Daredevil dies on hotel wall in Broadway stunt
New York crowds watched as Harry F. Young known as the Human Fly fell from the Martinique Hotel wall during a lunchtime climb. He plunged from the eighth floor, suffered fatal injuries, and was pronounced dead by a surgeon after the ambulance arrived. He was filming a moving picture stunt.
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Broadway
Thirty-second Street
Harry F. Young
Martinique Hotel
Jie
Young
Frances Martin Receives $5000 War Death Compensation
The Senate approved a $5000 death compensation for Frances Martin of Athens for her husband Peter Leslie Martin who died in March 1919 from blood poisoning while tending the dead during the flu epidemic at Camp Sherman Chillicothe. The Athènes county case against Aetna Life Insurance for the $7000 policy proceeds to a third hearing in common pleas court.
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Senate
Frances Martin
Athens
Columbus
Peter Leslie Martin
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
House
Athéns County Common Pleurs
Movie girl ends life after lover rejection
Venice California March 5 22 year old Arline Zimmerly a motion picture bathing girl beauty shot herself at her Rialto Boulevard home after learning her sweetheart Ben Bojorquez did not love her or intend to marry. He witnessed the tragedy. She died instantly.
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Venice
Cal
Ben Bojorguez
Arline Zimmerly
Rialto Boulevard
Bojorquez
Smallpox Case Probed and Driver Pleads Guilty at Dundas
The state medical board identifies Jones England of Dundas as a marked smallpox case with many exposures before diagnosis. Larry Barstow, arrested Saturday for reckless driving, pleaded guilty and paid a $15 fine plus costs.
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Dundas Mcarthur
The
State Medical Board
Jones England
Dundas
Third Arrest Brings Heavy Fine for Dwyer
William Dwyer of West Washington Street was arrested Saturday after a chase by Officers Maples and Price for drunkenness. He was found hiding behind the watchman's shanty at West Union Street railroad crossing and appeared before Mayor Gill Monday morning, facing a third drunkenness charge. He was fined 20 dollars and costs, unpaid.
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West Washington Street
Maples
Price
West Union Street
Gill
Foster Seen as Governor Possibility Amid Ohio Boom
Washington dispatch notes Rep I M Foster of the Tenth Ohio District rising as a gubernatorial possibility as southeastern Ohio backs a Foster-for-Governor movement. The Cincinnati Inquirer cites his growing party support and entry into the inner leadership circle as evidence of his rising stature. Other Ohio reps Fitzgerald Berg Cooper and Murphy are also mentioned pursuing governors’ mansion interests with Fitzgerald active, sending campaign literature.
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Ohio
Washington
Cincinnati Inquirer
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Congress
Foster
House
Dayton
Berg
Cooper and
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Fitzgerald
Ex-Senators and Representatives Seek Public Posts Overseas
As the congressional exodus continues, two ex-senators and three ex-representatives stay in Washington to assume duties from President Harding. Harry S. New becomes postmaster general, Miles Poindexter seeks a voyage to South America as ambassador to Peru. Other senators prepare for European travels and overseas assignments.
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Mar
Congress
Harding
Harry S. New
Indiana
Miles Poindexter
South America
Man Dies by Self Immolation in Northern Ohio Home
South Lebanon Ohio March 4 192X McClung 68 years old a defendant in a divorce suit locked himself in his home one mile north of Mason near here and set the building afire He perished amid the flames before aid could reach him His two daughters teachers said he had shown signs of mental instability recently Residents found the blaze had progressed so far only a few pieces of furniture were saved McClung's body was recovered in the cellar.
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March &W. FE
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Mason
Hirage
McCluing
Mob Threatens Taxi Driver in Chicago After Fatal Run Down
Two unidentified persons, likely a man and wife, were killed when a taxi ran them down in Chicago. A mob threatened to manhandle Nelson Cross, the taxi driver, as the incident pushed Chicago’s automobile death toll for the year to 100.
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Chicago
Mar
Ened
Nelson Cross
Gas rate standstill deepens in Cleveland fight
Mar 5 Our proposal to Mayor Kohler was our last word said Martin B Daly of East Ohio Gas. The council deadlock over gas rates persists as a May 1 supreme court decree could allow shutoff. The council earlier passed a lower rate ordinance 29 to 3, likely vetoed by the mayor, blocking the company's appeal.
