Flood death toll in central Texas may exceed 100
Deaths from Friday and Saturday floods across central Texas are reported to surpass 100 with 47 bodies recovered at San Antonio and more feared dead in Taylor Calvert Bryan Georgetown Wharton. Relief work and debris clearing underway as officials estimate property damages in the millions from livestock and farm buildings losses.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
San Antonio
Taylor, Tex
Calvert and
Bryan
Georgetown
Wharton
Colorado
Fatty Roscoe Ar buckle to be indicted for murder
San Francisco district attorney Matthew Brady announced that an indictment for first degree murder of Virginia Rappe will be sought from the San Francisco grand jury. He said 22 witnesses have been summoned to appear, and sufficient evidence will be presented to warrant the indictment, making a preliminary hearing unnecessary.
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M. D. Tracy
Fanscisco
Roscoe
Fatty) Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
San Francisco
Grand Jury
Matthew Brady
Brady
Arbuckle Grand Jury Probe Prompts Jail Hold
San Francisco police marshal evidence for a grand jury investigation into Roscoe Arbuckle over Virginia Rappe’s death. Detectives say affidavits from those at the hotel party show a complete case of alleged brutality behind Arbuckle’s locked bedroom door.
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San Francisco
Cal
Roscoe Arbuckle
Mathieson
Virginia Rappe
Arbuckle
California
Matheson
Arbuck
Miss Rappe
Parole Pardons Board Hearings for 25 Women
The state parole pardons board held hearings at St Marysville on 25 women from the state reformatory. Board members expected to complete the hearings the following day. The panel was to meet at the state penitentiary to consider paroles for convicts during the week.
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Columbus
State Parole-Pardons Board
St. Marysville
British widow of ZR-2 victim claims rival in Indiana
Mrs Joyce Steele, a British woman, asserts she is the widow of William J. Steele, one of the American naval crew killed in the ZR-2 disaster. An Indiana girl also claims widow status and seeks the sailor's body, setting up competing claims.
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Indiana
Joyce Steele
William J. Steele
Steele
Two Suspects Tied to Daugherty and Asmus Murders
Chicago police report Harvey C. Church 20 confessed to binding and beating two Packard salesmen, Bernard Daugherty and Carl Asmus, over a 5400 deluxe car. Bodies found riverbank and buried in Church's garage. police suspect accomplices due to conflicting statements.
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Chicago
Harvey C. Church
Bernard J. Daugherty
Carl Asmus
Packard Motor Company
Church
Daugherty
Asmus
Dayton Gas Rate Fight Stopped by Court Order
A court decision upholds Dayton city commission power to negotiate a new gas rate schedule. The gas payers league sought to void the ordinance claiming illegality. The old rate was 34.5 cents per thousand cubic feet. the new sliding scale starts at 50 cents and reaches 1 dollar for 20 000 feet or more.
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Dayton
City Commission
Dayton Gas Payers League
Desperate Hold-up Near Pier Ends With Escape
Robert McKay was robbed by two men at a Cleveland pier. They threw him into the lake and pelted him with coal lumps as he tried to climb the piles. He swam to safety after being struck on the head and later received medical care at home.
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Cleveland
Robert McKay
McKay
Opinion on value rises with demand
Quote pondering that if one’s opinion were as valuable as they presume, more people would seek it. The remark suggests inflated self-assessment and market-like valuation of ideas.
Bridge Disaster in Chester Claims 25 Lives
Investigating engineers pin the Third Street Bridge collapse on a weakened steel plate. The 25 people who died were watching a search for a drowned child when the bridge failed. Five survivors remain in danger as officials identify all victims except one. Commissioner Feely notes the bridge had been deemed safe yet could not bear ten tons of weight.
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Chester
Feely
Small Nations Are Getting Together
Geneva September 12. An apparent settlement of the Chile Bolivia dispute over the 1904 treaty was jeopardized by Chilean plenipotentiaries insistence on interfering with the matter. Delegates from Chile and Bolivia had agreed in private to bring the question to the League of Nations arbitration on Thursday.
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Henry Wood
United Press
Geneva
Chile
Bolivia
League of Nations
Foreign trade shows improvement in August trade balance
Washington reports that August commerce figures show a trade balance of 181 million dollars with imports at 149 million and exports at 375 million, the largest export total since March. The figures mark the first improvement in the business mood since the Harding administration began its effort to end the low trade climate.
