Gunman Unknown Wounds Man Former Resident of Pomeroy Bend District
A man, James Hedricks 22, a former Pom beroy resident and Mine No. 281 worker, was shot in the knee while on a Greens Run porch. A speeding Chevrolet touring car fired three shots, one hitting Hedricks as darkness prevented identification. He was hospitalized in Columbus. two other shots were not traced. Sheriff Williams investigated. Hedricks and M. L. Weaver recently moved to Greens Run. Hedricks is brother to a penitentiary inmate involved in a past Ohio murder.
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Glouster
Greens Run
James
Hedricks
Columbus
William Williams
Weaver
Pomeroy
Racine
John Hedricks
Ohio State Penitentiary
James McComber
Willys Hill
West Indies Devastated by Long Tropical Hurricane
Meager reports reach New York on September 17 as a tropical hurricane rips through the Bahamas from beyond the Virgin Islands toward Florida. The 20 island chain sees widespread destruction and Nassau remains cut off after two days of disrupted communications.
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New York
Parker resigns as subdistrict vice president of UMWA
Worthy Parker of Glouster resigns from the post of subdistrict No 1 vice president of the United Mine Workers of America effective September 15. He cites the union’s inability to provide adequate relief for striking miners’ families as a reason. No successor named yet by the Nelsonville sub district office.
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Jacksonville
Franks
Monnett
Columbus
The
Grove
Federation of Labor
Tee Hall
United Mine Work of America
United Mine Workers’ Organization
William Houston
Indianapolis
van Bittner
Conrad Wein
National Guard
Vic Donahey
Parker
Robert Bell
Murray City
Oral Daugherty
Nelsonville
Hoover Opens East Campaign in New Jersey
Herbert Hoover begins a two day tour of industrial northern New Jersey with Mrs. Hoover and son Alan. He plans to address labor in Newark and travel through half a dozen towns reaching perhaps half a million people. The trip marks his first eastern speech since nomination and precedes a string of campaign stops before October westward.
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Newark
N. J
U.R
Herbert Hoover
New Jersey
New York City
Alfred B. Smith
Iowa
Suspect Held After Attacks on Women in Lancaster
A nameless man claiming to be a patient at the State Institution for Insane at Athens was arrested in Lancaster after two women were attacked last week. Mrs. Ravenna Hayes has not regained speech since the Friday night assault, and Mrs. Perry Smith, an expectant mother, was the other victim. Armed posses continued searching fields near the city as hundreds gathered at the city jail.
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Lancaster
State Institution For Insane
Athens
Ravenna Hayes
Perry Smith
Union Bosses Cut Salaries in Illinois Mine Strike
State officials of the Illinois Mine Workers Union reduced their own pay by 1.40 a day in an executive session yesterday. The cut follows a new wage scale ratified Saturday by the miners, effective today.
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Springfield
Illinios Mine Workers’ Union
Two Chauncey Daughters Born to Local Families
In Chauncey on September 17 and the following morning two daughters were born to local couples. Kenneth Sands and Floride Shaffer welcomed a daughter at 11 15 pm Sunday, and Guy M Brookins and Nellie Shaffer welcomed a daughter at 1 00 am Monday. The infants Thelma Jean Brookins and Betty Lou Lands are granddaughters of Shaffer Lands and Brookins families.
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Chauncey
Kenneth Sands
Floride Shaffer
Guy M. Brookins
Nellie Shaffer
Lands
Brookins
John Shaffer
the Plains
Frank Lands
Milton Brookins
Millfield
Thelma Jean
Betty Lou
Curtis Campaign Moves to Indiana for Vote Hunt
Senator Charles Curtis, running mate of Herbert Hoover, shifted his campaign from Kentucky to Indiana. A Pullman car arrived from Louisville for his use as he planned a farm relief speech and a banquet address with all state Republican nominees invited. Curtis expressed optimism about Hoovers prospects in Kentucky.
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Evensville
Ind
U.R
Charles Curtis
Herbert Hoover
Kentucky
Indiana
Louisville
Curtis
Blue Grass
Hoover
President Coolidge and Curtis Campaign Conference
President Calvin Coolidge and Vice-presidential candidate Charles Curtis appear cheerful after a White House campaign conference. The image captures their optimistic mood as they discuss prospects.
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Coolidge
Charles Curtis
Curtis
White House
Governor Smith's Luxury Special Heads West Campaign
Governor Alfred E. Smith travels aboard the elaborate St. Nicholas special train from New York to Omaha for a brown derby western campaign. He plans farm relief talks, meets reporters, and will speak in Chicago Omaha Oklahoma City Denver Helena St. Paul Milwaukee Rochester and Albany before another run across the West.
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Thomas L. Stores
United Press
Smith
Omaha
Alfred E. Smith
West
Middle West
Mississippi
East Side
New York
State Line
Ohio
Albany
Chicago
Oklahoma City
Denver
Helena
Montana
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Rochester
Rival suitor wounds Robert Adams in Cleveland attack
Cleveland police report Robert Adams aged 22 is near death from knife wounds inflicted by a rival suitor in a downtown assault.
