British Scouting Honors Held in Detroit Eagle Pins to Canton Group
Local Canton scouts from Troops 4 A 16 and 20 travel to Detroit with 22 members and parents for Eagle pin presentations by Sir Robert Baden-Powell and other national leaders at the state fair coliseum. Canadian Scouts receive King’s Scout honor. pageant style exercises emphasize patriotism reverence and idealism. The event, broadcast to the audience, marks a high point in the boys Scout life and involves several local leaders and clubs.
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S. Canton
Ohio
Michigan
Canada
Order of Eagle Scouts
Detroit
Canton
Dueber
William Bock
John Wilgas
St. Joseph's Church
William Hersehy
Jack Bertie
Edgar Marsh
Trinity Reformed
I. E. Leavensworth
Robert Baden-Powell
James E. West
George Fisher
Canton Party
George Deaver
W. B P. English
W. C. Frey
Lawrence Harbert
G. BE. McKeever Co
King’s Scouts
State Fair Coliseum
Woodward Av
Val Viers
Edgar March
William Hershey
John Wilgus
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Boy Scout Movement
Board weighs plan to equalize police pensions nationwide
The Canton pension board discussed a proposed amendment to standardize officers pensions after 20 years. The plan would set all officers at 80 dollars per month after retirement, replacing current scales from 70 to 112.60 dollars. Safety Director James A. Rice supports equalization to reward patrolmen for front line duty while ending disparities with higher officers. The proposal would require the amendment to remain on the table until the next meeting, with no date set.
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Pension Board
James A. Rice
Rice
Robert Patterson
Martin Pilcher
Lee Noble
John Tidwell
James Lindesmith
Ben Clark
Bertillon
Canton
Britain’s industrial war stalls as deadlock endures
London reports a complete deadlock between government and strikers with no drive action expected for at least a week. Miners federation secretary A. J. Cook warns prospects of peace are distant and the nation remains unchanged amid rumors and government communique.
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London
May
Great Britain
Andere
A. J. Cook
Miners’ Federation
A. Cook
Eration
Thentry
Emment
Labor Crisis Deepens As Strikes Stall A Week
The ongoing miners strike enters its fifth day with no peace talks. A J Cook rejects talks for another week while the Trades Union Congress and cabinet assemble. Food rationing begins in some areas as transport falters and dock unloading is blocked by alleged intimidations. Naval ships guard volunteers at ports amid uncertain shipping. 25 ships unloaded by volunteers at Liverpool. some sailings canceled. Telegraphs and telephones face outages. police magistrates punish rioters with up to four months hard labor.
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A. J. Cook
Trades Union Congress
Verpool
Disrupted War Efforts Amid Strikes and Food Depot Move
The government reports disaffected troops and a surge of volunteers while a voting center in Walthamstow faced mobbing. Strikes threaten supplies as ships wait to unload. naval forces are deployed to ports and a food depot at Horse Guards is mobilizing three thousand to move food.
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Walthamstow
Strikare
Horse Guards
Acrobat Sets Applause Amid Rising Costs
Fragmentary OCR shows a local note about public sentiment on cost of living. Mention includes youths and voices of protest over wages and prices. The snippet references sugar and Chinese tea as items affected by the rate changes, with unclear dates.
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Zeny-Novgorop
Woman Killed in Leap From Auto in Toledo
May 8. Mrs. Francis Benschater, 72, died when she leaped from a burning car traveling from Bowling Green to Grand Rapids. Ada Banners, daughter of the deceased, drove as a wire from the battery to a front spotlight shorted on fire triggering the jump. The woman struck her head on the road as she jumped, before her daughter could halt the vehicle.
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Toledo
Francis Benschater
Bowling Green
Grand Rapids
Ada Banners
Martin gas blast injures man at Cleveland filling station
George Haney aged 34 is in critical condition at a Cleveland hospital after a cigarette ignited gasoline fumes while he was pumping gas into his automobile. The accident occurred at a local service station prompting an investigation.
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Cleveland
George Haney
May deficit belief voiced for Ohio Republican fund drive
Fred W. Warner of Marion, chairman of the Republican state central committee, said the remaining 20000 dollars of the 69000 dollar deficit from the last gubernatorial campaign will be raised before the new campaign opens. He noted 49000 dollars has already been pledged.
