Anti-Narcotic Drive Urges Four Prohibition Votes
Hamilton County Women of the Ninth Street Baptist Church convened as the W C T U heard from Thomas B Jarvis of the Anti-Saloon League urging selection of four council candidates favorable to prohibition. The group elected officers and announced upcoming anti narcotic work for fall and winter led by Bertha McKinney and others.
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Women's Christian Temperance Union
Hamilton County
Ninth Street Baptist Church
Thomas B. Jarvis
Antisaloon League
Mg. Jarvis
Jarvis
Anti-Saloon League
George H. Davis
C. M. van Pelt
Myrtle McNeal
A. B. Hughes
Will Partridge
Bertha McKinney
H. S. Mabie
Department of Social Morality
Sarah Shumard
Jtbés
Eskimos
J. F. O'Brien
O'Brien
Mr. Jarvis
Alfid
Senator Bender Offers to Show 1000 Blind Tigers
Cleveland dispatch notes State Senator Bender vows to compile a list of prohibition violators and personally tour the city with agents to point out the joints. He says he will increase the number of targeted places from 500 to 1,000.
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Bender
Cleveland
McDonald
Donahey
Pedestrian Regulation Plan Touted by Cincinnati Police
A plan to halt vehicular traffic briefly at Fourth and Vine and at Fourth and Walnut to allow large groups of pedestrians to cross will be tested next week in Cincinnati. Police Chief Copelan and Auto Club officials say extensions of sidewalks will guide walkers while traffic is paused before signal changes.
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William Copelaw
Cincinnati Automobile Club
Police Department
Auto Club
Fourth
Vine Streets
Fourth and
Walnut Streets
John J. Arnold
Copelan
Copelaw
Moses Strauss
Government Square
Traction Company
Cincinnati
Gwaltney
Cleves
Monastery in Austria Looted of Gem Riches
Vienna reports a heist at Zwettl’s Oisterian Monastery in Lower Austria. Thieves seized a priceless collection including a silver monstrance adorned with 699 diamonds 206 rubies 179 emeralds and many other gems and golden sacred vessels valued at billions of kronen. Police have yet to capture the burglars.
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Vienna
Zwettl
Lower Austria
Anle
Bootlegger Blamed In Benton County Murder
Mrs. C B Cook president of the Benton County W C T U was shot dead in her Vinton home as she wrote Looking Forward Her death is linked to liquor law violations and bootleggers She had named suspects and planned to testify before the grand jury No clear clues were found and state investigators joined the probe
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Iowa
Vinton
Benton County
W. C
T. U
C. B. Cook
Slade
Grand Jury
Cook
Assassination Hunt Grips Eastern Iowa After Vinton Leader Killed
Eastern Iowa sweeps for the killer of Mrs. C B Cook of Vinton state union president. Rum runners use Vinton as a transfer point between Chicago and Omaha. Neighbors heard a storm and gunfire but saw no clues. Officials race to round up suspects with state agents deployed.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
C.B. Cook
Vinton
Benton County Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Chicago
Omaha
Hammill
Iron Worker Sues Union Over $25 Game Fine
John O. Danis of the International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers sues the union and local officers for $50,000 in circuit court after being fined $25 for attending a pro baseball game. He says a circular branding the Philadelphia team as unfair to organized labor followed, and that the fine caused humiliation and reduced earning capacity.
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ST. Louis
John O. Danis
International Association of Bridge Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers
Danis
St. Louis Browns
Philadelphia Athletics
Philadelphia
Paty
Mathewson Needs Quiet to Regain Health
Christy Mathewson former Giant pitcher and Bos ton Braves part owner has been confined to bed at his Saranac Lake home with tuberculosis under Dr Edward Packard care. An affidavit says he cannot attend the September trial over an automobile accident damages suit and his recovery hinges on freedom from cares and worries.
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Mathewson
Hill
Mathewson Not Seriously Ill But Unable to Travel
Dr Edward Packard said Christy Mathewson’s condition is not serious and he is not able to travel to Norwich for a court appearance. The physician noted the patient is receiving standard tuberculosis treatment and has not been seen for several days.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
Edward Packard
Christy Mathewson
Mathewson
Norwich
Remus in Jail in Default of $50,000 Bond
George Remus, Cincinnati bootlegger, is jailed in Hamilton County on a $50,000 bond tied to a St. Louis prohibition indictment for conspiring to violate the law. He argues the bond is excessive while awaiting a hearing, insisting his interests lie in Cincinnati.
