West Virginia land sale tale and older engineer notes
A story links a New Yorker who disparaged West Virginia to an $6 per acre sale of Boone County land now hosting 54 wells and coal operations. The piece also recalls Col Claudius Crozet’s roads and a meditation on walking, plus a Civil War era medal found on the Ohio shore.
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West Virginia
Boone County
Old Cumberland Pike
Col
Claudius Crozet
Napoleon
Ruselan
United States Military Academy
Crozet
Northwest Turnpike
Lee Highway
Old State
Raleigh and
Grayson
Ohio River
Crown Point
Geo. W
Geo. W. Postlewaite, Co. K, 11Th Reg. Inf
U NATIONS SEEK NAVAL PARITY AS GENEVA TALKS LOOM
Washington reports show insistence on naval parity with Britain down to the smallest craft as Geneva talks on a possible Japanese American peace pact attract attention. Officials note irritation over British supremacy rhetoric while Americans and Japanese expect stern opposition if Britain pushes a revised treaty.
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Washington
Great Britain
Geneva
United States
France
Hugh Gibson
Britain Aims for Open Meeting at Geneva Naval Talks
Geneva notes report the tripartite naval conference voting for a brief holiday to view the city's flower festival. The delegates failed to reach accords after a week, with Britain pushing for a public examination of Washington treaty clauses while the Americans and Japanese favor private talks to bridge differences.
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Geneva
Tripartite Naval Conference
Ferfet
Amity
Salo
Hugh Gibson
Japan
United States
Washington
Amercans
France
Italy
Patience Gibson
Drew Is Holding Own
San Francisco reports actor John Drew has shown neither loss nor gain, staying in a critical condition. Dr. Lawrence Hoffman stated the illness remains serious and attributed it to arthritis.
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Drew
San Francisco
John Drew
Lawrence Hoffman
Two Teens Barred from Auto for Five Years in New York
In Utica a 20 year old and a 16 year old confessed to stealing a car and driving it to Buffalo. Judge Dowling sentenced them to five years probation and a suspended jail term plus damages. They are banned from riding in an automobile for five years with the exception of a snowmobile from 1932 era.
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Utica
N. Y
Edward E. Kehrn
John Schmidt
Supreme Court
William F. Dowling
Buffalo
Coolidge Addresses South Dakota Legislature on Flag Day
President Coolidge spoke before the South Dakota legislature in Rapid City praising the flag as a symbol of American opportunity for all workers in industry, agriculture, and commerce. He and Mrs. Coolidge greeted lawmakers and families, then toured Lookout Mountain renamed Mount Coolidge by the state legislature.
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Rapid City
S&l. D
White House
Coolidge
South Dakota
Pierre
Great Northwest
H. E. Covey
Hilla
Vermont
Lookout Mountain
Mount Coolidge
Yardmen Granted Wage Increase on Western Railroads
A U S board of mediation ruled yardmen on 55 western railroads get a 7.5 percent raise retroactive to March 1, while conductors and trainmen receive no increase. About 75,000 workers are affected with 25,000 benefiting. two board members dissented, arguing for broader raises. The majority cited western agricultural conditions and parity with eastern and southern railroads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States Board of Mediation
E. P. Curtis
Order of Railway Conductors
J. A. Farquhareen
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
W. M. W. Splawn
University of Texas, Bairman
Everett C. Brown
Chice
W. J. Jackson
J. W. Higgins
Cleveland
Rail Arbitration Board
William Lee
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Lee
Secrecy Surrounds Trans Atlantic Flight Plans
Honolulu June 25 News says Commander McComb barred reporters from Pearl Harbor naval air station to hide Richard Grace California aviator s trans Pacific flight preparations. Grace arrived yesterday from San Francisco.
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Honolulu
Richard Grace
California
McComb
Pearl Harbor Naval Air Station
Grace
San Francisco
Byrd 15 Plans Start Of Europe Flight Today
The aviation team led by Commander Richard Byrd prepares for a potential takeoff to France from Rock Field New York, with Grover Whalen noting a timely wind shift could enable a 4 AM departure. Crew rest and final checks continue as fuel and provisions are readied.
