Trains Collide in Chicago Wreck Kills Eight
A Madison to Chicago passenger train rear ended an Elroy to Chicago local at Cortland Street, killing eight aboard and injuring about 100. Wooden coaches telescoped. brakes failed to stop the Madison train on a curve. Rescue crews battled flames and extraction amid a holiday crowd returning to the city.
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Chicago
Elroy
Wis
Chicago & Northwestern
Madison
Cortland Street
Downtown
Fortune Laidley
Richard Koepp
James Thompson
Baraboo
Barrington
Ill
Laidley
Clybourn Junction
Smith
Koepp
Harri son Defends War Debt Policy After Europe Trip
Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi returns to New York aboard the Leviathan and rejects debt cancellation for foreign wartime debts. He argues America must repay what it borrowed and criticizes French politicians, stressing duty to American taxpayers. A separate Washington ceremony honors La Fayette with wreaths and veterans, while Secretary Work addresses attendees.
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New York World News Service
New York
Europe
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
United States
Leviathan
Sam
Harrison
America
Paris
Lafayette
Washington
George Washington
Gen. la- Fayette
W.S. Clark
Rasmussen
la- Fayette
Coolidge
Navy
Plotters Planned to Force Alfonso to Abdicate Throne
A Daily Mail dispatch from the Franco-Spanish frontier reports a plot by Spanish Republicans to seize King Alfonso and compel abdication during Spain's latest revolt. The plan was foiled by swift military action and the king's move from San Sebastian to Madrid.
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Alfonso
London
Daily Mail
Henaye
San Sebastian
Madrid
St. Jean de Luz
Mail
Primo de Rivera
Council of Ministers
Week-end auto accidents kill two and injure many
Two deaths and multiple injuries reported from weekend crashes. Robert P Tutt, 60, of 1649 Herbert Ave Norwood, died when his car collided head on with a Norwood street car at Main and Waverly. He was taken to General Hospital then Morgue. skull fracture confirmed. Norwood street car crew and passengers suffered minor injuries. Separate Kentucky crash near Walton killed Claude Carpenter 21 Richwood KY. several Verona KY locals in vehicle with him.
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Hamilton County
Robert P. Tutt
Herbert Avenue
Norwood
Main and
Waverly Avenues
Main Avenue
T. C. Marley
Vine Street
C. E. Conroy
Holloway Court
Tutt
Lieut
Suppe
General Hospital
Claude Carpenter
Richwood
Boone County
Walton
Carpenter
Les McAlbee
William Roberts
Ted McGlore
Verona
Alulegs UID Double Contest Pennant Race Tightens
Rixey defeats the Bruins while Henchmen seize an early lead, but weak defense costs the first battle as rivals split honors in a tight pennant chase.
Jealous Ohio father kills infant daughter and wounds wife
John Weber, 45, a truck farmer from Nine Mile Clermont County, shot and killed his 18 month old daughter Elizabeth and seriously wounded his wife Margaret after a three day drinking binge and jealousy flare. The attack occurred as she fled with the child in her arms along the Ohio River three miles south of Tabasco.
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John Weber
Nine Mile
Clermont County
Elizabeth Weber
Margaret Weber
Fred Croswell
Ohio River
Tabasco
George W. Carver
Carver
James Ashburn
Batavia
Theodore Bennett
Wickham
Lightning strike kills two in Alabama City parade
Labor Day celebration in Alabama City turned to mourning as lightning killed T. E. Bowling and a six year old girl, injured five seriously, shocked sixty others, and killed six horses during the Christy Brothers Wild Animal Circus parade. Power failed temporarily across town.
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Alabama City
Ala
Christy Brothers Wild Animal Circus
T. E. Bowling
Alaba Power Company
Gadson Hospital
Gadsen
Attalla
Trains Hit By Landslide In Brooklyn As Deluge Rages
A severe storm floods Brooklyn and Queens with four feet of water while a banked earth slide at the Culver cut collapses a six car Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit train. Two men die and more than twenty are injured as passengers flee into darkness and emergency crews respond. An unidentified woman is reported missing as dam breaks threaten Staten Island.
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New York World News Service
New York
Brooklyn
Queens
Venice
St. George
Staten Island
Brooks Pond
Martling Pond
New Brighton
Long Island Railroad
Port Washington
Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit
Interborough
Manhattan
The
Bronx
Culver Cut
Brooklyn-Manhattan
Friel
Gus la Rocco
Classified Rooms for Rent Adt in The Commercial Tribune
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Valentino Returns From East In Death
Rudolph Valentino, cinema idol, arrived death in Los Angeles after a New York voyage. His casket was rushed to an undertaking parlor at Richfield Station to avoid disorder as Pola Negri and Marion Davies showed distress. A girl hid in the chapel overnight hoping to glimpse the body before funeral services at Beverly Hills Church of the Good Shepherd Tomorrow.
