Children in Sunday Creek Valley Cry for Help
Glouster Ohio September 12 A relief drive appeals for money non perishable food and school books to aid 1000 miners families in Sunday Creek district facing a harsh winter. Doctors report underfed children at risk of disease and tragedy.
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Sunday Creek Valley
Glouster
Sunday Creek
Hocking Valley
Relief Committee
Glouster State Bank
Ohio
Marshall Summers
Robbery Report From Athens and Canaanville
Homes in Athens report entered watches and $20 taken by robbers. A general store at Canaanville is robbed of merchandise today.
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Athens
Canaanville
Stolen Food and Watches Reported Across Athens Homes
Seven Athens homes were entered with three watches and about $20 in cash stolen. The Joe Roe general store at Canaanville also robbed of merchandise valued $300 to $500. Police suspect a single group using a car and a gray cap, with several homes yielding small changes and a seventeen jewel Hamilton watch among the items.
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Athens
Joe Roe
Canaanville
Genevieve Apgar
Grosvenor Street
William E. Moler
North College Street
Alvin Cline
Pearl Street
Jewel Hamilton
Prof
R. L. Morton
William Ramsey
J. A. Fuller
East Care Center Street
Owen Jordan
Church Street
Herb J. Parker
William Williams
R. J. Studer
Miss Apgar
Apgar
Arch Dunfee
W. E. Moler
Moler
Cline
Hamilton
Jordan
Professor Morton
Rosvenor Street
Olice
Ramsey
Kathryn Figg
Preston
East Carpenter Street
J. C. Penny Company
Parker
Chillicothe
Williams
Roe
Cannonville
Illinois Miners and Operators Discuss Truce Plan
Chicago reports a proposed truce between Illinois miners and operators is being studied by joint committees. The plan would use the Jacksonville wage scale until a mine conditions investigation concludes February 1. John L. Lewis is said to have proposed the plan. Sub-committees returned reports as Rice Miller announced a nine member operators sub-committee to assess the immediate situation.
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Chicago
U.P
Illinois
Jacksonville
John L. Lewis
International Miners’ Organization
Rice Miller
Operators’ Association
Miner’s lifelong coal earnings average $753.60 yearly
Glouster Sept 12. George A. Shust Sr. of Glouster kept mine earnings records from 1890 to 1927 detailing 36 years of work. He earned a total of $27,129.45 for 40,405 tons loaded with extra day work adding $432.10, averaging $753.60 per year, with a peak of $1,721.79 in 1920 and a low of $232.30 in 1893.
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Shust
Hunterdon
Jacksonville
Burglary Report and Vehicle Theft Linked to Robbery
Thieves entered a store through the front window and stole shoes automobile tires flour sugar meat tobacco dress goods shirts overalls and dress trousers. No other crew members found though tire marks were observed. A truck owned by O E Reading in the Wakefield garage on Richland avenue lost tires and electrical equipment last night.
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O. E. Reading
Wakefield
Richland Avenue
Roe to be sentenced for neighbor murder in Monroe County
Woodfield news reports Clay ton Edison Roe, 23, faces sentencing in Monroe County for the murder of Dent Wehr, 34, after a jury returned a guilty verdict with a mercy recommendation on Saturday.
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Woodsfield
Clayton Edison Roe
Dent Wehr
Monroe County
Extra Freight Trains Added on Ford Line Highway to Detroit Exports
London reports four extra freight trains on the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton railroad owned by Henry Ford. The line runs through Springfield, South Charleston, South Solon, Washington Court House, and Jackson. The rush is tied to moving new Ford autos to distant markets, easing Detroit congestion.
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London
U.P
Henry Ford
Detroit
Springfield
South Charleston
South Solon
Washington
D. H
Jackson
Balloons Drift South in Gordon Bennett Race
In Detroit on September 12 U P reports indicate 16 balloons began the Gordon Bennett Memorial race. By dusk only five had landed with several still aloft drifting south toward Florida. Capt. Kepner’s U S Army craft landed in York South Carolina.
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Detroit
U.P
Florida
U. S. Army
W. E. Kepner
York
Sharpsburg
S. C
Belgica
Hispania
Body found near Cleveland after murder release
The body of Philip Bellantoni, 42, was found in a field on the outskirts of Cleveland. He had been freed four days earlier after being charged with his wife's murder. Police planned a vigorous search of Italian districts for the killer.
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Cleveland
U,.p
Philip Bellantoni
Tanker Balko Arrives Under Guard at Greenwich Point
Federal authorities seek to identify the source of a liquor cargo worth 2 million dollars aboard the tanker Balko tied up at a Greenwich Point pier under tight security.
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Philadelphia
Greenwich Point
Practical jokers link bottle message to missing Saint Raphael
Police in Irvine Scotland believe a bottle found on the shore contains a message claiming to come from the missing monoplane Saint Raphael. Officials say the note may be part of a hoax by pranksters rather than real evidence.
