Snowbound Trains Paralyzed Michigan After Blizzard
A South Shore passenger train from Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie is snowbound near Strongs, and a Soo Line train from Chicago to Minneapolis is stalled at Rexton. Winds whip at gale speed, canyons of unmelted snow block tracks, villages isolated, and crews struggle to clear lines as eighty passengers await release with fuel and provisions aboard.
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Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
South Shore
Duluth
Minn
Sault Te. Marie
Strongs
Here
Soo Line
Chicago
Minneapolis
Rexton
Upper Michigan Peninsula
Knife Killer Found Guilty in New Orleans Murder Case
Henry Moity was found guilty of killing his wife in New Orleans. The jury recommended mercy, imposing a life sentence. District Attorney Eugene Stanley announced Moity would face trial for murdering his sister-in-law, Mrs. Joseph Moity, in April. The two women were killed October 27, their bodies dismembered and placed in trunks in the Moity apartment. Moity then used a taxi to move his three children to their aunt's home.
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New Orleans
Henry Molly
Eugene Stanley
Moity
Joseph Moity
Moily
Canadian father confesses to drowning two sons in canal
George Allen Chisholm a 36 year old Canadian war veteran confessed after an all night grilling detailing how he lured his sons Edgar and George with games and wires to the Indiana harbor canal bridge. He admitted bringing railroad iron to harm them and said his partner Helen Lawrence urged him to rid the family of the boys.
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Chicago
George Allen Chisholm
Indiana Harbor Canal
Edgar
Chisholm
148Th Canadian Battalion
The
Royal Highlanders
Helen Lawrence
Regan
Montreal
Gary
Canada
George
Egypt Premier Resigns Over Anglo Egyptian Treaty Row
Cairo March 4 Premier Sarwat Pasha resigns citing health as the cabinet rejects Britain’s proposed Anglo Egyptian treaty. Note to Lord Lloyd states terms are unacceptable as they imply British occupation. Wafdists may see Parliament dissolved. debate returns to 1922 status with Egyptian independence in question.
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Cairo
Sarwat Pasha
Lord Lloyd
Sarwat
Great Britain
Egypt
League of Nations
London
Austen Chamberlain
Suez Canal
Necessity Forces Midshipman to Pass Life-Saving Test
Midshipman Oscar L. Otterson of Butler Pennsylvania finally passed his life saving test after three years of failure. He dragged Georgetown University student Speed Williams from the Severn River after Williams went down twice in about thirty feet of water.
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Annapolis
Old Dame _ Necessity
Oscar L. Otterson
Butler
Naval Academy
Otterson
S.pee Williams
Georgetown University
Washington
Severn River
Gallantry of Ambushed Marines Under Fire in Nicaragua
In Nicaragua near Daraili region five Marines were killed and eight wounded in a daylong ambush by Sandino rebels. Lieut ODay and Capt MacNulty led counterattacks, the rebels retreated at dawn, with Marines counting eight captured mules and estimates of about 200 attackers. Native forces reportedly killed a rebel trooper.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Daraili
O’day
William K. MacNulty
MacNulty
Capt
Suitor who killed girl over rejected love
Chicago report details Steve Tarvosoff who, after trading $7,500 with the girl's mother for custody of Nar Fancy, returned to shoot the 14 year old and then fatally wounded himself. The dying statement ties the killings to the alleged sale and the girl's rejection of his attentions.
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Chicago
Steve Tarvosoff
A. Narusezizic
A. Narusezizic. During That Time He Fell In Love With the Girl, Nar Fancy
Fancy
Milwaukee
Boat Blast Toll Mounts in River Incident
A boiler explosion on the river packet Senator Cordill last Friday caused three deaths. Roy Roe of Gallipolis Ohio died from burns in hospital while two engineers, George McElphose of Detroit and George Litman of Orlando, were killed instantly.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Senator Cordill
Roy Roe
Gallipolis
Gallipolis Hospital
George McElphose
Detroit
George Litman
Orlando
Fla
Man Used Death Threats To Control Wife Then Killed Himself
SAN FRANCISCO March 4 Barton Powers 52 Oakland killed himself after confessing he had blackmailed himself for years to influence his wife. He admitted writing death threat letters including a Kansas City hoax in 1921 to spur her to leave a place or change plans. Police said the self blackmailing was the motive behind the fatal act and that he could not confess to his wife.
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New York World News Service
San Francisco
Irs
Barton Powers
Oakland
Powers
East Bay
Kansas City
Tragic Death Arising From Dolls Ambition
Two year old Mildred Hatke of Cheviot ingested strychnine tablets hoping to outgrow her dolls quickly. She touched a medicine box, swallowed several capsules, grew gravely ill and died, with coroner investigation underway and Dr. R. E. Gaston attending.
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Mildred Hatke
Charles Hatke
Hometawn Avenue
Cheviot
Mildred
R. E. Gaston
Dayton Street
Gaston
Swing
Cavernous Cincinnati Police Stage Impromptu Drama at Dance Hall
A downtown Cincinnati dance hall production turned police theater as Capt. Walter Fricke and detectives arrested Roy McVey, 39, after a gun theft and cash robbery suspicion linked to John Gebhardt, 26, of Norwood. The event featured an improvised plot with the orchestra playing no music. McVey, who claimed to be a confidence man, was taken to police headquarters for questioning.
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Underworld
John Gebhardt
Mainvenue
Norwood
Vine Streets
Gebhardt
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cincinnati
Florida
Walter Fricke
Webbe
Gorman
Fricke
Reichardt
Roy McVey
Greenup Street
Covington, Ky
Tennessee Egg Marvel Emerges From Tree Cavities
In Tullahoma Tennessee a tree containing a hand forged iron spike from 1861 was found to shelter snake eggs. Mayor W Davidson supervised the discovery after it was noted that the cavity held white pellets. ten days later seven of eleven eggs hatched, proving infant snakes survived seventy seven years sealed within the trunk.
