Death of Witt Burns Stuns Cleveland Community
Henry J. Burns, 44, popcorn stand operator at the West Side market, is formally charged with murdering his wife Mary Burns, 29, whose body is unearthed in a newly made grave in the B. and O. Woods near Painesville. Two doctors found bloodstained items before locating a shallow grave. Burns claims innocence and recalls an accident in Mentor on Tuesday night. The arrest followed tracing his automobile license as searches unfolded.
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Cleveland
Henry J. Burns
West Side Market
Mary Burns
Painesville
England faces double parliamentary clash as campaigns loom
England sits without a parliament after four years as Tory and Liberal forces align to counter Labor. Premier Bonar Law prepares a Glasgow speech outlining new policies while Lloyd George attacks, amid a spirited poster campaign. Labor calls for wealth levies, mine and railway nationalization, land value taxes, and scale back Germany reparations, warning revolt looms if unmet.
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David M. Church
London
England
Andrew Bonar Law
Glasgow
Lloyd George
Teachers to Meet in Athens October 27–28
The Southeastern Ohio Teachers Association will hold its annual meeting in Athens on October 27 and 28. The first session starts Friday at 1 o'clock in Ewing Hall, moved up from 1:30 as previously listed.
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Southeastern Ohio Teachers’ Association
Athens
Ewing Hall
Sheiks in Arabia now wear wrist watches with radium dials
An odd antique item notes that Arabian rulers and elites are adopting wrist watches featuring radium illuminated dials, signaling modern luxury trends into traditional societies.
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Arabia
Harvey speech sparks global talk on women souls
United States ambassador to England George Harvey defended his claim that the Bible does not grant women souls and are not bound by the Ten Commandments. The remark provoked protests from clergy and women. sermons across Britain and America are expected to reference it.
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F. A. Wray
London
Great Britain
America
George Harvey
England
Harvey
United States
Ambassador Harvey
International News Service
Dr. Norwood
City Temple
Bubble busts in Kraus case as money hunt fails
Oliver Hartley Pomeroy reports a search at the Kraus home on Mulberry avenue for 150000 said to be buried there. Sheriff Reeves and officials led the effort but found nothing as Mrs. Kraus repeated the claim before fainting, leaving public doubt over the missing money.
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Oliver Hartley Pomeroy
Kraus
Railroads Boost Coal Car Supply Across Ohio Networks
Athens reports an immediate rise in coal car supply on the T and C lines following an Interstate Commerce Commission review in the Hocking district. 1400 cars are being added, boosting service to about 60 percent of normal and allowing mines to operate roughly four days weekly. Prospects of larger fleets on B and O and Hocking Valley railroads are noted as fuel administration tackles flats shortages and plans 2000 additional B and O cars.
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Athens
Hocking
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hocking Valley
State Fuel Administration
Lancaster Police Declare War on Ku Klux Klan
Milton Deichler an insurance man aged 28 reports being kidnapped and attacked by men in Klan regalia near Lancaster. Chief Eckman vows a crackdown with a hundred arrests expected within 24 hours after Deichler was dropped at the city limits and warned of tar and feathers unless he supports his family.
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Lancaster
Milton Deichler
Ku Klux Klan
Eckman
Deichler
Royalty Declined for Doorn Wedding November 5
Berlin reports no foreign visiting royalty will attend the quiet marriage of the former German Kaiser and Princess Hermine of Reuss at Doorn on November 5. The ceremony will be marked by simplicity.
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Berlin
Hermine
Reuss
Doorn
Double murder case in New Brunswick closes witness round
In New Brunswick on October 26 investigators led by Deputy Attorney General Wilbur A. Mott summoned all principals in the murder of Rev. Dr. Edward W. Hall and singer Mrs. James Mills. The list included Mrs. Hall the clergyman’s widow and several relatives and witnesses, with arrests anticipated.
