Tragic Fashionable Study Club Fire Kills Many in Detroit
In Detroit on September 20 a fire at the Fashionable Study Club cabaret killed 16 and injured 65 as guests fled amid chaos after a tango and a logan show. Four club employees died while attempting to restore order. Police arrested proprietor Martin Cohen on negligent homicide charges, while officials ruled out a bomb and cited a cigarette spark as a probable cause.
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Detroit
Mich
U.P
Study Club
Martin Cohen
Fire destroys main plant at National Lime & Stone quarry
A night fire gutted the National Lime & Stone Company main building near Bluffton within the corporation line. Officials place the loss at 350000 dollars and note the blaze occurred during the night.
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Bluffton
National Lime & Stone Company
Corporation
Athens Messenger Publishes Health and Beauty Booklet
The Washington Information Bureau compiled a booklet on care for hair eyes teeth hands face and figure to develop poise and personality. A copy is available to every reader for postage and handling with coupon.
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Washington Information Bureau
Writer With Lindbergh Describes Florida Straits Flight
SYLVESTER McDOWELL reports aboard Colonel Lindbergh's plane en route from Miami to Havana during a South American tour. The craft carried seven passengers and a four member crew, with Ed Musick as co pilot and Mrs. Lindbergh aboard. Passengers watched a P. & O. steamer as they cleared the straits, noting the noise level and the casual luncheon aboard. President Lindbergh faced the press and the voyage schedule shifted from the 13th to avoid the superstition.
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Sylvester McDowell
United Press
Colonel Lindbergh
Miami
South America
Florida Straits
Pan-American Airways
Lindbergh
Ed Musick
Our Disgraces Birkenhead Is Here Unconvincible Lindbergh
A dramatic clash centers on Birkenhead and Lindbergh as public figures weigh in on John D. in a contentious fight over reputation and influence. Names and roles anchor the unfolding struggle.
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Lindbergh
Birkenhead
John D
National Disgraces Warned By Experts On Childbirth
The piece cites illiteracy, bootleggers, organized crime, and usury as national failings. It highlights the American obstetricians group stating the U S has the highest maternity death rate in the civilized world with sixty five percent of deaths due to preventable conditions like nephromia and toxemia. It calls for government action in safe childbirth comparable to agricultural interests in livestock.
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Federal Reserve
American Association of Obstetricians
Abdominal Surgeons
Birkenhead Lo rs Enter U S Entered Business
The Earl of Birkenhead secretary of state for India who left government service to start a business is currently in the United States. He criticizes the British Labour Government as being for state. continued on age four.
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Earl OF Birkenhead
India
United States
Lord Birkenhead
Romance Waits 35 Years Then They Wed in Marion
Louise Vollmer, 56, of Columbus, and James E. Sims, 66, of Marion, married in a quiet home ceremony after a long romance that began 35 years ago in New Washington. Obstacles included Sims caring for his invalid step-sister who later died, uniting the couple at last. The Rev. W C Bowman officiated with Matilda Vollmer as witness.
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Marion
U.P
Louise FE. Vollmer
Columbus
James E. Sims
Sims
Mr. Sims
New Washington
W. C. Bowman
Second Pilgrim Holiness Church
Matilda Vollmer
Philadelphia
Frank Reed Whiteside
Whiteside
Endurance Plane Flight Ends With Heroic Repair Attempt
In Buffalo on September 20 the Buffalo Evening News plane completed 197% hours aloft despite a dangerous repair by Dale Dryer who climbed a rope ladder from a second craft to fix a stabilizer wire and jumped clear by parachute before the fuselage hole forced a landing.
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Buffalo
N. Y
U.R
Buffalo Evening News
Dale Dryer
Peacox trial resumes as he confesses murder
In White Plains court Capt. Michael Silverstein resumes detailing Earl Peacox's confession of killing his young wife Dorothy. The witness describes the apartment scuffle and how Peacox struck her with a revolver butt and choked her, with the defense claiming insanity and the state arguing premeditation.
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White Plains
N. Y
Michael Silverstein
Mount Vernon
Earl F. Peacox
Dorothy
Supreme Court
Silverstein
Peacox
Racine Man Shoots Himself in Arm During Hunt
Reed Circle, 35, a former stock buyer, was injured at his home near Racine when a gun discharged while he was hunting. The wound mangled his left arm and required amputation below the elbow at Holzer Hospital Gallipolia. This marked the first hunting season accident reported in Meigs County.
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Racine
Reed Circle
Equirrela
Here
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolia
Meigs County
Scotch barber buys bargain bills at drugstore window
Peoria shoppers eyed ten one-dollar bills labeled Special Bargain 89 Cents for hours. A Scotch barber on his way to church entered the store and purchased all the bills. Net profit to him 1.10 dollars.
