Senate Deliberates Kellogg Treaty and Indian Bureau Testimony
Senate discussed the Kellogg treaty while documents from Russia and Mexico dominated attention. Attorney General Sargent and former Interior official Work testified on charges surrounding Burke of the Indian Bureau, amid broader reapportionment debates and tariff discussions.
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Washington
Senate
House
Mexico City
State Department
Department
George Barr Baker
Baker
Mexico
Russia
United States
Borah
Norris
Congress
Sargent
Work
Interior Department
Senate Indian Committee
Burke
Indian Bureau
Indian Service
Ways and Means
New York
New England
President Coolidge
Leavitt
Secretary of the Interior
Indian Affairs Committee
Smoot
Rep
Utah
Lands Committee
Senate Lands Committee
Lafayette National Park
Maine
Acadia National Park
Hale
N. H
Kelly
Army
Earl of Howe Dies in England in 1927
Richard George Penn Curzon fourth Earl of Howe dies in London at home. His death creates a parliamentary vacancy as Viscount Curzon moves from the Commons to the Lords. He served as Lord Chamberlain to Queen and held royal household posts. Born 1861, married three times to Georgina Spencer-Churchill, Flora Davis, and Lorna Katherine.
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London
Richard George Penn Curzon
Earl of Howe
Viscount Curzon
House of Lords
House of Commons
Earl Howe
Royal Household
Alexandre
Georgina Spencer Churchill
Duke of Malborough
Flora Davis
John Davis
New York
Marquis of
Dufferin and
Ava
Lorna Katherine
Earnest Charles Penn Curzon
Capt
Quintin Dick
Officers Ordered to Study Cooking for Better Mess
The War Department ordered all officers below Major to take a mess management course by March 1 using the army cook as a textbook. The aim is to ensure proper feeding of troops with the 50 cent daily ration and the 15 cent increase in value.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Search For Man In Ohio River Towns Seeks John H. Culton
Police and private detectives join the hunt for John H. Culton a 47 year old Huntington West Virginia retiree missing since last Monday. Relatives posted a $100 reward and an hourly radio appeal will run from WLW as searchers retrace a Cincinnati to Huntington rail journey. Culton is described as six feet tall 145 pounds light complexion with light brown hair and eyes.
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Ohio River
Cincinnati
Huntington
John H. Fulton
W. Va
R. L. Bowman
Sinton
Culton
John Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Florida
Eleventh Avenue
Mr. Bowman
Bowman
Portsmouth
Mr. Culton
Huntington End
Linton
WLW
West Virginia
Dies of Burns Suffered on Rubbish Funeral Pyre
Tallapoosa Georgia widow Julia Pitts aged sixty dies from burns after setting a rubbish funeral pyre in her bedroom. Her nearly blind 70 year old husband woke to find her night clothes ablaze as she sat in the roaring fire. She spoke of the act before collapsing and dying. Her husband said fear of illness may have driven her to self harm and two days earlier she asked him to buy poison to end her life. The blaze caused house damage but no other injuries.
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Tallapoosa
Julia Pitts
Pitts
Ohio weighs 1 dollar drivers license bill for state safety
Ohio lawmakers consider a proposal to create a department of public safety funded by a one dollar drivers license fee affecting about four million drivers and 1.8 million cars. An alternate bill would charge twenty five cents for a license with revenue aimed at roads and highways. Support includes the Ohio Safety Council and major associations. key officials include Joseph Gardner and A E Mittendorf at a joint conference.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio State Automobile Association
State Department of Public Safety
Ohio Association
Walter G. Nickels
New Philadelphia
Department of Public Safety
Ohio Safety Council
Ohio Automobile Association
The
State Grange
Ohio Federation of Labor
Farm Bureau
Charles C. Jones
General Assembly
Joseph R. Gardner
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Hamilton County
A. E. Mittendorf
Cincinnati Club
Gardner
Missouri neighbor charged after fatal shooting near Lone Jack
The body of Clay Branch 33 was found buried in hay on Prentiss Bullard 23 farm after being carried thirty miles from a Lone Jack area. Bullard admitted killing claiming self-defense. witness F W Walker 24 said Bullard and Branch argued and Bullard fired two shots from the rear seat. Mary Branch sister suggested dispute over money owed by Bullard.
