Ohio Windstorm Ravages Buckeye Lake Area
A heavy wind storm at Buckeye Lake injures several including 3 year old Elsie Huber and damages more than 100 cottages. Cottages were overturned and a four mile path cut through the resort with about 250000 dollars in damage reported locally. In West Lowell near Marietta a windstorm destroys homes and buries a one year old child, with others injured and telegraph lines down.
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Newark
Ohio
Buckeye Lake
Elsie Huber
Barby
Marietta
West Lowell
Whipple
Deval
Cornelius Schwenderman
Marietta-Cambridge
Tornado Devastates Blair and Hendrick Area
Eight people died and hundreds were left homeless after weekend storms swept Southeastern Oklahoma, Southern Kansas and Southwestern Missouri. A four white and four Black residents perished in Blair and Headrick, with about 200 families displaced outside wrecked towns and damages estimated at 2 million dollars. Relief committees moved to aid rural districts as floods swelled Southern Kansas streams and highways and rail lines faced water damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Blair
Hendrick
Headrick
Accused Woman Maude Price Furnishes Bond
Mrs. Maude J. Price posted a 2000 bond after arrest on a warrant charging her with shooting her husband late Saturday night. She will face a preliminary hearing before Squire W. W. McNeal next Monday morning. Police, relying on circumstantial evidence, questioned witnesses who did not identify any suspect matching the description given. The investigation continues as Price remains a patient at Bluefield sanitarium. He was shot in the right wrist and the bullet lodged near the right hip. both sides cling to the original story of an unidentified Negro highwayman at the Bluefield garage driveway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude J. Price
Squire W. W. McNeal
Price
Bluefield Sanitarium
Bluefield
Bland Street
Customs Appraisers Inspect Mary Pickford Gowns
In New York on June 18 Mary Pickford faced an hour plus of customs inspection as twelve trunks from Rome were opened and each item checked against her declaration. Appraisers doubt the stated $7,000 valuation and will resume work tomorrow. Douglas Fairbanks was absent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mary Pickford
Rome
Miss Pickford
Douglas Fairbanks
Mine Stockholders Mull Merger Valuation Figures
Stockholders of the Turkey Gap Coal and Coke company met yesterday to discuss the engineers valuation placed on their property ahead of a proposed merger in the smokeless fields. No decision details were available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey Gap
Norfolk and Western to Challenge Bluefield Coal Rate Ruling
The Norfolk and Western Railroad will contest the Interstate Commerce Commission decision on coal rates calling for refunds on shipments from Pocahontas and Tug River districts. Local retailers report harmed business as customers delay winter fuel purchases awaiting the outcome, which could take months or a year to resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk and Western Railroad Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bluefield
Roanoke
A. F. Kingdon
Pny
Coal Rate Quest Co
Bluesiders
Pocahontas
Tug River
West Virginia
Rescue Planes Fail to Reach Nobile Party in Arctic Ice
Two sea planes flown by Riiser-Larsen and Holm scouted from Beverly Sound to North cape and Cape Platen but reported no sight of Umberto Nobile and the Italia crew. Planes disappeared on the Arctic horizon after an hour of reconnaissance, ice roughness hindering landing. Omso, Norway, expected to assist in the search tomorrow.
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Kinga Bay
Spitzbergen
Umberto Nobile
Spitsbergen
Citta di Milano
Italia
Riiser-Larsen
Luetzow Holm
Beverly Sound
North Cape
Cape Platen
Omso
Norway
Second effort fails to locate Nobile group in Arctic search
Rome reports the Norwegian flyers Captain Rilser-Larsen and Lieutenant Luetzow Holm conducted a second unsuccessful mission to locate General Umberto Nobile and his party amid the Arctic search.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Rilser-Larsen
Luetzow Holm
Umberto, Nobile
Ritchie Drops Out Of Presidency Bid Urges Unity For Democrats
Maryland Governor Albert C. Ritchie withdraws from Democratic presidential consideration and backs Governor Alfred E. Smith. He urges a unbroken Democratic front, says Smith is best suited to lead, and rejects any vice presidency offer as a duty to the nation and party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Houston
Albert C. Ritchie
Maryland
Associated Press Tonight
Smith
Ritchie
New York
Democratic Party
Ritchie Eld
Alfred E. Smith
Union
Lo ‘Abe
South
Governor Dawson Sentenced to 60 Days in Kanawha Jail
Charleston West Virginia June 18. Governor Dawson pleaded guilty to operating a gambling house found in Kanawha County. He received a jail term of sixty days and a fine of 150 dollars after a county intermediate court session. The case followed a county gambling probe.
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Charleston
W. Va
Dawson
Kanawha County
Civil War Veteran Sentenced on Old Moonshine Charge
David S. Feather 81 a Civil War veteran and grant district justice of the peace was ordered to serve sixty days in the county jail for an old moonshine transport charge six years after being acquitted. The judge noted a prior June 1922 conviction for furnishing liquor to a minor and suspended sentence. Feather disputed drunkenness at the time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingwood
W. Va
David S. Feather
Grant
A. G. Hughes
Coolidge Butler Discuss Politics In Pre Campaign Talks
President Coolidge met with William M. Butler, Republican committee chairman, to discuss the political situation on the eve of the campaign. Butler said the visit had no special motive and he would return to Boston after a brief Washington stop. Coolidge postponed a call to his offices due to rain, cold wind, and a heel blister, asking secretary Edwin T. Clark to deliver key papers to his residence.
