Taft clears Cooper charity claim in Hamilton race
An official Taft investigation found no proof to back Democratic charges that Myers Y Cooper bought support with a 50000 contribution to the Hamilton County Republican organization during the primary. Fred Schneller and Edward Schorr commented as Taft published his findings while urging that slander cease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Taft II
Myers Y. Cooper
Hamilton County
Taft
P. Lincoln Mitchell
Republicans Finance Committee
Martin L. Davey
Cooper
Citizen Republicans
Gen. Mitchell
Grand Jury
Fred Schneller
Republican Central Committee
Davey
Edward D. Schorr
Mr. Taft
Myers V. Cooper
Treaser
Republican Finance Committee
Edison recalls first phonograph with Mary Had a Little Lamb
Edison spoke by radio about the first phonograph he built more than fifty years ago. He recalled testing the device by shouting Mary Had a Little Lamb and hearing it reproduced, and noted the British Government returned the original model to him for the Patent Office Museum in London. He loaned the machine to Britain about forty five years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Orange
N.J
Thomas A. Edison
Coolidge
Andrew W. Mellon
Patent Office
South Kensington
London
John Kruess
Mary
South Ken
Arrest of third killer in Gong Table Hut murder trio
The third man tied to Constable William Tressler’s killing, Jack Denny alias Jack Crawford, lies in a Gary Indiana hospital with a back wound after resisting arrest. Louisville and Gary police identified him by fingerprints. two accomplices Dewey Colvin and Herman Steele are dead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Tressler
Ft. Thomas
Gary
Ind
Jack Denny
Jack Crawford
Louisville
Denny
Dewey Colvin
Covington
Herman Steele
West Tenth Street
Newport
Colvin
Steele
Newman Guy
Shelburn
Greenfield
Eighth
Jackson
Leo Witkowski
Floyd Bateman
Ray Crawford
Indianapolis
Michigan City
Terre Haute
Fuller
Philtner
Remus Sought Over International Bond Fence Scheme
Chicago broker Edward J. Sweeney faced charges of operating a confidence game and possessing stolen property tied to an alleged international fence for stolen bonds. Police sought George Remus and noted Remus’s links to Sweeney’s La Salle Street office and a $100,000 Michigan City home. Bonds traced to Sweeney’s firm had moved through Cologne, Baltimore, Columbus, Chicago and Detroit. Sweeney was held for extradition with bonds set at 40,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edward J. Sweeney
George Remus
Remus
Sweeney
la Salle Street
Michigan City
Cook County
Louis Eliasburg
Baltimore
Finance Company of America
Donald E. Webster
Guranteed Life Insurance Company of
Frank M. Padden
Cologne
Germany
Columbus
Detroit
Cincinnati Women Set Record in City Poll Books
Cincinnati registration for the coming election totals 207 798, up from 164 032 in 1924, with 32 807 of the gain from women voters including nuns at Good Samaritan Hospital and a convent. Ward 12 Precinct A and the Twentieth Ward show large increases, signaling a strong female turnout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Temperance
Alfred Smith
Good Samaritan Hospital
Itn
Psychic claims Mars voyage in four minutes
Dr Ansfield Robinson, a British psychic devotee, says his etheric body traveled 35,000,000 miles to Mars in four minutes. He describes Martian men seven and a half feet tall, women six feet, with drawings of a Martian guide and mentions airships, cars, railways, and a fruit treatment that makes fruit resemble a human body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Dransfield Robinson
Mars
Gas Roots Yeggs in Middletown Mail Safe Robbery
A band of profesional yeggs attempted to rob Middletown Ohio Post Office of about $100 000 in stamps and stamped envelopes. They used an acetylene torch to damage a safe, triggered a gas knockout system and fled as a fire started. Damage totaled roughly $2 800 to the building and safe. another registry safe remained untouched.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Commercial Tribune
Middletown. O
