Capitol Liquor Ring Aids Net Arrest Of Five
Five Ohioans including Eli George Wright a Capitol doorman were arrested in a liquor ring operating around the Capitol buildings. Wright faced a $500 bail and a jury trial request, while three women and another man were released on $1,600 bonds. Prohibition agent Daniel Onford led the raids urged by Rep. Cooper to intensify crackdowns if conditions do not improve.
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Associated Pr
Washington
Capitol
Cooper
Rep
Prohibition
Eli George Wright
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Wright
Sherman
Chauncey Depew
Daniel Onford
Willis
Ohio
Ford
Warren
Congress
Disappearance of Osborne Wood Focuses Paris Rumors
In Paris rumors place Osborne Wood son of General Leonard Wood abroad or in America after his sudden absence. Citizens say he may have fled to escape hangers on and money seekers with American passports, prompting Paris police to scrutinize looser associates and ill gotten financial links.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Osborne Wood
Leonard Wood
Biarritz
America
Wood
Birds of Prey
N. Y
Pianist Ethel Leginska Delivers Concert After Nervous Breakdown
Ethel Leginska describes a severe nervous breakdown after vanishing from New York. She wandered the West Side streets, wrote a piano concerto at a friend’s piano, and later resumed public appearances while seeking forgiveness from her audience. The World News Service details the events and her plan to perform in Joplin, Missouri.
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New York World News Service
New York
Carnegie Hall
Ethel Leginska
Lower West Side
Boston
Miss Leginska
Joplin
World News Service
Dorothy T. Bartholomew
Lucille Oiver
Attorney General Gleans Evidence in Rum Inquiry in Columbus
Attorney General C. Crabbe announced in Columbus that evidence will prove sensational and valuable to federal investigators probing prohibition enforcement. He said he does not expect to testify himself and will not name individuals at this time.
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Columbus
C. C. Crabbe
World Flyer Lieutenant Arnold Denies Engagement Rumor
In New London on February 21 Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, the round the world flyer, denied engagement to actress Miss Priscilla Dean. He says he married Mildred Avery in 1917, left for France after the ceremony, and has seen his wife once since. The article also notes Major Osborne Wood’s possible location in Paris before a planned U.S. return.
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New York World News Service
New London
J. H. Ganey
Miss Dean
Milwaukee
Tie
Miss Avery
New York City
Arnold
Philippines
New York
Andra
Charles Prentis
Ganey
Anold
Wood's Chinese valet suspects crime or accident in Wood
Paris February 21 A valet at the hotel where Wood lived believes a serious event has occurred and notes his master rarely left in ordinary clothes for a week. The American Embassy military attache inquiries with the police as hotel staff deny publicity.
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Wood
Paris
Cambridge youth arrested in extortion letters case
Kenneth Wilkshire, 19, charged by police with authorship of extortion letters to three Cambridge women, was arrested on a bridge after accepting a $5 000 package from Miss Alice Longfellow. He rode a bicycle to the scene and, after taking the package, was arrested for threatening to kill. Bail set at $500. He matches the description given in prior letters.
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Cambridge
Mass
Kenneth Wilkshire
Alice Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow
Wilkshire
Apostle of Doom Seeks Work After World End Prophecy
Robert Reidt once of Patchogue Long Island asks The World for assistance finding a job to support his homeless family after predicting the world would end on February 6. He offers to provide references, cites skills as painter and paper hanger, Ford driving, and management of apartment houses, and declares he will repay any help.
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New York World News Service
New York
Robert Reidt
Patchogue
L. I
Newark
N. J
Reidt
Mine Disaster At Sullivan County Claims Dozens
In Sullivan Ind on February 21 rescue teams recovered most bodies from the City Coal Company explosion mine. Of 51 workers, 22 were found, 20 still missing. Authorities weighed compensation claims while relatives sought relief and funeral services were planned. Russell Dowdy, 21, among the recovered, had survived many dangers.
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Sullivan
Ind
City Coal Company
Albert Dally
Norval K. Harris
Sullivan County
Russel
Lucky) Dowdy
Lucky Dowdy
Homer
Russell
Two brides faced broken dreams after mine disaster
In Sullivan Indiana two brides to be, Dora Bradley and Margaret Bishop, faced ruined wedding plans as their fiancés, miners Claude Saunders and Cecil Carty, died in the City Coal Company mine explosion. The funerals were to be held as the wedding bells rang.
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Dora Bradley
Claude Saunders
Margaret Bishop
Cecil Carty
Purdue
Secretary Work Warns Open-Flame Lamps Endanger Mines
Secretary Work cited the Sullivan mine disaster in Indiana as a striking example of the need to enforce mine safety rules. He warned that several hundred thousand open lights are used daily in U S coal mines, each posing fire or explosion hazards and linking open flames to past disasters.
