Doomed Trio Executed in Missouri State Prison
Frank Thomas Be Welch and Charles Miller, all flattered as a negro, were put to death for murder in the state penitentiary. Thomas, Welch, and Miller were executed in order with Dhomas declaring he was going home. The sentence was carried out in forty six minutes. Dhomas, over seventy, the oldest man executed in the state, was convicted for the Abregast killing. Miller confessed while Weick claimed innocence.
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Stern State
Frank Thomas
Welch
Charles Miller
Death House
Dhomas
Weick
William
Delke
Millen
Thom
Miller
Din
Six Miller family members drown in West Virginia flood
Duaisiratiane West Virginia May 9 six members of William Miller orchardist family drowned when an automobile rolled from a bridge into a mountain stream during a fishing trip. Rainfall of nearly four inches caused rapid rises flooding Potomac region. bodies recovered as landslides and flood damage affected transportation near Harpers Ferry and Warpers Ferry.
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Duaisiratiane
W.va
William Miler
Miller
Berkeley County
West Virginia
Famie
Potomac
Six Italians Pay Penalty In Louisiana Prison Today
Amite Louisiana May 9 six Italians were executed for murder in a double hanging today. The condemned were Geeanse Bocchio Andrea Lamantia Joseph Gistio Roy Leena Natale Deamore and Joseph Kini. The sentences followed a crime earlier that night and a lengthy investigation with bloodhounds and a posse.
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Louisiana
Amite
Ans
Dallas Calmes
Geeanse Bocshto
Anerea Lamantia
Chicago
Joseph
jGistio
Roy Leena
Brooklyn
Natale Deaimore
Jseph Rini
New Orleans
Deamore
Leona
Hocchio
Lamantia
Bocchio
Lama
Ordination of Women Approved by Methodist Conference
The ordination of women by the Methodist church was approved by the conference with a decisive voting outcome. The plan to ordain women, involving changes to itinerancy and related roles, was considered but ultimately not adopted at the annual conference.
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Methodist Conference
Kovingfeld
Massy
Lo Jeatters
Berukip
Adolph Ochs Rising to New York Times Fame
A portrait of Adolph Ochs, born in Cincinnati and raised near Knoxville, chronicling his ascent from printer’s devil in the Knoxville Chronicle to owner of the Chattanooga Daily Dispatch and finally leader of the New York Times. The piece highlights his work ethic, early struggles, and philosophy of success, culminating in his NYT leadership and the slogan all the news that’s fit to print.
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Lsokost Mountain
Adolph Ochs
Chattanooga
Firs
New York
Tennessee River
Ohio
Cincinnati
Fort Sumter
Appomattox
Knoxville
Tennessee
Adolph
Knoxville Chronicle
William Rule
Louisville
Chattana Daily Dispatch
Young Ochs
the Times
New York Times
Henry Raymond
Chattanooga Times
Ochs
Ticket Years Old He Good At Circus
Fairmont reports George W. Hunter, 32 years later, still honored for a boyhood circus ticket earned delivering water to an elephant. A gateman doubted at first but guided him to the seat long withheld from his youth. Mrs Emma Flannagan returns home after visiting her sister in Clarksburg.
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Fairmont
George W. Hunter
Hunter
Emma Flannagan
Frank Welch
Clarksburg
Burns Whro Resigns as FBI Chief Effective Immediately
William J Burns Whro resigns today as head of the Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation. Attorney General Stone accepts the resignation on those terms.
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Whro
Department of Justice Bureau of Investigation
Stone
Burns Resigns as Dept Head Amid Senate Probes
William J. Burns, longtime head of the Justice Department Bureau of Investigation, resigns effective immediately after a letter to Attorney General Stone. Burns, a figure in multiple senate investigations, follows the administration into retirement while associates discuss the move. Stone confirms acceptance of the resignation.
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Washington
William J. Burns
Justice Department
Bureau of Investigation
Senate
Burns Hinself
Atternemeral Stone
Barnes Again Heads Chamber of Commerce of U S
Cleveland May the Chamber of Commerce of the United States pledged support of organized business to friendly negotiations with Japan on immigration. Julius H Karnes of Duluth was re elected head for the third time. O M Clark, Portland, urged inclusion of others in chamber leadership as a new directorate. The convention voiced accord with reparations experts and favored an international court of justice with senatorial consent to the Lausanne treaty.
