Motor buses via storage battery power eyed by street railway firm
Cincinnati traction leaders discuss introducing electric motor coaches built by Westinghouse and powered by charged storage batteries. Planners expect profits if franchise passes, with trackless trolley concepts and night charging at power stations. The move aims to rival gasoline buses and protect streetcar investments amid rising bus patronage.
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Street Railway
Cincinnati Car Company
Street Railway Company
Robert Taft
Samuel Assur
Westinghouse Electric Company
Westinghouse
New York City
Cincinnati
Norwood
Ohio Man Found Dead in Motorcycle Sidecar
NicholasLuxenberger aged36 was found dead in the sidecar of his motorcycle near his sister’s Navarre Ohio home. He had been last seen leaving for a ride the previous night. Two weeks earlier he was beaten by two men who robbed him after a shoot at Brewster.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Navarre
Nicholas Luxenberger
C. M.heitzvelman
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Brewster
Merry Widow Star Granted Interlocutory Divorce in New York
Mrs. Ethel Jackson Baynes, originator of the Merry Widow title role in the United States, was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce today from George McLeod Baynes in Brooklyn Supreme Court. The decree, signed by Justice Cropsey on a referee’s report, recommends absolute divorce. the other woman is unnamed.
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New York
Ethel Jackson Baynes
United States
George McLeod Baynes
Supreme Court
Cropsey
Elopement-averse Rev. Culp again vanishes with sister in law
South Bend Indiana July 15 The Rev Wilson Culp of South Bend has vanished again despite vowing to end elopements. His sister-in-law Mrs Dorothy Culp of Napanee is missing and a warrant for nonsupport has been sworn by Mrs Wilson Culp. Culp previously eloped with the sister-in-law to Chicago and with an eighteen year old choir singer years ago near Xenia Ohio. 90 dollars was last seen in his possession July 7 in conference with his sister-in-law who may have fled toward Mexico with him.
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South Bend
Ind
Wilson Culp
Dorothy Culp
Napanee
Culp
Chicago
Xenia
Mexico
Southwest
Inlaw
Notable Lawyer R V Lindabury Dies in New Jersey
Richard Vliet Lindabury eminent attorney and general counsel for United States Steel and Prudential Insurance was found dead in Bernardsville New Jersey his death due to apoplexy investigators say his horse may have caused the accident with injuries including a broken shoulder blade He helped win the Sherman Act case dissolving United States Steel and later served as Prudential's general counsel He represented firms like American Tobacco Standard Oil CNJ and Bethlehem Steel among others his wife ill at home did not know of his death until later state police are investigating.
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Bernardsville
N. J
Richard Vliet Lindabury
United States Steel Corporation
Prudential Insurance Company
Lindabury
Peapack
United States
Steel Corporation
Armstrong Insurance
New York
Lindaburg
American Tobacco Company
Standard Oil Company
Central Railroad of New Jersey
International Harvester Company
United States Rubber Company
New Jersey Zinc Company
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
American Sugar Refining Company
Infant Found Naked on Porch in Youngstown
Police report a newborn girl left on a porch in Youngstown Ohio on July 15. The infant was discovered by John Shaferso and taken to a hospital for treatment with a good prognosis for recovery.
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Associated Press
Youngstown, O
John Shaferso
A Home In the Country Ad Prompts Apartment Calls
A Cincinnati woman advertises newly decorated apartments for rent in The Commercial Tribune and receives a number of good calls. Vacant rooms need not be a problem as people keep their spare rooms rented through Classified Ads. Call an Ad-Taker at CANAL 6300.
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Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune
Mrs Tumney Identified as Murder Victim Turns Up Alive
The supposed murder victim Mrs Maude Tumey reappears alive in Covington after a daylong hunt by Sheriff Fred Croswell. She says she is well and asks police to broadcast the truth. Residents of Utopia had believed a Kentucky woman matched Tumey’s photo was the killer’s target.
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Tumney
Covington
Maudé Tumey
Fred Croswell
Clermont County
Tumey
Augusta
Utopia
Mrs. Tumney
Kentucky
Jesse Groves
Straightway
Felicity
Ohio
Clermont
Brown
Robertson
Mason
Eration
Linville
Croswell
Batavia
Lottery Wheel Spins for Last Time in New Orleans
New Orleans approves a law ending the lottery wheel that paid 50 000 in prizes to 10 000 bond holders from 1875 issue to retire 2 000 000 debt. Bernard Shields presided as the process ends at City Hall with two St Mary's Orphanage boys drawing numbers for 50 000 total prizes.
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New Orleans
Charles J. Leeds
Bernard Shields
Board of Liquidation
St. Mary
Coolidge Visits Adams Birthplaces and Tombs in Quincy
President and Mrs. Coolidge toured Quincy with a small party cruising from Marblehead on the Mayflower. They visited the John Adams and John Quincy Adams birthplaces and the first parish church tomb of the two presidents, with Melville E. Stone and Secretary Sanders aboard for the excursion.
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Associated Press
Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
Quincy
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
Massachusetts
Marblehead
Lexington
Mr. Coolidge
Hold Up Men Loot Bank of 25000 in Virginia Bank
In Alberta Brunswick County three unidentified young white men robbed the Bank of Alberta while staff were away for lunch. About 25000 in currency was taken, Saunders Wynn was shot in the leg trying to stop them, A. B. Elmore unhurt. A Brunswick County posse pursued the robbers with no success reported tonight.
