Police Probe Death of Dennis McFadden at Emery Hotel
Dennis McFadden a 50 year old Chicago horse exerciser for Goldblatt racing stable was found dead on the Emery Hotel roof beneath his fourth floor room. Coroner Dr E O Cress suggests possible murder or suicide after post mortem found a knife wound to the brain and other injuries while police entertain self inflicted death theory. Witnesses report noises and an open hallway window prior to discovery. Goldblatt asserts McFadden had been ill for over a year and had recently quit work.
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F. T. Adams
Southern and
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Latonia
Smith
Dr. Erikson
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Unusual Mileage Values in Classified Autos Ads
In the Commercial Tribune today the Automotive For Sale ads promote buying based on mileage as a key value. The piece highlights the concept of paying for the actual miles you expect to obtain and invites readers to view the classified autos to find cars that fit their mileage expectations.
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Move to end ethnological work of federal body
Washington July 19 The Bryan anti evolution movement moves to curb federal funding for ethnological research Proposals will bar the Smithsonian Institution from origin of man studies and push Congress to accept the Bible Genesis narrative The upcoming session is expected to challenge the $57 000 annual ethnological research appropriation and a $4 200 extra for the Bureau of American Ethnology.
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San Francisco Bay Area Suffers Minor Earthquake
A sharp earthquake shock reached the San Francisco Bay region at 11 26 this morning with no damage reported. It was felt from San Francisco and Oakland to San Jose and Vallejo, with the seismograph at Lick Observatory recording a minute long quake centered about two hundred miles northwest in the Pacific.
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Ball Confesses Fake Shooting Story Was a Lie
Detroit telegraph operator James M Ball admitted fabricating a telegram and witness claim about the Maurer case to help Chicago drug clerk Russell Scott and his family. He said the fake report was intended to aid and save innocent people and that his wife and mother questioned his lies.
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Explosion in East 109th Street tenement leaves 300 homeless
An explosion in a basement still at an East 109th street tenement injures one man believed fatally and destroys the building. Giuseppe Auguliaro operated the still and was hurled into the street. he likely will die.
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Children Die In Fire At Miner Family Home In Powhatan
Marie Verenni six years old and her cousin Rosie Dominick eight years old perished when a fire destroyed the Verenni home in Powhatan Ohio early today. Waldo Korner credited with saving Marie's father Fante Verenni a coal miner his wife and their baby by smashing a window to awaken them. The children were trapped on the second floor of the frame house.
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Minneapolis Engineer Claims Sun Pushes Earth Now
Minneapolis engineer H. J. Smith reports a sun pushing force, not pulling gravity, after eclipse tests with a self made attractometer. He cites University of Minnesota physicist Dr Henry Erikson acknowledging puzzling results and contends tides arise from solar repulsion, not lunar attraction.
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University of Minnego
Drowned Girl Anna Lahmann Identified In Newport River Tragedy
The eight year old Anna B Lahmann of New Richmond was identified as the drowned child found in the Ohio River at Monmouth Street Newport. The body was recovered yesterday by Elden Casebolt and taken to Charles A Smith & Sons funeral home.
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Caulker David Upp Drowned on Coal Barge Recovered
The body of David Upp a 40 year old caulker of 922 West Seventh street was recovered yesterday under the Suspension Bridge. Upp drowned last Thursday when he lost his balance and fell from a coal barge at the foot of Freeman avenue.
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Liquor Ring Probe Readies 20 000 Customer List
United States Attorney will hear testimony in a John Doe inquiry into a $2,000,000 liquor operation. A raid netted seven men and a woman, with 20 000 customers identified. George Fox, a former salesperson, is said to have shipped liquor to Iowa College students using trunks and mailed keys. The firm operated in twenty nine states.
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Emory S. Buckner
United States
John Doe
George Fox
Des Moines
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One Killed Five Injured In Troop Train Wreck
An engineer was killed and five passengers were injured when a National Guard troop train on the Southern Pacific Railroad collided with a freight train at Sudden north of Santa Barbara early today.
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Sudden
Santa Barbara
Fourteen Die In Midwest Auto And Drownings
Fourteen people died in weekend accidents across the Middle West from autos and drownings. At a Brookfield grade crossing, five died when a sedan hit a southbound New York Central train. The fatalities included Matthew Severin and Agnes Severin, ages 38 and 33, and their children. Additional deaths and injuries were reported in Indiana Illinois and Lake Michigan incidents.
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Agnes Severin
Michigan Toll for Week by Autos Is 20 Dead, 224 Hurt
Twenty persons died or were killed this week in Michigan from automobile injuries and 224 were injured. Five deaths occurred in Detroit up to 11 tonight and 210 were injured. Two sons of State Senator Bahorski to be questioned over Clyde Davis’s death after being struck by a passing street car whose driver fled the scene. Three hold up men in a soft drink parlor raid. Their stolen car crashed and two fled while one was caught.
