Two High School Seniors Spoof Virgil and Dido
In a downtown tea room two high school seniors joke about Virgil and Dido as they drink chocolate milk shakes. A green book falls and a blonde rescues it while they ponder ancient sacrifices and modern women. Remembering Fort Wayne immigrants, the piece notes Swedes Norwegians Danes passing through Canton in the 1880s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ation
Virgil
Dido
Aeneas
Fort Wayne
Canton
Northwest
Wisconsin
Dream Destroyed by Potatoes and Odd Notes
The article mixes potato production data from the US and Europe with world totals, farm values, and yields. It recounts 1924 1925 US production, per acre values, and price trends then shifts to anecdote about a girl misnaming seed offerings and a clerk correcting her. It ends with the phrase a famous last words accept the nomination.
Red Cross Sends $10,000 to Shanghai for American Relief
U S relief funds dispatched as Shangai evacuees from Nanking face peril. Consul General Gauss reports urgent need while U S Marines planned for deployment to China. Major General Lejeune confirms troops drawn from eastern stations and transport moves to San Diego, with ships to rendezvous.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Shanghai
Nanking
Gauss
State Department
China
United States
John A. Lejeune
Quantico
New York
Boston
Paris Island
N. C
Henderson
Panama
San Diego
Navy Hero Henry Hough Defies Command in Nanking Rescue
Rear Admiral Henry Hough 64 earned hero status for defying orders to delay shelling at Nanking He questioned Williams and foreign admirals near Shanghai insisting on a better assessment His on the spot stance helped enable the rescue of many Americans while Secretary Wilbur declined to censure him praising decisive action.
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Shanghai
John K Davis
Wooster
Standard Oil
Nanking
Washington
Mar
Henry Hough
Admiral Williams
Hough
Williams
Portraits shown in Ford Sapiro libel suit jury
Jury views two portraits of Henry Ford as the trial on the $1,000,000 libel claim against Aaron Sapiro resumes. Ford is portrayed as a foe of Jews while his Dearborn Independent editorials are questioned as a crusade against Sapiro and farm cooperatives. Testimony includes claims Ford threatened to disrupt Sapiro’s apple cart and remarks about writing on the Jews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William K. Teutchinson
Detroit
Mar
America
Ford-Sapiro
Henry Ford
Aaron Sapiro
Ford
Dearborn
Sapiro
Sapiro Farm Cooperatives
James Martin Miller
Wheat King
Miller
Auto Man
Willaim J. Cameron
Cameron
Sapio
Pord
Henry
Michigan
Sapire
Mord
U S Should Have Been a Road If Arms Too Many
A Yakima reader signed Will Rogers laments disarmament moves and jokes that the United States would have been better as a cockroach to avoid arming itself, reflecting satirical commentary on the then current disarmament conference.
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U. S
Wil Rogers
Yakima
Wash
Gladys Houck Body to Be Buried in Canton
The body of Mrs Gladys Walter Houck will be buried today after an autopsy failed to show poisoning or clear signs of murder. Her father questions the death as suicide, suspecting Dr Knute Houck caused her fall from a river railing, while a coroner’s inquest next week will decide if he faces murder charges or release. A brief 2:30 pm service is planned at Westlawn cemetery with Rev Henry Nevin Kerst presiding.
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Gladys Walter Houck
Canton
J. W. Walter
Houck
Knute Houck
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Albany
Oregon
Westlawn
Henry Nevin Kerst
Trinity Reformed Church
Gladys Walter
Davises sue Roth in traffic collision case
Lucile K. Davis files suit in common pleas court for $25,000 for injuries from a Harrisburg road auto crash involving Chester Roth. Her husband Clarence H Davis sues for $5,000 for medical expenses and other losses. Gnau and Miller represent plaintiffs.
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Lucile K. Davis
Common Pleas Court
Chester Roth
Harrisburg Rd
Clarence H Davis
Roth
Gnau & Miller
Insurance gains rapid growth in Ohio
An advance report of the state insurance department for 1926 shows that no division of state government has grown faster in recent years. Only the police have more insurance companies licensed to do business in the state than any other unit of the nation. Approximately 900 companies, including nearly all good companies in the country and many foreign companies, are licensed in Ohio.
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Columbus
Mar
State Insurance Department
Eood
Ohio
Hazards to Be Removed by Canton Fire Chief
Fire Chief R. O. Mesner announces a city wide house to house inspection to remove fire hazards. Inspectors will identify rubbish in cellars attics outbuildings fix chimneys prevent violations and enforce compliance with time limited orders. Failure to comply may lead to affidavits arrests and fines.
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Canton Fire Department
R. O. Mesner
Mensner
Stout Seeks New Trial in Double Murder Case
Arthur Stout, convicted of second degree murder of his stepmother Sarah Stout, plans pursue a new trial in common pleas court. If denied, he faces a life sentence with parole possible. Prosecutor Jones intends to indict Mrs Inez Palmer for William Stout's murder.