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Washington
Sullivan
Indiana
United States
Father of Klan at Deaths Door in Georgia Crash
William Joseph Simmons organizer of the Ku Klux Klan and former Imperial Wizard is not expected to live after a Feb 20 auto crash near Cleveland Georgia. Captain Norris Moore former Texas city chief is dead from neck injuries. A. P. Rainer of Atlanta survived uninjured. Simmons was en route to his Nacoochee Valley farm when the car skidded on sand. Relatives rush to Gainesville Hospital as Mrs Moore travels from Galveston Texas seeking word.
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New York World News Service
Gainesville
William Joseph Simmons
Ku Klux Klan
Order
Norris Moore
Ciry
Texas
Cleveland
Georgia
A. P. Rainer
Atlanta
Tonneau
Colonel Simmons
Nacoochee Valley
Gainesville Hospital
Debs Pushes Labor to Form New Party at Chicago Meeting
The Progressive Political Action conference adjourned with no decision on a new party. A second meeting formed to plan launching a labor based party led by A. E. Hays, with a seven member committee to report next morning. Debs urged labor backing while La Follette supporters pressed geo political lines and state organization plans.
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Chicago
Conference For
Progressive
A. E. Hays
New York
Morris Hillquit
Progressive Party
William Johnston
Machinists’ Union
H. P. Costigan
Washington
Gordon Norrie
George Wolfe
California
H. L. Brunson
H. A. Bower
Massachusetts
Charles A. MacGowan
Robt
M. Dea Polette
National Socialist Party
Committee of Forty-Eight
la Follette
L. E. Sheppard
Cedar Rapids
Order of
Hillquit
American Labor Party
Harley Nickerson
Milwaukee
Hopkins
Cleveland
Brotherhood
Debs
Labor
Eugene V. Debs
Colonel George C Green Dies Millionaire Medicine Maker
Colonel George C Green patent medicine manufacturer died at his Woodbury New Jersey home after a several day illness. He was 83 and left an estate valued at five million dollars. A Civil War assistant surgeon, he later worked in Baltimore and Athens before settling in Woodbury to produce drugs and two proprietary medicines his father had developed. He is survived by his widow and four children.
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H. H. Clarke
Long Beach
Cal
Davis
Cincinnati
Business Men’s Club
Woodbury
N. J
George C. Green
Baltimore
Athens
South Bend
Ind
Millburg
Mich
New Carlisle
Frank King
Toledo
James Long
Chicago
Eddie Sommers
Mishawaka
John Marshall
Hamilton
Stevie Ackley
Floyd Lintner
Benjamin Kral
Elizabeth Kreitner
Michigan
Indiana
King
Ohio
L. A
Mitchell Gives Up Part in Inaugural Ball
Washington February 21 Brigadier General William Mitchell resigns as Chairman of the Floor Committee of the inaugural ball citing work pressure. Mrs John Allan Daugherty denies reports that Secretaries Weeks and Wilbur declined to attend with Mitchell on the committee.
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Washington
William Mitchell
John Allan Daugherty
Weeks
Wilbur
Mitchell
Ink bottle battle ends theft attempt at Toledo laundry
Richard Ward a laundry cashier fought a bandit in the Community Laundry Company office. Ward hurled a quart ink bottle at the robber who fired once as Ward dropped behind the counter. The bandit fled, four others allegedly captured after a 40 mile chase.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Richard Ward
Ward
Community Laundry Company
Wea
Justice Dept investigates Senator Spencer abuse case
Washington Feb 2 officials said they are examining charges against Senator Spencer of Missouri for possible law violations tied to representing clients before a government agency. The probe parallels the Wheeler case, with grand jury review and involvement of Assistant Attorney General Stone. Spencer called the charges old and denied any impact on his Senate role or his firm’s activities.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Department of Justice
Spencer
Rep
Wheeler
Dem
Mont
Newby
Harry M. Daugherty
Ale B. Fall
Minority
Teapot Dome
Doheny
Mayfield
Tex
Henry W. Elliott
Fouke
St. Louis
Spencer’s
Elliott
District of Columbia Grand Jury
Bureau of Investigation
Stone
Donovan
Montana
Senate
Pribilof Islands
Department of Commerce
Philip B. Fouke
Hitchcock
F. C. Donnell
Donnell
Ferguson Vetoes Rail Pass Privilege Bill
Governor Miriam Ferguson vetoed a bill that would have allowed legislators and their families to accept free railroad passes. She said acceptance of free transportation equates to taking money and would invite abuse of the privilege.
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Austin, Rex
Red
Miriam Ferguson
Texas
Senate approves medal for Army world flyers
The Senate today approved without debate the House bill awarding the distinguished service medal to the army world flyers and advancing them on the army promotion list.
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Washington
Senate
House
Army World
Ragged Clothes Land Him in Jail
Mc Donald H. Wilson a Yale graduate and vice president of the Brookmire Economics Service was arrested on vagrancy after a nocturnal walk in ragged clothes. He was held overnight, bailed, and the charge was dismissed in Flatbush Court with Magistrate Rayfield freeing him. Wilson 30, declined to discuss his late night walks.
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New York World News Service
New York
McDonald H. Wilson
Yale
Brooklyn
Wilson
Flatbush Court
Rayfield
Brookmire Economics Service Corporation
Central Park
Parkville
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