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Columbus
Fred W. Warner
Marion
Republican State Central Committee
Ohio
Warner
Dynamite Plotter Boy Deters Dynamite Theft
Fifteen year old Wilbur Arntz told detectives he planned to fish with dynamite in the Tuscarawas river with help from others. Police recovered eight sticks of dynamite and electrical gear stolen May 4 from Burd Construction Co. He also confessed to robbing two houses and taking carpenter tools, some of which were recovered and returned to the company.
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Tuscarawas River
Wilbur Arntz
Laiblin Pl
Norman van Almen
Jim Herdlicka
van Almen
Herdlicka
Burd Construction Co
Church Out as Men Arrested for Sleeping in Church
Two men from Lawrenceberg Tennessee were arrested as suspicious persons after they were found entering a church through a back window. They stated they entered to sleep, violating Ohio weekday sleeping laws.
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Ohio
R. Beck
Trump
Hartman
Ranis Gaston
Joe McClain
Lawrenceberg
Tenn
Five Nabbed on Rum Charge on Covington Bridge
Four men and a woman were jailed in Covington Kentucky as liquor charges faced hearings. Federal agents seizing three cars and 75 gallons of moonshine after two raids on the Newport Covington bridge. Suspects include Samuel Valenta Joseph Garnett Joseph Willoughby all of Lexington. Garnett allegedly owned both cars. Frank Anderson and Miss Virginia Reese fled a chase. seven shots were fired as agents forced a stop.
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Covington
Newport- Covington
Samuel Valenta
Joseph Garnett
Joseph Willoughby
Lexington
Garnett
Frank Anderson
Virginia Reese
Anderson
Mexican Falls From Train Near Newark Hospitalized
A Mexican passenger unknown by name leaped from a Pennsylvania Limited train No 23 traveling 30 miles an hour about 18 miles east of Tremway this morning. He was found by train No 21 and taken to Newark City Hospital with serious injuries.
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Newark, O
Flore
Trunway
Fatality after man steps from moving car in Akron
Claude Parsons, 28, a Goodyear employee, was fatally injured when he stepped from the rear of a moving automobile into the path of a following car in Akron on the night of May 7.
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Akron, CO
Claude Parsons
Goodyear
Remus Seeks Rehearing Over Dayton Confinement
George Remus petitions the U S Court of Appeals for a rehearing to reconsider a ruling that his Dayton jail term did not run concurrently with his Atlanta prison term. He has served two years in federal prison and fights being sent to Dayton for a remaining one year.
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Cincinnati
United States Court of Appeals
Dayton
Atlanta
George Remus
Remus
Bradford Hill Whiting Weds Third Wife Quietly in Cin cinnati
Bradford Hill Whiting son of J Hill Whiting a millionaire steel maker has married Florence Warrington of Cincinnati. The ceremony occurred quietly several weeks ago. Warrington is a step cousin to the groom and the bride is the daughter of the late Judge John Warrington. Whiting was divorced by his two prior wives on charges of excessive drinking.
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Chicago
Bradford Hill Whiting
Whiting
J. Hill Whiting
Florence Warrington
Cincinnati
John Warrington
Cernea Cleared in Dance Case
Charles Cernea of 710 Gobelay NE was discharged after a preliminary inquiry into a charge that he helped two underage girls gain admittance to a dance hall. Investigators said he sat outside in a car while the girls and two men entered. Cernea was arrested after following the quartet. Officials say he came to aid a friend detained in the case.
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Charles Cernea
Gobelay NE
Cernea
Quinlan Boy Struck by Auto In Alliance
Joseph Quinlan fifteen was struck by an automobile near Arch and State streets in Alliance while stepping back off the curb to catch a baseball. He sustained a compound fracture of the left leg and was taken to Alliance City hospital by Emerson Conrad who drove him there. Quinlan resides at 2415 South Linden avenue and attends State street school.
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Alliance
Joseph Quinlan
Alliance City Hospital
Emerson Conrad
Salem
Arch and
State Sts
Conrad
City Hospital
Quinlan
South Linden Ave
State Street
Strike turns deadly as guard fire hits crowd in Cicero
In Cicero a protest over steel work turns fatal when a bystander Thomas Hallwood is killed during an attack on strike breakers. Armed guards on trucks opened fire, killing Hallwood as workers clashed with stones and crowds.
