Valentino Bigamy Complaint Filed By Los Angeles DA
Rodolfo Valentino faces a district attorney filing for bigamy after his Mexican wedding to Winifred Hudnut while awaiting a California divorce. The bride travels east under the name Winfred Shaughnessy aboard the Continental Limited, watched by guards as she returns to New York amid Paris headlines.
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Rodolfo Valentino
Woolwine
Valentino
Winifred Hudnut
Mexicali
Mex
Jean Acker
Continental Limited
Boone
Rudolfo Valentino
New York
Denver
Rawlings
Wyo
Omaha
Winfred Shaughnessy
Cinema Star
California
Wire
Bre
Hudnut
America
Ogden
Utah
Grand Island
Neb
Shaughnessy
Harding Opposes Philippine Independence Move
Washington May 20. The Harding administration opposes granting independence to the Philippines and the Philippine mission due next month to plead for independence is doomed to failure. Secretary of War Weeks declared the United States will not accept responsibility without power and said he is opposed to independence, as is President Harding.
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Washington
Harding
Philippine Islands
Philippine Mission
United States
War Weeks
Philippine
Philippines
Remembered in Ohio on 25th anniversary of stage tragedy
Martins Ferry May 20 Eu genie Blair dies in Chicago theatre. She was leading lady in The Gladiator when the local opera house now Pastime theatre opened 25 years ago. Her husband at the time Robert Downing was leading man.
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Ohio
Martins Ferry
Eugenie Blair
Chicago
Former Senator Mar tine Returns to Run at Union Request
Former Senator James E. Martine runs again at the rail unions’ request. He was once the first senator elected by voters and faced a long string of unsuccessful campaigns before winning office.
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UNION
James E. Martine
Jim
Senate
Harding Says Keep Hands Off Bonus Legislation
President Harding will let the Senate pass bonus legislation without White House instructions. Administration leaders say he will not send a bonus letter and wants the senate to decide the issue in committee next Tuesday, signaling no dictation from the White House.
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William K. Hutchinson
Washington
Harding
Senate
White House
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
McCumber
Cave Children Starving Found in Burrow Near Regina
Mary Jabłowski and her six children were found starving and nearly naked in a burrow under a straw stack by a department inspector in Regina. The oldest was nine and the youngest 15 months, four girls among them. Authorities took the children to a shelter and plan to press neglect charges against the mother who lived with a man, having roughly concealed the dwelling with brush.
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Regina
Sask
Mary Jablowski
Separate Schools Wisest For Today's Wise Youth
Henry C. Peirson, Horace Mann principal, argues for separate high schools to curb adolescent morals issues. He notes 1914 adoption by Horace Mann as proof and credits parental weakness for today’s “overly wise” youth. He says coeducation harms girls’ focus and that separate classes improve discipline and learning.
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I. N
New York
Henry C. Peirson
Horace Mann
International News Service
Peirson
Blizzard Treason Trial Opens as Defense Seeks Aiding Armed March
Charles Town West Virginia May 20 Defense pushes to prove Bill Blizzard aided miners in the armed march on Mingo rather than sanctioning insurgency. Brigadier General Bandholtz expected to testify, defense renews motion for acquittal, overruled. A. Porter miner union official continues testimony supporting Blizzard alibi.
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Warren W. Wheaton
Charles Town
W. Va
Bill" Blizzard
West Virginia
Mingo
Judge Woods’ Circuit Court
H. H. Bandholtz
Logan County Battle Field
Bandholtz
Woods
A. ©. Porter
Wooster plans old time swimming hole dredging project
Dredging starts along Christ mas run north of Wooster to build a traditional swimming hole. A diving board and dressing tents will be provided. The project is undertaken by the Wooster board of trade community interest committee.
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Wooster
Christmas Run
Senator Caraway Attacks Daugherty Over 1911 Contract
Senate debate centers on a photo static copy of a contract dated August 4 1911 between Attorney General Daugherty and Charles W Morse. It alleges Daugherty would receive 25000 for securing Morse's release from Atlanta penitentiary. Caraway demands Daugherty resign to avert further embarrassment.