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Jospeh Bahorski
Clyde Davis
Senator Bahorski
Uncertain Death of Clyde Davis Linked to Two Papers
A Clyde Davis who once worked as a copyreader for the Cincinnati Enquirer and later at the Detroit Free Press may have moved into advertising. It is not known here whether this is the Clyde Davis killed.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Detroit Free Press
Canton Attorney Killed While Frog Hunting
Herbert E. Hunker aged 32 a Canton attorney was fatally shot early today while frog hunting on the Tuscarawas River near Zoar Ohio A rifle bullet fired by his cousin Earl Hunker of Connersville Indiana struck him in the head authorities said the shooting was accidental
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Herbert E. Hunker
Tuscarawas River
Zoar
Earl Hunker
Connersville
Ind
Hunker
Ohio parallel to Scopes case sent to Darrow
A yellowed clipping from Ohio linked the state’s anti-evolution debate to the Scopes trial era. John D. Leitner sent the item to Clarence Darrow, noting Circleville 1829 school board discussions over a steam railroad in the public schoolhouse because it wasn’t in the Bible and God didn’t intend rapid travel.
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Tennessee
Clarence Darrow
Dayton
Tenn
John D. Leitner
Circleville School Board
Cardinal Begin, Primate of Canada, Dies at 85
Cardinal Be gin, primate of the Catholic Church in Canada, died after a weeklong illness in Quebec. He was 85 and born in Levis. He led the Quebec archdiocese since 1898 and was noted for strict discipline and opposition to modernism and dancing. Burial set for Saturday at the archbishop’s palace crypt.
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Dayton’s Monkey Fizz Buzz and Scopes Trial Echoes
Dayton Tennessee hosts a bustling scene around Robinson's drug store tied to the Scopes trial spectacle. Residents, lawyers, and visiting scientists mingle as Charles Michelson notes a city in eclipse yet alive with protests, jokes, and debates about Darrow, Raulston, and the law.
Bryan Addresses Tennessee Anti Evolution Rally in Pikeville
William Jennings Bryan spoke to several hundred Sequatchie Valley residents in Pikeville Tennessee defending the state anti evolution law and Christian faith. He warned of atheists and agnostics attacking the Bible and urged strong moral teaching for children. The crowd cheered as he contrasted evolution with Christian renewal.
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Dayton Region Fears Scopes Trial Ruling Unsettled
In Dayton Tennessee July 19 state observers fear contested contempt charges against Clarence Darrow may affect the trial’s fairness. The public regret focuses on exclusion of experts and a broader dispute over religious issues and constitutional rights. The defense plans appeals to state and federal courts, challenging trial rulings and creationism limits on science education.
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Tennessee
Death of a Canadian bishop noted for labor mediation
The late cleric rose from prefect of studies at Nen Quebec to director of the Rand Seminary and principal of Loyal Normal School. In 1888 he became Bishop of Chicoutimi. He mediates labor disputes, securing settlements, and served as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and author of religious works.
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Royal Society of Canada
Wiggam Attacks Bryan Over Evolution Proofs
Indianapolis July 19 Albert Wiggam author of The New Decalogue of Science accuses William Jennings Bryan of turning tail and running when Dr Henry Fairfield Osborn sought to prove evolution to the jury at Dayton. Wiggam says Bryan used legal tricks to block evidence and claims Bryan is the greatest force for irreligion in America today.
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William Jennings Bryan
John Thomas Scopes
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Two Steamers Held on Shoals Off Sable Island
Halifax dispatch reports two steamers stranded on the shoals off Sable Island in dense fog and heavy seas. The French trawler Labrador and the West Cohas both ran aground while life savers could not reach them. Ottawa and Halifax salvage teams prepare to attempt rescue at first light.
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N. S
Sable Island
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West Cohas
Marine and Fisheries
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Lady Laurier
North Sydney
Ohio Aviator Dies Looping at Milton Lake
Raymond Scherrick a Canton resident aged 24 was killed when his plane failed to loop the loop during stunt flying at Milton Lake a summer resort ten miles from Youngstown Ohio The aircraft dropped about 1500 feet with fatal results recorded in Warren Ohio early today
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Milton Lake
Youngstown
Three Young People Die Saving Drowning Aged Man
Ocean City New Jersey July 29 Four persons drown when two young men and a 12 year old girl rescue a man thought to have suffered a heart attack while swimming at Carsons inlet The dead are Joseph Buchanan 68 Ocean City Frank J Walm 25 Ocean City Buchanan s son in law Samuel Andrews 20 Ruth A Wood Philadelphia The bodies of Buchanan and Walm were recovered late tonight and police say the others were not found Details of the tragedy were not known
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Ocean City
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Buchanan
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