Valentino Not So Critically Ill in Report
An official bulletin from three physicians states Rudolph Valentino’s condition is not cause for undue anxiety after his double operation for appendicitis and peptic ulcer. He remains in Polyclinic Hospital with local peritonitis not detailed in the bulletin. Jack Dempsey, Estelle Taylor and Pola Negri sent messages while visitors were restricted and flowers overflowed.
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New York
Rudolph Valentino
Screen Stars
Polyclinic Hospital
Valentino
Mary Pickford
Dempsey
Jack Dempsey
Estelle Taylor
Screenland
Pola Negri
Los Angeles
Miss Negri
Jean Acker
George Ullman
Joseph M. Schenck
New York Storm Leaves Deaths and Property Damage
A freak storm in the New York metropolitan area left two men dead and two injured with one missing. A waterspout from Long Island Sound struck Glen Cove and caused widespread damage to cottages, trees, and utilities along the sound.
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New York
Manhattan Island
Long Island Sound
Glen Cove
L. I
Montreal publisher Beaudry shot to death in office
Montreal police report Anthony Beaudry publisher of Le Prix Courant was found shot in his office. Initial suspicion of natural death gave way to discovery of a bullet wound in the back after morgue examination.
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Montreal
AP Ij
Anthony Beaudry
le Prix Courant
Fall Dollar Day Set by Muscatine Merchants
Muscatine merchants have announced an annual Fall Dollar Day with extensive preparations to make it one of the city’s greatest bargain events. Residents of Muscatine and nearby areas await detailed notices to be issued by cooperating merchants.
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Muscatine
Kellogg Denies Plan to Resign Navy Mission Reported
Secretary of State Kellogg flatly denies a newspaper report that he intends to resign. The dispatch claimed his White Pine camp visit with President Coolidge sought to clear up departmental business before retirement.
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Paul Smith
N. Y
Kellogg
Washington
Coolidge
White Pine Camp
Prisoners in Cook County Jail Face Solitary After Escape Bid
Seven inmates at Cook County jail stay in solitary as Sheriff Hoffman blames outside aid for the failed escape attempt. Leader Thomas Ivern alias Sullivan, a Joliet escapee, described as a large man, was central to the plan which failed when a guard stopped the breach. The sheriff warned others would have been killed if the plan had succeeded.
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Chicago
Cook County
Peter Hoffman
Sullivan
Joliet
Rate conference called by ICC on freight rate revision
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a widespread downward revision of fertilizer and fertilizer material rates in the south. The ICC also scheduled a conference of railroads and shippers in Chicago on Sept. 10 to determine a procedure for revising class rates in western trunk line territory.
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Washington, D. Cj
South
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
Selected Grapes From Ozarks to Italian Premier
A shipment of selected Ozarks grapes travels in a special refrigerator to Benito Mussolini as part of the Ozarks grape festival at Springdale Arkansas on Aug 18. A greeting cable is sent to Mussolini by the festival committee and Felix Ardemagni. A similar shipment will go to President Coolidge. Baskets reach Gov Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming and Gov Miriam A Ferguson of Texas.
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Springdale
Ark
Ozarks
Benito Mussolini
Italy
Duce
Felix Ardemagni
Tontitown
Arkansas
Exhumation Considered in Hall Mills Murder Case
Nearly 75 witnesses now testify for the prosecution in the Hall Mills murder case at Somerville New Jersey as Henry Carpender and Willie Stevens face trial for killing Rev Edward W Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills. The proceedings include claims bodies may be exhumed and scrutiny of reporters and investigators amid a high tension inquiry.
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Somerville
N. J
Witneses
Hall Mills
Simpson
Henry Carpender
Willie Stevens
Edward W. Hall
Eleanor Millis
Dr. Hall
Mexican Revolt Plot Ties To Estrada Movement Across Border
Mexican officials probe alleged Estrada led revolt linked to a planned uprising in Mexico City amid religious strife. About 50 arrested, dynamite and propaganda seized. church leadership denies Catholic plots and calls for peaceful action. Mexico City reports Calles claimed prior knowledge.
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Mexico City
Mex
Enrique Estrada
California
Calles
Estrada
United States
Republic
Death sentence withdrawn for youngest Nebraskan
Don ald Ringer, 19, the youngest Nebraskan once sentenced to die for the 1924 Hastings robbery and murder of Carl Moore, has had his sentence commuted to life by Nebraska's board of pardons after a final plea to Gov McMullen. The board barred any further pardon or parole.
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Lincoln
Neb
Donald Ringer
Nebraska Board of Pardons
Ringer
McMullen
Carl Moore
Hastings
Gulfport
Miss
St. Joseph
George Bender
Two Ensigns Die in Seaplane Crash on Lake Michigan
Two naval ensigns died when a seaplane from the Great Lakes naval training station plunged into Lake Michigan near Chicago. The victims were Ensign George Hammer of Texas and Ensign Edgar T. Stone of Howard, Sd.
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Chicago
Ill
Lake Michigan
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
George Hammer
Texas
Edgar T. Stone
Howard
Jolson Denies Matrimonial Troubles With Berlin Family
Alf Jolson returns from Europe to deny gossip about his marriage and that of Irving Berlin. He says the Berlins are happy and jokes about meeting Berlin as a chauffeur in Paris. Jolson travels in the Leviathan’s presidential suite and recounts playful encounters and family trouts amid rumors.