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Washington
Daugherty
Senate
L Caraway
Arkansas
Charles W. Morse
New York
Morse
Atlanta
Caraway
Prison Terms for Kidney Remedy Sale Under Volstead Act
In Toledo on May 20 Cecil H. Kerns of Columbus and W Earl Tolheim, ex-officials of the Victor Drug and Chemical and Essenay Chemical companies, received prison terms after a federal jury found that manufacturing and selling the V. K. S. kidney remedy violated the Volstead Act and carried an alleged 33 percent alcohol content.
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Toledo
Cecil H. Kerns
Columbus
W. Earl Tolheim
Vietor Drug and Chemical Company
Essenay Chemical Company
France to Move Ahead If Germany Fails to Pay
Paris May 20 If Germany does not pay reparations due May 31 France may advance with troops in the Rhine area. Premier Poincare’s views on the Rhine occupation army and its uses form the basis of this interpretation.
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France
Germany
Paris
Poincare
Hope for Real Heat From Genoa Talks Parley
Berlin reports quote Chancellor Wirth urging Genoa torso be armed while noting May 31 as the test to see if brute force or understanding dominates. German press faults Genoa as wasteful, cites America's absence and France's obstinacy as blocking a settlement. Washington notes Navy blocks wireless broadcast of Women's Party speeches from Arlington headquarters.
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Hague
Wirth
Vossische Zeitung
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Lloyd George
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National Woman's Party
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Roosevelt
Ford plan eyed to spark Tennessee Valley development
Thomas Edison told the Senate agriculture committee in a closed conference that granting Henry Ford control of the Muscle Shoals waterpower project could create a vast industrial center across the Tennessee Valley, signaling a major shift in federal policy.
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Washington
Tennessee Valley
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
Thomas Edison
Senate Agriculture Committee
Girl from Lowell Named Aide to German Embassy
Miss M Verna Neil of Lowell Massachusetts has been appointed to the staff of Ambassador Houghton the United States minister to Germany She sailed April 25 She served in the quartermaster corps during the war and later acted as private secretary to Senator Martin of Virginia and private clerk to former Secretary of State s
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M. Verna Neil
Lowell
Mass
Houghton
United States
Germany
Quartermaster Corps
Senator Martin
Virginia
Secretary of States
Turbulent border clashes and arson plague Ulster week end
Belfast reports a violent weekend with Sinn Fein attacks on Antrim barracks Glenarm and Carnlough. A worker killed at the border and a guard burned out in a major blaze. Shanea Castle attacked. Lord O Neill rescued as the castle burned. Dublin debates a June 16 general election amid a reign of terror. A Ballykillar officer’s convoy incident left wife dead and husband wounded. Two dock drovers killed in a dockside melee. In Indiana, Wilson Roudebush, a distillery watchman, was shot dead by whiskey thieves.
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Belfast
Antrim
Glenarm
Carnlough
London
Ulster
Ballykinlar
Indiana Holds Fast To First Wage Demands
In Terre Haute Indiana United Mine Workers district 11 president John Hessier said no to a third state wage conference invitation from Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators association. He noted miners demand a national agreement and rejected the latest overture aimed at ending the strike.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Indiana
John Hessier
District 11
United Mine Workers
Phil H. Penna
Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
Local Shoe Factories Idle as Workers Strike Over Wages
Cincinnati report says sixteen shoe plants shut Saturday as 6900 workers walk out refusing a ten percent wage cut. W. H. Tateman of the Manufacturers' Association estimates the sixteen factories payroll at about $200,000 weekly.
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Cincinnati
W. H. Tateman
Manufacturers’ Association
Bartlett to oversee New York post office reorganization
Acting Postmaster General Bartlett departed for New York to supervise a planned reorganization of the city post office after seven men were arrested in connection with a mail robbery involving about one and a half million dollars last October.
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Washington
Bartlett
New York
New York City
War graft probe ordered started in DC district
Washington May 20 district attorney Gordon ordered by attorney general Daugherty to speed the setup of a new grand jury in the District of Columbia to hear war graft evidence. Large cases tied to prominent figures will be heard as a basis for possible indictments. The justice department finished investigations in several war frame cases and plans to add nearly 100 lawyers to focus on graft.
