S5 Submarine Crews Rescued After Bottom of Sea Ordeal
United States submarine S-5 sank off Cape Henlopen while en route from Boston to Baltimore. Rescue steamer Atlantic towed S-5 to Delaware breakwater and League Island Navy Yard Philadelphia after 35 hours underwater. Crew and officers survived with air pumped through a hole drilled in the hull.
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New York
United State
Philadelphia
Atlantic
Cape Henlopen
General Goethals
Navy
Delaware
Boston
Baltimore
David L. Moore
Farmington, Conn
Boston Navy Yard
New Haven
Ohio
Navy Yards
Delaware Capes
Navy Department
Washington
Alanthus
United States
Cape Henelopen
Rescue of submarine 85 and crew brings relief from danger
News from New York reports submarine 85 raised after forty hours on the bottom east of the Delaware Capes. The crew is safe and towed to Delaware breakwater as authorities confirm rescue via fresh air pumped through a hull hole. The recovery follows initial Goethals messages and a mounting rescue fleet, including Ohio. Earlier, a separate county accident ends in the drowning of farmer Frank Brown at Rock Riffle. His body was recovered with funeral plans set for Rock Riffle.
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New York
Delaware Capes
Navy
Delaware
Atlantic
Boston Navy Yard
Goethals
Ohio
Frank Brown
Mr. Brown
Nellie McGowan
Brown
Mathew Fagan
Fagan
Tne
Athens
Miss MeeGowan
John Brown
Iowa
Athens County
Rock Riffle
Father Berry
Medical Meet Planned for Athens Area Next Tuesday
Arrangements for a regional medical meeting include Athens and surrounding counties. The first lecture is set for 3 50 at the First M B E church, replacing the Chamber of Commerce venue. Both lectures will be at the M E church with dinner at 6 00 p m in the Chamber of Commerce rooms.
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Athens
Chamber of Commerce
M. E
Centenary Show Benefits Highlight Methodist Efforts
Officials released a summary of major undertakings funded by the Methodist Centenary last summer. Expenditures totaling 8,746,242 include 1,482,233 for church extension and 1,762,869 for home missionaries, with 250,000 for war scholarships and 700,000 allocated to aid starving women and children in Europe.
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Europe
Illinois Coal Mines Idle As Miners Vacation
Springfield reports forty Illinois coal mines are idle as miners take vacations and grieve over a recent daily wage award that raised pay by 7.50 with bonuses eliminated.
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Springfield
Illinois
Ohio State Fair sets attendance record but misses 100000 goal
Columbus reports Thursdays crowd at the Ohio state fair was the largest in exposition history yet fell short of 100000. Automobile congestion at the fairgrounds was the worst on record. Secretary N E B Shaw proposes about 1 million dollars for a 90 acre expansion including a bigger grand stand seating 25000 and new exhibit buildings.
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Columbus
N. E B. Shaw
State Board of Agriculture
First Clue In Rhoades Murder Case Recovered
Chicago police obtained the first definite clue in the murder of dry goods merchant Howard B. Rhoades who was shot during an auto ride with Mrs. Gladys Virginia Jacobson. L. H. Merriman, father-in-law, disclosed Rhoades was fired on en route home a month ago. Authorities seek two nearby suspects as States Attorney Hoyne plans further questioning of Mrs. Jacobson.
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Chicago
Howard B. Rhoades
Gladys Virginia Jacobson
L. H. Merriman
Rhoades
Hoyne
Stores Close Monday in Athens Labor Day Note
Secretary Johnson of the Athens Retail Merchants Association announced that Athens stores will remain closed next Monday September 6 in observance of Labor Day.
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Johnson
Athens Retail Merchants’ Association
Athens
Red tape outdistances death of disabled World War veteran
John Murray, a totally disabled World War I veteran from Indianapolis, died penniless as back compensation and late war risk bureau checks delayed his funeral funds. The American Legion urged action while Murray, wounded in the Third Field Artillery, faced unpaid benefits and delayed payments.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States
Bureau of War Risk
John Murray
Murray
American Legion
Ish
Bureau
Aetion
Legion
Third Field Artillery
Brooklyn Strike Enters Fifth Day Amid Transit Walkouts
Brooklyn workers continue to walk, skate, and drive to work as a five day strike by Brooklyn Rapid Transit employees persists. Judge Julius M. Mayer, acting for the BRT receivership, outlines end conditions and refuses to deal with the amalgamated street and electric railway employes group. The strike, supported by the union, includes wage hike demands of ten to fifteen cents per hour.
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New York
Brook
Brooklyn
Julius M. Mayer
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Will Remember Dead Shortstop Ray Chapman
A ten minute memorial service for Ray Chapman the Cleveland shortstop killed by a pitched ball will be held this afternoon before the Indians vs Detroit game. Players will stand at attention while the Park flag is lowered to half mast. A naval reserves bugler will sound taps and an orchestra will lead a 100 member chorus in Lead Kindly Light.
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Cleveland
Ray Chapman
Indians
Detroit
Chapman
Evening Hocking train delayed by freight derailment
The evening Hocking Valley passenger train bound for Athens was held at Lockville nineteen miles from Columbus after twelve freight cars of a T and C C train derailed. The train reached Athens around midnight. no injuries were reported as tracks were torn up for some distance and a Hocking Valley wrecker from Logan was dispatched to repair the damage.
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Hocking
Athens
Hocking Valley Road
Lockville
Columbus
Hocking Valley
Logan
Old Man Winter Is Approaching
A local column warns of a hard winter with jokes about cold mornings coal shortages and gas supply fears urging readers to prepare with winter clothes and warning that conditions may be severe.
