Natives Flee as Veracruz Earthquakes Widen Disaster
Panicked natives evacuate western Vera Cruz as two active volcanoes shake the region and towns near Teocelo and Cordoba are destroyed or damaged. Reports cite up to 2000 deaths, dozens of villages wiped out, and relief efforts including train supplies and Red Cross aid.
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Mexico City
Vera Cruz
Teocelo
Jalapa
Teocero
Tlatanalan
Quiegmitlan
Coastaleca
Tosigue
Ixtlahuacan
Choloya
San Jose-Achilchica
Orizaba
Cordoba
Mexico
Popocatepetl
Ixtaccihuatl
Coscomatepec
Zongolica
San Miguel
Mt. Orizaba
Puebla
Courtlan
Couztlan
Garraca Grande
Calcahuwalco
Camusapa
Xeonoxtl
Acatlan
Los Simones
Chilchotla
Saltillo
Lafragua
Ocotlepa
Plata
Chichiquita
Tenezapa
Ayahualcox
Quimistlan
Atotoalco
Vera Crug
Rinconada
Punete Nacional
San Francisco de Las Penas
Antigua
Mt. Orozaba
Mexican Red
White Cross
J. 8. Nicholas
Chauline Fontes
National Railways
Friday sentence delay denied for Brooklyn killer
New York January 9. Frank J. Kelly a convicted murderer of Catherine Dunn was denied a one day delay to avoid a Friday death sentence. The court set February 16 for execution. Emma Robinson indicted as accomplice will go to trial next Monday.
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New York
Frank J. Kelly
Catherine Dunn
Brooklyn
Kelly
Lure of White Way Draws Sailors From Swedish Cruiser
In New York eighteen deserters from the Swedish cruiser Fylgia were rounded up after the crew deserted seeking the Gay White Way. Captain Ungar officials fear some may have left in civilian clothes and will not be recovered.
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New York
Fylgia
North River
Captain Ungar
Ungar
Harding's Big Four completed by Fairbanks
Columbus Jan 9 Ohio's Big Four delegates to the national convention in Chicago are likely to be H M Daugherty Myron T Herrick Frank B Willis and H H Fairbanks of Springfield chairman of the state central committee Daughertys selection was a foregone conclusion Herrick and Willis were also expected to be chosen Fairbanks is considered the logical fourth member plans for the delegation are being finalized with announcements expected soon
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Bryan
Baltimore
Wilson
San Francisco
Homer S. Cummings
National Committee
Cummings
Columbus
Ohio
Chicago
H. M. Daugherty
Harding
Myron T. Herrick
Frank B. Willis
H. H. Fairbanks
Springfield
Republican State Central Committee
Daugherty
Herrick
Willis
Fairbanks
Isle in St. Lawrence To Be Oasis for Wets
Republican leaders from Northern New York say a small island in the St. Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay will become a mecca for prohibition opponents after January 16. The island, acquired by a group careful about their drinks, will welcome a spring influx of visitors from Broadway and Forty-second Street.
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New York
St. Lawrence River
Alexandria Bay
N. Y
Republican State
Broadway
Forty-second Street
Dempsey Charged as Draft Skulker in El Paso Legion Meeting
Jack Dempsey the world heavyweight champion faced a claim of skulking from the draft board at a meeting of the El Paso Post American Legion. Georges Carpentier was made a life honorary member, and the post voted $25 to wager on Carpentier in his upcoming bout with Dempsey.
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EL Paso
Tex
Jack Dempsey
Georges Carpentier
American Legion
Carpentier
Dempsey
Mechanic Accused of Seven Wives in Bigamy Case
Joseph W. Thompson, 47, held in Columbus city prison on bigamy charges after Ida Thompson, his wife, says he has had seven wives none of whom are divorced from him. Ida, who married him in 1906, claims he left in 1915 and has since wed four more women. Thompson, also known as Harry J. Thompson, previously served time for forgery in 1909 and other minor sentences in Cleveland.
