Martial Law Proclaimed as Moplah Riots Rage in Malabar
British India declares Malabar district a military area after Moplah rioting lava loots and arson. Pattambi clash leaves officers hurt and police firepower deployed. Charapalchary treasury burned and jailers forced to convert. Calicut reports Ernad treasury looted of about six lakhs rupees and Moplahs burn and attack police posts.
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India
Madras
Associated Press
Malabar
British India
Pattamb
Cotaparam
Batty
Dorset Regiment
Charapalchary
Perintalmanna
Calicut
Bombay
Ernad
Ernakulam
Cochin
Moplahs
Pullengode
Eaton
Special Reserve Police
Government of India to Action Against Prominent Persons
The Daily Telegraph reports that the government of India with the concurrence of Edward Montague plans to act against prominent personages held responsible for Moplah riots in Malabar. The move comes as disorders threaten a wider spread and patience is said to be exhausted.
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Government of India
London
Malabar
British India
Daily Telegraph Today
India
Edward Spencer Montague
Index to Advertisements and Listed Firms
A catalog-like page lists various advertisers and institutions including Art Academy, Art Museum, Burkhardt Bros. Co, Kindergarten Training School, College Preparatory School for Girls, College of Music, Devere Electric Co, Eagle Savings & Loan Association, Economy Supply Co, Abbott Piano Co, Franklin School, Fifth-Third National Bank, Gantvoort School of Music, Diane's Bible, Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co, St. Xavier College of Law, Shillito's, The Bell Telephone Co, The Effron-Gordon Co, Lawton Co, and multiple merchandise, piano, and motion picture providers. The layout resembles an index of business entries with page references and miscellaneous ads.
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Eeeeneee
Art Academy
Epeaesaene
Eiareeee
Burkhardt Bros. Co
Magazne
COE Ee Hocks Uet Anneeisenoneyas
Cin
College of Music
Uuah
Dorothy May
Devere Electric Co
Sue Busst
Eagle Savings & Loan Association
Economy Supply Co
Eek
M. Abbott Piano Co
Franklin School
AEROS
Financial
A. Lepper & Co
Ashbrook & Coo
Rhs Southern Ohio
Moe
Ovens i
Bae Wed
Cccces
Gantvoort School of Music
Gardenburg Gelool
Guthiie Meter Car Co
Diane's Bible Trocco
Ogee Epenseeesuciss Magazine
Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co
Eee
Biabiey B Care CO
Cas
McAlpin’s
Eae
Conde
Stenkamp’s
St. Xavier College of Law
Fok Pais
The
Bell Telephone Co
Cnc
Effron-Gordon Co
Lawton Co
Smith-Kasson Co
Western Tray and Case Co
Allied Powers Dissatisfied With Separate Peace With Germany
Washington reports Allied diplomats express disappointment over the United States Germany peace, fearing future legal disputes. Observers cite domestic politics in the Senate and party harmony as motives behind bypassing the Versailles accord, with warnings of potential legal challenges to rights secured by a separate treaty.
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Germany
Washington
United States
America
Senate
Republican Party
Harding
Europe
Lioynd George
Hughes
Versailles
Americas
Bomb wrecks Chicago Columbia Theater injuring several
A blast shook the Columbia Theater in downtown Chicago just after midnight as the venue awaited its season reopening. Police say the explosion resulted from labor trouble and several people suffered injuries from flying glass.
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Chicago
Columbia
Electrician tarred feathered and whipped in Beaumont Texas
J W Bordern an electrician was seized from the Silsbee Bee office by masked men in an automobile and tarred feathered and whipped in the country. He was later dumped on the main street of Silsbee and brought back. No reason was given for the attack.
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Beaumont Tex
J. W. Bordern
Silsbee Bee
Silsbee
Hardin County
Bordern
Stranger Cheats Cashier With Shined Shoes Scheme
Kathryn Williams, a Feltman Currie shoe store cashier in Newport, reports a well dressed stranger who shined his shoes and handed a check plus a $20 bill. She gave him $19.90 in change and later discovered the $20 note and the $19.90 had been stolen.
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Kathryn Williams
East Second Street
Newport
Feltman & Currie’s
Vine Street
Miss Williams
Postoffice Job Hangs On How Many Birthdays An Applicant May Have
Senator Stanfield queries the Civil Service Commission on how many birthdays a person may have to meet the required thirtieth birthday for postmaster exams. The issue could affect Connie J. Grabb, who turns thirty on September 17, and would be excluded under current rules. Stanfield argues a person could have more than one birthday for exam eligibility.
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Washington
Ann
Stanfield
Oregon
Civil Service Commission
Commission
Baker City
Ore
Connie J. Grabb
Grabb
New York Beanery Serves Hungry Park Sleepers
A West Thirty-fourth street restaurateur opens a bean emporium offering beans for fifteen cents and coffee for a nickel to homeless park dwellers. The sign betrays bold promises while the owner touts rapid success and playful remarks about patrons lacking funds.
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New York
Painters reject supplementary agreement after mass meeting
At Labor Temple in Cincinnati, Labor Council No 12 members rejected a supplementary agreement affecting union and non union workers, risking a new strike. Master Painters Association blamed Phil Gasdorf for withholding details, while calls for retaliation included threats of open shop.
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Labor Temple
Painters’ Labor Council No. 12
Cincinnati
Painters’ Union
Master Painters’ Association
Ammittee
Gasdorf
Phil C. Gasdorf
Labor Council
George R. Gable
Gasdorf Amd
Phil Gasdorf
Joseph D. Engelbert
Painters’ Mass
Train Crash Near Rome Kills Fifty Passengers
A passenger train colliding with a freight train ten miles from Rome killed fifty people and left many others seriously injured. The passenger train was returning from a seaside resort.