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Whalen
Richard B. Byrd
Bert Acosta
George Neville
Bernt Balchen
Garden City
Weather delay halts Byrd planned transatlantic takeoff
At Roosevelt Field New York on June 20 the weather bureau could not assess conditions for the America expedition due to missing ship reports. Commander Byrd awaited guidance as fog over the Grand Banks remained uncertain. Crowds gathered while fueling began near midnight, signaling a possible dawn departure.
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Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Weather Bureau
America
James H. Kimball
Bureau
Richard B. Byrd
Here
Newfoundland
Grand Banks
Kimball
Byrd
Smith Sentenced for Burglary of Norwood Store
Harvey Smith of Helen's Run Marion county was sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary for complicity in the burglary of the J C Hill company store at Norwood.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Harvey Smith
Helen's Run
Marion County
State Penitentiary
J. C. Hill Company
Norwood
Government Starts Drive On Bootleggers Incomes
The Internal Revenue Service plans renewed efforts to tax bootleggers’ income after a treasury ruling on the right to tax such income. The Special Intelligence Service will step up efforts to locate liquor dealers. Taxpayers may claim income source immunity but will be tested by the government.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury
Supreme Court
Special Intelligence Service
The
Revenue Bureau
Poincare Cabinet Meets Over Daudet Prison Hoax
Paris June 25 Premier Poincare called a cabinet meeting to discuss a startling hoax that freed Léon Daudet from Sante prison today. The release also let two others walk out as an interior ministry order was confirmed by the cabinet. Carr y, director of the prison, was suspended and to face a disciplinary board. The three vanished as an automobile whisked Daudet away and their whereabouts remained unknown.
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Paris
Poincare
Léon Daudet
Sante Prison
Carry
Sante
Daudet
M. Delest
Dandet
Lemard
Communist Party
Interior
Water supply cut off for miners at Coverdale and Castle Shannon
Pittsburgh reports that striking miners in Coverdale and Castle Shannon have had their water shut off by Pittsburgh Terminal Coal. UMW officials Murray and Fagan protest food embargoes and pending eviction suits to take company houses. Health and labor officials, including Dr. Joseph R. Conover and L. E. Wickersham, assist in the dispute.
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Pittsburgh
Coverdale
Castle Shannon
Allegheny County
Pittsburch Terminal Coal Corporation
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
Murray
P. T. Fagan
Lindy Returns To Home Of Davidson For Rest
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh flew from New York to Glen Cove Long Island to rest after a day of meetings. He refused to discuss offers or commitments, saying only he is handling personal affairs and nothing definite has been decided yet. Spokesman Harry Knight stated Lindbergh has no official engagements for tomorrow.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
F. Trubee Davison
Aviation
Glen Cove
Long Island
Paria
Harry S. Knight
Lindbergh
St. Louis
Boy Kills Mother Then Turns Gun On Himself
William Justice, 13, killed his mother and two sisters with a 12 gauge shotgun at a farm home near Mineral Kansas, then fatally shot himself after calmly reloading. The two sisters, aged 9 and 17, were taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh, Kansas, but were not expected to survive.
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Columbus
Kas
William Justice
Mineral
Kansas
William
Pittsburgh
Minister Defies Church to Marry Couples in Elkton Case
Elkton Md June 25 Two couples entered the Westren home and emerged man and wife as Rev Richard P Westren declares he may marry tightly as any minister. State's Attorney Henry L Constable opened an inquiry into Westrens status as a minister and may seek indictments if he lacks church authority. Westren contends he holds orders from the Upper Iowa conference while Methodist Episcopal church officials say his ordination was canceled in 1921.
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Elkton
Richard P. Westren
Westren
Robert Carey
Sicklerville
N. J
J. W. Colona
Wilmington
Methodial Episcopal Conference
Henry L. Constable
Constable
Upper Iowa
Methodial Episcopal Church
Ned
Maryland
Weetzen
Methodist Episcopal Church
Rose Helena
Mont
Montana
The
Iowa
Laurel Church
Billings
Coma Case Near Fresno Holds City in Suspense
Mrs. Clara Drummond, 20, remains in a gas poisoning induced coma for the thirteenth week at Fresno County General Hospital. Her husband W B Drummond, a sailor, hopes for any sign of life as doctors warn of possible death while she remains unable to eat speak see or move.
