Feist, U.S. music publisher, dies at 60 in Mt Vernon
Leo Feist, prominent music publisher and magnate, died at his Mt Vernon home at 60 after years of arthritis. He built a world distributing Tin Pan Alley catalog, wrote early tunes, and created enduring hits like Over There and Star of the East while publishing Caruso works. Survived by wife Bessie Meyer Feist and sons Mason Milton Leonard. Born in New York to Alsatian parents.
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Richard C. Massock
MT. Vernon
N. Y
Leo Feist
sLee Feist
Africa
Feist
Tin Pan Alley
Smokey Mokes
No Man's Land
Amanda Kennedy Moore
Boston
Caruso
Earl Carroll
Caruso-Carroll
Mabel McKinley
William McKinley
Maine “Stein
Bessie Meyer Feist
Mason, Milton
Leonard
New York
Scott Parmerton longtime cafe owner dies at 71
Scott Parmerton retired cafe owner died at his home on 1075 Baymiller street at age 71. He previously ran two cafes, the Hiawatha on Walnut street and another at 535 Central avenue, for decades. He was a member of the Odd Fellows Eagles and Knights of Pythias. Survived by his sister Mrs. Scofield of Washington DC. Funeral 2:30 p.m. tomorrow at Wiltsee funeral home with burial at Spring Grove Cemetery.
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Scott Parmerton
Baymiller Street
Parmerton
Hiawatha
Walnut Street
Keith
Central Avenue
The
Odd Fellows
Eagles
Knights of Pythias
Scofield
Washington
District of Columbia
Wiltsee Funeral Home
Ninth Street
Spring Grove Cemetery
Death of W L Stewart Union Oil President
W L Stewart aged 62 and president of the Union Oil Company of California died in Los Angeles from a heart attack after a year of illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Stewart
Los Angeles
W. L. Stewart
Union Oil Company of California
Marion County Teacher Streeter G Smith Dies at 72
Streeter G Smith of Marion County, a school teacher for forty nine years, died at his home on June 21. He retired six years ago on a pension.
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Streeter G. Smith
Marion, CO
Streeter
G. Smith
Marion
Deaths from June 1930 Obituaries Listed For Local Notables
Keidel Leona A beloved daughter of August E and the late Clara Marie Keidel died Wednesday June 18 1930 Funeral from residence 5028 Paddock Road Monday June 23 1980 at 9 am Requiem high mass at St George Church at 9 45 am Interment Calvary Cemetery Lovett Dorothy Simpson wife of Robert F Lovett of Woodbine Avenue Glendale died Saturday June 21 1930 Remains at W Mack Johnson funeral home Services at Glendale Presbyterian Church Monday June 23 at 2 pm Interment private Orr Blanche wife of Benton H Orr of 2151 Luray Avenue died Saturday June 21 1980 Remains at W Mack Johnson funeral home Services Monday June 23 at 3 30 pm Ott Robert beloved son of Frank E and Carrie Ott nee Rowekamp died Saturday June 21 1930 at 4 30 am in his fifteenth year at his residence 1580 Race Street Funeral from Brand Bros funeral home 1820 Freeman Avenue Monday at 10 am Burial strictly private Parmerton Scott husband of the late Elizabeth Daugherty Parmerton at his residence 1075 Baymiller Street Funeral services at Wiltsee chapel 24 West Ninth Street Monday June 23 at 2 30 pm Sawyer Mary A at Christ Hospital June 21 1930 9 pm Due notice of funeral Stein Alice B nee Cunningham at St Paul Minn wife of Charles J Stein formerly of Cincinnati and mother of Marguerite Whittaker of Toledo Ohio Services at Spring Grove chapel Monday June 28 1930 at 2 pm.
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McMillan
Upland Place
Glendale Presbyterian Church
Orr—Blanche
Benton H. Orr
Luray Avenue
W. Mack Johnson
Ott
Robert
Frank E
Carrie Ott
Wiltsee’s Chapel
West Ninth Street
Sawyer
Mary A
Christ Hospital
Stein
Alice B
Spring Grove Chapel
Bust of Nefretiti to stay in Berlin
Berlin reports the Nefretiti bust will remain in Germany after negotiations for its return to Egypt broke down. A Prussian Education Ministry letter cites enrichment through exchange must not trade away a piece with modern appeal. Germans have flocked to the Berlin Egyptian Museum for a final look at the queen.