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Peoria
U.P
Kentucky Book Scandal Indicts Governor and Commission
Eight indited in Kentucky for accepting gifts from textbook publishers including Ginn and Company. Gov Sampson and seven state Textbook Commission members face charges amid allegations publishers supplied samples and gifts for school contracts. Columbus Ginn and Company officials call the situation inexplicable as they oversee Ohio Kentucky West Virginia sales.
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Columbus
Flem D. Sampson
Kentucky
State Textbook ‘Commission
Ginn and Company
Columbus Textbook Publishers
Kentucky Public Schools
Textbook Commission
Sampson
Commission
United Press
Alee
West Virginia
Ohio
Plane crash claims four lives near Tulare
In Tulare California a plane crashed during an attempted stunt killing two McNiel brothers Roy and Floyd and Sylvester Gregborg Avon IM. Norfolk Virginia a Langley Field crash killed Capt Charles Palmer Clark 43 while Major Henry J Miller survived with minor injuries as the craft overturned after a wheel sank in soft ground
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Tulare
8. D
U.P
Here
Roy
Floyd McNiel
Sylvester Gregborg
Avon
Norfolk
Langley Field
Charles Palmer Clark
Henry J. Miller
Miller
Plane Missing Between Toulouse And Casablanca
Morocco dispatches report wreckage found along the beach between Mera and Zegra identified as parts of the Toulouse to Casablanca aero postal plane. Four French passengers and the pilot are feared dead or missing as search continues.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Aero Postal
Mera
Zegra
Film Truce Seen as American Victory in Paris
Paris reports a signed film truce between French and American producers nearing approval by the French Cinema Control Commission. French press and theatres, long deprived of American features during an eleven month dispute, hail the accord as a victory for the United States.
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Paris
French
Cinema Control Commission
Geauga County Bribe Claims Taint Bainbridge Track Donations
Cleveland news reports Joseph E. Johnson of the Geauga County Law Enforcement League accuses Bainbridge Race Track owner Thomas J. McGinty of donating over 50 000 to Geauga County and Bainbridge Township as bribes for racing concessions. McGinty defends payments as taxes and local improvements, while Johnson calls them bribes.
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Cleveland
U.R
Bainbridge Race Track
Hambridge Township
Geauge County
Joseph E. Johnson Middlefield
Geauge County Law Enforcement League
Johnson
Chardon Republican Record
Thomas J. Mc- Ginty
McGinty
Charlies
Geauga
Bainbridge Township
Geauga County
Thomas Jay
Chardon
Bainbridge
Slippery Road Tragedy Claims Homer K. Johnson
Details from a Virginia report say a car driven by Homer K. Johnson of Athens skidded on a rain slick near Fairfax Court House. The vehicle hit a telephone pole. Johnson died after arrival at Alexandria hospital, his wife injured.
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Detalla
Homer K. Johnson
A. L. Johnson
Athens
Ruth Baker Taylor
Alexandria
Taylor
Fred R. Baker
Fisher
Johnson
Fairfax C. H
Human Cannon Ball Injured At Exposition
Springfield reports Capt. Wiino known as a human cannonball was severely injured at the Eastern States Exposition. He failed to emerge from the cannon after the powder charge exploded, and the injury is described as probably fatal.
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Springfield
Wiino
Coast Guard and Rum Runner Exchange 700 Shots on Lake Ontario
On Lake Ontario near Pultneyville the armored rum runner and Coast Guard Picket-Heat 2330 exchanged seven hundred shots. The Coast Guard vessel, after firing 650 rounds and taking heavy damage, abandoned pursuit and returned to Rochester.
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Coast Guard
Lake Ontario
Rochester
N. Y
U.P
Summerville
Howard Vesey
Vesey
Pultneyville
N.Y
Edsel Ford Trophy 1929 National Air Tour Starts Oct 6
Captain Ray Collins named tour manager for the 1929 Edsel B. Ford Trophy air tour. About 40 entries will visit 32 offices in the United States and Canada. The tour begins October 6 in Detroit and ends October 21 there.
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Ray Collins
United States
Canada
Detroi
Landscape Artist Is Shot To Death
Havana dispatch reports a landscape artist fatally shot as the scene centers on U.S. military officials led by Col. Charles A Lindbergh inaugurating air service to Dutch Guiana. The tri motor flight from Miami covered 260 miles in good time with 11 aboard including Mrs. Lindbergh and Pan American Airways officials.