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Associated Press
Petersburg
A. B. Elmore
Bank of Alberta
Alberta
Brunswick County
Saunders Wynn
Warfield
Elmore
Governor Declines to Spare Chicago Murderer
Springfield July 15 Governor Small refused to commute Russell O. Scott's death sentence for the murder of Joseph Maurer a Chicago drug clerk. The governor acted on the pardon division recommendation and gave no further reason for the decision.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Ill
Scott Faces Execution After Governor Denies Clemency
In Chicago on July 15 Russell Scott a former Canadian financier and author faced imminent execution after Governor Small refused to intervene. Scott sentenced to be hanged for the murder of Joseph Maurer a drug store clerk during a two year old hold up. He claimed his brother Robert was the real killer and sought a commutation from Springfield officials for his wife and father.
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Scott
Associated Press
Chicago
Russell Scott
Small
Joseph Maurer
Springfield
Board of Pardons* and _ Paroles
Robert
New York World News Service
Russell T. Scott
Board of Pardons
Robert T. Scott & Co
Toronto
John Willison
Copany
Detroit-Windsor
Dorothy Newburg
Boston
Montreal
Liessur Company
Detroit
Dope Fiend
Russell
Maurer
Scotts
Robert Scott
Lindsay
Scott Wanted Fortune Falls To Crime Sudden
Russell T. Scott, former promoter, faces execution for murder after the Board of Pardons and Governor Small refused to intervene. His brother Robert is an indicted accomplice. Scott, about 30, father of three, was linked to the Detroit-Windsor Bridge promoter firm and a 1923 drugstore heist in Chicago.
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Scott
Eleven Girls Arrested in Major Counterfeiting Ring
New York July 15. Secret Service agents arrested eighty suspects in a wide counterfeiting plot led by an organized ring. Eleven girls were among the detainees with notes totaling about $35,000 found in Brooklyn raids. Wholesalers were among the latest arrests.
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Associated Press
New York
Brooklyn
Secret Service
Joseph A. Palma
Mr. Palma
Senator Robinson to push inheritance tax repeal plan
Washington July 15 Senator Robinson of Arkansas the Democratic leader announced tonight he would advocate in the next long session a repeal or reduction of the inheritance tax and a surtax cut to 20 or 25 percent.
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Washington
Robinson
Arkansas
Tonigh
Defense Says Prosecution Must Prove Darwinism Denial in Scopes Trial
Defense argues the Bible belongs to theology not science and Scopes only taught evolution, requiring the state to prove he denied the Bible creation story. Malone outlines the twofold burden: prove teaching of evolution and denial of biblical creation, while Bryan faces courtroom tension and strict rules.
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Dayton
Tenn
John Thomas Scopes
Dudley Field Malone
Scopes
William Jennings Bryan
Malone
Mr. Bryan
Stewart
Mr Bryan
Mr. Malone
Tennessee
John T. Scopes
Wins Architecture Prize After Break With Family
Percival Goodman, 21, who cut ties with wealthy parents who urged law study, won a $3,000 architecture prize in New York. His winning design for a summer Capitol of the United States drew on a lakeside site and beat 85 nationwide entrants. He will study at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design in Paris for 2.5 years.
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Associated Press
New York
Percival Goodman
Greenwich Village
Paris
Beaux Arts Institute of Design
United States
Goodman Hag
Tragedy at Olentangy River Drowns Columbus Boy
Gardner McKenzie, 9, drowned in the Olentangy River in Columbus as he swam with two companions on the river bank. It took twenty minutes to summon aid after he sank from sight.
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Columbus
Governor Praises Attorney General for Scopes Case
Governor Austin Peay sends a telegram praising Attorney General A. T. Stewart for handling the John Thomas Scopes prosecution under the anti evolution law. The note expresses pride in his work and mentions Bryan and friends.
UC Prof Views Scopes Trial As Farce In Dayton
University of Cincinnati instructors say the Scopes trial will hardly affect science whether the verdict favors or bars teaching evolution. They frame the case as a legal issue, not scientific, with four main evolutionary theories cited and faith in science persisting regardless of state action.
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John T. Scopes
Dayton
Tenn
University of Cincinnati
Bryan
Darwin
le Marc
Department of
Science
H. L. Wyeman
O. T. Wilson
Department of Botany
Cardinal Begin Near Death in Quebec Confined to Palace
Cardinal Louis Nazaire Cardinal Begin, 83, Roman Catholic Primate of Canada, was paralyzed on the right side and nearly speechless at the Archbishop’s palace in Quebec on July 15 after suffering uremia. Reports said his condition was very serious, with prayers requested from faithful across Canada and the United States.
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Associated Press
Quebec
Louis Nazaire
Cardinal Begin
All Canada
Canada
United
Rte
Bealf
Dayton Scopes Trial Clash on Evolution Evidence
In Dayton Tennessee the trial over teaching evolution presses on with defense blocked from presenting key scientific testimony. Prosecution rests on student accounts of John T Scopes teaching from a book aligned with Darwinism as the judge rules on admissibility and the motion to quash.
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Talesmen
Charles Michelson
Clarence Darrow
Maynard M. Metcalfe
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