Hoover Plans 135000 Radio Drive Across 45 Nights
Herbert Hoover and campaign advisers unveil a $135 000 radio blitz to reach voters, broadcasting 45 nights on national and Columbia networks. Four main speeches will be delivered from Newark New Jersey New York City Boston and other sites, starting September 17 in Newark.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican
National Broadcasting Network
Columbia Broadcasting Network
Hoover
Newark
N. J
Tennessee
North Carolina
New York City
New England
Boston
French Plane Resumes Long Distance Flight
In Casablanca Morocco Sept 5 the Yellow Bird monoplane resumes its southward route toward Dakar with Adjutant Jean Assolant Sgt Rene LeFevre and stowaway Armando Lotti aboard. They plan refueling at Dakar and a flight to Rio de Janeiro then a one stop to New York.
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Casablanca
Morocco
U.P
Dakar
Africa
Jean Assolant
Rene LeFevre
Rio de Janeiro
New York
Assolant and LeFevre
Armando Lotti
LeBourget Field
Paris
Floods Kill Seventy Five Near Srinagar Jhelum Rive
In Karachi dated September 5 reports state seventy five people died as floods caused by the Jhelum River overflow near Srinagar. Rescue teams continue searching for missing residents and assessing flood damage.
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Karachi
India
Jhelum
Srinagar
Vacation Safety Booklet Offered by The Athens Messenger
The Athens Messenger publishes a booklet on vacation safety and first aid for common summer accidents. It covers precautions to prevent trouble, treats bites stings burns wounds poisons and minor injuries, and instructs on emergency actions with Washington area guidance. The notice indicates a request for six cents to cover postage.
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Athens
Uage
Washiton
Attempt To Break Wife's Will Fails
In Cleveland a suit by George Luke to break his deceased wife Catherine Luke's will was decided against him. The case hinged on whether a child born just before death was alive. the jury found the infant was born dead, upholding the will under Ohio law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.R
George Luke
Catherine
Ohio
Luke
Salvation Army seeks funds to buy Grimm home on West Union
The Salvation Army local board reports $2,500 raised toward a $4,000 purchase price for the Grimm home on West Union Street. The national HQ will add $500 if $3,500 more is raised, leaving a $1,000 shortfall. Funds will finance a 28 by 40 foot front addition for a meeting hall with Kiwanis Rotary and Chamber of Commerce support sought. Ownership stays with the local board. the city would hold the property if the national organization withdraws. Campaign work has run for several weeks with canvassing ongoing.
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Grimm
West Union Street
Salvation Army
L. W. Roberts
Mr. Roberts
Kiwanis and
Rotary Clubs
Chamber of Commerce
The
Lancaster Street Closure Aids Repairs and Detours
The city plans to close Lancaster Street to facilitate brick paving on a concrete base and related rework from Courtney Hill. Detours reroute traffic from Nelsonville Glouster and Chauncey into Athens via The Plains road, with routes for Amesville Marietta Sugar Creek also specified. The state highway department will manage the work and detour signage.
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Ler
Lancaster Street
Courtney Hill
Romine
State Highway Department
Nelsonville
Glouster
Chauncey
Athens
Plains Road
Amesville
Marietta
Sugar Creek
Columbia Avenue
Highland Street
Woodward Avenue
Congress Street
Canaanville
Trans Continental Air Races Open With Score of Aviators
At Roosevelt Field over twenty aviators begin the Class A trans continental race. Albert R. Jacobs leads the field in a Waco 10 from Philadelphia at 6 43 am heading to Harrisburg and beyond with six teen stops planned ending at Mines Field Los Angeles on September 10. Col Arthur Goebel targets the September 12 feature race after recent record flight California to New York in under 19 hours.
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Roosevelt Field
L. I
Harrisburg
Albert R. Jacobs
Philadelphia
McKeesport
Columbus
Mines Field
Los Angeles
J. W. Hunt
Hunt
Moundsville
West Virginia
Col
Arthur Goebel
California
New York
Wisconsin Republicans lead in state primary returns
Regular Republicans and conservatives swept the Wisconsin primary with Walter J. Kohler holding a commanding lead for governor over Joseph D. Beck while Gov. Fred Zimmerman trailed. Robert LaFollette, son of Fighting Bob, won the U S Senate nomination over George W. Mead, marking the first Wisconsin governor in 38 years not to win a second term.