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Havana
Cuba
Charlies A. Lindbergh
Dutch Guiana
Miami
Fla
Florida Straits
Lindbergh
Pan American Airways
Textile strike defendant escapes from McDowell jail
Marion North Carolina September 20 J Hugh Ball one of six defendants in the conspiracy and insurrection trial at McDowell County Jail escaped during the proceedings his sudden flight brought court to a halt and interrupted the case
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Marion
N. C
J. Hugh Ball
McDowell County
Why Minnie Got Peeved and Sued
New York report details Mrs Minnie Ershowsky alleging her husband Barney a wealthy realty dealer offered to swap her for the wife of a friend in a noted social gathering He claimed an uneven trade and she objects in court citing the incident and remarks by the husband to his friend A M Nevrowich The alleged offer valued at 560000 as part of the proposed swap
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New York
Minnie Ershowsky
Barney
Man Electrocuted At Bryan Plant
Alexander Stockton aged 21 was electrocuted when his hand touched a 2300 volt tension line at a Bryan plant. Fellow worker Robert Weber cut the line before Stockton could be released.
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Bryan
U.P
Alexander Stockton
Robert Weber
Stockton
Geologists Missing in Quest for Copper Deposits Near Hudson Bay
An expedition led by Col. C. D. H. McAlpine and colleagues vanished in the barren Arctic region near Hudson Bay after taking off from Coronation Gulf. Two planes with pilots and five men, including Canadian geographers, were last heard from more than a week ago as winter gales close in and rescue efforts begin with dog sleds and snowshoes if weather permits.
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Winnipeg
Mann
Au.p
Hudson Bay
Col. C. D. H. McAlpine
Dominion Exploy Club
Alex Reading
Broadway
Geo
A. Thompson
McMillan
Athabasca
Alberta
Canada
McAlpine
Samuel Horne
Horne
Coronation Gulf
Arctic Ocean
Hce
Drought Hits Six States with 150 Million Loss in Crops
Six midwestern states Illinois Nebraska South Dakota Iowa Kansas Missouri estimate drought toll at more than 150 million dollars as rain returns little moisture. Nebraska alone loses about 196.9 million bushels of corn from a predicted 292.3 million to 192.3 million in sixty days at 93 cents a bushel.
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Chicago
Illinois
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
A. F E. Anderson
Broad Probe Expands on Shipbuilding Lobbying Activities
The Senate Naval Sub Committee broadened its inquiry beyond the 1927 Geneva Conference to cover all lobbying by shipbuilding companies for the past five years. Senator Allen of Kansas urged the expansion as the investigation into William M. Shearer’s lobbying activities proceeds.
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Washington
Rept
Senate Naval Sub-Committee
Allen
Kansas
Hoover
William 4H. Shearer
Novelists Visit Roseville Guests Of Mowery In New Lexington
A group of noted American novelists will visit Roseville near New Lexington on November 15. They will stay at the home of J. H. Mowery, hosted by his brother William Byron Mowery, author of Heart of the North. The writers are touring the United States.
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New Lexington
Roseville
Here
William Byron Mowery
J. H. Mowery
United States
North
Nome
Alaska
Air Fleet Plans Debated by League of Nations
The Preparatory Disarmament Commission instructed M. Cassin to prepare proposals and a report on creating an international air fleet for the next Assembly. He should include recommendations for a Geneva airdrome location, with an expert civilian aviator committee to advise him.
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Geneva
W.P
Preparatory Disarmament Commission
League of Nations
M. Cassin
League of Nations Assembly
Cassin
Blue and Gray Transit to Take Over Two Companies
Columbus Sept 20 The Blue and Gray Transit Company which operates over 13 500 miles in the United States will take over the Interstate Motor Transit Company and the Cannon Ball Motor Transportation Company on Sept 25.
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Columbus
Blue and Gray Transit Company
United
Interstate Motor Transit Company
Cannon Ball Motor Transportation Company
Storm claims thirty lives in Jalisco wreck
Fifty or more people were aboard a motor boat when it was wrecked near Villarta in Jalisco during a Pacific storm. Thirty persons were drowned, with reports indicating a high number of survivors or missing. Police and rescue teams searched the area as authorities ponder casualty figures and safety measures.
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Mexico City
U.R
Pacific Coast
Villarta
Jalisco
la Prensa
Public Opinion 12 Needed for Navy Program
Washington reports show administration mobilizing public sentiment to back naval arms limitation amid suspicions of opposition in Congress and abroad. Prime Minister MacDonald may visit soon to dramatize the effort and rally support while Senate probes big navy propaganda.
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LYL
C. Wilson United
Washington
Congress
Paris
Rome
Hoover
MacDonald
Stimson
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Tita
Complete Tuxedo Suit For Sale And Nearby Rentals
Classifieds note a complete tuxedo suit for sale a 96 acre farm with team tools and all livestock furnished for rent a modern close in house for rent and a call for visitors at the Sunset Dahlia Garden on Sunday all in The Messenger Classified Page ads.
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Messenger
Sunset Dahlia Garden
the Messenger
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