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George Remus
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
United States District Court
St. Louis
Hickenlooper
Dayton
Atlanta
Gregory
United States
May
David Lorbach
Remus
Woon
Carson Pratt
Federal
Montgomery County
John Weld Peck
Death Valley Farm
35 DROWNED IN TYPHOON NEAR PALAWAN
Five survivors reached shore after a typhoon in the Sulu Sea near Palawan. About 35 fishermen are believed drowned. constabulary reports from Occidental Negros province detail the gale battered voyage lasting days.
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Manila
Sulu Sea
Palawan
Occidental Negros
Second lunatic in Montclair murder sought
Montclair case investigators pursue a second man linked to Harrison Noel after Mary Daly’s kidnap and death. Mrs. Willian Bogan testified of a red car and a second accomplice, with Noel allegedly arranging the weapon. Police examine Wallace Payne’s possible role as a suspect tied to the weapon and timeline.
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New York World News Service
New York
World News Service
Montclair
N. J
Mre
Willian) Bogan
Cedar Grove
Harrison Noel
Mary Daly
Holy Name
Jersey City
Noel
Raymond Pierce
Pierce
Francis Bannerman
Wallace Payne
Little Falls
Napanoch
Ulster County
N. Y
Walter N. Thayer
Payne
Orange County
Earl
Kingston
Nashville Marauder Fails To Enter House As Police Ring Block
Nashville reports a midget prowler who vowed to break into a house and kill. Police manned a daytime and nighttime cordon with officers in uniform and plain clothes hiding in trees and behind poles. A frightened woman screamed, but the suspect eluded capture and the force remained vigilant, expecting the prowler to retreat or strike again.
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New York World News Service
Nashville
J. W. Smith
Mitchell urges unified defense control with sub secretaries
Colonel William Mitchell faces a court martial process as the War Department probes his charges of maladministration in aviation policy. Inspections by Colonel Nugent aim to verify statements about War and Navy Department handling, with possible Article of War penalties discussed.
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New York World News Service
Washington
William Mitchell
Eighth Corps
War Department
Nugent
Inspector General’s Department
Texas
War
Navy Departments
Aviation
Mitchell
Dwight F. Davis
Judge Advocate General
Scgpes
John T. Scopes
Dayton
Shenandoah
Davis
Congress
Texas Post
United States
Navy
Wilbur
San Antonio
Navy Department
Army
Mitchell Attack on Aviation System Sparks Reorganization Plan
In San Antonio on September 8 Colonel Mitchell former Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service called for reform to fix "terrible conditions" in national aeronautics. He blamed the system not individuals and urged the public to weigh flying views.
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San Antonio
Tex
Mitchell
Army Air Service
Farmer Tied of Wild Dirigible and Saved Lives
Noble County farmer near Sharon grabbed the Shenandoah nose rope and dragged the drifting airship to ground after it broke from the main section near Ava. He risked the house and family, wrapping cable around a fence post then a maple stump to slow the craft while crews worked to prevent disaster.
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Caldwell
Noble County
Sharon
Navy
Sig Nichols
Ava
Board of Investigation
Mayer
Nichols
Jacob H. Klein
Ernest Nichols
Associated Press
Congress Urges Single Secretary for National Defense With Three Aides
Colonel William Mitchell advocates next Congress create an aeronautics bureau under a Secretary of Air. He calls for consolidating national defense under one head with three sub secretaries for Army Navy and Air. He urges wartime conscription of capital and a central agency to acquire shared materials.
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San Antonio
Tex
William Mitchell
Eighth Corps
Aeronautics Bureau
Air
Army
Navy
Mitchell
Congréss
Land
Water
Secretary of National Defense
Department of Aeronautics
Aeronautical Corporation
Inland Waterways Corporation
Woman Defies Bank Robber in Millegeville Hold Up
Miss Fern Fichthorn assistant cashier at Millegeville Bank faced a robber with a revolver, refused to open the vault, followed the thief into the street, obtained the license number, and helped summon authorities. Sheriff Ramsay leads a posse searching for the suspect whose car was abandoned on Jamestown pike.
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Washington C. H., O
Millegeville
Here
Fern Fichthorn
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