Wheeler Wins MTAL Point in Ill Lease Case
Senator Walsh secured a key point in Wheeler’s case as Justice Bailey questioned the Justice Department on whether the 1920 leasing law actually restricts permit numbers. Leahy conceded the indictment may be void if Congress did not limit permits, while Wheeler predicts the case will be dismissed for this defect.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Walsh
Montana
Wheeler
Department of Justice
William E. Leahy
Justice Bailey
District Supreme Court
Interior Department
Booth
Gordon Campbell
Leahy
Congress
Con
Attac
Senate
Secretary of the Interior
Ork
Work
Bailey
Weekend Robbery Mystery Baffles Police
Police faced multiple weekend robberies including a gate blowing at Hawke's department store on Main Street opposite Twelfth, and the home invasion of Mrs. Joseph Harris at 3561 Telford Ave. About $9 090 in cash and valuables were taken after a knife point forced Mrs. Harris to reveal hidden money and jewelry. Detectives Maham and Idan pursued no clear crew or leads, noting similarities to a Zoo safe-throwing spree months earlier.
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Hawke's Department Store
Main Street
Twelfth Street
Joseph Harris
Telford aVetme
Hawke’s
Maham
Idan
Harris
Texas
Diets and
Rink
Mountain Valley Water Promoted for Liver Health
An advertisement touts Mountain Valley Water from Hot Springs Arkansas as a remedy for liver disorders and overall digestion. It claims benefits for all organs of assimilation and elimination and invites readers to call for information or literature. The company lists Fountain Valley Water Co at W Seventh St Canal and advertises delivery.
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Mountain Valley
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Fountain Valley Water Co
W. Seventh St
Chickie Heroine of Breath-Taking New Serial
A vivid tease introduces Chickie, the beloved heroine of Elenore Me inie, promising readers a thrilling new serial full of romance and danger.
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Chickie
Woman bomber attempts suicide amid Chicago bomb case
Lena Rice mother of several children and wife of a Columbus Ohio farmer, held in a bomb gang probe, tried to stab herself during a police trap as a special grand jury for over 100 bombings voted true bills against Rice and five others.
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Chicago
Lena Rice
Columbus
Robert E. Crowe
Rice
Cook County
Fred Vanquist
Joseph Avanzio
Joseph Sangerman
Thomas J. Lynch
Haymarket
Weekend police list adds seven robberies
Police reported seven robberies and burglaries over the weekend. Victims named include Mamie Burt, 616 Central avenue, whose wardrobe was entered via fire escape and a Paris silk beaded dress stolen. Other incidents included purse thefts, pocket thefts, a broken arm from a shovel attack, and a burglary at Caldwell and Taylor filling station.
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Paris
Mamie Burt
Central Avenue
Mill Street
Third
Louis Robinson
Ramsey Street
Cutter Street
Barrel Alley
Philip Spohn
Flora Street
Homer A. Smith
Vine Street
Pearl and
Butler Streets
James Martin
Betts Street
Harrison Avenue
Martin
General Hospital
Caldwell & Taylor
Gilbert Avenue
Florence Heath
NY financier bids 2.84 million for Chapman Field near Miami
Nathan Friedman of New York City offered 2,836,560 for 789 acres of Chapman Field land south of Miami. The War Department paid 71,500 during the war, 200 acres cleared for use as a flying field. A Miami Realty Board appraisal put the tract at about 2,885,000. Friedman bids 3,586 per acre. his sole bid may be accepted to fund housing at army posts.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Nathan “.Riedman
New York City
Chapman Field
Miamis
Fla
War Department
Miami Realty Board
Friedman
Quartermaster General
Army
Florida
Congress
Building boom ends home shortage in Cincinnati 1925
Cincinnati building operations from January to November 1925 show a $4,000,000 gain over 1924 with 17,214 permits valued at $31,774,393. Commissioner George Hauser says the moderate-priced housing shortage virtually disappeared as permits and values rose from 1924 figures. November 1925 permits total 1,343 valued at $2,042,868 versus 1,264 permits valued at $1,984,175 in November 1924.
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Cincinnati
George Hauser
Hauser
Kirby's Counsel Fails to Halt Federal Trial
In Cleveland on November 30 defense counsel failed to stop the federal trial of Josiah Kirby former president of the Cleveland Discount Company 30 million dollar firm. Judge Killits overruled a demurrer to the indictment charging Kirby with using the mails to defraud. A rehearing on the demurrer filed November 4 was granted and the day focused on motions and conferences.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Josiah Kirby
Cleveland Discount Company
Killits
Kirby
Texas Governor Won't Call Special Session
Governor Ferguson states she will not call a special session as the Legislature must decide by December 10 on impeachment and other actions amid disputes over highway contracts. Attorney General Moody fights refunds from American Road Company while civil officials resign and a counter offensive surfaces.