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Madison
Wis
U.R
Walter J. Kohler
Joseph D. Beck
Fred Zimmerman
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Robert LaFollette
Bob
United States Senate
George W. Mead
Homecoming as 100 Murray City residents return for Labor Day
Labor Day marks a homecoming for Murray City ex residents. More than a hundred people came back for the holiday as miners from Ward Township and others seek work elsewhere in Detroit Barberton Akron and Columbus plants since the coal mine strike began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
Murray City
Wardstownship
Detroit
Barberton
Akron
Columbus
Curtis Seeks Support Today on East Shore
Senator Charles Curtis continued his national tour in Boston aiming to win New England support for a tariff policy of protection. Speaking at Norumbega Park he framed the choice in November as Republican tariff for protection versus Democratic tariff for revenue only and criticized the Underwood tariff act of 1913.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Mass
Charles Curtis
New England
Norumbega Park
Curtis
Houston
Two Convicts Escape London Prison Farm
Authorities searched Sept 5 for two convicts who walked away from the London prison farm Monday night, prompting a manhunt and warnings to authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
London
Commissioners approve buying new road equipment for Athens county
The Athens county commissioners approved purchasing another tractor and a grader, bringing the fleet to four of each for county roads. Chairman John Grosvenor said the additions aim to finish this year’s promised road work. Clerk BS. PB Tompkins travels to Columbus to obtain cost data on the Sharpsburg section of the Marisetta Athens road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
John Grosvenor
Board of Commissioners
Grosvenor
Jacksonville Mine Set to Resume Operations Soon
GLOUSTER Ohio Sept 5 A staff special reports Ohio Mine 1 at Jacksonville will reopen on an open shop basis. Three men labored today to replace cage ropes and a larger crew is expected later this week to ready the mine on the Coe farm owned by the Ohio Mining Company for coal loading.
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Glouster
iIt
Ohio Mine
Jacksonville
Coe
The
Ohio Mining Company
Wrigley Swim Opens World Long Distance Race
The $35,000 Wrigley Swimming race for the world long distance championship began in Toronto at 11 a.m. E. D. T. in cold weather as the field of 15 miles started.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrigley Swim
Toronto
Ont
U.R
Seven Die As Airplane Crashes In Idaho
Official inquiry opened into the crash of a Super Universal monoplane near Pocatello. The craft, on an airmail and passenger run from Salt Lake City to Great Falls, fell 150 feet after a wing failure. Killed were pilot Paul Wheatley, Ogden official Jesse Richards, Ogden newspaperman Floyd Timmerman, W A Lean of Spokane, a woman, and two unidentified children.
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Pocatello
Ida
U.P
Salt Lake City
Utah
Great Falls
Mont
Paul Wheatley
Jesse 8
Bandits Kill Watchman in Bitter Night Clash
Toledo report says Abraham Singer, 65, a nightwatchman for Frank and Messer Iron and Metal, died after resisting two bandits who tried to rob the firm office. His body, bound with inner-tube strips, was found in the company yards. the robbers fled without stealing anything.
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Toledo
Abraham Singer
Frank and Messer Iron and Metal Company
Singer
Earhart Flier Leaves Hatbox Field From Muskogee
Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic took off from Hatbox Field Muskogee at 7 am in an Avro Avian. She directed her four cylinder aircraft southwest and would not disclose her next stop.
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Muskogee
Okla
U.P
Amelia Earhart
Hatbox Field
Girl Thought Lost Found in Chicago Relative Home
A two day search for Katherine Louise Phillips 13 daughter of Rev and Mrs Vernon Phillips Columbus ended when she was found at a relative’s home in Chicago. She had traveled via the bumming route after disappearing from home Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
U.R
Katherine Louise Phillips
Vernon
Phillips
Chicago
First to land Norton Field in national air derby
Earl Rowland of Wichita Kansas flying an Acessna monoplane arrived at Norton Field Columbus as the first entrant to land today in the national air derby.
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Norton Field
Columbus
Earl Rowland
Wichita
Kas
Air derby planes all accounted for at noon
Middletown Pa September 5 all thirty seven airplanes that left Roosevelt field this morning in the trans continental air derby had been accounted for there at noon today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Roosevelt Field
Tight? His Wife Has the Details About That To Excite Any Judge
Cleveland court hears divorce case between Arthur W. Jackson and Alice M. Jackson filed after desertion and neglect claims. Attorney Maurice Singer quotes marital hardships including the wife carrying luggage to trains and hotels, and a moon viewing quarrel over a telescope. Jackson, reportedly wealthy from Pepper Pike land sale, denies provable charges while both sides discuss temporary alimony terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
U.R
Maurice Singer
Alice M. Jackson
Washington Court
Lorain
Samuel H. Silbert
Common Pleas Court
Arthur W. Jackson
Chagrin Falls
Singer
Jacksonville
Mra. Jackson
Canton Woman Held After Brutal Dorothy Evanvich Killing
Canton officials say they will await the next grand jury meeting to pursue a first degree murder indictment in the death of 8 year old Dorothy Evanvich, whose bruised body was found near Elton. Coroner McQuate notes circumstantial evidence and strong suspicion the woman abused the child while neighbors testify to cruelty. Lynching threats from Elton keep her jailed.
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Canton
O.R
Stark County
Dorothy Evanvich
Elton
Here
T. C. McQuare
Dorothy
Paint Standards of Court Street Lights
The Athens city service department began painting street light standards along Court Street and West Union Street this morning. All standards are brushed or scraped before applying black paint. After finishing, fire plugs will receive orange paint. most city fire plugs have been painted red or green in the past.
