Athens County Schools urged to approve 3 mill levy
H. R. McVay warns that over twenty districts in Athens county face ruin without a prompt 3 mill levy to secure state aid funds. The measure, separate from other taxes, would not raise rates beyond last year and aims to keep schools open and staffed.
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Athens County
H. R. McVay
Athens
Ohio
McVay
Nelsonville
Glouster
Waterloo
Lark and Lee
Albany
Plains
Ameéville
State Department of Education
State Department
W. M. Riegel
State Director of Education
Alexander
Special Legion Meeting Tonight in Athens Armory
A special meeting of K. T. Cross en Post 21 American Legion is set for 7:30 Thursday at the Athens Armory. Post adjutant W. G. Silvus states the gathering will plan Athens Legionnaires' role in dedicating the new Legion home at Nelsonville with participation from Legion posts and other groups on October 23. The Athens Knights of Columbus are also slated to take part in the afternoon program.
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K. T. Crossen
American Legion
Athens
W. G. Silvus
Silvus
Athens Legionnaires
Nelsonville
Athens Ainights of
Columbus
City May Cut Eight Firefighters in Elyria
Service Director James Howitt urged Elyria city council to authorize eight fire department reductions due to depleted funds. Police department cuts were not planned at this time.
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Elyria, O
James Howitt
Red Cross Leaders Plan Ahead For Winter Relief
Miss Irma Stanfield of Athens county travels to Columbus for the Ohio Welfare conference as Red Cross relief efforts intensify with cold weather. In mining districts three fourths of local school children have been outfitted this year with donated clothes from Athens and nearby towns, easing winter needs.
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Irma Stanfield
Athens County
Red Cross
Columbus
Ohio
Athens
Was Struck by Passing Auto in Logan Mystery
Hershel Wooley lay unconscious at Cherrington hospital after being found beside the Nelsonville pike. Investigators weigh a passing auto as the cause, noting lack of bruises, a battered tobacco box cushion, and a broken windshield fragment as clues.
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Nelsonville Pike
Hershel Wooley
Cherrington Hospital
Logan
Buchtel
Beleve
Gladioli Brought From Germany For Royal Horticultural Show
Some of the gladioli exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Show in London arrived from Germany by airplane.
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London
Germany
Officers Discover Honey Bee Tree During Troy Woods Raid
Athens county officers traced a rumored bootlegging ring in Troy township. They found instead a large bee tree with buckets full of honey, prompting a mutual halt to the planned raid.
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Troy Township
Athens County
The
Law
Senatorial probe opens in Chicago under Mr Borah
The Senate campaign fund investigating committee convened in Chicago for its first session to study pilots reports on contributions and expenditures of the three major presidential campaigns. The panel led by Senator Borah will read donors and connections, with witnesses ordered later if corruption is found.
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Chicago
Robert M. la Follette
William E. Borah
Horah
Man Hurt by Road Roller On Logan McArthur Road
Lawrence Thatcher of McArthur was badly injured when struck by a road roller during the Logan McArthur road improvement near Mt. Pleasant. He was taken to the local hospital for examination and treatment.
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Logan
Lawrence Thatcher
McArthur
Logan- McArthur
Mt. Pleasant
Bridge foreman taken on charge in forgery case
C E Newman, a bridge foreman for Gary Construction on the Logan McArthur pike, was arrested Tuesday afternoon by Deputies Brandt and Farbearn at work after Columbus officials notified that he faced forgery charges. The case was cleared the same day and Newman returned to duty.
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Logan
C. E. Newman
Logan-McArthur Pike
Gary Construction Co
Brandt
Farbearn
Columbus
Newman
Neel resigns from Kirkwood Presbyterian after twelve years
Rev. John W. Neel steps down as pastor of Kirkwood Presbyterian Church in Bridgeport Ohio a noted wealthy church after twelve years in the role He plans to travel to Florida on November 1 to spend the winter.
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Bridgeport
John W. Neel
Kirkwood Presbyterian Church
Ohio
Neel
Florida
Bread prices rise as Soviet grain failure hits Rome
Rome reports bread costs up ten percent after Soviet Israel fails to deliver grain under its Italian contract. A government committee meets to plan coping measures while German reparations bonds are halted. American grain orders sell out. speculation drives grain prices up sharply.
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Rome
Isra
Percival S. Hill
PLC
German hands roil Wall Street as election day nears
Arthur Brisbane notes a troubled market with stocks falling and money rising amid uncertainty. He questions investors about how they read news and decide when to stop thinking, warning that election day will be highly unpredictable.
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Wall Street
Germans Will Be Sent Home After Zeppelin Flight
Lakehurst N J October 16 Officers of the ZR 3 prepared to travel to Washington to meet with Secretary Wilbur about the historic flight from Germany. They will return for a dinner to be hosted by the Goodyear Zeppelin Co for the ship's crew, except for fifteen who remain.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Germany
Washington
Gas Bag Recovery Work Continues On ZR 3
German crew on the ZR 3 observed as supports held the airship while hydrogen gas escaped from thirteen cells. The craft will remain limp until helium fills the cells and after tests it will be re commissioned with a new name possibly Nokomis Daughter of the Moon matching Shenandoah Daughter of the Stars.
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Germany
Shenandoah
Canton in ruins after street fighting and fires
Sun Yat Sen forces rout Canton Merchants volunteers in a bloody clash in Canton. Fires from rifle and cannon fire and incendiaries ashore have caused about 5.96 million dollars in damage as shops and homes are burned and many killed. two foreigners wounded amid the chaos. An American and two French missionaries are reported captured near Kweitch on the Tun Chal Railway.
