Charles Straus Dies Sudden Cigar Merchant in Cincinnati
Charles Straus 57 senior member of the Henry Straus Company dies at his Avondale home after paralysis. He helped found the firm nearly 25 years ago starting a Burnet House cigar shop. The company runs six Cincinnati stores and two in Lexington Kentucky with a wholesale dept on East Sixth Street.
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Henry Straus Company
Avondale
Charles Straus
Henry Straus
South Crescent Avenue
Mr. Straus
Middle West
Cincinnati
Lexington, Ky
East Sixth Street
Straus
Burnet House
Business Men's Club
Cuvier Press md
Laughery Club
Elks and the Phoenix Club
Havlin Hotel
Fanny Straus
Samuel
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Robert Straus
Fourth Street
David Straus
Lexington
H. W. Bettman
J. B. Greenebaum
Benjamin K. Rachford
H. H. Kloppe
Oscar W. Robert
Fowitz Bros. & Co
Charles
Samuel H. Straus
May Street
Walnut Hills
Armed With a Spoon She Catches Burglar at Breakfast
Miss Bertha Miller an architect in New York awakened by a key at her door seized a silver spoon in a bid to restrain a burglar. The intruder Michael Amie of Dansville NY was arrested on a burglary charge and held on $2500 bail. Miller later offered to buy him better prison meals, but he ate jail fare.
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New York
Bertha Miller
Miss Miller
Michael Amie
Dansville
N. Y
Amie
Bethlehem Steel Plant Announces 8 to 20 Percent Wage Cut
Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point plant will cut wages 8 to 20 percent effective January 16, affecting several thousand workers amid lower steel prices and challenging business conditions. The move follows talks with worker representatives under the company’s collective bargaining plan, mirroring cuts at the Lebanon plant.
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Baltimore
Sparrows Point
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bethlehem
Lebanon
Missing gem found on dress of visitor
Mrs. Edward J. Briggs reported the theft of a diamond cluster sunburst valued at 1000 dollars from her apartment. She learned the pin had fallen onto a visitor's dress and was carried away, then later found and the owner notified.
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Edward J. Briggs
Wesley Avenue
Auto Crash Injures Several Along Cincinnati Streets
An automobile driven by Charles Bishop crashed off a pole near Dane and Spring Grove avenues injuring occupants. Charles Wild, 39, received a scalp wound and facial cuts. Henry Tenbrink and Abe Tucker suffered bruises. Bishop was held on reckless driving charges as others were treated at General Hospital.
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Charles Bishop
Spring Grove Avenue
Dane
Spring Grove Avenues
Charles Wild
East Pearl Street
Henry Tenbrink
Abe Tucker
East Third Street
Wild
General Hospital
Bishop
Cincinnati
Eighth Street
State Avenue
Harvey Sutton
Storrs Street
Edward Hagen
R. R. No
Loveland
Ninth District
Lillian Tutt
East Second Street
Newport
Winfield
Glenway Avenues
Eastern
Beechmont Avenues
Michael Reinert
Concord Street
Apex Engineering and Storage Battery Co
Reinert
Thieves Take Overcoat From Church Parishioner Robbed
A parishioner at First English Lutheran Church found his overcoat missing after a sermon. Peter Byrne of 1214 Sycamore street reported a loss of $26.59. In addition a handbag and several items of women's clothing were stolen from a car on Vine street. A break in at Progress Cigar Company produced no usable loot.
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First English Lutheran Church
Peter Byrne
Sycamore Street
Mr. Byrne
Adam C. Ries
Harrison Avenue
Vine Street
Phantom Choir Puzzle Solved in Illinois Church
In Champaign on January 2 a Paxton Lutheran Church mystery ended as Clarence Lundeen a sixteen year old student admitted wiring a phonograph to a wireless sending set. He sent the music to a horn hidden in a tree outside the church creating the illusion of an invisible choir over several days.
