Unemployment Conference Aims to Forge National Work Plan
President Harding opens a national unemployment conference in Washington to spark a voluntary organization to provide jobs for millions. Secretary Hoover urges prompt action and calls for county and city leaders, employers, and labor to form the effort, with aims including school construction, home building, utility projects, roadwork, and irrigation to curb layoffs. The story notes 1.5 million school children lack adequate schools and housing shortages exceed one million.
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Herbert W. Walker
United Press
Washington
Harding
Commerce Hoover
Hoover
United States Employment Service
Legion Dance for the American Legion Band Jubilee
An American Legion jubilee and dance to benefit the Legion Band will be held next Saturday October 1. Legion men promise excellent features and invite all to attend.
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Legion
American Legion
Wright and Major Bane urge purchase of German dirigible
Orville Wright and Major T. Bane of McCook Field signed recommendations urging the government to buy a German built dirigible to replace the ill fated ZR 2 in Dayton Ohio.
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Dayton
Orville Wright
McCook Field
British police search Irish ports for arms on incoming steamers
Dublin reports say British police secretly patrol the entrances of Irish ports to search incoming steamers for arms. Passengers claim their hips were searched as authorities allege Sinn Fein is arming and fear renewed republican drilling and possible outbreak.
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Dublin
Sinn Fein
Dietz executive found dead in Cincinnati shooting
Herbert Dietz aged 49, second vice-president of J. F. Dietz office furniture, was found dead with a self-inflicted bullet wound in Cincinnati. Coroner D. H. Handley says Dietz was despondent and separated from his wife for about four months.
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Cincinnati
Herbert Dietz
J. F
Providence shooting wounds woman then man commits suicide
Antone Rodrick, 26, shot Mary Souza in the street as she walked to work in Providence R I. He then killed himself, leaving Mrs. Souza seriously wounded.
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Providence
R. L
Antone Rodrick
Mary Souza
Manuel Souza
Daylight Saving Ends in New York State
Albany reporter notes daylight saving time ends at 2 a m tomorrow in New York when clocks are set back one hour.
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Albany
N. Y
New York State
Steel mills to resume in district Monday
The most extensive resumption of steel mills in this district since last November is scheduled for Monday.
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Warren
Gompers Called To Assist Miners In Their Battle
Samuel Gompers arrived in Indianapolis at the invitation of John L. Lewis to urge unity among organized labor amid miner union disputes. The leaders discussed unemployment and the US government’s upcoming unemployment conference in Washington. They also reviewed a court suit by Borderland Coal Corporation against United Mine Workers officers and members over activities in West Virginia and Kentucky fields.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Denver
Gompers
Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Borderland Coal Corporation
Thacker and Williamson
Mingo County
West Virginia
Pike County
Kentucky
Belfast Rioting Continues Through Night After Bomb Blast
In Belfast on September 24 rioting erupted after a bomb on Harland Street. Gunmen controlled Newstons Road area rail station and river bridges while civilians panicked in tramcars. Military armored cars fired to disperse rioters who fled by dawn leaving one civilian dead.
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Belfast
Harland Street
East Side
Newstons Road
Citizns
Mediation Offers Hope to End Burgenland Dispute
Vienna reports both sides agreed to concessions in talks to resolve the Burgenland conflict. Austrian Chancellor Dr Shoder announced Czecho Slovakia and Yugoslavia sent Hungary an ultimatum demanding evacuation by today or face war. Hungary entered rapid negotiations seeking a mediation basis with mutual concessions.
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Vienna
Burgenland
Shoder
Czecho-Slovakia
Jugoslavia
Hungary
Same Old Story Repeated in Accident Near Dayton
Police and deputies seek the identity of an autoist who struck the car of O. L. Stingle and wife of Sabina on the Xenia highway last night. The driver sped away after leaving the couple unconscious in the road. they were found and sent to a hospital in Dayton. Both are expected to recover. their car was wrecked.
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Dayton
O. L. Stingle
Sabina
Xenia
Woodside Re-elected National Commander of VFW
Captain Robert G. Woodside of Pittsburgh was re-elected national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He defeated Colonel T. L. Huston of New York for the post.
Arbuckle Case Sees Witness Swing in Testimony
In San Francisco on September 24 the state’s case against Roscoe Arbuckle encounters a setback as Al Semnacher, Miss Virginia Rappe’s manager, testifies for Arbuckle. Semnacher had described Arbuckle applying ice to Rappe’s body in Arbuckle’s room. The testimony continues with the judge awaiting further proceedings beyond Monday.
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M. D. Tracy
United Press
San Francisco
Roscoe Arbuckle
al Semnacher
Virginia Rappe
Arbuckle
Semnacher
Ambuckle
Miss Rappe
Arbuckie
Nacher
Rat Attacks Babe in Cradle in Lima
In Lima Ohio on September 24 a six month old baby, Donna Kittle, was bitten by a large rat while sleeping in her cradle. The infant, daughter of Mr and Mrs Grover Kittle, is in a dangerous condition at city hospital from infections caused by bites to her face and scalp. Parents woke to cries as a rat leaped from the crib.