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New Brunswick
Ned
Edward W. Hall
Church of St. John the Evangelist
James Mills
Wilbur A. Mott
Mott
Hall
Henry
William
Willie) Stevens
Edwin
Charles Carpenter
Minnie Clarke
Charlotte Millis
Nelsonville Girls Sent to Delaware School for Immoral Conduct
Two Nelsonville girls Mabel Bay age 14 and Margaret Hostetter age 16 were committed by Juvenile Judge S. M. Johnson for immoral conduct. Probation officer Alderman took them to the Girls Industrial School at Delaware Thursday after a Wednesday court session that discharged one girl, placed two on probation, and sent two to the industrial school amid reports of immorality, late hours, and associations with married men.
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Nelsonville
Girls’ Industrial School
Delaware
M. Johnson
Mabel Bay
Margaret Hostetter
Union mass meeting on constitutional liquor amendment Amesville
Citizens of Amesville and vicinity plan a mass meeting next Sunday at 10 A M to discuss the proposed constitutional amendment concerning the manufacture and use of intoxicating liquors.
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Amesville
Five Women to Sit on Jury in Champion Murder Case
Cleveland reports seven men and five women will judge Mrs. Mabel C. Champion a Texas woman charged with first degree murder in the killing of Thomas A. O'Connell. The jury was completed just after noon.
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Cleveland
Mabel C. Champion
Texas
Thomas A. O'Connell
Attorneys Hunt for Kraus Funds in Pomeroy Visit
Attorneys Foster and Wells traveled to Pomeroy and consulted with Mrs. Kraus and local attorney Crow. They did not find any Kraus funds despite accompanying Judge Miller Prosecutor Davis and Sheriff Reeves to the designated site. Mrs. Kraus cannot afford lawyers and some creditors offered to help if funds were located. The search yielded no money and they expect court assignment of counsel.
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Foster and Wells
Pomeroy
Foster
Mr. Wells
Opal Louise Davis Born in New Marshfield Ohio
New Marshfield Ohio October 26 1949 a seven pound daughter named Opal Louise born to Mr and Mrs Earl Davis. Mother and baby are reported doing nicely and both are well.
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New Marshfield, O
Earl Davis
Opal Louise
Miss Marian Bush Named News Editor at Ohio State Lantern
Miss Marian C Bush daughter of Mr and Mrs F W Bush attends Ohio State University Columbus as one of ten news editors on the university daily Lantern. She studies journalism in the department and serves as a daily editor alongside a partner.
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Marian C. Bush
F. W. Bush
Ohio State University
Columbus
Ohio State Lantern
Miss Bush
Ohio State
Lenine Leaves Moscow Illness For First Time Since Rise
Riga dispatch to the Daily Express reports Nicolai Lenine head of the Soviet government is ill again and must relinquish duties. He has left Moscow for his country home. In Paris an American, Henry Bazin, collapsed and died of a heart attack in the street.
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Lenine
Moscow
London
Nicolai Lenine
Riga
Daily Express
Paris
Henry Bazin
Philadelphia
Mask Ball at Home Announces Cline Building Event
The B P O E invites members to a mask ball at the Cline building Monday from 8 to 12. For details see Friday ad or call the secretary.
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Cline
Tangled Tale of Trade Ends in the Works
In Cleveland Ohio in October a family tale centers on Sam Jack and a horse trade that spiraled into divorce an unprovided support case and a workers sentence. Judge Maurice Ber presided in juvenile court imposing a year in the workhouse and a $500 fine. The horse is dead.
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Cleveland
Sam
Ohio
Jack
Maurice Bernon
George Addams
Pioneering Ohio couple recalls early 1860s homestead visit
Mr. John P. Coe and family visited the Knox township tract two miles south of Mine in Vinton county where he began housekeeping in 1866 after Civil War enlistment. The 40-acre site once had a four-room log house now mostly vanished. Coe, 81, recalled frontier life while his sister Margaret Calvert, 83, still lives near McArthur.
