Second Title Triumph on Ladder Battle
A competitive ladder clash concluded with a decisive victory, marking a successful ascent for the champion. The event highlighted strategic moves and standout performances by top seeding competitors.
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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1923
Page
5
A competitive ladder clash concluded with a decisive victory, marking a successful ascent for the champion. The event highlighted strategic moves and standout performances by top seeding competitors.
Royal Dodds and four other youths confessed to the Coal City bank holdup after Dodds was captured in Vincennes. The group described the plan, the double cross, and how the inside man aided the robbery, with details of the stash and the cocked revolver found under a pillow.
The account describes a theft where $4400 was taken from a car outside and one suspect fled toward a country where Roy Graham and Denver Meeks waited in Nash and Hudson. They pursued with a second vehicle, a sack containing cash, and a dispute over who got $1400 in spare change.
Edwardsville Illinois report says Charles Neathery and his wife Erna died in a blaze that gutted the Court House Square restaurant and Schneider Poole store. The fire, tied to rising Klan hatred, caused extensive property loss over 100000 dollars as investigators probe threats received by the couple. Firemen rescued victims from a window as a ceiling collapse and explosion occurred.
Carl Meisinger a 17 year old boy was jailed after shooting at John Schoeman driving a Louisville car. Meisinger fired twice injuring Schoeman in the head back and hands following the death of a tied hunting dog during a walk near Plattsmouth Nebraska yesterday.
The Supreme Court yesterday suspended until January 2 for the holiday recess to prepare decisions in many pending cases.
George A H Shideler longtime Indiana reformatory superintendent dies at St. Vincent's hospital after heart illness. Born in Jonesboro he lived in Marion and Jeffersonville. member of Columbia Club Knights of Pythias and Thirty second degree Masons. He was a model prison official.
In Washington on December 11 the insurgent progressives again pressed to shape senate control. They blocked the Republican attempt to re-elect Senator Albert B. Cummins of Iowa as chairman of the interstate commerce committee, leaving the organization fight for a fresh ballot to resume tomorrow.
Senator Hiram Johnson of California plans a personal campaign in Massachusetts to challenge President Coolidge for the Republican nomination. The clash of Johnson and Coolidge supporters unfolds at the national committee meeting as both sides press their cases for the 1924 convention.
William A. Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, died today at a Los Angeles hotel. The cause is listed as complications from ailments.
News from Montere y reports General Obregon’s government under siege as Adolfo de la Huerta and allies push revolts across Vera Cruz Jalapa Zacatecas Aguascalientes Tepic and other capitals while Estrada and Sanchez advance. Yaqui warners on warpath. Obregon redirects forces toward Estrada and de la Huerta to defend the capital or withdraw northward.
White House announces that American experts will work with the allied reparations commission and with French and English authorities to seek a solution to the reparations problem. The effort is under allied auspices but not as official U.S. representatives.
Senate to investigate if the secretary of war had legal authority to sell the Gorgas steam plant at Muscle Shoals Alabama to Alabama Power. A separate bill would accept Henry Ford’s offer for lease and final purchase of the Muscle Shoals project.
Gray Silver of the American Farm Bureau warned delegates at the fifth annual meeting that unresolved war reparations threaten American agriculture. He urged open markets, tariff changes, and possible international barter with German industry to lift farm conditions and prevent farmers from becoming a peasant class. Henry C. Wallace outlined the Agriculture Department’s work on farm finances.
Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas introduced the same adjusted compensation bill vetoed by Harding last year. The measure was referred to the finance committee without debate as the bonus fight resumes in Washington.
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