Storm floods Pleasant Ridge and Oakley cause 6000 in damage
A freak storm drenched Cincinnati with heavy rain in Pleasant Ridge and Oakley. The Madison road and Ysabella street area building was toppled by lightning, causing about 5000 in damage and prompting rebuild plans. Homes flooded, sewers clogged, and a radio set was destroyed by lightning in Pleasant Ridge.
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Cincinnati
Pleasant Ridge
Oakley
Madison Road
Ysabella Street
Morris & Long
Percy Larub
Gerson & Larub
Sarah
W. R. Hutton
Schubert Avenue
Mr. Hutton
W. C. Evans
Glass Avenue
Duck Creek Road
Weather Bureau
Clifton Observatory
Border tensions spark protest over cross border raids
WARSAW July 5 Border troubles between the Soviets and Poles prompt a protest from Russian Minister M Wolkoff after a Polish guard in Volhynia allegedly entered Soviet territory and burned a border post. Poles say two officers were abducted by a Soviet patrol and note prior prisoner exchanges.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
M. Wolkoff
Volhynia
Poland
Rehoboth Tribe Denied Independence by Mandates Commission
Geneva reports the Mandates Commission rejects Rehoboth petition for independence as unjustified. Officials hint at a working arrangement with tribal leaders. hundreds may be released from prison and martial law likely to be lifted.
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Albin BE. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
Mandates Commission
Rehoboth
N. Y. World News
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Lumber fire destroys Columbus yard with heavy loss
A blaze at the H. H. Giesey and Brothers lumber yards in Columbus caused an estimated loss of 150000 to 325690000. The fire origin was not determined as firefighters fought the flames today, with extensive damage reported across the yard.
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Associated Press
Columbus
H. H. Giesey and Brothers Company
Help Wanted Ad Sparks Quick Hiring in The Commercial Tribune
A local businessman praises a classified ad that brought swift results, selecting his new salesman the day after the ad ran. He urges readers to use The Commercial Tribune classified section and contact Ad Taker at Canal 6300 for fast hires.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Georgia Day Agents May Wear Large Badges Under Bill
Georgia would require prohibition enforcement officers to wear badges at least four inches in diameter and display distinctive colored lights on their cars under a bill from Rampley of Habersham County. The measure aims to strengthen enforcement amid mountain contraband liquor concerns in the lower region.
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World News Service
Atlanta
Prohibition Enforcement
Georgia
Rampley
Fromabersham County
Georgia Mountains
Loot at St Peter's Treasury Exposes Security Flaws
Rome July 5 Cardinal Merry Del Val and others oversee St Peter's treasury after a burglary. Initial losses estimated far below 4,000,000 lire with painters and a trunk crew implicated. The theft, amid alarms and concealed entry points, shifts blame toward workers. valuables moved to the Vatican Palace under guard as authorities tighten protection.
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Beatrice Baskerville
New York World News Service
Rome
Cardinal Merry del Val
St. Peter’s Treasury
Bellini
Michelangelo
Merry del Val
St. Peter's
Treasury
Iles
Vatican Palace
Vatican
Corea
Ipesarient Y. World News Service
World Press Pub. Co
Pickwick Club Disaster Kills Dozens in Boston Night Club Collapse
At the Pickwick Club collapse in Boston on July 4, firemen recovered thirty nine bodies with sixteen in hospital. Police Inspector Benjamin Alexander and Patrolman Paul Halloran were among the dead. Dozens more feared buried as workers excavated the wreckage beside the Dreyfus Hotel building. Looting attempts followed the disaster.
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Associated Press
Boston
Pickwick Club
Chinatown
Benjamin Alexander
Paul Halloran
Edith Jordan
Somerville
John J. Scales
Roxbury
Margaret Murphy
J. Lanzer
Sarge Penta
Carl Paulson, JR
Dorchester
Stuart Henderson
Milton
William D. Cochran
Malden
Frank Tillo
North End
Boxer
William J. Grossman
West End
James F. Glennon
John J. M’laughlin
South End
W. H. Marr
Dallas
Tex
United States Coast Guard
Mojave
Loretta Keegan
Cambridge
Edward Ss
Neddy” Flana
GAN
Mass
Terry Longobardi
Revere
Nixon
New York City
Joseph Smith
Providence
Dora Stern
Brooklyn
N. Y
Joseph G. Phanuf
Arthur M. Graham
Delia Sullivan
Delia Sullivan McEachern
ER Wilson
Jamaica Plain
Kentuckys heat claims another life in four day wave
Louisville July 5 The heat wave continues to exact a toll in Kentucky as 57 year old James H Button a real estate operator dies in Louisville bringing the four day heat toll to three.