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Champaign
Paxton
Lutheran
Clarence Lundeen
Lundeen
State inquiry proposed for N Y administration
Albany N Y Jan 2 Senator Theodore Doug Robinson of Herkimer and Assemblyman Joseph Steinberg of Newak Republicans proposed to ask the Legislature at its next session to investigate the Greater City Administration. They said the city was suffering from probably the worst and most corrupt administration in its history.
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Albany
N. Y
New York City
Theodore Doug. Robinson
Herkimer
Joseph Steinberg
Newak
Prisoner Wells Escapes From Covington Hospital In Newport Flight
Police prisoner Earnest Wells, wounded in the head, escaped from St Elizabeth’s Hospital Covington by leaping from a third floor room to the lawn and fleeing in a red auto toward Newport. He had been held in connection with a whisky hold up on Reading road and a $3800 Canal street payroll robbery.
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Ernest Wells
Canal
Reading Road
Earnest’ Wells
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Covington
Canal Street
Wells
Newport
Clodvington
Wels
James Poole
Gavin Douglas
Foley Construction Company
Cincinnati
Ferdinand Moeller
Cardinal Gibbons Sees Gradual Recovery at Home
Baltimore January 2 Cardinal Gibbons shows improved condition as doctors consider moving him to his Cathedral home if progress continues. The 86 year old cleric had a recent relapse after fainting spells, but his heart and strength slowly strengthen with prayers from Bishop Corrigan and friends.
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Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Robert T. Shriver
Union Mills
Carroll County
Emmittsburg
Molly Shriver
Robert Shriver
Corrigan
Cardinal Gibbons lauded in New Year's message
Boston Jan 2 A New Year message at St Pauls Cathedral by Bishop William Lawrence praised Cardinal Gibbons amid calls for practical humble reform. Lawrence said supreme Christians need not be puritanical and noted Gibbons as a grace filled, widely respected church spokesman enduring through national and international challenges.
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Boston
Cardinal Gibbons
William Lawrence
Episcopal
St. Paul's Cathedral
Lawrence
Dynamite Blast Kills Stable Boss in Union Town
Frank Pelone, a stable boss, found a stick of dynamite in Union Town on January 2 and placed it in his hip pocket. While tending the stable later, a mule kicked him, causing the dynamite to explode and blow him to pieces, destroying the stable.
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Union Town
Frank Pelone
Pelone
Covington Street Railway May Lay Off Workers
In Covington and Newport rumors say the streetcar schedule will shrink next Wednesday and more than fifty workers could lose jobs. A fare hike to six cents may be granted by the Covington Mayor and Commissioners next Thursday to offset cuts. Union president W D Mahon said there was little he could do as the company weighs reducing staff, with about ninety six potential layoffs if service is cut. Mahon then left for St Louis to attend the Pan American Labor Conference in Mexico City.
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Covington
Newport
W. D. Mahon
Street Railway Men’s Union
St. Louis
Mr. Mahon
Movement to base U S representation on citizenship not population
William H. Anderson announced the Allied Citizens of America plan to amend the federal constitution to base House representation on citizenship rather than population. He links the drive to stricter enforcement of Prohibition and cites New York City’s alien population as a catalyst.
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Washington
National House of Representatives
William H. Anderson
Allied Citizens of America, Incorporated
Anderson
Anti-Saloon League
New York
Chicago
United States
New York State
New York City
Commonwealth
Popular Branch
General Assembly
Congress
Attorney General
Judiciary
United States Senate
Tammany
Death of ex German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg
Berlin reports Dr Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg died after a brief illness at his Ho henfinow estate near Berlin. The ex chancellor, who faced pneumonia after a Christmas cold, left a wife who died in 1914 and a son and daughter surviving him. He had recently finished proofs of the second volume of his war diary for publication.
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Berlin
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Hohenfinow
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Countess Zech
Munich
Felix
Unter-den-Linden
Von Bethmann Hollweg Testimony and Wartime Utterances
The article recalls Dr. von Bethmann Hollweg as a witness before National Assembly committees on war responsibility. It notes his earlier opposition to submarine warfare and warnings about American strength, and highlights his remark on treaty guarantees for Belgian neutrality made during an interview with Sir Edward Goschen.
