Pilot Charges Gross Neglect in Air Mail Lines
Chicago witnesses at a postal inquiry accuse Checkerboard Field officials of drunken conduct and air field neglect. Former pilot G A Byversole claims eight German Junkers cost $235,000 and seven lives, with De Havilland planes withdrawn after pilots refused to fly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles H. Clarahan
Checkerboard Field
Air Mail
G.A Byversole
Minneapolis
Eversole
Paul G. Rickeff
Junker
de Haviland
de Havilands
Governor Snubs Senator in Train Handshake Snub
In a Cleveland to Columbus chair car, Governor Davis refused a handshake from Senator George H. Bender of Cleveland, who opposed the governor’s reform bill. Bender described the incident as humiliating with witnesses among both allies and opponents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Davis
State Senate
Cleveland
George H. Bender
Bender
Offer to man ships to aid Alaska aid
The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association of the Pacific Coast offers to man ships to carry food to Alaska without charge if shipowners and the Shipping Board supply vessels. Ernest F. Peeg notes the situation may be serious. Secretary Davis holds hope for settlement. Benson reports some port delays blamed on foreigners. Americans remain quiet. The Shipping Board ousted six government ships from the US Transportation Co for ignoring a 15 percent wage cut and hiring at old rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Marine Engineers Benefical Association of
Pacific Coast
Alaska
Shipping Board
Ernest F. Peeg
Joint Council of Marine Engineers
Davis
Labor Department
Benson
United States Transportation Company of New York
Index to Ad advertisements Amusements and sales in page two
A catalog style listing of businesses and items including motor delivery typewriters clothing shoes hardware and household goods scheduled promotions and exhibition notices across multiple firms such as Fifth Third National Bank Gidding Sports Clothes Grove's Iron Tonic Syrups and Wallingford Coffee. The items hint at a crowded commerce page with durations and event notes including an exposition and a Friday the 13th promotion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bewe Dan
Corona Typewriter Sales Co
Crowe’s Park
Row's
Devas
Ecs
Ccanssees
Donne
East Hill
Coal and Supply Co
Ehrlich Paint Company
Isveevs
Ee Financial
Fifth-Third National Bank
Hunter, Evans & Duble
OCS Be ET Aures Ist
Sesicissicecce
al Gidding
Greater Shoe Co
Grove's
Harry W. Smith
Kool Bnbv
Sere Ececeseererseate
Coul
Liberal Savings & Loan Association
Milméer
Brisk Wind Feeds Morning Fire Threatening Warehouses
A fire started in the Electric Service Co warehouse at 210 Walnut Street and spread to the Herrlinger Paper Co plant on the Bottoms district. Strong east wind and rain hindered firefighters as flames damaged five generators and threatened adjacent properties. Lt Wieber injured but not seriously. Insurance covers about $10,000 in losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electric Service Co
Walnut Street
Bottoms
Herrlinger Paper Company
Paper Company
Kessner
Lanfried
Weller
Electric Service Company
Anchor Paper Company
Barney Houston
Louis Wieber
Gerral Hospital
Indiana Priest Uses Stolen Toledo Bonds to pay Parish Debts
Anthony Gorek a New Chicago Indiana priest was arrested in Gary and confessed to selling 1140 dollars in coupons from stolen Toledo bonds to cover parish debts. He had dug up 72000 dollars of bonds buried in his yard given to him by Wanda Urbaytis who was later arrested. Gorek faced a 10000 dollar bond and awaits a May 19 hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Anthony Gorek
New Chicago
Ind
Gary
Toledo
Gorek
Wanda Urbaytis
Mise Urbaytis
Lier
J. Stanley Barton
John Paulek
Urbaytis
Soviets Buy 600000 Pairs of Boots in U S
Leonid Krassin, Soviet Minister of Trade, told the Supreme Economic Council that the Soviet Union bought 600000 pairs of boots from the United States, along with coal and 2000 tons of rope. He stressed that England should not gain control of Russian naphtha.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Leonid Krassin
Supreme Economic Council On Foreign Trade
Helsingfors
London Times
America
England
Hamilton County seeks state purchase of Longview Hospital
Ohio state lawmakers react to the Joint Conference Committee on Appropriations denying a 120000 rental item for Longview Hospital in Cincinnati. Senator Gardner moves to amend the Fouts bill to fund a 1400000 purchase, arguing the state should assume ownership or continue rental of the county facility serving insane patients from Southern Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Hamilton County
Joint Conference Committee On Appropriations
Longview Hospital
Cincinnati
Joseph Gardner
