Textile strike tension rises as New England mills face walkouts
Reports detail a broad textile strike spreading through New England with leaders like George A. Sloan and Frances Perger in talks as 2,800 workers resist shutdowns and候 more mills close. Federal and state authorities move to curb violence amid rumors of a general strike. Roosevelt officials claim swift action to stabilize industries while police confront incidents including a fatal shooting linked to strikers and mill guards.
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Perkins
South Wied
Roosevelt
Industrial Council
Incomplete OCR Fragment Hints Road Time and Numbers
Fragmentary text mentions a 3p start time and 13 thousand people with references to 0242 and Mut Number. No clear event or identifiable entities emerge beyond scattered numbers and timing.
Tears of Blood Puzzle Baffles Kansas City Doctors
In Kansas City on September 7, physicians at General Hospital encounter a 28-year-old woman, Mrs. Eula Santa Maria, who sheds tears of blood nightly. The flow, about 10 cubic centimeters, accompanies severe headaches and watery tears, yet doctors say the blood does not originate from the tear ducts.
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Kansas City
General Hospital
Eula Santa Maria
Athens County budget shows 1935 total of 311531.92
The 1935 county budget of 311531.92 prepared by the county commissioners is on file in the auditor’s office. It lowers the general tax and other revenue by 66787.08 from 1934 due to the repealed two mill road levy, and calls for new taxes to cover 174810.16 from taxes and 136721.76 from other sources.
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Athens County
Odell Names 67-Name Mob Tied to Abduction
ADA reports Okey Odell president of the Agricultural Workers Union filed affidavits naming 67 persons as mob members who abducted and beat him on August 25 during the onion strike disorders. The incident occurred as the weeders’ walkout intensified near Patterson at the hands of striking workers.
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Ada
P—Okey Odell
Agricultural Workers Union
W. W. Gebby
Patterson
Pastor Denounces Snake Bite Faith Raps Sermon
In Circleville on September 7 Prof J Dell of Capital University condemned snake bite displays as senseless acts during remarks to the Ohio Synod of the American Lutheran Church. He targeted Albert Teaster a North Carolina preacher known for theatrically exposing himself to rattlesnake venom claiming immunity through faith.
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Circleville
J. Dell
Capital University
Ohio Synod of the American Lutheran Church
Albert Teaster
North Carolina
Funeral Arrangements for Mrs Celia Simons
Funeral services are set for Mrs Celia Simons who died today at St Francis Hospital in Columbus. Services will be held at Greens Run Church at 2 o clock with Rev G E Courtney officiating. Burial will follow at Chauncey.
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Celia Simons
St. Francis Hospital
Columbus
Greens Run
G. E. Courtney
Chauncey
Attorney General Rules Minors Remain in Wards
Columbus September 7. Attorney General John W. Bricker ruled minors remain wards of a children's home even if they marry while resident, in an opinion to the Montgomery County Prosecutor.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Montgomery
Unearth More Bones on Ohio Lake Mystery
On the Cleveland lake shore a fragment of a skeleton believed to be the ribs and part of a woman's spine was dug up near North Perry Township Park in Lake County. It was found two weeks earlier by Elp Hejduk who buried the bones in sand. detectives and Hejduk resumed the search as rain and darkness delayed recovery.
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Cleveland
North Perry Township
Lake County
Elp Hejduk
Lake Shore
Melvin Keener
North Perry Village
Hejduk
James Moloney
Cleveland Polce
Former Officer Sentenced to Death for Long Island Slaying
OSSINING NY Sept 7 Alphonse Brengard a former state police man was electrocuted at Sing Sing for the murder of Nassau County Patrolman John Kennedy who was wounded on a road between Woodmere and Valley Stream in July 1928 Kennedy paralyzed by a spine bullet lived four years after the shooting Brengard was arrested nearly a year after the incident and was executed last night.
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Ossining
N. Y
Alphonse Brengard
Long Island
Sing Sing Prison
John Kennedy
Nassau County
Brengard
Kennedy
Woodmere
Valley Stream
L. L
Six Men Die in Trolley Auto CrashNear Seymour Conn
Six men lost their lives in a head on collision between a Waterbury New Haven trolley car and a small roadster near Seymour Connecticut. The crash occurred early today with several others injured as the victims crowded into the vehicle.
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Seymour
Conn
Waterbury
Union Men Lead in Vote at Steel Plant
In Huntington West Virginia the Amalgamated Association of Iron Steel and Tin Workers wins the first government supervised steel labor election. The vote followed a Pittsburg order of August 16 by the National Steel Labor Relations Board amid a complaint that the company refused to recognize the union, despite a majority of West Virginia Rail Company plant employees being members.
