Prominent Canton Republican Recalls Prohibition Era
The Man on the Square recalls Mark Hanna and Wayne Wheeler, detailing Wheeler’s push to make prohibition law a constitutional duty. It notes Wheeler’s Oberlin beginnings and long commitment to the cause, alongside Canton's civic figures like Frank Adams and the慈 role of local doctors confronting infantile paralysis.
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Canton
M. A. Hanna
Ohio
Nationa
Mark Hanna
Wayne B. Wheeler
Wheeler
Hanna
Hye
Brookfield
Oberlin College
State Investigates Tax Protests Here
Samuel Hudson, special examiner for the state tax commission, heard protests from Congress Lake Club Co. and 51 other cases. Appeals proceed from county board of revision to the tax commission. The Congress Lake Club challenged land and building valuations and the golf course, water, cottage sites, and rough land figures as too high, swampland listed as no value. Protests from property owners north of Canton along Market and Next were set for hearing Thursday. all appeals concern property outside Canton.
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Samuel Hudson
State Tax Commission
Court of Last Resort
Congress Lake Club Co
State Commission
County Board of Revision
Tax Commission
Examiner Hudson
Canton
Congress Lake
Board of Revision
Market
Myers Cooper to Speak at Stark County Fair
Myers Y. Cooper Republican candidate for governor in 1926 was to give a short address at the Stark County Fair Thursday afternoon. City hall offices were closed by order of Mayor M Swarts to allow officials and city employees to attend Canton Day at the fair. The county commissioners' office and many courthouse staff were also expected to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myers Y. Cooper
Starkeo
M. Swarts
Canton
Fair receipts hit new state fair record in Ohio
Agriculture Director Truax announced Ohio state fair receipts last week reached a new all time high about 233000 dollars from all sources. He noted the previous peak was 207000 dollars in 1925 and only about 4000 dollars remain to be collected.
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Columbus
Sept
Truax
Insanity Defense Plea For Baltimore Merchant Bernstein
Charles M. Bernstein a Baltimore merchant and New York real estate figure will plead insanity in the killing of three men after an argument Tuesday afternoon Aunt Alexander Abrams says Bernstein was wandering in a nightmare and a fourth victim died yesterday Robert McGroarty succumbs to injuries from the 9th story office building shooting The treasury net balance Sept 6 stands at 66 017 479 13 dollars.
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New York
Charles M. Bernstein
Baltimore
Alexander Abrams
Bernstein
Robert McGroarty
Tax chiefs debate cuts in treasury plan
Washington officials return Mellon to duty as data is gathered for a fall tax reduction review. Treasury planners disagree on cuts, proposing relief of 109 million to 2 billion, noting 19,000 top earners pay nearly as much as 115 million others. War taxes seen as absent, auto tax viewed as simple collection, amusement and club dues yield about 25 million, supporting possible elimination.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Congress
Hughes Seen as Candidate for Republican Nomination
Washington reports Secretary Mellon voiced the view that Charles Evans Hughes would accept the Republican presidential nomination if offered. Mellon noted a Washington Post article stating Hughes would take the nomination as he did in 1926 after a graveyard silence on the Supreme Court bench.
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Washington
Sept
Secet
Treasury
Mellon
Charles Evans Hughes
Hughes
Europe
Washington Post
Charles E. Hughes
Supreme Bench
Cotton prices jump ten dollars a bale after crop report
New York reports cotton prices soar by ten dollars per bale shortly after noon following the Sept 1 crop condition release showing 12 492 000 bales versus 13 492 000 a month earlier. Cincinnati driver Snowden Wells injured 16 when his bus hit a tree on the Springfield pike as Jamen O Connell leads a utilities investigation.
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New York
Cincinnati
Snowden Wells
Cincinnati-Hamilton
Springfield Pike
Jamen O'Connell
Public Utilities Commission
Hamilton
British Plane Missing in Latest Ocean Dash
News reports from New York and London detail the missing Old Glory transatlantic monoplane and its three occupants Lloyd W. Bertaud James De Witt Hill and passenger Philip Payne. Rewards totaling thirty five thousand dollars were offered for rescue or recovery.
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New York
William Randolph Hearst
Lloyd W. Bertaud
James de Witt Hill
Philip Payne
Canton
Newfoundland
Old Glory
Bertaud
Glory
Nungesser
Princess Anne Low
Auto victim found not hurt in courthouse collapse
Charles Wolfschmidt, 65, of Philadelphia, who police said collapsed last Monday on courthouse steps, was near recovery Thursday. He had been reported to have broken a leg in a Canton Mansillon road accident a week earlier, but X rays showed no serious injuries. Patrolman Wilhelm aided Wolfschmidt to the M C A and Mercy hospital.
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Charles Wolfschmidt
Philadelphia
Wolfschmidt
Canton- Mansillon
Wilhelm
M.C A
Mercy
Great Northern Seeks 20 Million Dollar Mortgage Bond Issue
The Great Northern railway asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to issue 20 million dollars of 4 1 2 percent general mortgage bonds. Proceeds will fund road expenditures from 1917 to 1921. Bonds to be sold at not less than 96.
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Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Great Northern Railway
Bergdoll seeks passage to U S by Bellanca plane
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famed American draft dodger, asked Charles A. Levine for passage to the United States in the Bellanca monoplane Columbia. In Cincinnati, Reyes Infantile Paralysis reported its fourth death in July, William Wiggine, 10, as a tallied life event.
