Man on the Square Ponders City Comfort Station Plan
Stark, a weary passerby near the courthouse basement, laments the lack of a public comfort station in the business district. He urges the city to set aside about 10 000 for a central facility accessible to visitors, ideally south of Pedlic square near the car tracks. A scribe records his plea amid other notes on worn watches and local chatter.
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Ensral Stark
Therthouse
Canton
Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Stark Officials Must Pay Bills To Bring Repairs
The elimination of state aid to Stark County highways by governor vetoes jeopardizes funding for Canton to North Canton, Navarre to Berlin, and Canton to Louisville resurfacing projects. Legislation failure to provide funds and a higher gasoline tax endanger plans to start summer highway work. Also reports on the Streitenberger murder trial include witness delays and defense steps as Saranus Lengel may testify.
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Stark Co
A. Y. Donahey
Ohio
Starkeo
Canton
North Canton
Navarre-Berlin
Wilmot
Brewster
Canton-Louisville
Columbus
Canton-North
Dennis Tt. Smuttt
Saranus A. Lengel
Floyd A. Streitenberger
Don R. Mellett
Lendel
Streitenberger
Henry W. Harter
Frank M. Clevenger
Frank T. Bow
Lengel
Man Found Dead in Garage From Monoxide Gas
Benjamin T. Pipes 1543 Fulton Rd NW was found dead in his garage Wednesday evening from monoxide fumes. He was a local contractor and M E church member. survived by wife Susan two daughters Allie and Evelyn four sisters and one brother and his mother. Body at Hiller's funeral home awaiting arrangements.
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Benjamin T. Pipes
Fulton Rd
France Must Want Gotham Moved Nearer (Will Rogers Special)
A Bennington Vermont column quotes Will Rogers in a lighthearted note about French reaction to a failed flight. The writer jokes about retaliation, mentions Nungesser and Coll, and suggests Americans should redirect to Constantinople, illustrating wartime sentiment and public humor of the era.
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France
Gotham
Woman fires revolver at fleeing car in Market area
Miss Edith Wilson reported firing six shots at a car as three men abducted a woman. Police arrested Ralph Zimmerman, R C Hilton, and A C Gana on intoxication and suspicion. Hilton charged as driver. Ralph Trump pursued and aided officers, finding the fallen woman near Edgefield.
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Villians
Ralph Trump
Trump
North Canton
Edgefield
Ralph Zimmerman
R. C. Hilton
4Th St Nw
A. C. Gana
Carnahanay
Hilton
Edith Wilson
Market Av N
Miss Wilson
Joliet Break Plot Foiled
May 12. Guards reinforced at Joliet penitentiary after the arrest of William Evans an escaped murderer believed to plan a wholesale prison delivery with mustard gas bombs and nitroglycerine. Evans was captured while attempting to drive a car into the gates posing as a missionary priest.
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Joliet I
Henry J
Ferneckes
Joliet Penitentiary
William Evans
Evans
Flyers centered on Newfoundland for missing French aviators
May 12 reports from New York indicate Capts. Charles Nungesser and Francis Coll may have landed in Canadian wilderness if forced down near Newfoundland. The search reflects hope they survived at sea, with sightings and plans of inland landings feeding renewed optimism amid a developing Paris flight race.
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Will Rogers
Bennington
France
New York
Nungesser
Coll
Paris
Constantinople
Charles Nungesser
Francis Coll
Tody
Newfoundland
Wilder Nethle
Harbor Grace
Aviatos Lloyd Bertaud
Clarence Chamberlin
Charles A Linderbergh
San Franciso
Cal
Tee City
Roosevelt Field
Log Island
Dayton official attends Cleveland Auto club annual meeting
Paul Ackerman secretary of the Dayton Automobile club came to Cleveland for the annual meeting arriving by air from Dayton. Ackerman said the trip was way too free of thrills.
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Cleveland, O
Paul Ackerman
Dayton Automobile Club
Cleveland Automobile Club
Dayton
Ackerman
France and United States Share Fraternal Regard After Nungesser Flight
Premier Briand expresses France's gratitude for American sympathy after the failed Nungesser Coli non stop flight to New York and emphasizes shared heroism and bonds between French and American peoples. He says future success by American aviators will be aided by ongoing Franco American fraternity.
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Prederic K. Anrott
Canton Daily News
Paris
United States
France
Charles Nungesser
New York
Briand
Nunwesser
Francois Col
Atlantic
Ile
Ana
Eight Die In Dallas Lodge Blast At Odd Fellows Hall
Fire and an explosion leveled the Odd Fellows lodge in Dallas injuring twenty nine and killing eight. The blast, blamed on gas in the basement, occurred as 36 members conducted a meeting, with an adjoining one story building also destroyed.
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Dallas
Odd Fellows
Tex
Rfight
Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Two Girls fatally crushed by car at Cleveland shop
Ruth Weisberg aged 8 and her sister Elaine 6 died in Cleveland after being crushed between a car and the front of a shoe repair shop. The accident occurred today as the girls were near the shop.
