Morgantown Mine Safety Meet Opens With Parades and Demos
Morgantown hosts the second annual mine safety meet with 150 teams from across the state. Officials say weather is the only unknown as events begin with band concerts at university stadium and a parade at 12:30. Activities include safety and first aid contests, open-air vaudeville, boxing, fireworks, rock dusting demonstrations, and prizes. Noted visitors include Governor Gore and J. G. Bradley. Hotels and private homes report heavy demand as attendees arrive by automobile caravans.
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Morgantown
Robert M. [Amble
University Stadium
Theity
Uiversity
Howard M. Gore
L. Gandy
Washington, D
National Consoclation
J. G. Bradley
West Virginia Coal Association
Second Outbreak of Paralysis Alarms City
Martins Ferry near Sept. 16 reports a second outbreak of paralysis raising city alarm. Health board extends quarantine and closes schools for two more weeks. An offer to hold parents responsible and fine children seen on streets or in public places. Epidemic began in this city.
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Martins Ferry
Iarantite
Paratyate
Warantine
Osgoods Fall Event Offers Lowest Prices of the Year
A thrifty message announces Osgoods first fall event with sale prices on new fall merchandise. Visit tomorrow or next week to complete fall and winter wardrobes at low prices, with several other advertisements scattered throughout the page.
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Osgoods
Sudden deaths probe in Bailey family shocks Enid
Miss Mary Atkinson, 20, nurse, charged with murdering Rev Charles Bailey daughter. She pled guilty at arraignment and, amid poisoning findings, faces a September 28 preliminary hearing. The pastor’s wife died earlier under similar illness, with other Bailey children ill. County eyes possible further actions.
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Charles Bater
Mary Atkinson
Delen Gertrude Baile
Enid
Okla
Charles Bailey
David Fogleson
Bailey
Haired Episcopal
Pershing Leads Largest U S Vet Legion Welcome in France
In Cherbourg on September 16, General Pershing arrived with the second A B F aboard the Leviathan, greeted by thousands. The 1600 veterans and Pershing toured the harbor as Major Le Brettevillois and Howard P. Savage praised the arrival, heading to Paris for the legion convention.
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Cherbourg
France
General Pershing
Leviathan
Legion
Paris
le Brettevillois
General
Three Die From Heat In Pittsburgh and Grafton
A heat wave across the east caused deaths and numerous prostrations as temperatures surged to 102 degrees in Washington and near records in New York Philadelphia and Baltimore. The stretch drove President Coolidge from work in the afternoon amid rising mortality in several cities.
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New York
East
Middle West
Weather Bureau
Philadelphia
Mercury
Washington
Coolidge
Baltimore
Harrisburg
Pope
Chicago
Veteran Minister Dies Suddenly at Conference
The Rev. R. F. N. Cupp, 67, a United Brethren pastor from Augusta County Virginia, died suddenly of heart trouble in Winchester while attending the annual conference. He had never missed a conference in 47 years of church service, with prior pastorates in Virginia and Berkeley County West Virginia. Burial will be held here per his request.
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Berkeley Springs
R. F. N. Cupp
Augusta County
Virginia
United Brethren
Winchester
Berkeley County
W. Va
Ohio jurist moves court to hospital
Cleveland dispatch reports Judge Carl V. Weygandt traveled to Fairview Park Hospital to resolve a disputed infant identity. Mrs. Sam Smith seeks to compel the hospital to return the baby girl claimed as her child, while the Smiths insist a son was born to them. Hospital records show no baby misplacement, just an error in labeling.
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Cleveland
Baby Smith
Carl V. Weygandt
Fairview Park Hospital
George
Sam Smith
Waygandt
Smith
Sam Smiths
Fach
Memorial tribute to seven aviators lost in Pacific flight
On the steamship Maui a memorial service honored seven aviators missing after the San Francisco to Hawaii Dole flight. Walter W. Cribbins led tributes to Mi dred Doran J A Pedlar Vilay R Knope William Erwin Alvin Eichwaldt Tack Frost Gordon Scott. Floral tributes were cast to sea, crafted to stay afloat days.
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Maui
Pacific
San Francisco
Honz
Cluh
California
Hawaii
Walter W. Cribbins
Mi'dred Doran
Michigan
J. A. Pedlar
Vilay R. Knope
William Erwin
Dallas Spirit
Alvin Eichwaldt
Berkeley
Tack Frost
New York
Golden Eagle
Gordon Scott
Cribbins
Gar
Hold Couple For Murders In Georgia Farm Case
Harris Hayes and his wife were held in separate jails on a charge of poisoning their daughter in law Mrs Amos Hayes of Detroit. Authorities probe the deaths of Hayes's two sons with state chemists to examine the bodies for poison. The couple deny the accusation claiming the daughter in law was sick upon arrival and given physician prescribed medicines.