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John P. Coe
T. W. Coe
Knox Township
Vinton County
Mr. Coe
Margaret Calvert
McArthur
Coe
Movie Director Freed in Bergen Murder Trial
Hackensack New Jersey October 26 Charles Cline motion picture director was acquitted after noon of the murder of Jack Bergin at Cline s Edgewater home last August Miss Alice Thornton and Charles Seual lion brother in law of Cline were also acquitted The jury was out two hours and forty minutes
Trial of Mrs. Mabel Champion Enters Fourth Day
A third panel of jurors awaited examination in Judge Bernon's court as the fourth day of the murder trial of Mrs. Mabel Champion commenced in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Bernon
Mabel ©. Champion
Texas
Thomas A. O'Connell
Income Tax Dodgers Targeted in Nationwide Drive
Government agents and auditors report over 1,000,000 individuals with income above 500 dodging returns or hiding assets. A nationwide IRS round‑up targets small businesses in major cities, aiming to recover an estimated 506 million dollars as part of a postwar effort to close the tax gap.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Internal Revenue Bureau
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Detroit
St. Louis
San Francisco
Pittsburg
New York City
Emerald schooner released after prohibition seizure blunder
Washington reports the Canadian schooner Emerald, seized off the Jersey coast by prohibition agents, is to be returned to its owners along with 1,000 cases of Scotch whisky, following Treasury Secretary Mellon’s acknowledgment of a blunder by the government.
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Washington
Jersey
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Department of Justice
United States
Hayward
New York
Ogether
Federal highway plan targets vast nationwide system
U S highway engineers outlined a program to spend about 2 000 000 dollars and build 140 000 miles of highway over twenty years creating 180 000 miles of improved roads to join state and local routes. Officials say the system will greatly exceed international transport facilities and dwarfs ancient Rome.
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Washington
United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Appeal Filed Over Liquor Touching U S Ports
Foreign steamship lines including French Line Cunard Anchor Oceania and International Navigation appealed to the Supreme Court after Judge Hand sustained the liquor transport ban, challenging whether ships may touch American shores with liquor.
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Washington
Women to pursue legal fight in New Orleans
In New Orleans on October 26 Mrs Onezima DeBouchelle will have her case against the Candler family of Atlanta taken up by the city Federation of Women’s Clubs. Mrs Helen Schertz, a noted figure in society and letters, announced the action.
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New Orleans
Onezima DeBouchelle
Candler
Atlanta
City Federation of Women
Helen Schertz
Davis questions Donahey over prison farm payments in Ohio campaign
Governor Davis challenged Democratic candidate Vic Donahey to explain why approvals were rushed for architect payments tied to the London prison farm project before the 1921 transition. He said the plan could be cut to about 5 million with a cheaper design, arguing against lavish facilities and highlighting a 7 million saving.
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Somerset
London
Vic Donahey
Davis
Ohio
Donahey
Western Thrace in Revolt Says Sofia Dispatch
A Sofia dispatch reported to the Daily Express that Western Thrace has revolted with Bulgarian Turkish and Greek groups seeking autonomy. The rebels reportedly seized Serees, and Jugoslav troops guard the Jugoe Slav frontier as Western Thrace remains under Greek rule.
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Thrace
Sofia
London
Daily Express
Serees
Salonika
Adrianople
Juxo Slav
Keds Pouring Into Rome to Hold Meeting
Rome braces for civil conflict as fascisti stream into the capital. Military precautions are in place to defend Rome and the Italian government against a potential seizure, with a council of war reported among fascisti.
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Rome
Italy
Fascisti
Th Fascisti
Council of War
Build for the Future with Concrete Booklet Offer
An Information Bureau in Washington offers a free booklet titled Build for the Future with Concrete. The pamphlet covers making items from feed boxes to garages and more, lasting a century. Send two cents and a clear name and address to receive a free Concrete Booklet and Rice Booklet.
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Washington Information Bureau
Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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Nur Ling
Sarah Silver
T. & O. C. Railroad
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Cout
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Opal Louise Davis
Vinton
Bergen
W. H. Atkins
Treasury
Sheriffette
Claire Scanlan
St. Paul
John Warener
Goa
Vig
Gov. Davis
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