Disaster as large airship Roma explodes over Norfolk
February 22 at Lambert Point Naval Base in Norfolk Virginia a US War Department dirigible Roma bursts into flames during a test flight causing 34 deaths aboard and 11 survivors. The 410 foot semi rigid craft carried 44 people including 23 prominent guests. The ship struck a high tension wire after losing vertical controls and gas vented. Planes showed plans for a national demonstration flight this spring.
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Norfolk
Long- Jey (A
Boyle
Hampton Roads Naval Air Station
Moffatt
Navy Aviation Service
Lambert Point Army Base
Roma
United States
Newport News
Barreck
Tanuin
Italy Regrets Roma Disaster and U S Loss
Rome reports Italy mourning with America after the Roma misfortune. War minister Signor Gasparotti calls the event tragic and notes the deep ties between Italy and the United States. General Diaz and General Diz express sorrow for the United States army and reassure solidarity between nations.
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Rome
Signor Gasparrotlo
Manister
Bonomi
United States
Italy
America
Diz
Diaz
Americin
Yur
Doctor Albert Hassall Receives Steel Memorial Medal
Dr Albert Hassall of the Zoological Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry has been awarded the Steel Memorial Medal for 1921 by the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Hassall has devoted thirty years to the bureau and authored numerous parasitology papers.
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Albert Hassall
Zoological Division
The
Bareau of Animal Industry
Council
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons
Hassall
Bureau of Animal Industry
President Harding declines to provide four power pact data
President Harding tells the Senate he cannot furnish records on the four power Pacific treaty negotiations. He notes many talks occurred outside formal proceedings and had no record, but affirms no secret understandings or commitments beyond the treaty and its supplementary agreement now in the hands of the foreign relations committee.
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Washington
Harding
Senate
Ita
Foreign Relations Committee
Hitchcock
JAIL TWO ANTI-SOVIET OFFICERS INDICTED IN RUSSIA
Moscow reports two former Kolchak and Denikin officers Col. Avanasieff and Col. Mamuykine found guilty of counter revolutionary activity by the supreme war tribunal. Avanasieff received a death sentence later commuted to five years imprisonment, Mamuykine sentenced to five years with one third commuted.
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Moscow
Kolchak
Gen. Denikine
Supreme War Tribunal
Col
Avanasiieff
Mamuykine
Denikine
Avanasieff
Pickets Limited at Pawtucket Textile Strike
Under military guard the mill district of Pawtucket opened without incident as textile workers strike continued. Few pickets patrolled. those present kept moving with no organized demonstration at the Jenckes Spin Cla factory amid tense conditions.
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Pawtucket
Fen
Milla
Jenckes Spinflog Company
Bandits take $1500 payroll in Chicago robbery
Three bandits entered Sherman Hendrick Co at 1834 West North Avenue threatening improvers with revolvers and escaped with $1500 from the firm's payroll.
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Chicago
Sherman-Hendriek Co
West North Avenue
Harding Accepts New Reservation In Pacific Pact Debate
Washington Feb 25 The senate foreign relations committee backs final vote on the four power Pacific treaty after accepting a compromise reservation aimed at protecting U S rights. President Harding and Brandegee advance a modified reservation to replace the Brandegee plan, while Johnson opposes and Borah remains opposed to ratification.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harding
Brandegeé
Brandegee
United States
Johnson
Pacific
Congress
Willams
Borah
Senate
Woman Witnesses at Baltimore Hange of Samuel Smith
Samuel Smith a negro chauffeur convicted of attacked Miss Martin Davis Lyon of Glen Ridge New Jersey, a Goucher College student and welfare worker, was hanged in Baltimore county jail at Towson. The drop fell at 7 10 pm. About forty women, mostly well dressed, watched the execution. Smith made no public statement before the gallows.
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Baltimore Ma
Samuel Smith
Martin Davis Lyon
Glen Ridge
N. J
Goucher College
Baltimore County
Towson
Smith
Winter cyclone devastates Yellow Bud and Nash villages
A February cyclone with a 100 foot sweep struck Yellow Bud and Nash, Ohio, causing thousands of dollars in property damage. A brick schoolhouse was demolished at Yellow Bud. In Ashland Nebraska two sisters run for Congress Irene Buell and A K Gault filed petitions indicating candidacy from the 1st district.
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Chillicothe
Yellow Bud
Nash
Gieters
Congress
Ashland
Neb
tTwo
Mra
Irene
Buell
Mrp
A. K. Gault
Peter
Ming
Nebraska
Seventeen Year Old Girl Kills Betrayer in Court
In Waco Texas on February 24 a 17 year old girl Mazie Matthews facing trial for alleged criminal assault shot J. Crosslin three times after she testified. Crosslin had been convicted at a prior trial and sentenced to nine years but the verdict was overturned before the killing.
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Wace
Tex
Horroc
Croaslin
Mazie Matthews
Crossley
Dena
Crosslin
Armour quits New Zealand meat trade
London reports the New Zealand premier says Armour will cease all meat trading in New Zealand due to the government’s refusal to issue meat export licenses. The government will allow current meat held for marketing to be exported, but each shipment must be government authorized to avoid oversupply.
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London
New Zealand
London Times
Armour Company
Britain Has Not Received German War Reparations
London reports that Britain has yet to receive any German war reparations. Sir Robert Horne told the House of Commons that maintenance costs of occupying forces exceed 1,000,000,000 gold marks, with repayments totaling 970,000,000 marks.
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Robert Horne
London
Great Britain
Germany
House of Commons
Miners Vote Referendum On Strike Across District
Chicago February 24 United Mine Workers officials call for a nationwide referendum among central district bituminous coal miners on an April 1 strike. William Green secretary and John L Lewin president expect a mass vote as potential action could involve about 500000 workers.
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Chicago
William Green
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewin
Miners and Rail Workers Form Protective Alliance
Chicago feb 23 sixteen railway brotherhoods pledged moral support to the United Mine Workers in a protective alliance after leader John L Lewis urged morale backing rather than a strike. Operators push for unanimous attendance. talks to set wage scales continue amid looming strike fears.
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Chicago
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Brotherhoods
H. E. Wells
Martin F. Ryan
Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen
Ross
The
International Railway Telegraphers
Phillip Murray
International Mine Workers of America
Dempsey
Longshoremen's Union
Lewis
Pittsburgh Conn Producers’ Association
Onion Officinls
Tinois
Indiana
East Ohio
Southern Ohio
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Great Northern
Rall
Laundry Work and Housework Restored by Vegetable Compound
A Taunton woman testifies she regained energy and can work in the laundry and manage housework after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She shares that prior fatigue left her lifeless, and her improvement encourages friends to try the remedy.
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Lydig EL Pinkham
Lydia KE. Pinkham
Grant St
Taunton
Regrettable Error At Camp Describes Humorous Mixups
A camp scene unfolds with tents pitched and meals cooking as a sergeant major jokes about supper while a cook humorously mishears about “troipe.” A joke about wiping a dirty towel and mistaken words adds a light touch. The piece ends with a quip from Jud Tunking about a Washington era appointment and a dog’s bark.
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Tripe
Anyona
London
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