Grain firms merge to form farmer owned giant
Five large grain companies including Armour and Rosenbaum plan a merger creating The Grain Marketing Company with 26 million dollars capital. The farmer controlled plan aims to own common and preferred stock, with a board to be run by farmers and two thirds of directors from farmer groups.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United States
Kansas City
Empanies
Armour Rain Company
Rosenbaum Train Corporation
John C. Schaffer & Co
Rosenbaum Brothers
Davis, Noland
Merrill Grain Company
Barrett Frazier Company
Ergor
Cicago
Uso
Omaha
Minneapolis
Winona
Minn
Ort Worth
Texas
East
Toledo
Galveston
Exas City
Norfolk
Depot Harard
Georgian Bay
Themerican Farm Bureau Federation
Erger
Fiv
Erge
May Libel Ship After Big Raid Damaging Narcotics Case
Federal authorities consider libeling the Italia-America liner Duilio after a $400,000 narcotics raid at her pier. Nine crewmen arrested, including ship's plumber Arturo Gaeta who confessed smuggling contraband and a stolen Michelangelo prime reward linked tale. Bail set at 15,000 for Gaeta, 1,500 for captain and seven officers. Bond for ship to sail to Naples. Agents traced go-between in Broadway cabaret.
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Associated Press
New York
Federall
Duilio
Arturo Gaeta
Gaeta
Michelangelo
Halian
Edward Barnes
Customs Department
Naples
Duilie
Conscience fund grows as hunter pays $30 fine
Dent O Thompson receives a $30 payment from a violator who confessed to hunting game out of season in a letter signed A Friend. The letter dated July 5 from Wapakoneta was forwarded by Allen County Game Warden Charles Hanes and will be framed as a reminder to other hunters.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Dent O. Thompson
Division of Fish and Game
Fish and Game
Wapakoneta
Charles E. Hanes
Allen County
Thompson
Tear gas used to arrest Cleveland woman in barricade
Anna Kress, 45, mother of seven, barricaded herself in a third floor apartment firing eight times at deputies and police. A tear gas bomb forced her from a bedroom where she collapsed in a closet. She was captured and jailed to await a hearing on insanity. Two daughters were in the apartment during the stand off.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Anna Kress
Julia
Elizabeth
Horrigan
C. O. Drake
Woman Teller Arrested in 310000 Bank Shortage
Marie Perrin a 42 year old loan department teller in a Cleveland bank was arrested for embezzling about 310000. She admitted the charge saying funds were used to support a stock market account over four years. She attempted suicide by poison days ago. The bank president said she will be prosecuted.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Marie Perrin
Miss Perrin
John C Daller
Clemens Oskamp Jewelry Company
Belmont Avenue
College Hill
Big Miami River
Miami
Marie Weiss
George Kolb
Lost Boy Found Dead in Thicket in New York
Francis McDonald eight is found strangled with a shirt bound about his neck in a West Brighton thicket near his home. Police estimate over five thousand visited the scene as detectives pursue leads and photograph the body to uncover the killer.
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New York
Francis McDonald
Albert McDonald
West Brighton
S.I
Richmond County
Maude A. Bauer
Harry Hoffman
Jacob Stein
Francis
George P. Mord
Man Charged with Mail Fraud in Bettys Folks Scheme
Harry Newman, formerly of Ohio, arrested in New York on mail fraud charges related to a scheme promoting Bettys Folks Inc, a broom manufacturer. He allegedly offered jobs to salesmen who would buy stock, promising $6000 yearly earnings. victims reported the scheme to authorities. He was released on $5000 bail. his attorney denied the charges.