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Berlin
Tut
Egypt
Moran gang killings tied to Capone era bootlegging feud
The piece tracks gun provenance from Fred Thompson to Moran associates, notes Thompson’s $ gun purchases for the Mexican army and links gang violence to Al Capone. It describes Foster as a long time Moran ally turned enemy and mentions police theories on Arcelles and Lingle’s murder motive.
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Foster
Moran
New York
Baltimore
al Capone
Lingle
Fire wrecks Mt. Auburn church and Norwood home reduces roof
A church dating to 1852 in Mt. Auburn suffered major damage as a fire sparked by burning debris weakened rafters and forced evacuations. Firefighters later battled a second blaze at 5344 Lester Road Norwood owned by George Back, destroying the roof and causing about 2000 dollars in damage.
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Salvage Corps
Kane
Weatherly
Nat Hoff
Dorchester Avenue
Claude Stsskin
Hoff
E. J. Waring
Henry Feller
Mt. Auburn
Lester Road
George Back
Allison Avenue
Norwood
Farm Board Allies With Mortgage Bankers In Chicago
In Chicago on June 21 the Federal Farm Board and the Mortgage Bankers Association agreed on a program of cooperation. Alexander Legge urged bankers to form a Contact Committee to advise on land utilization and agricultural finance trends. He warned against acreage reduction conflicting with the marketing act and cited a manufacturer’s view on production capacity.
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Chicago
Federal Farm Board
Mortgage Bankers’ Association
Alexander Legge
Farm Board
Legge
Bankers’ Association
Mr. Legge
Five Die In Cleveland Traffic Toll Of 1930
Five people died in Cleveland today from automobile and street accidents, boosting the 1930 traffic toll to 120. Victims include 14 year old John Kaczorowski crushed under an ice truck, 7 year old Elsie Witt struck after darting from behind a truck, 80 year old John Lees fatally injured crossing a street, 84 year old Mrs Katherine Baum struck by a street car, and 22 year old Daniel Aikens hit by a car.
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Cleveland
John
Kaczorowski
Elsie Witt
John Lees
Katherine Baum
Daniel Aikens
Guatemalans Fear Quake After Ten Day Tremors
Guatemala City reports Santa Rosa province sees repeated light tremors for ten days. Residents flee homes amid fear of a violent quake as ongoing shakes continue to disrupt daily life and raise safety concerns.
Gangland ties and Capone era clashes in Chicago police intrigue
The Chicago underworld narrative centers on Al Capone and George Moran battling for control with police official ties and a mobbed up Lingle. The Tribune reports link Lingle to gamblers seeking police protection and the murder aftermath shaping gang power shifts in 1920s Chicago.
Four year old’s memory aids Chicago house robberies
A Chicago child’s memory of a game called prisoners may help police solve two early winter home invasions. Robberies at Lake Shore Drive mansion of Charles M. Richter and Lake Forest residence of Stewart Templeton involved tied and gagged victims. Police linked the hint to Ray Miller and to Mrs. Kathleen Patterson who allegedly handed Miller an $18 000 inheritance.
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Chicago
Lake Shore Drive
Charles M. Richter
Lake Forest
Stewart Templeton
Louise Patterson
Kathleen Patterson
Victory
Ray Miller
Hamilton Retail Merchants elect new president at meeting
J Walter Wack becomes president of the Hamilton Retail Merchants Association after last night vote by the board. Davis Silver is re elected vice president and Don Mitchell of the Chamber of Commerce named secretary. Miss Vita Gray 26 of 1120 Ross avenue is treated in Ft Hamilton Hospital after a city bus and automobile collision injures her as the sole passenger on the bus.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, O
J. Walter Wack
Robison- Schwenn Company
Hamilton Retail Merchants Association
Davis Silver
Don Mitchell
Chamber of Commerce
Vita Gray
Ross Avenue
Ft. Hamilton Hospital
Harry Guyler
High Street
William Smith
T. M. Allen
Miss Gray
Miss Helene Weilenman Dies After Illness in City
Miss Helene Weilenman a 24 year old court stenographer in Judge BH Kautz's Common Pleas Court died at Ft Hamilton Hospital after a long illness. She is a sister of the late Carl Welenman and leaves her parents four sisters and a brother. Funeral will be Tuesday at 2 30 P M at the home with burial in Greenwood Cemetery.