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Dan Moody
American Road Company
Texas
Frank V. Lanham
Josh Burkett
Ferguson
Board of Regents
West Texas Technological College of
Amon G. Carter
Ft. Worth
Hoffman Construction Company
G. A. Davisson
Company
Moody
Associated Press
Irwin
Miami Bathing Suits Parade Through Flooded Streets
Miami natives and visitors waded through water after a 14.1 inch rainfall the heaviest in the city’s history. Men and women in bathing suits, from real estate investors to winter colonists, braved the flooded Flagler Street as street life adapted to a downpour and a fashionable spectacle.
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Miami
Fla
Baker
Flagler Street
Fines Totaled 1950 in City Bootleg Cases in 12 Days
Lieutenant Frank McNeal reports forty arrests by plainclothes officers over twelve days. Joseph Ahern and Raymond McVeigh led bootlegger crackdowns, with fines totaling 1950 dollars.
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Frank McNeal
Central Police Station
McNeal
Joseph Ahern
Raymond McVeigh
Woman pleads guilty in second degree murder case
Mrs. Bessie Farr of Champlain pleaded guilty in the Plattsburgh Supreme Court to second degree murder in the death of her husband Herman Farr. Justice Whitmyer imposed a twenty years to life sentence in Auburn Prison after he died from poison in candy following a recent life insurance purchase of $2,000. Farr, 35, has two children.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
Bessie Farr
Champlain
Supreme Court
Herman Farr
Whitmyer
Auburn
Farr
Texas House to convene special session January 4
Lower House Speaker Lee Satterwhite announced a special session on January 4 to investigate state officials and possible impeachment. Governor Miriam A. Ferguson refused to call the session, with funds underwritten to $100,000 and donors providing $1,000 in support for a highway inquiry.
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Amarillo
Tex
Texas
Lee Satterwhite
Austin
Dallas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Satterwhite
Ferguson
Austin Today
Ship’s distress call halts broadcasting
New York November 30 Radio broadcasting stopped when a distant distress signal was picked up from a ship at sea. Officials of the Independent Wireless Corporation and Munson Line said the latest message from the vessel off the Florida coast indicated heavy weather but no distress.
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Associated Press
New York
Independent Wireless Corporation
Red Bird
Munson Line
Florida
Warbler Sails to Aid Red Bird Off Miami Coast
The wrecking ship Warbler departed Key West for Pacific Reef off the Miami coast to assist the Munson Line freighter Red Bird which has run aground. No condition details for the Red Bird are available.
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Associated Press
Key West
Fla
Warbler
Pacific Reef
Miami Coast
Munson Line
Red Bird
Wilbur declines California Chief Justice seat offer
Secretary Wilbur declined a tender of the Chief Justiceship of the California Supreme Court from Governor Richardson. The vacancy arose after a resignation and the offer was reportedly received while Wilbur was abroad for Army and Navy football games. He and the White House had denied plans to leave the Cabinet. The declined post was the judgeship he held when appointed Navy Secretary.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilbur
Supreme Court of California
Richardson
Army
Evan Fontaine Wins Extradition Fight In California Case
Evan Burrows Fontaine, dancer, who sued Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney for 1,000,000 for breach of promise in New York, won a writ of habeas corpus to resist extradition to California for contempt of court. Removal had been ordered. California barred further action after a prior suit was dismissed. Hearing set for December 21.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Evan Burrows Fontaine
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
New York
California
Whitney
Rolls Royce of America Acquires Brewster & Co
Rolls Royce of America, Inc. has taken control of Brewster & Co., Long Island City makers of custom automobile bodies. William Brewster remains president and becomes a Rolls Royce vice president. Brewster & Co. was founded in 1810 and built carriages.
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Rolls Royce
Associated Press
New York
Rolls Royce of America, Inc
Brewster & Co
Long Island City
William, Brewster
Rolls Royce Company
Brewster Company
Sesem resigns
Thomas E. Sesem resigns as head of the State Utilities Commission telephone department and will join Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Company in Cincinnati tonight. Green expects B. T. Van Voorhees to succeed him, after about fifteen years with the department.
Beavers Weather Prophecy Sparks Complaints at Cincinnati Zoo
A postcard from "Alice Rhinelander" accuses the Canadian beaver of false weather prophecies after Colonel Sol A. Stephan notes the beaver’s mild winter forecast. He defends the beaver’s wisdom and cites observed behaviors while the zoo adds hyenas, vultures, and a Jeanette cat to its menagerie.