Dempsey Sees Bigger Miske In Revived Form
In Benton Harbor Michigan on September 3 Jack Dempsey described challenger Billy Miske as a much larger man than before after an earlier appearance. The champion’s reaction showed surprise at Miske’s renewed size and condition.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Jack Dempsey
Billy Miske
Miske
First Woman to Vote Under 19th Amendment in Minnesota
Miss Margaret Newburgh of South St. Paul Minnesota appears as likely the first woman to vote in the United States under the nineteenth amendment. She arrived at 6 a.m. on August 27 to vote in a special municipal bond election and was the first voter in her precinct.
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Margaret Newburgh
South St. Paul, Minn
United States
Senate funds inquiry fuels party push for next week clash
Chicago Sept 3 United Press The week end lull in the senate campaign funds investigation is used by Democrats and Republicans to marshal forces for next week’s fight. Democrats press Moore new leads to probe Cox charge of a 15 million dollar fund and hostile interests aiding Harding. Subpoenas go to state GOP chairs and field workers in multiple states as hearings resume Tuesday.
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L. C. Martin
United Press
Chicago
Senate Committee
E. H. Moore
Moore
Cox
Harding
Republican State Ways and Means Committee
Missouri
Ohio
Kentucky
Iinois
Indiana
Pomerne and Reed
Cork's Terence MacSwiney Near Death in Hunger Strike
London reports Terence MacSwiney lord mayor of Cork is virtually lifeless in Brixton prison on day twenty one of his hunger strike. Relatives say his body is near death while doctors fear widespread paralysis due to circulatory failure. Father Dominic gave him communion this morning. An inventor has combined a farm tractor and hay press for rapid field work.
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London
Terence MacSwiney
Cork
Brixton
MacSwiney
Dominic
Vacation strike widens in Wilkes Barre district
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on September 3 insurgent miners in District No 1 maintain the vacation strike. Leaders say none of yesterday’s quitters returned to work and claim thousands of vacationists from surrounding areas have joined the ranks.
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Wilkesbarre
Penn
Young Women To Campaign Clubs Form Nationwide Drive
The Republican national headquarters announces organized baby elephant clubs for girls and female students in universities colleges and preparatory schools. The aim is training in public speaking singing and campaign activities to mobilize young women for the election effort.
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New York
Republican National
Mary J. Allen
Chicago
Women Strike Against Profiteering Grocers In New York
A banner during a New York strike quoted a phrase warning against buying chickens as a fool and traitor. Jewish women argued against profiteering grocery dealers, using provocative slogans to press for fair prices and supplies.
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New York
Eleven stump talks marked Cox campaign swing
Governor Cox began a Michigan tour with eleven speeches on the first day of his swing around the circle. He planned to reveal papers backing his charge that Republicans fund a slush fund to buy the presidency, with E H Moore present as liaison on campaign expenditures. He will speak in Lansing and Kalamazoo after a restless overnight departure.
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Herbert W. Walker
United Press
Toledo
Governor Cox
Senate Campaign Expenditures Committee
Newberry
Cox
Senate
Lansing
Kalamazoo
Japanese Profiteer to Face Reckoning in Fall Campaign
Terajiro Ikeda of Tokyo told Chicago district attorney’s office he is gathering data on American profiteering prosecutions. Ikeda, counselor in Japan’s ministry of justice, spent hours reviewing profiteering cases as he plans a Tokyo led campaign for this fall.
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Chicago
Terajiro Ikeda
Tokio
Ikeda
Ministry of Justice
Japan
Job Printers Quit in Cincinnati Over Wage Dispute
Sept 2 report that members of the bookbinders ink workers mailers pressmen and press assistants unions quit work in Cincinnati job printing offices to seek a new wage scale. England forms a museum displaying models of famous and historic aircraft.
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Cincinnati
England
New Wage Agreement Faces Miners Return to Work Standoff
Washington actions on the anthracite strike prompt labor officials to prepare for a push to resume mining. In Pottsville and Scranton reports say no workers appeared and all mines idle despite a two year wage contract signed by operators and workers.
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Pottsville
Scranton
United Mine Workers of America
Wilson
Anthracite Wage Commission
Athens Faces Winter Coal Shortage As Demand Rises
Local residents struggle to obtain bone coal amid shortages caused by interstate orders prioritizing Great Lakes and industrial sectors. Prices run about 8 a ton as dealers expect relief when standing orders end, though many continue stocking up bone coal.
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Athens
Interstate Referce Commission
Great Lakes
Fatal Laughing Fit Kills Patient in Camden
A caller's joke caused 70 year old Mrs. Imége Meyer to laugh so hard at a Camden hospital that her weak heart gave way she died.
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Camden
N. J
Imége Meyer
Famine Fear Amid Belfast Riots Paralyze Transport
Belfast reports say famine danger rises as transport paralysis continues after days of sectarian rioting between Orangemen and Catholics. Workers home reportedly go without food amid civil conflict and road blockades.
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Belfast
Polish forces push Bolsheviks from Lemberg region
Warsaw reports a major Polish victory with General Budenny defeated north of Lemberg. Polish troops advance fifteen to forty miles along a 100 mile front and push Bolsheviks across the Gnita Lipa and Bug rivers. Large prisoner and material captures stated as Budenny retires toward Brody.
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Warsaw
Lemberg
Budenau
Budenny
Gnita Lipa
Bug
Brody
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Billy
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James Purcell
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Aer
Lember
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