Sinn Fein Attacks Target British Officers in Cork
In Cork last night Sinn Fein pistol fire aimed at Major General Strickland wounded the chauffeur. Strickland unharmed. In Dublin the coroner halted inquests into Councillor Lynch’s death and police reprisals as Sinn Fein juries lack lawful standing. Doonbeg reports cite village reprisals and arson as mail thieves flee with 3000 pounds.
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Dublin
Strickland
Cork
Sinn Fein
Sinn
Doonbeg
Hunger Strikes Near Cork Mayor MacSwiney At Brixton
News from Brixton prison reports no condition details for Terence MacSwiney the Cork hunger striking mayor on day forty four. Rumors circulated of near death as authorities withheld information and planned for potential Ireland demonstrations. Journalists pressed for bulletins but were denied.
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London
Terence MacSwiney
Cork
Brixton Prison
MacSwiney
Ireland
Brixton Uison
Railroad Men Hurt When Bridge Jack Fails
Milton Cooper of Athens and Charles D. Cole of Bloomingburg were injured when a jack failed on a railroad bridge east of Hope. They fell about twenty five feet and were taken to Union Station in Athens for treatment. Cooper escaping serious injury but shaken, Cole believed to have internal injuries. They awaited transport to Chillicothe for hospital care.
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Milton Cooper
Athens
Charles D. Cole
Bloomingburg
Hope
Union Station
Cooper
Cole
Chillicothe
Airplane Route Planned for Transferring Fish Eggs
Vancouver BC September 25. If the US and Canada sign the pending fisheries treaty fish may be flown immediately. W A Found BC superintendent arranged for transporting Salmon fry and eggs into the upper Fraser by airplane as soon as the treaty is signed. Mule packing proved infeasible as eggs could not stand the strain.
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Vancouver
B. C
United States
Canada
W. A. Found
British Columbia
Fraser River
Opposition to select English test schools in Hawaii
In Honolulu spirited opposition arises from Chinese and Japanese residents to a territorial plan creating three selective schools for students passing an English test. They claim the policy targets race prejudice, noting public schools already have a heavy Japanese student dominance while most whites and many Hawaiians attend private schools.
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Honolulu
T. H
Territorial School Athionties
Islands
Moose Thickets Halt Autos on New Brunswick Highway
Moose are so thick in the woods of New Brunswick this fall that they impede traffic on the highway north of the Canadian National Railway. John Traynor and his wife report stopping and colliding with moose during their travels through the forest.
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Fredericton
N. B
New Brunswick
John Traynor
Canadian National Railway
Health nurse takes steps to halt scarlet fever spread
Six light cases of scarlet fever in the Henderson school near Amesville prompted Health Nurse Miss Munn to quarantine the family and close the school. All patients recovered. Examination of Athens schoolchildren shows many underweight with adenoids and enlarged tonsils. officials urge minor operations to reduce disease susceptibility.
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Henderson School
Amesville
Miss Munn
Athens
Germans Hold to Their Rifles in Disarmament Efforts
Berlin dispatch reports Entente leaders doubt Germany will surrender more than a million weapons under Spa conference disarmament. Authorities say about two million rifles and revolvers are held by citizens and another million by speculators tied to the army. Sabotage and weakened oath provisions threaten full compliance.
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John Grauden
United Press
Berlin
Entente
Army
Reichstag Control Committee
Kriegerverein
Citizens’ Guards
Trust Company Closes Under Bank Commissioner Action
Boston report states The Cosmopolitan Trust Company was closed today by the bank commissioner. An oyster study notes a native oyster growing 21 percent in weight in four months while a transplanted oyster shows 81 percent growth in the same period.
America must get back into the main road
Senator Warren G. Harding warned a large delegation of travelers on his porch that without swift change America risks an idle, no hour day. He urged reemploying the brand of idealism and restoring prosperity while criticizing eight years of mismanagement.
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Marion
America
Warren G. Harding
United States
Daring Train Robbery Staged Near Chicago
Masked robbers halted an Illinois Central mail train near Tucker Illinois and looted six registered sacks valued between 10 000 and 80 000 dollars. Clerks bound forced to floor as sacks checked. robbers fled near Chicago. Six sacks from Memphis New Orleans St Louis and Champaign were among those taken.
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Chicago
Illinois Central
Leroy Walton
Tucker
Illinois
Walton
Memphis
New Orleans
St. Louis
Champaign
Oil Executive Killed in Columbus to Gratiot Drive
Charles A. Deibel of Jupiter Oil Company Columbus died when his auto skidded and overturned one mile east of Jacksontown on the national pike. Companion John J. Eberle escaped injury. Deibel was en route to Gratiot oil fields. body taken to Hebron. An Illinois inventor devised a device printing subscriber names and addresses as papers leave presses.