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Washington
Gordon
Daugherty
Congress
District of Columbia
Department of Justice
Ohio to receive federal highway funds soon
Four million dollars in federal aid for Ohio roads, stalled in Washington, is set to be released soon. State Highway Director Herrick reports lawmakers in the capital helped move the bureau to action after a subordinate reportedly delayed approving state plans and specifications.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bureau of Roads
Washington
Herrick
National Capital
Servants Escape Flames After Raid on Irish Mansion
An armed group raided Lloyd Vaughan’s Rosecrea mansion in County Tipperary early today. They tied the servants, who freed themselves and fled as the house caught fire.
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Dublin
Lloyd Vaughan
Rosecrea
County Tipperary
Urges Jail for Women Who Help Bootleggers
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes urged jail for women found aiding bootleggers and rum runners as a remedy for weak local enforcement. He said women are becoming the most active conspirators in manufacturing and distributing illegal liquor.
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Washington
Prohibition
Haynes
Famous Crook Prochowski Shot While Fleeing Chicago Home
Adam Prochowski known as the chloroform burglar was shot and killed by a guard detective during an attempted robbery at Henry A Blair’s home in Chicago. Prochowski escaped Joliet prison two months ago and aimed to steal art treasures from the Blair residence.
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Adam Prochowski
Henry A. Blair
Blair
Prochowski
Joliet
Antiquated notices mix frontier events and biographical blurbs
A fragmentary 18th to 19th century record notes a Dhindanse attack on a Pinglish fort at Sandusky mouth, 1786 Congressional land disposal ordinance, 1806 birth of Edward R. Ames the Pacific coast bishop, a Baltimore death in 1847, a Piqua bank organization in 18k, and the death of Cooper Ke. Watson in Sandusky Kentucky in 1810.
Bail Granted for Marriage After Shooting Lovers
Vincent Licardi 20 was granted bail in Essex Market court to marry Margaret Polanti 18 after he shot her on May 8 when she rejected his proposals. He then shot himself. both are recovering and a marriage is planned within days.
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New York
Vincent Licardi
Essex Market Court
Margaret Polanti
Misa
Poland
Lizardi
Ruth Reinstated By Landis In Yankee Return
Babe Ruth was reinstated by Judge K M Landis and allowed to play for the New York Yankees against the St Louis Browns this afternoon. Teammates Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy were also reinstated effective immediately. They had been suspended until May 20 for barnstorming after the 1921 season and forfeited their share of the Yankees 1921 world series earnings.
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Chicago
Babe Ruth
New York Yankees
K. M. Landis
Ruth
St. Louis Browns
Bob Meusel
Yankee
Bill Piercy
Boston
Meusel
Piercy
Jurge Landis
Yankees
Murders Aunt Who Had Him Freed from Asylum
Chicago May 20 Armed citizens and police hunted Thomas Mahaney after he murdered his aunt Mrs Elizbeth Williamson by slashing her throat. Mahaney had been released from Dunning asylum weeks earlier on a plea that he was harmless and needed relative care. Telephones in the United States average one to every eight persons for every two families.
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Chicago
South Side
Thomas Mahaney
Elizabeth Williamson
Mahaney
Dunning
Williamson
United States
Child Labor Amendment Sparks Senate Fight Across Regions
The Johnson proposed amendment to prohibit child labor triggers a bitter sectional clash in the Senate. California Senator Hiram W. Johnson argues it protects children and justifies slight invasion of state rights, while North Carolina Senator Lee S. Overman warns it would erode state sovereignty and invite federal overreach into education and policing.
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Washington
Senate
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Johnson
Lee S. Overman
North Carolina
Union
Congress
Supreme Cout
Lit‘ls
Unique Window Display at Zenner's This Week
Court Street showcases The D. Zenner Company window marked Zen ners 70th Birthday Jubilee. A giant cake with 70 electric candles sits center, flanked by modern women’s apparel and 70 year old Athens dresses with an electrically propelled spinning wheel. The display is set to be removed early next week.
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Court Street
D. Zenner Company
Zenners
Athens
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