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Harry Newman
Ohio
New York
United States
Marshal Engelberg
Hitchcock
George W. Craighead
Post Office
Pennsylvania
C. F. Walker
Harry J. Poore
Lima
Newman
Betty's Folks, Inc
Washington
Craighead
Christian Science Monitor
Betty’s Folks, Inc
Walker
Poore
Washington, Pa
Edward Ward McMahon
Cardington Mystery Woman Confesses Poisoning Husband
Mt Gilead Ohio July 15 Mrs Elenora Yeoman 39 confessed to poisoning her husband Lewis Yeoman who died June 28 after a chain of circumstantial evidence included letters to Detroit under the name N B Snyder and former husband Harry McMonigal. Prosecutor Mateer, coroner Caris and Sheriff Corwin witnessed the confession and Yeoman is held without bond awaiting further action.
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Associated Press
MT. Gilead
Elenora Yeoman
Lewis Yeoman
T. B. Mateer
Todd Caris
William R. Corwin
Columbus
Morrow County
Yeoman
Mateer
Marion
Town Celebrates 106th Birthday of Oldest Citizen
In Wabash Indiana on July 15 Uncle Jack Higgins revered as a pioneer resident marked his 106th birthday at home. Born in Liverpool England on July 15 1818 he immigrated young and keeps active with daily walks. He is father to ten children and resides with a daughter in town.
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Associated Press
Wabash
Ind
Jack Higgins
Jack
Liverpool
England
Man Shot Over House Like Rocket in Milwaukees Fireworks Blast
In Milwaukee Wisconsin a fireworks plant explosion in Lake caused a fatal man shot, a second man hurled over a house into a street with probably fatal injuries, and a boy injured seriously as the blast rattled southern Milwaukee, shattering windows and damaging homes and stores.
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Associated Press
Milwauree
Newman Active in Cox Campaign for Presidency
Pittsburgh July 1. Post Office Inspector George V. Craighead identified Harry Newman as attached to the Cox campaign headquarters at the Democratic National Convention. A photo in Pittsburgh papers linking him to the Cox headquarters resembled the man arrested at his direction.
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Newman
Cox
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Harry Newman
Ohio
Post Office
George V. Craighead
Craighead
Candidate for State Post Denies Prisoner Is His Son
John Henry Newman former State Librarian and Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in Ohio said the Harry Newman in New York police reports is not his son. He noted his son Harry B. Newman worked with Cox headquarters at the Democratic National Convention and has had no contact since the convention's end.
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State Post
Associated Press
Columbus
John Henry Newman
Harry Newman
New York
Newman
Ohio
St. Louis
Cleves
Jacob Meyers
Robert Herold
Dr. Kolb
Hillsboro
Clemens Oskamp
Adrian
Charles
C. Oskamp Daller
John Douglas Company
Adelaide Ray
William Rieckelman
Harrison Avenue
Lawrence to take vacation after twelve years of work
Washington correspondent David Lawrence will begin a vacation tomorrow, his first in twelve years with The Commercial Tribune. He has written a dispatch every weekday for years, totaling about 3.75 million words. He plans to resume duties in two weeks and cover the presidential campaign nationwide in fall.
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Lawrence
David Lawrence
Washington
The
Commercial Tribune
Major Samuel H McLeary Believed Hidden Near Enfield Detour
Mrs Edward Allen reported seeing three men in a touring car near Halifax County on July 2 and described a long blue wrapped bundle carried into woods by a red-haired man and a black man. She urged authorities to search woods near a negro settlement along the Enfield Halifax detour for Major McLeary, who had recently vanished.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Enfield
N. C
Halifax
Samuel H. McLeary
Edward Allen
Florida
Halifax County
Forest Fires Frenzy Across Pacific Coast Fanned by Gales
News reports describe vast California forests as funeral pyres with fires raging in Humbug Goose Neck Mountain Damascus Bigelow Meadows and Sequoia National Forests. About 500 firefighters plus 100 more were requested as civic state and national groups meet in Fresno to coordinate efforts.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Great National Forests
California
Humbug
Goose Neck Mountain
Klamath National Forest
Goose Neck
Damascus
Tahoe National Forest
Bigelow Meadows
Shasta National Forest
McCloud
Esperanza
Bull Run
Sequoia National Forest
Fresno
Democrats Eager To Take Offensive But Republicans Ready
Democrats push to take the offensive as John W. Davis prepares speeches in Clarksburg West Virginia. Republicans defend Coolidge's record and campaign strategy while facing internal splits and a split Congress since 1918.