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Newark
Charles A. Deibel
Jupiter Oil Company
Columbus
National Pike
Jacksontown
John J. Eberle
Gratiot
Hebron
Illinois
President declines to terminate commercial treaties
Washington reports President Wilson will not terminate parts of existing commercial treaties within ninety days as urged by Congress under the merchant marine act. The decision, announced by the state department, cites irreconcilable with the United States history of honoring international engagements.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
United States
State Department
Young veterans to act for the G A R
Cleveland Ohio September 25 First steps to transfer the national activities of the G A R to the younger generation of soldiers will be taken at the convention of the American Legion opening here Monday announced Franklin D Olier national commander Proposal from Civil War veterans asks for a liaison among the G A R American Legion Spanish War Veterans and other veteran groups to carry on their work.
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Cleveland
American Legion
Franklin D’olier
Chicago Food Profiteers Targeted By City Council
Chicago officials summon managers of five leading hotels and two restaurant chains to explain why prices have not following wholesale food price drops. Alderman Max Adamowski warns of prosecution and publicity if profiteering continues, asserting the war is over.
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Chicago
Max Adamowski
Warrant to Charge Man in Stillwater Shooting
Leroy Wright 28 faces a warrant for shooting with intent to kill after a revolver battle with a posse near Stillwater. Wright, hospitalized in Uhrichsville with five bullet wounds, fired on a brakeman and another railroad worker during a chase of eight miles. He was captured by a 60 person posse.
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New Philadelphia
Leroy Wright
Wright
Uhrichsville
Stillwater
Marriage License Granted for Dundas and Mechem
E G Dundas a 39 year old dentist of Chicago and Edna E Mechem 89 of Nelsonville obtained a marriage license at home with Rev. C L John officiating.
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E. G. Dundas
Chicago
Edna E. Mechem
Nelsonville
C. L. John
Wife Sues For Divorce On Grounds Of Neglect
Anne Lasure sues Harry Lasure in Common Pleas Court alleging gross neglect of duty since their June 22, 1915 marriage in Columbus. She claims he fails to provide food and shelter while wasting time with dissipation and dissolute companions. The petition seeks a divorce through Attorney L A Koons.
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Anne Lasure
Harry Lasure
Common Pleas Court
L. A. Koons
Columbus
Lasure
Hold Suspects For Attack On Girl Near London
London Ohio Sept 25Authorities search the surrounding country for three men who attacked 14 year old Donna Sweet daughter of Mr and Mrs Orris Sweet near the prison farm. The assault happened Thursday evening as she walked through a grove near her home. Two suspects described as negroes were involved. Two men arrested at Sharonville will be brought to London for identification.
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London
Donna Sweet
Orris Sweet
Sharonville
Smile of Miss Reese Stuns Bandits in Cleveland Hold-Up
In Cleveland on September 25 Miss Gladys Reese reports two assailants held her up and stole her purse and furs. She says the thieves smiled back when she complimented their manners and returned the items after she asked them to be gentlemen.
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Cleveland
Gladys Reese
Reds Move Up a Heavy Force Near Grodno
In Riga and London reports scholars note a major redeployment as Poles and Bolsheviks face renewed hostilities. Siberian troops concentrate near Grodno with Brest Litovsk as a stated objective. General Budenny is reported severely wounded in Ukraine after his drive on Lemberg ended in defeat.
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Riga
Grodno
Brest Litovsk
London
Budenny
Ukraine
Lemberg
Billy Danzey Is Located Again
Police investigate the claim by Mrs. Nettie B. Griffin of East Liverpool that Billy Danzey missing since October 8, 1919, from Hammondton New Jersey is alive in Tulsa Oklahoma. Mrs Griffin and ex East Liverpool policeman Denver Harpless were arrested on the complaint of the missing man’s husband John Griffin. Griffin says the aunt Nettie Radcliffe had the child in Columbus and showed fake adoption papers April 1.
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Columbus
Nettie B. Griffin
East Liverpool
Billey Dansey
Hammondton
N. J
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Experts say cloth prices fall slowly with costs
Chicago on September 26. EHI 8 president of the National Association of Clothing manufacturers warned at a convention that poor men's clothing will not drop fast due to high material and labor costs. He cautioned that 20 to 26 percent cuts by textile makers will show in spring prices, but cloth cost is only one factor.
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America
Harding
League of Nations
Geneva
Chicago
EHI
National Association of Clothing Fracturers
Colby Scolds Tennessee Anti-Suffrage Delegation
Secretary of State Colby told anti-suffrage Tennessee legislators that the push for prohibition and woman suffrage amendments came from "weaklings on Capitol Hill." The Tennesseans, Democrats, criticized Colby’s treatment and accused him of political play while saying he failed to score a decisive blow with their party.
