Government spending drops in July and August 1924
Treasury figures show total overhead expenses for July and August at $390.6 million and $404.9 million with large reductions in Interior and Treasury while Navy and Agriculture rise. Veterans Bureau cuts offset war department savings. debt retirements explain year‑to‑year differences ahead of the 1925 budget.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Thornburgh
Washington
Congress
Coolidge
Navy
Agriculture
Agriculture Department
United States Veterans’ Bureau
War Department
Interior
Treasury Departments
Treasury
Wheeler Receives Rousing Welcome Across Ohio Stop
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, running as vice presidential candidate with La Follette, left Cleveland for Toledo after a mass meeting. He spoke with confidence about winning Ohio’s 24 electoral votes and framed the campaign as a choice between a yes Republicans and Progressives.
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Cleveland, CO
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Toledo
Ohio
Robert M. la Follette
Wheeler
North
West
Bees Kill Horse Tied To Tree In Randolph Kas
Bees stung a horse to death after it was left tied to a tree in Randolph. The owner, Andy Homan, rushed to help but was driven back by the swarm and severely stung.
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Randolph
Kas
Andy Homan
Homan
Quake Hits Erzerum District. Hundreds Reported Dead
Constantinople reports 228 bodies recovered after the Erzerum district earthquake. Eighty villages near the Turkish Armenia area were seriously affected with widespread destruction and casualties.
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Constantinople
Erzerum
German-American commission rules on Lusitania losses
The German government is not liable for losses sustained by American insurance companies which paid claims to persons lost on the Lusitania, per a ruling by the German-American mixed claims commission on September 18.
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Washington
Lusitania
Mixed Claims Commission
Athens Retail Merchants End Half-Holiday Practice
Last Thursday marked the final half-holiday for stores in the local Retail Merchants association. Next week shops will stay open all day on Thursdays. Throughout the summer employees in Athens stores have enjoyed the single afternoon off.
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Retail Merchants’ Association
Athens
Berengaria Hits Whale School at Sea
The Cunard liner Berengaria reported by wireless that in mid ocean it ploughed through a school of whales, cutting one in two. The impact endangered propellers as the ship carried the Prince of Wales to the United States and docked in New York later.
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United States
Ith
New York
Berengaria
Southampton
Air war in China prompts U S refusal to sell planes
Dispatches describe Chang Tso Lin's forces using aircraft from French planes in Manchuria while Peking orders suppression of subjugation efforts. Mukden reports Chang directing the offensive from Chin Chow as Shanghai provinces fight on. The United States reiterates it will not permit sale of airplanes to China.
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Peking
Wu Tei Fu
Chang Tso Lin
Jehol
Mukden
Chang
Chin Chow
Shanghai
Chekiang
Kiang-Su
United States
China
Contract Awarded For Athens Marietta Highway Sections
The State Highways Department awarded two road sections on I C H No 157 to C A Baker & Co of Marietta. The four mile and one and a quarter mile strips run from Sharpsburg hill to the Washington county line and into Bartlett, with grading and drainage work, for 89654 dollars and 49 cents. Construction starts immediately to be ready for next season. Concrete may be used on the Washington county strip and part of Lens county, with hill-side brick on Sharpsburg hill.
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Athens-Marietta Road
Washington County
Lens County
Sharpsburg
Citizens halted efforts to pay world fair debts
Dayton residents who started a public subscription to pay the world fair debts were advised by the Car Department that such efforts are unnecessary. No injuries reported in the day’s incidents. Gale, Illinois reports a crash involving a Chicagoan train plow and peat shipment in the Netherlands context, with no injuries.
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Uncle Sam
Washington
Dayton
Car Department
Prince of Wales to be driven to New York for fourth visit
Syosset New York September 18 a large limousine awaits outside the Burden home to transport the Prince of Wales to New York City for another visit. Captain Lascelles says he may return to see more of the city before departing Sunday for High River Canada. The prince aims to observe the serious side of America reflecting in England as part of his preparation for kingship.
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Roland Krens
Syosset
N. Y
James A. Burden
Prince of Wales
New York City
A. F. Lascelles
Wales
Manhattan
High River
Alberta
Canada
Long Island
Lascelles
Julia Richman High School
Museum of Natural History
Tascelles
England
America
Missing yacht owners believed drowned after squall on Lake Erie
The bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Thayer, owners of the Wing and Wing, were found on a Lake Erie shore near Stop 73, four miles west of Lorain. Coast guards search rocky inlets west of Cleveland for clues as their power cruiser capsized off Avon Point after being sighted with dead batteries and no life belts.
