Flowers for Virginia Rappe Message Sent With Body to Hollywood
Floral tributes arrive from unknown admirers as Virginia Rappe is sent from San Francisco to Hollywood for burial. Henry Lehrman, fiancé, ordered pink flowers and a memorial ribbon. Norman Taurog directs funeral arrangements. interment set for Hollywood Cemetery.
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Virginia Rappe
Hollywood
Henry
Lehrman
San Francisco
Henry Lehrman
Lohrman
Miss Rappe
Halstead & Co
Btrather & Drayton
Francisco Floriat
Jack Spreckles
Taurog
Miss Morrison
Tauribe
Mise Rappe
Hollywood Undertaking
Virginia
Arbuckle Case Prosecution Details Move Toward Grand Jury
Prohibition matter and murder charge updates surface as Fred Fischback alleges Arbuckle’s party alcohol source and transport details. Brady explains why murder is the correct charge and outlines equitable treatment for Arbuckle while delaying a preliminary hearing at request of his counsel.
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Los Angeles
Fred Fischback
Arbuckle
McCormack
United States Grand Jury
Lum
E. Forreat Mitchell
Prohibition
California
Grand
Brady
World record alimony paid to Spanish singer in divorce
Special Cable Dispatch reports the Maharajah of Kupurthala secured a divorce in Paris on September 17. The singer was granted about five million dollars annually and kept jewels described as the finest in the world.
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Paris
Maharahah
Kupurthala
Farmer in Hill NH Finds Rich Ore by Washington Letter
A Hill New Hampshire farmer reports a Washington letter claiming ore sample assayed at 99 and 2 of aliver per thousand pounds. The note suggests a high gold value, prompting digging on hillside areas believed to hold ore. Authorities have not confirmed the assay or origin.
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Seoores
New Hampshire
Hill
Washington
Daphne Dare Divorced After Annulment Granted
Eleanor Monroe known as Daphne Dare on stage and screen, received an annulment of her three year old marriage to Monroe after testifying she never met him before or after the ceremony. The nuptials occurred in Los Angeles following a night when drinks were served.
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Daphne Dare
Los Angeles
Eleanor Monroe
Monroe
Ahe
Roscoe Arbuckle
Minta Durfee
Arbuckle
FARM POOL BILL PROMINENT IN New Orleans
New Orleans September 7 A bill to pool farmers assets and issue debentures for a year round market will be introduced in Congress next month. A W Lever of the farm joint board said France faces a general strike affecting mining railroads and trade works. Employers say they cannot sustain high wages and textile workers face further cuts amid inflation and market pressures.
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New Orleans
Congress
A.W. Lever
Farm Jean Board
Interstate Farm Congress
France
Tax Revision Features Include Repeal Of Clothing Tax
Washington reports a Senate finance committee outline of the revenue revision bill with major changes. It shows repeal of taxes on clothing and luxuries, lowered freight and passenger rates, higher personal exemptions, and shifts of taxes to manufacturers, plus adjustments to sur-tax schedules and exemptions for traveling salesmen.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Penrose
Hyde to aid jobless in Missouri roads plan
Jefferson City Missouri September 17 Governor Hyde moves to fix unemployment by arranging state highway department work for former service men after a four cent emergency fare. discussions with State Highway Engineer Alexander Graham outline the strategy before restoring the eight cent fare at midnight Saturday.
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Jefferson City
Hyde
Wate
Missouri
Alexander Graham
State Highway Department
Duwuth
Outside Carpenters Flock to Chicago
The open shop in the carpenter trade began in Chicago with contractors hiring hundreds of men from other offices to work for a dollar an hour. The event marks a surge in labor movement as carpenters respond to new wage conditions and job opportunities in the city.
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Chicago
Bayt
MeeThe
Carroll Bandits In Toils Of Law
Two bandits robbed a Standard Oil filling station in Carroll Iowa. One suspect captured at a Northwestern station. another arrested in Denison. The victim, Tom Finnegan, was tied but escaped. $47 in silver recovered. Car believed stolen with Ohio plates.
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Carroll
Standard Oil
Northwestern
Denison
Tom Finnegan
Banadits
Lincoln Highway
Finnegan
Denisey
Manemann
H. V. Janssen
Oll
Ohio
Japan Concedes Little in Offers to China
Peking notes that accepting Japan’s proposals on Shantung would affirm Japan’s hold on Tsing-Tao and Kiau-Chau bay while China would gain nominal jurisdiction. The leasehold includes shore to high water, private salt fields, and former German lands. Also notes value shifts in agricultural lands and loss of salt industry. a separate claim mentions a process to convert muscular tissue into milk.
