Ohio Motormen Seek State Split Over Taxes and Roads
Cleveland Auto Mobile Club officials back secession of Cuyahoga County from Ohio to form a new state. They argue city residents bear auto-related tax burdens and highway costs while rural areas push for less urban influence. The plan echoes Chicago moves and centers on highway needs and taxation debates.
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Willlast J. Huske
International News Service
Cleveland
Cleveland Automobile Club
Cuyahoga County
Ohio
Cuyahoga
Chicago
Oto
Coolidge Teachers Not Millionaires
The Rev. E. C. Carpenter, pastor of the Community church of Essex, N. Y., reports that in Plymouth, Vermont, the teachers who instructed Calvin Coolidge during his schooling earned modest average wages, challenging the notion of affluence among educators of the era.
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Middletown
Conn
E. C. Carpenter
Community Church of
Essex
N. Y
Calvin, Coolidge
Plymouth
Green Banana Used As Gun In Hold-Ups
A 16 year old boy on Diamond street near Howard used a green banana in place of a revolver during an attempted holdup. Police seized the fruit when he was searched and he was held without bail for court at Trenton and Dauphin streets.
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Philadelphia
Diamond Street
Howard
Charles Huckin
Fiftieth Street
Lancaster Avenue
Casper
Morullo
South Beulah Streets
Trenton Avenue
Dauphin Street
Holland
John Eworth Bodine
Montgomeryavenue
Pittsburgh Gas Well Near Kane Sets Off Huge Flow
Kane Pa Aug 14 A Pennsylvania Gas Co well on the Wellmore road three miles from Kane began production at 3 000 000 feet daily. Fire around the derrick was quickly subdued as gas surged from the new strike. The well lies near the historic Keeler gas field and close to a recent oil gusher on the Fred Pitterck lease. The company has already put the gas into Pittsburgh and Buffalo lines.
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Kane
Pennsylvania Gas Company
Wellmore Road
Pittsburgh
Buffalo
Shanty Wrecked After Wire Operator Leaves
A coal train wreck near Kere and Bridgeport injures Don Wolfe, a Pennsylvania Railroad telegraph operator, whose shanty collapsed from coal, when cars derailed and overturned after he left to deliver a train order. Trolley and power lines were toppled, disrupting steam, electric, and auto traffic.
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Bellaire
Don Wolfe
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania
Kere
Bridgeport
Wolfe
Polish Family Pursues $200 Million Estate in Poland
The Horowitz family of Lodz backed by the Polish government seeks $200 million from the estate of Monseigneur Martini, a New York bishop of Jewish origin who died in 1888. Martini, once a shareholder in Mackay Postal and Telegraph, left a fortune once estimated at $35 million to his three brothers, all now dead, making the Lodz heirs the likely claimants amid Poland’s uproar. Employer Smith, you’re discharged. Orfeé Boy Ivo done nothing.
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International News Service
Warsaw
Horowitz
Lodz
New York
Monseigneur Martini
Moses Jacob Horowitz
Mackay Postal and Telegraph Company
California
Poland
Banish Nervousness with Wendell's Ambition Pills
A vintage advert sells Wendell's Pills Ambition Brand at 60 cents from H. L. Dague. It promises quick relief for tiredness, moodiness, and nervous symptoms with a money back offer on the first box, claiming benefits within three days and addressing nervous system distress, constipation, loss of appetite, and sleeplessness.
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Smdka
H. L. Dagne
Wandell's
Ambition Brand
Mad Cats to Be Exterminated Over Rabies Scare
In villages near Sera devo and Ties hydrophobia spreads among cats bitten by rats carrying infection. Cats have bitten people, including children and adults, and are sent to Sarajevo Bacteriological Institute for treatment. An order decrees total cat extermination, with 792 felines destroyed in a single night. No mercy will be shown until danger passes.
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International News Service
Rome
Ties
Seradevo
Bacteriological Institute of
Sarajevo
Propose To Make Rubber From Corn
Dr. James F. Norris, president of the American Chemical Society, proposed in Los Angeles that corn and wheat derivatives could yield synthetic rubber. He said continued high prices might push manufacturers toward a corn based method, potentially easing dependence on rubber plantations in the Midwest.
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Los Angeles
Calif
James F. Norris
American Chemical Society
Kansas
Norris Gajd
Synthetic rubber from acetone eyed by researchers
Dr Norris notes new paths to rubber from acetone and crude oil bases. He cites German wartime production as a model and suggests Kansas corn and Middle West by products like butyl alcohol could become rubber feedstocks. The talk mentions Henry Clay and public figures in a brief, uneasy aside.
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Kansas
Norris
Crida
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Federal Tobacco Co
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Presilan
Fred Landis
Studebaker
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Chevrolet
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