AandAn Hold Lead In Air Derby Race
Earl Rowland of Wichita led the Class A trans continental air race into Kansas City with an 8 hour 7 minute elapsed time from Roosevelt Field to Richards Field. Dake and Emery followed, while several competitors faced engine trouble and forced landings on the first night control in Missouri and Illinois.
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Kansas City
Earl Rowland
Wichita
Kan
Columbus
Rowland
Robert Dake
Pittsburgh
Rococo
Emery,‘Jr
Bradford
Richards Airport
Roosevelt Field
New York
Richards Field
Dake
Emery
Theodore W. Kenyon
Boston
James Chalves
Richmond
Eugene P. Detmer
Tarrytown
N. Y
Chalves
St. Louis
Alexander Eaglerock
Detmer
Missouri
L. H. Connell
Jonesburg
D. R. Robertson
Anglum
St. Louis County
Carthage
Ind
George Bennett
Eagle Rock
J. W. Hunt
Moundsville
W. Va
Indianapolis
Albert C. Carl
Reading
Pitcairn
St. Louis Field
Don Phillips
Seattle
Wash
Terreaute
Don Philips
A. K. Owen
Alfred Carl
Terre Haute
St.Louis
Lyons tradesman claims power to petrify animals
Paris reports J Gaillard of Lyons claims to petrify or mummify animal and vegetable life by touch. Dr Locard notes a dead pigeon eel and mutton cutlet hardened after decay and tests proceed to verify the claim.
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New York World News Service
Paris
J. Gaillard
Lyons
Edmond Locard
Lyons Police Laboratory
Gaillard
Locard
N. Y
German treadboat to cross Atlantic by pedal power
The German treadboat set sail from Hamburg with two sailors Header and Hirschberg aboard. They intend to cross the Atlantic using pedal power with shifts of four hours each as they head for open sea under favorable weather.
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Hamburg
Header
Hirschberg
Atlantic
Cuban centenarian Santos Olivar es dies at 115
Havana reports Santos Olivares the oldest Cuban citizen died at age 115 after years of full health. The death comes as officials note his long life and sharp mind until a week before passing.
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Havana
Cuba
Santos Olivares
Denver Market Blaze Destroys $100000 Stock
A downtown Denver fire with all available equipment destroyed the entire $100,000 stock of the loop market block basement warehouse. The building valued at about $250,000 sustained unknown further losses as smoke and flames hampered crews. One firefighter was overcome and several injured by flying glass as rescue efforts failed to reach workers believed trapped. Traffic blocked and ambulances stood by during the blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Loop Market
Healy
Mass Iowa posse hunts robbers after bank heist
A thousand men formed by a Town Hall siren set out from Missouri Valley to chase two bank robbers who fled with 6000 in cash. Deputies found bonds worth 45000 miles north, as the pursuit traced footprints and dropped coins along the route. The plan called for a line over a mile wide to encircle the suspects near a farmhouse awaiting nightfall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Valley
State Savings Bank
Here
West Virginia Reports Seventy Infantile Paralysis Cases
Charleston dispatch reports 21 new infantile paralysis cases since Monday, raising total to 70 in six weeks. Dr. David Littlejohn of the State Health Department says there is no epidemic and cautions some tallied cases may be old.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Health Department
David Littlejohn
Bureau of Rural Sanitation
Department
Littlejohn
Poison plot targets Japanese officials in Oakland case
M Highashi an unstable Japanese resident is in Oakland police custody after mailing poison candy to prominent Japanese figures in Tokyo and to consuls in Seattle and Portland. Two recipients include Prince Tokugawa and Prince Fumimaro Koreye. Authorities plan deportation for Japanese authorities to handle.
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Oakland
Cal
M. Highashi
Highashi
Tokyo
Seattle
Wash
Portland
Ore
Emeryville
Prince Tokugawa
House of Peers
Prince Fumimaro Korgye
British harvesters bound for Canada held in underground cage
Labor MP Thomas Johnston charged at a conference that 300 British harvesters bound for Western Canada were imprisoned in an underground cage guarded by police and soldiers. Officials denied knowledge as an immigration inquiry was urged.