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Croydon Airport
Eng
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Charles A. Levine
United Press Today
United States
Cincinnati, Reyes
William Wiggine
Judge to Change Drastic Injunction in Strike Area
Federal Judge Benson W. Hough said a new restraining order will be drawn Saturday to satisfy coal operators and union miners. The order will modify the injunction against union picketing, found too severe given peaceful conditions in the strike area, after hearings in Steubenville.
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Steubenville
Benson W. Hough
Hough
English Channel attempt ends after four miles
Dr. Hreweter a London physician abandoned his swim of the English Channel after about four miles. He entered the water at St Margaret's Bay, England, at 10:45 today and halted the effort.
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ST. Margaret's Bay
Eng
Hreweter
London
English Channel
Jewster
Physicians Gift Opens Children's Hospital House
Dr. H. M. Schuffell donated his 15th Street home at Logan Avenue NW for a children’s hospital. He transferred the deed to Sister Eleanor of the Sisters of Charity of St Augustine, with Mercy hospital to maintain control. Mercy staff then pledged $6,000 to equip the facility and remodeling proceeds toward opening before Christmas for 20 to 40 sick and crippled city children.
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HM. Schuffells
15Th St
Loganavy
Sisters of Charity
St. Augustine
H. M. Schuffell
Logan
Eleanor
Sisters of Charity of St
Schuffell
Sisters of Mercy Hospital
Sisters of Charity of St. Augustine
Mercy Hospital
Children's Hospital
Canton Citizens Praise Hospital Gift and $6000 Donation
Canton residents and leaders hail Dr. H. M. Schuffell for gifting his home and a $6,000 fund from physicians to establish a children’s hospital. Chamber of Commerce president E. A. McCunkey, Rotary official George Schoner, and Rabbi Charles Lats commend the generosity and lasting civic impact. Stark County health officials and local groups emphasize the humanitarian value for Canton children.
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Canton
H. M. Schuffell
E. A. McCunkey
Canton Chamber of Commerce
Dr. Schuffell
George Schoner
Rotary Committee
Schuffell
Charles B. Lats
McKinley Avenue
C. M. Peters
Stark Co
Stark Ce
A. E. Howell
Family Service Society
Navy Will Not Seek Flyers From New York Newspapers
The Navy declines to pursue the mining plane Old Glory due to ships being too distant. The nearest available vessel is the cruiser Trenton at Brooklyn Navy Yard, which would need three or more days to reach the origin point.
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Washington, Spt
New York
the Graphic
Tmlly Mirra
Department
Trenton
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Avers President to Refuse Farm
In Burbank California on September the piece notes a playful boast about giving Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would reside there and manage its upkeep and debts. It mocks generosity and suggests the congressman rogers comments on the matter.
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Burbank, Cal
South Dakota
Calvin
West
Coolidge
Rogers
Politics Enters Church Session in Ohio Conference
At the tri conference sessions of Ohio Methodists in Delaware politics intrudes church affairs with elections for lay and ministerial delegates to the Kansas City general conference. Outside the church Supt Charles F Miller of Indianapolis predicts no presidential winner in 1928 without bold leadership.
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Delaware
Ohio
West Ohio
Northeast Ohio
Kansas City
Charles F. Miller
Indianapolis
Albery Rydney Gregg
Cleveland
Gregg
Civic Reform Association of
Sheriff’s Night Patrol Targets Traffic Violators
Sheriff Ed Gibson’s new night patrol arrested six violators Wednesday night on the Merrgiaida ville road. KR E Reece of Massillon was jailed for DWI after veering into a ditch. Speeders posting bonds included Artbeaker Akron Carroll Kreentown Muckley Kreentown Bibna Massillon Showere Akron. Patrols will run nightly with day deputies warned to seek traffic law violators.
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Ed Gibson
KR. E. Reece
Massilion
Jai
Merrgiaidaville
Artbeaker
Hills and Dales
T Carroll Akron
Mascasillon-Cona Fulton Road
M. Muckley
Caribou Herd Damages Alaska Telegraph Wires
Thousands of caribou swarmed along the Alaska railroad corridor at Canyon and tore down telegraph wires. Linemen sent to repair the damage fled as the herd stampeded through the passage causing traffic to halt.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Alaska Railroad
Rejeiy
Ex Chief Lengel murder case affidavits claim juror biased
Application for rehearing of Saranus A. Lengel's motion for a new trial cites affidavits from J. Gi. White and Emma Young alleging juror Alice Craig expressed the opinion of his guilt prior to serving. Lengel, former police chief, is serving a life sentence for involvement in the Don R. Mellett murder plot.
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Saranus A. Lengel
Common Pleas Court
Alice Craig
J. Gi. White
City Health Department
Emma Vo Young
Anderson
Lengel
Don R. Mellett
Lengels
Frank M. Clevenger
Wilmington
Karl Schisler
White
Emma Young
Craig
Wheeler Rites To Be Thursday
The body of Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti-Saloon League leader, to be laid to rest beside his wife’s grave. Prohibition figures and church leaders will attend a funeral with tributes by Dr Francie Scott McBride, Dr. Howard Hyde Rumell, and Dr. Ernest Cherrington. Honorary pallbearers include Gov. Vic Lonahey, ex-Gov Kienhard Yates of Illinois, Col. Patrick Henry Callahan, Col umbus, and Mayor James Thomas of Columbus.
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Columbus
Rept
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Francie Scott McBride
47th annual reunion of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Arrangements are under way in Lancaster for the 47th annual reunion of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry, to be held at Sherman Armory on September 21. Five companies of the regiment were recruited in Fairfield County.
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Lancaster
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Sherman
Fairfield Co
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Washington, Sept
New York Daily Mirror
Croydon
Sir John Carling
United Press
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Terrence Tully
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