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Lorain, O
Martin
Thayer
Wing
Stop 73
Cleveland
Lake Fire
Avon Point
Put-in-Bay
Britain proposes public work to avert unemployment
The article notes a labour prime minister in Britain pushing public works to reduce unemployment, calling it socialism. It reports Secretary Davis asserting payrolls in the United States are improving, with nine thousand establishments up 3.7 percent and 2.5 million workers affected, describing it as a business revival.
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Great Britain
United States
Davis
America
G. F. Baker the Sphinx of Wall Street Revealed
The 85 year old George Wisher Baker, worth about 300 million, is described as the Sphinx of Wall Street. He is unknown to most Americans, rises daily at 9 and works without retirement, with a strict routine and rare public appearances. He began serious play after 70, taking up golf and tobacco while remaining fiercely private.
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G. F. Baker
Gene Coumn
NEA
New York
First National Bank
No. 2
Wall Street
George Wisher Baker
America
Lees
Financial Center
John, D. Rockefeller
Wheeler Campaign Swing Aims at Daugherty in Columbus
Senator Burton K Wheeler campaigning with La Follette is due in Columbus to speak at the Coliseum, targeting former Attorney General Harry M Daugherty over Justice Department actions. Rumors of a damage suit over his campaign statements circulate, but La Follette Wheeler HQ doubts its authenticity yet expects Wheeler might welcome it.
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Columbus
Burton K. Wheeler
Robert M. LeFollette
Toledo
Harry M. Daugherty
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Wheeler
Cleveland
LaFollette- Wheeler
Logan Officer Heads to Puget Sound to Return Navy Enlistee
Deputy Sheriff W. R. Brandt left Logan Ohio on Tuesday for Puget Sound Washington to turn over Carl McQuaid, wanted on a non support charge, to navy officials. Brandt was joined by Mrs Brandt. McQuaid has been an enlisted sailor in the navy for several months.
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Logan
W. R. Brandt
Puget Sound
Washington
Carl McQuaid
Navy
Brandt
Mra. Brandt
McQuaid
World richest men list by conservative financial authority
The article names the wealthiest individuals by country and amount. It lists Henry Ford and John D. Rockefeller at about 550 million, T B Walker 200 million, George Baker 200 million, J B Duke 100 million in the United States, Basil Zaharoff about 300 million abroad, Parous Mitrut and K Tswecaki about 100 million each, Duke of Westminster 90 million, and Baroda’s Gackeovar at 160 million, noting these are personal fortunes, not family fortunes. Hugo Stinnes of Germany is mentioned as once high on the list.
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Financial Authority
United States
Henry Ford
John D. Rockefeller
T. B. Walker
Minnesota
George Fisher Baker
J. B. Duke
Basil Zaharoff
Monte Carlo
Parous Mitrut
K. Tswecaki
Japan
Duke of Westminster
Gackeovar
Baroda
Hugo Stinnes
Germany
House of Morgan
Vanderbilts
The Wal Street Sphinx and the Silent Financier
A storied financier who distributed about 12 million dollars in six years carries a secretive persona. From humble beginnings as a Troy grocery boy and bank watchman he rose to bank examiner and organizer of the first National Bank era venture, now directing railroads and many banks while preserving a veil of public silence.
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Lif
Troy
N.Y
New York
End of Carbonrill Detour Opens Soon
The four mile Carbon Hill detour on the Columbus road between Nelsonville and Logan will reopen within a week to ten days. Athens County Automobile Club secretary C. H. Bryson said work is near completion after tar was laid at the Nelsonville end. Contractor Rader of Circleville directs the Logan road project with new limestone and equipment speeding progress. Drivers are warned to wait for an official opening announcement.
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Ohio
Columbus
Nelsonville
Logan
C. H. Bryson
Athens County Automobile Club
Bryson
Athens County
Lancaster
Athens
Carbonhill
Canal Winchester
Athena
Logan Road
Rader
Circleville
Gress
Mr. Bryson
Early Hunters Greeted by Leaden Shower in Ohio
In Logan Ohio on September 18 William Smith and a youth from New Straitville were struck by shotgun pellets fired by Harley Howdyshell of near Webb Summit as they arrived for a planned squirrel hunt. Both men suffered minor facial and arm injuries. Police note thieves were active in the area. Howdyshell expressed regret after learning the visitors’ identities.