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Cleveland
Mar
Kohler
Martin B. Daly
East Ohio Gas Company
Supreme Court
East Ohio
State Utilities Commission
Tut Ankh Amon body removed before inner chamber seals
Paris March 6 Tut Ankh Amun's 3900 year old tomb body had been removed from the Valley of the Kings before Jord Carnarvon's party could break the seals on the inner chamber according to a statement printed by L Oeuvre.
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Paris
Tut- Ankh-Amen
Valley of the Kings
Jord Carnarvon
L’oeuvre Today
New Indiana Senator Becomes Postmaster General
Former Senator Harry S. New of Indiana was sworn in at 10:30 this morning as postmaster general. He succeeds Dr. Hubert Work of Colorado, who President Harding moved to the interior department.
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Harrys. New
Indiana
Hubert Work
Colorado
Harding
Interior Department
Business girl changes mind. Toledo wedding off
Lawrence Wendell, friend of Miss Jane Lenigan of Toledo, says the marriage between Miss Lenigan and York Averill is off for good. He notes Mrs Averill relented but the couple will not wed now or ever, citing the girl’s humiliation.
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Toledo
Mar
Lawrence Wendell
Jane Lenigan
York Reverill
New York
Averill
New York Dispatches
Wendell
Cincinnati Iron and Steel Plant Sale Reported
Reports from Chicago today swear the Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company plant will be sold to Joseph P Ryerson and Company of Chicago. Ryerson is one of the citys largest firms in the industry.
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Cincinnati
Chicago
Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company
Joseph P. Ryerson and Company of
US to Seek Prewar Trade Conditions With France
Reports from diplomatic circles say Washington has pressed Paris over the Ruhr blockade's impact on American trade. The United States may follow 1914 policy defending neutral commerce and seeks conditions similar to those before the French invasion.
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London
America
Washington
France
United States
Germany
Death Corner again scene of pistol murder in Chicago
Joseph Salantine, 45, was shot seven times and killed early today near the notorious Death Corner in Chicago. Anthony Jondale, 21, was wounded twice and may die. John Marsa was held by police as a witness.
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Chicago
Joseph Salantine
Anthony Jondale
John Marsa
Thaw Returns to Philadelphia for Insanity Hospital
Harry K. Thaw leaves Pittsburgh with his mother as ordered by a Philadelphia court. He will re-enter the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane for continued treatment after a ten day vacation.
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Pittsburgh
Harry K. Thaw
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Hospital For
Death Penalty Paid for Child Murderer Floyd Smith
Floyd Smith of Bradford County was electrocuted at Rockview penitentiary in Bellefonte Pa this morning after seven prior reprieves. He had been sentenced in February 1921 for the murder of his three weeks old baby stepson.
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Bellefonte
Floyd Smith
Bradford County
Rockview Penitentiary
Smith
Juvenile Judge Sends Mineral Girl to Reformatory
Juvenile Judge Johnson of Virgie Lyons Mineral sentenced 16 year old Delaware girl to the reform school Saturday. The girl has no home and the judge stated no other protection could be found locally.
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Johnson
Virgie Lyons
Mineral
Delaware
Terrible Corkscrew Wound Fells Ohio Man at Home
William Simmons a 32 year old Black man lies in a hospital dying from a corkscrew head wound inflicted by his wife Valetha Simmons in Steubenville Ohio. Police report a brutal beating with dishes used as weapons as a drug addicted wife in a frenzy attacked him at their residence.
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Steubenville
William Simmons
Valetha Simmons
Simmons
Parma murder recalled by finding of body
In Parma township near the site of a two year old school teachers’ killings a well dressed woman’s body was found in a ravine. Identifying marks on the clothing were removed leading authorities to believe the woman may have taken her own life.
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Cleveland, O
Mar
Parma Township
Last Garter Member Dies in Cincinnati at 82
Captain John Miller Blair, 82, last surviving charter member of the Loyal Legion of Ohio, died at his home in Cincinnati. He helped organize the Ohio branch with 18 other officers led by General Rutherford B. Hayes 41 years ago. Blair formerly ran a contracting business and once headed the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce. Death was due to influenza.