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London
Sun Yat Sen
Canton Merchant's Association
Central News Dispatch
Hong Kong
Canton
Sun
Canton Merchants Association
Kweitch
Honan
Tunchal
Legation
Pomeroy Road Hush Work Progressing Toward December Opening
Weather favorable allows Athens Pomeroy road to push toward completion. Brick paving on I C H 159 Section M-1 near Morrison hill advances while Meigs county reinforced concrete end near Durlingham is finished. Contractor H E Wratt aims to complete grading and curbing within two weeks to provide a hard surfaced all weather route to Athens and Pomeroy.
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Athens - Pomeroy
Dan Davis
State
I. C. H. 159
H. E. Wratt Construction Company
Davis
Meigs County
Durlingham
Pratt
Athens
Vomeroy
Morrison Hill
Peck Grant Taken To Prison In Ohio Case
Logan Ohio October 16 Frank Peck Grant was taken to the Ohio penitentiary by Deputy Brandt after pleading guilty to a third offense liquor charge. He was arraigned Tuesday before Judge Jamttlt and sentenced to one year. Grant had escaped from jail here weeks ago and was later found in Zanesville jail.
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Logan
Frank “Peck
Grant
Ohio
Brandt
Jamttlt
Zanesville
Flowers and funeral joke taints civic staff tale
A rumor spreads through Columbus municipal offices alleging Deputy Ralph Sands of the license department figures prominently in a story. The piece recounts Sands at a rain damp flower shop quipping about asking for funeral flowers, with a clerk reacting to the scene as if a funeral were imminent.
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Ralph = sands
Columbus
Sands
Ralph
Davis Attacks Donahey In Vigorous Ohio Campaign
Former Governor Harry L. Davis arrives in Cambridge to speak for his campaign and heads to Caldwell for a meeting. He accuses Governor Vic Donahey of soliciting campaign funds from firms supplying state road materials, asserting his donations are or will be honestly reported and that no favors are sought from contributors.
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Cambridge
Harry L. Davis
Cleveland
Vic Donahey
Caldwell
Davis
Belmont County
Bellaire
Donahey
Republican Party
Wildcat Oil Wells Spark Fuss in Meigs County
In Bowman's Run Cross farm area three oil wells and two large gas wells produce high yields. The Erocalsa Chemical Co reports initial output around six barrels per hour with potential if sustained. Cross family earned $12000 royalty from the first well. owners of that well $9006. multiple new wells located by Gillespie Oil and Ohio Fuel on neighboring farms.
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Pomeroy
Erocalsa Chemical Company
Bowman's Run
Wildcat
Cross Farm
Cross
Lucius Cross
Gillespie Oil Company
Ohio Fuel
Pure OA
Yost
Robert Crow
Willie
Ben Cross
Rebecca Cottrill
Board orders vote on three mill school levy in Tiltonville
The Tiltonville board of education orders a November 4 referendum on a proposal to raise taxes by a three mill levy for the school, to replace the two mill levy vetoed three years ago. The extra funds are needed as state aid for grade schools and the new high school will end without local support.
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Tiltonville, CO
Board of Education
Prince of Wales to sail from New York on Olympic
The Prince of Wales will sail for England from New York City on the steamship Olympic on October 25, announced today by White Star Line officers.
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New York
Prince of Wales
England
New York City
Olympic
White Star Line
Rich Whiskey Kings Caught in Federal Net
A nationwide liquor scandal leads to ten arrests as federal agents crash an airplane rum smuggling ring linked to Cuba. Prohibition officers seize evidence from warehouses and trace shipments to Chicago and eastern cities, naming several prominent suspects including Davis Pinkussohn and Howard F. O Brien.
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Carl W. Harris
N.S
Corres
Chicago
Federal Oficers
United Sta
Cuba
Galione
Ite
I T
Say
Davis Pinkussohn
Pink
Cage
Gold Coast
Keepi Nig
Mqnor
Florida
Howard F. O'Brien
Pinkussohn
Chiecago
Joseph Wartieburg
Louis Bittner
Robert Marquist
Wards House
Syndiccate
Davis Defends La Follette in Aurora Address
In Aurora Dr John W Davis denounced attacks on his rival Robert M La Follette while defending the common sense and patriotism of Americans He criticized Republican charges that the Progressive no nince sought to overthrow the Constitution and urged vigilance against Bolshevism during a Chicago bound two day tour from Quincy Illinois.
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Aurora
America
John W. Davis
Quincy
Chicago
Robert M. la Follette
la Follette
Davis
Akron Women File Eight Voluntary Bankruptcies
Two Akron women filed eight voluntary bankruptcy petitions in federal court in Cleveland today. The petitions list their financial troubles and seek relief under bankruptcy law.
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Cleveland
Akron
Authoritative reference list for books from Washington Bureau
The Washington Bureau offers a compiled list of authoritative books across all fields. It aims to save readers time by providing a practical, informative guide to stimulating new channels of thinking. Frederic J. Haskin invites readers to request the booklet One Thousand Useful Books.
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Washington Bureau
Ibrary Association
Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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Clinton Webb
Messenger
Troy Woods
U.S.A
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Friedrichshapen
U.S. Navy
Lehman
NEA
ETS
New Jersey
MR. Borah
Vinton
Arthur Brisbane
ZR-3
HUSH
Pomeroy Road
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Meigs
Bowman’s Run
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