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Superior
Wic
Coolidge
William M. Butler
National Republican Committee
Butler
Kansas City
Everett Sandera
Boston
Washington
Hoover
Edwin T. Clark
Democratic chiefs move southward to Galveston convention
Houston dispatch details ahead of the Democratic national convention. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri leads the arrival as Governor Smith’s campaign warns no first ballot nomination. Clem Shaver outlines DC voting rights plank and farmer delegation hearings.
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Houston
Tex
Galveston
James A. Reed
Missouri
Ed Villmoore
Kansas City
Reed For President Club
Villmoore
Alfred Smith
New York
Reed
George van Namee
Smith
District of Columbia
Congress
Clem Shaver
National Committee
Sture
Shaver
National Executive Committee
Bomb Blast Wrecks County Building In Detroit
A mysterious bomb exploded in Detroit near the county building injuring ten and causing panic. Guards Stolpa Hackenjos and Gerechow acted to remove the device before it exploded. Detectives questioned three men including Joseph Kovacs as a suspect. no motive or damage estimate yet.
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Detroit
Frank Stolpa
Edward Hackenjos
Charles C. Gerechow
Stolpa
Areway
Edward Cooney
Justice of the Peace
Cooney
Mra
Elfreda Scholette
Joseph Kovacs
Hoover Meets Republican Leaders In Busy Schedule
Washington reports Secretary Hoover held meetings with GOP leaders and delegates including Atterbury, Tilson, New, Davis, and Cox. A letter from Senator Goff reaffirmed support while Curtis prepared for the vice presidential role. Work lunch with Hoover was deferred as Good mends after illness.
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Washington
Hoover
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Tilson
House
New
Davis
Eldwood Cox
North Carolina
W. K. Macy
New York
J. B. Lucey
Texas
Fred Kiddle
Oregon
Representative Fort
New Jersey
Guy D. Goff
West Virginia
Goff
McCoy Convicted of Stolen Auto In Huntington Case
Martin McCoy aged 20 was convicted in common pleas court of stealing another automobile and sentenced to seven years in the state penitentiary. Trial on the patrol wagon theft charge was continued. The patrol was alleged stolen from in front of a dance hall while officers were inside and later found wrecked on the city outskirts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Martin McCoy
Common Pleas Court
State ‘Penitentiary
McCoy
Earhart reception plans amid first Atlantic crossing praise
England and the United States celebrate Amelia Earhart's Atlantic flight. Father Edwin Earhart fears a possible return attempt while Britain lines up gifts and honors, including a London meeting with the king and queen. A Southampton welcome and a London visit are planned before a June 27 Europe to New York return.
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Southampton
England
Captain Guest
Mr Guest
London
Lady Astor
Lady Heath
Misa Farhart
Europe
Ile de France
New York
Morrison Kills Sweetheart Then Shoots Self in Wisconsin
In Wausau Wisconsin on a Sunday, Charles Morrison 21 of Weston killed his sweetheart Verna Tietz 19 and shot himself. A coroner's jury ruled the deed done while mentally deranged and that Tietz died probably with her consent. Notes were found on Morrison's body. He said the crime was to save the family from disgrace.
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Wausau
Wis
Charles Morrison
Weston
Verna Tietz
Morrison
Miss Tietz
Mystery of Ellsworth Report Puzzles British
London reports a mystery over the arrival of the Friendship from Newfoundland with American Arctic flyer Lincoln Ellsworth aboard along with Amelia Earhart Witmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. New York dispatches cast doubt on Ellsworth’s presence while Welsh correspondents claimed interviews and quotes from Stultz.
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London
England
Newfoundland
Lincoln Elisworth
Arctic Air Voyager
Amelia Earhart
Witmer Stultz
Louis Gordon
New York
Elisworth
Ellsworth
Stultz
Earhart Describes Atlantic Flight Excitement and Landing
Amelia Earhart recalls being too excited to eat much during the crossing with Wilmer Stultz guiding the plane from the cockpit. She notes the cold rear cabin, navigation by Stultz, weather challenges, and her desire to fly again, expressing pride in being the first woman to fly the Atlantic.
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Stultz
Williamsburg
Wilmer Stultz
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Williamsburg Hotel
London
Exprese Sirs
Barry Port
Mies Earhart
Stari
Miss Earhart Ir
Eit
Mr. Stultz
Gordon
Ireland
Mner
Bnd
England
Wales
Sutitz
Fay
United States
Europe
Earhart Flight Reaches Wales After Atlantic Crossing
Amelia Earhart and companions land the Friendship in Barry Port Wales after a 20 hour 49 minute crossing from Trepassy Bay New Foundland. Crowds greet the trio as fuel worries and ardent admirers test their reception in the Welsh town.
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Hurry Port
Wales
Amelia Earhart
Boston
Wilmer Stuka
Louis Gordon
Barry Port
Trepassy Bay
New Foundland
Southampton
Llanelly
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Nobile
Democrat
Coolidge-Butler
Ed Willmoore
al Smith
Atlantic Ocean
Miss Earhart
U. S
Los Angeles
Edwin
Earhart
Amelia
Toronto
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sweetheart
Pilot
Boston Maid
Miss Harbart
Coal Company
Reail
Burry Port
Calle
Pass
Valanecia Island
America
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