British Press Demands Action After Kidnapped Missionaries
British papers urge immediate action toward China following the kidnapping of eight missionaries by Chinese bandits and Cantonese government pressure on British and Japanese shipping. The government moves cautiously, awaiting full investigation and protection of sailors before any steps. Appeals from Hong Kong and South China districts call for expanded naval forces to guard Chinese waters.
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London
China
Hong Kong
South Ching
Dairy
British cautious resolve over Canton edict amid Szechwan kidnappings
Downing Street debates responses to Canton ban on British ships while eight British missionaries, including Bishop Mowll formerly of Toronto, are reportedly kidnapped in Szechwan. Foreign Minister Chamberlain moves cautiously, facing a vast, fragmented Chinese authority and possible anti foreign sentiment aimed at Hong Kong removal.
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South China
Canton
Downing Street
Szechwan
Bishop Mowl
Toronto
Canada
Britain
Hong
Hong Kong
Prisoners Taken To Workhouse In County Action
Chester Smith and James Davis were taken to the workhouse yesterday by Deputy Sheriff James Whiteman and County Commissioners clerk James Lamoree. Smith was sentenced five months by Judge Emery for liquor charges and Davis five months for aggravated assault and battery.
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Chester Smith
James Davis
James Whiteman
James Lamoree Smith
Emery
Davis
Hildebrand Pursues County Judge Post in Democratic Primary
District Attorney R Lawrence Hildebrand declares candidacy for Judge of Lawrence County courts pending Democratic primaries on September 15. He pledges prompt courteous honest fair impartial conduct of district attorney duties and seeks voter support for his administration.
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R. Lawrence Hildebrand
Lawrence County
Former Bankrupt King Arrested On Check Charge
Adolph Segal, 65, once declared bankrupt with liabilities of 3,000,000 and assets of 6&7 cents, known as the man with the golden touch, will be arraigned before Magistrate Holland in Philadelphia on a check charge.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Adolph Segal
Man
Holland
Notice gendar the Great showing at Regant Theatre
A film featuring Marion Davies Harrison Ford Harry Meyers Hobart Bosworth and May Bush is currently being shown at the Regant Theatre. The public is urged to view this noted picture while it remains on the screen.
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Gendar the Great
Marion Davies
Harrison Ford
Harry Meyers
Hobard Bosworth
May Bush
Regant Theatre
Segal Charged With Worthless Check Case in City
Segal, now living in New York, was arrested after detectives executed a warrant sworn by Howard Montaith of Morrie China Co. of Trenton, N J. The check for 400 dollars was alleged as partial payment on a 2500 dollar note. Segal, an Austrian immigrant of 1880, once ran a soap boiler venture and a wax paper process, later organizing a local paper company. He dismissed the matter as “just a little trifle.”
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Segal
New York City
Howard Monteith
Morrie China Company
Trenton
N. J
Montaith
Austria
Former Local Girl To Sing Sunday at First Presbyterian
Sue Harvard Armstrong, once a Huclid avenue resident, will sing several solo numbers at Sunday morning service in the First Presbyterian church. Her husband, Herbert Armstrong, a New York banker, is visiting her father John Harvard.
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First Presbyterian
Herbert N. Armstrong
Sue Harvard
New York City
Miners Report Back to Work in Fayette City
In Fayette City Pa fifty two miners returned to the Banning No 2 mine of Pittsburgh Coal Co reporting for work at the 1817 wage scale. No coal will be mined until the shaft is re conditioned, a process expected to take several days. Union leaders dispute the earlier count of 36 workers and say only six were present yesterday none of whom were union members. Police and state troopers remain on site to deter possible violence while a union picket of about one hundred is present but not using force to press wage demands.
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International News Service
Fayette City
Banning No
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Foster slated as prohibition chief in New York
Rumor places John A. Foster, divisional prohibition chief in Philadelphia, to head the government prohibition forces in southern and eastern New York state. Foster, a Bostonian, has served 12 years in the internal revenue service and has been in Philadelphia about four months.
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Philadelphia
John A. Foster
New York
Foster
New York State
Internal Revenue Service
Engine Backs Into Freight In Syracuse Wreck
In Syracuse New York on August 21 engineer Peter Windhousen and fireman A Groom were trapped for an hour after a switch engine rammed a freight car in the D L and W yards. Heavy rain hindered yard visibility and the crew freed the men after the wrecking crew removed the tender from the cabin.
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Cincernateway News Service
Syracuse
N. Y
Peter Windhousen
Groom
City playgrounds stay open for children despite instructors ending
City playgrounds remain open for youngsters with supervised centers unavailable after August 7. Councilman Davies notes recreation facilities with see-saws and slides still provide amusement as hundreds of Uitle children visit daily, supported by the city and Woman's Federated clubs.
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D. C. Davies
Aged Veterans Protest Flags At Civil War Memorial Talk
Local veterans of the Civil War opposed flying flags other than the Stars and Stripes or that of a friendly nation after an address by Louis F. Areansberg of Uniontown, commander in chief of the G A R. He criticized the arena mountain memorial project honoring the Confederate army. Thirteen dollars a day is the wage scale for Dallas bricklayers.
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International News Service
Washington
Teterans
Louis F. Areansberg
Uniontown
Ig. A. R
Arena Mountain
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Greer Bldg
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Julian Goldman
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Herbert Rawline
Dorahy Devon
Hugo Ballis
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