Hoover pledges Alaska progress through coordinated administration
At a July dinner in Anchorage Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover promised actions within three months to coordinate Alaska's governance and build a greater mission for the territory. He advocated slow development, a broadened state-building vision, and new rules for fisheries while seeking simplification of administration and removal of large traps.
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Associated Press
Anchorage
Alaska
Herbert Hoover
Secretary of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
America
Hoover
Oklahoma
California
Hibernians Urge War on Ku Klux Klan at Montreal Meet
At the Hibernians convention in Montreal president James Deery urges action against the Ku Klux Klan. He backs the Unity League of America and warns that the Klan, financed and organized, seeks to limit citizenship for Jews Catholics Negroes and foreigners while influencing U S politics. He praises religious tolerance as vital to liberty and notes Irish Free State progress as a step toward full independence.
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Montreal
Order of Hibernians
Ku Klux Klan
James Deery
Unity League of America
United States
Klan
Canada
Deery
Fake Miracle Man Vanishes With $6,000
Niagara Falls July 18 A man calling himself Prof Bracio Demonceo of Pittsburgh defrauded Italian district residents of more than $6,000 by promising cures for blindness and other ailments. He won Tedcesco’s trust and arranged a fake healing at Tedcesco’s bakery. The crowd gathered but the healer did not appear and Tedcesco fled as threats were made.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Bracio Demonceo
Pittsburgh
Frank Tedcesco
Tedcesco
Woman Struck By North Bound Street Car in Cincinnati
Mrs Lizzie Sparks 60 of Walnut Hills was injured fatally struck by a north bound McMicken Avenue Union Depot street car at Fifth and Main. Clarance Gray 12 Nevada Street operated the car as witnesses say it failed to stop in time. She was rushed to General Hospital with a skull fracture and possible internal injuries.
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Lizzie Parks
Ingleside Avenue
Walnut Hills
McMicken Avenue Union Depot
Fifth
Main Streets
Clarance Gray
Nevada Street
Main Street
Gray
Duffy, Whalen and
Roberts
General Hospital
Eight year old girl fatally injured in Mt Healthy auto crash
Dorothy Robinson, 8, was fatally struck while crossing a Mt Healthy street yesterday at 3 o'clock by a car owned by Mrs. Catherine Cody. The girl, with a fractured skull and other injuries, was taken to General Hospital where doctors said recovery was doubtful. Cody said she could not see the child due to a preceding car obstructing her view.
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Dorothy Robinson
Mt. Healthy
Catherine Cody
General Hospital
Cody
Winton Place
Martin
Gus Goeking
Cincinnati Company
Henry Pace
Spring Grove Avenue
Lester Herron
Herman Cook
Charles Medicus
Tenth District
James P. Lucas
Bernard W. Lucas
Cincinnati Car Company
Conway
Salvage Corps
Andrew Lake
Carpenter
Circle Avenue
Park
Chester Park Lake
Ike Wolfson
Chester Park
I. M. Martin
Deal
N. J
J. M. Martin
Marion Avenue
Winding Way
Avondale
Brothers
Cincinnati Traction Company
M. M. Wolfson
A. V. Rockwell
Two Trucks and Trolley Crash Near Woodburn Delicatessen
Two trucks and a street car collided on Woodburn avenue near Dexter yesterday morning. Nicholas Wiener sustained minor injuries when his bakery truck was rear‑ended by an ice-delivery vehicle. The crash pushed a truck into the Woodburn Delicatessen door as Kate Greene and Louise Bischard stood nearby. many car passengers were shaken up.
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Woodburn Delicatessen
Woodburn Avenue
Dexter Avenue
Nicholas Wiener
David Street
Norwood
Wiener
Louis Thompson
Wne
Kate Greene
Louise Bischard
Nielson Place
Lynching Attempt In New York Thwarted By Police
More than 1,000 residents gathered to lynch James Gullatte, 23, accused of assaulting an 11 year old white girl. Police reserve forces blocked the mob, Gullatte was saved and taken into custody.
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New York
James Gullatte
Gas Explosion Wrecks Ohio Apartment, 3 Burned
In Columbus an apartment rented by Mrs. Elizabeth Ott. a gas explosion injured three people. Elizabeth Ott, 37, and her son Lemuel Ott, 18, were expected to die. P. H. Harrington suffered serious burns.
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Columbus
Elizabeth Ott
Lemuel Ott
P. H. Harrington
I W W mobilizes to Port Arthur in direct action crusade
Hundreds of I W W members depart New York for Port Arthur Texas to protect their constitution and aid three kidnapped members. Officials say 20 000 marchers move by foot freight or sea as Civil Liberties Union backs California defense against an injunction penalizing I W W membership. Local Port Arthur crews await Wobblies on labor gangs while four arrested men face vagrancy charges.
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New York
Port Arthur
Tex
Marine Transport Workers
John Shuskie
Civil Liberties Union
General Defense Committee
LW. W
California
Industrial Workers of the World
Marine Transport Workers’ Branch
J. P. Logan
Sidney Perry
Liberty
Transport Workers’ Division
New
Libel Trial Verdict For Lord Douglas In Morning Post Suit
London report states the jury found in favor of Lord Alfred Douglas in the libel suit against The Morning Post, awarding damages of one farthing. Judgment ordered each side to pay its own costs. Douglas, son of the late Marquis of Queensbury, accused Jews of conspiracies and falsified war news. Churchill denied the charges.
