Oil engine ordinance defeated by Nelsonville council
Nelsonville council defeated the oil engine ordinance under a two-thirds vote requirement after weeks of debate. The session considered Hocking Power Co. electric service at two and a half cents per kilowatt with a ten year contract and one year cancellation by notice. Rejected were plans tied to the oil engine proposal as Council adjourned without further action.
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C. H. Bartlett
Nelsonville
C. C. Sharp
Scott
Hocking Power Co
K. W
Angre
Beard
Pearce
Bayles
Cotton
Owens
Keplar
Ohio Tower Co
Atd
Ohio Power Co
Washington tests delayed by bad weather at Virginia Capes
Delays in gunnery tests of the unfinished hull of the super dreadnought Washington off the Virginia Capes due to unfavorable weather. The ship, last of its class to be scrapped or sunk under the arms agreement, remains postponed until conditions improve.
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Norfolk, Va
Washington
Virginia Capes
Diplomatic Resignation Report Discounted by White House
The White House discounted reports that Ambassador Frank Kellogg to Great Britain planned to resign at year’s start. President Coolidge had received resignations from none of the major diplomatic posts, officials stated.
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Washington
Frank B. Kellogg
Great Britain
White House
Coolidge
Sugar tariff report before President Coolidge
The U S Tariff Commission sugar tariff report is now before President Coolidge for consideration as the basis for any future changes in the sugar duty. Johnson retires with mixed feelings as Walter Johnson buys the Oakland club of the Coast League and will not pitch next year.
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Coolidge
Washington
United States Tariff Commission
White House
Johnson
Walter Johnson
Senators
Oakland
What the Future Has for Males
Clarence Darrow, the Chicago attorney who defended Leopold and Loeb, predicts in Lorain that society will evolve with mothers as heads of families and marriage fading. He says families may redefine parentage and asserts religious emphasis on the family as the societal foundation is outdated.
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Lorain
Clarence S. Darrow
Chicago
Richard Incb
Nathan Leopold
Darrow
Athens County and B and O Plan to Remove Dangerous Crossing
Athens county commissioners and B O railroad executives sign to remove a double grade crossing at Canaanville on the Athens Marietta road. state highway crews will build a new north side road, with winter weather delaying completion and keeping detours in place for weeks.
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Athens County
B. & O. Railroad
Canaanville
Athens-Marietta
Canaanville Put
State Highway Department
Dan Davis
Athens- Marietta Road
Coolville
Davis
Grand Jury to Probe Niles Disorder Case
In Niles Ohio state troops quelled factional disorders but unrest remains. Trumbull County Prosecutor Harvey A Burgess says a conference with Governor Donahey and an Attorney General representative set a county grand jury investigation this week.
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Columbus, CO
Niles
Harvey A. Burgess
Trumbull County
Donahey
Burgess
Air Tank Explosion Injures Workers at Edwards Plant
In Cincinnati on November 18 a compressed air tank exploded at Edwards Manufacturing Co. injuring one man probably Willie and two others badly. Thomas Williams, 29, was crushed in the blast.
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Cincinnati
Willie
Edwards Manufacturing Co
Thomas Williams
Champion Slept at Wheel Behind Auto Charge
New York reports the world champion sleeper was to be arraigned today on reckless driving charges. Jacob Kriminsky, 40, of Czar Nicholas, allegedly slept like a babe at the wheel as his car sped east on Ninety-sixth street at about forty five miles an hour.
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New York
Jacob Kriminsky
Czar Nicholas
Wife of Columbus minister burned in furnace tragedy
Mrs. Addie Shearsley, 50, wife of Rev. C. V. Sheatsley of Christ Lutheran church, died in a furnace at their Columbus home. Authorities reject suicide by self immolation and probe the curious circumstances with coroner's office. Funeral plans set for tomorrow with burial in Paris, Ohio.
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Columbus
Addie Shearsley
Franklin County
Murphy
Christ Lutheran Church
Bexley
Sheatsley
Storm brings toll of death in East
In New York on November 18 a violent ice tipped gale caused seventeen deaths. Four due to cold, six in auto accidents, seven at sea. Winds reached sixty eight miles per hour. Six fishermen and the sloop Frolic captain missing. Levi S. J. Place, 52, of Rahway New Jersey, found frozen in a field.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Frolic
Levi S. J. Place
Rahway
N. J
Water Raiders Defy Injunction At California Aqueduct
Inyo county officials expect warrants to be issued for the first man who seized the Los Angeles aqueduct flood gates on Sunday. Raiders refuse to obey the injunction and arrests will be ordered if the defiance continues.
