Traffic cops cite 500 pedestrians for jaywalking in Cincinnati
Police under Lieutenant Wolsefer staged a broad campaign in the business district citing about 500 pedestrians for crossing streets at non intersections. Victims ranged from doctors and lawyers to social leaders and shop girls as crowds watched and many rushed to the Municipal Clerk’s office to plead guilty.
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Cincinnati
W. H. Ven Tress
Montgomery Avenue
Norwood
Wolsefer
Race Street
Lighth Street
Sgme
Rottenbrook
Costa
Chacksfield
Asimus, Crowley, Odgers and Drees
Central Station
Horace W. Walie
Robertson Avenue
Fourth Street
H. M. Tate
Lincoln Avenue
Ward Brooks
M Street
George T. Devere
Iliam C. Gorman
Federal Building
Charles Taft
Garden Place
Bernard Rosing
Scott Street
Covington
Gertrude Connors
West Lev
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Afraid to Bring Monkey to U S After Evolution Case
A Londoner asked the U S Department of Agriculture if it is safe to import a pet monkey into the United States The man planned to enter via Canada and feared seizure due to the evolution controversy in the country
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Monk
U. S
Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Canada
Indictment Names Officials in Gulf Coast Liquor Plot
Walter H. Cohen, New Orleans customs controller, Sheriff L A Meraux, and Captain Joseph Johnson among 34 indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to violate the Volstead act. The case centers on 4250 cases of liquor smuggled from Havana to New Orleans via Rum Row, with $10,000 paid as protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Walter H. Cohen
New Orleans
L. A. Meraux
St. Bernard Parish
Josseph Johnson
Alonso Patterson
Arthur Battistella
Gulf Coast
H. D. Clayton
Alabama
Charlton R. Beattie
Clayton
Gulf of Mexico
United States
Cohen
Meraux
Havana
Cuba
Johnston
Champion
Patterson
Patrick Needham
Rita
Battistella
Paulina B. Mosher
Needham
Controversial Conflicts Over Cohen Nomination as Customs Controller
Walter L. Cohen was confirmed as Controller of Customs at New Orleans on March 17 1924 after repeated recess appointments by Presidents Harding and Coolidge amid Senate opposition. He served unpaid from 4 November 1922 until confirmation, while nomination attempts were rejected in 1923 and 1924.
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Washington
Walter L. Cohen
New Orleans
Senate
Louisiana
Cohen
Harding
Coolidge
Congress
Four Die When Rowboat Capsizes on Lake Ontario
In Rochester New York a rowboat with two men and four girls capsized in a heavy gale off Sunset Point. Martin Lebowitz 20 Theodore 17 Anna Moss 18 Anna Cohen 18, all of Rochester, drowned. Walter Meltzer 16 of Brooklyn survived by reaching shore after trying to save the group.
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Associated Press
Rochester
N. Y
Lake Ontario
Martin Lebowitz
Theodore
Anna Moss
Anna Cohen
Lakeside Park
Sunset Point
Walter Meltzer
Brooklyn
Shore
Suit to Enjoin Dog Races in Covington Filed
Kenton Circuit Court in Covington heard a suit filed by the Kentucky Attorney General and Commonwealth Attorney to enjoin dog racing at an Erlanger track. Defendants Owen P. Smith George Sawyer and Martin J Hyland face a temporary injunction sought on grounds the races attract crowds and betting that threaten public nuisance. The petition seeks barring sale of betting tickets and asks for injunctive relief while appeals proceed.
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Kenton
Covington
Erlanger Track
Commonwealth of Kentucky
F. E. Daugherty
Orie S. Ware
Commonwealth Attorney
Owen P. Smith
George Sawyer
Martin J. Hyland
Applegate
Kentonircuit Court
Kentucky Court of Appeals
State Racing Commission
Orie Ware
Read
Grand
Ware
Bank Robbers Die in Battle Near Kingfisher
Aug 27. Two men suspected in the Bank of Navina robbery were killed by a sheriff posse near Kingfisher while a third was captured. Sheriff A C Black Under Sheriff Clay Oakley and City Marshal L G McIntosh led the pursuit. The captured man refused to talk. No one else was injured. The gun battle began when officers halted a car carrying three men and the attackers opened fire.
