National President Inspects Sigma Sigma Sigma Chapter in Athens
Miss Mabel Lee Walton national president of Sigma Sigma Sigma spent the weekend in Athens to inspect the Ohio University chapter. She stayed with Mrs. R L Morton and attended a tea hosted by Miss Jeannette Baker. Three pledges were initiated Saturday night: Carolyn Hyde Wilma Evans Marilyn Hill. Mr and Mrs Forest Hogue and Bert Murphy visited from Newcomerstown. Sunday outings included trips to Ash Cave Old Man's Cave and Rock House. Mrs T A Copeland and Mrs Samuel Starkey traveled to Youngstown for the state W C T U convention which runs Tuesday through Friday.
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Mabel Lee Walton
Woodstock
Sigma Sigma Sigma
Athens
Ohio University
Carolyn Hyde
Warren
Wilma Evans
Duncanwood
Marilyn Hill
Greeley
Cole
Forest Hogue
Bert Murphy
Newcomerstown
H. L. Atkinson
North
Lancaster Street
Merritt Wilson
Elkins
W. Va
Atkinson
Ida Lemley
Mary Lawrence
Ash Cave
Old Man's Cave
Rock House
T. A. Copeland
Athens City
Samuel Starkey
Nelsonville
Athens County
Youngstown
Ohio Eyes Election Night Service and Capitol Oddities
The Ohio Secretary of State prepares to broadcast returns all night after the August primary, promising equal access for remote residents. The State House basement houses machines, benches, and even rats, with prison labor building the Capitol finished in 1861. Columbus readies for Halloween crowds and a health conference in mid November.
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Columbus
Secretary of State
Ohio
State House
Capitol
Charles A. Neal
M. Y
State Department of Health
State Department
Community Social Roundup and Local Meetings
Sunday visits span New Lexington to Gallia County with families including Dr W D Port erfield and Rev Covert. The Pollyanna Class hosts a masquerade party at 5 30 PM at Central Church while the Maecenas Club postpones a meeting due to the death of Mr George Paul. Dr and Mrs Sprague attended the Ohio State Michigan game in Columbus.
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E. J. Shannon
Kathleen
Martha McVay
New Lexington
W. D. Porterfield
Christian Church Sunday School
Hallowe‘en
Maecenas Literary Club
J. W. Hudson
Second Street
George Paul
J R. Harvey
John R. Sprague
Teddy
Columbus
Accidents Fall in Ohio for September
Ohio safety report shows September accidents 17 589 with 90 fatalities and 793 733 days lost. Compared with August 19 048 accidents a 1 465 drop. time loss down 18 086 days. Athens County records 99 accidents including 3 deaths and 19 987 days lost. Superintendent Kearns calls the trend encouraging and urges continued safety efforts.
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Columbus
Ohio
Division of Safety and Hygiene
Athens County
Statistical Laboratory of the Division
Thomas P. Kearns
Pola Negri Agai Seeks Divorce in Paris Court
Film star Pola Negri again seeks divorce from Prince Serge Mdivani in a Paris court. She previously filed in June 1929 and was reunited with him last December. Grounds for the action were not released. Negri has appeared in German pictures since retiring from the American screen.
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Pola Negri
Serge Mdivani
Paris
Stepmother in Slaying Probe After 10-Year-Old Leona Found Dead
Denver police near solving the case of Leona O Loughlin whose bruised body was found at Berkeley Lake after she vanished for two days. Mrs Pearl O Loughlin, the stepmother, was arrested after ground glass was found in the girl’s stomach. Investigators questioned her about use of the family car the night of the disappearance and a bloody towel in the vehicle. The hairdresser who knew the family reported Mrs O Loughlin’s changing mood and Leona’s morbid remarks. Leona’s father is critically ill and unaware of his daughter’s death.
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Denver
Colo
U.P
Leona O'Loughlin
Berkeley Lake
Pearl O'Loughlin
Leona
Ethel Sparr
October cold wave freezes wide regions with stranded motorists
A severe October cold spell from the Rocky Mountains to New York brings snow and subfreezing temps. Chicago records 20 degrees as Western New York suffers feet of snow and drifts paralyze Lake Erie towns. Hamburg and Angola report marooned motorists, lodging strain, and structural collapses from snow loads.
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Chicago
U.P
Canada
United States
Rocky Mountains
Mercury
Rocky Mountain
New York State
Great Lakes
New York
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Hamburg
N. Y
Angola
Danville Mill District Under Guard As Strike Protests Erupt
Danville Virginia mill district patrolled by over 136000 special officers to curb violence amid a strike by 4800 cotton mill workers. Reports say minor clashes followed arrests for slitting tires and throwing stones at mill homes amid tensions with strikebreakers.
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Danville
Dan River
Tariff Board Ready for Action on Flexible Rates
In Roanoke Rapids North Carolina on October 21 threats of mob action targeted Buddy Jackson a 3 percent Negro who shot and seriously wounded Police Chief J R Crew of Weldon. Police guard kept at hospital where Jackson lay seriously wounded.
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Tariff Board
Roanoke Rapids
N. C
Buddy Jackson
J. R. Crew
Weldon Causee Police
Jackson
Ohio crops improve. feed supplies gain amid better conditions
Ohio crop conditions have improved over six weeks boosting feed supplies by thousands daily. West notes farmers rush to save feed with silos for corn and dry fodder under cover. The Ohio crop index rises to 77 percent of the 10 year average. U.S. index up two percent with yields near 90 percent of average.
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Columbus
Ohio
Carl J. West
Ohio Farm Bureau Corporation
United States
Ball Player Acquitted in Summerfield Murder Trial
Crowds in Monroe County court cheered as Ray Biehl of Summerfield Noble County was found not guilty of the murder of Joseph Reed a Swazey farmer. Reed was fatally injured during an argument after an umpire's decision at a Swazey baseball game on August 1.
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Woodsfield
Monroe County Court Room
Ray Biehl
Summerfield
Noble County
Joseph Reed
Reed
Biehl
Tragedy in Noble County Baseball Dispute Ends in Death
during a heated argument Reed and others confronted Noble County players. Biehl swung a bat defensively and struck Reed in the head, crushing his skull. Reed died later in the hospital.
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Reed
Noble County
Biehl
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High Street
Robert N. Waid
Highway Department
Pennsylvania Railroad
the Mutual Home and Savings Association
Majestic Theater Building
F. E. Loughrey
Cincinnati
William M. Covert
East State Street
Loughrey
Covert
Ween Ponce
E. T. Dailey
M. M. Kerr
J. H. McClure
Gallipolis
P P. Burnett
Charles OQ. Burnett
Jack McAllister
Sarah Brown
Claudius Chesser
Harry Wise
Pratteville
Charles Whitlatch
Charles O. Burnett
P. P. Burnett
Marion
Gallia County
M. and
H. Circle
William Ramsey
Thomas and
Mary Margaret
Thomas Lloyd
Wellston
Oliver Dahl
Central Avenue
Clyde Littler
Stewart Street
The
Christian Church
Tom Gibson
North May Avenue
Pola Negri Agai
Hold
Hixson’s Refiners Station
State
Morris Ave
Grove
New Tariff Commission
Hoover
John Lee Coulter
North Dakota
Alfred P. Dennis
Maryland
Henry P. Fletcher
Pennsylvania
Edgar B. Brossard
Utah
Thomas W. Page
Virginia
the Security Savings Bank
Logans
Slingluff’s the Bootery Collegienne Shop
Athens County Savings & Loan Co
Lostro Bldg
Athens F. E. Goldsberry
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