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Independence
Cal
Los Angeles Aqueduct
Inyo County
Scarlet fever appears in seven October cases in Athens County
County health report lists seven scarlet fever cases among forty total communicable diseases in October with one death. Typhoid fever shows four cases, diphtheria two, and tuberculosis three, alongside chicken pox epitheal mia scarletina varicella erysipelas and pertussis among other illnesses.
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Athens County
Athens County Dairy Cows Rise Four Percent
Athens County dairy cattle numbers trend upward with a five percent rise in cows two years old and over, part of a broader U S increase of six percent. Heifer proportions suggest plans to boost future milk supply by expanding young stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Creamery Institutes
Ohio
Athens
United States
Labor Delegates Plan Big Program
Delegates at the second session of the A F of L in El Paso gather with labor reps from Mexico Britain Canada and Germany to coordinate international labor activity and advance workers worldwide.
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LABOR
EL Paso
Tex
A. F. of L
Mexico
Great Britain
Canada
Germany
Two Dead in Atlantic City Hotel Fire
The charred body of a woman about 40 was found in the ruins of the Bothwell Hotel, raising the death toll to two after an $800,000 blaze. Authorities fear identification will be difficult and say the woman may be Mrs. Myers. The Steel Pier front was also destroyed by a separate $1,000,000 fire.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Bothwell Hotel
Myers
Fire destroys two hotels on Boardwalk causing massive damage
One life is lost and property damage exceeds 800000 as fire sweeps the Boardwalk destroying the Bothwell and Senator hotels and damaging the Wiltshire and Casino. James Bennet, 80, of the Bronx, dies trapped in the Bothwell. Mrs. Nettie M. Slick, of Southfork, is later found injured. Firefighters from several cities battle the blaze for hours. Captain Charles McMenamis aides victims and is later revived after a fall.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Wiltshire
James Bennet
Bronx
M. J. Collin
Bothwell
Philadelphia
Camden
Charles McMenamis
Slick
Jones to Speak Before Athens Kiwanis Club
Charles A. Jones secretary to Senator Frank Willis will address the Athens Kiwanis at 5 30 Tuesday evening at the Hotel Berry The talk titled Our Great Neighbors Across the Pacific will cover political experiences and international relations.
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Charles A. Jones
United States
Frank Willis
Athens Kiwanis Club
Berry
Jones
Pacific
Ten Days Fall Visitors Enjoy Ice and Snow in Athens
Ten days of autumn travel in Athens mix bathing salts and sleds as the town offers November swimming at California and November coasting at Mountain Lake park. A prior swimming party on the Hocking river and a blizzard with two inches of snow sparked early morning coasting by boys. Hot water on frozen radiators tops outdoor sports for flivver owners that morning.
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Athens
California
Mountain Lake Park
Hocking
Flivver
100 Years of Fifth Ave Rat Week Ends
Arthur Brisbane notes New York marks a century since Fifth Avenue opened as a real street. He recalls its transformation from a cowpath to a bustling city artery and highlights the Croton reservoir era and the later replacement by a great public library.
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Fifth Ave
America
Fifth Avenue
42Nd Street
Great Croton
New York House
Great Public Library
Cable Elm on Athens East Side School Grounds Among Largest
The Cable elm on the Athens East Side School grounds is described as one of the world’s largest elms and over 300 years old. Tree Surgeon Paulsen of Kenton performed treatment, removing ants and water, then sealing cavities with cement. The tree sits on a mound by the school, with a protective fence and careful student oversight. Ohio claims several of the world’s largest elms, including trees in Yellow Springs and Marietta, with Bridgeport, Connecticut also claiming a larger specimen.
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Cable Elm” ON
East Side
Athens East Side
Paulsen
Kenton
Ohio
Yellow Springs
Botaniata
Marietta
Athens
Bridgeport
Conn
Yellow
Defiance Teachers and Parents Promote Education Week
Defiance public schools plan American Education week aims to strengthen ties between parents and teachers. Superintendent KE Howey announced special receptions and parties at the school building to observe the event.
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Defiance
Defiance Public
KE. W. Howey
Defiance Schools
Washington battleship towed toward Virginia coast for gunnery test
The great gray hulk of the W. B. & Washington is being towed to an anchorage off the Virginia coast for practice gunnery that will send her to the bottom of the Atlantic. Attorney Wilton J. Lambert of Washington made another effort to save the battleship.