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AL Jolson
Irving Berlin
New York
Alf Jolson
Europe
Irving F. Berlins
Eilin Mackey Berlin
Clarence Mackey
Postal Telegraph Company
Jolson
Berlin
Mrs. Jolson
Paris
Planes Leave Moline for Indianapolis in Tour
The 20 planes in the second commercial reliability aviation tour took off from Moline airport for Indianapolis at 10 oclock this morning marking a key leg in the national event.
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Moline
Ill
Indianapolis
Aunt Het Seeks Quiet For Smelling Liquor At Family Talk
A 1926 Syndicate humor panel shows Aunt Het complaining she cannot tell which man talking to Pa has liquor on him. The scene centers on family, mischief, and social mockery in a lighthearted domestic moment.
Philanthropist Bets on Chicago Museum Start
Julius Rosenwald unveils a plan for a 20 million dollar industrial museum to showcase human ingenuity. He donates 3 million toward realization, with industries to supply exhibits from coal mining to printing. City commissioners favor housing the museum in the old fine arts building and a 5 million bond issue is ready to fund rebuilding.
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Chicago, Ill
Julius Rosenwald
Rosenwald
Munich
Germany
Europe
Train Robbery Near Rock Springs Declared Inside Job
In Rock Springs Wyoming on August 17 the hunt for two bandits who looted 22 registered mail pouches on a Union Pacific passenger train last Saturday shifted to a possible inside job. After a defective semaphore signal halted the train and footprints were not found, authorities and officials questioned former railroad or postal workers as suspects.
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Rock Springs
Wyo
Union Pacific
Wyoming
Parade, Nominations Mark US Spanish War Veterans Meet
Thousands march in Des Moines as 15 000 to 20 000 veterans, guardsmen, and students attend the national encampment. Rice Means Harvey Hanna Frank Dodds were nominated for commander in chief with Carl Juneau added. Iowa veterans push to organize regimental groups from Fifty-ninth to Fifty-Second.
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Des Moines
United States
Rice W. Means
Colorado
Harvey H. Hanna
Nashville
Tenn
Frank B. Dodds
Lawrence
Kas
United Spanish War Veterans
Carl G. Juneau
Milwaukee
Iowa
Los Angeles
Ohio
Iown
Illinois
Kentucky
Carmi A. Thompson
National Auxiliary of Women
Naval and Military Order
Veterans of the Fifty-ninth
Canton Editor Death Probe Focuses on Louis Mazer
Stark County prosecutor C B McClintock with federal and state attorneys will press Louis Mazer on his knowledge of the murder of Don R Mellett editor of Canton Ohio. The charge remains first degree murder as the investigation continues.
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C. B. McClintock
Stark County
Ohio
Louis Mazer
Don R. Mellett
Canton
Old Prospector Shoots It Out in Mariposa Mine Claim
Paul Barran, 51, veteran of gold camps, shot three men during a dispute over a mining claim near Briceburg Mariposa County. Two attackers were killed, the third wounded. Barran claimed they threatened his life and killed his dog before he opened fire. Deputies plan no murder charges.
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Merced
Calif
Paul Barran
Old West
Eretr
Mariposa
Victor Shinonias
Ei Shastin
H. Clark
Bricebur
Mariposa County
Barran
Extradition Ordered in Corey Case. Witness Demands Prosecution
Gov. Hammill ordered Jack Corey of Waterloo extradited to Illinois to face a Chicago charge of operating a confidence game. He also called for arrest of the complaining witness and urged vigorous prosecution of a witness for Corey. A habeas corpus action was filed in Waterloo to avoid return. a hearing was set for Friday.
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Des Moines
Hammill
Jack Corey
Waterloo
Illinois
Corey
Chicago
Leo Siegel
Iowa
Siegel
Black Hawk County
Klein
Mazer collapses as murder charge hits Canton case
Canton publisher Don R. Mellett is murdered. Louis Mazer, Canton underworld figure, is charged with the first degree murder while being questioned by District Attorney Bernsteen. Investigators including Joseph Roach push for confessions as the case nears a climax.
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Cleveland
Joseph R. Roach
Chicago
Don R. Mellett
Canton
Louis Mazer
Underworld
A. E. Bernsteen
Mazer
Carl Studer
Studer
Cleveland, CO
Don R. Millett
Canton Daily News
A. EB. Seir
Eia
Joseph Roach
Roach
Bernsteen
Mellett
Justice of the Peace
Bruce Correll
Canton Township
Steve Kascholk
C. N. McClintock
Stark County
Ora Slater
Cincinnati
Jacob Nesbitt
Troy
Slater
George W. Armstrong
Earl W. Hexamer
Howell Leuck
United States District Attorney
Charles E. Morris
H. C. Pontius
Can
Weather Brief Iowa Illinois With River Stage Update
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday in Iowa with possible local thunder. Illinois sees mainly cloudy skies with a chance of showers and little temperature change. River stages show modest moves: St Paul 1.0 rising 0.3, La Crosse 0.1 steady, Dubuque 1.5 steady, Davenport 1.4 down 0.2, Keokuk 2.1 down 0.3, St Louis 6.1 rising 0.3.
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Iowa
Illinois
St. Paul
la Crosse
Dubuque
Davenport
Keokuk
St. Louis
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Elmer Boyd
New Brunswick Home News
Hall
Boyd
Mexico
Revolu
General Estrada
Knights of Columbus
State Department
White House
James R. Sheffield
Tite
Publishers Syndicate
Robert Quillen
Moines
Trio
Gov. Hammill
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