Murder verdict in Canton police chief Lengel case
Seranus A. Lengel former Canton Police Chief was found guilty of murdering Don R. Mellett Canton editor on the anniversary of the shooting. The jury recommended mercy but Lengel faces life in Ohio Penitentiary unless a new trial is granted. He protested innocence in court as his family wept.
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Kansas Cities
Mellett
Canton
Seranus A. Lengel
Canton Police Department
Don R. Mellett
R. F. Hahn
Ohio
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Erma
Lengel
Ed Gibson
Tiamas
Frank Clevenger
Patrick McDermott
Louis Mazer
Ben Rudner
Floyd Streitenberger
Ohio Penitentiary
Mazer
Clevenger
Police Department
S. M. Swartz
Borger Cited For False Income Returns In Court Charge
Joseph Borger 53 of 5980 Wayside venue, treasurer of Churn Gold Corp, faces a municipal court hearing on alleged false corporate profit returns for the year ending April 29 1926. Detectives Diers and Gernhardt filed the warrant signed July 14 by Ohio Tax Commissioner inspector R M Lockhart. The company president Andrew Rohan and attorney Joseph Lackner discuss details to follow.
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Churngold Corporation
Charles Diers
Robert Gernhardt
R. M. Lockhart
Ohio Tax Commission of Columbus
Borger
Andrew Rohan
Corporation
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Rohan
J. D. Cloud & Co
Joseph Lackner
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Four Die in Elyria Crossing Train Crash
Four people including Stephen Chura 36 his wife Mary 30 and children Irene 5 and Alexander 6 months old were killed when their car collided with a New York Central mail train at Shawville near Elyria Ohio. The baby survived long enough to be brought to Memorial Hospital but died there.
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Elyria Memorial Hospital
Stephen Chura
Lorain
Mary
Irene
Alexander
New York Central
Shawville
Here
President Coolidge Attends Farmers Picnic in South Dakota
At Ardmore South Dakota July 16 President Coolidge watched a two sided tariff debate among Gov. Bulow and Senator Norbeck at a farmers picnic. Norbeck defended Republicanism while Bulow urged tariff reform for farmers.
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S. D
Coolidge
Gov. Bulow
South Dakota
Norbeck
Nebraska
Wyoming
McMaster
Rep
Mrs. Coolidge
Sapiro Settles $1,000,000 Libel Suit With Ford Retractions
Chicago report states Aaron Sapiro ends the libel suit after Henry Ford and The Dearborn Independent retract all personal charges. Ford officials say Ford did not publish or know specifics. Morgan of Berkeley wrote under Harry Dunn. Sapiro says he received no damages and was satisfied with the outcome.
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Chicago
Aaron Sapiro
Henry Ford
Martin G. Ansorg
New York
J. Kostman
Ford
Sapiro
Dearborn Independent
Robert Morgan
Berkeley
Cal
Harry Dunn
Morgan
Dearborn
Kansas City Tornado Toll Rises Across Towns in Heat Wave Spillover
A fierce tornado traversed Kansas and into southern Kansas City with at least eight dead and about one hundred injured. South Park and nearby Lebo or Burlingame reported multiple fatalities as homes and a general store collapsed. Dozens of structures were demolished and many residents left homeless amid the storm's sweeping destruction.
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South Park
Kan
Lebo
Burlingame
Here
J. Butts
R. E. Hites
Lloyd Davis
Davis
Former Judge Maxwell Dies at 88 in Ohio Home
Samuel N. Maxwell 88 longtime Cincinnati lawyer and former Common Pleas judge died at Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home in Sandusky after hip fracture complications. He partnered with Judson Harmon in 1876 and presided over Campbell disbarment case, shaping civic reform era. He leaves widow and son Geoffrey Maxwell.