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Washington
Harding
Department of Commerce
United States
Chile Bolivian dispute sent to League assembly for decision
Geneva reports that Chile and Bolivia agreed the 1904 treaty dispute has been placed before the League of Nations assembly for final decision. Chilean delegates consented to discussion, while Bolivia threatened withdrawal if revising the treaty was raised. Dr Edwards and Dr Welling Koo spoke for the league urging allied US action.
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Geneva
Chile
Bolivia
Assembly of
League of Nations
League
Ean
Edwards
Chil
Welling Koo
United States
Athens Schools See Unprecedented Fall Registration
Today in Athens all public schools the high school and Ohio University began enrolling students for the fall term. Trains brought hundreds of returning college students and the auditorium was packed with registrants. President Bryan restricts undergrads to sixteen hours without Dean Chubb approval and seventeen without faculty approval. Schools report unusually large pupil enrollment citywide.
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Athens
Athens Public Schools
High School
Ohio University
E. B. Bryan
Chubb
Capture of Schulis Ends Toledo Jail Escape
Charles Schulis, a convicted Toledo post office bandit who broke from Lucas county jail a week ago, was captured today at Crissy fifteen miles west of Toledo. He offered no resistance. His fellow escapees Joe Urbaytis and George Rogers remain at large.
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Toledo
Charles Schulis
Lucas County
Crissy
Joe Urbaytis
George Rogers
Schultz
Liberty
Arm Crews to Arm Traction Lines in Columbus District
Plans were made today to arm car crews on the Columbus Urbana and Western and Columbus New Albany and Johnstown traction lines to protect employees after the fatal beating of Russell Crute, a conductor, Friday night. Crute died yesterday from the encounter with a bandit.
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Columbus
Urbana and Western
New Albany
Johnstown
Russell Crute
Crute
Carpenters Implement Eleven Percent Wage Cut
In Coshocton on September 12 a new wage scale reduced carpenter pay by about eleven percent with wages set at eighty cents per hour.
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Coshocton
Trade school opens for girls in Coshocton
Special for girls Coshocton September 12 girls between ages 16 and 18 were eligible to attend a trade school opening today. Subjects include care of the sick home economics cooking sewing millinery and textile art.
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Coshocton
Wild Animals Still Plentiful in Western State
Denver reports that Colorado remains wild game country as the US Department of Agriculture annual markets bureau shows the previous fiscal year saw six bears, one mountain lion, 686 coyotes, 17 wolves and 310 other predatory animals killed at a cost of 27,489 dollars. Livestock savings were about 96,300 dollars. The extermination drive will continue locally until all wolves and mountain lions are removed.
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Denver
Colorado
Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Irish Reply on Way to Scotland Now
A courier departed Dublin today believed to carry the Irish cabinet’s reply to Lloyd George’s invitation for a conference. The Dail’s message reportedly accepts the invitation for talks. The date September 20 is noted in the dispatch.
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Scotland
Dublin
Lloyd George
Dail
Berlin Aero Club plans claim of dual motorized flight
A fragment from a Berlin air report notes the club demonstrating two or three motorized aircraft. The evidence suggests experimental flights led or piloted by a driver, indicating ongoing tests of monoplane propulsion.
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Tered
Berlin Aero Club
Dig for Slacker Gold in Bergdoll Treasure Case
The U.S government seeks 105000 in gold drawn from the treasury in 1917 from Emma C. Bergdoll mother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll Philadelphia slacker. If held legal and she refuses to produce the gold she could face contempt of court sanctions including jail or fines.
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Herbert W. Walker
United” Press
Washington
Bergdoll
Emma C. Bergdoll
Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Treasury
Miners threaten work stoppage over Sugar Creek dispute
Subdistrict union leaders warn Ohio Collieries Co that unless mine No 209 at Sugar Creek restarts the entire company in the Hocking field may face a strike. Mine 209 has been idle for days with repairs blamed, while 210 and 211 run less, triggering calls for rotation and equal work for all workers.