Senate
House
Gardner
Ohio
Williamsburg instructor beaten by bartender in cafe case
Detectives Weatherly and McCorkhill traced clues to Lee Parker a Williamsburg instructor in critical condition with a brain injury after a cafe brawl on Liberty street and Broadway on April 24. Parker had prior incoherent remarks checked out of a Dennison Hotel and later reported being beaten and robbed at the Third District station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weatherly
McCorkhill
Lee Parker
Williamsburg
Liberty Street
Broadway
Parker
Frank W. Parker
Dennison Hotel
Third District
MecMicken Avenue
Walnut Street
Jones
Prohibition Enforcement
First District
General Hospital
Georgetown
Dayton
IWW Convicts Freed After Appeals Court Ruling
The United States Court of Appeals in St Paul voided the first of four counts in the IWW indictment, freeing twenty of twenty seven members sentenced in Kansas City for conspiring to hinder acts of Congress and presidential proclamations connected to the war program. The remaining three counts were upheld. The Kansas City district attorney announced the release for twenty of the inmates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Court of Appeals
St. Paul
St., Paul, Minn
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Industrial Workers of the World
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
Federal District Court of
Kansas
Kansas City
Kansas. City
Federal District Court
Leavenworth
United States Court of Appeals
United States District Attorney’s Office
Deaths of Five Husbands Linked to Life Insurance
Idaho authorities report Lyda Southard held in Honolulu on murder charges tied to the deaths of five spouses. Prosecutors say life insurance proceeds exceeded 9,500 dollars and stomach analyses showed identical poison in four husbands and one brother. Extradition papers awaited to return her to Idaho for trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Associated Press
Paul Vincent Southard
Lyda Meyer
Los Angeles
Paul Southard
Southard
U. S. S. Monterey
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Idaho
Vincent Southard
Chicago
Frank L. Stephan
Twin Falls County
Stephan
Romig fails to locate Bergdoll gold cache
Washington reports former Philadelphia police magistrate James B. Romig testified before a House committee about the Bergdoll gold, saying he never saw the buried treasure after it left the Treasury. He recalled the mother aiding the trip and recounted light moments amid questions over the missing gold and related matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
House
Gup
Spergdoll
Philadelphia
United States Treasury
James B. Romig
Romig
John W. Wescott
New Jersey
John H. Sherburne
Bergsoll
Germany
Harry Thaw
Thaw
Treasury
Two Shot As Convicts Attack Keepers in Huntsville Escape
News reports say thirty three of forty Huntsville penitentiary escapees remain at large after mutiny at the arsenal. Two guards were shot during the breakout. authorities say several inmates have been recaptured or surrounded around Dodge and toward Houston as a massive manhunt continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Huntsville
Dodge
Clara Smith Hamon Relinquishes Hamon Estate Claims
Clara Smith Hamon signed a cash settlement of 10000 dollars with Frank L. Ketch administrator of Jake L. Hamon estate. She relinquished all claim to the estate after her Oklahoma acquittal for Hamon’s murder, while rights to royalties and oil leases were preserved as specified in signed documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Clara Smith Hamon
Jake L. Hamon
Oklahoma
J. B. Champion
Frank L. Ketch
Hamon
Jake Hannon
Prison escape reported at Ohio state quarry
Joseph Barton aged 55, serving a sentence of one to five years for pocketpicking, escaped today from guards at the state stone quarry in Columbus. Barton was sentenced in Summit County and arrived at the prison in May 1920.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Joseph Barton
Summit County
Three Republicans Shot in Ambush Near Listowel
Dublin May 12 three Republicans were shot dead and several wounded after a police ambush near Listowel. The clash followed the ambush and produced multiple fatalities and injuries in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Listowel
Barre
Passengers Lie Prone As Bullets Pat Them On Train
Sergeant David Peterson recounts a noon train ride into Sprigg with bullets peppering from the mountains. Passengers, including women and children, lay on floors for protection. no injuries were reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson
W. Va
David Peterson
State Police
Sprigg
Auto wrecks claim two young lives on wet city streets
