Lawrenceburg motor crash claims Ruth Smith
Ruth Smith 17 was killed and her sister Aimee 20 bruised when their car overturned at Guilford pike and Nowlin avenue in Lawrenceburg Indiana. A two year old passenger escaped unharmed. Several cars reportedly overturned at the same intersection recently.
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Ruth Smith
High
Mary Street
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Aimee Smith
Guilford Pike
Nowlin Avenue
George Smith
Ruth
Aimee
Marshal Loos Speaks After Gear Car Attack
Harri son Marshal James J. Loos recounts Monday night assault from a speeding car after stopping them for speeding. He describes a high speed struggle on the running board, a blow to the head, and injuries that left him unable to visit his hospitalized daughter Edith as she battles blood poisoning.
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James J. Loos
Harrison
Good Samaritan Hospital
George Newton
West Ninth Street
Daisy Newton
Mary Gentry
East Third Street
Ben Stapleton
Baum Street
Edith
Daddy
Mr. Loos
Faith
Indiana Line
Cincinnati
Roadhouse raid sparks chaos on Licking Pike near Newport
Sheriff Tieman and a large task force raided the Spot roadhouse as hundreds were inside drinking and dancing. Fights broke out, two auto crashes occurred, and five arrests were made including two girls aged sixteen. Moonshine stills, mash, and jugs were found in adjoining buildings and the owner cited to US Commissioner.
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Campbell County Sheriff and Dry Squad
Licking Pike
Newport
Louis B. Tieman
Campbell County
Margaret Berry
Joseph Herman
Columbia Street
United States
Oscar Roetken
Tieman
W. Case Thomasson
Public Safety
Wiliams and Mattox
Reymond Maggi
Daciere
Newport Fire Department
Thomasson
Prohibition
Wood
Woman Held in New York on Charge of Shooting Salesman
Mrs. Sarah Berlin was arrested in a Theresa Hotel room after police found Moe Schneider, a salesman, wounded by a bullet near his heart and a revolver in her muff. She admitted purchasing it in Philadelphia and was held without bail for felonious assault. She said she hoped Schneider would marry her and acknowledge a child. Police state she pulled the trigger while Schneider slept. He had a fair chance to recover.
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Colerain Avenue
Berger Street
Philomenia Broglie
Massachusetts Avenue
General Hospital
Charles Ratterman
York Street
William Toard
Findlay Street
Marbert Shott
Delta Avenue
Madison Road
Gilmore Street
Austin Bruening
Whitemar Street
John Donald
Montana Avenue
Spring Grove Avenue
C. P. Grim
National Military
Dayton
New York
Sarah Berlin
Theresa Hotel
Moe Schneider
Berlin
Schneider
Washington
Charles Evans Hughes
Republican National Committee
Newberry
Hugh B. McCauley
Patterson
N. J
Supreme Court
Michigan
Senate of
United States
Hughes
Mr. Newberry
Prohibition Agent Predicts Sunday Movie Ban Nationwide
Miss Georgia Hopley Bucyrus first woman national prohibition agent predicted in an address here that a motion picture theater will not operate on Sundays nationwide. She urged stronger prohibition law enforcement in Oshio and nationwide as the Sunday ban looms.
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Marion
Georgia Hopley
Bucyrus
Prohibition
Hopley
Oshio
Representative Hicks Returns From Western Air Trip
Representative Hicks of New York, part of the air daredevil squadron in Congress, arrived at Bolling Field after a Chicago to Washington air mail flight. He left Chicago at 10 45 in the morning and landed at 5 45 in the evening.
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Washington
Representative Hicks
New York
Congress
Chicago
Bolling Field
Drowning at Walnut Shade Camp Near Cleves
Lawrence Gander 23 of 8534 Warsaw Ave drowned when a rowboat with two companions capsized four miles from Cleves Ohio at Big Miami River during a camp celebration. Fire department and Life Saving Squad searched with hooks and dynamite but the body remained missing at night. Gander was part of a local family and had managed the Alois Gander butcher shop after his father's death.