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Huntington
W. Va
UPI
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
Pittsburgh
National Steel Labor Relations Board
West Virginia Rail Company
Norman Thomas Heads to Ohio For Onion Strike Study
Norman Thomas the Socialist presidential nominee in 1932 will travel from Medford Wisconsin to Hardin County Ohio on Saturday to study the onion strike and related labor issues.
Here To Stay Is Notice of Liberty League
The American Liberty League vows to defend constitutional rights and will campaign over years if needed. A nationwide broadcast by President Jouett Shouse is planned, with December as a key pause in day to day activism. The group argues that human rights and property rights are inseparable and opposes New Deal portrayals.
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Washington
American Liberty League
Jouett Shouse
NEW Deal
Alfred E. Smith
John W. Davis
James W. Wadsworth
Roosevelt
Will Change Relief System In Ohio Counties
Columbus September 7 Ned J Boggs announces reorganization of the hand ling of poor relief complaints by the State Relief Commission The plan creates uniform county complaint and adjustment committees to improve efficiency Written complaints of grief pain resentment or fault finding will be heard by the local committee If deemed important the board will forward the case and its recommendation for final action to the state board
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Columbus
Ned J. Boggs
State Relief Commission
State Board
Ohio U. Sees Big Freshman Class As Fall Enrolls
Ohio University opens its 133rd year Monday Sept 17 with one of the largest freshman classes in recent years. Freshman Week events are planned and Alumni Memorial Auditorium hosts the convocation where President B. Bryan will greet students. Rooms in dormitories and two cooperative houses are filled, and major summer repairs have refreshed grounds and buildings. Dean A. H. Armbruster arrives as director of the University School of Commerce after positions at Pitt and Harvard/Yale.
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Ohio University
Alumni Memorial Auditorium
BE. B. Bryan
Commerce
Ohio
A. H. Armbruster
University of Pittsburgh School of Business Administration
University School of Commerce
Armbruster
Harvard University
Yale University School of Business Administration
Davey For Local Leaders Gains Support in Athens County
Athens County Democratic leaders announced unity with the new state party under Martin L. Davey as Francis W. Poulson leads the state committee. D. A. Rardin and fellow officials report cooperation from defeated nominees Charles Sawyer William G. Pickrel and Charles West, while Gov. George White’s status was not discussed.
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Athens County
Martin L. Davey
D. A. Rardin
Rardin
C. L. Jordan
Athens
C. E. Henley
John Darling
Glouster
Columbus
Francis W. Poulson
Poulson
Charles Sawyer
William G. Pickrel
Charles West
Senate
George White
Waves Threaten Malibu Homes as Pacific Storm Rages
Mountainous surf slammed Southern California beaches from Newport to Malibu, tearing fences and undermining piers. A man’s body washed ashore at Long Beach. Malibu residents including Richard Arlen and Lupe Velez faced flood threats as crews sandbagged by two thousand sacks to guard homes and piers.
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Los Angeles
California
Newport Beach
Malibu Beach
John Gilbert
Corinne Griffith
Mike Levee
Lou Seiler
Newport
Malibu
Richard Arlen
Bebe Daniels
Lupe Velez
Johnny Weissmuller
Marx Brothers
Long Beach
Rainbow
Pine Avenue
Will Rogers Greets Hospitable Swedes in Stockholm
Will Rogers writes from Stockholm describing Swedes as 80 percent hospitable, busy hosts who barely let him write or read. He notes their health, long peace, and jokes that the king plays tennis while dismissing repudiation from their language.
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Stockholm
Will Rogers
Two Women Convicted In Insurance Murder Case
In Cooperstown New York Eva Coo nicknamed Little Eva was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death by electric chair with execution expected the week of October 15. Martha Clift 27 mother of two pleaded guilty to second degree murder and received 20 years to life.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Eva Coo
Martha Clift
Little Eva" Coo
Sing Sing
Eva
Harry Wright
Coo
New Deal in Arms Production Debated by Senate Committee
Washington, Sept 7. Senate Munitions Investigating Committee forecasts government control of armament production, opposing private enterprises. The hearing follows testimony that Electric Boat official Sterling J. Joyner aided two representatives to the House Rules Committee in 1928, a claim both Martin and Fort deny.