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Helene Weilenman
BH. K. Kautz
Common Pleas Court
Ft. Hamilton
Carl Welenman
John Weisenman
Greenwood Cemetery
Stabbing at Brown Home In Quarrel Over Quarter
Early today Brown age 30 of 1236 Wallace street was stabbed five times with an ice pick during an argument over a quarter at the home of John and Adam Novell of 45 South Front street. Police seek Sampson Harding 23 of 423 South avenue on a charge of stabbing to kill. Investigation cites a skin game as the dispute trigger.
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Early Brown
Wallace Street
John and
Adam Novell
South Front Street
Sampson Harding
South Avenue
Man Fined And Jailed After DUI Crash Arraignment
Edward Davis aged 35 of 955 Shuler avenue was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to three days in jail with license tags removed by Judge A. J. Pater in Police Court upon arraignment for a drunken driving charge. He allegedly drove head on into C. A. Jorzik of 437 Ross avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Davis
Shuler Avenue
A. J. Pater
C. A. Jorzik
Ross Avenue
Battle of oil giants over Hamilton gas market
A war among Shell Texaco and Standard Oil for Hamilton gas business is indicated as new filling stations open and planned. Shell has two stations under construction Texaco opened one and plans another Standard Oil entered Hamilton field months ago and is bidding hard. Prices may drop if competition heats up.
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Hamilton
Shell Petroleum Company
Texaco Company
Plang
Standard Oil
Fire damages Mt. Pleasant Pike home near Nancy Line
A late night blaze believed caused by a defective flue damaged the home of Mrs. Nancy Line on Mt. Pleasant Pike with losses around $1,000. In Common Pleas Court Catharine Diesel’s suit against Michael and Mary Diesel for alienation of affections was settled and dismissed after over three years of proceedings.
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Nancy Line
Mt. Pleasant Pike
Here
Catharine Diesel
Michael and
Mary Diesel
Paul Diesel
Common Pleas Court
Miss Ethie Struble Dies After Illness at 68
Miss Ethie Struble, 68, died late last night at 726 Ross Avenue after a long illness. She leaves a sister Lida a well known local schoolteacher a brother Ralph of Lockland and another brother Jesse of Dunlap. The funeral will be Monday afternoon with burial at Dunlap.
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Ethie Struble
Ross Avenue
Lida
Ralph
Lockland
Jesse
Dunlap
Pigeons Race to Detroit End in Noon Flight
A flock of 340 pigeons released at 9 30 this morning from 540 South Fifth street reportedly completed the 250 mile trip to Detroit in about five hours and twenty minutes. Breeder W H Broderick praised the birds for their direct homeward flight as four Detroit pigeon clubs backed the event.
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Detroit
Motor City
W. H. Broderick
South Fifth Street
Broderick
Hicks Sues for Divorce After Husband Abandoned
Nora May Hicks filed for divorce from Albert D. Hicks in Common Pleas Court claiming lack of support and that he left about eighteen months ago. The couple wed in Williamsburg Kentucky in 1928 and lived together briefly.
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Nora May Hicks
Common Pleas Court
Albert D. Hicks
Williamsburg
Highway widening project kicks off on Hamilton Middletown Pike
The State Highway Department started widening the Hamilton Middletown pike north of LeSourdsville. The work aims to improve traffic flow and safety along the corridor.
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State Highway Department
Hamilton-Middletown
LeSourdsville
Reverend Haggard Named Pastor at Nazarene Church
The Rev. W. Edwin Haggard of Broadhead Kentucky has been called to the Church of the Nazarene on Grand Boulevard and will begin about September 1. He will succeed the Rev. Wilbur Parker, who has served several years and will move west.
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W. Edwin Haggard
Broadhead
Church of the Nazarene
Grand Boulevard
Mr. Haggard
Wilbur Parker
West
Dayton officials arrest two for chicken theft in Brookville area
Officials from Dayton Ohio traveled to arrest Charles Malson 49 of Camden and Robert Kline 22 of Connersville Indiana for theft of forty chickens from a farmer near Brookville Montgomery County.
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Dayton
Charles Malson
Camden
Robert Kline
Connersville
Ind
Brookville
Montgomery County
Brewer seeks bond in first degree murder case
Richard Brewer indicted for the first degree murder of Officer Dan Sandlin in Middletown has filed an application in Common Pleas Court for bond. He asserts the jury disagreed at trial and asks for bond on grounds that evidence of guilt has not been established.
