Kentucky socialite confirms link to Elwell in New York case
Anne Griffy Griffy of Versailles Kentucky states she knew whist expert and turfman Joseph B Elwell who was murdered in New York City last week She details meetings in Lexington and Louisville including May 28 and a hospital visit for tonsil surgery She describes sending flowers and notes after his death denying any improper relation and says she aims to quiet rumors.
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Lexington
Anne Russell
Griffy
Porter Griffy
Versailles
Blue Grass
Joseph B. Elwell
New York City
Woodford County
Morton Griffy
Akron
Elwell
Mr. Elwell
Louisville
New York
Miss Gruffy
Annie
Governmental spending totals 20.78 billion since July
Treasury notes show expenditures from July 1, 1919, to May 31, 1920 totaling 20 775 535 858 dollars with September the heaviest month. Navy disbursements reached 723 717 269 while Railroads and Transportation Act 1920 charges led as the largest single item. Public debt payments reached 14 846 554 373.
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Washington
Treasury
Navy Department
Department of Labor
White House
Congressional
Mystery Surrounds Whist Expert Elwell Murder Probe
New York police pursue a lead about a 5 am visit by a man and woman to Joseph B. Elwell's home the day he was shot. Taxi driver Wagstaff says another chauffeur drove the couple to Seventy-sixth Street and Park Avenue. a woman implicated by the housekeeper sought Elwell's pink lingerie amid the evidence.
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New York
Joseph B. Elwell
District Attorney's Office
Joseph Wagstaff
Chfauffeur
Elwell
Wagstaff
Alwell
West Seventy-second Street
Madison @venue
Seventy-sixth Street
Park Avenue
Marie Larsen
Dolling
Vs. Larsen
Swann
Suffragists Decide Pickets Won't Do
Washington June 17. National Woman's party at the Democratic National Convention rejects picketing of the hall as in Chicago. The San Francisco campaign will interview every delegate before opening and interview state delegations during the convention. The party seeks Democratic leaders to press North Carolina to ratify the amendment at the July special session.
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Wilson
League OF Nations
Chicago
San Francisco
Washington
National Woman's Party
North Carolina
Nine Beta Sigma members named in warrants for tar and feathering
West Orange New Jersey June 17 warrants issued for nine Beta Sigma Fraternity members over an assault claim by Dr Howard Applegate a dentist who said he was tarred and leaved during initiation in the woods Tuesday night He described being blindfolded beaten and threatened with stoning before seeking a pharmacy.
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West Orange
N. J
Beta Sigma
West Orange High Senow
Howard Applegate
Here
Applegate
Paul Grommelin
John J. Burke
Orange
Bentley Condit
J. Augustius Wolfe
Ernest Leonard
Charles M. Price
William Kilch
Charles Brundage
William Jones
Eighth Victim Slain In Chicago Gang War
In Chicago a gunfire attack wounds Paddy the Bear Ryan, owner of a city saloon, amid a gang war that has already claimed eight victims since February. Five gunmen fled in an auto, tying the violence to the Edward Coleman murder case. Ryan dies on the operating table. he is linked by marriage to a Coleman associate.
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Chicago
Paddy the Bear
Ryan
Edward Coleman
Coleman
Coleman Wamed
Maurice “Moss” Enright
Three electrocuted as toy phone wires touch high tension lines
FAIRMONT W Va June 17 Martin Debosky and his two children were electrocuted and Mrs Debosky was injured near their home at Monongahela when toy telephone wires the children were playing with contacted high tension traction wires.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Martin Debosky
Whisky Shipment Worth 750 Cases Vanishes in Kenosha
A car carrying $75,000 worth of whisky shipped from Cincinnati to the Kenosha Distributing Company under a fraudulent permit vanished overnight. Milwaukee officers found only an empty car when they arrived to investigate.
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Kenosha, Wis
Cincinnati
Kenosha Distributing Company
United States
Prohibition
Milwaukee
Kenosha
Attempted Seacock Opening Sparks Sink Plot on San Marcos
A Mallory steamship San Marcos faced an attempted sinking when a seacock was opened four weeks earlier while en route from Galveston to Port Arthur. Insurance buyers later found water damaged news print and other goods, with authorities unable to identify the responsible party.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Mallory
San Marcos
Galveston
Mallory Line
Rubbers Bind Victim to Rail in Desperate Escape
George Underwood recounted being forced into a touring car by two men in Excelsior Springs Missouri. They tied him to a railroad track with barbed wire as a train approached. He freed his right hand and leg but remained bound on the left side until a farmer helped untie him. He lost a hand and a leg in the assault.
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Excelsior Springs
George Underwood
Underwood
Carrollton
Palmer orders crackdown on coal profiteering in 1920
Attorney General Palmer ordered a nationwide campaign against profiteers in bituminous coal. Federal district attorneys must pursue indictments where investigations reveal unreasonable profits. He cited coal prices rising to 7 to 11 dollars a ton and rising production costs from 2.32 to 2.79 per ton.
