Ford Now Seeking Coal Lands Near Here
Pittsburgh Oct. 31 A reported coal land deal valued at about 10 million dollars involves Henry Ford and Wayne Coal Co. up to 0,000 acres across Ohio and Pennsylvania. Wayne president Dunbar would not confirm or deny the negotiations. The fields yield about 4,000 tons daily and Ford could gain freight savings of 40 cents per ton. Other large corporations are rumored to be interested.
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Pittsburgh
Henry Ford
Wayne Coal Co
Harrison, Jefferson
Perry
Ashocton
Ohio
Washington County
Pennsylvania
Ford
Samuel M. Dunbar
Wayne Company
Mussolini Recalls Italian Ambassador to U.S.
Rome announces Deputy Mussolini the new premier foreign minister will immediately recall Senor Roland Ricci the Italian ambassador to the United States.
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Rome
Foreign Office
Mussolini
Roland Ricci
United States
Cranked Ford Injures West State Youth
Donald Cooley son of Mr and Mrs Ed Cooley of West State street wears arm splints after a fracture sustained Sunday while cranking the family Ford in front of their home.
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Donald Cooley
Ed Cooley
West State Street
Fire destroys buildings in Chicago's fair district
Fire in the old world’s fair district caused $150,000 in damage when women leaped from blazing windows into life nets and rescues were made. Four people were injured amid the dramatic escapes and property loss.
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Chicago
Athens Chamber Luncheon Examines School Expansion Plan
W B Ittner of St. Louis outlines the Athens Public Schools expansion including a proposed new senior high on Central campus and a West Side grade school, contingent on bond issue approval at the November election. The forum notes the need to maintain high educational standards amid rising enrollment.
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Athens Chamber of Commerce
Athens Public Schools
W. B. Ittner
St. Louis
Ittner
United States
Athens
Tax Free Securities Seen as National Menace
President Harding calls tax exempt securities a major threat to the economy and says the administration will push legislation in the new Congress to limit their issuance after White House briefing.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
White House
Ohio miners take over coal mines demand at hobo convention
Delegates at the International Brotherhood Welfare Association meeting in Columbus call for federal seizure and operation of certain coal mines. They urge abolition of private employment bureaus, the creation of free municipal baths and laundries, and federal protection for migratory workers to avoid vagrancy charges.
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Columbus
Ohio
International Brotherhood Welfare Association
Congress
Europe’s ruling chiefs face fresh upheaval across nations
London reports a turbulent era with coalition fallouts in England and Italy. Tory and Liberal leaders warn of socialist routes and revolutionary threats while Italy’s fascists seize power forming western Europe’s first anticommunist cabinet. France shows unrest and Germany teeters toward ruin as reparations talks try to shore up the mark.
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David M. Church
London
England
Italy
Lloyd George
M. Poincare
Germany
Allied Reparations Committee
Berlin
Possible Senate Pick Knight Shields as Supreme Court Candidate
The dispatches mention Senator John Knight Shields of Tennessee as a probable successor to Justice Day on the U S Supreme Court. Shields served as a justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court for 11 years before his 1918 election to the Senate.
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John Knight Shields
Tennessee
Justice Day
Supreme Court of the United States
Shields
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Senate
Powerful New Italy Arises From Ruins of Former Nation
Premier Mussolini asserts a powerful New Italy with a strong army and navy and an aggressive foreign policy. He vows no change in Vatican relations while holding three key posts himself. The fascist party now dominates all public life and aims to extend its influence over domestic and foreign policy.
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Italy
Guglielmo Smanuel
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Fascisti
Army
Spelling Lessons Show Strong Results In Athens County Schools
The spelling program under Superintendent Guy Dinsmoore returns this year with high scores across grades. Third grade average 98, fourth 96, fifth 97, sixth 97, seventh 80? and eighth 97. a 3900 word list supports grade specific study with monthly installments and individual word accountability.
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Guy Dinsmoore
Athens County
Young bootlegger Andy Nagy confronts Volstead era clues
New York reports 12 year old Andrew Nagy in children’s court after police say he offered gin for sale. Detectives bought a 50 cent sniffer and Andy invited them to share. The case prompts a push to reorganize the boy’s morals. In St Clairsville a 16 year old miner Walter Bosley dies from a slate fall at a mine, coworkers recover his crushed body.
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Andrew Nagy
Children's Court
Mr. Volstead
Sullivan
O'Leary
Plainclothes Force
Andy
Children’s Society
ST. Clairsville
Walter Bosley
Bosley
Pie Social Set at Munn School Friday
A pie social is planned at Munn School this Friday. Everyone is welcome to attend and enjoy baked treats.
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Munn
Air Circus Opens Campaign to Raise Funds in Dayton
An aerial circus at noon kicks off a drive to raise 325 dollars to take up land options for a McCook Field project. Major T. H. Bane, commandant, promises sensational stunts and the greatest exhibition yet seen in Dayton.
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Dayton
War Department
McCook Field
T. H. Bane
Weather forecaster predicts a colder Midwest winter
Columbus official forecaster W. H. Alexander declines to be called a prophet. He joins other forecasters in predicting a harsher winter for the Midwest based on cycles in average seasonal weather, noting cycles vary two to seven years. He expects the coming winter to be somewhat colder on average than the last.
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Columbus
W. H. Alexander
Middle West
Alexander
United States Weather Bureau
Kansas Governor Warns Against Klan Masked Orders
Governor Henry Allen denounces the Ku Klux Klan and a new masked group called True Blue in Oklahoma. He orders ouster actions, cites lack of charter, and warns of potential race war and religious bigotry as law and order must prevail.
