Stock market soars on Hoover optimism and bank profits
Wall Street extends bullish rally as news of Hoover administration fuels buying. First National Bank of New York rises to a thousand dollars a share, Baker amasses a $33 million paper profit in two days. Bank and insurance stocks lead gains across exchanges, with high turnover and crowded trading rooms.
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Associated Press
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Bethlehem
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Anaconda
Kennecott
Radio Corporation
Goodyear Tire
First National Bank of New York
George F. Baker
Baker
Herbert Hoover
Federal Reserve Board
Paris
France
Adams Express
Russia Insurance
First National Bank of New York Holdings
Briand Secures Ratification of War Renunciation Pact
Paris reports Aristide Briand wins French Parliament ratification of the pact renouncing war as national policy by a 670 to 12 vote, with Communists opposing. Briand portrays war as a crime and urges outlawing it, while leaders hail him as a peace initiator and note the broader League arbitration agenda.
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Aristide Briand
Frank B. Kellogg
M. Briand
United States
League of Nations
Geneva
Newport Grand Jury Urges Private Sleuth for City Cleanup
Campbell County Grand Jury calls for a private investigator to expose city vice in Newport Kentucky. They condemn police dereliction and citizen apathy, urge the City Commissioners to enforce a clean up, and report sixty one indictments with several dismissals in a fatal merchant policeman case.
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Campbell County Grand Jury
A. M. Caldwell
Indator
Foreman Price
Pricey
Herman Fennan
Gerke Finen
Theodore
Terry Turner
Alfred Doyle
Monmouth Street
Walter Bush
William “‘Toots
Sander
Milo Gregg
East Fourth Street
Charles Greife
Dayton
Mary
Coolidge Calls Mind His Own Business Greatest Achievement
Washington March 1 President Coolidge said his one superlative achievement in Washington was minding his own business at the end of eight years in high office. He expressed regret at leaving personal ties and renewed his lease on the Northampton home while keeping future plans private.
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Coolidge
Washington
Goodby
White House
Vermont
Northampton
Terminal Company moves to build Cincinnati Union Depot
Two ordinances authorize vacation of nineteen streets and construction of fifteen railroad bridges to aid the Cincinnati Union Terminal project. Col Sherrill says railroads will finance a $3.5 million Western Hills Viaduct and other city-benefiting routes, with compensation to the city for concessions.
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Robert A. Taft
Cincinnati Union Terminal Company
Western Hills
West Sixth Street
West End
Col
Sherrill
Henry M. Waite
Terminal Company
City Hall
Missouri Governor Hyde Named Secretary of Agriculture
Washington reports reveal Arthur M. Hyde, former Missouri governor and Midwestern political figure, will be Secretary of Agriculture in Hoover's cabinet. Cabinet secrecy persists on the Commerce post with a Chicagoan named as top candidate.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Hoover
Arthur M. Hyde
Missouri
Middle West
National Capital
Herbert Hoover
Senate
White House
Mr. Hoover
Pennsylvania Avenue
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Commerce Department
Keepig
George Akerson
Lawrence Richey
Secret Service
Hoover Service
Klein
Dwight Davis
Secretary of Wars
France
Foch Remains Alive on Grit Says Paris Doctors
Paris doctors report Marshal Ferdinand Foch lives by sheer grit amid a courageous, seemingly hopeless battle for life. They say his condition could linger for days as his temperature sits at 101 and his pulse at 98.
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Marshal Foch
Paris
Ferdinand Foch
Three Indicted in Cleveland Park Purchase Case
H G Atwater, a missing real estate dealer, faced indictments over the St. Clair avenue playground deal in which 50,000 of 83,200 dollars spent by Cleveland went to the original owner. He is named alongside former Councilman Liston G. Schooley and his son L G Schooley Jr. Prosecutor Ray Miller announced indictments for aiding and abetting and improper use of public office. A missing witness hindered arrest attempts in Florida and Milwaukee searches.
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Cleveland
H. G. Atwater
St. Clair Avenue
Atwater
Liston G. Schooley
L. G. Schooley
Fla
Miller
Milwaukee
Mott and Furey Wed in Toledo Church Ceremony
Charles S. Mott of Detroit General Motors and Dee Furey of Detroit magazine editor married today in the Trinity Episcopal Church chapel Toledo. The ceremony was conducted at noon by Rev. Elliott Talmage with the couple as the main figures.
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Toledo, CO
Charles S. Mott
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Dee Furey
Trinity Episcopal Church
Elliott Talmage
Ohio Scientist Earns Nichols Medal for Sugar Molecule Research
New York March 1 Prof. William Lloyd Evans of Ohio State University received the Nichols medal in recognition of twenty years of study into the architecture of the sugar molecule.
