Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan leader vows Walton cannot break Klan
N C Jewett wizard of the Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan declares Walton cannot defeat the Klan in Oklahoma or other states. He says the Klansmen deny the tag of conspiracy and frame Walton as the sole target of a malfeasance in office trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma Ku Klux Klan
N. C. Jewett
Jack" Walton
Oklahoma
Jewett
International News Service
Walton
Bavarian Plot to Seize Zeppelin ZR 3 Sparks Guarded Completion
Bavarian nationalists plotted to commandeer the giant Zeppelin ZR 3 being built for the United States Navy as it nears completion at Friedrichshafen. German officials and Zeppelin company staff are under tight protection while authorities seek to prevent a theft or sabotage that could derail the transatlantic voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnot Saunders
I. N
Munich
States Navy
Zeppelin
Friedrichshafen
Zeppelin Company
America
Atlantic
Conan
Germany
Covington Judge Issues Rules Against Attorney Meyers
Judge W A Cochran of the U S district court in Covington issued two rules against Harry J Meyers a Covington attorney and Kentucky legislator to appear and show cause why he should not be prosecuted for criminal contempt and why his name should not be dropped from the federal practice list A Covington information filed by S A Smith district attorney cites a Kenton County Bar Association probe that Meyers accepted 350 to influence lenient sentences for William H Schulte and William Devore of Newport following liquor manufacturing pleas
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Covington
W. A. Cochran
United States District Court
Harry J. Meyers
Kentucky Legisiaure
United States
S. A. Smith
Committee of Investigation
Kenton County Bar Association
Meyers
William H. Schulte
William Devore
Newport
Memorial dedication honors Colonel Galbraith in Cincinnati
Major General J H McCrea designated by President Coolidge as representative at the dedication of a memorial for Colonel Fred W Galbraith Jr of Cincinnati a former national commander of the American Legion Seven countries will join Belgium sending a wreath as it cannot attend The colonel led a largely Cincinnati unit in World War I and was killed in an Indiana car crash about two years ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
J. H. McCrea
Fifth Army Corps
Coolidge
Fred W. Galbraith, Jr
American Legion
Belgium
Galbraith
Mine Tragedy Claims Two Brothers In West Virginia
In Shadyside Ohio Valley coal region a Grand staff worker at W. B. Grand mine fell to death after a stone collapse. His brother was killed earlier in another mine at Moundsville West Virginia, details incomplete due to damaged copy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shadyside
B. Grandstaff
Moundsville
W. Va
Couple in Shanghai Suicide Pact Ends in Double Death
Parry Amberg, Far Eastern representative of Universal Pictures, and his wife, both prominent in the foreign colony, quarreled at the Hong Kong hotel. Mrs Amberg swallowed poison and Amberg leapt from a 30 foot height into the hotel courtyard. both died shortly after.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Parry Amberg
Universal Picture Corporation
Hong Kong
Amberg
US eyed to join permanent court of international justice
Everett Colby, NY attorney and statesman, told a Presbyterian church gathering that the United States will enter the permanent court of international justice in December when the Senate meets. He dismissed Senator Borah's objections as political and argued the court stays free from league influence just as the U S Supreme Court is free from presidential or congressional control. Rev F B Lamb of the Ohio Council of Churches spoke on postwar Europe, urging U S involvement in the Ruhr dispute to safeguard world interests and prevent another international crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Permanent Court of International Justice
Senate
Everett Colby
New York
Presbyterian Church
Ohio Council of Churches
Colby
Borah
League of Nations
Leagues
Court
League
Supreme Court of the United States
House
Lamb
F. B. Lamb
France
Germany
England
Ruhr
Italians Repel Rebels on Tripoli Front
Italian native troops attacked a rebel band on the Tripoli front, killing 50 militants. Italian casualties were 52 dead and 18 wounded amid desultory fighting in Tripoli.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
War Office
Tripoli
State foods chief leads drive on cold storage eggs
Arthur Mc Williams, head of the foods and dairies division in Columbus, directs the annual campaign on cold storage eggs. The division warns that storage eggs are often misrepresented as strictly fresh at this time of year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus, O
Arthur McWilliams
State Foods and Dairies Division
Athens D AR Marks Fort Gower Tablet Unveiling
Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution honor Fort Gower with a two day program in Athens November 9 10. Nabby Lee Ames chapter hosts ceremonies at Ewing Hall with a Glee Club and speakers from Ohio University and NCR Co. officials discuss larger patriotism.