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Harrisonville
Clay Branch
Prentiss Bullard
Bullard
Lone Jack
Missouri
Warrensburg
Branch
F. W. Walker
Kingsville
Walker
Kansas City
Mary Branch
Pact With His Wife To Murder Her And Then Die
Garlana Williams 28 confesses a death pact to kill his former wife Lorraine Ambrose and surrender to the state for execution. He says she urged a joint death by gas, but he refused to kill himself and instead strangled her then slit her wrists with a razor before planning to turn himself in.
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San Francisco
Garlana Williams
Williams
Lorraine Ambrose
Bill
Europe Closer to War Says Ex-Czar's Uncle in Lecture
Grand Duke Alexander of Russia warned in Emery Auditorium that Europe is closer to war than in 1914, citing materialism and spiritual decay. He said America will play a key role in rebuilding Russia after Bolshevik rule, and that Europe and America will be future world rulers in a spiritual sense. He condemned Bolshevism while avoiding foreign intervention and urged moral support from other nations.
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Europe
U.S
Russia
Grand Duke
Alexander
Emery Auditorium
America
Bolshevists
American
County power shift seen as townships fade in Madisonville
Raymond Atkinson of the Ohio Institute told the League of Women Voters that counties will grow in importance, absorbing real estate, health and library duties while townships dwindle within a decade. He warned Ohio's constitution blocks swift reform and notes urban areas also push for larger county roles.
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Raymond Atkinson
Ohio Institute
League of Women Voters
Institute of County Government
Linton
Flu Epidemic Termed Bunk and Scrutiny of Reports
Public health officials from across the United States gathered in Washington to challenge the influenza outbreak as a panic, while Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming was ill and unable to attend. Massachusetts Health Officer G H Bigelow contradicted epidemic claims, dismissing graphs as panic-driven reports. The session warned a potentially more severe outbreak could follow.
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Washington
United States
Hughs. Cumming
G. H. Bigelow
Massachusetts
Cumming
Public Health Service
Drug Trafficker Gets Long Term Sentence in New York
In New York the narcotics courier Joseph Unger pleaded guilty and was sentenced to eleven years and six months in Atlanta Penitentiary after federal agents traced $2,000,000 worth of drugs tied to the Rothstein case. The case linked Unger to transportation and possession of narcotics with trunks checked through to Chicago and involved Mrs. June Boyd, also charged in the narcotics arrests.
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York
Jan
Arnold Rothstein
Federal
Joseph Unger
Winslow
Unger
Atlanta
Buffalo
Chicago
Rothstein
June Boyd
New York
Boyd
Wilkins Solves Great Problem of Antarctic
Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins reports via radio that the Wilkins Hearst Expedition will shift to a new base in America and resume the second phase next year after a five hundred mile flight over Graham Land. Weather and terrain prevented a Ross Sea flight this season but Graham Land exploration accomplished, showing the continent’s western coast.
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New York
Wilkins- Hearst
Antarctic
Sir Hubert Wilkins
New York American
Hearst
America
Wilkins
cAranam Land
The
Ross Sea
Deception Island
Graham Land
Capt. Wilkins
Weddell Sea
Sir Hubert
Ex-Wife Found Dead Near Note in Arkansas
Florence Lee Newsom, former dancing instructor, was found dead with bullet wounds near her divorced husband Robert W. Baker in Little Rock. A pistol and a note allegedly written by Newsom were found. officials withheld contents but said it related to death by own action plans. Authorities doubt she killed herself.
