City Traction Franchising Talks Set 25 Year Frame
Traction and city officials reach tentative agreements granting the Street Railroad Director expanded control over schedules routes stops and equipment while preserving two protections for the company to ensure at least a 6 percent return and proper maintenance. Arbitration is planned with a three member panel and hearings precede arbitration. Final draft aimed by August with a view to a November referendum.
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Street Railway Company
City Street Railroad
Traction
City
Street Railroad
Saul Zielonka
Reutge
Samuel Assur
Madisonville
Mariemont
Assur
Transit Commission
Board of
Sinking Fund Trustees
Sinking Fund
Zielonka
Robert Taft
Mr. Assur
Walter Draper
Alfred Bettman
W. Jerome Kuertz
Coolidge Family Plans Narrow Campaign Tour
President Coolidge will limit campaign travel to fewer than a dozen speeches with most events in Washington and a few out of town after September 1. Dawes’ speaking schedule unsettled. Butler travels to Chicago to coordinate national campaign efforts and a new eastern speakers bureau will handle talks in New York. A radio address from the White House is planned for Boy Scouts departing for a trip abroad.
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Associated Press
Washington
President Coolidge
White House
William M. Butler
Republican National Committee
Coolidge
Mr. Coolidge
Butler
Weshington
Charles G. Dawes
Chicago
Dawes
West
New York
Train Kills Couple at Crossing Near Terre Haute
A Vandalia Railroad train struck an automobile at a crossing near Isabelle Indiana, killing Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Horn of Isabelle Illinois early today.
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Associated Press
Terre Haute
Ind
Leroy Horn
Isabelle, Ilk
Ex-Jitney Driver Plans Airplane Passenger Service
Horace Stark once forced out of jitney business in Youngstown intends to operate a commercial flying service between Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Prominent bank backs the project as he buys an airplane for the venture.
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Youngstown
Horace Stark
Jitney Busses
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Nationalistic Stirrings at Bayreuth Wagner Festival
Opening Bayreuth Wagner festival erupts into patriotic display during Die Meistersinger finale. Hans Sachs lines spark audience to sing three stanzas of Deutschland Uber Alles as old monarchical colors fly over the festival hall.
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Associated Press
Bayreuth
Bavaria
Hans Sachs
Nuremberg
Mob Tries to Free Suspects in Miss Wilson Slaying
Two black men arrested in the killing of 18 year old Daisy Wilson near Villa Ridge are removed from Pulaski County Jail after a mob storms the jail. Governor Small orders National Guard to Mound City to prevent violence as crowds hunt for the suspects.
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Associated Press
Mound City
Ill
Mounds
Daisy Wilson
Villa Ridge
Pulaski County
I. J. Hudson
Hudson
Black
Springfield
Wilson
Water Valley
Illinois Central
Wilson Home
H. F. Moreland
Miss Wilson
Actress in Honeymoon Tragedy as Four Die in Rhode Island Collision
Newport dispatch reports four dead after the steamer Boston collided with tanker Swift Arrow off Point Judith. Victims include Boston resident Robert P. Schiemm and New Yorker John P. Schlemm, plus Brooklyn actress Mrs. Oscar Green and Brookline’s Charles O. Copeland. Survivors from the Boston were landed at Fall River. Swift Arrow aided others and proceeded to Fall River. The Boston occupied a gash amidships and life boats largely empty after all rescuable passengers were accounted for.
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Associated Press
Newport
R. I
Boston
Eastern Steamship Company
Swiftarrow
Point Judith
Robert P. Schiemm
John P. Schlemm
New York
Oscar Green
Brooklyn
N. Y
Charles O. Copeland
Brookline
Mass
Eastern Steamship Lines
Couple unaware of daughter’s death meet ship Priscilla
New York July 22. Mr and Mrs Jacob Silbert of Brooklyn went to the pier to meet the Priscilla ignorant their daughter Mrs Oscar Green had been killed in the collision. Mrs Green’s husband, returning from a honeymoon, had telephoned from Fall River.
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New York
Oscar Green
Jacob Silbert
Brooklyn
Priscilla
River Wickets Rise Delayed Amid Falls Threaten Transport
United States engineers under Major A. K. B. Lyman battled to raise Fernbank Dam wickets as the Ohio River fell over ten feet, grounding river craft and delaying the Coney Island boats Island Queen N Island Belle and Island Maid. Debris and sand blocked wickets preventing reopening. Weather forecaster William C. Devereaux noted the record low stage and officials expected completion today with rain aiding recovery.
