends at the capital with her charming personality in the social season.
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Karl Lang
Washington
Capital
Russia Excluded From Proposed European Reconstruction Corp
London Mar 1 Russia will be excluded from a proposed international corporation for European reconstruction. Nations denying foreign debts cannot join. Soviet Russia repudiated all debts. The United States may join once it is a going concern. The Central International Corporation would have 10 million capitalization with subsidiary national bodies at 100 million each. James Grant Forbes observes for the United States. The plan emerged at Cannes with allied financial experts meeting to finalize details.
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London
Russia
International Corporation
Europe
United States
Central International Corporation
James Grant Forbes
Allied Economic
Supreme Council
Cannes
Dalton family rescued as Dunham farm burns down
Marietta Ohio March 1 J M Dalton wife and daughter were rescued with difficulty when their farmhouse in Dunham township Washington county burned shortly before midnight.
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Marietta, O
J. M. Dalton
Dunham Township
Washington County
New Probe in Taylor Slaying Prompts Suspect Arrests
Los Angeles police press ahead in the unsolved murder of film director William Desmond Taylor entering a second month. Mrs. John Rupp alias Mrs. Lynch provided a statement leading to six men under suspicion, with authorities rechecking Mabel Normand as the last person seen with Taylor.
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Los Angeles
Mar
William Desmond Taylor
John Rupp
Lynch
Wilshire
Taylor
Miss Normand
Building Trades Strike Begins in Cleveland
Cleveland March 1 All union employees or members of the building trades council walked out today after employers posted notices cutting wages by 13 to 36 percent following a failed wage scale negotiation. Contracts totaling upwards of 20 million dollars in new construction are tied up and additional lettings halted awaiting a wage scale agreement.
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Cleveland
Mar
Building Trades Council
Strange Gypsy Custom After Chief’s Wife Dies Reported
Newark area Gypsy chief Ben Moyt led a 40 day vigil with no washing or changing clothes. On day 38 he held a death feast for fourteen families at his Belleville camp. Food bought in odd numbers, a legless table, and guests each took a lit candle home to extinguish there.
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International News Service
Newark
N. J
Ben Moyt
Silver Lake
Belleville
A Wave of Thought Traverses a Nerve's Distance
A poetic line contemplates how a thought moves across a mile of nerve fibers taking about a minute to travel.
Hootch Hunt Triggers Assault in Ohio Home
Mrs Emma Spetz was choked into unconsciousness and her nephew suffered a deep head wound when two men posing as revenue agents tried to search the Toledo home for illicit liquor. The incident occurred March 1 with authorities investigating.
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Hootch
Toledo
Mar
Emma Spetz
Ohio Milestones From 1803 to 187
A compact timeline notes key Ohio events: 1803 the first legislature met in Chillicothe under the state constitution. 1805 Athens County formed. 1817 Brown County formed and named after General Jacob Brown. 1818 Morgan County organized and named for General Daniel Morgan. 1850 charter granted for Hiram College. 187 Gov Hayes departed for Washington to be inaugurated as president.
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Chillicothe
Athens County
Brown County
Jacob Brown
Morgan County
Gen
Daniel Morgan
Hiram College
Gov
Hayes
Washington
Auto truck jolted by jazz record crash in Uxbridge
Avak Atamian and his son, in a Granite street auto truck, were shaken after a jazz record caused the driver to lose control and ram a stone wall. The victrola was damaged and taken for repair.
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Uxbridge
Mass
Avak
Atamian
Granite
Famous medical man to speak at Marshfield church
Dr H L Canright, famed for treating a million patients in China, will address the M E church in Marshfield Thursday evening March 2 at 7 o clock. The talk is billed as highly interesting and expected to draw a large audience.
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New Marshfield
H. L. Canright
M. E. Church
Poindexter urges keeping powder dry to defend navy
Senator Miles Poindexter warns against letting the US Navy fall below the 5-5-3 ratio of the naval arms treaty and argues that pacifism under false economy weakens national defense. He notes failed attempts to secure naval bases at Guam due to lack of congressional backing.
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J .Bart Campbell
S. N
Washington
Mar
Miles Poindexter
Senate
Naval Affairs Committee
Poindexter
Guam
Congress
Fifteen Seek Constable Post in Spencer Mass
Fifteen candidates are out for the job of constable in Spencer Massachusetts. The badge carries a perk allowing the bearer free admission to local movie theaters.
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International News Service
Spencer
Mass
Grand Opera House Block Burned in Zero Weather
Fire roared through Pueblo’s business district in zero temperatures destroying the Grand Opera House block and several stores with an estimated loss of 600000. The federal building housing the post office was threatened as the opera house walls and tower toppled while firefighters narrowly escaped harm.
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Pueblo
Colo
Federal
Local Atlantic and Pacific highway directors to meet in Ironton
C H McLung secretary of the Ironton division said attendance at the March 7 and 8 meeting at Hotel Marting will exceed the most sanguine expectations.
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Ironton, O
Atlantic and Pacific Highway Directors
Hotel Marting
C. H. McLung
Bob Martin Faces Tough Bout With Soldier Ray Thompson
Marietta Ohio March 1 Bob Martin challenger to Jack Dempsey will fight Soldier Ray Thompson eastern division U S army heavyweight champion in a ten round bout March 6 Thompson is bigger with longer reach and recent knockouts indicating a strong puncher.