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Richard Brewer
Dan Sandlin
Middletown
Common Pleas Court
Bond
Omaha
Miss McCauley
Betty
Farmer
Grand Jury
Bessie
Betty McCauley
Federal
Judge Holmes
United States
Cronin
Nebraska
Family of Rodents Moves On From Johnson City to Pennsylvania
Johnson City resident Sam Price and his 748 pets including 742 rats and six guinea pigs relocate to Wyoming County Pennsylvania by request after neighbors complained and health officials intervened. Price, 53, plans to farm with his sister’s help and dreams of adding dogs a horse and a cow. The move follows an arsenic incident that killed two of the rodents.
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New York World News Service
Binghamton, N. Y
Johnson City
Sam Price
Sam
Pennsylvania
Wyoming County
Hungarian reformers cite US prohibition benefits
In Budapest a temperance assembly warned Hungary faces a long path before prohibition. Leaders cited US results like reduced crime and healthier homes, urged lectures, sports, temperance periodicals, and school warnings while criticizing government wine promotion. Representatives from Catholic and Protestant groups and Jews attended.
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Budapest
Hungary
Federation of Abstinence Societies
United States
Martin Langi
Civil War nurse Mary Athow dies at 97 in Illinois hospital
Mrs Mary C Athow a Civil War nurse died at the Soldiers and Sailors Widows Hospital Wilmington Illinois at age 97 Born November 17 1832 in Albany New York She attempted to join the service when the Civil War began and served from 1862 with the United States Sanitary Commission through the war Her husband Thomas Athow enlisted Earlier they lived on a farm near Indianapolis.
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Wilmington
Ill
Mary C. Athow
Soldiers and Sailors Widows’ Hospital
Athow
Albany
N. Y
Indianapolis
Thomas Athow
United States Sanitary Commission
Pope to be Represented at Eucharistic Fete
Omaha Neb June 21 Pope Pius XI will be represented at the sixth national Eucharistic Congress September 23 to 25 by Apostolic Delegate Pietro Fumasoni Bocchi who accepted an invitation from Bishop Joseph Schrembs. Archbishop attendees include four archbishops twenty five bishops and over 1000 priests expected for the first national congress in nineteen years.
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Omaha
Neb
Pius XI
Pietro Fumasonibiondi
United States
Joseph Schrembs
Cleveland
Unwed Bermuda Man and New Brunswick Woman Sail to New York
Eric Johnson 21 of Bermuda and Florence Smith 24 of Grand Manan New Brunswick sailed a fifteen foot boat from Bermuda to New York arriving today. They traveled north by northeast with only a compass, Johnson built the boat, both in good health and suntanned.
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New York
Eric Johnson
Bermuda
Florence Smith
Grand Manan
New Brunswick
Miss Smith
Johnson
University of Maine
Graf Zeppelin Arrives in Berlin for World Conference Visit
The Graf Zeppelin landed over Berlin at midnight on June 21 for a planned visit to the world power conference meeting in the city. Officials expect the airship to cruise the area overnight and land at daybreak.
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Graf
Berlin
Graf Zeppelin
World Power Conference
Great Northern and Northern Pacific merger faces renewed push
Minnesota asks the Interstate Commerce Commission for a rehearing on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific merger. Congress foes, led by Minnesotan Rep Knutson, vow to fight adjournment as other states line up to join the challenge. Senator Couzens supports delaying action to block the merger. The Northwest argues the ICC has already shown favor to consolidation and aims to defeat changes in the Couzens resolution.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
State Railroad and Warehouse Commission of
Minnesota
Interstate Commerce Commission
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Couzens
Senate
Representative Knutson
Rep
Minn
House Committee
Burlington
Chicago
St. Paul
Northerns
Northwesterns
Great Northern-Northern Pacific
Northwest
Pechstein Matthews Nuptials at Christ Church
Miss Elizabeth Pechstein daughter of Dean Louis A Pechstein married Dunham Matthews son of Judge and Mrs Stanley Mathews yesterday afternoon at Christ Church. The bride wore a white taffeta princess gown with a floor sweeping train and tulle veil. Bridesmaids in pale green tulle and velvet trimmed outfits accompanied the bride up the aisle. A reception followed at the bride’s parents home in Clifton, then a honeymoon trip. The couple will reside in Cincinnati after their wedding trip.
