Dynamiting at Bradley Mine Spurs State and Federal Probe
Federal and state investigators from Columbus join Sheriff William T. Allison in probing the Bradley mine dynamiting. Officials estimate $40,000 in damage after about 60 sticks of dynamite were used as the mine nears reopening. Mine staff report no suspects near the site despite unrest among striking miners nearby.
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Steubenville
U.P
Columbus
William T. Allison
United States Coal Company
Bradley
J. E. Clark
Clark
Allison
Smithfield
Winston-Dear
Smithfield Junction
Visual Teaching Gains Favor At Athens County Dinner
Thirteen Athens County high school principals attended a University of Ohio dinner to hear Vernon M. Riegle now with Fox Film promote visual education. Riegle praised regional school sentiment and discussed state aid distribution while urging adoption of the Athens Automobile club safety patrol program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Vernon M. Riegle
Fox Film Corporation
H. R. McVay
Ohio
Riegle
Columbus
Ethics discussion at Ath en Rotary club lunch
The Ath ens Rotary club at Hotel Berry hosted a noon program on ethics in business. Edward C. Schloss led the discussion with Sam H. Haffey of Southern Ohio Electric and attorney Roger J. Jones explaining workers compensation act aims and administration.
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Athens Rotary Club
Hotel Berry
Edward C. Schloss
Sam H. Haffey
Roger J. Jones
Haffey
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Attorney Jones
Three Athens Boys Prepare Canadian Hunting Trip
Boris Woolley Carl Clark and Thomas Clark aged 11 and 13 join their fathers Athens attorney John J Woolley and Homer C Clark manager of Southern Ohio Electric on an annual hunt to Mongoose Lake 76 miles north of the Canadian border. The party travels in two automobiles and leaves Thursday morning. The area is noted for deer and moose and last year yielded many tales of the expedition.
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Athens
Canadian Woods
Boris Woolley
Carl Clark
Thomas Clark
John J. Woolley
Homer C.clark
Southern Ohio Electric Company
J. J. Sisler
J. D. Haskins
Emmett Cross
Mongoose Lake
Train dynamited kills Calles family members in Mexico
A Mexico City dispatch says a train carrying members of President Calles family was dynamited between Villa Reyes and Jaral Del Britto south of San Luis Potosi. Six people were killed and seven injured. A band of sixty men planted dynamite between a second class coach near the front.
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EL Paso
Tex
U.P
Mexico City
el Continental
Calles
Villa Reyes
Jaral del Britto
San Luis Potosi
Family of Olx Dies in Blaze in Cleveland
Trapped on the second floor of a garage building in Cleveland a family of six perished as flames leveled the structure. Rufus Williams his wife Beatrice and five children died including 7 year old Bessie 4 Andrew 3 Anna May and 4 month old Retha May. Firemen narrowly escaped after the stairway to the Williams apartment burned away while attempting to reach the room from a ladder. George Elliott and James Edwards heard screams and called the fire department.
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Cleveland
Rufus Williams
Beatrice
Bessie Williams
Andrew Williams
Anna May Williams
Retha May Williams
Williams A
Elliot
Edwards
President Coolidge Receives Indiana Farm Deed for Park Plan
Indiana Senator Luke Duffy deeds 176 acre farm to President Coolidge as trustee. The tract in Pulaski County near Chicago could become Coolidge Industrial Park if a farm relief program conditions are met. Aimed to illustrate midwest farmer troubles and possible New England cultivation methods.
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Coolidge
Indiana
Indianapolix
Ind
U.P
Luke Duffy
Duffy
Vermont
Pulaski County
Chicago
Creditore
United States’ Chamber of Commerce
Patriotism Defense Probable in Fall Sinclair Oil Conspiracy Trial
The defense in the Fall Sinclair oil conspiracy trial signals a patriotism defense. Martin Littleton argues former Interior Secretary Fall and Harry F. Sinclair acted to aid national defense, not as arch conspirators. The case centers on Fall’s 1922 Teapot Dome lease to Sinclair and alleged $230,500 in Liberty Bonds to Everhart.
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Sinclair Oil
Martin Littleton
Interior Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
Fall
Teapot Dome
Sinclair
M. T. Everhart
Littleton
J. K. Robison
Navy
Elk Hills
Bender Attacks Prohibition Groups In Ohio Speech
At Youngstown on October 19 Senator George H. Bender labeled the American Issue the joke sheet and derided Senator E R Lewis as part of the foke league while urging citizens to attend the polis and voice views on the Marshall bill during a Central Labor council address.
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Youngstown
George H. Bender
Central Labor Council
Bender
Anti-Saloon League
E. R. Lewis
Prohibition Backed as Part Cause of Health Gains
In Cincinnati on October 19 two speakers at the National Public Health association convention argued prohibition aided national health. Dr Louis E Dublin and Dr Haven Emerson cited improvements among children and women under 35 as linked to prohibition though evidence remains inconclusive.
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Cincinnati
U.P
National Public Health’ Association
Louis E. Dublin
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Haven Emerson
Columbia University
Emerson
Dublin
Remus pleads insanity in murder case
George Remus former bootlegger millionaire entered a formal insanity plea as his defense against the charge of murdering his estranged wife in Cincinnati on October 19.
