Seven Die as Railroad Coach Plunges From 50 Foot Trestle
At Tinion City Georgia a derailed Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic passenger coach fell fifty feet after a wheel broke. Seven people died and sixteen were injured with some not expected to live. Rescue teams worked for hours to free victims and transport the injured to hospitals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
Tinion City
Ty Elmore
B. & A. Railroad Company
W. E. M’intosh
Imperial Hotel
New York City
Hi. C. Driver
Roanoke
Ala
W. E. Johnson
Birmingham
Alabama
W. Lanier
Sonoia
Georgia
L. H. Etheridge
W. H. Brooks
Western Union Telegraph Company
Manchester
H. F. Hentz
Willard Cope
Woman driver survives plunge on Blue Rock road near New Baltimore
A car carrying three women and a boy plunged forty feet down a bank on Blue Rock road near New Baltimore Ohio. The vehicle rolled three times into a creek. all occupants escaped injury and were later cared for at a nearby store before returning to Cincinnati.
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Blue Rock Road
New Baltimore
Catherine Zopf
West Liberty Street
Sands Public School
Anna Kisker
L. Zopf
Fred. Kisker
Cincinnati
C. Zopf
Ben Raisch
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Seventh and Elm Streets
Bandits kill medical student in drug store near Columbia
Four gunmen and a female accomplice robbed Charles Friedgen's drug store on Amsterdam avenue and 120th street opposite Columbia University. Samuel Hadas, 24, a Columbia medical student and store clerk, was shot and killed as two women customers screamed and fled. The bandits escaped in a waiting car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles Friedgen
Amsterdam Avenue
120Th Street
Samuel Hadas
Columbia University
Whittier Hall
Barnard College
Teachers College
Hadas
Uprising in Portugal Thwarted by Police
In Lisbon raids by government agents at workmen's syndicate headquarters uncovered plans for an uprising along with ammunition and explosives. The syndicates were closed and drastic measures to maintain order are under way. About a hundred agitators were arrested after violence by striking workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lisbon
Associated Press
Index to Advertisements and Services
A dense list of ads and businesses including eye remedies hardware hotels and services. Names include Walter Forchheimer Gidding Spring & Summer Fashions Ne w Plaza Hotel One-Eleven Cigarettes and Milner Electric Co Wireless optometrist and opticians plus street lighting and motion pictures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee
MPN
TOD
Os c
Baltimore
Whip Railroad
Bon-Opto Eye Remedy
Charlies Eismith & 'Sons
Loth—Soda Fountains
Walter Forchheimer
Financial—Universal Sccurities Co
Hierschede
Garfield Dry
Gidding
Hewitt & Mackenbach—Specialists
Linton
Hiamilton County Mutual Fire Ins
Louisville & Cincinnati Packet Co
Miss Moore
Motion Pictures
New Plaza Hotel
Woonday Services
Pickering's
Pocue
Prince & Co
Opticians
Citywide search for Tiny the Spitz dog in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids March 12 a citywide hunt for Tiny a white Spitz dog began after doctors warned Mrs Laura Carpenter whose illness worsened with the pet missing and the search extended to aid her recovery and hopes the animal returns soon
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Tiny
Laura Carpenter
Seeger Dies in Columbus Car Crash
Frederick J. Seeger 22 a draftsman killed when auto veered off the road and hit a telephone pole near Columbus James M Hale 53 a cigar maker driver and Conrad Snyder the other passenger were detained by county authorities Witnesses report high speed and Hale reportedly admitted drinking liquor
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Columbus
Frederick J. Seeger
Here
James M. Hale
Conrad Snyder
Hale
Committee to Inquire Into Alleged Immoral Conditions at School
A five member committee was formed to investigate charges by Victor J. Miller that immoral conditions existed at Soldan High School in St. Louis. The meeting included parents officials and civic groups. Miller did not attend Governor Hyde was invited but stayed at his hotel.