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Columbus
Joseph W. Thompson
Ida
Thompson
Bessie McCafferty
Ida Thompson
Harry J. Thompson
Ohio Penitentiary
Cleveland
Middletown Man Killed in Auto Train Crash
William Mills 39 of Middletown dies after his car is struck by an eastbound passenger train at the Third Street Big Four crossing. His wife suffers a broken arm and leg and cuts plus their year old child injured seriously.
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Middletown, CO
William Mills
Third Street Big Four Crossing
Miss Lucy Page Gaston Opens Campaign HQ for President
Chicago January 9 Miss Lucy Page Gaston opened headquarters to campaign for the Republican nomination on an anti tobacco platform. Gaston filed her platform and declaration as a candidate in South Dakota.
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Chicago
Lucy Page Gaston
Gaston
South Dakota
Allies to declare peace with Germany today will resume relations
Paris reports a two part ceremony to re establish peace between the Allies and Germany with ratification of the Versailles treaty. Delegates will sign protocols and agreements on Rhine occupation while German prisoners are repatriated and envoys exchanged.
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Paris
Associated Press
Germany
Baron Kurt von Leisner
Herr von Simson
Clemenceau
Scapa Flow
United States
Belgium
Great Britain
France
Rhine
Baron von Leisner
M. de Marcilly
Berlin
General Lerond
David Lloyd George
Nitti
Italy
Versailles
Allied Commission
Cincinnati Colonel Assumes Responsibility For Detter Trial
Colonel Frank Halstead of Cincinnati testified he assumed full responsibility for charges of brutal treatment of prisoners in the Detzer court martial at Governors Island. He criticized Captain Karl Detzer's efficiency and described seeing Detzer in disguise wearing large army shoes with socks showing. Operatives of Detzer's Le Mans unit were observed in civilian clothes at Red Cross canteens.
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New York
Frank Halstead
Cincinnati
le Mans
France
Karl W. Detzer
Governor’s Island
Halstead
Detzer
Red Cross
Ex Kaiser's Welcome Wearing Out With Dutch Parliament Members
The First Chamber of the Dutch Parliament proposes asking William II to return to Germany but the government dismisses the memo as a formality. William operates from Doorn sawing branches for a new landscape as cabinet stability remains despite cabinet tensions.
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Kaiser
The
Hague
Associated Press
Holland
William
Germany
Doorn
Taft warns against making treaty the campaign issue
Former President Taft urged the Senate treaty controversy not be used for politics at a Portland Rotary Club dinner. He warned delaying settlement could stretch to fourteen months and urged avoiding extremist leadership, stressing prompt world peace on the best terms through compromise.
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Lodge
Massachusetts
Senate
Hitchcock
White House
Bryan
Addi
Portland
Wilson
Taft
Vanderbilt Fifth Avenue Home Sells for 6.5 Million
The Cornelius Vanderbilt mansion on Fifth Avenue between Fifty seventh and Fifty eighth streets in New York has sold for 6.5 million dollars in cash. Purchaser unnamed, with rumors of a hotel by Ty Coleman Dupont or a Marshall Field department store. Vanderbilt representatives cited high upkeep costs as the reason for sale.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-seventh
Fifty Eighth Street
America
Ty Coleman Dupont
Marshall Field
Hamilton Radicals Ousted From Party By Conservative Wing
Special dispatch reports a split in Hamilton Socialist local where conservatives, in the majority, ordered radicals to abandon radicalism or quit. Several members left, including Charles Baker, a national organizer for the Communist Labor party, with others choosing to stay under the majority’s rule.
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Hamilton
Eee
Charles Baker
Communist Labor Party
Stays of Execution Granted to 12 Negroes in Injunction Case
The Arkansas Supreme Court granted indefinite stays of execution for twelve black inmates condemned for murders tied to the recent Phillips County insurrection. The orders came after appeals filed by the defendants' attorneys, deferring any executions. If the high court upholds the death sentences, new dates would be set by a gubernatorial proclamation.