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Peking
Japan
Shantung
Tsing-Tao
Kiau-Chau Bay
China
Kilao-Chau Bay
Clearing flood district near Jonah Texas
Georgetown Texas residents survey flood effects along the San Gabriel river near Jonah ten miles east, aid distributed with county help, dead livestock burned as sanitary measure, sheriff orders able bodied men to work until conditions improve. Washington reports no plan yet for a nations association before the disarmament and Pacific conference. OBLWEIN The Chicago Great Western Hallroad shops at Elwell will close again September 16. third shutdown in six months with about 500 workers employed.
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Tex
Red Cross
San Gabriel River
Jonah
Here
Allen
Oblwein
Chicago Creat Western Hallroad Company
Elwein
Fatty Arbuckle to stand trial for murder in San Francisco
Fatty Arbuckle remained in jail in San Francisco on murder charges awaiting a preliminary hearing set for Thursday September 22 before Judge Slyvain J. Lazarus. The case drew wide notice as prosecutors prepared to pursue a murder verdict or lesser charges, with debates over trial timing and potential federal indictments for violating the Volstead Act.
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Roscoe
Fatty
Arbuckle
Hollywood
Slyvain J. Lazarus
Matthew Brady
Milton U'Ren
Isidore Golden
Joseph O'Connor
Brady
Mra. B. M. Delmont
Robert H. McCormack
Sperial
United States Attorney General
Grand Jury
Three Bandits Rob Farm Hands Near Alliance
A trio of armed men stopped a freight train crew near Alliance Nebraska and robbed farm hands of their savings. Victims, returning from the Dakota, reported losing about one hundred dollars and suspected the bandits planned the ambush as the train moved eastward.
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UT Espacial Miesien
Atanee
Angera
Dakota
Worres
Clita
Dauntless Arrives With 282 Bodies
A damaged excerpt reports the Dauntless arrival with 282 bodies aboard at a naval event. The garbled text references a New Yor and American navy context with mentions of a function and a shipyard.
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Dauntless
Funtion
Walt
Talal
Mencher Resigns as Army Air Service Chief
Washington Sept. 11 General Menoher resigns as chief of the army air service and seeks a field command. Mitchell files a caustic protest to Secretary Weeks, charging the air service biased against flying officers. Weeks says decision on Menoher’s replacement not finalized. Mitchell’s supporters expect him to be named.
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Riday
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Uie
Sere Low
Weeks
Meno
Air Service
Brie Cen William Mitchell
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Neo
Mitchell
Joint Army and Navy Board
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Argonne-Meuse
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Haun
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Two Men and Boy Die in Iowa Farm Electrocution
In Muscatine Iowa a farm tragedy left Edward Kemper 58 Sidney Coxrwd 47 and Ernest Hintermeister 12 dead after a high voltage wire burned near a farmhouse. A youth touched the live line and others nearby attempted rescue. The scene saw rapid injuries and fatal shocks scattering debris and fear.
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Iowa
Muscutine
Edward Kemper
Sidney Coxrwd
Ernest Flintermeister
Here
Hintermeister
Crase
Kenper
Corad
MM. C. Corrad
Lila Brother
Wund
Haemen
Sunflower Rivalry and Union Labor Tensions
Fullerton California hosts giant sunflowers inching toward 20 feet tall at the municipal farm as workers debate how to clear dense patches. Across town, a building trades dispute flares with union and non union tensions and a 48 hour deadline looming amid guards to curb violence.
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Carpenters Union
Judge Fundies
Building Trades
Wand Nh Pelaenna
Death For Roscoe Will Be Verdict Of Jury
Trial hears possible penalties for Koasoor Whally case. Prosecutor Matthew Brady seeks death for first degree murder without jury recommendation. Jury will decide between first or second degree murder or manslaughter with corresponding prison terms.
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Roscoe
Ranfrancisco
Koasoor Whally" Arbuckle Goen
Improtiite
Pilestrict
Matthew Brady
Ireland Now More Hopeful
Dublin reports that De Valera sent a cable to Premier Lloyd George urging unprejudiced talks with no conditions beyond known facts. The message renews hope for an Inverness conference, though Lloyd George’s reply is awaited with anxiety.
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de Valera
Inverness
Lloyd George
Ireland
Irish police conference may resolve Friday deadlock
London reports an Irish police conference without conditions could settle Friday's deadlock. Sinn Fein delegation chosen by the Dail cabinet will attend in London. Walsh sails to New York on the George Washington after Parla. De Valera's message to Lloyd George opens a chance for resuming parley without preconditions, both sides to discuss at the table without commitments.
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WALSH
London
Sinn Fein
Dail
Parla
New York
de Valera
Lloyd George
Small Demands Change of Venue
Springfield September 17 Petition for change of venue filed by Gov Len Small’s counsel. He is charged with conspiracy and embezzlement of state funds. Attorneys say Sangamen county residents are prejudiced and a fair trial cannot occur there. Gov did not appear. affidavits support the motion.