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Court Street
West Union Street
Athens
Plans to Open Republican Headquarters in Athens
Executive committee of the Republican central committee will meet at 7 30 tonight in Hotel Palmer to discuss opening county party headquarters in Athens. Building plans call for opening probably next week, announced secretary Robert S Wood this morning.
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Athens
Republican Central Committee
Palmer
Robert S. Wood
Mr. Wood
Motorcycle crash victim dies in Hamilton
Paul Randolph twenty died from injuries after his motorcycle collided with an auto driven by Leroy Bowen. Randolph, a Kings Mills resident, died today in Hamilton.
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Hamilton
U.R
Paul Randolph
Leroy Bowen
Randolph
Kings Mills
Red Cross Office Reopens After Ten-Week Closure
After a ten week closure the Red Cross office on the fifth floor of the Security Bank Building is now open. Hours are 1 to 2 30 p m daily with Miss Thelma Grubb as executive secretary in charge.
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Red Cross
Security Bank
Thelma Grubb
International Eucharistic Congress Opens in Sydney
Thousands gather in Sydney to inaugurate the twenty ninth International Eucharistic congress. Delegates and lay participants from across the world converge for a solemn ceremony as devotion to the Eucharist draws tens of thousands to the Queen City of the Antipodes.
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Sydney
S. W
the Antipodes
First Baptist Church Relocates Pending New Tabernacle
The local First Baptist church moved today from Carpenter and Lancaster to a temporary brick building on Morris Avenue. Services will be held there until the new tabernacle on Morris Avenue is completed. Rev. B. T. Kimbrough said plans for the tabernacle are moving rapidly and a joint meeting in Granville with the state board and Columbus association on September 20 will discuss details. The old building will be moved out of the city this week.
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First Baptist Church
Carpenter and
Lancaster Streets
Morris Avenue
B. T. Kimbrough
Kimbrough
State Board
Granville
Columbus Association
Wesleyan Included in Cadet List for 1929 Schedule
West Point announces the 1929 Army schedule with no Navy game. Illinois joins the slate with a two year home and away series. The Cadets travel to California to face Stanford and meet Ohio Wesleyan on November 23.
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West Point
N. Y
U.P
Military Academy
Navy
University of Illinois
Illinois
California
Leland Stanford University
Ohio Wesleyan
Trusty Who Escaped Back in Jail Again
Ralph Frye a 31 year old state penitentiary trusty who walked away from the Roseville Brick Plant August 26 returned to the penitentiary. He surrendered to the Mt Vernon sheriff and asked to be locked up again in Columbus. He said he did not wish to be made a trusty again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ralph Frye
State Penitentiary
Roseville
Frye
Mt. Vernon
Thomas
Smith weighs prohibition stance in campaign plan
Albany Sept 5 Gov Alfred E. Smith weighs how to address prohibition to win dry and wet states in November. He plans a detailed discussion of his modification program and Canada liquor system, while promising enforcement of the eighteenth amendment and Volstead act and hinting at possible changes in enforcement machinery.
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Albany
N. Y
Govi
Alfred E. Smith
Bean
New York
New York State
Best
Smith
Grange Debating Meeting Delayed to Two Weeks Later
Athens Canaan granges postponed their Thursday meeting at the Jackville schoolhouse. The debate between two granges remains the feature, now scheduled for Thursday evening at 7 30, September 20, with plans confirmed by a received announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Canaan
Jackville
Renew Search for Cleveland Killer
Statewide manhunt for Convention Clarence Beard the Cleveland killer who escaped from the state hospital here was renewed with vigor after the capture of Lima slayer Thomas McKenna. McKenna was taken on the Scioto river banks near Marion by two Erie Railroad detectives after fleeing Lima with an injured foot.
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Lima
U.P
Clarence Beard
Cleveland
Thomas McKenna
McKenna
Scioto
Mariog
Erie Railroad
Logan Man Will Be Elks Deputy
A telegram from Murray Hulbert grand exalted ruler of the Elks to Melrose Baugh confirms Harbaugh will be appointed district deputy of the South Central group, consisting of fourteen lodges. Logan Lodge becomes the first in the area to receive such an honor. counties in the district include Franklin Fairfield Licking Union Athens Pickaway Ross Gallia Jackson and Washington.
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Logan
Murray Hulbert
Elka Lodge of the World
Melrose Baugh
Harbaugh Ws
South Central
Logan Lodge
Fraklin
Fairfield
Pt Licking
Union
Athens
Pickaway
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Columbia
Paul R. Mallon
United Press
Washington
South America
spouLer
Fred Beck
Beckler
la Follette
East Shore
John W. Bolin
M. D. Hughes
Idaho
Watchman
Miss Earhart
Wesleyan
Trusty
Thomas L. Stokes
Logan Man
Elks
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