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London
Eng
Irvine
Scotland
Raphael
Premonition Ties Twins Across Distress
Sept 12 report via staff special details Roy Tracey of Charleston fearing harm to his twin Ray after a window accident. Ray, recently hospitalized with scalp and chin gashes, recovered by the next week and sent no word to ease family worry, underscoring a strong twin bond.
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Pomeroy
Tracey
Roy Tracey
Logan
Roy
Charleston
Ray
U S Officers Ready to Take Hand in Ohio Coal Crisis
Steubenville reporters say federal authorities prepared to assist in the Eastern Ohio coal field sitaution as a preliminary injunction takes effect. United States Marshal Stan ley Borthwick of Cincinnati announced he has selected twenty five deputies to enforce provisions by minors and operators.
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Steubenville
U.P
Ohio
United States
Marshall Stanley Borthwick
Cincinnati
War Secretary Predicts Mississippi Levee Repairs Continue
Secretary of War Davis said repair work on the Mississippi flood levees would proceed despite a looming funds shortage. The statement came as federal defense and river improvement projects face fiscal uncertainty.
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Washington
Mississippi
Davis
Florida aviatrix heads to Roosevelt Field for Paris trip
Miss Ruth Wider, the Florida aviatrix in the Stinson monoplane American Girl, left Tampa for Wheeling and then Roosevelt Field New York with plans to buy new clothes in Paris next week. Pilot George Holdeman accompanies her as they proceed to Paris after Roosevelt Field.
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Tampa
Fla
U.P
Ruth Wider
Florida
Aviatrix
Wheeling
W. Va
Stinson
Paris
Scouts Gather at Methodist Church Meeting Tonight
Members of Troop 2, Boy Scouts, are to meet at the Methodist church at 7 o'clock this evening. All other boys over 12 years old who are interested in scouting are urged to attend.
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Boy Scouts
Little White Bundle in Maternity Ward Court Case
In Cleveland Ohio a hospital baby case faces Judge Carl Weygandt. Mrs. Sam Smith claims the child named George at birth is a boy, but nurses presented a girl. The case seeks court determination of the infant’s sex amid contested parentage and hospital procedures.
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Cleveland
Ohio
U.P
Carl V. Weygandt
Common Pleas Court
Sam Smith
George
Mrs. Smith
Giant dirigibles foreseen as future ocean airliners
Still Larger Lafayette Indiana, Sept 12. Prof. R. B. Moore predicts gigantic dirigibles three times the size of the Los Angeles will become ocean air liners of the future, advancing lighter-than-air travel with helium.
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Lafayette
Ind
Los Angeles
R. B. Moore
Athens County Automobile Club reorganized under state control
H N Burgett of the Ohio State Automobile Association took over the club duties in Nelsonville as the local club reorganizes its finances. The office service resumes with a minimal emergency fee, licenses now offered by the County Auditor, and plans for a Thursday meeting to stabilize the club. Removal of the office to City Hall is proposed to cut rent.
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Athens County Automobile Club
H. N. Burgett
Ohio State Automobile Association
State Association
Nelsonville
C. B. Welch
Welch
Burgett
J. Clyde Edmundson
Athens County
Council Chamber
City Council
Alex M. Moore
Hotel Berry Building
Herb J. Parker
Captain's grief over failed search for Old Glory crew
Captain David W. Bone of the Anchor Liner Transylvania arrived with a hopeful yet grim account of the rescue attempt for the Old Glory crew Lloyd Bertaud James D Hill and Philip Payn. He said the five hour east of New Foundland location was too vague and blamed the loss on missing exact position and on lack of skilled wireless and navigational personnel.
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New York
U.P
David W. Bone
Transylvania
Atlantic
Lloyd Bertaud
James D. Hill
New Foundland
Bone
Bertaud
Hit
Bene
Kiwanis Club Shifts Meetings to Monday Evenings
Athens Kiwanis members vote to move meetings from noon to Monday evening after October 1. At Hotel Berry today sixteen favor the change while fourteen prefer continuing noon gatherings. Original schedule was Tuesday night with summer shift to Monday noon.
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Athens Kiwanis Club
Hotel Berry
Beatrice Wyckoff Seeks Partition Of Lot 507
A further hearing in Athens County Common Pleas on the Beatrice Wyckoff partition suit against Roy Wyckoff Harold Wyckoff a minor and Nora Z Bevers addressed the plaintiff's claim to a one fourth interest in inlet 507 and the division of the property.
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Beatrice Wyckoff
Roy Wyckoff
Harold Wyckoff
Nora Z. Bevers
Athens County Common Pleas Court
City Officials Urge Club to Continue Services
The mayor warns the city cannot afford to lose the club and the chief of police notes its value for stolen car handling and license information, underscoring the club’s importance to city operations.
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Beneft
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John L. Duvall
Robert I. Marsh
George W. Coffin
Ed Jackson
Indiana
Warren T. McCray
Indianapolis
Republican
D. C. Stephenson
U. S
Athens County Auto Club
Ohio State Auto Association
S. O
Philip Payne
Service Club
Prederic J. Haskin
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