Four More Die in Logan Highway Head-On Crash
A head on collision on the Nelsonville road two miles south of Logan killed Mrs. Alice King and injured four others, two seriously. Harry Otis of Columbus and Joe King of Sugar Grove drove their cars into a ditch while attempting to avoid the crash. Deputy Sheriff Peter Barrows and Ambulances rushed the injured to Cherrington hospital amid traffic control at the scene.
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Clinton Webs Messenger
Logan
Nelsonville Road
Harry Otis
Columbus
Joe,King
Sugar Grove
Harry Os
Mrs. Adamus
Lawrence Otis
Ile
Joe King
Mahle Otis
Nelsontolle Otis
Otis
Nelsonville
Peter Barrows
Barrows
Seagrass Company
Columba
Hove
Joby Kings
Sugar Grove Tie
King
Pearl Chapel Road
Dlder
Tragic love triangle ends in murder and suicide in Kentucky
In Lexington a quarrel over a one carat diamond ring escalates into a murder attempt and death by suicide. Kirtley shot Alma Greg then killed himself after his defeat in a romance with Mona Ringstruck. Local police report the case linked to a 33 year old Ruth Hendrickson and the broader love tangle.
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Lexington
United Press
I . Kirtley
Tool Plate
Kirtley
Toledo
Sant
Gisham
New York
Ruth Schaffer Hendrickson
Alma
Shiek
Klvtley
Alered
Hig
Welin
Darling
Lafayette Hotel
Tyondilekson Jett Randy
Walter Baubles
Hendrickson
Butterfly
Fire Strikes Western Prison. Guards Contain Hundreds of Inmates
Walla Walla Washington September reports two new fires at the state prison are suspected arson by inmates. Prisons staff deputies and militia patrols man a protective cordon as 962 prisoners remain in the yard under armed guard. Warden Clarence Long plans rapid transfer of the most dangerous prisoners to the state reformatory at Monnee when feasible.
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Western Prison
Walla Walla
Wiasha
State Prison
State O
Wil
Washington
Trison
Moss
Toda
Penitentiars
Canton
Tols
Lherty
Clarence Long
Ed Fitzgerald
Buscelo
Monee
Air Thrills May Cause Tragedies in Murder Case
Canton reports Louis Mayer and Ben Rindner with Tat McPermott charged with Don Romellitt murder. separate trials likely, final-degree cases possibly in late October per prosecutor B. McClintock. Mayer held in Cleveland on liquor charge. defense ready when state calls.
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Canton
Louis Mayer
Ben Rindner
Tat McPermott
Don Ro Mellitt
Mayer
Cleveland
Tarer
B. McClintock
Sacco Vanzetti case to be reopened this month
Boston dispatch reports the Sacco and Vanzetti case will move toward a new trial as judge Thayer weighs a motion based on a purported new confession by an Italian suspect, with Madetroa Makeiros linked to the proceedings and Governor Fuller delaying execution to October 27. The article notes international appeal, broad defense funds, and extensive legal support.
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John T. Mouloux
Boston
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
South Braintree
Mass
Cortumese
Criestino Madeiros
Sacco
Vanzarttl
Thayer
Talkan
Dedham
Goston
Madetrag
Hes A
Youth Dramtrea
Vanzett
Fuller
Madetras
Sacco-Vanzetti
Jleading
United States
Massachusetts
France
Italy
Germany
England
Misamilian Larden
Count Bernstartt
Anatole France
Moin
Hro
Main Rolland
Heiri Barcbussy
Lerat
Willun G. ‘Thompson
Massachusetts Barys Association
Harvard Law School
Three Witnesses Named in Rev Wheeler Hall Murders Case
Somerville New Jersey authorities announce a third eye witness in the 1922 Fair Mills murders. The witness may tie to a taxi driver dubbed A I who was with a woman at the scene. Prosecutor Alexander Simpson presses to break alibi claims as arrests loom.
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Somerville
N. J
U.R
New Jersey
Edward Wheeler Hs
Eleanor Mills
Phillins Farm
New Trunswick
John J. Underwood
Alexander Simpson
A. I
Red Bank
Fair Mills
Frances Stevens Hall
Willie Stevens
Henry de la Mruyer
Carpender
Aged mother kills daughter then dies to aid son in law
In Louisville Kentucky an elderly mother Mary Tichliter 65 killed her daughter Hazel and then committed suicide to secure life insurance for her son-in-law Charles McMahan who was hospitalized in critical condition. Police and the physician who attended McMahan reported the suspected motive centered on insurance proceeds.
