Terrific Ohio storm levels farms and crops in Lake Region
A forty mile per hour gale and thunderstorm ripped across Ohio's Lake Region, leveled farmhouses in Pittsfield and White Fox near Oberlin, uprooted trees, and damaged wires. Mrs Leimbach was seriously burned when a cook stove fell on her in White Fox as a car carried several hundred feet by the storm.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Lorain
Pittsfield
White Fox
Oberlin
Pontiac
Monroeville
Wakeman
Cleveland Weather Bureau
Windslash Storm Roars Through Columbus Damages Declared
A May 16 Columbus storm caused thousands of dollars in damage. Debris littered streets as winds uprooted trees roofs and signs. A heart attack claimed 46 year old Lena Martin when lightning struck a nearby telephone pole.
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Columbus
Lena Martin
Funnel Shaped Cloud Wrecks Havoc In Sandusky District
A funnel shaped cloud swept through Sandusky Ohio and nearby areas causing damage from wind and storms. Reports from Monroeville Pontiac and surrounding towns note uprooted trees, barns moved, and buildings knocked down but no injuries or deaths. Severest winds occurred south of Monroeville with multiple barns destroyed. Norwalk Fremont and Put-In-Bay reported storms with no significant damage.
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Sandusky
Monroeville
Pontiac
Norwalk
Fremont
Three Boys Adrift on Raft in Lake Erie
Three Elmwood Home for Boys residents were reported adrift on a small raft off Erie as a severe windstorm churned Lake Erie. A Coast Guard cutter and three other boats hurried to reach the stranded youths, believed lost amid rough waters after the storm.
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Erie
Lake Erie
Here
Coast Guard
Elmwood
Attempt to Burn Hamilton Home of Vice Crusader
In Hamilton Ohio on May 16 an arson attempt targeted the home of Rev. W. S. McBernie a leader in a clean up drive. Two men allegedly involved fled the scene after coal oil was ignited on the back porch causing minor damage without aid from police.
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The
Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
W. S. McBernie
MrcBernie
Gornor Donahey
Howard G. Kelley
Camel Avenue
Potter
St. Louis
Hco
Rlier
Delivery Boy Wins Phi Beta Kappa Honor at Northwestern
Chicago May 16 Howard P Becker earned entry to Phi Beta Kappa while working as a delivery boy in Nevada Montana a slaughterhouse and South Bend and Flint factories He will graduate in three years instead of four with a near perfect academic record averaging about 97 to 98 per semester and a graduate average of 97 He plans to enter the ministry.
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Chicago
Northwestern University
Howard P Becker
Nevada
Montana
South Bend
Ind
Flint
Mich
Phi Peta Kappa
Becker
J. Harold Goldthorpe
Northwestern
Princeton student unveils correlation machine predicting life and grades
A Princeton Graduate College student claims a machine that can "look into the future" by solving how long a man will live and if a student will graduate. The correlation machine, praised by the American Psychological Association, uses statistics to compare a person’s habits with peers to forecast health, longevity, and academic outcomes.
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Princeton
New York World News Service
N. J
Princton University
Stuart C. Dodd
American Psychological Association
Palmer Physical Laboratory
City Plan Adopts Fifty Year Growth With Civic Center Core
The City Plan for Cincinnati envisions a 50 year development, centering on a Plum Street civic center with monuments to culture government and industry. The plan calls for new streets viaducts a riverfront flood dike a union railroad terminal and expanded rail freight yards with citywide improvements over three years of study and a $125 000 cost.
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Cincinnati
Plum Street
Central Parkway
Board of Education
Union Railroad
Millcreek Valley
Lincoln Park
Miles's Requiem Bugle to Sound in Guarded Farewell
Washington May 16. Funeral rites for Lieutenant General Nelson A Miles will feature full military honors next Tuesday. The army Navy and marine corps join in services to honor the celebrated guardian of the Western Trek with a procession from the War Department to Arlington Cemetery.