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Saag
Washington
W. B
Virginia
Atlantic
Wilton J. Lambert
Governors Meet in Florida for Annual State event
State governors gathered in Jacksonville for the sixteenth annual conference aiming to finish business by noon. The group plans a river sail to Sanford and a tour through citrus belts to Tampa Lakeland West Palm Beach and Miami before disbanding Monday morning. Sessions on preventing grade crossing auto accidents and saf guarding highways were led by Governors Branch and Cox.
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Jacksonville
Fila
Hardee
St. Johns River
Sanford
Citrus Belt
Tampa
Everglades
Lakeland
West Palm Beach
Miami
Branch
Indiana
Cox
Massachusetts
Motorist Odell Eddins Arrested In Fatal Wilson Ave Crash
Odell Eddins, 20, was arrested in Youngstown Ohio after his car struck and killed an unidentified man on Wilson avenue last night. Eddins says the pedestrian stepped into the street. a charge of manslaughter may be filed.
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Youngstown
Odell Eddins
Wilson Avenue
Eddins
Man Found Frozen By Olentangy River Near Columbus
The frozen body of an unknown man was found today on the east bank of the Olentangy river near Columbus. John Jones discovered the corpse beside a remaining fire with a coffee pot and an empty alcohol bottle nearby.
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Columbus
Olentangy River
Here
John Jones
Fire Devastates Sinclair Refining Docks in Linden
One man died in the Linden New Jersey fire at Sinclair Refining Co. docks as several vessels burned and damage reached an estimated 1.2 million dollars. The blaze was contained today after a lengthy response.
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New York
Sinclair Refining Co
Linden
N. J
Chic Harley fights to overturn 1922 insanity ruling
Attorneys for Charles W. Chic Harley filed a probate court motion in Columbus to vacate the 1922 insane adjudication, claiming he was not allowed to appear, defend himself, or be examined by physicians and that Illinois may have been cited as his home. The affidavit says Harley and family learned of the order a year later.
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Columbus
Charles W. “Chic
Harley
J. J. Trainor
Joseph Nagle
Chicago
Ohio State
Ohio
Illinois
Ohio State University
Dayton
National Rivers and Harbors Congress Sets December Meeting
John H. Small announces the twentieth annual conven tion of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress to be held December 10 41 in Washington. Delegates from states and major associations urged to attend. topics include inland waterways relief, free ports, canal power, and interstate rail waterway pricing. The article notes past appropriations from 1892 totaling 1 249 681 795 by June 30 1924.
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Washington
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
John H. Small
Great Lakes
Tidewater
Congress
Small
Delaware River
Drownings Linked to Chinese Smugglers Boost Rum Trade Rumors
In New York a Coast Guard chase sparked tales eleven Chinese migrants were drowned after being packed in bags and weighted for smuggling. Officials warned such drownings would be hard to prove, while sources noted smugglers use divers and aerial drops as enforcement grows harsher. A coast guard report also found twenty five burlap bags of hootch washed ashore near Oak Island.
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I. N
New York
Coast Guard
New York Bay
West Street
Havana
The
Oration Department
Boston
Bureau
David Sheehan
New York Harbor
United States
Oak Island
Long Island
Handcuffs Man to His Dying Victim in Dayton
Ohio police report a lone bandit shot 23 year old David Edwards a shoe store clerk in the Keiths Theatre building and after cleaning the cash register handcuffed the fleeing suspect Mack Flynn to the victim before escaping. Edwards was bleeding and said to be dying at a local hospital.
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Dayton
David Edwards
Mack Flynn
Flynn
Keith's Theatre
Edwards
Grapefruit Drives Isle of Pines Economy After War
The Isle of Pines builds an economy around grapefruit as its main product, rising to prominence after American colonization following the Spanish-American War. The fruit export shapes local industry and employment in the region.
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Isle of Pines
Readable fragments on household management and business topics
Fragmented text discusses household management finance and business and mentions libraries and books. It references ocean transportation coal mining and education and invites writing a name and address plainly. The passage appears as a garbled question about reading topics in a library context.
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Wea Amartenn Library
Netion i
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Stanley Baldwin
Palace Chambers
London
Immielsonville Council
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East
County
Kiwanis
Arthur Brisbane
Christopher Mildeberger
2Nd Street
Postoffice
Grand Rapids
Mich
Florida
Rown Sterboury
Bay
David Sentner
Lone Bandit
Dare
Wreteric J. Haskin
Thens Messenger Intermeation Bureau
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