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Louisville
Kentucky
James H. Button
Ex detective captures pickpocket on train
A former Louisville detective stopped a pickpocket on an L and N excursion train to Cincinnati. Walter Bandelin, who resigned two weeks earlier, aided bystanders, recovered a purse with 75 dollars and a Long Beach ticket, and arrested Raymond Tobin, 25, no home. The victim, Austin Hinkle, 49, was jailed for drunkenness as a witness.
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Cincinnati
Long Beach
Cal
Walter Bandelin
Louisville
Bandelin
Broadway
Raymond L. Tobin
Austin Hinkle
Hinkle
Tobin
Blasco Ibanez Marries Widow of Chilean Agent
Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez wed Mme Elena Ortuzar Bulnes widow of a Chilean diplomat at Mentone in a quiet ceremony attended only by witnesses. The couple’s union follows the death of his first wife in Valencia in January after a prolonged illness amid disputes over his Spain property.
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Nice
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
Mme
Dona Elena Ortuzar Bulnes
Mentone
Valencia
Spain
Pinchot Aims for Pepper Senate Seat in Pennsylvania
Governor Pinchot launches a bid to unseat George Wharton Pepper in the U S Senate, challenging the Republican machine with Mellon and Reed backing Pepper. The move follows Pinchot's Portland attack and risks fracturing party unity as insurgents seek power amid shifting balance after La Follette and Ladd deaths.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Pinchot
Mellon
Treasury Department
Portland
Ore
Pennsylvania Executive
George Wharton Pepper
United States Senate
Republican
Cleveland
Pepper
Senate
la Follette
Ladd
Toll of Independence Holiday Accidents Across the Nation
New York reports thirty one deaths and forty three injuries from July Fourth weekend incidents. Autos cause the most harm with ten dead and twenty eight injured, including crashes in Hastings and Geneva New York and a collision near Pomona New Jersey. Drowning, a plane crash at Curtis Field, a bee sting accident near Kemptville Ontario, and a fatal train car crash near the Caughnawaga reservation are among other tragedies with multiple injuries and fatalities.
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New York
Hastings
N. Y
Geneva
Pomona
N. J
Peekskill
Staten Island
Manhattan
Syracuse
Curtis Field
Haverhill
Mass
Lake Oscawanna Village
Kemptville
Detroit
New York Central
Caughnawaga Indian Reservation
Montreal
Patchogue
Missing Porter Found Dead Near Battle Creek
The body of William E. Porter, 35, a wealthy Ft. Smith glassmaker, was found in a field three miles north of Battle Creek. He had disappeared from the local sanitarium on June 27 and died from wrist slashes, with authorities deeming it a likely suicide after a nervous breakdown and despondency.
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Associated Press
Battle Creek
Mich
Wiliam E. Porter
Ft. Smith
Ark
Porter
Goldwyn Joins United Artists Motion Picture Group
Samuel Goldwyn announced his affiliation with United Artists joining Norma Talmadge Douglas Fairbanks Mary Pickford William S Hart Rudolph Valentino Charles Chaplin and Joseph M Schenck as chairman of the board of directors The Hollywood move expands the independent film group with top producers and stars.
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Goldwyn
United
Associated Press
Hollywood
Cal
Samuel Goldwyn
United Artists
Norma Talmadge
Douglas Fairbanks
Mary Pickford
William S. Hart
Rudolph Valentino
Charles Chaplin
Joseph M. Schenck
Car Crash Kills Hamilton Woman Near Canonsburg
Mrs. Elmer L. Weiss of Hamilton Ohio, 30, died when her automobile was struck by a freight train at Meadow Lands near Canonsburg Pennsylvania. Her husband and four others were injured, two of them severely, as the car backed into a wrong road during the return from a visit.
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E. L. Weiss
Hamilton
Canonsburg
Associated Press
Elmer L. Weiss
Weiss
Meadow Lands
Ruth
Helen
Thelma
Martha Hanley
Hanley
Soprano Madeline Keltie to wed financier Clifford Harmon
Paris dispatch reports Boston soprano Madeline Keltie who achieved European acclaim will marry Clifford B. Harmon a New York and Paris financier. The date is not announced.
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Arno Dosch-Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
Madeline Keltie
Boston
Clifford B. Harmon
New York
Real estate magnate Clifford Harmon and aviation devotee
Clifford B. Harmon, 60, built a fortune in New York and multiple cities including Buffalo Rochester Pittsburgh and Boston. He developed Harmon-on-Hudson and married Louise Benedict daughter of Commodore Benedict. A divorce in Bridgeport left a daughter with Harmon in France.
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New York World News Service
New York
Clifford B. Harmon
Buffalo
Louisville
Rochester
Pittsburgh
Boston
Syracuse
Harrisburg
Harmon-on-Hudson
Harmon
Lebanon
Louise Benedict
BE. C. Benedict
Bridgeport
Conn
France
Keltie
Riviera
Madame Eoserty
Opera Comique
Pros Pub: Co
Missing Pair Found In Tennessee Mountains
Two men reported missing since the night of June 23 were found chained to trees in the Tennessee mountains. The incident follows earlier news of rising waters on the Licking River after a rowboat accident near Newport, where Louis Becker of Cincinnati disappeared and friends attempt to recover him were hindered by turbulent waters.