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John W. Davis
Congress
Calvin Coolidge
Body Found in Ohio River Opposite Lawrenceburg Indiana
Authorities in Boone County Kentucky investigated the discovery of an unidentified three year old boy in the Ohio River opposite Lawrenceburg Indiana. The body showed no water in the lungs and no clear drowning marks. An inquest was planned as authorities sought missing person files to identify the child.
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Boone County
Ohio River
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Thomas Fitch
C. D. Witham
Fitch
T. M. Walton
Kentucky
Ohio
Fitch Undertaking
Actress Winifred Emery Dies in England
London July 15 actress Winifred Emery known privately as Mrs Cyril Maude died at Bexhill Sussex after a long illness. Her husband was at the Gaiety Theater New York when she fell seriously ill and he was summoned to St Moritz Switzerland in December.
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London
Winifred Emery
Cyril Maude
Bexhill
Sussex
Gaiety Theater
New York
St. Moritz
Switzerland
American globe encircling flyers entertained by Parisians
Paris welcomed the American round the world flyers with a busy rest day. They visited the Unknown Soldier tomb, luncheon with General Pershing, and meetings at the City Hall and the Republic president. The party then dined at the Inter-Allied Club before preparing to depart for Greenland. Flight leader Lieutenant Lowell H Smith said Paris impressed them and that the delay is only on a paper schedule. Supplies in Greenland will determine when they land in the United States, with a possible two week window to evacuate by air from Le Bourget tomorrow morning.
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Associated Press
Paris
Pershing
Republic
Laurent Eynac
Inter-Allied Club
Lowell H. Smith
The
Smith
Greenland
Smith E
United States
le Bourget
English Channel
Briton A Stuart Mac Laren Flies Toward Paramushiro
A Stuart Mac Laren left Toshimoye Lake on the island of Yotorofu for Paramushiro in the Kurile Islands. The flight began early this morning with favorable weather and marks another leg in the around the world attempt.
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Tokyo
A. Stuart MacLaren
Toshimoye Lake
Yotorofu
Paramushiro
Kurile Islands
Forest fires threaten mines and towns in Pacific Northwest
Fire fronts stretch twelve miles along Pine Creek affecting Nabob Constitution and Highland Surprise mines in Idaho and Washington. Refugees from Coeur d Alene mines reach Kellogg as Blue Slide fires destroy two ranches near Penderville County. Shamokane Creek and multiple burns challenge timber regions. missing Doukhobors and potential sight loss for some escaping party noted.
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Associated Press
Spokane
Wash
Washington
Idaho
Wheeler’s Mill
Blue
Ona
Penderville
Blue Slide
Constitutional
Highland Surprise
Nabob
Coeur de Alene
Kellogg
Constitution
Pine Creek
Shamokane Creek
Wenatchee and
Chelan
British Columbia
Porcupine Creek
Nelson
Toof Ymir
Darger
Forest fires alarm Washington amid dry conditions
Officials report 228 fires in the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states over ten days, 222 started by lightning. In Clearwater National Forest there were ninety lightning fires. Ten fires remain burning. authorities hope for control if weather holds. Hazardous national forest areas are closed to campers without special permits.
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Washington
Pacific Coast
Rocky Mountain States
Missoula
Mont
Clearwater National Forest
Amnesia case leads to arrest in embezzlement probe
Charles R. Davis once described as an amnesia victim is under arrest in Washington and to be sent back to Columbus to answer charges he misappropriated 61 dollars at a local auto sales firm. An employee car owned by the firm is missing, and Columbus police doubt the memory loss tale.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Charles R. Davis
Washington
Davis
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