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Washington
Colby
Capitol Hill
Tennessee
Democrats
Defective fuse foils Cass Lake dynamite plot
In Cass Lake Minnesota last night an attempt to blow the Cass Lake Times building was thwarted by a defective cap on three half pound sticks of dynamite placed at the main entrance. The fuse had burned to the cap when found this morning. The Times is a weekly paper with no known motive. A dance at Albany Opera House is announced for Tuesday night September 28.
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Cass Lake
Minn
Cass Lake Times
the Times
Anti-Saloon League Foes Cited in France Case
Dr Maurice LeGrain a delegate at the fifteenth international congress against alcoholism today charged the anti saloon league is aiding enemies of prohibition in France He says the group would ban spirits but keep light wines and beer and that French temperance supporters know wines and beer can be as harmful as spirits
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Washington
The
Anti-Saloon League
France
Maurice LeGrain
LeGrain
Fifteenth International Congress Against
World Series Fixer Suspects Tied to 1919 Scandal
Chicago reports naming alleged fixers of 1919 World Series games between the White Sox and Reds. Foreman H H Brigham says investigators have a lead on the main fixer tied to Arnold Rothstein Abe Attell Hal Chase and others in a wide betting plot offering about 100000. Charles A Comiskey vows to fire any guilty players and to close the park if honesty cannot be secured.
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Chicago
Cincinnati
H. H. Brigham
Cook County
Tima
Charles A. Comiskey
White Sox
Grand
Comiskey
Pike County Officials Accused of Election Fraud
Secretary of State Smith received a petition from Joseph Smith of Waverly Pike County asking removal of Dr George B Nye Stewart West and clerk A B Keechile from the Pike County election board for allegedly fraudulent votes cast in the recent primary election.
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Columbus
Smith
Joseph Smith
Waverly
Pike County
George B. Nye
Stewart West
Pike County Election Board
Keechile
Counterfeiter William Smith Sentenced in Jail Plea
William Smith alias Robert Bosom, 90, a counterfeiter, was sentenced in U S district court to one year in jail and a one dollar fine after pleading guilty. Smith said he passed bad money hoping to be jailed because he was “well treated there.”
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San Francisco
William Smith
Robert Bossom
United States District Court
Smith
Beaten to Death Shocks Wilmington Foster Case Verdict
Frances Crockett seven, died under suspicious circumstances in Wilmington. Coroner's jury finds she was beaten to death by foster parents Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stewart. Investigators report body with wounds and signs of prior beatings.
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Wilmington
Delaware
Frances Crockett
Fred Stewart
Mayor Herrmann warns on anonymous letter about Campbell county court
Cincinnati report says New port Ky mayor Joseph Herrmann released an anonymous letter warning him to stay away from Campbell county court house on Saturday September 25. The letter pledges danger to him and his friends if he ignores the warning.
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Cincinnati
Joseph Herrmann
Newport
Campbell County Court House
Court House
Naked body of man found near Glencoe Ohio
A nude body believed to be Finley Sharp who wandered away from home with a shotgun was found on a local farm. Coroner reports indicate he died in a fit while climbing a barbed wire fence. The Bellaire Daily Leader reports its sale to Sherlock Brothers of Can top Massillon and Wheeling.
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Glencoe
Finley Sharp
Jamieson Loans Money to the Stars and Stripes
W D Jamieson, finance director of the Democratic National Committee, lent $4 000 to Mrs PARKS who funded The Stars and Stripes a veterans paper. Mrs Parks testified before the Senate campaign fund committee saying she borrowed nearly all of the $48 000 she invested and objected to naming lenders.
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L. C. Martin
United Press
Washington
W. D. Jamieson
Democratic National Committee
Mra
Pontiok
Jamieson
Parks
Nee
Cox Campaign Denials Draw German Peace Talk Claim
James J. Cox aides deny a report that pro German negotiation talks surfaced as a last resort. Cox vows response to Harding Ireland issue while campaign notes three day swing through northern Colorado and Wyoming. The piece mentions US banknote designs count at sixty four.
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Heer
James J. Cox
Reven G
Cox
Colorado
Wyoming
Harding
Ireland
Senate
Free Map of the New Europe Promoted by Officials
Frederic J. Haskin directs the US Geological Survey and Treasury Savings Division to distribute a free map of the New Europe. The Athens Messenger notes public interest as Mr. Harding and Mr. Cox weigh in on European affairs. Send two cents for return postage to receive the map.
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Cox
Europe
United States Geologiane Survey
Bay Agency
Savings Division of
the Treasury
Frederic J. Haskin
Athens Messenger Information Bureau
Washington, D. C
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