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Associated Press
Kingfisher
Oklo
Bank of
Navina
Cincinnati Marshals to Get Custody of Remus
George Remus millionaire bootlegger of Cincinnati will be turned over to U S Marshals from Cincinnati after his federal prison term ends next Wednesday Warden John W Snook reports a bootlegging detainer in force and immigration authorities say deportation warrant has not yet been prepared in Washington D C
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Associated Press
Atlanta
George Remus
Cincinnati
United States
John W. Snook
Remus
Washington.y
Viking Path Trial Reaches Quarantine In 46-Foot Yawl
Three Norwegians arrive in quarantine in New York after an eighty day voyage across the Atlantic in a forty-six-foot yawl. The expedition aims to prove the Viking route can be followed in a small boat. An earlier 1924 attempt by William Nutting disappeared with no word.
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New York
North Atlantic
Ber
Broker Harold C Eustis Marries Mrs Mabel W Pogue
Harold C Eustis stock broker and widow Mrs Mabel W Pogue of Cincinnati obtained a marriage license in New York and were married at the Little Church Around the Corner. Pogue is 42, born in St Louis, widow of Samuel F Pogue. Eustis is 47, widower, born in Cincinnati. Mrs Eustis recently returned from Europe with two children.
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New York World News Service
New York
Harold C. Eustis
Woodburn Avenue
McMillan Street
Cincinnati
Mabel W. Pogue
Elmhurst Place
Municipal Building
Phillips
Emma Templeton Wood
Samuel F. Pogue
Eustis
George
Nancy Claypoole Eustis
Bessie M. Langdon Eustis
Mabel Wood Pogue
Harold ‘Claypoole Eustis
United States
Europe
Mabel W
Helen T. Pogue
Swimmer Otto Kemmerich Posts Baltic 37 Mile Run
Otto Kemmerich completes a 37 mile Baltic Sea swim from Fehmarn to Warnemuende in 22 hours. He navigated with a compass and wrist watch, pulled a cork float with a thermos of bouillon, enduring heavy seas and a northeast wind without vessels or aid.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
Otto Kemmerich
Baltic Sea
Fehmarn
Warnemuende
Kemmerich
English Channel
N. Y. World News Service
CN. Y. World Press Pub. Co
France Faces Hard Terms as Debt Talks Pivot to Washington
Washington officials say Franco-British debt talks in London could force Paris to accept U.S. terms or risk France paying Britain more. Experts estimate US settlement could reduce annual France payments by 50 to 70 million dollars, reshaping leverage with Caillaux and Churchill viewed as pivotal actors. Continued discussion expected on the Fourth Page.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Winston Churchill
Joseph Caillaux
United States
Debt Commission
France
Churchill
Mr. Caillaux
Treasury
England
M. Caillaux
Mr. Churchill
London
Belgium
American Debt Commission
Caillaux
Great Britain
Britain
Polar Ships Endure Worse Weather On Return Voyage
The MacMillan Arctic expedition faces harsher conditions on the southward retreat than the northward leg. Bowdoin neared rocks at Murchison Sound and was towed off after dumping gasoline to lighten her, while Peary aided and both ships faced intense blizzards and sea ice near Akapni Blizzard.
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Bowdoin
Peary
Washington
MacMillan Arctic
National Geographic Society
Zenith Radio Corporation of
Chicago
Conical Rock
Parker Snow Point
Akpahni
Saunders’ Island
Booth Sound
Melvillé’ Bay
Murchison Sound
MacMillan
Yale gridiron star Ted Coy marries actress Jeanne Eagels
Edward Harris Coy longtime Yale football hero and actress Jeanne Eagels wed in Stamford yesterday after a private ceremony. The couple had previously been linked to other marriages and engagements, with Coy's prior wife Sophie Meldrim and a Paris divorce in 1914. Eagels had been linked to Whitney Warren Jr. and later starred in Rain in Cincinnati last season.
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Ted Coy
Jeanne Eagels
New York
Edward Harris
Ted) Coy
Yale
Stamford
Conn
Coy
Sophie Meldrim
Asheville
N C
Paris
Engels
Whitney Warren, Jr
Warren
Whitney Warren
Miss Engels
Davies, Thomas & Co
New York Stock Exchange
Union City Man, 76, Weds 73-Year-Old Widow for Fourth Marriage
Val entine Bramwell, a 76-year-old widower and Union City fire volunteer, obtained a license to marry Edith Steuch, 73, his fourth wife. The pair plan to wed at City Hall on Saturday, after Bramwell’s three prior marriages ended in divorce or widowhood. Bramwell said age is a matter of feeling and noted Steuch’s weight at 175 pounds, while he remains active in firefighting.