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Lawrence Gander
Warsaw Avenue
Walnut Shade
Cleves
Miami
Gander
Cincinnati Fire Department
Life Saving Squad No. 52
Fernbank Dam
Alois Gander
Price Hill
Polands Chamber and Senate elections set for November dates
War saws August 20 report says elections for the Chamber of Deputies will be held November 5 and elections for the Senate on November 22. The decree fixes both key dates for Poland's parliamentary process.
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Warsaw
Chamber of Deputies of
Poland
Senate
Woman farmer rents land for butter rent in Martenkirche
In Martenkirche the farmer rents 35 acres of pasture to another grower for 6500 pounds of butter yearly. The transaction aims to avoid volatile mark values as the farm’s prewar income was 4000 to 5000 marks. At current rates 6500 pounds of butter equal about 400,000 marks.
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Berlin
East Frican
Martenkirche
Mystery wall find parents and return of heir to $50,000
Aug 20 Chicago. Robert William Ross known as the mystery orphan was pronounced foundling and sent east to join his birth family. A nine year search traced him from Joliet to St. Vincent's Chicago then to California, leading to a court ruling that invalidated the California adoption and returned him to the Illinois asylum, with an ongoing quest to claim his birth name and larger inheritance.
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Chicago
Robert William Ross
Foundling
Joliet
United States
Guardian
St. Vincent’s Mega
Ethel Hand
California
Illinois
Woman Set Record for Sorting Mail
Washington Aug. 20 A Detroit Post Office employee Miss Nina E Holmes 20 set a postal service sorting record by distributing 20610 letters in eight hours The Post Office Department announced tonight that Holmes is the champion mail handler of the service.
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Washington
Postal Service
Nina. E. Holmes
Detroit
Post Office Department
Amelia Mayor Almost Kidnapped By Autospeeder
James Fillett mayor of Amelia Ohio was nearly abducted when a gray 1915 touring car crashed into Ed Bredor’s truck at Amelia’s four corners. The mayor tried to stop the driver who fled after a confrontation near railroad tracks. Elbert Jackson, driving Bredor’s truck, was severely injured and may be bedridden for weeks.
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James Fillett
Amelia, O
Cincinnati
Ed Breder
Amelia
Four Corners
Mayor Fillett
Fillett
Amélia
Elbert Jackson
Bredor
Free-for-All at Oakley Park Ends With Leader Thrown in Lake
A park melee at Madison park near Oakley yesterday drew motorists after rumors of an attack. Witnesses say the ring leader, a man, was tossed into a lake and swam away unharmed. The Eden Athletic Club grounds committee quelled the fight as women joined in the brawl and left in a car as onlookers gathered.
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Madison Park
Oakliey
Oakley
Eden Athletic Club
Mother's Dream Leads To Finding of Body Of Her Missing Son
Seven year old Joseph Klucznik disappeared while wading with his sister Sophie after a rain Friday night. His mother Mrs. Bernice Klucznik dreamed his body would be found in a pool of water. Two men retrieved the body from the pool as they fished today in Cleveland Ohio.
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Cleveland
Joseph Klucznik
Sophie
Bernice Klucznik
Massive Ku Klux Klan Initiation Near Chicago Suburb
In a field near Chicago a claimed record class of 4 650 Klansmen were initiated in a night ceremony watched by about 25 000 people. The event drew members from eighteen Chicago klans and twelve from outside Cook County in Illinois.
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Ku Klux Klan
Chicago
Wreck Kills Two as Spikes Are Removed from Rail
Near Gary, a freight express derailed after track spikes were removed, causing two deaths. The incident prompts safety reviews and rail line inspections for causal factors and preventative measures.
Campers Bury Beer in Sands of Miami
Report from Remington and Loveland area recounts campers near the Little Miami River who buried beer and ice after Loveland Mayor Little issued 200 warrants for possessing pre Volstead beer. Onlookers and investigators note the scene as a playful ruse with no clear arrests.