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Little Rock
Ark
Phillips County
Arkansas Supreme Court
Supreme Court
New Jersey Assemblymen Rebuff Palmer on Suffrage Push
Attorney General Palmer asks New Jersey’s twelve Democratic assemblymen elect to push ratification of the federal woman suffrage amendment at the January session. Some lawmakers denounce Palmer for intruding on state matters while others defend states rights and caution against federal interference.
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Newark
W. J
A. Mitchell Palmer
New Jersey
Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
James R. Nugent
Nugent
Brown Sugar Shortfall in Sweetening Matter Cited by Official
Boston report shows white sugar 100 percent pure while brown unrefined sugar contains only 83 percent pure sweetening matter. Director Hermann C. Lythgoe of the State Health Division notes tests found white sugar at 18 cents per pound and brown at 20 cents.
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Boston
Hermann C. Lythgoe
Division of Food and Drugs
State Department of Health
Amnesia Shrouds Man Claiming Oxford Ties in New Jersey
A man calling himself Dr X woke in Lambertville with total memory loss after the Titanic sinking. He claims Oxford origins and Mississippi childhood, recalls McKinley’s assassination, and displays musical skill as Rev Beasley helps him. Authorities note his age around 50 to 60, height five seven, weight about 140 pounds.
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Lambertville
N. J
Dr. X
J. T. Beasley
Beasley
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
England
Oxford
Mississippi
McKinley
Wilson
Roosevelt
Germany
Bensley
Police identify Cleveland girl taken from train in Youngstown
Police ended a week long effort to identify a 12 year old girl found on a train in Youngstown after she recovered enough to say she was Margaret Arch of 2955 East Sixteenth Street Cleveland. Her parents were notified and traveled to Youngstown.
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Youngstown
Cleveland
Margaret Arch
East Sixteenth Street
Cox to Address Jackson Day Dinner in Cincinnati
Cincinnati Democrats pack Hotel Linton for Jackson Day celebration and Duckworth Club installation. Gov James M Cox expected to speak on his presidential candidacy with possible confirmation of a formal declaration. Over 600 reservations made for an event described as among the club’s most pretentious affairs.
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James M. Cox
Cincinnati
Duckworth Democratic Club
Linton
Washington Party
Lace
Nerer
William A. Julian
Charles E. Morris
B. Godden
State Democratic Executive Committee
Edward H. Moore
National Democratic
Cox
Duckworth Club
Washington
Ohio
Thomas H. Morrow
W. A. Julian
Thomas J. Noctor
Simeon M. Johnson
B. H. Wess
Sidney G. Stricker
William J. Leonard
Harding Confident Of Hamilton County Support in Contest
Senator Warren G. Harding, en route to Washington, reports strong Ohio backing for his Republican nomination. Campaign manager Harry M. Daugherty says Harding forces will not contest the Ohio gubernatorial race. Hamilton County is believed aligned with other major cities, anticipating no delegate clash.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Warren G. Harding
Washington
Union Station
Ohio
Cleveland
Harding
Harry M. Daugherty
Senator Harding
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Hamilton County
Hughes Condemns Suspension Of Five Socialists
Charles Evans Hughes and the Central Federated Union of New York condemned the New York Assembly action suspending five Socialist members. Hughes called the move anti constitutional and argued it targets a political party rather than individuals. The union vote echoed a strong denunciation by delegates.
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New York
New York Assembly
Charles Evans Hughes
Central Federated Union of New York
Hughes
Sweet
Central Union
Prin
Ciples
Hoover Boom Gets Impetus From Bryan Wilson Break
The January 9, 1920 report details Democratic Jackson Day banquets with speakers like Palmer and Bryan. It notes debates over the peace treaty, League of Nations, and a call to postpone action until after the next election. Bryan urges accepting majority will over two thirds.
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Hoover
David Lawrence
Woodrow Wilson
Brother Bryan
Senate
Bryan
Congress
Mr. Wilson
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