Jimmy
Frank B. Pauly
Department
Post Office
Remus Denies Knowledge of Sweeney Bond Ties
George Remus, once the “Rajah of Rum,” says he knows nothing about illicit bond dealings linked to Sweeney. He calls the allegations preposterous, notes Sweeney is only a casual acquaintance, and says his cards at Sweeney’s La Salle street house were fake. He denies visiting Sweeney or receiving any summons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Remus
Sweeney
George Remus
Rum
Hermosa Avenue
Price Hill
la Salle Street Bond
Hicago A
Cardinal De Lai Near Death in Rome Hospital
Cardinal De Lai aged 76, secretary of the Congregation for the Consistory, was in grave condition in Rome on October 20 as his illness worsened after a year of extremely poor health. Doctors expressed pessimism despite fever reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Cardinal de Lai
Consitorial Congregation
Army beats Harvard for first time in history
Gridiron enthusiasts witness Columbus Huskies forge ahead of Michigan as Ohio State tames its foe and Georgia ends Notre Dame's streak. Attendance reaches 72,723 as the crowd sees bold play and decisive margins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ARMY
Harvard
Ohio State
Michigan
Georgia
Notre Dame
Tech Tornado Sweeps Notre Dame For 13 0 Victory
Georgia Tech opened Grant Field with a decisive 13 to 0 win over Notre Dame ending the Irish six year winning streak. Warner Mizell starred with versatile play leading Tech, while Georgia’s defense repelled Notre Dame’s aerial threats and Knute Rockne’s late attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Atlanta
Georgia Tech
Grant Field
Notre Dame
Bill” Alexander
Cadets Fight 33 Years In Opening Period Slump
Miscues by French pit soldiers slow the scoring for Army as they trail early. The Army team shows superiority with 56 000 spectators watching the opening clash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Ohio State Hands Michigan Defeat In Big Rivalry Clash
Buckeyes surge to a 19 to 7 victory over Michigan before 72 723 fans at Columbus. Byron Eby scorched for 74 yards on 17 carries as Charlie Coffee matched a good effort with 60 yards. Michigan’s lone score came after Coffee’s miscue set up their counter. Since 1897 Ohio State has won only three times in twenty four meetings, with this win ending a long drought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Buckeye
Ohio State
State
Michigan
Wolverines
Byron Eby
Chillicothe Flash
Ohio
Buckeyes
Eby
Coffee
Charlie Coffee
Capt
Rich
John W. Wilce
French
George Perry
Tommy Lynch
Cadet Perry
Cadet Lynch
Lynch
Perry
Harvard
Army
Cadet Corps
John Murrell
Nave
Cagle
Guarnaccia
Bhatt
Murrell
Light seen falling into sea near Atlantic flight chase
Passengers aboard the British Honer Montclare reported seeing a strange light in the sky 150 miles off Northern Ireland, with a trailing tail as it dropped into the sea. The light appeared hours after Lieut. Commander H C Macdonald departed from Newfoundland on an Atlantic flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Eng
Honer Montclare
Northern Ireland
H. C. Macdonald
Macdonald
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Hardenburg
St. Johns
Cincinnati Judges Reclassify Prohibition Charges
Anti-Saloon League protests Cincinnati Municipal Court practice of changing prohibition charges to lesser or greater offenses with prosecutor consent. Letter to Judge Samuel W. Bell cites Ed Riley case and requests review, with Col. Sherrill urged to intervene. notes similar shifts in Common Pleas and Municipal Courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Anti-Saloon League
Municipal Court of
Cincinnati
Samuel W. Bell
Charles M. Earhart
Columbus
Col. Sherrill
Common Pleas Court
Municipal Court
Earhart
Ed Riley
Wooster Pike
Newtown Bridge
Georgia GOP pressure on Smith ticket prompts resignations
Georgia's new Democratic Executive Committee votes to urge resignations from party nominees opposing the Smith Robinson national ticket and signals possible bar from future primaries. Maj. John S. Cohen says the South will stay Democratic on November 6 as football scores and other college results are listed from various campuses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Georgia