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Lima, O
Donna Kittle
Grover Kittle
City Hospital
Masked youths rob Lima city car crew in outlying district
Three masked youths held up and robbed a Lima, Ohio city streetcar crew late last night. They escaped with a cash box containing thirty two dollars.
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Carmen Lima
Lima
Prospects Rise for Rail Freight Rate Cuts in Ohio
Columbus Sept 24 Prospects for reductions in railroad freight rates on agricultural products grew after the public utilities commission finished hearings on all rates except drain tile HH R Lewis Baltimore and Ohio freight manager testified that current rates are too high and predicted agreement on cuts for grain and grain products between carriers and producers.
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Columbus
Public Utilities Commission
HH. R. Lewis
Cincinnati
Baltimore and Ohio
Lost nest found in Pittsburg linked to Miller case
Pittsburg detectives traced a "Love Trail" of Clinton R. Miller, inventor, to a fashionable quarter where two wives lived and other wives were alleged. Miller was arrested amid threats to kill Mrs Pauline Welch Miller if she talked, revealing the case's latest claimed liaisons.
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Pittsburg
Clinton R. Miller
Pauline Welch Miller
Miller
Belfast Riots Prompt Armored Patrols In Street Fighting
In Belfast armored cars patrolled the streets after a night of rioting. Gunmen hid in doorways fired on crowds as fighting spread. military units cleared main corridors and restored order. Casualty figures were not yet known.
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Belfast
Lima Gas and Fuel rate case filed with PUC
City of Lima council seeks to challenge an ordinance fixing the maximum gas rate. Council represents Lima Gas and Fuel Company in the demurrer filed with the Public Utilities Commission.
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Columbus
Council
City of
Lima
Public Utilities Commission
City Council of
Lima Gas and Fuel Company
Lost and Found Ads Bring Happy Homecomings
The Messenger Watch Dog column reports a busy morning with calls about pocketbooks rings and even dogs. Ads promise swift owner reunions and buyers through Messenger want ads contact numbers 61 or 70 to place notices.
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Messenger
Western Europe learns to shield borders from plague and typhus
Paris reports Dr. Roux of the Pasteur Institute says epidemics can be checked and Western Europe protected by frontier vigilance. He urges cooperation with international relief, surveillance of Russian Polish borders, cleansing refugees, and vaccination where feasible for cholera while noting typhus serum limits.
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Wilfrid Fleisher
United Press
Paris
Russia
Europe
Roux
Pasteur Institute
Dr. Roux
Germany
Poland
Western Europe
Near East
Rope Off Street for Sick Student to Reduce Noise
Marion, Sept 24 Bira Jacoby an 18 year old freshman at Ohio Wesleyan University suffering from spinal meningitis linked to a class fight remained in serious condition. Church street near Jacoby’s home was roped off for two blocks to curb noise while boy scouts patrolled the area to prevent disturbances.
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Marion, CO
Bira Jacoby
Ohio Wesleyan University
Church Street
Jacoby
Woman Injured by Accidental Shot at Home
At 5 o clock this morning at their Sugar Creek home Mrs. C A Sutton heard a weasel in the chicken house and handed a shotgun to her husband Mr Sutton who discharged it injuring Mrs Sutton. She was taken to Copeland Howe hospital Athens where bullets passed through the hand and healed quickly at home by noon.
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Sugar Creek
C. A. Sutton
Adventures of a Union Soldier in Civil War
The narrative by Lafayette Hawk recounts enlistment at Wilkesville in 1861, service as a private with Company 36 Ohio Volunteer Infantry, reenlistment in 1864 at Chattanooga, and discharge in Columbus in 1865. He describes humble beginnings, rising through ranks to orderly sergeant as color guard and first sergeant, with four years and one month of service.
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Lafayette Hawk
Athens County
Messenger
Hawk
New Marshfield
Vinton
Meigs
Wilkesville
Ohio
Marietta
Chattanooga
Tenn
Quinet Unable To Take Care Of Seed Needs
Moscow reports warn of a famine in early next year with deaths among the poor. Soviet famine relief director M. Kamanoff says farmers lack seed for autumn planting and only two thirds of last year’s sowing amount is available in the Volga region.
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Quinet
Edwin Hullinger
United Press
Moscow
Russia
M. Kamanoff
United Press Today
Kamanoff
Volga
New Stage Now Promotes Darwinian Eugenic Plan
Major Leonard Darwin outlines a controversial new Darwinian theory advocating eugenics to elevate civilization. He calls for banning intimate relations among the criminal and physically defective, spreading sex knowledge, and careful breeding of modern people to improve the human stock and reduce the less fit.
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Leonard Darwin
Charles Darwin
The
United Press
Darwin
Miss Min d Derr to face second degree murder charge
Akron Ohio September 24 Miss Minnie Derr who confessed to killing her husband by throwing acid while he slept will be arraigned in court today on a second degree murder charge.