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Tennessee
Licking River
Louis Becker
Tappan Avenue
Cumminsville
David Umbach
Boyd Street
Newport
Umbach
Becker
Andrew Trapp
Andrew Trapp, Whose Property Fronts the River. Mr. Trapp Said Becker and Ambach
Frank Becker
Spring Grove Avenue
Trapp
What is a Catalogue Controversy Over Postal Rates
A New York World News Service report from Washington discusses a rule under the new postal rates law: a catalogue is not a catalogue if it has fewer than twenty four pages, entitling it to 1 cent for two ounces, otherwise it pays 1½ cents. Businesses respond by expanding catalogues or attaching a circular to reach the 24 page threshold.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Surprise in Oil Suit Expected Tomorrow in Wyoming
Government counsel Owen Roberts and Atlee Pomerene prepare to appear before Judge Kennedy in Cheyenne to seek a reopening of the Sinclair case and introduce H. S. Osler testimony about the Continental Trading Company and a $233,000 Liberty bond payment to Albert B. Fall in the Teapot Dome lease bribery affair.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Owen D. Roberts
Atlee Pomerene
Kennedy
Cheyenne
Wyo
Harry F. Sinclair
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
H. 8.Osler
Continental Trading Company
Albert B. Fall
Sinclair
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
James E. O'Neil
Prairie Oil and Gas Company
H.lackmer
Midwest Refining Ompany
Continental
Roberts
Pomerene
Justice Riddell
Toronto
Architect Philip Pfeiffer Dies at 69 in Cincinnati
German born architect Philip Pfeiffer died at 4:00 A M Saturday at 12 Fast McMillan Street Cincinnati he was 69 He shaped buildings including the St Leger Apartment Building and the Cincinnati Abattoir Company and was noted for church designs He served as president of the Home Builders Loan Association and Krieger Wertin and belonged to several German and civic groups He is survived by two sons Walter and Gustav and two daughters Christine and Louise buried Vine Street Hill Cemetery with funeral at 2:30 P M at the family residence
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Philip Pfeiffer
Cincinnati
McMillan Street
Ng Feiffer
Germany
St. Leger
Woodburn Avenue
Gilbert Avenue
Pfeiffer
Home Builders’ Loan Association
Krieger Wertin
Order of Red Men
German Literary Society
Ernat Voss
St. John’s Evangelical
Louise Bredow
Amundsen and party Return to Oslo in Polar Flight
Captain Roald Amundsen and fellow Arctic explorers arrive in Oslo by seaplane N-25 salvaged from the polar ice. From Spitzbergen they reached Horten by the Aller W. Selmer, amid vast crowds greeting Norway's polar heroes and King Haakon awarding decorations.
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Associated Press
Oslo
Roald Amundsen
Lincoln Ellswo
Spitzee
Spitzbergen
Horten
Aller W. Selmer
Fridtjof Nansen
Pipervik Bay
Norway
Amundsen
Haakon
Five Hooded Captives Found Alive on Signal Mountain
In Chattanooga Tennessee on July 5, Dr W D Mason and Lawrence Bowman missing for ten days were found chained to a tree on Signal Mountain. They described being abducted by five hooded men and moved nightly to thwart a posse. Both suffered hunger thirst and exposure. Mason was badly cut from handcuffs.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
W. D. Mason
Lawrence Bowman
Prohibition
Signal Mountain
Jim Thomas
Sam Godsey
Selman
Bowman
Godsey
Thomas
Thorst
W. E. Grubb
Mason
Wmanm
Dr. N
Lawrence
Joe
Willis
Dr. Mason
Paris Admits Setback on Moroccan Front
The Ministry of War disclosed a serious setback near Taza as loyal tribes broke away and Riffians attacked French troops through a newly breached line, signaling a troubling development on the Moroccan front.
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Paris
Associated Press
Ministry of War
Taza
French forces seize Bab Taza stronghold in Morocco raid
A French flying column operating against Moroccan tribesmen on the upper Leben River advanced northward after heavy fighting and occupied a strong position at Bab Taza. The garrison at Bou Alima withdrew after destruction of enemy works, with severe Riffian losses reported. In the east, French troops drove the enemy from Bab Tifilassen to the west of Kifiane overnight July 3-4.
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Associated Press
French Morocco
Leben River
Bab Taza
Bou Alima
Bab Tifilassen
Kifiane
Reward for Bank Bandits Brings Large Cash Payout
The Cook County Bankers' Association offers 2500 dollars for each bandit killed during robbery or escape. The reward applies to police sheriffs and bank employees. A separate 1000 dollar reward is offered for information leading to arrests and convictions of bank robbers, open to all.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Cook County Bankers’ Association
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