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Washington
Nelson A. Miles
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
Geronimo
Caisson
War Department
Arlington
Rockenbach
Washington Department
Ans
Miles
Sherman Miles
Constantinople
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Potomac River
Davis
Pershing
Pershin
Earthquake hazard urged for Northeastern cities by engineers
A Boston based Engineering Economics Foundation survey reported in the New York Times warns earthquakes are a real risk for Eastern cities like New York and Boston. It details potential damage from a No 8 quake and outlines education, maps, and planning to reduce loss, with strong emphasis on public readiness and coordinated emergency response.
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New York
Engineering Economics Foundation of
Boston
New York Times
North America
Kirtley of Mather
Harvard
Foundation
Thomas A. Jaggers
Tokyo
Army
Arary
Police
San Francisco
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence
Mississippi Valley
New Madrid
Charleston
S. C
Mississippi
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Song Islang Sound
Connecticut Valley
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Bay of Fundy
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Jaggers
Watchung
New Jersey
Hudson
Hawaii
New England
California
Michigan
Ohio
North Carolina
Washington
Philadelphia
Prof
A. Knopf
Geology Department
Yale University
Commission On Education
The
Council of National Defense
Atlantic Seaboard
America
Hollis Godfrey
Educational Commission of the
William S. Sims
U. 8S. N
James G. Harbord
Samuel P. Capen
University of Buffalo
Frederick C. Ferry
Hamilton College
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Navy
United States Government
Hawaiian Volcanic Laboratory
John A. Stevenson
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Grosvenor B. Clarkson
Charles F. Thwing
Western Reserve University
John H. Finley
American Red Cross
Palestine
Near East
Bomb blast wrecks store in Minerva
In Alliance Ohio May 16 a bomb wrecked Fred Adsett’s jewelry shop on Market Street in Minerva twelve miles south of Alliance. The blast damaged a second business, shattered windows in twenty buildings, and the owner received several unsigned life threats. The motive remains unknown.
Too Poor to Rest Andy Long Dies on Job at 74
Chicago report of Andy Long a longtime Auditorium elevator operator who died on duty after twenty five years of service. He proclaimed himself too poor to quit work and his effects reveal a fortune including twenty thousand dollars in Montgomery Ward bonds a thousand dollar bank book and keys to two safety deposit boxes found among his possessions.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Andy
Long
Montgomery Ward
Senator Selden P. Spencer Dies at Walter Reed Hospital
Washington May 16 Senator Selden P Spencer Republican aged 63 died suddenly at Walter Reed Hospital after a hernia operation ten days earlier Officials said he was in good spirits at noon and dictating mail Burial likely in Missouri Spencer served in his second term from 1918 defeating Folk and re-elected in 1920 over Breckinridge Long He chaired the Privileges and Elections Committee and was involved in Newberry and Mayfield investigations He also faced the Teapot Dome issue and defended leases He is survived by his widow two sons Brooks of Pittsburgh and Oliver W Spencer of St Louis and a sister Mrs Kemper Fullerton of Oberlin Ohio continuous continuation of public service noted
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Washington
Selden P. Spencer
Rep
St. Louis
Walter Reed Hospital
Senator Spencer
Spencer
Ives
Missouri
Congress
Joseph W. Folk
William J. Stone
Breckinridge Long
Privileges and Elections Committee
Newberry
Mayfield
Brookhart
Iowa
Teapot Dome
Public Lands Committee
Walsh
Senate
Appropriations
Judiciary and Claims
Spenator Spencer
Wilson
Romania
Serbia
Brooks Spencer
Pittsburgh
Oliver W. Spencer
Senator Spencer Dies Before 1926 Campaign Bid
The Senator's death interrupts plans to seek re election as his current term would have ended in 1926. Spencer was prominent in legal circles serving asVice President of the American Bar Association and President of the Missouri Bar Association. He won election to the U S Senate in 1918 to fill the Stone vacancy from Bowling Green Missouri.