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Ohio Collieries Company
Sugar Creek
Hocking
Asia and the West must unite to avert clash says Sir Cyprian Bridge
Sir Cyprian Bridge argues in London that an Anglo American alliance is essential to prevent a cultural clash between Asia and the West. He warns that American continents share European roots and urges a cordial union of Europe with its racial relatives in the Americas, alongside practical naval disarmament.
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A. J. West
United Press
London
Cyprian Bridge
Europe
Cyprian
Pacific
United States
Britain
Japan
Asia
West
Curreus
North America
South America
America
North
South
Atlantic
Americas
Julius Caesar
Storm toll rises as bodies recovered in Taylor Texas
Taylor Texas reports twenty storm flood victims recovered with no estimate of remaining missing. Surrounding areas show widespread damage and disrupted communication amid the disaster.
Genuine cowhide traveling bags for sale at $5.50
A new shipment of genuine cowhide traveling bags is now available at The Toggery in Athens Ohio for five dollars and fifty cents each. Sale promotes immediate purchase to day.
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Athens
Ohio
Entomologists Gather Over Ohio Invasion of European Corn Borer
Ohio Pennsylvania and USDA entomologists will meet in Sandusky on September 15 to determine procedures against the European corn borer invasion. The pest has been found on North Bass Middle Bass South Bass Catawba and Kelley's islands and near Ashtabula and Saybrook in northeast Ohio. Winds from Canada are suspected to have carried the moths across Lake Erie, signaling possible annual outbreaks if winds continue.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
United States Department of Agriculture
Sandusky
North Bass
Middle Bass
South Bass
Catawba
Kelley's Islands
Ashtabula
Saybrook
Canada
United States
Lake Erie
Carnival Dance at Lamborns Pavilion in Glouster
Reed's Orchestra from Parkersburg to play a Wednesday night dance at Lamborns Pavilion Glouster on September 14 running from 9 to 12.2.
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Lamborns
Glouster
Reed's Orchestra of
Parkersburg
Prohibition Violators Certified for Tax Under Don Aiken Law
State Auditor Tracy certified 99 prohibition law violators to county auditors for liquor dealers tax under the Don Aiken law. Each case carries $1000 tax plus $200 penalty, totaling $1200. Of $118,000 certified, the state would receive three-tenths if collected, with the rest distributed to local subdivisions.
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Columbus
Tracy
Smith Buys Into Moler Auto Sales Business
Ll H. Smith formerly a bookkeeper at Athens National Bank buys Carl Barth stake in Moler Auto Sales Company and becomes assistant manager. A former Stewart general merchant, he returns to business leadership in a major southern Ohio auto agency, Moler Auto Sales.
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Ll. H. Smith
Athens National Bank
Carl Barth
Moler Auto Sales Company
Smith
Stewart
Splendida
Moler Company
Moler Auto Sales
Ohio
Griffith Goes to Trial in West Virginia Murder Case
William H. Griffith, a penitentiary convict, is to stand trial in Point Pleasant for the January murder of Ira Roush, a river man from Antiquity. Griffith had earlier set fire to a penitentiary building, murdered a fellow inmate, escaped, and is alleged to have stolen Roush’s boat to aid the escape.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
William H. Griffith
West Virginia Penitentiary
Ira Roush
West Virginia
Roush
Griffith
State Penitentiary
Clar
Lancaster People in Wrecked Car in Northern Ohio
Findlay Ohio Sept 12 John Kemer 69 in critical condition. Mrs John Kemer Omar Marks and Mrs Omar Marks sustained severe cuts and bruises after their car was struck by a Toledo Bowling Green and Southern car at Van Buren. All residents of Lancaster Ohio.
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Findlay, CO
John Kemer
Omar Marks
Toledo
van Buren
Ohio
Lancaster
Arbuckle affair cited by Herrick in beauty contest campaign
Washington Sept 12 The Arbuckle scandal could be used by Representative Manuel Herrick Oklahoma as evidence in his congressional bid against movie beauty contests.
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Washington
Manuel Herrick
Oklahoma
Learn How To Make Good Bread
Government booklet teaches bread nutrition and baking methods for white potato rye corn meal and nut breads. Free copy offered by the Washington Information Bureau. send two cents in stamps for return postage and include name address clearly.
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United States
Washington Information Bureau
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Parole-Pardons Board Meeting
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Karl Rath
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Rhone
Germany
Admiral Bridge
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Moler
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