Clara Bow Denies Debts in Nevada Casino Debacle
Hollywood actress Clara Bow declined to discuss gambling debt allegations involving a Nevada Camera resort, denying any rightful debts. Resort owner James McKay said four checks totaling about 13,960 were written by a woman posing as Bow with associates claiming to be Will Rogers and Marie Dressler, while Dressler denied involvement. Attorneys indicated Nevada law may prevent collecting disputed gambling losses.
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Hollywood
Calif
Clara Bow
Nevada
Miss Bow
Camnera
Lake Tahoe
Paramount Studio
James McKay
Camera Resort
Reno
Will Rogers
Marie Dressler
Louise Dressler
Lightnin
Miss Dressler
Rogers
McKay
Thatcher
Woodburn
B. P. Schulberg
Paramount
Night of Prayer at St Peter's Cathedral Draws 1500 Crowds
In Omaha 1500 worshippers filled St Peter's Catholic Cathedral for a nocturnal vigil of expiation as part of the Nocturnal Adoration Society. The Holy Eucharistic Congress continued with delegates and a major climax planned for Creighton Stadium with Cardinal Mundelein in charge.
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St. Peter’s Cathedral
Omaha
Nebr
U.R
St. Peter’s Catholic
Holy Name Society
Creighton University
Congress
Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Martin T. Manion
United States Court of Appeals
New York City
Pius XI
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi
Metropolitan buys Van Eyck Annunciation for $9000 in Paris
Andrew Metlon purchases Jan Van Eyck painting Annunciation from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad for $9000, a move reported by Paris art circles.
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Paris
Andrew Metlon
Jan van Eyck
Hermitage
Leningrad
Athens Messenger Promotes Handy Letter Writer Booklet
The Athens Messenger announces a new Handy Letter Writer booklet available for ten cents plus postage. A teacher praises its value for students preparing for positions and letters of application, offering to mail copies to enclosed addresses using the coupon.
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Herc
Athens Messenger
College of Business and Administration
Handy Letter Writer
Good business on lakes predicted by regional board
Toledo reports say the Great Lakes area will see an upswing in 1980 from a low point. Grain shipments are expected to rise sharply this year with totals around 70 000 carloads, including 28 000 grain carloads, up from last year.
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Toledo
U.R
Great Lakes
William E. Maloney
Buffalo Corn Exchange
Grain Committee
Advisory Board
Maloney
Today Its Dark Dawn Will Come
A brief item notes a harsh warning about Russian aggression framed as a fight racket theme. The phrasing hints at a wartime or propaganda tone with dramatic rhetoric suggesting ongoing conflict dynamics and political tension.
Wall Street Laments Early Week Drop in 1930
The market opens weak with heavy minus signs as cotton and wheat fall to low 1930 prices. Analysts brace for the worst third quarter corporate earnings, while observers hint at a possible dawn after a dark period. The piece cautions that the most fearful investor has the most to fear.
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Wall Street
Government wheat buying predicted to lower prices
A spring column argued that government wheat purchases would aid grain elevator builders by adding to carryover and lowering winter wheat prices. The forecast has proven true as wheat fell to the lowest price in 24 years on Monday.
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Chicago Exchange
Russia
Dickey Studies Quah aribos in South America and Red Howler
Herbert Spencer Dickey reports a tribe of pale yellow Quah aribos in South America and hopes to locate a White Indian tribe next year. He also brings a Red Howler monkey, pondering its red color and howl as a product of natural selection.
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Herbert Spencer Dickey
South America
Asia
Dickey
Adam and Eve
Thomas C. Robinson Dies in Logan at 63
Thomas C. Robinson 63 of Butte Mont died at Cherrington Hospital from Brights Disease after a week of illness. Eldest son of Seth and unnamed mother, he came to Logan in 1929 to live with his mother and worked 1% years as superintendent of Anaconda Copper Mines. He leaves his mother in Logan and two sisters in New Castle Wyoming and Athens, with his wife having died eight years ago in Butte. Funeral pending word from Wyoming sister.