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Chicago
Thomas Hallwood
Cicero
Hallwood
Warn They Will Derail Non Union Operated Cars
Striking carmen along the Southern division tracks of Northern Ohio Power and Light threaten to derail street cars operated by non union workers between Canton and Uhrichsville. The action is in protest of N C P policy to hire strikebreakers and is tied to wage demands and training requirements under city ordinance No 4088. The seventh day of the walkout saw mass meetings and renewed protests over carmen training standards for operators within Canton.
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Chion
Southern Division
Northern Ohio Power & Light Co
Here
Uhrichsville
Carmen
Two States In Court Fight On Support Point
Ohio and Pennsylvania clash over cross state child support policy as Canton seeks extradition of Elwood City Pa resident George Hooker for non support of two Ohio children. Hooker faces an Ohio indictment from 1924 and a Pennsylvania divorcee contends confiscating support from her Pennsylvania family as punishment for his neglect in Ohio.
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Ohio
Pennsylvania
Newcastle
Elwood City
George Hooker
George Thorn
Hooker
Canton
Gang of youths held after attack at Edgewater park
In Cleveland on May 8 a gang attacked Miss Mary Patton 22 and Miss Catherine Dever 21 who escaped to call police. Miss Patton lies in care of a physician after a severe lac injury as police conduct a broad search and hold several youths.
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Cleveland
Mary Patton
Edgewater Park
Catherine Dever
Patton
Sanitarium Fire Sparks Rescue on East 82nd Street
Fire destroyed a sanitarium at 1940 East 82nd Street. About seven hundred dollars in damage. Firemen rescued patient Mr. J. Wentworth aged 85, a nurse, and another woman.
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East 82Nd St
Jvlen Wentworth
Body Identified as Not Baker in Cassville Death
The decomposed body found on a Cassville area farm near Cassville was identified as not Clark C. Baker, the missing Mansfield dance hall proprietor. Two sisters from Shelby confirmed it is a stranger, noting differences in size and a bald spot. The body was found by a 10 year old on a farm and will be buried today.
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Cadiz
Cassville
Here
Clark C. Baker
Mansfield
Baker
Robert Wilson
Mra. W. J. Cline
Shelby
Francis Dunlay
Mailbox labeled Garbage sparked frequent deposits in Pittsfield
A container marked Garbage near a mail box in Pittsfield Massachusetts was used to stash articles and parcel post pieces so often that the garbage box had to be relocated to manage the overflow.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Residents favor city paying on N Canton road
Canton North Canton residents met at Edgefield schoolhouse and voted unanimously for closed paying construction for the Canton Akron franchise. County commissioners and the state highway department endorsed the city type as the final action approaches with a meeting to finalize franchise details and residents with frontage voting.
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Canton- North Canton Rdt
Edgefield
Canton- Massillon
HH. D. Bercaw
Cleveland
County Infirmary
Oakwood
Canton-Massillon
State Highway Department
Canton-Akron
N. OQ. P
C. A. Fromm
William Schneider
Coolidge Hosts Breakfast With Senate Leaders
President Coolidge presided at a White House breakfast conference with a group of Republican senators. Attendees included Borah of Idaho Fess of Ohio Dale of Vermont Oddie of Nevada Shortridge of California and Dill of Washington as they discussed the general legislative program.
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White House
Washington
Coolidge
Borah
Idaho
Fess
Ohio
Dale
Vermont
Oddie
Nevada
Shortridge
California
Dill
Student Injured in Pool Fall at University of Cincinnati
An 18 year old student Francis Sell of Chadleston West Virginia fell into the UC gym pool and suffered a possible fractured skull. He was rescued from drowning by Virgil Gregg and Frank Petri of Dayton who witnessed the accident.
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Cincinnati
Francis Sell
Chadleston
W. Va
General Hospital
University of Cincinnati
Virgil Gregg
Frank Petri
Dayton
Nesbitt Case Delays Miami County Grand Jury
In Troy Ohio on May 8 the Miami county grand jury did not meet after hearing 15 witnesses in the Nesbitt case. Jacob Nesbitt, who confessed to killing his wife Frances Drake Nesbitt, prompted the recess with the jury expected to reconvene and possibly indict Nesbitt late Wednesday or Thursday.
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Troy, O
Miami Co Grand Jury
Jacob Nesbitt
Frances Drake Nesbitt
Nesbitt
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