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United States
A. K. B. Lyman
Ohio River
Fernbank
William C. Devereaux
Fernbank Dam
Devereaux
Weather Bureau
Coney Island
Island Queen N
Broadway
Island Belle
Island Maid
Coney Island Company
Island Bell
Pittsburgh
Wheeling
W. Va
Philadelphia to Fire General Butler Over Police Redistricting
The New York World reports Mayor Kendrick will discharge Brigadier General Smedley D. Butler as Director of Public Safety amid a clash over police redistricting. Butler allegedly refuses to abandon the plan, prompting a showdown with officials and possible transfer to the State Police or resignation.
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Philadelphia
New York World
Butler
Marine Corps
Pinchot
State Police
Orde
Kendrick
Jailed jailer shot in Blackey gun duel in Kentucky
Fess Whitaker once jailed for prohibition violations and a former Letcher County jailer was wounded in a street pistol duel in Blackey Kentucky. He claimed political enemies conspired against him after a prior jail term and a failed bid for Congress. Twenty shots were fired, Whitaker reported a shoulder wound.
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Associated Press
Whitesburg
Fess Whitaker
Letcher County
Blackey
Whitaker
John W. Langley
Congress
FTC orders US Steel to drop Pittsburgh plus price system
The Federal Trade Commission ruled the Pittsburgh plus method of pricing rolled steel an unfair restraint on trade and price discrimination. It bans listing steel prices with freight at Pittsburgh and requires separate transportation charges. The decision aims to decentralize the industry and boost competition outside Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
U. S Steel Corporation
Federal Trade Commission
Associated Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission Today
United States Steel Corporation
Commission
Gary Dinners
Gaskill
Steel Corporation
Pittsburgh Plus
Pittsburgh plus costs impact on Cleveland steel buyers
Cleveland steel consumers pay about 1.5 million dollars yearly under the Pittsburgh plus system. The FTC decision is unclear on tangible benefits for local industries. A Chamber of Commerce study found the Pittsburgh based pricing practice wrong in principle, though some buyers value stability while others see reduced incentive to purchase locally.
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Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Associated P: Ess
Cleveland Steel
Federal Trade Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Severe earth tremors hit Wales and Ecuador
Earth tremors shook mining villages near Pontypridd in Wales this morning, causing structural fears as several houses likely to collapse. A fall of stone in a mine killed one miner and injured another.
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Associated Press
Cardiff
Wales
Pontypridd
Earthquake Felt Across Ecuador Causes Telegraph Disruption
The Associated Press reports a strong earthquake struck Guayaquil and was felt in many parts of Ecuador. Telegraph lines to Quito were interrupted though no other damage was reported.
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The
Associated Press
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Quito
Xeeported
Youth Stricken By Heat On Way Home In Cincinnati
Cincinnati and vicinity endured a blistering midsummer, with 19 year old Clary Bush a clerk at 422 Beaver Avenue overcome by heat while walking home. He was treated at St Marys Hospital for heat exhaustion not serious. Weather records showed 88.3 degrees and 67 percent humidity downtown. Health officials issued hot weather cautions after the death of 53 year old John Norrish and urged shade, light clothing, hydration, and prompt medical care for sunstroke.
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Cincinnati
Clary Bush
Beaver Avenue
Bush
St. Mary’s Hospital
United States Weather Bureau
William C. Devereaux
John Norrish
Glendale
L. W. Heizer
Bandit Foiled In Two Hold Ups At City Restaurants
A negro bandit attempted three robberies in quick succession on New Street and Broadway last night. He fled a restaurant, rode to 1026 John Street lunchroom where three shots were fired at him, and again escaped. Police reports say two cashiers and a cook resisted, with shots fired and the suspect fleeing on a bicycle.
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Newstreet
Broadway
John Street
John Barrett
Barrett
Edward Gueth
New Street
Edward Walsh
Kellogg Urged to Mediate Dawes Conference Impasse
American Ambassador Frank Kellogg pressed to mediate a rift between French security demands and American financiers over the Dawes loan safeguards. The plan seeks unified sanctions through the Reparation Commission, with five Dawes experts to advise, aiming to preserve the plan and avoid separate French action.
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Frank B. Kellogg
Kellogg
Germany
Dawes
Europe
Theunis
Belgium
M. Theunis
Ce Pe
Dawes Committee
General Dawes
M. Parmentier
France
Alberto Pirelli
Italy
Emil Fran
Ruhr
Thomas Lamont
Montague Norman
Bank of England
America
Evarts Fire Destroys Block in Mining Town
Fire of undetermined origin swept Evarts business district, destroying about a block of mostly two story frame buildings. Loss estimated between 200000 and 250000 dollars. Local fire units battled the blaze in the mining town nine miles from Harlan, Kentucky.
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Tech Press
Harlan
S. K
Evarts
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Rhode Island
Smedley Butler
N. Y. World
Paige
F. B. Kellogg
Clary
Bandit
Lone Negro
London
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