Flooded Midwest Faces Widespread Destruction and Relief Efforts
Rescues unfold as rivers swell across Iowa Wisconsin and Turners with fourteen inches of rain in Hawarden. Two dead and towns cut off. Beardstown recruits women drivers to haul sand and supplies to reinforce levees while Red Cross readies relief teams in Chicago. Water floods streets and crops rot, with millions in losses feared across river bottom communities.
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Midwest
Iowa
Wisconsin
Turners
Hawarden
Hull
Green Bay
Weaver
Skunk Creek
Odansh
Wis
White River
Lake Superior
Beardstown
Hlingis
Red Cross
Eaf
Federal Weather Bureau
Judge to Diet as Penalty for Criticism
Hartington Nebraska September 18 Judge Wilbur P Bryant who imposed the first bread and water sentence on a Nebraska law violator will have bread and tea for five days as his own medicine. The self imposed diet follows criticism over his handling of cases involving hoot feeders.
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Hartington
Neb
Wilbur P. Bryant
Nebraska
Bryant
Nation targets dry law with new civil powers
Washington reports outline a broad dry push this fall and winter with Assistant Treasury Secretary Andrews leading the effort. The plan calls for mobilizing steamboat inspectors lighthouse keepers postal workers and border inspectors to curb rum traffic while dry legislation strengthens the Volstead Act and creates a federal prohibition tribunal. President Coolidge signals government will pursue Prohibition alongside state and federal agencies. Ohio University opens its 235th year with President Bryan addressing faculty and a large gathering as students begin arriving for registration and convocation events.
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Andrews
Rum Trust
Coolidge
Treasury
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Post Office Department
Labor Department
Andrews Ia
Ohio
Vic Donahey
Ohio University
RE. B. Bryan
Bryan
Donahey
Fine Arts
Rell
Doctor Bryan
News Writers Deadline Reflected In Future Schedule
Mes senger correspondents excluding several towns must submit Sunday edition copy by Saturday moon and Wednesday page copy by Tuesday evening. The rule aims to improve prompt mailing and reduce delays, with all deadlines set for the office.
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Messenger
Nelsonville
Logan
Pomeroy
Chauncey
Glouster
Moon
Federal Attorney Seeks to Link Daugherty in Deal Progress
Federal prosecutor moves to tie Daugherty to a larger deal as the trial enters its first week. The action aims to reveal connections and secure cooperation. Court proceedings continue with several key witnesses expected.
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Daugherty
Deal
Smith Named In Daugherty Miller Conspiracy Trial
United Press reports the second week of the Daugherty Miller conspiracy trial links Harry M Daugherty to the case. Jesse Smith, a nonofficial but influential figure near Daugherty, is shown coordinating department employees and trips to New York with Daugherty and Miller. Evidence ties Smith to meetings with Richard Merton and John T King over Corress negotiations and the recovery of 7 million dollars in American Metal assets seized as alien property.
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E. W. Lewis
United Press Star
Wow Yor
Daugherty-Miller
Harry M Daugherty
Jesse Smith
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Department
Smith
Thomas W. Miller
New York
Richard Merton
Frankfort
Germany
John T. King
King
Merton
American Metal Company
Atlien
Alma Grubb sues father for six years wages
Miss Alma Grubb of New Philadelphia filed suit in common pleas court to recover 4680 dollars from her father G. W. Grubb. She claims six years of wages for managing his shoe store at fifteen dollars per week.
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New Philadelphia
Alma Grubb
Common Pleas Court
G. W. Grubb
Mysterious Death Probed in Lancaster Youth
George Sheldon Ritter, 13, son of a Fairfield farmer, returned home on his wagon with brain concussion and died the next day. Coroner probes suggest no external marks, as investigators review the incident.
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Lancaster
Orflelaja
George Sheldon Ritter
Mw, Ritter
Fairfield
Radio Operator Sought For Part In Where Was Aimee
United Press reports Los Angeles district attorney Asa Keyes seeks Kenneth Ormiston a former Angelus Temple radio operator to complete the cast in the Aimee Semple McPherson disappearance case the plan centers on a courtroom finale charging conspiracy to defeat justice with five year sentences.
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Dan Campbell
United Press
Los Angeles
Calif
Asa Keyes
Kenneth G. Ormiston
Angelus Temple
Keyes
Ormision
Craig Kennedys
Hollywood
Aimee Semple McPherson
Venice Beach
Aimee Semple MacPherson
Ailver Screen
Worst Hurricane Strikes Florida Card
Severe hurricane sweeps Florida cutting Miami and Miami Beach off from the world by telegraph and telephone. Water fills Miami Beach to three feet and a causeway to the mainland to six feet. East Coast trains halted for at least a week as damage reported widespread.
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Jacksonville
Fla
IGUP
Miami
Miami Beach
Florida
Texas
Miners Scent an Attack on Union
The United Mine Workers reported a planned first effort to break the union in Eastern Ohio by Valley Camp Coal Co for early next week at Lucy mine. Union officials say workers at Lucy mine should be under the Jacksonville scale, contingent on three Elm Grove mines also being placed on that basis.
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Bellaire
United Mine Workers
Ohio
Valley Camp Coal Company
Lucy Mine
Lucy
Jacksonville
Elm Grove
Gorsline Says He Will Reveal Guarded Secret
State seeks full story of Hall-Mills witness as Gorsline declares he would disclose a guarded secret. The wartime era case draws scrutiny and public interest as authorities pursue the sought testimony and groundwork details.