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Congress
Senator Spencer
American Bar Association
Missouri Bar Association
United States Senate
William Joel Stone
Bowling Green
Attorneys Arrested in Divorce Conspiracy in Illinois
Providence Illinois May 16 L W Horton 50 a lawyer and standing master in chancery and F P Dougherty attorney holding joint offices were arrested on charges of conspiring to obtain divorces by fraudulent means and making false depositions in divorce cases. The arrests follow Attorney General investigations into divorces in which Dougherty acted as counsel and depositions were taken before Horton. Many involved parties resided out of state. Dougherty formerly represented Minta E Durfee Arbuckle in a 1923 divorce from Roscoe R Arbuckle who withdrew her suit to avoid proving residence for two years.
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Providence
R. IL
L. W
Horton
Chancery
F. P. Dougherty
Attorney General of
Dougherty
Minta E. (Durfee) Arbuckle
Roscoe R
Fatty) Arbuckle
Plot of Reds Plot Against Alexander Suppressed in Jugoslavia
London report says a well planned Communist plot to kill King Alexander and blow up key public buildings in Jugoslavia was thwarted. Arrests included Russian Bulgarian and Hungarian Communists allied with a broader Balkan terrorist network. Ambush and gunfire wounded Amaral and a police corporal during the attack, as martial law looms amid renewed violence.
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Alexander
Jugo-Slavia
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Belgrade
London Sunday Express
Balkans
Es World News Service
Warleyress Pub. Co
Portuguese Police Chief Ambushed by Red Legion in Lisbon
Major Ferreira Amaral, commander of the Safety State Police, was attacked last night in a Lisbon street by members of a Red organization identified as the Red Legion. He was severely wounded as the government announced further actions.
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Amaral
Red Legion
Lisbon
Reds
Cellen
Associated Press
Ferreira Amaral
Safety State Police
Red
Moscow protests Bulgarian death sentences over Sofia bombing
Moscow shows strong opposition to Bulgaria's plan to execute men condemned for the Sveti Kral Cathedral bombing that killed 160. Demonstrations rise as peasants and workers urge Britain France and Italy to protest. Pravda warns of civil war and vows vengeance against the hangings.
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Moscow
Sofia
Associated Press
Russia
Bulgaria
Sveti Kral
The
Pravda
Europe
Baby Farms Deaths Tarnish New York Case Details
Chief Assistant D A Pecora heard estimates of twenty five to thirty infant deaths and numerous alleged substitutions tied to Mrs Helen Geisen Volk. Nurses and witnesses described babies swapped for others at Park Avenue and East Eighty Sixth Street facilities with mothers kept ignorant of true fates. Five mothers seek exhumations as investigations proceed.
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New York World News Service
New York
Pecora
Helen Auguste Geisen-Volk
Agnes Toohey
William Winters
Stephen William Angerer
Rose Filbert
Grand
Gardner
Mine Blast at Dorstfeld Kills Five. 25 Hurt, 26 Missing
An explosion at Dorstfeld mine Pit 5 near Dortmund spread to Pits 2 and 3. Five dead and 25 injured brought to surface. 26 miners unaccounted for. In Pit 2, 99 workers returned. 14 injured. In Pit 3, 194 returned. 4 injured. Separately in Pennsylvania, a fire at Kingston Company mine Ed wardsville sends eight to hospital as 600 miners work underground.
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Berlin
Dorstfeld
Dortmund
Wilkesbarre
S - Pa
Kingston Company
Edwardsville
Flying Ebony Wins Kentucky Derby in Wet Finish
In a dramatic Derby run under sudden rain, Flying Ebony owned by Gifford A. Cochran and ridden by Earl Sande defeated nineteen rivals to win $50,000. Captain Hal finished second with Son of John close behind. The crowd of 70,000 to 80,000 soaked as a downpour and lightning drenched spectators and gowns alike.
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Louisville
Flying Ebony
Gifford A. Cochran
New York
Earl Sande
America
Captain Hal
Son of John
Singlefoot
Step Along
Swope
Bud” Fisher
Prince of Bourbon
Needle Gun
Kentucky Cardinal
G. Frank Croissant
Chicago
Boon Companion
Broadway Jones
Quatrain
Alel
Backbone
Igctor
the Bat
Lee O. Conner
Voltair
Uneas
Mutuel
Matuels
Son of
John
Paris
Ohio
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