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Freano
Cal
Clara Drummond
W. B. Drummond
China
Seattle
Fresno
County General Hospital
Drummond
Physi Cians
Indiana man walks home to Kentucky with busted buggy
John Sam Hays 60 of Bowling Green Kentucky trudges along a Southern India highway pulling a dilapidated buggy. He tells sheriffs he worked around New Bethlehem since last fall and bought the buggy as a cheap deal to take home to Kentucky.
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Indianapolis
Ind
India
John Sam Hays
Bowling Green
Hays
New Bethel
Blue Grass
Woman Receives Death Sentence in Indiana Case
Mrs Katharine Cassler of Crown Point Ind today became the third woman to be sentenced to death in Illinois side case. Judge Sullican offered life imprisonment if she pled guilty as accomplices Loren Patrick and Mrs Lillian Frazer had done. Patrick admitted killing cabinet maker William Lindstrom to collect a 7500 life insurance. Cassler, mother of four, sat outside Lindstrom's home while the slaying was plotted.
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Chicago
Katherine Casesler
Crown Point
Ind
Nois
Philip L. Sullivan
Four Die In Dayton Car Collision Near McCook Field
Four persons are known dead and 15 injured after a head-on crash between a local streetcar and a northbound limited car near McCook Field in Dayton Ohio. Names include John Kessler Harley Folkerth Ben Reed and Julius Yale with victims from Dayton Tippecanoe City Piqua and surrounding Miami Valley towns. The limited car disobeyed instructions and failed to pass at No 100, causing the wreck the cars telescoped and splintered.
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Dayton
McCook Field
John Kessler
Piqua
Harley Folkerth
Tippecanoe City
Ben Reed
Julius Yale
Miami Valley
Limited
Dayton and Troy Traction Company
American is slain by crazed Chinese in Mexico
Robert C. Howell 44 president of the Mexico Arizona Trading company was shot dead in his Los Mochis office by Felipe Chan a Chinese man, according to the American consular agency at Los Mochis. Chan was arrested and held. Howell died immediately from a chest wound. The killing occurred yesterday in Sinaloa Mexico.
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Nogales
Ariz
Robert C. Howell
Mexico-Arizona Trading Company
Los Mochis
Sinaloa
Mexico
Felipe Chan
Howell
Ail
Woman Found Strangled in Portland Apartment
Portland police grimly reported the strangling death of 62 year old Mrs Zell Stebbins in her well furnished home. Her hair and body lay on the bed with hands tied behind and feet bound. A man’s handkerchief stuffed in her mouth served as a gag. Authorities found no motive or suspects tonight.
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Portland
Ore
Zell Stebbins
Northern coal men to fight move
Norfolk and Western Chesapeake and Ohio Louisville and Nashville announce policy on freight rates for lake cargo coal. Virginian undecided. Reduction of ten cents per net ton will cost Norfolk and Western about half a million dollars yearly in revenue. Northern carriers allowed by ICC to cut twenty cents per ton by August tenth. southern carriers not required to reduce.
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Roanoke
Lake Erie
Norfolk and Western General
Norfolk and Western
Chesapeake and Ohio
Louieville
Nashville
Virginian Railroad
Norfolk and Western Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northern
Southern
Commission
New fight seen over lake coal rates before ICC
Washington predicts renewed contest as Southern railroads plan a ten cent per ton cut in lake cargo coal rates. Ohio and Pennsylvania operators oppose the move, aiming to keep pressure on northern producers. the dispute could affect thirty million tons of annual coal production. The case echoes earlier hearings with potential further arbitration impacts.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern
Ohio
Southern Railfoads
Pennsylvania
Supreme Court Rules Sunday Baseball Illegal in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania high court upholds injunction against the Philadelphia Athletics for Sunday games, citing the 1794 blue laws. The decision follows a test game against the Chicago White Sox on August 22 of the previous year, with five justices in the majority. The ruling enjoins Sunday play and supports charter revocation if violated.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
State Supreme Court
Chicago
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Athletics
Supreme Court
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