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Ohio Daughters of the American Revolution
Athens
Fort Gower
Great Britain
Ewing Hall
Nabby Lee Ames
James Merwin
Ohio University Girl’s Glee Club
Irene Witham
Helen Falloon Stevens
O. D. Datley
Albany
Lowell F. Hobart
Cincinnati
Ohio
Garland
National Cash Register Co
Dayton
Edwin W. Chubb
College of Liberal Arts
Ohio University
Hobart
Second Look Reveals Stranger Cat Inspires Runaway Peace
J A Fuller found a friendly creature on his Congress street back porch. At first mistaken for a cat, it proved to be a small wild animal that fled back into the woods after a brief visit to the kitchen. The episode ended with calm restoration of order on Congress street.
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J. A. Fuller
Congress Street
Ta mira woman arraigned for liquor possession
Mary Kilpis of Ta mira faced Mayor Davies in St Clairs ville on a liquor possession charge. After a tearful plea she was fined 200 dollars plus costs and paid with a check, prompting bank scrutiny that estimated the account would cover many fines totaling around twenty two thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Kilpis
Tamira
Davies
St. Clairsville
Snakes From Japan Earthquake Hit Railroad Track Site
An echo from the Japanese earthquake reports damage to a railroad track in a remote area. The incident details are sparse but indicate disruption of service and potential safety concerns for nearby workers and travelers.
Rubber plant sale in Wellington and Elyria
The Lake Shore Rubber Co balloon plant at Wellington was sold at auction to C. A. Cess of Wellington for 8106 dollars. The Elyria factory of the same company was also sold recently. Stockholders face heavy losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elyria, O
Lake Shore Rubber Co
Wellington
C. A. Cess
Elyria
Young Monk Returns to World to Pay Grandfather Debt
In a Boston dispatch from November a Cistercian novice from Cumberland Rhode Island named Andrew Dennis left the monastery to repay a substantial debt his grandfather incurred. He obtained papal dispensation to serve as assistant chaplain at Long Island Hospital while settling the claim, with plans to restore his monastic vows after payment and family honor.
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Boston
Mass
Cumberland
R. I
Andrew Dennis
Pope Benedict
Long Island Hospital
Ohio voters approve two of six state proposals
Complete unofficial returns show that the workers compensation amendment and the amendment removing the white male voting restriction were the only two of six proposals approved. Taft and Albaugh tax laws and the initiated old age pension proposal were defeated by large majorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colmbus
Secretary of State
Bank Raid Strikes Ogden Village In Turbulent Heist
Bandits robbed the State Bank of Ogden at dawn, blowing vaults with five nitroglycerin charges and escaping by car with about $2,000 in cash and $10,000 in bonds. The town, shaken, saw residents flee as the danger intensified. only the town marshal confronted the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden, Kas
State Bank of
Ogden
Huge Mortgages Recorded in St Clairsville
County Recorder Brady Bradfield completed recording two large mortgage deeds totaling 75 million dollars and 1.75 million dollars. The larger document spans 443 pages and required 220 dollars in recording fees. The mortgage covers Wheeling Steel Corporation to the American Exchange National Bank of New York.
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Brady Bradfield
Wheeling Steel Corporation
American Exchange National Bank
New York
Rioters Loot Berlin Stores Amid Bread Riots
Hungry mobs rioted in Berlin with many shops looted and one person killed in bread protests at Pirma in Saxonian coal fields. The Dresden government submitted the dispute with the Reichswehr to the supreme court at Leipzig after police appeals failed.
