Peace talks resume as miners oppose arbitration
A new peace plan proposed to resolve the long coal strike is debated by operators and miners in New York. Union leaders say Markle's plan is not acceptable and see it as another form of arbitration, though both sides acknowledge sincerity. The conference started late after midnight discussions and continued with a miners breakfast reviewing the proposal.
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James L. Kilgallen
International News Service
New York
Markle
Alvan Markle
Pennsylvania
Writer Slain Mystery If Sarah Lussier Identity Revealed
Police face a double mystery in the murder of Mrs. Sarah L. Lussier of Bridgeport Connecticut. They seek a slayer and her true identity, with her believed ties to a wealthy New York family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah L. Lussier
Bridgeport, Conn
New York
Davis Named Delegate to Arms Conference
Davis is designated as a delegate to an arms conference with presidential involvement cited. The move signals ongoing diplomacy and potential policy implications at the national level.
Davis Considered for U.S. Delegation to League Arms Conference
President Coolidge weighs Democrats for the American delegation to the League of Nations arms conference. John W. Davis is proposed, with Edward M. House and Senators Robinson Underwood and Glass among names under consideration. Borah may oppose leaving the Senate as talks continue on leadership. The Geneva preparatory conference begins February 15 with an American envoy group to be named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Washington
John W. Davis
President Coolidge
Davis
Coolidge
Great Britain
Edward M. House
Woodrow Wilson
Robinson
Arkansas
Underwood
Alabama
Glass
Virginia
White House
Hughes
Elihu Root
William E. Borah
Idaho
Borah
Senate
United States
Europe
League
Geneva
Floods Across Europe Cause Severe Damage and Loss of Life
Unseasonable thaws and heavy rains swell rivers across Romania, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and France. Rivers burst banks, flooding cities, delaying Rhine traffic, and raising fears of extensive property loss and casualties.
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Rumania
France
Germany
Holland
Belgium
Europe
Romania
Cologne
Rhine
Seine
England
Coronado
Eastbourne
Newsies Gather For New Year Dinner And Vaudeville
Some 450 newsboys from New Castle will dine at Leslie Hotel and attend a Carnegie auditorium vaudeville show. Saul Leff and Alex Silverman host with Francis Keefe arranging use of the tea room. Police aid will supervise, and photos are planned after the meal before the afternoon performance.
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New Castle
Saul Leff
Alex Silverman
Leslie Hotel
Leslie
Carnegie Auditorium
Newsies
Francis Keefe
P. R. R. Police Department
Messrs
Leff and Silverman
George Rigby
Welfare Department
Mercer Man Injured In Collision At White Bridge Crossing
Clyde Adams 18, of Mercer, was struck by a Pennsylvania light engine at the Wilson avenue crossing with the Erie and Pittsburgh highway. He suffered a fractured right hip, cuts to the head and above the eye, and severe bruises while driving a tow truck laden with feed to his father’s mill. He was taken to Mercer hospital and is resting as comfortably as could be expected with recovery uncertain. The truck was dragged about 100 feet. Adams narrowly escaped death, with his life described as miraculous.
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Mercer
Clyde Adams
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Wilson Avenue
Mercer Hospital
Adams
J. B. Adams
Coronado Steamer Sends Distress From Violent Gale
Distress signals were received today from the steamer Coronado caught in a gale off Lands End bound for Jamaica. Sixty passengers and a crew of 102 were aboard. Efforts to reach the vessel later in the day have been in vain. Owners last heard from Coronado Tuesday afternoon with no prior indication of trouble.
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International News Service
BUNLE
London
Landsend
Jamaica
Building New Zeppelin for Polar Dash Announced
Stuttgart Germany December 50 Dr Hugo Eckener former Los Angeles pilot announced work had begun on a dirigible planned for a polar flight next year The Zeppelin factory has started gondola and engine construction The Eckener fund has reached about 1.5 million marks Amundsen has been named as a possible expedition leader
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International News Service
Stuttgart
Germany
Hugo Eckener
Los Angeles
United States
Eckener
Pole
Fire destroys Hart Cotton warehouse in Lake City
A large fire in Lake City Florida destroyed the Hart Cotton warehouse. Damage estimates ranged from twenty thousand to four hundred thousand dollars. Conflicting reports suggested over 200 cars stored there, though officials thought fewer than five were lost. A nearby negro church and several residences were damaged.