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Gorsline
Hall - Mills
Plead Not Guilty In Hall Murder Case Chronology
In Somerville New Jersey United Press reports the state seeks Ralph Gorsling the vestryman to disclose the Pete Love affair details of Rev Edward Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills choir singer. Frances Stevens Hall and three relatives arraigned plead not guilty with bail set at 340000 and 15000 previously.
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N. J
United Press
Pete
Edward WW. Hall
Eleanor Mills
Ralph V. Gorsling
Hall
Joonune
Gorsline
Frances Stevens Hall
Dyer and Temmer
Henry
Willie Stevens
Henry de
Old Ohio University Feature in Messenger Magazine
The first page of today’s Messenger magazine section highlights Ohio University’s 129th year. It includes a history of growth, a modern university article, faculty additions, and features on historic buildings and early leaders.
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Old Ohio
Ohio University
Allegheny Mountains
Bryan
Today's Messenger
Affection of His Wife Is Lost Suit Filed in Athens County
Harry Sycks sues Clyde L. Jones in Common Pleas Court Athens seeking 50000 damages for alienating his wife Minnie Sycks. Attorneys Whitcraft and Ricketts of Logan represent the plaintiff. Petition states marriage occurred March 1916 and cites alleged acts around September 1925 including intimacy, gifts, notes, and letters as causing the alienation and loss of comfort and affection.
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Harry Sycks
Common -Pleas Court
Athens County
Clyde L. Jones
Jones
Minnie Sycks
Whitcraft and Ricketts of
Logan
Sycks
Aimee Semple McPherson’s rapid rise to fame and wealth
NEA Service recalls Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson rising from obscurity in Los Angeles to wealth exceeding a million dollars in just over three years. The article highlights her intense faith, ambitious drive, and Barnum style showmanship as she becomes one of the world’s best known evangelists.
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Dan Thomas
NEA
Service
Service, Inc
Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
McPherson
John the Baptist
P. T. Barnum
Former Foes Reach Accord on Peacetime Terms
Former adversaries finalize a peacetime agreement entailing bond sales and troop withdrawals. The accord outlines phased demobilization and financial measures as both sides seek stable postwar relations.
Briand Stresemann Secret Pact Aims Cash For Reparations
Berlin reports a secret talk near the Swiss frontier between French Foreign Minister Briand and German Foreign Minister Stresemann. They reportedly planned 390 million dollars of German railway bonds sold mainly in New York to fund reparations cash. Proposals include reducing French occupation of the Rhineland and allowing Germany to buy the Saar coal mines for 50 million.
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Berlin
Germany
France
Aristide Briand
Gustav Stresemann
Rhineland
Saar Valley
War Veteran Seeks Hospitality for Family in Belgium
A German army officer who was aided by a Ghent area family during the war returned this summer and asked that they host his family again. He stated he was well treated and offered to pay for their hospitality.
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Brussels
Belgium
Ghistelles
Indians Kidnap Telegraph Operator In Yaqui War
Yaqui Indians on the warpath in Sonora Mexico kidnapped Manuel Encinas a telegraph operator at Corral and took him to a Yaqui stronghold in the mountains according to a Guaymas dispatch to the Nogales International Encinas cried for protection as he was seized by renegade tribesmen.
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Nogales
Ariz
U.R
Sonora
Mex
Manuel Encinas
Corral
Guaymas
Nogales International
Encinas
Armed squad to fight mashers in Salt Lake City
In Salt Lake City a 12 man gun squad armed with sawed off shotguns will chase mashers. The police chief Joseph Burbridge says officers will "treat 'em rough" and will shoot to kill if necessary.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Joseph Burbridge
Predict Important Financial Moves
Washington reports that with Secretary Mellon’s homecoming officials expect key steps in international finance. France may ratify the Franco American debt treaty this fall. Moves toward an international loan would discount Germanys reparations and provide France with more cash for its share.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
France
Germany
Wife to Continue Cry for Liquor
Chicago reveals a motherly woman, Mrs Brennan, will campaign for her injured husband George Brennan, Democratic Senatorial candidate, sharing his anti prohibition stance. Her first public appearance is slated for a Democratic rally on September 28.
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Chicago
U.R
George B. Brennan
Hag
Brennan
One Hundred Radio Stations to Broadcast Agriculture Programs
Washington reports that 100 stations nationwide will start broadcasting agriculture programs for farmers on October 1. Forty stations will air noon day flashes on variety problems, twenty five will run the U S Radio Farm school, and others will present agriculture features including Aunt Sammy and a weekly farm digest.
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Washington
U. S
Dad
Sam
Sammy
Mexican bandits in Rosenthal case shot to death
President Coolidge hailed Mexico for quick punishment of bandits in the Rosenthal murder. Mexican authorities reported six suspects killed and three captured, including a former mayor, as federal troops pursued the gang near Huitzteac.
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Mexico
Raymond Clapper
United Press
Weiter
Coolidge
Washington
Jacob Rosenthal
Antistics
Callies
United States
Huttzbac
Schoenfelt
Offtelsis
Mexico City
Rosenthal
Huitzteac
Ohio Valley Weather Forecast Limited to Cloudiness and Showers
The forecast for the Ohio Valley calls for considerable cloudiness with occasional showers. Cooler Monday and temperatures generally below normal thereafter, with a rise near the end of the period expected.
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Ohio Valley
They Never Knew serial to start Monday
The Messenger will debut its new serial They Never Knew by Tom Sims on Monday for about twenty five days. Each chapter includes a summary of prior events and promises lively fall reading before the winter fiction program begins in late October.
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the Messenger
Tom Sims
Tom
Messenger
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