Hocking Feld Suffers Through Freight Rates
Percy Tetlow head of Ohio industrial relations spoke to the Athens Chamber of Commerce on General Industrial Conditions. He cited a $37,593,000 workmen's compensation fund with $34,000,000 in outstanding claims and warned premiums may drop if surplus is returned to employers. He blamed discriminatory freight rates for idling Hocking mining, noting West Virginia and Kentucky coal undercuts Ohio’s Hocking district production.
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Department of Industrial Relations
Workmen’s Compensation Commission
Ohio
Percy Tetlow
State Department of Industrial Relations
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Tetlow
Mr. Tetlow
Department of Government
Vefor
Workmen’s Compensation Department
Department of Mines
Athen Iity
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
United States Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
National Commission
Public Utilities Commission of
Hocking District
Forty Days Without Food Will End for Church
Harvey W. Church, 23 but appearing 46 to 50, lies in Chicago jail in a deathlike state after more than forty days without food. Doctors call him a closed in personality and a fakir of auto hypnosis, with two juries having found him sane despite his confession and crimes. The execution is set for 4 p.m. tomorrow, a departure from the usual dawn time.
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James L. Kilgallens
UL N. S
Chicago
Mar
Harvey W. Church
W. W. Hickson
Church
Dr. Hickaon
Dr. Hickson
Dr. H
Las Singer
Bernard J. Daughterty
Carl Adams
Our Minister's Birthday Tickets at Millikan's
A brief item notes tickets priced at 50 cents for Our Minister's Birthday at Millikan's venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millikan’s
Lock-out possible in coal mine wage dispute says Hall
Ohio United Mine Workers president Lee Hall warns a national lock-out may follow if operators refuse national talks by April 1. He disputes district settlements and a government move, noting no operator proposals to districts and calls for a six hour day and five day week as wage goals. He and Will iam Roy briefed Athens delegates including John O Leary John Ghiazzoni and Robert Marshall during a Hotel Berry conference.
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Lee Hall
Ohio United Mine Workers
Athens
Hall
Mr. Hall
John Lewis
Ohio
Federal Commission
United Mine Workers
William Roy
Roy
Hotel
Berry
Sugar Creek Union
Mine No. 210
John O'Leary
Pennsylvania
John Ghiazzoni
Robert Marshall
State leaders travel to Murray City and Glouster unions
President Hall and Vice-President Roy of the state organization departed Athens Thursday morning for Murray City and Glouster to visit the unions there before returning to Columbus.
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Hall
Roy
Athens
Murray City
Glouster
Columbus
Lower Wages Agreed On In Cleveland Building Trades
Cleveland March 2 early peace in the building trades and a full resumption of the citys largest building program are forecast. Plumbers and their employers agreed on a wage scale of 1 per hour, a 10 cent cut from 1921. About 8,000 of 30,000 workers laid off yesterday due to notices of radical pay cuts.
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Cleveland
Mar
Greater
Mrs Frank Lowther Rescued After Roof Escape
Mrs Frank Lowther was rescued from the roof of an adjoining house after she fled there during an attempt to wreck her home in Akron Ohio on March 2. A bystander alerted firefighters who brought her down safely from the roof.
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Akron
Frank Lowther
Labor crisis looms in British engineering and shipbuilding
London March 2 A labor crisis threatens nearly one million workers in engineering and shipbuilding as a lockout of unionized engineers is set for March 11 after negotiations broke down. Proposals for a bonus reduction, effective March 15, were rejected by the workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Great Britain
Nen
Athens man fined 500 for liquor possession and transport
Cash Bentz of Athens pleaded guilty to possessing and transporting intoxicating liquor in Athens county court. He received two fines of 500 dollars each plus costs and was sent to the Dayton workhouse until payment. His car was confiscated. Co-defendant John Newman was fined 150 dollars and costs and sent to the Dayton workhouse. Prosecutor urged leniency for Newman.
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Cash Bentz
Athens
Gentz
Bentz
Canaanville
John Newman
Constable Mariner
Canaanville Pike
Dayton
Bartels
Newman
Lillie Class Sets Bake Sale at Lash's Drug Store
The Lillie class will hold a bake sale at Lash's Drug Store on Saturday March 4 to raise funds. Proceeds support school activities and projects.
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Lillie
Lash’s Drug Store
Police use cinema to aid manhunt in England
English police employ cinema screenings to reveal the handwriting on a parcel label used in a Ramsgate to Ireland murder case. Two corpses were mailed, and investigators urge the public to report any recognition of the handwriting to assist the investigation.
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London
Mar
Ramsgate
Ireland
Marconi’s Wireless Discovery Reaches Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
The article marks twenty five years since Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless telegraphy discovery, noting its impact on communication technology and the spread of radio communication worldwide.
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Marcon
Poot KiLLo A BADLY WANTED MAN IN HILLS
Ames Fugate, an escaped convict and longtime terror in Eastern Kentucky, was killed in a hills battle with prohibition officers and a Perry county posse. He died after exchanging fire as officers pursued him in Lost Creek near the ravine. His body was prepared for burial amid a reward of 1800 dollars for his capture dead or alive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Whitesburg
Ames Fugate
Kentucky
Prohibition
Lost Creek
Perry County
Fugate
Boeckcastle County
Green Watkins
Breathitt County
H. H. Holliday
Baby Clinic Planned at City Hall Friday Afternoon
A baby clinic will be held in the public health room at the city hall Friday afternoon from 2 to 4 o'clock under the supervision of Miss Bliss city nurse. Weighing and measuring infants and giving care advice will be featured.
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City Hall
Miss Bliss
Income Tax Service Opens in Post Office Building
Deputy collector A. C. McBride of the Zanesville internal revenue office has opened an income tax service in Room 22 on the second floor of the post office building. He will be in Athens until March 7 and offers free help in preparing returns.