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Ben Kas
Ku Klux Klan
True Blue
Oklahoma
Kansas
United States
Ireland
Francisco Villa Dying From Battle Wounds in Mexico
Francisco Villa, once a bandit figure, is dying in Parral Chihuahua from wounds received during a recent clash with Marquistas at Canutillo. Federal agents and Mexican colony members reported the information today.
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San Antonio
Tex
Francisco Villa
Parral
Coihuahua
Marquistas
Canutillo
Will Uree the Fixing of Coal Price in North
Columbus reports a conference set for Oct 31 with State Fuel Administrator Neal and Michigan official W W Potter to urge fixing retail coal prices in Michigan to level competition with Ohio dealers. Air crews included in note.
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North
Columbus
Neal
W. W. Potter
Michigan
Potter
Ohio
Caraway predicts Democratic sweep across key states
Senator Caraway of Arkansas returns from a campaign tour predicting Democratic victories in Ohio Indiana and Missouri and likely gains in the House with a 50 to 1 seat majority. He cites Indiana Ohio and Harding home state Ohio as strong for Democrats while noting a fire destroyed Buckeye Stoner plant and Trover Worman residence in Dayton causing about 69000 dollars in losses.
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I. N.S
Washington
Caraway
Arkansas
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Senate
Samuel M. Ralston
Edward S. Edwards
New Jersey
J. F. T. O'Connor
North Dakota
Harding
Dayton
Buckeye Stoner Company
Trover Worman
Donahey Pledges Deep Cuts to Education and Welfare Levy
Democratic governor candidate Vic Donahey is quoted saying he would cut the educational levy and the welfare levy from the books to save taxpayers millions, a response delivered after a Dayton appearance reported by the Athens County Republican Committee.
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Vic Donahey
Oho
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dayton
Thompson
TTL
Athens County
Republican Committee
Hard boiled Bunch Targeted by Mrs Gibson Flight
Mrs Jane Gibson a woman farmer in New Brunswick New Jersey fired at a group of photographers who had driven to her farm to take pictures of the double murder victims Dr Edward Hall and Mrs James Mills The gun misfired and the car sped away as she warned the photographers to leave.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Jane Gibson
Rey
Edward Hall
James Mills
Gibson Farm
New District Management Vote On the Extra Tax
The town discusses a three mill levy for schools amid district changes. County Superintendent Guy Dinamoor explains Plains in Athens township still faces the levy, while the newly formed Plains district does not unless it votes under General Code section 66 494. The state tax commission supports that a district split cannot carry a prior levy automatically.
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Pining
Guy Dinamoor
Plains
Athens Township
Dinamoor
State Tax Commission
Board of Education of the
Albany Folks Help Neighbor After Husking Bee
Over 90 Albany residents gathered at Zern Ross farm Sunday for a husking bee to aid Mr Rows after a freight depot accident left his low broken. In two hours all corn was husked and stored as the community expressed unity and mutual care. Mr Rows is recovering at Charleston hospital and expects to return home soon.
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Albany
Zern Ross
Rows
Rosy
Charleston
Alienists Testify Insanity in Woman Killer Case
Philadelphia reported that Dr. Charlea K. Mills and Dr. George Wilson testified Mrs. Catherine Roste, 22, insane at the time of the January double murder of her husband Oscar Roste and his stenographer Mildred Reckitt. The defense rested its case.
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Philadelphia
Charlea K. Mills
George Wilson
Catherine Roste
Oscar
Mildred Geraldine Reckitt
Paternalism Under Fire From West Virginia Coal Boss
A West Virginia coal company head condemns government supervision of industry. He urges cooperation through suggestion but argues against expanded federal control, calling for reduced functions and expenses and estimating 75 percent of bureaus unnecessary. He warns against paternalism within the postwar policy.
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Washington
West Virginia
Man shoots wife after dispute over remarriage in Newport
In Newport Kentucky a 22 year old man Harry Schmidt shot his wife Edna 29 after she refused to marry him again and name their son. The bullet entered her breast and passed through her body. Schmidt surrendered at police headquarters and said he learned of her past marriages after leaving her. Mrs Schmidt is not expected to live.
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Cincinnati
Harry Schmidt
Edna
Newport
Schmidt
Baltimore
Cincionati
Mussolini Leads New Fascist Regime In Italy
In Rome on Oct S1, fascists killed and wounded in clashes before the Quirinal and at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior as sixty thousand march to show loyalty to King Victor Emmanuel. The new fascist cabinet sworn in with Mussolini as premier vows nationalist policy, industry growth, and foreign trade expansion to make Italy strong and prosperous.
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Rome
Fasciali
Siburtine
Quirinal
Italy
Mussolini
Victor Emanuel
Anne Munn Leaves Athens County Public Health Post
Miss Anne Moon resigns as supervising nurse of the Athens county public health department and Miss Clara Cavanaugh is appointed to succeed her. Cavanaugh, from Zaleski, Vinton county, has served as a nurse with the department for a year and a half and trained at Bellevue hospital New York. Munn came to Athens from Boston two and a half years ago and will move to Middletown to pursue similar work.
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Anne Moon
Athens County Public Health Department
County Board of Health
Clara Cavanwueh
Misa Munn
Athens
Boston
Middletown
Miss Cavanaugh
Miss Munn
Public Health Department
Board of Health
Open prayer begins trial for Georgia man in double murder
El liott Padrick testifies in his own defense in Statesboro on charges he killed his wife and mother in law last June. The proceedings opened with a brief prayer as the state rests its case.
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Statesboro
Elliott Padrick
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