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Sands of Miami
Mayor Just
Little Miami
Remington
Loveland
Cap’ Kidd
Little
Napoleon
Greece Threatens Boycott Over Bulgarian Frontier Raids
Belgrade August 20. A commercial blockade against Bulgaria by Greece Yugoslavia and Romania will be declared if Bulgaria does not show results in controlling and preventing frontier raids by Bulgarian irregulars. The note to the Bulgarian government was signed by the three protesting nations.
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Belgrade
Associated Press
Bulgaria
Greece
Jugo-Slavia
Rumania
McCormick Sees Possible Rail Strike Settlement Within Week
Senator Medill McCormick arrived in Chicago from the East and said he talked to a man who attended the New York meetings between Brotherhood executives and railroad officials. The man suggested a settlement of the rail strike within a week seemed assured.
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Chicago
Medill McCormick
Brotherhood
New York
McCormick
Railroad Brotherhood Leaders Say No Sympathy Strike Likely
Warren I. Stone and D. B. Robertson returned from Washington and New York saying there is no danger of a sympathetic strike by the Big Four railroad brotherhoods even if shopmen’s talks fail. They refuse to predict progress and emphasize mediating only, noting safety laws would keep trains running if needed. They plan to return to New York to attend Wednesday talks on peace proposals.
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Cleveland, CO
Associated Press
Warren I. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
D. B. Robertson
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
New York
Washington
Stone
Robertson
Brotherhood
Harding
Interstate Commerce ‘Commission
Mr. Stone
Congress
Messrs
Stone and Robertson
Engine And Gar Crushed In Mad Destruction
Eight men aboard Express Train No 29 on the Michigan Central from New York to Chicago wrecked near Gary Indiana after twenty seven spikes were removed from a rail detaching the engine. Engineer Edward Coy of Kalamazoo and fireman Frank Lubbs of Niles were killed. two Express Messengers Stockwell and Heath injured. The train carried valuable express shipments and eight crew members. Police investigate motive and say engine had prior trouble. Reward offered for those responsible.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Michiganee
Newark
Gary
Ind
Michigan Central
Edward Coy
Kalamazoo
Mich
Frank Lubbs
Niles
Michigan
Co. H. Stockwell
Niagara Falls
New York
A. B. Heath
Buffalo
N. Y
Jewell Seeks Washington Stay Over Strike Negotiations
B M Jewell head of the AFL Railroad Department says he will remain in Washington until talks between rail executives and union leaders resume in New York. He will not comment on the situation while mediators work with shopmen and stationary firemen on strike. He denies a telegram urging strikers to return to work and notes W H Johnston is also in the city as another union leader.
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Washington
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor Railroad Department
New York
Brotherhood
Jewell
Shanks Kills Wife Then Shoots Self in Nashville
W S Shanks 47 depot station master at Grand River Kentucky shot and killed his wife Doris Shanks 23 after failing to reconcile via a Nashville newspaper ad offering a monthly allowance and per crossword fee. He then killed himself with a brain shot.
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Nashville
Tenn
Doris Shanks
W. S. Shanks
Illinois Central Railroad
Grand River
Shanks
Wreck Victims Edward Coy and Frank Lubbs Laid to Rest
Edward Coy and Frank Lubbs, engineers from Niles, were killed in the New York Chicago Express wreck near Gary. Coy, nearly 60, served 38 years with Michigan Central and leaves a widow who is prostrated. Lubbs married last April and his wife had just left to visit his Iowa parents. Investigators report seventeen spikes removed from ties and a crowbar tied to Gary street line found near the scene amid ongoing Gary railroad troubles.
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Niles, Mich
Edward Coy
Frank Lubbs
Gary
Niles
Coy
Chicago
Michigan Central
Lubbs
Iowa
Piqua Enforces Blue Laws Quietly Under Mayor Deweese
Piqua O Aug 20 blue law enforcement continues under Mayor A W Deweese ban on most activities in the city except essentials like milk delivery light plant operation and medical prescriptions No arrests reported The city faces stricter Sunday rules as a theater manager's trial for operating on Sunday proceeds Tuesday morning
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Piqua
A. W. Deweese
Deweese
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