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Springfield
Len Small
Banamon
Sangamen County
Trial hints at medical testimony and cross examination
Domingues foreshadowed a defense strategy noting the case will bring substantial medical testimony and heavy cross examination. If Rutty proceeds, he may need a new car or to walk rather than ride, as McCormack teased the possible use of extravagant automobiles in movieland for transport.
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McCormank
Two Bean Pods on One Stem Shocks Columbus Crowd
Columbus residents report a plant anomaly with a single stem bearing two bean pods. Thomas Mhlew displays a yardlong pod measuring about 24 inches, while a shorter pod reaches nearly 10 inches. The sight sparks debate over farming novelty and claims of extraordinary vegetable growth in the city.
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Columbus
Ohio
Thomas Mhlew
Miley
Kaleer
Entombed Miners Rescued Near Carbandile Wa
Four mine workers trapped after a mine collapse were rescued near Carbandile Washington. Two were released at noon and two others were found unharmed. all are said to be in stable condition.
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Carbandile
Mysterious Mittoor Match Report Emerges
A garbled OCR note hints at a wrestling event between Arm Bere and Halbrook at a venue named Ciba Wrest. The fragment mentions a match date in Dee Bamamee and references a Mittoor compose neti. Names and specifics are unclear due to text corruption.
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Halbrook
Church’s Conflicting Tales Cloud Murder Case
Immersed in conflicting statements, Airon Church implicates Leon Marks Clarence Wilder and Milton Walker in the Bernard Dieubert and Carl Ausmus killings. Police doubt their involvement while Parksonfessed may know more, amid threats to Church’s family if he reveals accomplices.
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Leon Marks
Clarence Wilder
Milton Walker
Wilder
Walker
Bones of a Buffalo And Human Jaw In Kentucky Cave
On a farm eight miles from Lexington along the Frankfort Pike, the nearly complete skeleton of a buffalo and a fragment of a lower human jaw were found in a small cave. Drs. A. M. Miller and W. P. Pankhouser of the University of Kentucky reported the discovery after tunneling through a short underground passage. They said there were no signs the cave was entered by man and proposed the bones predate Columbus. Miller had earlier found an ancient rock house in Grayson county with Indian remains and a grinding stone.
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Lexington
Ikky
Black Smith
Frankfort Pike
A. M. Miller
W. PD
F Pankhouser
University of Kentucky
America
Miller
Grayson County
Manufacturers Push Sales Tax Demand in Washington
The National Manufacturers Association urged adopting a manufacturers sales tax as the base of a simplified tax system. The brief supports the Smoot bill with a 3 percent sales tax on firms with annual business over 36,000, estimated to raise about 1.2 billion dollars yearly.
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Washington
National Manufacturers Association
Senate Finance Committee
Solons Refuse Hearing Tax Bill Opponents
Washington reports Representatives from the People's Reconstruction League and Parm er National Council demanded a formal Senate finance committee hearing on the tax bill. The committee refused. The letter urged the wealth of the country to share war costs, resist debt funding, and oppose immediate repayment terms.
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Washinton
People's Reconstruction League
Parmer National Councll
Senatefihante
Minsley
Congress
Kansas Miners Strike Hits Spencer Newkind Coal Mines
Pittsburgh Sept 17 A strike of coal miners at Spencer Newkind Coal company mines ordered by President Howat and the district board of the Kansas miners union began today over a pay dispute involving a blacksmith, with union headquarters announcing the action.
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Kansas
Pittsburgh
Nav
Spencer Newkiids Coal Company
Alexader Howat
Kansas Minera’ Union
Madalynne Denied Bail in Kennedy Warren Williams Case
Los Angeles September 1 Superior judge Sydney Steeve denied bail for Madalynne Ghenchale, charged with involvement in the midnight murder of John Belton Kennedy and Warren Williams. Attorneys for the defense argued insufficient evidence to establish probable guilt.
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Los Angeles
Sydney Steeve
Pridiy
Madalynne Ghenchale
Arthur C Burch
John Belton Kennedy Warren Williams
Ball
Aginat
Madalynine
Fragmentary note on wartime wheat policy and German film plan
A garbled text fragment references wheat conservation ideas, a proposed plan and supervision, plus a vague mention of a special movie film to be shown in Germany under a strategy related to the Hunecelr theory. The passage is unclear and contains many misspellings.
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Aepeelal
Germany
Unclear text fragment on contract union adviser
Fragmentary OCR notes mention union and contractors agreeing to a division on advice of a hedge bandit. Names, dates, places, and full context are missing, making the item difficult to frame as a clear news record.
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Unes
Hedge Bandit
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