Quiet Greek Bulgarian frontier amid conflicting reports
Dispatches from Athens report calm along the Graeco Bulgarian frontier while Sofia claims Greek shelling of Petrich. London sources note renewed fighting and League of Nations efforts as Greek troops consolidate positions, with civilians evacuating and Bulgarian reinforcements arriving.
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Athens
Sofia
Salonika
London
Chamberlain
Paris
Council of the
League of Nations
Greece
Briand
League Council
Petrich
Daily News
Bulgaria
Lehovo
Markostinovo
Body of Unknown Woman Found Near Albany Iowa
Partly devoured female body located Sunday afternoon at the foot of a cliff on the Frank Martin farm near Bolin's Mills in Vinton county. Coroner Swain reports a likely two week old death with no foul play suspected. clothes and hat found nearby tie to a ride earlier in Albany.
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Albany
Frank Martin
Bolin
Wandsay
James Martin
Albany- McArthur
Berty Bolin
McArthur
Walter Swain
Vinton County
Charottesville Fire Ravages Business District Loss Estimated at 300000
A major blaze swept Charlottesville's business core overnight threatening downtown. Officials estimated losses around 300000 with Western Union Telegraph and Lurber Irondale Printing buildings totally destroyed.
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Charlottesville
Western Union Telegraph Company
Lurber-Irondale Printing Company
Widow’s Assets Slashed by Bankruptcy Court
Mrs Leathe testifies her total assets are now 600 dollars after her husband’s five million came under bankruptcy. She notes a wrist watch worth 300 dollars and eighteen years since the wealth was lost, warning widows to secure income via trusts or insurance to deter theft.
Widow-raising Navy Policy Sparks Congressional Call
In a column about Shenandoah widows, a reader argues most lack support and must work. The writer blames incompetent naval officials, defers to Commander Lansdowne, and urges government aid for widows, urging a congressman to take up the idea.
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Shenandoah
Navy
Lansdowne
Navy Seaplanes Wrecked Off East Coast in Storm
Salvage teams work to recover parts from seventeen Navy seaplanes driven ashore along miles of beach near Sellers Point after a sixty mile gale tore them from moorings. A Navy inquiry is opened to determine if negligence or bungling caused the latest peacetime disaster.
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Navy
Washington
Sellers Point
Navy Department
Atlantic
Locarno Pact Crisis Splits German Cabinet and Reichstag
Berlin October 26 ministers discuss continuation or dissolution as Nationalist opposition to the Locarno security pact prompts resignations. If the Nationalists quit, President von Hindenburg faces a radical shift or electoral dissolution, with Luther’s chancellorship central to any plan.
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Hindenberg
S. Dunbar Weyer
Berlin
Schiele
Interior
Herr v@n Schiieben
Finance
Herr Neuhaus
Commerce
von Hindenberg
Reichstag
Germany
Locarno
Change Looms in Rifian War
Madrid reports radical policy shifts in Morocco after Louis Malvy's Madrid visit. Malvy met Gen Primo de Rivera amid French cabinet strains over the African campaign. Jordana warned French eagerness caused a severe Moroccan defeat, with Spanish gains at Alhucemas bay described as precarious. France ready to open peace talks with Abd el Krim.
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Madrid
Morocco
Louis Malvy
Malvy
Primo de Rivera
Jordana
Paris
Alhucemas Bay
France
Abd-el- Krim
Primo
Maloy
Fastest Seaplanes of Three Nations Vie for Schneider Cup
In Baltimore on October 26 the Jacques Schneider cup race brings together fastest seaplanes from the United States Great Britain and Italy on a Bayshore triangular course. Expected top speeds exceed 240 mph as Lieutenants Jimmy Doolittle George Cuddihy and Ralph Ofstie pilot Curtiss planes for the US team in a bid to repeat as cup champions.
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Baltimore
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Bayshore
Navy
Jimmy Doolittle
George T. Cuddihy
Ralph A. Ofstie
Curtiss
Army
Doolittle
MilliKan Resting Easily After Accident
Don C. Millikan, injured when his car ran over him at Columbus, is resting comfortably at Mercy Hospital. A plaster cast was applied Saturday and friends report he is in good spirits, though he remains paralyzed from the waist down.
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Don C. Millikan
Columbus
Mercy Hospital
Mr. Millikan
Chinese Customs Conference Opens Amid Uncertain China
Peking reports the customs conference opening under strained domestic conditions. The session may adjourn if conditions fail to improve. The event has special patronage from the United States and is described as the government’s baby by American Minister MacMurray, with anticipated strong U S pressure for a successful outcome.