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Los Angeles
Rudolph Valentino
New York
Friends and_ picture
Richfield
Pola
Pola Negri
Valentino
Miss Negri
Marion Davies
Albert Guglielmi
George Illman
Church of the Good Shepherd
Beverly Hills
Defense Policy Made Glean Ay Coolidge
A brief notice notes a defense policy decision linked to Coolidge era governance. It outlines the framing of national security measures and related political reactions during the period. The item emphasizes policy scope and potential diplomatic implications.
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AY Coolidge
President Coolidge urges restrained national defense policy
President Coolidge urges a definite U S national defense policy aligned with needs and Washington treaty limits. He rejects any U S push to outpace rivals in air power and supports a large naval air force as a complement to a major navy.
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Glenn Tucker
New York World News Service
White Pine Camp
N. Y
Coolidge
United States
Air Force
Navy Department
Morrow Aviation Board
Wilbur
Du Pont forecasts chemistry could end sleep and mold humanity
Irenee E. du Pont at the American Chemical Society jubilee asserts chemistry may end sleep by catalytic agents or antidotes and could create supermen. He cites tetraethyl lead reducing gasoline use by up to one third and saving millions of gallons, with broader changes to human biology and character.
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Philadelphia
Irenee E. du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Wilmington
Del
American Chemical Society
du Pont
Woman Held After Slaying of Mate Near Twin Lakes
Chicago, Sept 6. Mrs. Jackson D. Carlisle, 35, is in custody after the brutal killing of her husband, clothing salesman Carlisle, near Wilmot road by Twin Lakes Wisconsin. The body was found with the head severed. Mrs. Carlisle claimed innocence and said they visited Kenosha and a Twin Lakes roadhouse with friends.
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Chicago
Jackson D. Carlisle
Carlisle
Wilmot
Wis
Twin Lakes
Henry Klingbell
Kenosha
Klingbell
Emanuel Klingbell
Sorrow over wife's death drives man to suicide in Cleveland Heights
Fred Bielstein aged 68 shot himself in his Cleveland Heights home three months after his wife died. He left a note saying he could not live without her and had earlier tried to end his life by turning on kitchen gas. Mrs. C A Miller, a niece, found the body.
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Cleveland, O
Fred Bielstein
Cleveland Heights
Bielstein
C. A. Miller
Four Die as Train Strikes Auto Near Detroit
Four persons were killed and two seriously injured when an automobile carrying Wyandotte residents was hit by a Michigan Central train at Rockwood near Detroit late tonight. Police said all victims were residents of Wyandotte, a Detroit suburb.
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Detroit
Mich
Michigan Central
Rockwood
Wyandotte
Labor Day Speech Advocates Higher Wages and Shorter Hours
William Green of the American Federation of Labor spoke at the Sesquicentennial Exposition in Philadelphia on Labor Day. He linked broad prosperity to high wages and shorter workdays, urging workers to organize for guidance and protection amid rising production and complex future economic issues.
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Sesqui
Philadelphia
United States
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Green
League Assembly Faces Battle Over Germany Admission
The seventh League of Nations assembly at Geneva opens amid sharp divisions over Germany’s admission and a proposed council reorganization adding three non per manent seats. Ninchitch of Yugoslavia is elected president as Benes of Czechoslovakia objects to decisions, demanding written statements and free debate on Germany related agenda items.
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League Assembly
Germany
Albin E. Johnson
New York World News Service
Geneva
Assembly of the Ague of Nations
League
Council
Groups of Nations
Ninchitch
Jugo-Slavia
Benes
Czecho-Slovakia
Dr. Nansen
Nindhitch
Assembly Commission
Assembly
Top Coats Return as Chicago Reports 58 Degree Weather
Chicago records a 58 degree low as a cool front ends the straw hat wave. The cooler unsettled weather aids corn field drying and highway and building repairs delayed by last week’s floods and heavy rains in the Middle West.
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Chicago
Middlewest
Floods Cause Crop Damage Across Pelmont County
Heavy rains burst banks of about fifteen creeks in Pelmont County flooding early today. Crops suffered thousands of dollars in damage as water flooded fields and washed out several highway bridges. Baltimore and Ohio main line traffic halted due to high waters on the right of way.
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Ohio
ST. Clairsville
Pelmont County
Baltimore & Ohio
Girl Killed by Brother in Accidental Shot
In Cleveland Ohio on September 4 a 13 year old girl, Margaret McGrath, died instantly when her 15 year old brother Peter allegedly pointed a shotgun he believed was unloaded at her and pulled the trigger. He told Sheriff E W Davis he did not think the gun was loaded and did not intend to hurt his sister.
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Cleveland
Margaret McGrath
Peter
E. W. Davis
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