National Air Transport poised to open coast to coast service
An electric Chicago to New York airway project, the National Air Transport, plans to start Chicago New York service early fall with plans to extend coast to coast and to Canada and Mexico. Fortified by figures like Edsel Ford and William Wrigley Jr., Howard E. Coffin will head the new company with Curtiss and Wright involved.
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National Coast TO Coast Air Service
Chicago
New York
Mexico
Canada
National Air Transport
William Wrigley, Jr
Marshall Field
Edsel Ford
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Howard E. Coffin
Hudson Motor Car Co
Detroit
Clement E. Keys
Curtiss Company
Col
Paul Henderson
United States
Iodized Salt Widely Adopted in Athens Restaurants
Dr. J M Higgins announced water here promotes goiter, prompting restaurants to switch to iodized salt for cooking and on the tables. The product is mostly pure salt with small amounts of potassium iodine calcium phosphate and bicarbonate of soda while many households begin using it in water or food.
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J. M. Higgins
Athens
Zulu Chief Meets Prince of Wales in South Africa
A Zulu chief on a motor cycle greeted the Prince of Wales in South Africa. His war shield, zebra skin, and muffler bore witness to a clash between ancestral courage and modern conquest. The scene prompts debate on the power of “savages” learning our advanced machinery.
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Prince of Wales
South Africa
Beauties Picked Five Silver Mirror Girls Include Two From Athens
The Ohio university annual Athena lists ten true Ohioans for the 1225 graduating class. Five men and five women are named as the university’s most representative graduates chosen by deans and the student pastor. The Silver Mirror Beauties include Miss Leta Jean Baker and Miss Helen Peoples among others from Athens and nearby towns.
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Ohio University
Athena
L. L. Antle
Glouster
Russell D. Tubaugh
Sardis
William H. Herbert
Geneva
G. H. Gustafson
Jamestown
N. Y
W. K. Smith
St. Marys
Josephine
Leta Jean Baker
Johnstown
Helen Peoples
Athens
Alice Edwards
Dayton
Ruth M. Conn
Mansfield
Jean Gist
James R. Quirk
Photoplay
The
Quirk
Miss Baker
Miss Peoples
Navy Captured Rum Boats Used by Prohibition Force
A note from Defiance Ohio Cres cent Newa describes the prohibition navy repurposing captured rum boats and gear for enforcement duties, highlighting an unexpected turn in drink control operations.
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Prohibition Navy
Defiance
Ohio Crescent-Newa
Divorce case draws crowd at local courthouse
Yesterday a man filed a divorce suit in the local courthouse. In the morning thirty one women and four men attended to hear the case, a turnout mirroring the usual gender mix at such proceedings.
Freshmen Retaliate After Ducking on Wednesday at Ohio U
A campus riot between freshmen and sophomores at Ohio University threatened as traffic clogged South Court Street. Freshmen ducked by sophomores led to a late roundup. officials condemned the practice of stripping freshmen on state hospital grounds, though ducking itself drew no official objection.
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Ohio University
South Court Street
Red Longley
State Hospital
Torch Sing on Campus Monday Night
Six of seven national fraternities at Ohio University compete in the Torch Sing facing Lindley Hall. The event starts at 8 15 p m with Beta Theta Pi Phi Delta Theta Delta Tau Delta Sigma Pi Phi Kappa Tau and Theta Chi practicing. Dr Blaine Goldsberry offers the cup, one of campus honors. Delta Tau Delta won last year but the cup was stolen and replaced.
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Ohio University
Lindley Hall
Béta Theta Pi
Phi Delta Theta
Delta Tau Delta
Sigma Pi
Phi Kappa Tau
Theta Chi
Blaine Goldsberry
Doctor Goldsberry
Evening radio lineups feature wide music mix across stations
Stations KOA WTIO WGY WJY WCAE WCCO WAHG WEAF WIP WFAA KFI air a rich Saturday night schedule. Operas soloists and choruses share time with mandolin concerts, musical comedies, and valleys of orchestral and dance programs across Hartford Philadelphia and beyond.
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KOA
Erminie
WTIO
E. T
Hartford
Conn
WGY
Honor Bright
WJY
WCAE
WCCO
C. T
WAHG
WEAF
Mme
Rosalie Chalia
Hughes to help defend United Mine Workers in suit
Confirmation treasurer of Sub-District No. 5 Ohio Mine Workers reports that Charles F. Hughes of New York former secretary of state and ex Supreme Court justice has volunteered free service to defend United Mine Workers in injunction cases in U S court before Judge Baker. A special term opens June 1 when Hughes is expected to appear.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Charles F. Hughes
New York
United States Supreme Court
United Mine Workers
United States
Wm. E. Baker
Hughes
Elbert H Gary Critiques War Effects on Industry
Elbert H. Gary told the American Iron and Steel Institute in New York that war and political strife have harmed business, while he praised government efforts to aid citizens. He urged Congress to lower taxes and cautioned against high living costs as industry faces persistent diseased conditions from war and policy.
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New York
Elbert H. Gary
American Iron and Steel ‘Institute
United States Steel Corporation
Gary
Iron and Steel Industry
Congress
Coolidge
Poppy Sale Planned by Athena Legion Post Next Week
Local American Legion Post will run a paper poppy sale in Athena next week under L. G. Connett as committee chairman. School girls and boy scouts will assist at the gate. Proceeds go to the national fund to care for decorated graves of soldiers abroad, with the aim of a permanent Memorial Day grave decoration fund.