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ST. Louis
Victor J. Miller
Board of Police Commissioners
Soldan High School
Charles Cunliff
Patrons’ Alliance of the High School
Miller
Arthur E. Hyde
Jefferson City
Missing Peabody club leader sparks city search
Mrs Bessie W. Buxton 45, president of Peabody Women's Club, vanished from home after Friday night concert. Husband, Herbert Buxton, a former selectman, says she came home after the event and went to bed. she was reported missing Saturday morning. Buxton is an accomplished musician and organist at the Universalist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peasbody
Mass
Bessie W. Buxton
Peabody Women’s Club
Herbert Buxton
Women’s Club
Buxton
Universalist Church
Specialist Found Dead in Toledo Hotel
Dr. L. T. Mahon a Toledo medical specialist with practice in several Ohio cities was found dead in a hotel room chair. Coroner Lehrer ruled death by acute alcoholism and opium poisoning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandusky
L. T. Mahon
Toledo
Ohio
Lehrer
Woman autoist hunts doctor for her victim
Michael Kearns, 45, a steamfitter of 616 Vine, was struck at Seventh and Vine and left on the sidewalk near McMicken and Main. Miss Madge Meader, 31, said she drove the car that hit him and later helped search for a doctor. she was cited for failing to report the accident. Massman claimed to assist in getting Kearns to care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Kearns
Vine Street
Seventh and
Vine Streets
Corwine
Walnut Streets
Harry Massman
Armory Avenue
Seventh Street
McMicken Avenue
Madge Meader
East Eighth Street
First District
Kearns
Seventh and Vine Streets
Main Street
National Hospital Day Set For May 12 Observance
Washington officials of the Public Health Service announce the continued observance of May 12 as National Hospital Day in honor of Florence Nightingale. The event encourages public hospital visits as an educational effort for better health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Public Health Service Today
Florence Nightingale
Legion Denounces Longview mistreatment charges by DAV leader
A joint American Legion committee in Hamilton County reports that claims of mistreatment and neglect at Longview Hospital Cincinnati are false. The investigation includes interviews with experts, hospital staff, and patients, noting many patients discharged as cured or improved and denying forced-floor sleeping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert S. Marx
Longview Hospital
Robert E. Bentley
Philip R. Colebank
Valley Memorial
American Legion
Longview
Legion Committee
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Ohio
Daily Press
Mellon Says Bonus Bill Dangers Credit Use
Secretary Mellon charges the proposed soldiers bonus bill relies on bank loans and indirect borrowing, calling it dangerous and unwise. He urges a direct paid endowment with government financed policy loans, warns of large future costs and notes no revenue plan to cover the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Washington
House
Mellon
Fordney
Ways and Means Committee
Harding
Mystery of Linn Street Phantom Firebug Continues
Police and state officials struggle to identify the so called phantom firebug who has started twelve fires at 1059 Linn Street. Tenants flee nightly as flames erupt at a rear doorway near Buckeye Supply Company in a case linked to home brew opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn Street
Buckeye Supply Company
Herman Mergar
Miss Roberts
Mary Molden
Sweeney
Wolf
Emmett Kirgan
Explosion at American Legation in Sofia Damages Building
An explosion struck the American Legation in Sofia before 8 PM, damaging windows but injuring no one. American Minister Charles S. Wilson suspects a bomb. the legation area was dark and unoccupied. The King and Cabinet voiced regret and condemnation, while Bulgarian public opinion denounced the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Softa
Associated Press
Charles S. Wilson
Legation
Troops Move to Halt S. African City as 1400 Rebels Capture
Johannesburg battles erupt with at least one hundred dead and extensive sniping. Airplanes bombed rebel concentrations near Brixton and Sophiatown, while Maj Gen Sir J L Van Deventer and Brig Gen Conrad Brits push to secure the city. Premier Smuts narrowly escapes a shooting, and police stations burn amid strikes propagating commando formations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
Union of South Africa
Associated Press
J.L. van Deventer
Conrad Brits
Sophiatown
Brixton Ridge
Brixton
Jan Christian Smuts
Rand
Potchefstroom
Fordsburg
Pretoria
Cape Town
Durban
Bloemfontein
Explosion at American Legation in Sofia Damages Chancery
State Department received a cablegram from Minister Wilson reporting an explosion at 8 pm in the Sofia legation chancery. All windows were shattered and minor damage occurred but no injuries. Police preliminary work points to a bomb as the cause. only servants were present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Sofia
Wilson
Associated Press
Legation
Chancery
Protest Filed Over Plan to Kill Plesiosaur Monster
Buenos Aires March 12 AP A Society for the Protection of Animals protests to the Ministry of Interior against killing or capturing a reported plesiosaur in Patagonia. Dr Albarracin asks the Governor of Chubut to verify the sighting and, if true, to prevent hunting to let the creature roam free. Professor Onelli says an expedition will start at week’s end if funds are raised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Associated Press
Patagonia
Ministry of Interior
Sociedad Protectora de Los Animales
American Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
Albarracin
Chubut
Argentina
Onelli
Pneumaphone claims revive dead within seventy two hours
Chicago inventor George Anston asserts his device, a pump shaped instrument, can revive people deemed dead from pneumonia heart trouble or nervous exhaustion within 72 hours. He says it has revived individuals up to three days after death and offers to demonstrate before a scientific board. Anston began work on the invention in Greece twenty years ago at age 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
George Anston
Anston
Greece
Wireless sermon heard by 25000 near Cleveland
The Rev. Alfred J. Manning spoke by wireless from Salem on Radio and the External Worship of God. He urged that radio cannot replace church attendance and noted plans to broadcast a Sunday address. About 25 000 persons were estimated to have heard him within 300 miles of Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Alfred J. Manning
St. Paul’s Catholic Church
Salem
Father Manning
God
Small Volcano Forms Within Popocatepetl Crater
A small volcano showing signs of activity has formed inside the crater of Popocatepetl about twenty six miles west of Puebla. Reported explorers say the new vent retains the characteristics of its parent volcano.