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A. C. McBride
Internal Revenue
Zanesville
Post Office
Athens
New plan guarantees $50 cash bonus to every ex-soldier
The Ways and Means Committee backs a plan offering all ex-soldiers a $50 direct cash bonus from the U S treasury with higher amounts via insur ance policies. Banks would discount policies at 50 percent for three years and federal regulators foresee a first year treasury cost of about $16 million.
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Hayward
Washington
Mar
United States Treasury
House
Ways and Means Committee
W. P. G. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Treasury
Postoffice Department Funds Are Short
President Harding asked Congress to appropriate 2,110,000 dollars to cover deficiencies in the postoffice department. He said previous appropriations will not cover all expenses of the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harding
Congress
Postoffice
Southern Ohio Miners Face Wage Clash and Short Work Hours
W D McKinney of the Southern Ohio Coal exchange says southern Ohio miners worked only 28 percent of time in 1921 under a wage scale and five hour day plan. He opposes a four state meeting urged by United Mine Workers and stresses readiness to meet miners locally to discuss the industry crisis.
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Columbus
Mar
Ohio
W. D. McKinney
Southern Ohio Coal Exchange
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Exchange
United Mine Workers
McKinney
United States
Davis
Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles to end honeymoon in London
Viscount Lascelles and Princess Mary will complete the first phase of their honeymoon at Shifnal on March 2. They plan a short stay in London, then depart for Italy via Paris after returning to London.
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Shifnal
Eng
Viscount Lascelles
Princess Mary
London
Italy
Paris
Chester Love Is Sentenced For Robbery Assault
Chester Love of Glouster was found guilty by an Athens county jury of assault with intent to rob after the December 26 1921 holdup of the Brandeberry family. Judge Worstell sentenced him to 3 to 15 years in the Ohio penitentiary, with transfer to the Spring Street institution in Columbus planned later this week. a separate assault and battery charge will be dropped.
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Chester Love
Glouster
Athens County
Spring Street
Columbus
Parker
New York Clears Snow After Storm Heaviest in Days
More than five thousand snow shovellers were at work in New York City to clear two inches of snow from streets after last night's storm. Forecasters predicted rain and sleet before day's end.
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New York
Ohio Notes of 19th Century Events and Figures
A concise chronicle lists notable Ohio mentions: death of statesman Benjamin Wade at Jefferson, born near Springfield Missouri. the 1890 Chillicothe Clough Grand Opera House fire. death of Richard M. Bishop former Ohio governor in Jacksonville Florida. 1894 Jackson County miners report joblessness. 1897 William McKinley arrives in Washington for inauguration.
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Benjamin F. Wade
Jefferson
Springfield
Mays
Clough Grand Opera
Chillicothe
Richard M. Bishop
Ohio
Jacksonville
Fila
Fleming County
Jackson County
McKinley
Washington
Former Follies star seeks damages from Thorne and mother
Miss Mary Lygo sues Gordon De Thorne for 100000 in a breach of promise case and separately targets Mrs. William Camp for another 100000 alleging the mother repeated harsh remarks about her Following prior suicide attempts Lygo seeks a total of 200000 in damages from both defendants
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Mary Lygo
Follies
Gordon de Thorne
Sove
William Camp
Thorne
Industrial boom hints in Huntington as projects loom
Huntington is set for a boom with five new business structures costing about half a million dollars. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad shops will open with near normal force, and county and state contracts exceed a million dollars. Furniture factories run at full or overtime, and Logan coal fields show improved activity signaling better days ahead.
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Huntington
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Logan
Cuba sugar crop forecast for 1922 23 set at 3.6 million tons
Advance dispatch from Havana reports Himly's estimate of the Cuban sugar crop for 1922 23 at 3,600,000 tons. The figure, if confirmed, would influence market expectations and trade discussions in New York.
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New York
Havana
Himly
Cuba
Dollar a Year Is Given Two Robbers
Charles Allen and James O Walls were named dollar a year men at the state penitentiary and sentenced to ten years for highway robbery. They held up a fruit stand proprietor and took ten dollars. Judge Matthews in common pleas court called the sentence a dollar a year.
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Huntington
Va. Va
Charles Allen
James O. Walls
State Penitentiary
Allen
Walls
Matthews
Common Pleas Court
British Admiralty Suspends Gunnery Practice for Better Fishing
In the Firth of Forth, the Admiralty has halted gunnery drills and naval maneuvers to prioritize improved sea fishing conditions. The pause aims to reduce disruption to local fisheries and support coastal communities dependent on the catch.
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Firth of Forth
Admiralty
Still Hope to Pay the Bonus Partly in Cash
Washington reports Rep Fordney chairing the Ways and Means Committee says cash bonus plans for ex-service men have not been abandoned. He notes the committee may still provide cash payments or abandon the idea, depending on treasury revenue and expenditure projections presented to the panel.
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A. O. Hayward
Washington
Mar
House
Ways and Means Committee
Fordney
Michigan
The
Treasury
Sailors Strike Spreads to Chinese Ports
Central News dispatch from Shanghai reports the maritime strike on the Chinese coast widening with many ports affected and a number of vessels detained due to seamen walking out.
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London
Shanghai
Learn About Milk Protect Yourself
Public health notice promotes a free Milk Booklet explaining milk safety and disease risks. It urges readers to mail a coupon with two cents for postage to Frederic J. Haskin, Director, The Athens Messenger Information Bureau, Washington DC.
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Hnm
Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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Percy Teslow
Lefhall
Pope Pius XI
England
Guart
Nowagreedon
Sir Sues
Mary Lyge
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