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Elizabeth Pechstein
Dean Louis A. Pechstein
Christ Church
Dunham Matthews
Stanley Mathews
Morse
Miss Pechstein
Pechstein
Sarah Matthews
Katherine Tonney
Utica
N. Y
Evelyn
Charlotte Boutell
Minneapolis
Helen McCune
Pittsburgh
Elaine Flach
Dorothy Diehl
Mary Corinne Gamble
Mary McPherson Matthews
Mr. Matthews
Man Folsom Hayward
Gilbert Davis
Daniel Farny
Joseph Head
Tom Shuff
Morris
William Burlingham
Charles Dunlop
Albert Russell
Carl Grimm
Miss
Youth Attempts Suicide in Quarrel With Father
George Bradford 21 of 2101 Eastern avenue attempted drowning in the Ohio River after a rebuke from his father Alfred Bradford ice dealer over drinking and laziness. A brother Walter Bradford 23 and Arthur Hill Naval Reservist rescued him. Life Saving Squad revived him and he is under care at General Hospital improving.
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George Bradford
Eastern Avenue
Ohio River
Vance Street
Alfred Bradford
Walter Bradford
Arthur Hill
Naval Reserves
Fire Department
General Hospital
Secret Service Warns of Counterfeit Ten Dollar Bill
The Secret Service warned of an extremely dangerous counterfeit of a 1928 Kansas City Federal Reserve ten dollar note. It bears Hamilton, signatures of Mellon and Tate, and is printed on good quality bond paper with a faulty etching. Counterfeits have appeared with different serial numbers J06186756A and J10568977A.
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Washington
Secret Service
Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank
H. T. Tate
United States
Mellon
Hamilton
Bond
Tate
W. H. Moran
US Forests and Parks Ready for Summer Visitors
Washington reports national forests and parks prepared for tourists with new cabins for rangers bridges over streams and miles of telephone lines. Last year about 31 million entered forest reserves and over 2 million visited national parks across 150 forests and 20 parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Uncle Sam
National Forest Service
Train wreck on Sportsman derails near Hawk's Nest
A Chesapeake and Ohio train from Newport News to Detroit left the rails near Hawk's Nest sixty miles from Charleston. Engineer Homer Haskell of Huntington was killed and the fireman seriously injured. Several passengers and the express messenger were hurt. three were taken to Coal Valley Hospital at Montgomery. A wrecking train was sent from Hinton to the scene.
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Charleston
W. Va
Sportsman
Chesapeake & Ohio
Newport, News
Detroit
Hawk’s Nest
Homer Haskell
Huntington
Coal Valley Hospital
Montgomery
Hinton
WIFE AND BABES Tragedy Ends as Spang Falls from Cliff
Four bodies are recovered from the rocks at the cliff base after Spang leaps to his death following the deaths of his wife and four children. William Hague witnessed the events and firemen and police worked to reach Spang as crowds gathered.
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William Hague
Westville
Spang
Hague
Shotg
Ernest Berubé
Lone Robber Nets 140 In Two Oil Station Holdups
One thief, using a revolver, robbed two oil stations within ten minutes on Spring Grove Avenue. At Standard Oil 2910 Spring Grove Avenue Harold Seiter of 4325 Beech Hill Avenue handed over 400 dollars. Minutes later at Cities Service 4253 Spring Grove Avenue Edward Gehring of 1621 Fullan Avenue surrendered 15 dollars in change and 85 dollars in bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Grove Avenue
Harold Seiter
Beech Hill Avenue
Seiter
Mani
Edward Gehring
Fullan Avenue
Ohio Auto Owners Assets May Have 10 Be Listed
Cleveland Ohio June 21 The Cleveland Automobile Club will start a state wide campaign to back a bill requiring Ohio motor vehicle owners to prove financial responsibility in accidents. The Cleveland delegation to the American Automobile Association convention in Asheville NC returned after securing national sanction for the legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Automobile Club
American Automobile Association
Asheville
N. C
Mayor's Aid Indicted in Denver Embezzlement Case
Isaac E. Merritt former secretary to Mayor Ben F Stapleton was indicted by the county grand jury on a charge of embezzling 26802 of the citys funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Isaac E. Merritt
Ben F. Stapleton
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