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von Bethmann-Hollweg
National Assembly
America
Reevne
Belgium
Sir Edward Goschen
Germany
Poet-Warrior Gabriele DAnnunzio to Leave Fiume Power
The poet-warrior Gabriele DAnnunzio plans to renounce leadership of the Regency of Quarnero and move to Rome to hand back his war medals before leaving Italy. Fiume begins disarmament as 163 regulars surrender and 100 legionaries return. ships depart and troops retreat in relays toward Pola.
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Triest
Associated
Gabriele
Annunzio
Italy
Quarnero
Rome
Fiume
Caviglia
Dalmatia
National Council
Gabrielino d’Annunzio
Ginoberi
Pola
d’Annunzio
Fime
Ohio Governor-elect outlines 1921 goals for normal prosperity
Harry L. Davis, Governor-elect of Ohio, sends a New Year message urging departure from war-time standards toward peacetime prosperity. He calls for repeal or modification of wartime laws hindering progress and pledges state aid to boost commerce, industry and agriculture.
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Cleveland, CO
Harry L. Davis
Ohio
Business Has Passed the Worst And It Wasn't So Bad After All
New York City business mood shifts from fear to serenity as 1919 closes. Reports say liquidation has been thorough and buyers who bought the bottom inch closer to confidence. Observations cover railroads factories films steel banks silk and textiles with savings up and wages down signaling cautious optimism across sectors.
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Price
Theodore H
New York
New York City
Ntl
Britain Not Bound To Attack If Japan War Sours U S
The London Times editorial asserts Britain would not be bound to attack the United States if war with Japan occurred. It explains the Anglo Japanese treaty does not compel British hostilities against the U S and details the 1911 and 1914 changes and arbitration clauses. It urges disarmament steps and a League of Nations conference proposal from The Daily News.
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Britain
Japan
America
London Times
New York
Great Britain
United States
Times
the Times
Presimt Taft
Gaul
England
London
The
Daily News
Council of the
League of Nations
Daniels
Harding
Council of the ‘League of Nations
Missing navy balloon A-5598 lands near Moose Factory Ontario
The navy balloon A-5598 with crew of three landed about ten miles north of Moose Factory Ontario on December 14. Lieutenant Walter Hinton, Stephen A. Farrell, and Louis A. Kloor Jr. survived and were awaiting transport by dog sled to a railroad, with plans to travel nine days to the nearest rail line. Weather and search efforts covered North American areas, including Mitchell Field, Wells, Albany and Adirondacks, with no decisive recovery by press time.
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Moose Factory
Ontario
Moose
Forest
Hudson Company Post
James Bay
Moose River
New York
Canada
Wells
N. Y
Walter Hinton
Belle Harbor
Albert C. Read
Stephen A. Farrell
Louis A. Kloor, Jr
New Orleans
Forest Rangers
Mitchell Field
Albany
Adirondacks
Glenn
Moose Factory Post Tied To Remote Hudson Bay Trade Route
Ottawa reports Moose Factory as one of the oldest Hudson Bay trading posts. It sits about 200 miles from Canada’s farthest north rail line and relies on Cochrane for outfitting. Summer supplies travel by canoe via Abitibi and James Bay routes, while winter exits require dog teams and a long journey.
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Ottawa
Moose Fac
Hudson Bay
Canada
National Transcontinental Railway
Canadian National System
Moncton
Winnipeg
Quebec
Mario
Moose Factory
Cochrane
Nationa Transcontinental
Abitibi
James Bay
Chamorro Inaugurated President of Nicaragua
Diego Manuel Chamorro was inaugurated today as President of Nicaragua after the October 3 election. The ceremony took place in San Juan del Sur with regional observers noting a peaceful transition of power.
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San Juan del Sur
Nicaragua
Diego Manuel Chamorro
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