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Rome
Associated Press
Boy Searches for Father After Leaving Orphan Home
Nine year old Elbert DeHart, son of a World War veteran and whose mother died in France, ran away from the Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphan Home in Xenia to find his Cincinnati father. He visited Cincinnati’s Pennsylvan ia Depot and learned his father may live in Norwood or Linwood, with no address found. Police and Travelers’ Aid aided the search. he plans to return to Xenia if the father cannot be located.
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Elbert DeHart
Cincinnati
Elbert
France
Xenia
Argonne
St. Mihiel
Pennsylvania Depot
Norwood
Linwood
Travelers’ Aid Society
Crowds Pursue Purse Thief After Streetcar Chase
Miss Christine Lehman of Latonia Kentucky reported to police that a negro in the Fifth and Vine street area jostled her and tore a purse containing 26.20 from her arm as she boarded a street car. A crowd chased the thief but he escaped into an alley.
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Christine Lehman
Thirty-second Street
Latonia
Fifth and Vine Streets
Woman killed by automobile on Vine Street
Mrs. Mattie Schmittler, 45, died after being struck by Meinard Schill, a street car conductor, at Elder and Vine streets. She stepped into traffic, was hurled onto the car hood, and run over, as Schill was arrested on manslaughter charges. The victim’s identity sparked a search for a Mrs. Johnson and a missing child case linked to Freda Hornberger.
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Meinard Schill
Mattie Schnittler
Elder and Vine Streets
Mattie Schmittler
West Eighth Street
Schill
Vine Street
Elder Street
General Hospital
Schardt and Frick
O'Neil
Jump
Bernard Schmittner
Man Hunt Intensifies for Swarthy Abductor in Cincinnati
Police seek a 30 year old man described as five feet six, 130 pounds with a swarthy complexion, long sharp nose and black beard. He was last seen in a dark gray worn coat with frayed sleeves and a black hat near the Hornberger disappearance. Citizens urged to watch and report sightings to authorities.
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Mani
Freda Hornberger
Freda Mornberger
Cincinnati
The
Hornberger
Dayton High School mothers urge simple dress policy
Dayton Kentucky mothers and teachers club adopted a resolution urging girls at Dayton High School to avoid silk hose, French heel shoes, and georgette waists. The move aims to curb expense and extravagance, with support from Superintendent R. H. Brown who called regulation less imperative locally but affirming the idea.
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Dayton
Ky.) High School
Mothers and Teachers’ Club
Dayton High School
Edward Korten
Tangible crew finds in search for missing girl
Detective analyzes the case and notes the first tangible lead. He reports a maniac abducted the girl and spirited her to a remote part of the city. Coins given to the child before the abduction are seen as disarming any suspicion she might have had.
Mother joins search for missing Freda Hornberger
For the first time since her daughter's disappearance Mrs. John Hornberger actively searched cellars at night with her sister. Doctors say the mother's condition grows more critical. A separate alert follows after Edna Pinney, 10, faced a stranger in a car near Anderson's Ferry, triggering a large crowd search. A Connersville inquiry reported a well-dressed couple selling a girl matching Freda's description, later deemed not to be her.
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Freda Hornberger
Cincinnati
Freda
Hicker
John Hornberger
Lower River Road
Anderson’s Ferry
Hornberger
Connersville
Ind
Charles Arnold
Grand Avenue
Missing Girl Seen at Fifth and Vine in Akron Case
The Commercial Tribune traced nine year old Freda Hornberger to Fifth and Vine streets where a Warsaw avenue car conductor reported seeing a frightened girl at 5 p.m. Sunday. Conductors described a bobbed brown haired girl and police planned wider questioning of Warsaw street car crews to confirm the sighting.
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Commercial Tribune
Clark Street
Fifth and Vine
Warsaw Avenue
Freda Hornberger
The
Fifth and Vine Streets
Howard Kern
West Sixth Street
W. Louis
Kern
Camp Washington
Spring Grove
Harrison Avenues
Warsaw
Freda
Warsaw Avenue No. 3
Messrs
Louis Tally
George Kelly
Sedamsville
Fifth Street
Fifth
Vine Streets
Moore
Walnut
Back Streets
Walnut Streets
Washington
Inner tubes save girls from death as plane aids rescue
At Hampton Beach New Hampshire on August 27 a plane dropped inflated automobile inner tubes to aid three young women struggling in the heavy surf. Lifeguards failed at first. Marsella Moxeley of North Andover Massachusetts drowned while aviator J R Blake and mechanic Clifton Keapp guided the tubes to the victims who were revived after reaching shore.
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Hampton Beach
N. H
Marsella Moxeley
North Andover
Mass
Inside Shines Cost 50 Cents Bootblack Held
New York August 27 James De John a Brooklyn bootblack was held for the grand jury accused of violating the state prohibition law. Police say patrons could buy only an outside shine but insiders could obtain a two ounce bottle of hootch on leaving the stand. Outside shines cost ten cents inside a half dollar.
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New York
James de John
Brooklyn
Five Die as Train Hits Auto Near La Harpe Illinois
Five persons were killed when an automobile carrying occupants was struck by a Toledo Peoria Western passenger train at La Harpe Illinois today. The tragedy was reported to Peoria railroad offices by the railroad.
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la Harpe, Ill
Peoria
Ill
Toledo, Peoria & Western
la Harpe
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Burnas
Pattambi
British India Office
South India
BY David
Loop
Beaumont
Texas
Stranger
Italy
Ent
Lah Glewo
Acor Omotar
Hla Gar
Warsaw Line
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