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Athena
American Legion
L. G. Connett
Southern Ohio Power sought to supply Chillicothe with floodwood plant power
Edward Bearce builder and Chillicothe city council were hosted by Southern Ohio Power at Hotel Berry. Citizens, led by Bearce, oppose Ohio Utilities Co. service and back a local firm to buy power from a nearer plant. The arrangement is to be discussed at the next council meeting, with Floodwood plant expansion seen as beneficial to Athens county and coal interests.
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Southern Ohio Power Company
Chillicothe
Edward Bearce
Berry
Athens
Bearce
Ohio Utilities Co
Big Walnut
Murray Post Pays Endowment Quota in Murray City
At the Murray post No. 20 meeting on May 22 the group debated raising Murray City’s $100 endowment quota for the American Legion Endowment Fund. A resolution was adopted to pay the city’s share from the post treasury to aid disabled World War veterans and the widows and orphans of fallen service members.
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Murray City
Murray Post No
American Legion
American Legion Endowment Fund
Murray Post Fund
Murray Post
Stedman to Hold a Food Demonstration
The F. C. Stedman company will host a morning food products demonstration featuring cuts from baby beef Sunday at 9 o'clock. Invited clients will be served afterward. The cattle used for the beef were raised on Valley View farm at Floodwood.
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F. C. Stedman Company
Valley View Farm
Floodwood
Tiny Athens baby Betty Lew Martin dies after 1 pound start
A news picture in the Messenger shows Betty Lew Martin, a newborn girl named from Athens, who weighed one pound at birth and died after several days. She was twelve inches long and appeared healthy at first.
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Athens
Messenger
Betty
Betty Lew Martin
Haney Goodrich Opens Modern Mens Store Tonight
The Haney Goodrich company store on Curt Street near West Union opens tonight with an orchestra, welcome by Charles Goodrich and Scott Haney, and gifts for visitors. The two story building includes a men’s department on the first floor a boys’ section on the second and a basement stock room. Lighting ventilation and two show windows highlight the new shop erected in ten weeks replacing a former fruit shop. Music by Chase accompanies the event and visitors receive cigars or chocolates.
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Chase
Toledo Attorney Found Guilty of Assault
Percy Parrott, a Toledo attorney and former Ku Klux Klan candidate for county prosecutor, was found guilty by a jury in Common Pleas court of assaulting a sixteen year old girl.
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Toledo
Percy Parrott
Common Pleas Court
Parrott
Ku Klux Klan
Mardis Resigns to Lead Hendersonville High North Carolina
H C Mardis longtime science head at eis high school resigns to become principal of the junior senior high school in Hendersonville North Carolina. He tendered resignation in March to take effect in September and will move with his family. He will teach in Ohio University summer school and holds a AB and BS Ed from Ohio University and an MA from Columbia University. He helped grow the school’s extracurricular program and is now in Michigan sourcing equipment for a new high school building in Hendersonville.
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H. C. Mardis
Eis High School
Aix
Hendersonville
North Carolina
Mardis
Ohio University
Columbia University
Muskegon
Grand Rapids
Mich
Hend
Majestic Theatre Plans Advance After Architects Compare
The Majestic Theater company has three proposed rebuilding plans under review. Charles Kircher, a local contractor, will help select the plan after a company conference, with the choice announced in a few days.
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Majestic Theater Company
Majestic Theater
Charles Kircher
Presbyterians Wary Over Gantz Case at Assembly
May 23 Columbus Modernists and Ultra fundamentalists clash again over licensing ministers who have not affirmed the virgin birth. The Chester presbytery bid to abolish the New York presbytery and form a new loyal body faces possible refusal as rulings on church law are debated. Dr John M T Finney of Johns Hopkins to be named vice moderator.
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Columbus
Presbyterian General Assembly
Chester
New York
Harry Emerson Foedick
First Presbyterian Church
Gantz
Assembly
Gants
General Assembly
John M.T. Finney
John Hopkins University
Baltimore
Charles R. Erdman
Rum Runner Seized In Boston Harbor Trade
May 22 Boston authorities seized the steamship Van of Jonesport Maine with $45,000 worth of liquor after eluding navy chasers off Rum Howl. Eleven crew members were arrested and over 1000 cases valued at 45 dollars each were captured at Commercial wharf. The raid marked a notable interception since the naval blockade began. Boston harbor police led the alert with customs inspectors completing the seizure as the ship tied up at the wharf amid bootlegging activity.
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Boston
Mass
Jonesport
Maine
Sam
Boston Harbor
Ohioan in party Lt Ellsworth pilots plane on polar flight
London reports Captain Roald Amundsen completed a dash toward the North Pole in an airship flight begun from Bay near Spitsbergen. Ohio aviator Lieutenant Bilaworth accompanied him as the six aircraft returned their base after starting from Bay late yesterday afternoon.
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London
Rad Amundsen
South Pole
North Pole
Oslo
Norway
Bay
Spitsbergen
Bilaworth
Ohio
King’s Bay
Central News
Amundsen and Ellsworth Near North Pole Flight
Oslo reports Captain Roald Amundsen and Lieutenant Ellsworth on a polar flight from Spitsbergen toward the North Pole. They launched two Dornier planes carrying fuel and provisions for two days and hoped to reach the pole, planning to return by way of Ellesmere Island if needed.
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Oslo
Norway
Raald Amundsen
Ohio
Ellsworth
Pole
Spitsbergeen
Danish Island
Galand
Amundsen
Spitsbergen
North Pole
South Pole
Spitzberg
Joe Perry
Columbia
Ellesmere Island
Greenland
Sen
Ohioan Picked for Commerce Post in London
May 23 Hoover announces the appointment of John C Speaks of Columbus as an assistant merchant mercban commissioner at London.
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Washington
Commerce
Hoover
John C. Speaks
Columbus
London
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