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M.P
Winnipeg
Man
Canada
Thomas Johnston
Dundee
Scotland
Empire Parliamentary Association
Johnston
Canadian Pacific
Thomas Shaw
Ramsay MacDonald
F. W. Crispo
Winnipeg Board of Trade
Immigration Department
David Kirkwood
Labor
Dumbarton
Catholic Herald of London
Dominion
Great Britain
Kirkwood
Thomas Gelly
Doctor Scoots Death of ot Wer Pipe Maker
Dr Louis H Taylor a family physician doubted the Phillips body buried recently. He asked exhumation and autopsy. DA Newcombe said he would act if facts showed a crime connected with Phillips case. New figures joined the probe into William D Olier's death and graft in sewer contracts.
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Ot Wer
New York
The
Evening Post
Louis H. Taylor
John M. Phillips
Phillips
Dr. Taylor
Jack Phillips
Brooklyn Eagle
Taylor
Newcombe
William D’oler
Atlantic City
Brooklyn
New Jersey
William D’olier
Queen's
Philadelphia
Franklin D'Olier
American Legion
Pelham
Sanitation Corporation
Henry D’olien
Moorestown
Wil
Refusal of a Kiss Caps the Climax in Canal Zone Divorce
Lyle Womack sues Ruth Elder for divorce on cruelty grounds in Balboa Canal Zone. He claims her trans Atlantic flight attempt caused him sleepless nights, embarrassment when she did not kiss him in New York, and harmed his health and efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Balboa
Canal Zone
Lyle Womack
Ruth Elder
Atlantic
Womack
Rges
New York
Co-eds Drive Men From Northwestern University
Northwestern University faced a declining male applicant pool as President Walter Dill Scott admitted that co education is hurting male enrollment. He announced admissions will limit applicants to women in the top quarter of high school and require them to live at home or in a dorm. Trustees aim for 450 men to 333 women while professional school entrance draws in women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Northwestern University
Walter Dill Scott
Scott
Two Airmen Killed When Borrowed Plane Crashes Near Cleveland
A wing failure of a Laird biplane borrowed by E. J. Powers in Cleveland leads to two Detroit men deaths. George Stowell 23, pilot, and Gil Merryman 23, traffic manager of Stout Air Service Cleveland branch, died as the craft plunged from 600 feet near Brook Park.
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Cleveland
Brook Park
George Stowell
Detroit
Gil Merryman
Stout Air Service, Inc
Stowell
Stout Line
Laird
E. J. Powers
Merryman
Powers
Elmira
N. Y
New York Presidential Race Deepens as Voters Weigh Unknowns
In Syracuse on September 6, analysts split over New York’s impact on the 1924 election. Smith remains a heavyweight for Democrats, while Republicans wager Mrs. Hoover gains, with women and prohibition stirring debate as Klan influence stays in the background.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Empire State
Smith
Hoover
New York
Harding
North
Plane Crash Kills Two in Michigan Fire
In Houghton Michigan on September 6 a small plane carrying pilot Walfred Petaja age 25 and passenger Rudolph Martin age 26 of Dollar Bay burned and both men were burned to death. The accident occurred late today as the aircraft crashed and caught fire.
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Michigan
Houghton
Mich
Walfred Petaja
Rudolph Martin
Dollar Bay
Two Hart in Explosion Aboard Yacht in Cobourg Harbor
In Cobourg Ontario two men were injured as the $50,000 yacht Silouette owned by W J Schoonmaker of Pittsburgh burned after a gasoline tank exploded in Cobourg harbor. John McGuire was blown into the water with a broken arm and Gerald Harris suffered severe burns and cuts. The blast is believed to have been caused by gasoline fumes igniting.
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Cobourg
Ont
Silouette
W. J. Schoonmaker
Pittsburgh
John McGuire
Gerald Harris
Gore’s Landing
Ohio filling stations eyed for free lunches and price cuts
Toledo reports Charles McLean of Canfield Oil Co urges Ohio Petroleum Marketers Association to explore free lunches with every five gallons of gas as a new price-cut strategy. He notes many pumps exist per mile of highway and stresses profitable volume over sheer sales. Attorney Hubert B. Fuller backs repeal of Sunday blue laws and warns of takings taxes on stations.