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Peking
China
United States
MacMurray
Pear
Drunken Newsman Fined in Athens Magistrate Court
Lester Robinett of Walker Avenue Athens was fined 10 dollars plus costs by Magistrate Pearl W. Helwig this morning on a drunkenness charge. He was arrested yesterday by a patrol officer identified as Mr. McKinies.
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Helwig
Lester Robinett
Walker Avenue
Athens
Pearl W. Helwig
Mr. McKinies
Judges Reach Pay Increase Question By Referendum
Washington reports 225 federal judges were polled in a referendum asking yes or no on pay raises and the amount desired. The survey, ordered by a Senate judiciary subcommittee led by Senators Ernst and Reed, will guide a new bill next session.
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Uncle Sam
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Ernst Republican
Kentucky
Reed
Missouri
Congress
Democratic plea urges defeat of Ohio constitutional amendments
T E Dye Urbana chairman of the Democratic state executive committee calls on every Democrat to oppose the proposed Ohio constitution amendments in November. He says the tax change favors the wealthy and extending official terms is a salary move, while James A Deving urges politicians to stay out to let voters decide, with business and working men leading the campaign.
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Columbus
Ohio
T. E. Dye
Urbana
Democratic State Executive Committee
Dye
Donahey
James A. Deving
Alabama Tornado Toll Rises Across Three Counties
A late Sunday tornado in Pike Crenshaw Bullock and Barbour counties left seventeen dead and fifty injured with extensive property damage. Most fatalities occurred as houses collapsed in small communities around Troy. The Knight family near Troy suffered multiple deaths and injuries in the disaster.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Pike County
Crenshaw
Bullock
Barbour
Troy
Nno
Wheer
Lone Wolf James Asher Dies in Chicago Hotel
James Leroy Asher known as Lone Wolf of the prohibition department dies in a Chicago hotel from a cerebral brain clot. He faced 130 liquor violation cases and had a dramatic career as a prohibition officer in Pennsylvania and a revenue agent in Kentucky before moving to Illinois.
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Lone Wolf
Chicago
James Leroy Asher
Prohibition Department
Asher
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Washington, D. C
Senator Green
Vermont
Kentucky Hills
James Leroy Jr
Prohibition Service
Ohio
E. C. Yellowley
Prohibition
Illinois
Joseph Springer
Sale man Chose. A Queer Death
A salesman was found dead sitting on a bumper after an event described in the fragment. The report mentions a death and a man, with no clear details on location or cause. Further readable facts are unavailable in the text.
Flood Devastates Marietta Area Delays River Traffic
One child died and property suffered heavy losses after the Little Kanawha overflow flooded the West Virginia shore below Marietta. The river surge followed Sunday rainfall in interior West Virginia, sweeping away a houseboat and causing extensive damage along the riverbank.
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Marietta
Kanawha
West Virginia
Ohio River
Henry Eddy
Lewis Exults Over Progress In Goal Strike
John Liewellyn Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, expresses rare happiness amid a prolonged coal strike. Eastern coal bins run empty as reserves shrink and prices rise, while miners and mine owners await possible compromises that now seem distant.
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Lewis
Washington
Philadelphia
United States
John Liewellyn Lewis
United Mine Workers ‘of America
Liewellyn
New York
Storm of Sunday Devastates Atlantic Shore
A Sunday gale on the Atlantic coast caused heavy property damage and at least five deaths near New York. Coast Guard cutters and police boats rescued twenty coal barges’s crews blown from tugboats near Raritan Bay. An expectant mother and unborn child died after a clothesline accident. Brooklyn fishermen Frank Desbell and William C. Hambler drowned when their boat capsized.
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New York
New York City
Atlantic Seaboard
Raritan Bay
Coast Guard
Lucille Day
Frank Desbell
William C. Hambler
Brooklyn
325 Passengers and 75 Sailors Safe After Battle With Elements
The steamship Commonwealth with 325 passengers and 75 crew faced a gale near Rhode Island coast known as the graveyard. Coast guard cutter Acushnet and New London wrecking commissioner aided, towing the stricken liner to Newport while all aboard were saved.
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R. 1
Commonwealth
New York
Mengere
Coast Guard
New London
Monwealth
New
New England
Calle
R. J. Zerta
Coset Guard
Wood's Hole
Acushnet
Merritt Meatt Corporation
Coanteaaler
Iig Commonwealth
Wieder
Rhode Island
Greatest American Documents booklet offer
Fragmentary notice invites readers to order a booklet titled Great American Documents including the Articles of Confederation and a United Treaty. It asks readers to write their name clearly and enclose two cents for postage and two stamps for return.
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Star Company
Entente
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Millikan
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Ignis
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