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Associated Press
London
Lord Alfred Douglas
Morning Post Today
Lord Douglas
Marquis
Queensbury
Plain English
Jutland
Kitchener
Sir Ernest Cassell
Winston Spencer Churchill
Morning Post
Earl of Balfour
The
Admiralty
Churchill
France Holds Ruhr as Shield to Force German Payback
Paris reports France asserts control of the Ruhr as a guarantee against future war. Paris argues the reparations program hinges on Germany's long term revenue and France will hold the Ruhr to press Germany to meet debts, despite British and American concerns.
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Ruhr
United States
State Hughes
Germany
Italy
Belgium
France
Great Britain
Franklin town forgives minister who vanished with bad checks
Detective H. H. Boulware disclosed that Franklin Ohio residents will not prosecute Rev. Frederick W. Gordon when he is found. Merchants and banks fear publicity and refuse to discuss the case despite losses of thousands from his counterfeit checks. Prosecution may proceed in Cincinnati and Middletown if he is located.
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Franklin
Franklin, O
Frederick W. Gordon
H. H. Boulware
Cincinnati
Burns Internations Detective Agency
Boulware
Burns Agency
Gordon
Middletown
Governor Donahey Demands Cleveland Slot Ruling
Ohio Governor Donahey protests slot machine activity in Cleveland asking Law Director Paul Lamb for a copy of his ruling that vending gum machines with gambling features are lawful. He plans further action pending response and notes church groups join anti-slot efforts in Cleveland.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Paul M. Lamb
Cleveland
Donahey
Cleveland Law
Kohler
Lamb
Ohio
City moves on slot machine prosecutions in Cleveland
City Law Director Lamb filed two test cases seeking prosecutions against property owners and operators allowing slot machine use. The action targets establishments where gambling devices are in operation. The cases aim to test enforcement of local gambling laws and the city’s authority.
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John Doe
Skeel
Lamb
Cleveland
White Wings join in city garbage strike in St Louis
Striking Negro drivers in St Louis gain support as wagons refuse duty piling street sweepings. Drivers demand higher wages while Dr Woodruff assistant health commissioner warns waste buildup threatens health and collection cannot be delayed.
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ST. Louis White Wings
ST. Louis
Woodruff
Lumber executive killed by falling timber in Texas
H. Bohlssen, president of the Southern Hardwood Lumber Association and head of Bohlssen Manufacturing Co., Ewing, Texas, was killed instantly when a timber piece crushed his head yesterday in Lufkin, Texas.
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Lufkin, Tex
Flood Devastates Boonscamp Kentucky Strikes 500 Residents
Boonscamp in Johnson County Kentucky suffered a devastating flood last Thursday when Greasy Creek surged after a cloud burst. Homes, crops, and outbuildings were ruined while villagers fled to hills. No communication remained and rescue aid is sought from Cincinnati for food clothing and money.
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Boonscamp
Johnson County
Paintsville
It&s
Cincinnati
Greasy Creek
Boons
Melissa Osborn
Paintsville Hospital
M. A. Wells
Ella Wells
Charles Grim
David Stewart
Crowing Rooster Ends in Fatal Shooting in Sioux Falls
Eugene Griffith 42 is killed in his hen house after his rooster is found dead with its neck wrung. Owner Charles Ferguson, who claimed Griffith threatened to stop the crowing, fired twice hitting Griffith in the heart. Ferguson remains under surveillance as officials decide further action.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Eugene F. Griffith
Charles L. Ferguson
Griffith
Ferguson
Bankrupt firm accused of asset diversion in stock, salaries case
The Elbinger Shoe Manufacturing Company of 222 West Fourth Street faces charges its president Elias H. Elbinger and vice president secretary Carl M. Elbinger diverted assets. Trustee's counsel questioned Elbinger about inflated salaries and large stock dividends amid a 1911 to 1923 corporate expansion and a sale of assets including the Lebanon plant. The hearing continues with witnesses including wives and director Kaufman.
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Elias H. Elbinger
Carl M. Elbinger
Elbinger Shoe Manufacturing Company
West Fourth Street
Sidney G. Stricker
John L. Richey
Elias Elbinger
Charles T. Grove
Elbinger
A. & J. Frank and Gallop & Company
Stricker
Elbingers
Hazel M. Elbinger
S. Elbinger
Karl Elbinger
Sofie Elbinger
A. B. Kaufman
Lebanon
Kaufman
Streker
Farnheg
Death of pair at Kansas City police building
In Kansas City Missouri on July 18 Mrs Eula Thompson and her employer W M McClure were found dead in McClure's undertaker parlor. Thompson died from a two story elevator shaft fall while McClure lay on an undertaker's slab with a knife buried in his chest. An initial coroner's theory suggests self defense from murder charges. no other person was found in the building. McClure's wife is an invalid and two daughters survive.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Eula Thompson
W. M. McClure
McClure
Shakespearean Teacher Louis Calvert Dies in New York
Louis Calvert, renowned Shakespeare authority and NYU lecturer, died in his sleep at his New York home last night. Formerly a London theatrical manager, he produced Sweet Kitty Bellairs for the English stage in 1907.
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New York
Louis Calvert
New York University
London
England
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