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Mexico City
Popocatepetl
Puebla
Popocatepet
Man a Human Balloon From Punctured Lung in Columbus
Will 66 years old was treated after a fall caused a broken rib to puncture a lung. Escaping air filled the space under the skin, ballooning the body until surgeons released the pressure and removed part of the rib. Recovery chances are excellent according to doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Will
Ghosts Stir Rumors as Prince Probes MacDonald Haunting
March 12 report from a Nova Scotia settlement describes Dr. Walter Franklin Prince, the ghost hunter, seeking contact with a mysterious entity at Alex MacDonald’s former home. Neighbors speculate on discoveries, while Prince guards details and plans to travel to Antigonish and Halifax with his party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maledonia Milis
Walter Franklin Prince
Alex MacDonald
Alex
Dr. Prince
MacDonald
Dan McGillivray
Antigonish
Halifax
Escape drama as three inmates flee Michigan reform facility
Michigan state police hunt three long term convicts from the State Reformatory in Marquette after they escaped last night with two others recaptured nearby. The escape involved breaking through a bathroom partition to reach the roof. Two escapees were caught in a swamp near the prison. The remaining two recaptured men are Steve Madaja and John Wilelski. The at large trio are Roman Alzniczak John Mitchell and Edward Turner. The Marquette prison uprising previously left Warden Catlin and Deputy Warden Menhennit dead.
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Marquette
Mich
Upper Michigan Peninsula
State Reformatory
Reformatory
Roman Alzniczak
White
John Mitchell
Edward Turner
Steve Madaja
John Wilelski
T. B. Catlin
James Menhennit
Porto Ricans renew court fight on Reily
Felix Cordova Davila Resident Commissioner for Porto Rico received a cable announcing new quo warranto proceedings to annul three appointments by Governor E Mont Reily that the insular Senate had rejected. Attorney General Mestre earlier refused papers. Davila sees this as a legal response to the dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Associated Press
Felix Cordova Davila
Porto Rico
E. Mont Reily
Senate
Mestre
Davila
Fishing Boat Wrecked Off New Jersey Coast
Wreckage of a fishing boat with a net attached washed ashore at Gate May New Jersey. Guardsmen believe it may be from the New England mackerel fleet and the stern bears the word Boston. The fleet of about 250 boats is fishing off the Virginia coast and due here next month.
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Gate May
N. J
New England
Boston
Virginia
Bombing and combat mark South African strike unrest
A government communication reports two bombing strikes on revolutionary commandos near Pretoria with heavy rebel casualties. It notes a failed attack on Ellis Park by strikers, and 180 Imperial Light Horse troops repelling attackers with five soldiers killed and fifteen wounded while the government army gains the upper hand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pretoria
Union of South Africa
Associated Press
Ellis Park
Benomi
Boksburg
Imperial Light Horse
Pinchot Enters GOP Governor Race in May Primaries
Gif ford Pinchot, State Forestry Commissioner, announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor in the May primaries. Others in the field include John S. Fisher, Edward F. Beidleman, and Charles A. Snyder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Gifford Pinchot
John S. Fisher
Edward F. Beidleman
Charles A. Snyder
Body found on tracks in Cleveland. foul play suspected
The body of Henry Munck, 41, vice president of Advance Printing Co., was found on Nickel Plate Railroad tracks in Cleveland. Police cannot determine how he came to be near the tracks and are probing the possibility of foul play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Henry Munck
Advance Printing Company
Nickel Plate Railroad
Rebels seize Tirana in Albania amid government escape
A Rome dispatch to The Exchange Telegraph reports that revolutionaries led by Zughedi and Iisaddusek have occupied Tirana. Government members fled to Elbassan, 64 miles southeast of Scots, and the movement is directed against Ahmed Zagoli.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Zughedi
Iisaddusek
Tirana
Albania
Rome
Elbassan
Ahmed Zagoli
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Ad Gan
Fact Auto
Portugal
Police
Marx
Anna Roberts
William Seitzer
Seitzer
Clifford Dryer
Stroy
Bulgaria
Michigan
Reily
Jersey
Pinchot
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