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Cleveland
Ruth Weisberg
Elaine
Serum Rush As Smallpox Grips Refugees
Baton Rouge May 12 The Mississippi flood relief drive narrowed to 21 smallpox patients from hundreds of thousands homeless. A river steamer delivered 22 refugees from Datley Landing to the Red Cross camp at Harrisonburg Catahoula Parish last night. Twenty one carried smallpox. They were rescued from a second floor of a farm dwelling 150 miles from the flood scene.
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Baton Rouge, la
Red Cross
Harrisonburg
Catahoula Parish
Datley's Landing
Red Cross Flood Fund Reaches 10 Million Plus Total
Contributions to the Red Cross flood relief fund reached 10 501 185 with 6 732 432 from the eastern states 2 737 000 from the midwest 893 583 from the pacific states and 33 170 from insular and foreign sources.
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Washington
Red Cross
Pacific States
Refugees Rescued Near Beaulf River Inoculation Camp Preparations
A 10 day marooned group along the Beaulf River near Datley Landing reaches isolation at Pine Forests Bayou Macon Tila. Airlifts from Natchez deliver vaccine and serum to Harrisonburg as Red Cross worker Miss Calahan organizes mass inoculation for the stranded community and others expected. Her Fort Wayne Indiana home links to Cleveland welfare groups.
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Bayou Macon
Louisiana
Datley
Harrisonburg
Natchez
Beaulf
Stracken
Mins Winifred Calahan
Red Cross
Miss Calahan
Cleveland
Fort Wayne
Ind
Premier to Act as Best Man at Senator Marconi Wedding
Rome May 12 Premier Mussolini will act as best man at the wedding of Senator Marconi wireless inventor and Countess Bezziscali The date will be set when the premier is available to attend
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Rome
Mussolini
Marconi
Bezziscali
Manager Sues Peaches Browning Over Contract
Chicago May 12. Arnold Stolz, theatrical booking agent, files suit for 50000 dollars against Frances Peaches Browning and her mother Mrs Caroline Heenan for breach of contract. Stolz says Browning agreed to pay him all amounts over 1650 a week for 20 weeks and later claimed she was a minor and refused payment.
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Chicago
Ault
Frances
Peaches”) Browning
Caroline Heenan
Arnold Stolz
Stolz
Peaches
Derby Day Fever At Churchill Downs In 1921 Derby
Louisville observers readied for the Kentucky Derby as stable chatter and race preparations filled Churchill Downs. Trainers weighed whether their colts were finely tuned or overworked while insiders predicted outcomes amid crowds, breakfast buffs, and high hopes for the great race.
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Holding & Levee
Nickel Plate stock hits 208 as trunk line plans loom
New York May 12 The common stock of New York Chicago and St Louis railroad rose 13 points to a record high of 208 at the opening in the stock market. The share surge comes as the Nickel Plate is envisioned as the central spine for a proposed trunk line system to be formed by consolidation with Chesapeake & Ohio Hocking Valley Erie and Pere Marquette under the Van Sweringen brothers with backing from a major New York banking house.
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New York
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad
Chesapeake & Ohio
Hocking Valley
Erie
Pere Marquette
van Sweringen Brothers
Cleveland
New York Banking Srous
Canton Man Admits Stealing Nine Cars Across Cities
Ellis Baughman of Grove City Pennsylvania confessed to stealing nine automobiles in Canton and nearby areas. He admitted to taking cars in Canton Akron Grove City and Youngstown and was arrested in Harrisville West Virginia with a Canton stolen vehicle. Police say he used a pattern of stealing in one city then moving to another to abandon and steal again.
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Ellis Baughman
Grove City
Canton
Akron
Youngstown
Tvolles
Baughman
Harrisville
W. Va
W. G. Morrison
Yaleay
Norman Val Almen
Raymond Fitzgera
Grand Fareway
Dominick Lizzle
6Th St SE
Frank Lohr
Loutaville
Walter Diest
William Clark
Nonker Ice Cream Co
Tuscarawas FE
Clyde Sluaser
M. Conley Co
J. T. Garver
Agreement Fails in Goodyear War
New York May 12 No agreement has been reached to settle the court battle between Dillon Read & Co and minority stockholders of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co Negotiations among Dillon Read bankers and Frank A Setbering interests have continued to try to settle the suits over control out of court
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New York
Dillon, Read & Co
Goodyear Tire N Rubber Co
Dillon-Read Company
Goodyear Company
A. Setberiing
Cleveland Football Star Hubert Droege Found Dead
Hubert C. Droege, 26, a Case Institute football star in 1921, was found dead in a downtown Cleveland hotel bath room by a necktie, with his parents unaware of his return from California for several months. Police ruled death self inflicted.
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Tleveland
Blenecktie
Hubert C. Droege
Case
Droege
Califorenia
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