Kidnapped Willie Whitla Reunited With Father In Cleveland
James P. Whitla and son Billy are reunited after a ransom case. Ten thousand dollars paid at a East Fifty third street grocery for the boy, who was later recovered in Cleveland by two boys guiding him to the Hollenden hotel. The reunion drew a cheering crowd as Whitla praised police and press for their help.
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Cleveland
Ohio
James P. Whitla
Billy
Sharon
Billy Whitla
East Fifty Third Street
Standard Avenue
Hayes
Bernard Hendrickson
Margaret Uhle
Willie Whitla
Hollenden
G. W. Ramsey
Edward Mahoney
Willie
Warren
New Castle
Ashtabula
Flatiron Park
Whitla
East End
Little Willie
Whitla, Jr
Hollenden Hotel
Mr. Jones
Jones
Mahoney
Ramsey
Mr. Whitla
Harké
Reed
Whitha
Maloney
Coopers Guilty Of Murder In Tennessee Case
Nashville verdict finds Colonel Duncan B Cooper and son Robin guilty of second degree murder in the Carmack case with 20 years. John Sharp acquitted. Bond set at 20000 and 110000 total for appeal bonds. Witnesses describe ballots and tensions in the jury amid post trial motions and public reactions.
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Nashville
Tenn
Morine
Duncan B. Cooper
Robin Cooper
United States
Eb. W. Carmack
John 3B. Charp
Hart
Bpozeman Burk
Coopers
Burch
Wilson
Cooper
Hairetediss
John Sharp
J. Hyde
Bradford
Boy recounts harrowing journey with unknown man across towns
In Cleveland on March 25 Willie describes a perilous trip with a man in a buggy and on a car, saying he was taken from Sharon to Warren then New Castle and Ashtabula. He recalls a hospital and threats of a pest house for disobedience, ending with a early morning return to the hospital.
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Edward Mahoney
Mahoney
Cleveland
Willie Whitla
Willie
Jones
White
Anna Lewis
Sharon
Warren
Eaid
New Castle
Ashtabula
Sarly
Notorious Negress Arrested in Cedar Rapids Robberies
Mrs. Annie Hooley, described as a notorious negress, was arrested in Cedar Rapids on March 25. She is accused of prowling alleys to hug pedestrians and make proposals while stealing from them, and faces charges in several robberies involving substantial sums of money.
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Cedar Rapids
Annie Hooley
Smoking Car Wrecks West of Yuma But No Serious Injuries
A westbound Southern Pacific passenger train near Yuma collapses after a smoking car turns turtle. No one was seriously hurt in the wreck reported today. The article notes unrelated orders of 300 000 concrete cross ties for the Italian state railways.
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Yuma
Arist
Southern Pacific
Man’s drinking led to self-inflicted death in Floris
Walter Pitcher aged 45 committed suicide at his Floris home on March 25 using a firearm. The coroner reported that drink was the cause of the act.
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Ottumwa
Walter Pitcher
Floris
Mexican archives burn in Mexico City blaze
Fire consumed the chamber of deputies building in Mexico City this morning destroying archives and records from the past 25 years. No injuries reported as crews battled the flames and contained the structure.
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Mexico City
Chamber of Deputies
Paris Strikers Vote to Resume Their Work
Paris March 25 One thousand striking government telegraph and post office employees voted to resume work.
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Paris
Government Telegraph and Post Office
Senate sets 15000 reward for Whitla kidnapers
Harrisburg March 2 The senate adopted a resolution offering 15000 dollars for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the kidnapers of Willie Whitla.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Willie Whitla
Cooper Sharp murder case ranks as one of the south’s most remarkable
Nashville report outlines the Cooper Sharp murder case, detailing Colonel Duncan Brown Cooper a former Confederate officer and Democrat leader and Edward Ward Carmack editor of the Nashville American. The piece traces rivalries over Governor Patterson and Cox, debates, editorials such as Across the Muddy Chasm and the build up to Carmack’s killing.
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Dune
Cox
Heaven
Patterson
Tenner
Crook
John Demophogue
Duncan 3
Cooper
Tennessee
State Senate
Bristol
Nashville
Ban Murray
Dane Cooper
Sparrel Hill
Carmack
Colonel Cooper
Tennesseean
Senator Carmack
Craig
The
Sweibund
Duncan Brown Cooper
Eastman
Coopers
Robin
Tenn
Cooper-Sharp
South
Duncan BR. Cooper
Forrest
Columbia
Edward Ward Carmack
Nashville American
Carmuck
Taylor
Senate
Malcolm R. Patterson
Nashville Tennesseean
Tennessean
Bryan
Tenesseem
M. R. Patterson
John Isaac Cox
Hadley Reported Considering Resignation for Federal Judge
Jefferson City March 23. A renewed report says Governor Herbert S. Hadley may resign to accept a federal judgeship. The governor said he knows nothing of the report beyond what newspapermen told him and declines to discuss it.
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Jefferson City, Sr
Herbert S. Hadley
Get Out the Boats Says Captain Schulz at Dinner
Captain E. H. Schulz, head of national river improvement work for the Missouri, told Knife and Fork club members that the river’s future is assured with organized effort. He cited a $700000 congressional appropriation and noted the Missouri as the natural outlet for a vast agricultural region with at least 25 million tons of crops harvested yearly within 100 miles of the river. Fifteen Pinn children received prizes at a Sidbury school distribution in Devonshire, England.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Knife and Fork Club
E. H. Schulz
Congress
of Pinn
Sidbury
Devonshire
England
Marathon Runner to Train World's Richest Boy
Lynn mass March 23 Roy K Wentworth a Marathon runner of this city has accepted a position as an instructor in athletics to John Nicholas Brown the world's richest boy who lives in Newport Wentworth 23 went to New York to visit his wife and they became fast friends
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Lynn
Mass
Roy K. Wentworth
John Nicholas Brown
Newport
Wentworth
New York
John Nicholas
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Pittsburg
Youngstown
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Gov. Hadley
Captain Schulz
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