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Cincinnati, O
Mar
John Miller Blair
Loyal Legion of Ohio
Rutherford Burchard Hayes
The
United States
Ohio
Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce
Congressional Bills Die in Senate Filibusters
Washington reports a sweep of major measures dead in the Senate including the ship subsidy the Dyer anti lynching bill the McNary reclamation bill Capper truth in fabric Gooding wheat stabilization and the Dial cotton futures act as filibusters derail action.
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Washngton
Congress
Congressional
Administration
Dyer
Harding May Move To Bypass Senate On Bank Chief Pick
Washington March 6 President Harding is set to nominate James G McNary Texas comptroller of the currency despite Senate rejection Senator James Couzens Republican of Michigan released a formal statement detailing charges against McNary the findings from a Senate Banking and Currency Committee probe centered on his dealings with his own bank in El Paso Texas
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Washington, Mar
White House
James G. McNary
Texas
James Couzens
Republi
Can of Michigan
McNary
FE Paso
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Marie Norton Whitney Wedding Amid Fashionable Paris Soiree
Social note from New York reports the marriage of Miss Marie Norton of New York to Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, heir of the Whitney and Vanderbilt families. Gowns described as sculptured with bridesmaids Miss Francis Norton and Miss Barbara Whitney designed by Yvonne Davidson. Berlin bracket notes Germany refuses reparations talks during Ruhr occupation while negotiating with Italy.
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Mar
Marie Norton
New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Whitney
Yvonne Davidson
Francis Norton
Barbara Whitney
Berlin
Germany
France
Belgium
Ruhr
Italy
Congress adjourns for eight year’s longest break in 1920s history
Washington dispatch reports the 67th Congress ending amid mass departures for vacations as only a small guard remains on Capitol Hill. Republicans lose ground in both chambers with 58 Republicans, 12 Democrats and one Independent in the Senate and 2256 Republicans, 207 Democrats and three others in the House.
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J. N.S
Washington
Congress
Capitol Hunt
House
Senate
Demoocrats
Weather Outlook For Ohio Valley And Tennessee In March week
The period ending in March features considerable clouds with rain in Tennessee and rain or snow elsewhere. Temperatures run below normal early in the week and near normal later.
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Washington, D. C
Mar
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Fulkerson to Speak at Central Avenue Church Tonight
Rev. FE Fulkerson D D will address the public at Central avenue church tonight on The Present World Situation. The male chorus of Copeland class Six will sing. Public is cordially invited.
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FE. R. Fulkerson
D. D
Central Avenue Church
Dr. Fulkerson
Copeland
German Chancellor Cuno to Seek Break in France Ties
Reports from Paris and London indicate Chancellor Wilhelm Cuno will ask the reichstag to break off diplomatic relations with France. He canceled his Munich trip to address the extraordinary reichstag session in Berlin tomorrow.
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London
Paris
Wilhelm Cuno
Germany
Reichstag
France
Cuno
Munich
Berlin
France Resents US Interference in Ruhr Mediation
London reports France resents American involvement in the Rhineland and is clear it rejects U S mediation in the Ruhr region. The statement signals tension between France and the United States over postwar security roles and regional control.
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London
France
Rhineland
Ruhr
Krupp Workers Pledge Resistance to French Demands
At Essen 1040 Krupp employees vow not to yield to French demands during a secret Sunday jubilee. Four women attend including Frau Bertha Krupp Bohlen, founder’s relative, as IN S reporter covers the event.
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IV. N
Essen
Krupp Works
Frau Bertha Krupp-Bohlen
Internation News Services
Krupp von Bohlen Halbach
Ruhr
Germany
Eran Bertha Kupp-Bobbn
Krupp
Krupps
Hinmself
Revival services close with large attendance at Christian church
The Christian church held revival services led by Rev. Chatley, drawing strong crowds for music and two sermons. Attendance at Bible School reached 564, with plans to grow weekly. Higley Men vie with Dr. Lowe's Columbus class and Nelsonville Berean class. Chatley urged immediate decision to follow Christ. Mr. Tuttle began a campaign in Madisonville, Kentucky after a Granville visit.
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Tible School
Higley
Lowe
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Nelsonville
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