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Akron
Minniell. Derr
Recovery Doubtful for Mildred Hanan Shot in Brooklyn
Doctors at a Long Island hospital expressed doubt about the recovery of Mildred Hanan who was shot in a Brooklyn street yesterday by Grace Lawes. The incident has drawn local attention as police investigate motive and circumstances surrounding the firing.
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New York
Lone Island Hospital
Mildred Hanan
Brooklyn
Grace Lawes
Trust Fund Placed Under Legion Oversight
Judge Rottinger assigns a $117,000 World War era trust fund for the eighty third division to a three member committee to handle rehabilitation efforts in Ohio through the American Legion.
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Cincinnati
Stanley C. Rottinger
Ohio
American Legion
Borah vows to take fight over German peace treaty to the people
Idaho Senator Borah said he will carry his battle against the German peace treaty to the people if the senate approves the pact. He described it as the second chapter of the league of nations fight and warned that ratification would keep America in European affairs, a position he says the people will repudiate.
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Frazer Edwards
United Press
Washington
Senator Borah
Idaho
Senate
America
Germany
Borah
League of Nations
Dance Night at Lamborn's Pavilion Featured Five Piece Orchestra
Dance event at Lamborn's Pavilion in Glouster Ohio on Saturday night September 24 with a five piece orchestra providing music from 8 to 12.
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Lamborn’s Pavilion
Glouster, C
Fall Festival Climax Featured Big Parade and Prizes
crowds packed the streets for a climactic Fall Festival night with enhanced booths and a spectacular automobile parade lit by red torches. Fred Lee Tom won first prize for a U S mail truck float bearing Uncle Sam, while John Dana earned second with a Buick roadster. seven cars were decorated by the Producing Company. Athens county miners planned a parade this afternoon to showcase the valley's leading industry. In London, Premier Lloyd George proposed a Sinn Fein settlement formula seen as acceptable to both sides, with Sinn Fein's De Valera unlikely to withdraw his stand before a peace conference.
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Fred Lee Tom
U. S
Uncle Sam
John Dana
Athens County
Friendship Circle
John Hancock High School
London
Lloyd George
Sinn Fein
Egaid
Eamonn DeValera
Daily Mail
Dublin Spondent
Arthur Fith
de Valera
Ireland
Eng
Women Enter Ohio Politics Nationwide Rise in Fall Contests
Columbus reports a state wide surge of women candidates for mayor and local offices as leaders unite divisions. Miss Rore Moriarity monitors Republican efforts while Miss Mary McCurry coordinates Democratic outreach. Mrs A B Pyke runs on a clean up platform in Lakewood and Miss Mary D Br ite vies for vice mayor on a farmer labor ticket. Cincinnati lists eight women for council, with two for assessor and Cleveland leading with twenty candidates for city offices.
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Columbus
Ohio
Rore Moriarity
Republican Women’s Bureau
Mary McCurry
Middletown
Democratic
A. B. Pyke
Lakewood
Mary D. Brite
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Mary Grossman
Marie Galehri
Dover Mayor Charged With Intoxication in Court Duties
Dover authorities pursue Mayor Walter H. Schell amid complaints that he was intoxicated during at least two police court hearings and failed to cooperate with enforcement of prohibition laws. Statements were signed by Patrolmen Warren L. Boyer and Daniel Peacock.
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New Philadelphia
Walter H. Schell
Dover
T Dover
Warren L. Boyer
Daniel Peacock
Columbus
John W. Foster
Utilities Board Halts Gas Rates in Columbus Hearing Scheduled
The public utilities commission suspended natural gas service rates proposed by Wapokoneta Natural Gas Company and set November 15 for a hearing on protests filed by Wapokoneta consumers against the schedules.
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Columbus
Public Utilities Commission
Wapokoneta Natural Gas Company
Wapokoneta
State budget system to curb over-spending starts Oct 1
Governor Davis announces a quarterly budget system to prevent over-spending of state appropriations. The plan, part of a wider reorganization, aims to stop departmental waste and secure iron clad control of expenditures before they are incurred, detailing a savings evident since 1915.
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Columbus
Sogak
Devia
Davis
Orre
Crawford County Grand Jury Indicts for Sunday Shows
Crawford county grand jury returns 12 indictments against three Bucyrus moving picture houses for keeping shows open on Sundays. Indictments detail violations of Sunday closing laws and reflect local enforcement actions in Bucyrus, Ohio.
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Ree Bucyrus
Crawford County Grand Ae
Sonia
Bucyrus Moving Picture Houses
Buffalo herd to be culled in Wainwright reserve
Officials in Alberta plan to slaughter 1000 buffalo to reduce the growing herd at the Wainwright reservation which holds the last large buffalo herd in the world estimated at about 3000 animals. The meat will be distributed nationwide.
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Calgary
Alb
Wainwright
Gale
Wainwright Reservation
Fire safety plea urges care on holidays
The Athens Messenger warns against lax fire safety on Sundays and holidays. It highlights fires from firecrackers kerosene stoves and careless smoking, noting millions in property loss and injuries nationwide. The paper offers a free Fire Booklet from the National Board of Fire Underwriters via a coupon.
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United States
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Washington Informa
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