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Cleveland
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Japan
Julius H. Karnes
Duluth
United States Grain Corporation
Varnes
O. M. Clark
Portland
Oregon
Chamber, of Commerce
Edward E. Feten
Boston
International Court of Justice
Resolutions Committee
George A. Host
New, Jersey
Labor and policy items mark convention report
The report covers taxation, immigration, agriculture, the postal service, soldiers, the road labor board and section 28 of the merchant marine act. It approves a constitutional amendment on national policy and federal highway funding, seeks economy in government, and supports aeronautics and peacetime mobilization. It condemns altering the supreme court’s power to strike down laws and reaffirms industrial relations rights. New vice presidents Pearson and O Leary named. Wilson resigns as regional VP and is replaced by Weed. seventeen directors elected with one withdrawal in a by law dispute.
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Postal Service
Soldiers* Bots
Pailroad Labor Board
Merchant Marine Act
Federal Supreme Court
Lewis E. Pearson
New York
John W. O'Leary
Chicago
Thomas E. Wilson
Packer
Gas Company Employes Get Service Pins
About 200 employees from Pit hurgit and West Virginia Gas Company and Philadelphia Oil Company attended a company banquet at Clarksburg Waldo Hotel. Pins awarded for five to thirty-five years service. remarks on cooperation and company benefits followed by attendance from towns across the region.
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Pithurgit and West Virginia Gas Company
Philadelphia Oil Company
Clarksburg
Waldo Hotel
Grafton
W. Engle
C. 0. Locke
H. A. Ringler
W. Isner
E.F. Nye
Alfred Zumbro
A. P Holt
A. Eb, Henderson
Louis Riffee
E .Oo. Baker
C. J. Swiger
Fairmont
George Hixenbaugh
Ellis Shriver
Mannington
F. Ashenhart
Fred Clint
Virgil Jones
Farmington
W. L. Husk
Teri Guthrie
L. Hupp
J. Worthington
Frank Hess
J.B. Heldreth Downs
W. G. Lewis
A. J Snider
Boothsville
G. W. Harr
George Rt. Weaver
HF. Goffman
L. M. Griffith
James West
R. EB. Tarbet
Baragil
J. M. Clari
J. J. Norris
P. Carney
Rex Woolyard
James J. Morgan
R. L. Dolan
F. E. Tridgen
W. A Carver
J. E. Law
Clarence Barnhart
W.C. McMasters
L. A. McMasters
Samuel Bilters
Hawker Newton
Brooks Watkins
Daniel Keenan
James Norman
J. IF. McNary
A. B. Anderson
T. W. Engle
C. D. Locke
N. A. Ringler
J. W. Tsner
R. FD
Baker
A. B. Halt
B. F. Nye
Burnsville
Vernon Wiant
W. J. Hibbs
West Union
E. W. Lindedecker
J. D. Pitts
Central
Charles T. Hardesty
John Willis
Greenwood
Ww. C
Morris Husk
Charles S.maxwell
Bryan Shopler
Robert Britton
Tolerance and prohibition in public debate at Columbia
A Gazette Times column discusses intolerance around prohibition, citing Bishop Nicholson and the Anti-Saloon League. It argues tolerance and open merit-based debate are essential for Prohibition to succeed, praising Columbia trustees for defending Butler's free speech. It notes Phillips Brooks lectures on tolerance and urges reason over emotion in policy contest.
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Springfield
Nicholson
Agti-Saloon League
Columbia
Butler
Rutter
Eleman
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co
Phillips Brooks
Protestant Episcopal Church
Critis
New York Herald-Tribune
Mellon Tax Plan Divides Senate Over Relief and Rates
The Mellon tax plan faces Senate rejection as Democrats ally with Republicans to adopt House-like provisions. A gap exists between Senate Sim mons rates and House taxes, with lower normal taxes but higher surtaxes than Mellon proposed. The plan aimed to relieve small incomes and promote investment while upholding party pledges from platforms.
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Senate
House
Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Rowlesburg Church Cleared of Long-Standing Debt
E J Proudfoot reports that the First Methodist Church of Rowlesburg paid off its 7400 debt on May 3 1924 after a drive led by W C Hollen. Bible class groups raised funds and the Ladies Aid will fund church and parsonage painting starting May 10. Jubilee services to burn notes will be announced in local papers.
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E. J. Proudfoot
First Methodist
Rowlesburg
W. C. Hollen
Ladies Friendly
Charles Moore
Ladies Aid Society
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