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Logan
Thomas C. Robinson
Butte
Mont
Cherrington Hospital
Bright
Seth Robinson
Fairfield County
Anaconda
L. ©. Thoerning
New Castle
Wyo
Joe L. Hutchins
Athens R. D
Montana
Wyoming
Rivalry Between Executives Behind Western Maryland Tragedy
The story centers on Dudley G. Gray and Maxwell C. Byers, railroad leaders, whose feud culminated in Byers being shot by Gray and Gray killing himself in the Western Maryland Railroad offices. Witnesses describe a long running policy dispute and mutual hostility that plagued boardroom relations.
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Baltimore
U.P
Dudley G. Gray
Maxwell C. Byers
Western Maryland Railroad
Byers
Gray
Railroad
Bvery
Maryland
Great Northern
Amended petition charges Bethlehem with fraud in merger suit
An amended petition filed in Common Pleas Court accuses Bethlehem Steel of fraud in the merger between Youngstown Sheet and Tube and Bethlehem Steel. The action targets the injunction brought by Cyrus S. Eaton to block the deal.
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Youngstown
U.P
Cyrus
Eaton
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Common Pleas Court
Bethlehem
Bobby Jones Triumph Over Canadian Star in Amateur Match
Bobby Jones of Atlanta defeated C Ross Somerville of Canada 5 and 4 in the National Amateur Championship first round. George Von Elm beat Charles Hunter 6 up 5 to play at Merion while Charles Reckner defeated J Wood Platt 3 up 2 to play and George Voigt beat Lester Bolstad 2 up 1 to play.
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Merion
Lester Bolstad
St. Paul
Bobby Jones
Atlanta
C. Ross Somerville
Canada
Dry for Good in Washington Amid Prohibition Debate
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, co author of the Eighteenth Amendment, declared today that prohibition sentiment remains strong nationwide. He dismissed recent primary victories by anti prohibitionists as irrelevant and stated that repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment is as unlikely as a hummingbird flying to Mars with the Washington Monument.
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Washington
U.P
Morris Sheppard
Dem
Texas
Sheppard
Mars
Washington Monument
Samuel Meyer Kelly Enrolled at Wooster College
Wooster news notes Samuel Meyer Kelly of 42 Second Street Athens is among students enrolled at Wooster College for the first semester.
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Kelly
Wooster Wooster
Samuel Meyer Kelly
Second Street
Athens
Wooster College
Denison Withdraws Objection to Wittenberg Reinstatement
Denison University, via athletic director Walter Livingston, withdrew its objection to Wittenberg College rejoining the Buckeye Athletic Association. Livingston noted Denison would not play Wittenberg this year or next and requires proof of changed athletic practices before resuming contests. Other BAA members voted yes to reinstatement.
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Granville
Denison University
Walter Livingston
Wittenberg College
Buckeye Athletic Association
Denison
Livingston
Wittenberg
Ohio University
Athens
Ohio Wesleyan
Delaware
Miami
Oxford
Cincinnati University
Son Shoots Father in Milwaukee Waiting on Porch
In Milwaukee Wisconsin 19 year old William Phillips admits killing his father Joseph Phillips with a shotgun after waiting on the front porch for hours. He told officers he planned to kill when the father returned from a liquor party and feared abuse at home. His mother Mary Phillips corroborated the account from the County Jail cell. Authorities say the fatal shot was fired as the elder Phillips stepped from his car.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Willam Phillips
Joseph
Zach
William
Philipa
Mary Phillips
Prohibition Verdict to be Sought by Commission
Washington asks whether prohibition is enforceable as Kenneth Mackintosh, a Hoover aide and member of the Law Enforcement Commission, requests the October 8 meeting decide if enforcement is feasible. If not, he aims to suggest alternatives while the panel previously limited itself to enforcement proposals.