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Washington
Palmer
Department of Justice
Federal Trade Commission
Department
United States
U. S to Oppose Profiteers Move
Armin W. Riley special assistant to the U S Attorney General said he will visit Canton Ohio to oppose Charles E Hughes efforts to obtain a Supreme Court order staying execution of the $31 000 verdict against C R Weed & Co Buffalo clothiers convicted of profiteering under the Lever Act. Hughes declined comment.
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New York
Armin W. Riley
United States Attorney General
Canton
Charles E. Hughes
William R. Day
United States Supreme Court
C. R. Weed & Co
Buffalo
Riley
Supreme Court
Hughes
Days Ask Harding to Define His Stance
Chicago June 17 Senator W G Harding and Governor Calvin Coolidge, Republican nominees, were asked to state their view on prohibition. Virgil G Hinshaw, Prohibition National Committee chair, said a telegram was sent asking if they favor increasing the intoxicating liquor threshold beyond one half of one percent. Harding’s secretary replied that he declines to discuss any issue until his formal acceptance in July.
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Chicago
W. G. Harding
Calvin Coolidge
Virgil G. Hinshaw
Prohibition National Committee
Dartmouth Student Meads Held on Murder Charge in Man's Death
Hanover New Hampshire June 17 Robert T Meads of LaGrange Illinois a Dartmouth College student linked to liquor smuggling was jailed awaiting grand jury action on a murder charge in the killing of Henry Maroney of West Medford Massachusetts. Crile Nicely Wise Akron Ohio a fight companion remained jailed as a material witness.
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Hanover
N. H
Robert T. Meads
LaGrange
Ill
Dartmouth College
Henry E. Maroney
West Medford
Mass
Woodsville
Crile Nicely Wise
Akron
Meads
Boston
Howard Whittaker
Somerville
Maroney
Richard H. Hard
Chicago
James C. Chilcott
Bangor
Wise
Erwin T. Weis
Hull
Ala
Weis
Albert H. Meads
Norman F. Arnold
Arnold
Senate vote on suffrage amendment fails in Louisiana
In Baton Rouge on June 17 the State Senate rejected the woman’s suffrage amendment, falling short of a two thirds majority with a 23 to 16 tally. The result marks a setback for the suffrage effort in the capital.
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Baton Rouge, la
Senate
Harding candidacy dominates Minnesota GOP talk after Chicago
David Lawrence reports Minneapolis Republicans discuss Harding's strengths and weaknesses, the Chicago convention deadlock, and the party's conservative drift. Younger Republicans seek a fresh path while some fear overreliance on old coalitions. Democrats in Minnesota back Palmer under unit rule, with Bryan favored by farmers.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chicago
Harding
Penrose
Lenroot
Minnesota
Northwest
San Francisco
Wilson
Palmer
Bolsheviki Plot British Downfall In East With Mohammedan Aid
Washington reports detail an alleged uprising in the Mohammedan world against British rule. Turkish Nationalists and Bolsheviks were said to conspire with leaders like Enver Pasha and Lenine to raise 150000 troops, shift focus to India and Egypt, and use Senussi influence in the desert to trigger uprisings across Persia, Afghanistan, and beyond.
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Mohammedan
Washington
Moscow
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State Department
Enver Pasha
Djemal Pasha
Talaat Pasha
India
Egypt
Afghanistan
Persia
Azerbeijaban
Georgia
Lenine
Kuropatkin
Azerbaijhan
Bulgaria
Sybian
Mesopotamia
Spencer House Sold at Auction for 20000 in Cincinnati
The Spencer House at Front and Broadway in Cincinnati was sold at public auction to Max and Jake Steinberg of 330 W Ninth St for 20000. The five story brick hotel with 200 rooms and waterfront lot was built in 1853 at a cost of 400000 and has become a landmark with a storied river heritage.
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Cincinnati
Spencer
Front
Broadway
Max
Jake Steinberg
Ninth Street
Max Steinberg
J. B. Wallace
Frederick K. Schmidt’ Company
Steinberg
John H. Groesbeck
Yeatmann and Spenkcer
Spencer House
L. J. Strong
U. S. Grant
Robert Burns
Ohio
Indiana
Kentucky
General Grant
Mr. Strong
Pittsburg
New Orleans
Strong
Europe
United States
Charlotte Cushman
Sycamore Street
Robbers Fire On Dayton Jewelry Store Trio Escapes
Three men smashed the display window of George Glark's jewelry store in Dayton Ohio and took about 2500 dollars in loot. Patrol officers fired at the fleeing trio but the suspects escaped and one bystander is believed wounded.
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Dayton
George Glark
Republican stance on the League and wartime laws debated
A speaker criticizes Lodge and Johnson for opposing the League of Nations in any form while defending wartime measures. He asserts broad world support for the League, defends the Lever food control act, and questions Republican opposition to Versailles treaty ratification and the League covenant.
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Johnson
League
United States Senate
Senate
League of Nations
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