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Marietta
Bob Martin
Jack Dempsey
Ray Thompson
United States Army
Thompson
New Tax Kept A Secret Under Consideration
Republican members of the house ways and means committee discussed a new tax to help fund part of the soldier bonus payment. Details remain secret with the exact size and nature of the levy withheld to prevent foes from uncovering it. The tax pursuers hope an agreement could be reached soon when the plan is announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
House
Ways and Means Committee
General Treasury
Four robbers loot Flecher Savings Bank in Indianapolis
Four unmasked bandits held up the East Tenth street branch of the Flecher Savings and Trust Co. on Tuesday. They looted the vault of $26,000 and took $4,000 from the counter before escaping in an automobile.
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Motor Indianapolis
East Tenth Street
The
Flecher Savings and Trust Co
Our Minister's Birthday Tickets at Millikan's
A brief notice offers 50 cent tickets for an event titled Our Minister's Birthday at Millikan's venue. The item is listed with a simple price and location reference.
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Millikan's
Storks and gulls Sleep Standing on One Leg
Birds such as storks and gulls commonly rest while perched on a single leg. This behavior helps conserve heat and balance while conserving energy during roosting periods.
Chicago Society Leader Elopes With War Vet
Mrs Mayme Wood Thorne widow of Raymond Thorne secretly married Frank Batling a Marine war hero in an elopement that echoed her first marriage. Thorne studied at Dartmouth and her father was a foreman on the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad in Chicago.
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Chicago
Mayme Wood Thorne
Raymond ©. Thorne
Frank Batling
Thorne
Dartmouth
New York, New Haven and Hartford
New York Pressmen to Return Pending Arbitration Terms
Members of the New York Web Pressmen's Union No. 25 planned to return to work after a conference between 12 union members and Newspaper Publishers' Association officials. The union voted to abide by Judge Martin T. Manton's arbitration award but will seek modifications to its terms after the February 21 contract expiration. Morning papers were printed in eight pages despite the strike.
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New York
New York Web Pressmen’'s Union No
Newspaper Publishers’ Association Today
Martin T. Manton
Lost Profits Quick Cleveland Court Fine
Urban Dipuccio was fined the equivalent of 2000 drinks of wine by Judge Sawicki. Police found a pitcher of grape wine in his place which he was retailing for 5 cents a drink.
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Cleveland
Urban Dipuccio
Sawicki
Athens County Teachers Association to Meet at Ohio University
Teachers from Athens County gather in Music Hall at Ohio University Saturday afternoon to hear Prof. R. L. Morton on The Teaching of Spelling and County Superintendent Guy Dinsmoor on Silent Reading. The program includes a business session after the talks.
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Teachers OF County
R. L. Morton
Guy Dinsmoor
Athens County ‘Teachers’ Association
Music Hall
Ohio University
Girl Found After Two Year Kidnapping Search
Addie Comfort, eleven, of Hawley Pennsylvania, found with Mrs. Margaret Greenwood of Syracuse New York. Greenwood reportedly told officials a showman abducted the girl to force her into dancing but later abandoned her. The Greenwood husband believed the girl his daughter upon discovery by Syracuse Children's Society.
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Addie Comfort
Hawley
Margaret Greenwood
Syracuse
N. Y
Greenwood
Syracuse Children’s Society
Bank Robbers On Down And Out In Columbus
Police tracked three of four alleged highwaymen from the Hilltop Citizens Trust & Savings bank robbery on West Broad street. They recovered part of the loot including cash and Liberty Bonds, and seized a car after arresting James Dunlap Charles Provence and George Richmond. A fourth bandit and the vehicle are still at large with ties to a prior December Parsons Avenue robbery.
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Columbus
Mar
Liberty
Citizens Trust & Savings Bank
West Broad Street
West Side
Dakota Avenue
James Dunlap
Charles Provence
George Richmond
Provence
George “Red? MecGhan
Richmond
Harry Lutz
Chicago
South Columbus
Parsons Avenue
Young Thief Held In Akron Post Office Break-In
Elmer Fisher a 17 year old youth is being held in Akron O on the charge of breaking into the Akron post office on February 19 and stealing 18 dollars in cash and stamps. He will be turned over to postal inspectors today.
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Akron
Elmer Fisher
Baker Not In Politics Aiding Dems In Cleveland
Newton D. Baker former secretary of war and ex mayor of Cleveland said he has no present plan to resign and will not take an active role in party affairs. He has chaired the Democratic Executive Committee since Tom L. Johnson’s death but has kept away from directing party matters since 1915.
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Cleveland
Newton D. Baker
Baker
International News Service
Tom L. Johnson
Little Giants Play Troop One Scouts in Armory Clash
The basketball teams from Troop One of the Athens Boy Scouts and Parkersburg W Va known as the Little Giants meet Wednesday evening at the Armory in a regional game.
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Little Giants
The
Athens Boy Scouts
Parkersburg
W . Va
Armory
Let Us Help You in Your House Cleaning
Government study results yield a free booklet from the Washington Information Bureau. It offers methods to simplify housecleaning, maximize material use, and secure full service from furnishings. Request by mailing the coupon with two cents postage.
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Washington Information Bureau
P Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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