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Washington
Senate Munitions Investigating Committee
Electric Boat Company
Fort
New Jersey
Martin
Massachusetts
House
Sterling J. Joyner
Company
Fear for Safety of French and Russians
Extraordinary police precautions will be taken to protect the French delegation to the League of Nations and later the Russian delegation if Russia is elected. Local authorities were advised by Berne of rumors that Fascist elements intend demonstrations against both delegations.
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Geneva
League of Nations
Russia
Berne
Safety Rules Violation Held Cause of Crash
The Ohio Truck Safety Council report to the Public Utilities Commission cites violation of safety rules as the main cause of the Elyria bus crash last spring that killed six sleeping passengers. The panel urged drivers to follow rules and attributed the deaths to ignorance or neglect.
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Columbus
Elyria
Ohio Truck Safety Council
Public Utilities Commission
Herbert Baker
Cincinnati
Clothier Frank Shively Dies Under Train in Greenville
Frank Shively a 49 year old Greenville clothier died today after being struck by a fast train. Neighbors say he had threatened suicide several times due to business troubles and ill health.
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Greenville
Frank Shively
Greenville Clothier
Newark Pastor Re elected Superintendent In Ohio Conference
The Rev. A. B. Cox of the First United Brethren Church in Newark was re elected as superintendent of the Southeastern Ohio conference of the U B Church. He will serve through 1935.
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Newark
Circleville
A. B. Cox
First United Brethren Church
Southeastern Ohio
U. B. Church
Restoring Government by Law in Columbus Republican Platform
The Republican platform at Columbus calls for restoration of government by law to replace New Deal bureaucrats. It denounces policy dishonor and pledges courageous, positive state government, with emphasis on tax reform, education funding, and liquor control protections. It outlines twenty planks on state and national governance, highways, economics, and welfare.
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Columbus
Ohio
Simeon D. Fess
Clarence J. Brown
Republican Party
Fess
Loans to Russia Stopped by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt refused to grant Russia a long term loan and more than $200 million in commercial credits. The move collapsed debt and trade negotiations, with officials citing Russia's unpaid debts to the United States as the reason.
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Russia
Roosevelt
Washington
United States
State Department
Whipple Confined by Heart Condition at Home
George Whipple, manager of Cline's Pharmacy, is confined to bed at his home 129 North Congress Street today after becoming ill yesterday. Two Die In Crash Wooster Sept 7. Mrs Mary Young 88 of Burbank and Elmer Feeman 30 of Friendsville were killed last night in a automobile collision at a country pond intersection near Creston.
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George Whipple
Cline
North
Congress Street
Former Northwest Editor Guilford Slain in Minneapolis
Howard Guilford 40, former editor and press freedom advocate, was shot to death while driving home on a South Side street. The Eight years earlier he survived a gun attack linked to his crusade against gambling and vice. The case recalls his past confrontations over the Minnesota Newspaper Suppression Law later found unconstitutional by the U S Supreme Court.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Howard Guilford
Guilford
Minnesota
United States Supreme Court
Minnnesota Supreme Court
Ohio State University to enforce compulsory military training
Columbus September 7 The compulsory military training rule at Ohio State University will be applied without distinction next school year and conscientious objectors will not be excused. In letters to five prospective freshmen J L Morrill vice president advised exemptions only for students 25 years old or those with two years of accepted credit or medically unable to participate.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
J. L. Morrill
Wrong Plates Cost Two Men $25 Fines
Two men arrested by state highway patrol for using the wrong license plates on trucks were fined $26 and costs each today by Magistrate C H Porter. They were Howe ard McClain arrested near Carbon dale and C M Pyle arrested on Route 31. Elias Carsey of Alexander Township charged with assaulting Pearl Woods pleaded not guilty and was held to the grand jury under a $500 bond.
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C. H. Porter
Howeard McClain
Carbondale
C. M. Pyle
Elias Carsey
Alexander Township
Pearl Woods
Porter
Athens County Farm Bureau Picnic Moves to Saturday
The annual Athens County Farm Bureau picnic will be held Saturday at the W. F. Kampf orchard instead of Sunday. James R. Moore, publicity director for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, will be the principal speaker.
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Athens County Farm Bureau
W. F. Kampf
James R. Moore
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Legality of Columbus Loans Probed by Home Owners’ Loan Corp
Officials in Washington say the legality of certain Columbus loans is under investigation by the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. They declined to comment further. In Philadelphia on Sept 17 gunmen robbed an employee of the B C Loveland Company Inc and escaped with 4500 dollars.
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Washington
Columbus
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Philadelphia
8. C. Loveland Company, Inc
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