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Rinkely
Harris Hayes
Amos Hayes
Detroit
James
Amos
Hayes
Ruth Elder Admits She Is Married To Lakeland Salesman
Ruth Elder, 22, the Dixie aviatrix, disclosed in New York that she is married to Lakeland salesman Lyle Womack. She explained she uses her maiden name at times and will fly with Captain George Haldeman to Paris, awaiting favorable weather and a repaired gasoline tank after a leak in Wheeling.
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New York
Ruth Elder
Dixie Aviatrix
Paris
Lyle Womack
Lakeland
Fla
Haldeman
George Haldeman
Aviatrix
Pennsylvania
Fifth Avenue
Jim Jousine
Kathleen Mohr
Hyldeman
J.J. Lannin
Roosevelt Field
Miss Elder
Lannin
Charles B. Collyer
Spokane
Wheeling
W. Va
Air
Army, Navy and Commerce Departments
Coolidge
Royal Windsor Leaves Old Orchard For Home
Old Orchard Maine September 16 1930s report says C A Duke Schiller and Phil Wood left the beach heading home from Windsor Ontario their home port set to fly non stop via Concord Albany Syracuse to Buffalo then cross to Windsor Fair tonight and Saturday with little temperature change
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Old Orchard
Maine
Windsor
Ont
C. A
Duke” Schiller
Phil. Wood
Concord
N. H
Albany
Syracuse
Buffalo
Denunciations Hit Flogging Bands in Alabama Indictments
Birmingham officials report eighteen indictments by the Jefferson County grand jury over recent abductions and beatings. The inquiry denounces marauders and self styled dictators and criticizes attempts to influence witnesses. Louis C. Albright the first arrested for kidnapping in the Hitt case. A sixty acre farm was sold for well below its value.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson, County
Louis C. Albright
Arthur Hitt
Hitt
Bootleggers Hunted After Slaying Johns Hopkins Chemist
Utlmore reports the discovery of J Athey Kerner a 22 year old Johns Hopkins chemist missing since June 9. Police suspect bootleggers killed him for a formula to extract poison from industrial alcohol. Friends and family fear bootlegger involvement following other killings in the area. Police tie previous deaths of John Harrahy and Chester Pugh to a bootleg war.
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Utlmore
J. Athey Kerner
Johns Hopkins University
Kerner
Here
Edward A. Rupp
Andrew Kerner
Vernon Selbe
Gordon Selbe
Theody
Rupp
John ©. Harrahy
Chester Pugh
Mystery Plane Seen Flying Near Azores
In Horta Azores on September 16 a unidentified aircraft was reported passing over Fayal from west to east at low altitude in good condition. London reports intrigue over the craft with no local trans Atlantic or lower water flight news. The west to east route suggests a starting point likely not from this side of the Atlantic.
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Horta
Azores
Fayal
London
Ireland
Atlantic
College Grid Player Dies of Injuries at Sewanee
Nashville Sept 16 George Rice senior quarterback and end for the University of the South at Sewanee died today in a hospital from a fractured neck suffered in the tackling pit Wednesday. He was in his senior year.
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Nashville
Tenn
George Rice
University of the South At
Sewanee
Rice
Irish Flyer Heads Plane Toward U S
Dublin, Sept 16. Captain A H MacIntosh aboard Princess Xenia left Dublin at 1 24 p m for New Foundland and New York on a trans Atlantic flight. The Fokker 7 A carried 720 gallons of gasoline, food and water. Two Irish Free State air force planes escorted the takeoff. MacIntosh planned a 26 hour crossing with James C Fitzmaurice as co pilot. Fortunes and funds were sought to share expenses.
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Dublin
A. H. MacIntosh
Xenia
America
MacIntosh
New Foundland
New York
Tres
State Air Force
James C. Fitzmaurice
Trish Free State
Wm.b. Leeds
Russia
Leeds
Mabel Bell
Rochester
N. Yo
Paris
Fitzmaurice
R. H. Macintosh
Football player dies from injuries at practice
Clay Holley 17 died in McComb Mississippi from internal hemorrhages after injuries sustained in high school football practice Tuesday. An operation revealed the fatal condition.
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McComb
Mias
Clay Holley
Holley
Bake sale at Heinz & Co by First Christian Church
The Lading Aid announces a bake sale at Heinz and Co on Saturday September 17 starting at 11:00. Pies cakes bread and candy will be sold to raise funds for church needs.
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Fairmont State Normal School
M. E. McCarty
Normal School
Fairmont
W. Va
First Christan Church
Heinz &Co
Seman
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Robert Lambie Ts
Ixsgood’s
Ary Jane
Les Bailey
Pershing
Pittsburgh
Grafton
Weatherman
Ohio
Solomon
Bungling Hospital
Dole
Royal Windsor
College
U. S
Black Cat
Bake Sale
First’ Presbyterian Church
J. A. Carriken
Weirton, W. VA
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