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Ohio
New York
William Lloyd Evans
Ohio State University
Wisconsin Assembly backs beer referendum in April
Madison votes 43 to 27 to concur with a Duncan resolution calling for a state referendum on repealing the dry law and legalizing 2.75 percent beer. The measure advances to the Governor following Senate approval 17 to 15.
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Madison
Wis
Assembly
State Senate
Severson
Senate
Thomas Duncan
Milwaukee Socialist
Congress
Broadway casts ashes over Times Square in quiet tribute
Walter Kingsley publicity man is cremated and his ashes released from an airplane above Broadway. Nils Granlund flies the ashes over Times Square as thousands below go about their day, the scene unfolding without fanfare or reaction from the busy crowd.
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New York
Walter Kingsley
Broadway
Times Square
Kingsley
Nils T. Gran
HANGS FOR MURDER OF BOY IN AMITE
Lige Wall, 56, farmer, was hanged in Amite Louisiana for the murder of 18 year old Percy Roberts. The killer shot the youth to stop him from testifying against Wall's son in law in an arson case. Governor Long refused a stay of execution after appeals to the Pardon Board.
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Lige Wall
Percy Roberts
Wall
Louisiana Pardon Board
H. P. Long
Robber Holds Up Cleveland Drug Store With Officer's Gun
In Cleveland on March 1 a recurring thief robbed Marshall Drug Co. for the fourth time in a month, disarming Patrolman Leo Honsa and escaping with about 158 dollars. The robber lined up clerks and looted the till before fleeing within minutes.
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Cleveland
Marshall Drug Company
Leo Hansa
Honsa
Commercial Tribune Voted City’s Oldest Business
A Chamber of Commerce survey finds The Commercial Tribune the oldest business in Cincinnati. The list shows ninety six firms have operated continuously since 1850 or earlier, compiled by research manager C Edythe Cowie.
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Commercial Tribune
The
Cincinnati
Queen City
C. Edythe Cowie
Chamber of Commerce
Seven Murder Charges Filed Against McGurn and Fanelli
Chicago dispatch reports Jack McGurn and Rocco Fanelli were booked on seven murder charges related to the St. Valentine’s Day massacre after detectives pressed them for links to the crime. McGurn’s alibi centers on a Stevens Hotel room with Louise Rolfe, who disputes involvement. other suspects Sam Giamcanna and Salvatore Strocchia were arrested.
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Chicago
Jack McGurn
Rocco Fanelli
McGurn
Fanelli
Louise
Lulu Lou’ Rolfe
Stevens Hotel
Rolfe
Sam Giamcanna
Salvatore Strocchia
West Side
Patrick Gleason
Capone Declines Chicago Subpoena Action
Al Capone, staying at a Miami Beach island estate, refused to answer a U S summons to appear in Chicago courts over recent gang killings. A deputy marshal served the subpoena, but Capone said he has retired and is not implicated, urging his name be kept out of the case.
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U. S
Miami Beach
Fla
al Capone
Chicago
United States
Jacksonville
DePRIEST Invasions Senate Sanctum in Historic Walk
Oscar De Priest, Republican representative elect from Illinois and the first Black member elected to Congress in years, stepped onto the Senate floor walked the center aisle and shook hands with Senator Watson. He then visited the Republican cloakroom and spoke with Senators Heflin Glenn and Rep Sabath before returning to the House area.
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Oscar de Priest
Illinois
Congress
Senate
Watson
House
de Priest
Heflin
Dem
Ala
Glenn
Rep
Ill
Sabath
Till
Pay-Roll Clerk Slain in Philadelphia Robbery
Philadelphia march 1 Harry Fausbenner aged 52 a payroll clerk for an unspecified mill in the Kensington district was shot and killed while resisting three robbers near Fourth and Somerset streets. The trio escaped with 1300 dollars.
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Philadelphia
Harry Fausbenner
Kensing
Fourth
Somerset Streets
Father Recovers Kidnapped Child in Ohio
Eloise Milan eight, abducted from a school in Ironton, was recovered by her father Elmer Milan, a railroad engineer, in Kenova West Virginia. Milan said he dropped charges against his ex wife Jeanette Milan after she promised no more contact with their children. The Milans are divorced and custody had favored the father for all three children later.
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Ironton, O
Eloise Milan
Elmer
Milan
Kenova
W. Va
Jeanette Milan
Milans
Edward
Covington
Detroit
Congressman's Death Shocks N Y District
Royal H. Weller, Democratic Representative for New York Twenty first district, died in Post Graduate Hospital New York City at age 47 from pneumonia. He had served in Congress since 1923 and earlier as Assistant District Attorney of New York County and as counsel to the Alien Property Custodian. Born in New York City.
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Senate
Federal Radio Commission
House
France
Royal R. Weller
New York
Royal H. Weller
Congress
Twenty-first
New York County
New York City
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