A series of crashes yesterday left Alma Steman, fourteen, dead after being crushed against a fire plug on Gilbert avenue. Preston, a schoolboy, died minutes after a central hospital arrival. Four others were injured as drivers Kohnen, Adams, and McDonald were involved. police investigated reckless driving and intoxication as factors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Kohnen
West Seventh Street
Gilbert Avenue
Elsinore Avenue
Alma Steman
General Hospital
Inspector Kane
Cincinnati Police Department
Kohnen
Kane
J. M. Kuegle
Seventh District
George Steman
Webster Street
Oakley
wr _ Holman
Preston
Fulton District
Third and
Collard Streets
George R. Adams
Auto Patrol No. 2
Samuel Preston
Applause Creators Demand Unionization in Buenos Aires
In Buenos Aires on May 12 Claquers, boys and men who generate applause in theaters, demand union rights as a regular theatrical profession. Authors oppose their claim citing debts of gratitude to supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buenos Aires
Court bars removal of ill mother in Kennedy Heights home
Judge Frank R. Gusweiler issued four temporary injunctions to stop Samuel Gayle from taking Mrs. Elizabeth Gayle 64 from the home of her niece Mrs. Thomas DeMarcia in Kennedy Heights where she lies dangerously ill. DeMarcia says two men sent by Gayle attempted to remove her as she suffered and wished to die in her native city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank R. Gusweiler
Samuel Gayle
Lincoln Avenue
DeMarcia
Gayle
Two Women Drink Poison in Separate Incidents
Two women were admitted in serious condition after drinking poison at home. Lydia Schmidt, 73, of Taylor Creek and Springdale Road, was found unconscious and later hospitalized. Elizabeth Waites, 88, of 638 East Ross Avenue, St Bernard, also unconscious, says she mistook poison for medicine. doctors warn the poison could be fatal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Hospital
Lydia Schmidt
Tdaylor Creek
Springdale Road
Emily Schmelmeier
Elzabeth Waites
East Ross Avenue
St. Bernard
Bullinger Adyr. Boston Advy publisher request note
The item requests the publisher Bullinger Boston Adyv for this year if Bullinger's and Shippers Guide is not received. It specifies the publisher and city, signaling a missing or pending copy and a call for resupply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bullinger’s and Shippers Guide
Bullinger
Boston
Adyv
Guerrilla Warfare Flares In Mingo County Coal Fields
Guerrilla activity erupts in Mingo County West Virginia with shootings in Merrimac Rawl Sprigg and Matewan. State police and deputies surge to the region to outflank hidden gunmen as casualties mount and lights are kept off at night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williamson
W. Va
Mingo County
Merrimac
Tug River
Rawl
Sprigg
Matewan
McKarr
J. R. Brockus
John S. Hall
Brockus
Mattewan
West Virginia
Kentucky
Pike County
Governor asks federal troops over Mingo County unrest
Charleston dispatch reports Governor Morgan responding to Mingo County officials who sought federal troops to restore order. The governor cited heavy firing from the Kentucky side and said two men were killed. Pike County Kentucky officials reportedly urged Governor Morrow to seek federal troops as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Morgan
Mingo County
War Department
Mingo
Kentucky
Pike County
E. P. Morrow
Troops Held Ready for West Virginia Disturbance
Federal troops at Camp Sherman Ohio are prepared to move to Mingo County West Virginia. Major General George B Read of the Fifth Army Corps conferred with War Department officials in Washington on Governor Morgan's request to quell disturbances in Mingo County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Camp Sherman
Mingo County
W. Va
Fifth Army Corps
Ft. Benjamin Harrison
Ind
George B. Read
War Department
Washington
Morgan
West Virginia
Camp Sherman Officials Refuse Comment on Troop Movement
CHILLICOTHE O May 12 Camp Sherman officials would not comment on possible troop movements to Mingo County West Virginia. Railroad officials said they had received no orders and made no preparations for such a move.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Sherman
Chillicothe
Mingo County
W. Va
Also Mentioned on This Page
U. S
Indiana
Longview
Owl
Move -Gardner
Dayton Hospital
Count
Paul V. Southard
Stacker
Grover
Luhring
Clara Smith
Atlantic City
N. J
The
Association of National Advertisers
West
Virginia Hills
Holman Preston
George Keiffer
Yars
Western Avenue
D. W. McDonald
Westwood Avenue
D. W. McDonald, Jr
Clay Street
State Avenue
John Rolf
Christian Wolf
Rolf
Wolf
McDonald, Jr
Keiffer
McDonald, Sr
McDonald
Hamilton Avenue
Vansant Road
Emma Rogge
Goodman Avenue
College Hill
Edward Turner
Mt. Healthy
Hilltop
Sun
Elizabeth Gayle
Gusweiler
Waites
Camp Sherman Heid
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!