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Union City
N. J
Valentine Bramwell
Edith Steuch
Bramwell
Braunwell
Steuch
George Hofffmaeister
Hoffmaeister
Al Smith Accuses Hylan of Meeting with Ku Klux Klan
Gov Alfred E Smith in Brooklyn charges New York Mayor Hylan held a secret conference with the Ku Klux Klan at the 1924 Democratic convention in Madison Square Garden. Smith linked Hylan to the Klan while campaigning for State Senator James Walker's mayoral bid. He said the Mayor aided Klan forces during a religious and racial bigotry siege.
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New York
Hylan
Madison Square Garden
Alfred E. Smith
James J. Walker
Brooklyn
Paris sails for Moroccan coast from Toulon
The battleship Paris, the French navy's most powerful unit, leaves Toulon tomorrow with two destroyers bound for the Moroccan coast.
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Morocco
Associated Press
Toulon
France
Paris
Moroccan
148 000 Coal Diggers Ordered Out Sept 1
News from August 27 reports a hard coal strike escalation with 148,000 miners ordered out starting September 1 and a debate over maintenance staffing. The UMWA led by John L. Lewis seeks guarantees against employer economizing while operators demand rights to skeletonize maintenance crews. The setup affects 828 mines across 135 companies in Luzerne Lackawanna and Schuylkill counties.
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Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
United Mineworkers of America
Lewis
Anthracite Board of Conciliation
Board of Conciliation
Luzerne
Lackawanna
Schuylkill
Duchess of Manchester to oppose Duke’s divorce suit
London August 27 The Duchess Helena Zimmerman of Cincinnati will oppose the Duke of Manchester’s divorce action filed at Nice. The Duke claims desertion and incompatibility, saying they have been estranged since 1914. Divorce served in Paris, marriage since 1900.
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Duchess of Manchester
Helena Zimmerman
Nice
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Cincinnati
Paris
France
Dennistoun
Dennistouns
America
N. Y
Duchess of Manchester Denies Divorce Rumor in London
The Duchess of Manchester wife of the Duke faced ongoing marital difficulties. On August 14 in London she denied rumors of a divorce from the Duke. She inherited her father Eugene Zimmerman’s large fortune from 1915, the Cincinnati etc railroad president, a line now part of Baltimore and Ohio. The Zimmerman family long occupied a house at Auburn Avenue and McMillan Street.
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Duchess of
Manchester
Eugene Zimmerman
London
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Baltimore & Ohio
Zimmerman
Auburn Avenue
McMillan Street
Two Army Planes Die in Chatfield Collision
Two United States Army planes collided 500 feet above Maywood air field during an aerial exhibition returning from Camp Grant. Pilot Lieutenant Talcott Smith and passenger William Heptig died. Heptig was a Chicago Board of Trade member. Lieutenant R W Douglas landed safely. witnesses included Edwardines Hospital patients.
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Chicago
United States Army
Maywood Air Mail Field
Camp Grant
Army Air Fields
DeHaviland
Chanute Field
Rantoul, I
Talcott
Happy
Smith
Heptig
Edwardines Hospital
Happy) Smith
Bandits rob Prima Company cashier's office in Chicago
Four men held up the Prima Company cashier's office in Chicago late today. They forced about twenty-five employees to the back and escaped in an automobile with roughly $6,000 in cash.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Prima Company
Brewers
Seven Die in Boiler Explosion at Alabama Cotton Gin
Seven men were reported killed when a boiler at the Archer and Eppes cotton gin in Dayton near Uniontown Alabama exploded. Victims included C. J. Buchanan and other men. the boiler was part of a portable outfit owned by Buchanan.
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Associated Press
Uniontown
Ala
Archer &Eppes
Dayton
Here
C. J. Buchanan
Ote Mares
Buchanan
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W. L. Cohen
Govington
Sheriff's Posse
Oklahoma
William Nutting
Harold C. Euollo
New ‘York City
Baltic
U. 8
Dispatches
Pittsburgh
Kahna
Igloo Dahouny
Arel
Mellville Bay
Paul McGee
Box Hills
Victoria
Australia
Decatur
Ill
Bennet
Inglefield Fjord
Byrd
Greenland
Etah
AL Smith
Ku-Klux Klan
Wilkes Barre
Committee of Thirteen
John R. Uhl
Ralph Amerman
Ralph E. Weeks
Scranton
William J. Richards
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
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