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Berlin
Pirma
Dresden
Reichswehr
Supreme Court
Leipzig
Two Boys Die After Train Collision in Glendale Suburb
In Glendale, a Cincinnati suburb, two youths were killed when struck by a Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis railroad train as they walked home from school. The victims were 15 year old Robert Blasser and 15 year old Paul Wuthert, both residents of Glendale. Their bodies were hurled about 30 feet and were deceased on discovery.
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Cincinnati
Glendale
Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Western
Robert Blasser
Paul Wuthert
Shar-on residents raise funds to electrify village
Medina Ohio residents of Shar on band together to raise 4500 dollars to extend a power line and electrify the village, seeking improved service and daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medina, O
Sharon
First Snow Forecast as King Borcas Arrives in Athens
Athens residents awoke Thursday to the first snowflakes of the coming cold season. The light fall drifted slowly from a leaden sky but did not cover the ground, signaling what to expect before spring returns in April.
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Borcas
Athens
Lloyd George to reenter politics in Britain fight
Former British prime minister David Lloyd George returns to London from the United States amid predictions he will enter active politics to oppose Baldwin’s protection policy. A pro free trade stance could unite Liberal factions led by Lloyd George and Asquith, drawing conservative allies. He plans a post arrival speech and a key conference with associates at Southampton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
David Lloyd George
Lloyd George
Downing Street
Baldwin
Protection
Liberal Party
HM. H. Asquith
Southhampton
Seller of Poison Booze Sent to Penitentiary
Tony Mentolone pleaded guilty in Belmont county common pleas court to murder stemming from the death of W. D. Strahl after drinking liquor bought at Mentolone’s store in Lafferty. He received a sentence of one to twenty years in the Ohio penitentiary.
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Clairsville
Tony Mentolone
Belmont County Common Pleas Court
W. D. Strahl
Belmont
Mentolone
Lafferty
Ohio
Former German capital held by troops amid defense moves
WHIMAR Germany November 8 Reichswehr troops occupy Weimar the former German capital after the 1918 revolution. Berlin government concentrates Reichswehr forces to defend Thuringia against possible Bavarian invasion as the new constitution was drafted there.
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Whimar
Germany
Reichswehr
Berlin
Thuringia
Weimer
Unemployed in Britain to Gain Jobs Under New Public Works Budget
Sir Montague Barlow minister of labor declares a public works budget of 180 million dollars to aid about a million and a half jobless men across the British Isles. He aims to put them back to work through extensive relief and infrastructure programs.
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Montague Barlow
Minster of Labor
British Isles
Germany Holds Line as Money Printing Ends Soon
Berlin reports tension as Germany rejects inter allied military control demands and warns that fresh money printing will stop on November 15. Nationalists fear protection of allied officers as Friday marks the 1918 revolution anniversary with heavy police patrols in Berlin.
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D. Weyer
Berlin
Germany
Inter-Allied Council of Ambassadors
Ebert-Stresemann
Carted Away by Robbery in Washington County Safe
Sheriff Yarnall and deputies pursue a truck that stole an 800 pound safe from J M McCauley & Bros in Fay. The safe contained a small sum in cash and endorsed notes for two to four hundred dollars.
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Washington County
Marietta, O
Yarnall
J.M. McCauley & Bros
Fay
Ohegke
Broker Taken in Ohio
Cincinnati officers arrest R. W. Skipper a 38 year old realty broker from Tula Oklahoma on suspected violations of the Ohio blue sky law He advertised selling ten thousand acres in the Mid Continent oil fields Oklahoma at nine ten dollars per acre Police found clippings from St Louis papers indicating federal court indictments against him for misrepresenting Oklahoma lands to buyers in other states He refused to comment to police
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Cincinnati
R. W. Skipper
Tula
Okla
Skipper
Mid- Continent
Oklahoma
From &T Louis
Hoffman Defeats Mayor Grall In Lorain Race
In Lorain Ohio on November 7, rye Hoffman former council clerk and publican defeated Mayor W Grall Democrat by a plurality of 1250 Stapleton former policeman ran as an independent and secured 4 votes
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Lorain, CO
Rye Hoffman
W. Grall
Stapleton
Fume Stga
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