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Ohio
Toledo
Ohio Petroleum
Hubert B. Fuller
Cleveland
Association
Trains Lose About Forty Five Thousand Dollars Yearly
The Pennsylvania Railroad loses about 45000 annually running two mail express trains between Lancaster and Cincinnati. Officials testified at a Utilities Commission hearing on the plan to discontinue these trains. Over 1800 residents along the route protested and urged the commission to deny the request. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also serves parts of the area and several buses operate between the towns.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lancaster
Cincinnati
Utilities Commission
G. W. Darling
T. J. Harper
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Diet of samples to cut high cost of living divorce action
In Uniontown Pennsylvania Charlotte P. Walker states in her divorce suit against Vivian Bernard Walker that she lived on food samples left at their store. She says her husband claimed it cost a million dollars to live in the North and forced her to eat the samples to cut costs. The court granted the decree.
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New York World, News Service
Uniontown
Charlotte P. Walker
Vivian Bernard Walker
Elizabeth
North
Lutheran Editors Group Opposes Catholic Church In State Issues
A National Lutheran Editors Association resolution adopts an attitude toward the Roman Catholic Church in church state relations and tells members not to advise readers how to vote in the presidential election. The statement cites concerns over church teachings conflicting with constitutional separation of church and state.
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Columbus
National Lutheran Editors’ Association
Herbert Hoover
Gov. Smith
Smith
C. R. Tappert
Philadelphia
Lutherischer Herald
United Lutheran Church In America
United States
Hoover Sets Three Campaign Addresses With Labor and Water Power Focus
Hoover narrows his campaign to three major speeches with Newark New York City and Elizabethton fixed dates. He plans to expand on labor in the Newark talk on September 17 and outline the New York address while tentatively selecting water power and industrial development for Elizabethton on October 6. News reports note New Jersey support and Hungarian-language press backing him for humanitarian wartime work and immigration stance.
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Washington
Sept
Herbert Hoover
Newark
N. J
New York City
Elizabethton
Tenn
New York
Tennessee Mountains
North Carolina
Tennessee
Hoover
New England
Pacific Coast
Boston
Louis V. Aronson
New Jersey
Nove
Aronson
Andrew Irshay
Trenton
Barr Rubber Products plant burns in Sandusky at $200000 loss
Fire destroyed the Barr Rubber Products Company plant in Sandusky Ohio with an estimated loss of 200000. High winds fanned the flames threatening nearby rooming houses and residences. Firefighters from Norwalk and Fremont aided Sandusky as explosions from gasoline and chemicals added danger. one employee and others faced smoke and collapsing walls during a two hour battle.
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Sandusky. O
Barr Rubber Products Company
Norwalk
Fremont
Sandusky Department
Nation-Wide Air Taxi Service Formed by Curtiss Interests
Wall Street shows confidence in aviation with the creation of Curtiss Flying Service Inc a nation wide air taxi venture from Curtiss Aeroplane Blair Co and J C Willson Co. Casey Jones to pilot the firm with M Keys chairing the board. The plan includes twenty five landing fields and flying schools and universities of the air to support rapid intercity travel.
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Curtiss
New York World News Service
New York
Wall Street
Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company
Blair & Co
J. C. Willson & Co
Louisville
Curtiss Flying Service, Inc
J. Cheever Cowdin
Curtis Warns Democrats Would Cut Tariff At Rally
Senator Curtis warned at a Salem rally that Democrats aim to cut tariff rates and weaken the liquor program. He urged a straight campaign and urged tariff up revision to protect U S boots and shoes imports totaling 33 million dollars last year. In Acton Franklin Fort said Democratic tariff policy would yield American market share to Europe and harm New England industry.
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Curtis
Salem
Mass
Themocrats
Gov
Smith
Kansas
Europe
United States
Acton
Franklin Fort
New Jersey
Republican National Committee
New England
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Treadboat
Hartzell
Associated Press
Joseph C. Hartzell
Hamilton County
Methodist Episcopal
Africa
Christ Hospital
Blue Ash
Swing
Lee
Bishop Hartzell
Holbrook
Anderson
J. C. Hartzell
West Virginia
Nippon
Trick
Queens
Northwestern
Rockford
Ill
Klan
Tion
of National Strategy
D. Field
Hart
Pennsylvania
Lancaster-Cincinnati Mail-Express
H.C.L
RAND
East
Water Power IN
Dixie
Sandusky
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