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Louisville
U.P
Charles McMahan
Mary Tichliter
Hazel
Old Mystery Case Never Cleared Up
Ravenna Sept 4 Miss Polta Jones died at Portage county home ending the mystery of her birth. Records say a young woman left a baby named Delia Jones at the institution in 1840 and never returned, leaving the case unsolved.
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Ravenna
Polta Jones
Portage County
Delia Jones
Labor Day Message from Billy Green AFL President
William Green urges vigorous union campaigns on Labor Day stressing organizing drives for all wage earners and a non partisan AFL political push. He notes unions with active membership drives gain members while passive officers fail to expand.
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Billy” Green
The
Federation
William Green
American Federation of Labor
NEA Service
the Messenger
INKON
Wreqa
America
Mother of Rhoades Faints at Funeral Scene
Meigs murder two killers Richard Rhoades and John Hedrick were buried after State executions. Richard Rhoades, 29, was mourned at Mason City Methodist church where witness Dana Smith and Dave Terrell served as pallbearers. Hedrick’s service followed at Mt Harmon church two miles from Five Points. The pastor spoke briefly of Rhoades’s life noting he was a French campaign veteran. He fainted multiple times as Halte Rhoades expressed grief.
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Martha F. Thompson
Pomeroy
Meigs
Richard Rhoades
John Hedrick
Mason City
Dana (Lert) Smith
Dave
Jersey
George
Hinka
Kaul
J. Finsterwald
W. Young
Geathart
Rhoades
Halte Rhoades
Khl
Ernest Rhoades
Ernst Rhoadey
Rich
McCumber
Gearhart
France
John
Ernest
Henry
Clarence
Branson Hatina
Anna Trace
West Virginia
Wiliam Stillwagner
Athoades
MT. Harmon
Hedrick
Washington, D. C
Jame
United States
Weather outlook shows midweek showers in Ohio Valley
The forecast for September 6 to 11 calls for mostly fair weather in the Ohio Valley on Monday and Thursday with possible showers in Eastern Tennessee Monday. Showers likely in Ohio Valley Wednesday or Thursday and in Tennessee a day later. Temptatures near normal except above the midweek.
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Washington
Ohio Valley
Tennessee
Ohio
Storms Sweep Midwest With Heavy Rain And Damage
Storms continue to sweep the Midwest with three to nine inches of moisture in the past three days. High winds and electric storms caused damage across Nebraska Iowa Illinois and surrounding areas with early estimates of about 200000 in Nebraska and over 500000 in Illinois.
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Chicago
Middlewest
Nebraska
Iowa
Woman predicts dry Congress victory in 1926 campaign
Ella A. Hoole of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union prophesies a dry Congress and the defeat of state prohibition laws, urging continued anti liquor enforcement as a key victory in Missouri’s 1926 campaign alongside Senator James Reed’s stance.
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Evanston
James Reed
Missouri
Ella A. Hoole
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Dry Congress
Fire too hot even before he was dead
Newark dated September 4 report that D. L. Hankinson, 40, a farm laborer, admitted he planned to kill himself with fire but the blaze grew too intense and he escaped. Sheriff Volgermeyer said the confession came during the probe of a mysterious fire that destroyed an abandoned tenant farmhouse on the Carey Evans farm near Newark.
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Newark
U.P
D. L. Hankinson
F. H. Volgermeyer
Licking County
Sherif
Carey Evans
Here
Sixteen Die as Gas Blast Levels Oklahoma Mine
In Oklahoma near Tahona a gas explosion at the Superior Smelters mine killed sixteen miners, fifteen recovered by late afternoon. Inspectors say pockets blasted by dynamite the night before caused the blast. Most victims were men with large families. three men escaped. Rescue squads describe a scene of horror inside the wrecked mine.
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Tahona
Ola
Superior Smelcless Con Company
Girls Abducted and Flogged Return After Abduction
Two popular society girls Miss Stone and Miss Frick were abducted by three men on a downtown Bristol street. They were driven to an abandoned hut three miles away where they were flogged with leather straps and left to walk home bloody with deep welts. Police described the attack and launched a county-wide search with descriptions of the assailants and vehicle.
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Bristol
Lily
Siick
Miss Stone
Miss Frick
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Mlinals
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Kn. L. Blair
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