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Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Washington
Kenneth Mackintosh
Mackintosh
Washington State
Justice Department
Prohibition Bureau
Commission
Ohio University Band to Open Fall With Get Together Concert
The Ohio University Band directed by Professor Curtis W. Janasen mounts its fall program with a campus get together concert on Thursday at 8 o'clock in the amphitheater under the elms. Student conductor Russell Unkrich will be soloist as the band performs Sousa and Schubert marches, a Melihero piece, novelty numbers, and a national anthem to close.
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Ohio University Band
Curtis W. Janasen
Ohio University
Athens
Russell Unkrich
Washington Post
Sousa
eGee Wood
Franz Shubert
M. L. Lake
Shubert-Romberg
Stein
Colcord-Fenstad
Monteray
Rosq-Wayne
Death of Edwin Earhart Follows Amelia Earhart Visit
Edwin S. Earhart Los Angeles attorney died in Glendale Calif shortly after his daughter Amelia Earhart left for New York. Earhart had shown improvement before a relapse and death occurred within hours. Funeral services are planned for tomorrow in Glendale.
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Glendale
Calif
U.P
Edwins. Earhart
Los Angeles
Amelia Earhart
New York
Miss Earhart
MRS ODell Dies. Ohio University Matron Remembered
Mrs Jennie ODell 66 longtime Athens matron for sororities and dormitories died at University Hospital from complications of illnesses. Illness began Friday while visiting Mrs Emma Battin. funeral Thursday at 2 pm at Mrs Andrew Murphy's home conducted by Rev C M Coulter. Burial in Belpre.
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Jennie O'Dell
Ohio University
University Hospital
O’ Dell
Emma
O'Dell
Athens
Pi Delta Theta Sorority
Howard Hall
Lindley Hall
Alpha Sigma Alpha Sorority
KR. L. O'Dell
Chicago
Andrew Murphy
East Mill Street
C. M. Coulter
Belpre
Murphy
Knights Parade Dazzles Conclave City in Cleveland
In Cleveland on September 24 a parade of 10 000 Knights Templar flashed gold and silver swords in a million dollar display. Frank N. Ransbottom of Zanesville served as Grand Captain General as Ohio’s 40 fraternal bands performed along Euclid Avenue.
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Cleveland
U.R
Knights
Knights ‘Templar
Wilram L. Sharpe
Chicagio
Youth 13 Shuts in Gun Battle With Officers
Three Columbus youths, aged 16 to 17, were captured by Athens County deputies in the McVey Settlement ravine, suspected of gas station and store holdups around Columbus. One suspect Eugene Levy, 76, wounded in the shoulder after firing on deputies, is hospitalized. two others, Roy Grear 17 and Howard Skiver 16, held in Athens County jail awaiting return to Columbus. Officers say Levy’s guns jammed, saving the deputy’s life. a knife was seen on one captive. Adela Skiver of Columbus held as accomplice in the Rome filling station robbery. The trio may be linked to three other robberies and a stolen car from Columbus attorney Frank Spira.
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Columbus
Athens County
Fred Heck
Wilseon Afor
McVey Settlement
Athena
Eugene Levy
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Heck
Levy
Roy Grear
Howard Skiver
Athena County
Ator
Greer
Skiver
Rome
M. ©. Johnson
Athens
Adela Skiver
Frank Spira
Inside Facts On Theodre Roosevelt Path To Presidency
Philadelphia records recount an alleged inside story of Roosevelt’s rise based on statements from Judge Charles L. Brown. The piece cites late Senator Penrose and Matt Quay as key actors seeking revenge on Mark Hanna and to block Roosevelt, with ties to McKinley’s Brights Disease and reform politics.
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Philadelphia
U.R
The
Philadelphia Record Today
Richard J. Beamish
Charles L. Brown
Theaodore Roosevelt
Boise Penrose
Matt Quay
Pennsylvania
McKinley
Quay
Penrose
Mark Hanna
Premer
Thomas Pla
New York
Roosevelt
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