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Cleveland
Robert Adams
Towers swept away by hurricane at Jupiter Inlet
The naval radio station at Jupiter Inlet lost its towers in the hurricane. After hours a temporary aerial was installed and communications were re established.
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Jupiter Inlet
Fla
Naval Radio Station
Middleport Boy Gene Grate Adds Pipe Organ Skill
Middleport on Sept 17 reports Gene Grate a teen lad of genius who is adding pipe organ lessons to his already wide range of domestic science talents. His sister Frances is an accomplished pianist and violinist, while Gene excels as a chef and cake and pie maker who won many prizes at last year’s fair.
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Middleport
Gene Grate
Frances
Gene
Joe Miller Takes His Life in Langsville
Langsville Sept 17 Staff Special Believed despondent due to ill health Joe O Miller 55 a well known Meigs County schoolteacher died from a self inflicted bullet wound in the yard of his home He had suffered melancholy and diabetes and eye trouble for months He taught in Rutland grade schools and never missed a Teachers Institutes session He leaves a wife from a second marriage two daughters Mrs Entsminger Middleport and Mrs Robert McKnight Langsville and three sons Fred Wendell Columbus and Leland Chicago
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Langsville
Joe O. Miller
Meigs County
Miler
Rutland
Miller
David Entsminger
Middleport
Robert McKnight
McKnight
Fred
Wendell
Columbus
Leland
Chicago
Planes used in joy ride near Bedford
Cleveland aviators were questioned after a stolen naval aviation insignia holder crashed a plane near Bedford. Ralph Cole of Cole Aviation School reported the theft from Mayfair Landing Field in Lyndhurst Village. Radio reports traced the shattered plane to Alonzo Drake's farm.
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Cleveland
U.R— Cleveland
Naval Aviation
Bedford
Ralph Cole
Cole Aviation School
Mayfair
Lyndhurst Village
Alonzo Drake
Hurricane Halts Fort Pierce Service. Train Derailment Fatal
Telephones and telegraphs cut between Fort Pierce and the South as the hurricane nears. Trains to southern points halted in anticipation. In Manila, Cadiz derailment leaves sixteen dead and fifteen injured when a log train derailed in Occidental Negros province.
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Fort Pierce
Florida
Manila
P. I
Cadiz
Occidental Negros
Tempest Roaring Inland Murk Brings Florida Hurricane
The Florida peninsula faces a major hurricane moving inland from the Indies. Winds 90 to 100 mph cut communications and unroofed houses from Daytona to Orlando. Tampa and Fort Lauderdale report strain and outages as the storm nears the citrus belt.
Stormy Tampa 4AFL station reports raging gale and downed wires
Amateur station 4AFL in Tampa Florida at 4 50 a m relays a crippled scene as winds shake a house wires lie down and telephones fail power is uncertain no injuries reported yet the operator is unable to reach other Florida stations and remains frightened though promising further reports.
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New York
U.P
United Press
Garden City
Long Island
4AFL
Tampa
Fla
Florida
Storm wrecks lash Atlantic coast towns endangering lives
Scores of towns along the storm's edge darkened as power failed near West Palm Beach. Widespread damage included house tops torn away, trees uprooted, and seas raging 85 to 400 feet along the shore. Red Cross and American Legion units mobilized for relief in Miami, Jacksonville, and Tampa as the hurricane struck near Jupiter Inlet yesterday with two more shocks early today.
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Daytona Beach
Orlando
Miami
Fort Lauderdale
Gulf
Atlantic
Tampa
Peninsula
At & O
Board of Trade
Jacksonville
Daytona
Georgia
Fla
U.R
Gulf of Mexico
United States Weather Bureau
West Palm Beach
Red Cross
American Legion
Jupiter Inlet
Palm Beach
Plane Forced Down in Storm During Siberia Flight
The missing aircraft Lovets Ever was damaged by a storm and forced down in the ice fields over Northern Siberia during an exploration trip, authorities announced.
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Moscow
U.R
Lovets Ever
Siberia
Porto Rico relief efforts amid island disaster
Reports from San Juan describe widespread devastation after a recent disaster. Estimates place dead around 100 with hundreds more injured as floods and landslides disrupt interior communication. Aid from the War Department and Red Cross moves quickly to deliver 560 tons of food and set up relief with Navy transport ships to reach Porto Rico.
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President Coolidge
Ant
St. Mihiel
New York
Panama
San Juan
Towner
Porto
Rico
Rep
U.P
United States
Washington
American Red Cross
Porto Rico
Con
Army
U. S
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James Hedricks
Weaver Home
Pomeroy Bend
West Indies
Worthy Parker
Miners’ Union Organization of
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New York State
St. Nicholas
Wiliam F. Kenney
Joe. Miller
Lee Gebhart
Fila
Out of the Indies
Florida Peninsula
Navy
Key West
Weather Bureau
Polk County
Here
War Department
United Press Radio Station
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Syracuse
al Smith
N. Y
Cayey
Rumacao
Ponce
Prederic J. Baskin
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