Klan Influence Seen Fading in Ohio Primary Returns
In Buckeye State polling shown scant info on trends as apathy rises. The Ku Klux Klan's strength waned with Columbus council candidates last in voting and Newark mayor W H N Stephens beaten for renomination. Across Ohio, Klan backed contenders from two years ago struggled for second nominations amid new opposition ahead of November.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ku Klux Klan
Newark
W. H. N. Stephens
Laborer uses debt law to imprison woman in Illinois
John Novak offered to pay one dollar of his daily three ninety six wages to jail Mrs. Mabel Miller over a $1,250 personal injury judgment. Miller, 21, was jailed in Belleville after Novak deposited two weeks' board with the sheriff. The maximum confinement is six months. Miller said she may serve the term if Novak enforces the debt.
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East ST. Louis
Ill
Illinois
John Novak
Mabel Miller
Novak
Bumper corn crop in northern Indiana
United Press Dispatch reports from Nappanee Indiana that Elkhart county farmers expect 80 to 90 bushels per acre as corn fields reach record heights. In the lowlands of Elkhart and surrounding counties fields average over twelve feet with ears filling out rapidly and of unusually large size.
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Nappanee
Ind
Indiana
Elkhart County
Elkhart
Death by Own Action Ends Series of Tragedies in Rockport
In Rockport near Evansville Indiana John Norris a 29 year old African American man killed himself using a three gallon bucket a tiny closet and the closet door Norris earlier shot and killed Othiver Fetter 22 who was serving a jail sentence with him on June 28 Norris placed his head in the bucket lay on the jail cell floor and choked himself to death in a grim sequence tied to his recent life events.
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Evansville
Ind
John Norris
Rockport
Norris
Othiver Fetter
Fetter
Chicago New York game called due to wet grounds
The Chicago New York American League game scheduled for today in New York was canceled because of wet grounds. Mr and Mrs Henry Klink and daughter Miss Mary Edith arrived home from Rochester Minnesota where Mary Edith underwent an operation at Mayo brothers hospital several weeks ago and is getting along splendidly.
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New York
Henry Klink
Mary Edith
Rochester
Minn
Mayo Brothers’ Hospital
Crecelius Couple Plans Midwest Visit Tour
Mr. and Mrs BE L Crecelius depart for Oakland City to visit relatives and friends. They will also call on his brothers and other relatives in Princeton and Petersburg.
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BE. L. Crecelius
Oakland City
Princeton
Petersburg
Faithful Unto Death Fore Falling Across Key
Pittsburg Pa Aug 13 Facing death from a sudden illness yesterday Kavanaugh Jacobs night tele graph operator for the Pittsburg and Lake Erie railroad at Monongahela near here threw on the red signals to stop all trains a few minutes before he fell across his key head of acute indigestion Trains were halted more than an hour until another operator could be sent to the wire Jacobs body was found by police who went to the station in response to an appeal from divisional head quarters of the railroad to investigate the failure of the operator to answer his call
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Pittsburg
Kavanaugh Jacobs
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad
Monongahela
Jacobs
Pauper's oath frees bootlegger from Atlanta prison
Morris Sweetwood, convicted New York bootlegger, signed a pauper's oath before a U S commissioner in Atlanta to gain freedom from the federal penitentiary. He had just completed a two year term plus 30 days to avoid paying a $10,000 fine. District Attorney Hager argued Sweetwood was not a pauper, noting $615,295.14 deposited in New York banks in October 1921.
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Atlanta
Morris Sweetwood
New York
United States
Atlanta Federal
Sweetwood
C. W. Hager
Social Bridge Party Honoring Misses Ellis of Denver
Mrs. J. F. Glynn entertained yesterday afternoon with two tables of bridge at 890 A Street Northeast, honoring Miss Ruth Ellis and Miss Dorothy Ellis of Denver. Guests included Doris Dixon Harriet Pearl Schloot Jessie Porter Genevieve Grass Sarah Neill Mcintosh Margaret Murphy Mrs. Harry Glynn and other friends. Refreshments were served.
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J. F. Glynn
Ruth
Dorothy Ellis
Denver
Colo
Ellis
Harry Glynn
Vincennes
Doris Dixon
Harriet Pearl Schloot
Jessie Porter
Genevieve Grass
Sarah Neill Mcintosh
Margaret Murphy
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J. W. Wolford & Sons
Ner Evan
Meat Department
Poe, Johnson & Fuller
Buckeye State
United Press Dispatch
Ildren
Tel
Wm. Coleman & Sons
Thomas Meighan, Lila Lee
and Wallace Berry
Viola Dana
Jetta Gould
Adolph Menjou
Raymond Griffith
Stine
Christine
Iace
Ian Keith
Walter -Hiers
Warner Baxter
Merry Makers
Florence Vidor
Clive Brook
Kathleen Norris
Lothes
Harry Welch
Eskew
Tyler
J. B. Shields
W. Vincennes St
the Gas CO
Linton
North Main St
Linton Gas & Coke Company
Oldsmobile
Gan Cna Morons
Gerin Battery
Frank M. Welch
Will C. Welch
Hamilton
Chas. E. Goodman
Main and
Vincennes Sts
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