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Cincinnati
George Remus
17 Year Old Girl Faces Penitentiary For Murder
Dorothea Walser, 17, was found guilty of participating in the murder of her 12 year old cousin Clifford Fox for insurance. Her 28 year old husband Arthur Walser appeared nervous at the verdict. he faces trial next session. Cox was slain last May. the couple admitted then repudiated confessions.
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Dorothea Walser
Clifford Fox
Arthur Walser
Young Cox
Dorothea
Supreme Court Limits Bus Route to Albany
The Ohio Supreme Court modified a Public Utilities Commission order and ruled that C. W. Collins may operate between Chillicothe and Albany only, revoking authority to extend to Athens. The decision narrows the operator’s route as previously approved.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Public Utilities Commission
C. W. Collins
Chillicothe
McArthur
Albany
Athens
Commission
Today's Weather: Morning Calm Then Sudden Warmup
The day showed a relatively steady temperature until noon when it jumped to 48 degrees. Rainfall in the last 24 hours measured one tenth of an inch as temperatures fluctuated from 43 to 44 degrees earlier and varied through the day.
Colored Bird Pictures in Show Windows Across Three Towns
Messenger readers can view winning colored bird pictures in Hartley and Bennett Shoe store Pomeroy H J Hysell Furniture Middleport Rochester Lytle Logan. Contests run 45 weeks with four prizes weekly for ages 6-8 and 9-12, plus color engravings sent to top represented classes and one room schools each week.
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Pomeroy
Middleport
Logan
Messenger
Hartley and Bennett Shoe Store
H. J. Hysell Furniture Company
Rochester-Lytle Company
the Messenger
Carrie Jacobs
Ohio
Striking Miners Threaten To Ignore Picketing Orders
Striking coal miners in the Walsenburg and Aguilar districts threaten to ignore anti picketing orders issued by the Colorado Industrial Commission. About 6 000 miners in Southern Colorado walk out while northern fields see sympathy action with I W W members. Sheriff deputies stand by as meetings pass resolutions to disregard the orders with reports of guns and ammunition in strike centers. The wage goal is seven fifty per day for a six hour week five days, versus six twenty under the current scale.
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Denver
Colo
U.R
Walsenburg
Aguilar
Colorado Industrial Commission
Colorado
State Industrial Commission
H. J. Capps
Walsenberg
J. J. Marty
Capps
Twelve Charged in Volstead Act Conspiracy Case
A federal grand jury in Covington indicted eleven Wiedemann company officers and two New York men on seven counts of conspiracy to violate the Volstead act and internal revenue laws.
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Cincinnati
George Wiedemann Company
Newport Ky
New York
Covington
Ohio train crashes kill six children and others
Nine people died in Ohio traffic crashes yesterday. At Byesville a train struck an automobile carrying banker Russell Cox and four children returning from school. three more youths injured. In Conneaut a NY Central train hit a car carrying Betty Norton and Bobby Norton killing both children. Additional fatalities and injuries occurred from other crossings.
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Byesville
Cambridge
Russell I. Cox
Ralph Cox
Raymond Kostelenki
Wil Gooden
William Rbreedon
Cox
Conneaut
Betty
Bobby Norton
New York Central
Chester Norton
Steubenville Crossing
Phillip Corum
Hanover
Pennsylvania
Praseyer
Burg
Hearing Date Set On Reduced Rates For Lake Coal
The Interstate Commerce Commission set November 16 for a hearing on southern railroads proposed lake cargo coal rate cuts of 20 cents per ton from Kentucky Tennessee Virginia and West Virginia mines to take ports. A second hearing will occur November 29 at the Hotel Nicollet in Minneapolis. The move aims to offset a commission differential granted to Ohio and Pennsylvania coal fields for the same destinations. Tariffs affecting the new South rates are suspended pending hearing results.
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Columbus
U.P
Benson W. Hough
Ohio
Central Ohio Coal Mining Company
Youghiogheny and Ohio Coal Company
Wheeling and Lake Erie Coal Company
United States’ Coal Company
Cambria Collieries Company
Jefferson
Belmont
Hough
Clarkson Coal Mining Company
Monroe Coal Mining Company
Boemer Coal and Coke Company
Atlantic Contracting Company
New Pocock Coal Company
Washington
Interstate Commerce Asion
Southern Railroads
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
West Virginia
Southern
Pennsylvania
South
Murray City American Legion Elects Officers
Murray City Post No. 420 elects officers for the coming year including Post commander Henry K. Seidenfeld first vice Claude Clendenen second vice Emory Hughes adjutant Frank M. Murphy treasurer E B Eddington service officer Louis M. Seidenfeld child welfare Howard Betts Americanism Eber Poling chaplain William Taylor historian BE Hayman publicity Max Seldenfeld sergeant-at-arms Bernard Franklin athletic Howard Brooker color guards Edward Shuttleworth Pete Carroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray City
American Legion
Henry K. Seidenfeld
Claude Clendenen
Emory Hughes
Raymond Martin
Frank M. Murphy
E. B. Eddington
Louis M. Seidenfeld
Howard Betts
Eber Poling
Chaplin
William Taylor
BE. H. Hayman
Max Seldenfeld
Army
Bernard Franklin
Howard Brooker
Edward Shuttleworth
Pete Carrol
Booklet on Mexico Offered by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger publishes a thorough illustrated booklet on Mexico. It covers geography, climate, history, resources, and problems, aiming to help readers understand Mexico and our relations with the neighbor to the south.
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Athens
Mexico
Washington
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