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Howdyshell
Death Toll Put at Thirty Eight in Kemmerer Mine Disaster
Kemmerer Wyoming September 18 The death toll from the Mine No 2 blast at Sublet is set at thirty eight by J P Quealy president of the Kemmerer Coal Co He reports fifty men were in the workings at the time twelve escaped to safety twenty seven bodies have been recovered and more are expected before nightfall.
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Kemmerer
Wyo
Kemmerer Coal Co
Sublet
J. P. Quealy
Quealy
International News Service Today
Mars Blamed for Global Havoc by Scientists
New York scientists attribute the planet Mars proximity to recent extraordinary hurricanes earthquakes floods and other disasters worldwide causing havoc and loss of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mars
New York
Athens Countian victim of a gun
Charles Woggleswant of near Deanville was severely injured when a gun discharged on a moving hunting trip in Winjton county. Doctors H B James and O B Cox amputated the fingers of his right hand after the accident on Monday.
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McArthur
James
Cox
Charles Woggleswant
Deanville
Woggleswant
Win Jton
Citywide smallpox vaccination proposal seeks legal ruling
Columbus Sept. 18 City Attorney Leach announced receipt of a request from the local board of health for an opinion on the legality of a proposal to make city wide vaccination against smallpox compulsory. The board cited Franklin county disease prevalence and said fines or imprisonment would be penalties for violators.
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Columbus
Leach
Board of Health
Franklin County
Hopes for Life Sentence in Perrygo Case Rise
Washington Sept 18 Hopes for a life sentence rather than execution grew as Edgar Perrygo 22 seeks a re hearing after being condemned for killing an elderly woman four years ago. His lawyers cite Leopold Loeb precedent and psychiatrists describe semimambulistic tendencies.
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Washington
Edgar Randolph Perrygo
Perrygo
Chicago
Caverly
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Wee. A. White
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Young Perrygo
Oxon Hill
Mary ‘Faithful
Mutiny Report Suppresses Chekiang Forces in Hang Chow
Reports from Shanghai say Chekiang forces at Hang Chow mutinied with leaders possibly fleeing to Shanghai. Officials in Shanghai note the disturbance as potentially authentic, sparking concern over regional stability.
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Shanghai
Hang Chow
Shanghal
Mother Reunites With Missing Daughter After Train Return
Mrs Martin Bogos of Detroit travels to Cincinnati to recover her nine year old daughter Jean who disappeared from home Monday. Jean boarded a passenger train from Detroit, was found in Cincinnati late Monday night, stayed at the Children's Home then escaped. She was located near Lebanon, Ohio, Wednesday afternoon and returned. The clipping also notes a Greyhound bus speed of 35 miles an hour.
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Cincinnati
Martin Bogos
Detroit
Jean
Lebanon
Davis Tours Midwest Hints on League and Reform
Democratic nominee John W. Davis returns to Chicago after a western tour to press his government program amid attacks on Republican corruption. He plans speeches across Indiana Ohio Valley and the eastern seaboard, ending with a stance on the League of Nations and U.S. world role.
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WM. K. Hutortnbon
I. N
Chicago
Davis
Don Moines
Indiana
Ohio Valley
Seaboard
Dee Moines
Davie
League of Nations
United States
Ohio brickyards targeted in Donahey plan
Columbus Ohio September 18 Political observers foresee clashes in the state campaign over purchase of brickyards by the Donahey administration Harry J Davis Republican gubernatorial candidate told county chairmen that brickyard acquisitions could be pivotal The GOP nominee alleged the state paid exorbitant prices for the plants and received gifts in return
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Columbus
Ohio
Donahey
Harry J. Davis
Con
New Los Angeles Buses to Feature Sightseeing Fixts
Los Angeles Railway plans immediate installation of six wheel motor buses in the city. The double deckers will be fitted with sight seeing equipment to attract riders and showcase local sights.
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L. A
Angeles
Los Angeles Railway
Pecan Pralines Question Sparks Sugar Talk
Reader discusses pecan pralines and misconceptions about ingredients and cost. The note claims simple steps using common pantry items like brown sugar and water, while hinting at a personal attempt at making pralines and referencing a recipe.
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