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Judson Harmon
Cincinnati
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors’ Home
Sandusky
Baltimore
Geoffrey Maxwell
The
Orient
Maxwell
Ohio
Common Pleas
Campbell
William Howard Taft
United States
Thomas C. Campbell
CC. D. Robertson
J. S. Conner
Bar Association
William Herner
Joseph Palmer
Wiliiam Kirk
West Eighth Street
Edward Colston
Col
Colston
New York City
West Indies
Col. Colston
Married women teachers to lose their jobs in Chicago
Chicago officials announce a survey to test if marriage affects teacher efficiency and state that all married women teachers may be dismissed. Mayor Thompson's School Board President J. Lewis Coath leads the push, arguing married teachers cannot both manage a home and a school.
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Chicago
New York World News Service
J. Lewis Coath
Thompson
William McAndrews
Meade Confidante Aids Indiana Probe In Danville Case
Marion County Prosecutor William H. Remy began a new angle in the Indiana political corruption inquiry after a conference with Mildred Meade a former Stephenson confidante. Meade had previously fled the city and returned to reveal details about papers from Stephenson era. Stephenson defense lawyer Lloyd Hill echoed a strategy to wait on the Indiana Supreme Court before releasing more political evidence.
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William H. Remy
Marion County
D. C. Stephenson
Indiana
Remy
Mildred Meade
Stephenson
Miss Meade
Indiana Supreme Court
Vanzetti Begins Hunger Strike Amid Secrecy Claims
Boston report says Bar tolomeo Vanzetti, awaiting execution with Nicola Sacco, started a hunger strike at Charlestown prison. The Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee cites a secretive Gov Fuller review process behind closed doors, demanding open testimony and public analysis of evidence.
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Boston
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco
Charlestown State Prison
Sacco- Vanzetti
Fuller
Vanzetti
A. Lawrence Lowell
Harvard University
Robert Grant
Samuel Stratton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rosa Sacco
Sacco-Vanzetti
Air express service to link New York Chicago and Dallas
The American Railway Express Company announces start of overnight air express between New York and Chicago and Chicago and Dallas on September 1. National Air Transport Company is named as the carrier in the negotiated agreement.
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AIR Express
Chicago
New York
Dallas
Tex
American Railway Express Company
National Air Transport Company
Wolf cub Jupiter escapes Cincinnati Zoo and heads home
A half grown wolf named Jupiter trots through early morning mists toward Hamilton, having escaped from the Cincinnati Zoo five weeks after being given by Edward Tuley, a Hamilton patrol driver. Tuley fears for his granddaughter and trails the cub back toward the Tuley home as Fido the watchdog confronts the fugitive at 865 Forest Avenue.
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Cincinnati
Jupiter
Edward Tuley
Tuley
Forest Avenue
Fido
Lightning and Floods Hit New York City Area
A severe storm across New York caused three direct lightning deaths in Staten Island and Brooklyn, with extensive flooding halting subway service and delaying trains at Grand Central. The heat wave added ten deaths statewide, tallying over seventy in five days as beaches and resorts prepared for crowds.
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Louis Abinoliffi
Antoinette
Tompkinsville
Staten Island
William Aldhermes
Brooklyn
Grand Central Station
New York City
Philadelphia
Newark
N. J
Ansonia
Wealthy Widow Kills Neighbor in Apartment Hallway
New York reports a 44 year old widow, Catherine Barrett, killed 43 year old Mollie Moore in the hallway of their building after years of delusion she was spied upon by the other woman. Barrett, linked to a famous will dispute, faced prior ransacking suspicions and legal fees as tensions rose between the two residents.
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New York World News Service
New York
Catherine Barrett
Anthony J. Barrett
Iheath
Mollie Moore
Joseph Moore
City Finance Department
Charles C. Lockwood
Woman Regains Speech After Aerial Thrill
Mrs. Mary Lyons, 32, who lost her speech four years ago, spoke at her Chester West Virginia home after frightening aerial performer at an amusement park. She screamed when she feared the acrobat would fall into the crowd.
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East Liverpool
Mary Lyons
Chester
W. Va
Red guards march in Paris amid growing unrest
About 20 000 Red guards organized in groups of hundreds move through Paris as authorities confront mounting street protests. Reports from ARNO DOSCH-FLEUROT describe the tense scene with lines of marchers and security forces in the capital.
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Arno Dosch- Fleurot
New York World News Service
Paris
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