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New York World News Service
Tullahoma
Tenn
Tennessee
Eastland
Tex
W. Javidson
Rge
Wolkmen
Nashille, Chattanooga & St. Louis
League Probes Mystery of Vanishing Frontline Guns
Geneva reports say the League of Nations opens its March session to investigate the arrival of about 2000 machine guns on the Hungarian Austrian frontier. The little Entente asks for inquiry amid tensions over Treaty of Trianon limits and a frontier dispute between Romania and Hungary. The agenda also includes requests for stabilization loans for Bulgaria and Portugal as part of postwar financial reconstruction.
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Geneva
Council of the
League of Nations
League
Hungary
Trianon
St. Gotthard
Austria
Council
Paris
Francesco Jose Urrutia
Colombia
Rumania
Romania
Europe
Bulgaria
Portugal
Dry Leader’s Son Held In Drunk Driving Charge
Washington dispatch reports Paul J. Kvale Jr. 32 son of Rep. Kvale farmer labor Minn. must defend himself in police court tomorrow on a charge of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He was arrested early today in front of the Kvale home and later released to his father.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Paul J. Kvale
Representative Kvale
Farmer-Labor
Minn
Kvale
Andrew J. Volstead
Farmer-Labor Party
Congress
Representative Blanton
Texas
Cramton
Michigan
Free Man Henry Olson Found Innocent After Slayers’ Confession
Henry T Olson of Rockford a twenty six year old auto mechanic freed from life imprisonment after two trials for the Rockford filling station murder of Floyd Stotler. Two youths Bliss and Mahan confessed and police urged Olson to return home as innocence was revealed. A new trial would be granted with a verdict of acquittal directed.
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Henry Olson
Rockford
Ill
Henry T. Olson
Illinois
Floyd Stotler
Olson
George Bliss
Maurice Mahan
Bliss
Stotler
Associated Press
New Orleans
A. D. Fisher
Mahan
Bath heat triggers divorce in San Francisco case
In San Francisco on March 4, Geor Valentine Ellis testified that his wife Alice F Ellis divorced today after he heard her exclaim the bath water was too hot for her “boy friend.” He said a giggle and the appearance of Peter Susavilla followed as the bathwater complaint ended the matter.
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New York World News Service
San Francisco
Alice F. Ellis
Geor Valentine Ellis
Elis
Peter Susavilla
Local executive Herman Lackman dies at Jewish Hospital
Herman W. Lackman 45, secretary treasurer of Hotel Gibson and president of Gibson Realty, died yesterday at Jewish Hospital after illness. Funeral at Grace Episcopal Church Reading Road tomorrow at 10, burial in Spring Grove. Survived by widow and five children. Born Cincinnati. MIT graduate 1906. led Lackman Brewery legacy into hotels and real estate. Active in Liberty Loans and Community Chest. held roles in Cincinnati Automobile Club and local clubs.
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Herman W. Lackman
Gibson
Gibson Realty Company
Jewish Hospital
Lackman
Grace Protestant Episcopal Church
Reading Road
Glenwood Avenue
George Heathcoate Hills
Spring Grove Cemetery
Madison Lane
Herman Jr
John
Elizabeth
Rockwell
Charles
Henry Lackman
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Technical School
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Albert Lackman
Lackman Brewery
Herman Lackman
Liberty Loan
Cincinnati Automobile Club
The
Elks
Maketewah
Four killed in explosion during narcotic raid near border
Warsaw reports four killed and seven injured as Treasury agents raid a house in Dzialeszyn near the German border. The householder suspected of cocaine and saccharine smuggling died with three children. A match struck in the cellar triggered a massive blast and fire. Eight helpers were severely burned.
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Warsaw
Polish Telegraph Agency Today
Dzialeszyn
Treasury
Five Die in Home-Made Plane Plunge Near Ramona
Five men perished when a home-built monoplane nosedived 300 feet near Ramona California while attempting a landing at Barnett Field Airport. Pilot W W Bird and four passengers from Point Loma Coronado Ocean Beach were killed. one survivor died shortly after extraction. Witnesses said Bird swerved to avoid a commercial airliner, then the craft plunged nose first. Bird had been refused a pilot license for inexperience and the aircraft had been grounded by the City Air Control Board.
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San Diego
Cal
Ramona
Oldtown
Craig
Bird
Maddox
Barnett Field
Mahoney
City Air Control Board
W. W. Gibson
Red” Harrigan
Gibson
Harrigan
Air Control Board
Tijuana
Dill
Mahoney Field
Irving Thomas
Fake heir to Boyer millions revealed as Canadian scion
Detroit March 4 Four year old Joseph Andrew Boyer, touted as heir to Joseph Boyer BurroughsAdding Machine fortune, is claimed by Edith Howarth Windsor chambermaid to be the son of a wealthy Canadian family. She says the father’s name cannot be revealed. Myron Libby Boyer is said to be the mother’s former husband. Government officials seek Mrs Boyer over crossing border illegally. she says she will not part with the child.
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Boyer
Chambermaid
New York World News Service
Detroit
Joseph Andrew Boyer
Joseph Boyer
The
Burroughs Adding Machine Company
Laura M. Boyer
Mamma
Edith Howarth
Windsor Chambermaid
Edith
Drew
Myron Libby Boyer
Royal Oak
Myron Boyer
Chatham Hotel
Mrs. Boyer
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