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Little Rock
Ark
Jam
Florence Lee Newsum
Robert W. Baker
Baker
Miss Newsom
Chicago
Boxing control dispute heats in Hamilton County court
A long running fight over boxing authority in Hamilton County moves to Common Pleas Court with an injunction suit by the 147th Infantry Athletic Club and associated boxers managers led by Billy O’Brien. Plaintiffs accuse the County Boxing Commission Sheriff and state bodies of monopolizing permits and excluding participants across 32 states, seeking to halt interference and determine legal status of county boxing.
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Hamilton County
Common Pleas
147Th Infantry Athletic Club
Billy O'Brien
Willie Purcell
Early Washburn
John Creeley
William Anderson
County Boxing Commission
Ohio State Association of Boxing Commissions
Thomas Morrow
Mickey Dugan
Jim Gillespie
Johnnie Burns
Johnnie Reynolds
Clarence Hartzell
Jack Chaney
Cricket Nelson
Joie Goodman
Chet Swallwood
L. Waiters
Bruce Bratt
Donnie Davis
Leo Sullivan
R. Norcross
Jimmie Dunn
al Lever
Stanley Isaacs
Peter Horbach
Howard Heckerman
Edward Kennedy
National Boxing Association
County Commission
Cincinnati
National Boxing Commission
Caillaux in Auto Crash Risks Eye Sight in Paris
Joseph Caillaux former Premier arrived in Paris after an icy skid damaged his car and another vehicle. He bore a broken nose and eye injury and missed the Senate opening where he planned to oppose the Poincare Cabinet.
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Paris
Joseph Caillaux
Senate
Poincare
MM. Caillaux
Health Job Narrows to Neal Snively Bettman Selects Two for His Staff
Gov elect Myers Cooper moves to fill the health director post naming Dr. A Neal as Director of Health and Dr. H H Snively as State Health Director under former Gov Davis. Hal H Griswold named State Welfare Director. Cooper hints several other cabinet appointments to follow.
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Neal
Snively
Bettman
Coopers
Executive Mansion
Columbus
Myers i Cooper Sareen
Do. A. Neal
Hamilton County
H. H. Snively
Cooper
State Highway Department
Dr. Neal
Cincinnati
Griswold
Cleveland
Chardon
Board of Education
Geauga County
House of Representatives
State Demands Death for Boy in Witch Murder
A state prosecutor seeks the death penalty for a boy accused in a witchcraft murder case. A witness describes fear during the struggle as a Powwow Doctor allegedly threatened to kill him.
York County to Seek Death Penalty for 14 Year Old John Curry
Dudley Nichols reports in York Pa January 10 that York County will ask a jury to impose the electric chair on fourteen year old John Curry for the November 27 killing of Nelson Rehmeyer the powwow. The defense rests on the boy’s claim of witchcraft and fear, while Prosecutor Amos Herrmann asserts the boys planned to rob Rehmeyer. The trial features cross examination about truth and motive as Curry’s mother testifies and the case ties into Blymyer and the powwow myth.
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New York World News Service
York
York County
John Curry
Nelson Rehmeyer
Amos Herrmann
Tom
John
District Attorney's Office
Mr. Herrmann
Blymyer
Hess
Curry
John Blymyer
Witch Doctor
Rehimyer
Walter Vanbaman
Vandaman
Ummin
Aoe
Anna McLean
Bilymyer
Lenhart
Noll
Marietta
Casa Donalling
McLean
Exme
Scho
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Ohio Department of Safety
Prohibition
Royal W. Ryan
Gaa
Madisonville
Smithereens
Carl Hartman
Mathis Street
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Fortunatly Hartman
Hartman
Mt. Auburn
Townsend-West Dairy Company
Marshal Bishop
Bishop
Houston
Col
Kane
Sergis. Meyer
von Dohre
Capital
New Yorker
Wilking
South Polar
Athletic Club
By Royal W. Ryan
Child
Dudley Nichols
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