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M'Arthur
Arthur Stout
Sarah Stout
Common Pleas Court
Stout
Jones
Vintoneco
Inez Palmer
William Stout
Palmer
Truck Strikes Boy On Bicycle In Columbus
A child on a bicycle was struck by a truck at Navarre Road and McKinney in Columbus causing a crushed front wheel and minor injuries. Police report the truck’s license plate as T1420942 though the driver’s name was not learned. Police noted no further details at this time.
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Royilley
Allen Av
Adams Pleads Not Guilty to Homicide Charge
Alfred Adams aged 38 of 1233 4th St SE pleaded not guilty to a homicide charge waiving a preliminary hearing and bound over to the grand jury from municipal court in the death of Henry Moore a Madison contractor shot and killed Friday Adams claimed self defense after entering police with a revolver saying he had just shot a man Moore died four hours later in Mercy hospital.
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Alfred.Adams
4Th St SE
Municcipal Court
Henry Moore
Madison
Friday Adama
Sle
Moore
Mercy Hospital
Lehr issues parking order on NE streets during construction
Safety Director Howard Lehr issued an emergency order allowing parking on the west side of ftex av NE between 8th and 9th to relieve scarce spaces as Cherry av NM undergoes construction from Thuscarawaset to lawrence rd NE. The city council recently made Rex av NE and HE a one way southbound stretch and now permits west side parking along that segment.
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Howard Lehr
Ftex Av
Cherry Av
Thuscarawaset
Lawrence Rd
Lehr
Rex
Liquor violator fined and multiple municipal court cases
Joe Taneto 917 Yth fBI fined 100 and costs for violating liquor law. Maturdy Stelle Keenan 417 Walnut ay remised from 6 elm lar charge. Ernest Harpernus 1346 Marker av 8 charged with breaking in street. Frank Whippeell 1695 Ryan Ave W reckless driving. Lorte Beehel 291 oth et NW fined 19 and costs. M Davis 1916 4th st 2H speeding 22.50 and costs. Other cases heard in municipal court.
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Joe Taneto
FBI
Maturdy
Stelle Keenan
Ernest Harpernus
Frank Whippeell
Ryan
Lorte Beehel
Oth
M. Davis
4Th St
Nine Missing in Bomb Blast at Paramus House
Nine persons including five children were missing after a fire and explosion destroyed a Paramus home. Police and volunteers sift the ruins hoping for survivors or bodies, with investigators split between a bomb and a bursting still as the cause.
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Ridgewood
N. J
Paramus
Charles Saterno
Hearts Face Death Sentence in Akron Murder Case
Akron March 24 John Sabo 19 was sentenced to die in the electric chair for first degree murder without mercy. The three week trial showed Sabo shot Horton Painter of the Coodrich company last May 26 mistaking him for foe Bob Girutch.
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Akron
Mar
John Sabo
Common Pleas
L. & Vardee
Sabha
Baha
Horton
Painter
Coodrich Company
Bob Girutch
Bank Condition Report Issued For Nation and State Banks
The comptroller of currency released a report on the condition of national banks as of March 22, with state bank officials releasing summaries for state and private banks around March 24. The notices note reports are due and summarize banking conditions across the sector.
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Washington
Mar
Coli Mar
Hishr
Railway workers in Mewiesa strike funded to sustain action
Men City reports railway workers have received 69 960 roupies from the fusion panel as well as a fresh appeal to continue their strike urging perseverance in the labor action.
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Men City
Mar
Mewiesa
Warden seeks stay as appeal delays interview with McDermott
Ohio Attorney General Turner says a joint application will be made to the state supreme court to review the Franklin county Court of Appeals order allowing E L Mills Canton to privately interview Patrick McDermott at the Ohio penitentiary before the full court. The move aims to suspend the appellate ruling pending Supreme Court action.
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Columbus
Atty
E. C. Turner
State Supreme Court
Russell Knepper
E. L. Mills
Canton
E. Thomas
Ohio Penitentiary
Franklin Co
Mills
Patrick McDermott
Don RR. Mellett
Canton Daily News
Turned
Knepper
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Thomas Fe
U S Ready for More Peer Arrests in Keystone Beer Probe
U S marshals planned to arrest four or five Pennsylvania residents after secret grand jury indictments tied to the Keystone beer deluge. Indictments name brewery and railroad workers amid a probe into large whiskey shipments and corruption. Frank Delahaery, former baseball figure and state representative, is named among those connected to the case. A masoned jug of corn sugar whisky found at a Philadelphia yard is cited in the arrest narrative.
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Cleveland
Mar
United States
Pennsylvania
Federal Grand Jury
Pennnsylvania
Brewery
Rattread
Arcest
Frank Delahaery
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