New
Democratic Executive Committee
South
G. Ed Maddox
Maj
John S. Cohen
The
Atlanta Journal
Seven Baptist Home Mission board members named in suit
In Atlanta Oct 20 seven members of the Baptist Home Mission were named with former treasurer Clinton S. Carnes in a Superior Court petition by Walter R. Brown seeking to hold them liable for losses. Named are Dr L R Christie Frank S Ethridge B D Gray the Rev W H Major Dr Was Seon WOW Gaines and Hugh M Willet. The suit accuses negligence and notes Carnes was an ex convict and treasurer despite warnings. Carnes faces embezzlement indictments totaling about half a million dollars. board members allegedly failed to investigate asset diversions and knew of Carnes integrity concerns for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Baptist Home Mission
Walter R. Brown
Clinton S. Carnes
Carnes
L. R. Christie
Frank S. Etheridge
B. D. Gray
W. H. Major
Was Seon Wow. Gaines
Hugh M
Home Mission Board
Hungary Hints At Restoring National King After Long Break
Budapest reports Premier Bethlen hints Hungary may appoint a national king as early as next spring. Archduke Albrecht favored by Monarchists would face opposition from Czecho Slovakia Romania Yugoslavia and Italy. Debate over Habsburg ties risks wider regional tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Len
Archduke Otto
Karl
Archduke Albrecht
Otto
House of Hapsburg
Hungary
Czecho- Slovakia
Rumania
Jugo-Slavia
Italy
Albrecht
Alrecht
Hapsburg
Arpad
Croy
Europe
Ten Men Buried as Ontario Landslide Strikes Canal
At Thorold on the Welland Ship Canal a landslide buried a steam shovel crew of about ten men during excavation for new work. Nine were seriously injured and one believed killed. Rescue workers worked after dark to reach a possible tenth miner pinned beneath debris. The most seriously injured man faced amputation and internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Catherines
Ont
Welland Ship Canal
Thorold
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edison
Inventor
Willam Tressler
Y.A.E. Inc
Link Remus
Indiana
Cincinnati Poll Books
Ely
Ann Arbor
Columbus Huskies
Mich'gan
Rockne
Tech Tornado
Crackers
Alan J. Gould
Tech
Thunder
Warner Mizell
Mizell
Durant
Thomason
Lumpkin
Johnny Niemiec
Randolph
Rockne Ramblers
Crimson
Cambridge
Brian Bell
Jack Lippert
New York World News Service
Mass
Arthur French
Capt. French
Bolters
G.O.P
St. Xavier
Oglethorpe
Athens
Ohio University
University of Cincinnati
Apanta
Notre
Gechelne
Catuaraia
U. B.C
New Haven
Yale
Brown
Pagataratte
Wisconsin
Parue
Princeton
Lehigh
Annapolis
Navy
Duke
Oxford
Ohio Wesleyan
Miami
Wittenberg
Marshall Va
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Ithaca
Pennsylvania
Cornel
Evanston
Northwestern
Kentucky
Lincoln
Nebraska
Syracuse
Iowa City
Iowa
Ripon
Champagne, Ill
Iilinois
Philadelphia
Penn
Penn State
Hanover
N. H
Dartmouth
Lumbia
Boston
Boston University
Bates
Pittsburgh
Allepnery
State College, Mica
Colgate
Michigan State
A. New Concord
Muskingum
Deni
Carnegie
Washington and Jefferson
Duequesne
Loyola
Maryland
Alliance
Union
Wooster
Ohio ‘State
Cleveland
St. Bonaventure
John Carroll
University of Detroit
New Orleans
Manhattan
Kansas
Kansas Aggies
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin B
Oshkosh
Superior
LaCrosse Normal
Epg Ma
St. Ambrose
Columte Lafayette
Luther
Upper Iowa
S. D
Morningside
South Dakota
U. D. Ake
Milwaukee
Marquette
Oklahoma
At & Toate
Louis University
Rolla Miners
Lynchburg
Guilford
St. Lewisburg
Bucknell
Lafayette
Lancaster
Franklin Marshal
Muhlenberg
College Park
West Maryland
Srenieers
Kanas Valley
Mt. S. Mary
Temple
Albright
Durham
New Hampshire
Ain
Watervile
Colby
Worcester
Williamstown
Williams
Renssalaer
New York
Cc. C. N
Baptist
Entente
Budapest
Stefan Bethlen
Nicholas Horthy
John Zapolya
Transylvania
St. Stephen
Beth
Welland Canal
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!