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Alice Rhinelander
Sol A. Stephan
Cincinnati Zoo
Stephan
Cincinnati
Beaver
Cincinnati Dermatological Society Announces Inaugural Meeting
The Cincinnati Dermatological Society, formed to promote scientific skin and social disease study, will hold its first meeting tomorrow night at General Hospital. Noted dermatologists will speak through winter. Open to physicians and health workers. Officers include Dr. August Ravogli president and Dr. Elmore B Tauber vice president.
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Cincinnati Dermatological Society
General Hospital
August Ravogli
Elmore B. Tauber
H. Jerry Lavender
First Cincinnati community radio program broadcasts origins of city
The first in a series of twenty Cincinnati community programs aired on WSAI. Governor telegrams and Herbert Hoover joined listeners. Chamber officials introduced the origin tale told by W C Culkins, with the Cincinnati Symphony under Fritz Reiner performing prior to the talk.
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Cincinnati
WSAI
W. C. Culkins
Chamber of Commerce
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner
Herbert Hoover
Mr. Culkins
Benjamin Stites
Ohio
Kentucky
Licking River
Stites
Miami- Country
Accuse Negro of Attack After Keys Found
Detectives found keys and a stained pair of trousers at William Cooper's home leading to charges of assault with intent to kill and robbery against Cooper a 25 year old Negro of 1064 Oehler street. The keys belonged to watchman William Cooper 66 of 1018 West Eighth street who was robbed last Friday night during rounds at the John B Morris Foundry. The assailant also used a lead pipe and stole $30. Cooper denied the charges.
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McGurn, Webbe
Werner
William Cooper
Oehler Street
Cooper
West Eighth Street
John B. Morris Foundry Company
Court
Harriet Streets
Robert Shearwood
RUN 50 MORE STREET CARS ADDED
Walter Draper announces approximately fifty street cars added to the system last month under W J Kuertz direction. The extra cars will run between schedules to avoid disrupting regular service on lines including Madisonville Madison road Westwood Oakley Colerain College Hill John street Elberon Clifton Ludlow Warsaw Lockland Clark Crosstown Sedamsville Vine Clifton East End Carrel Vine Burnet and South Norwood.
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Street
Walter Draper
W. J. Kuertz
Draper
Madisonville
Madison Road
Westwood
Oakley
Colerain
College Hill
John Street
Elberon
Clifton-Ludlow
Warsaw
Lockland
Clark, Crosstown
Sedamsville
Vine-Clifton
East End-Carrel
Vine-Burnet
South Norwood
Children overwork say nutrition expert at Washington School
Miss Mabel Skilton urged slowing underweight children in a Nutrition Institute at Washington School. She warned music and dancing drain energy and recommended midday rest and after school rests for below normal weight children.
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Mabel Skilton
Institute of Nutrition
Washington School
William R. P. Emerson
Skilton
St. Xavier High School
Memorial Hall
Hyde Park School
Florence Taylor
Emerson
Stowe School
Reckless Driver Is Jailed After Delhi Pike Crash
Richard Lyone, 31, charged with reckless driving after his car struck a buggy on Delhi pike near city limits Sunday night. Henry Thomas and son, in the buggy from Fairbanks Avenue, were thrown from seats and injured. Lyone, a Negro resident of West Sixth Street, was arraigned in Traffic Court. Other motorists faced fines for speeding including Clarence Bergel, bases Bertrams, Paul Ward, and Leroy Goodfriend.
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Delhi Pike
Richard Lyone
West Sixth Street
Goke and
Schaefer
Henry Thomas
Fairbanks Avenue
Thomas
Clarence Bergel
Chickasaw Street
Magnolia _ street
Paul Ward
Cedar Avenue
Leroy Goodfriend
Findlay Street
Woman Arrested Under Race Betting Law
A 24 year old woman, Mrs Sarah Harris of 514 Armory avenue, was arrested by Detectives Lutz Odensass and Werner after her husband, who ran a cigar store, alerted them to race betting records. Police say she resisted during a search and wrested papers listing horse names and figures, leading to charges of possessing pay off and race horse slips.
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Lutz, Odensass and
Werner
Sarah Harris
Armory Avenue
State House Site Funds Debated in Ohio
Columbus Nov 30 After lengthy talks Attorney General Crabbe and aides resolved that part of 4 million dollars from the workman’s compensation reserve may be used to buy the site for the new state office building. Ambiguities in the law had clouded whether funds could purchase a site or only fund construction.
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Columbus, CO
State Building Commission
Crabbe
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