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International News Service
Lake City
Fla
Hart
George Adicts
George Coburn
Citizens Loan and Savings Association
Panic Follows Sudden Crash at Amity Crossing
In Homestead Pennsylvania on December 30 a Pittsburgh and Lake Erie freight train collided with a street car at the Amity street crossing. Seven people were injured and twenty passengers escaped death as the foggy, obscured crossing led to a collision and a near overturn. Motorman Joseph Fahnerath suffered head injuries. conductor C. P. McCauley reported fog reduced visibility.
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International News Service
Homestead
Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie
Amity Street Crossing
Joseph Fahnerath
C. P. McCauley
McCauley
New Jersey Man Robbed of Auto and 7500 by Four Thugs
Anthony P. Macke a 30 year old hardware maker of Hammonton N J was robbed at a lonely spot on the White Horse Pike near Miltonville by four masked men who took 7500 in cash and his car He staggered to state police headquarters and collapsed from injuries and cold A posse of state police and armed citizens pursued the bandits who were thought to be hiding in Cranberry bogs near Hammonton N J
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International News Service
Hammonton
N. J
Anthony P. Macke
White Horse Pike
Miltonville
Macke
Firemen overcome in Philadelphia four story blaze
In northeast Philadelphia several firefighters were overcome while battling a fire of undetermined origin that destroyed a four story building housing the Interstate Parlor Frame, Well Made Box, and Schindle umbrella handle companies. Loss runs above $259,000.
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Aternational News Service
Philadelphia
Interstate
Well Made Box Company
Schindle Company
Yuletide Program Delights E A Division at Pennsylvanian Railroa
About 1,000 E A division employees and guests packed the senior high school auditorium for a Yuletide program staged by Pennsylvanian railroad E and A division. Master of ceremonies E A Fenton and his committee organized acts from the Charleston to Turkey in the Straw with Noble's Pennsylvanians providing pre show music. The 44 piece E A division band opened with the Star Spangled Banner, led by H E Culbertson, followed by an overture. Harry E Yoho the sleight of hand artist opened the entertainment with tricks. The quartet made up of Joe Strumater R E Johns R P Rhodes and W E Harris performed several numbers before J H Snider, a 65 years old pensioned telegraph operator, concluded the program with more.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
E. A. Fenton
Charleston
America
Noble
E. A. Fentoh
E. & A. Division
H. E. Culbertson
Harry E. Yoho
Yoho
Joe Strumater
R. E. Johns
R. P. Rhodes
W. E. Harris
J. H. Snider
What's That Spot On The Sun
A whimsical report follows a sun spot mystery as reporters test sight with colored lenses. After hours of searching the sun appears normal, while the editor sees gray and black spots in the gaze, concluding there were no actual sun spots that morning.
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News
No Extension For Auto Tags
Chief of Police Henry Dysart received a letter from Benjamin J. Eynon registrar of motor vehicles asking police cooperation to enforce the ban on 1925 licenses after January 1. The state patrol will arrest owners operating vehicles with 1925 licenses on or after that date. Dysart said the local department will cooperate fully to prevent use after December 31.
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Henry Dysart
Benjamin J. Eynon
State Highway Department
Dysart
State Highway Patrol
Colonel Coolidge In No Immediate Danger Belief
Plymouth Vermont December 30 Colonel John C Coolidge elderly father of the president remains in a discouraged mood as rheumatic trouble and circulatory problems have left his legs useless He sits up in a wheelchair and his physician says there is no immediate danger though the colonel may have taken his last steps with the rheumatic attack probably shortening his days and grandson John Coolidge visits tomorrow before returning to Amherst College
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International News Service
Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
John Coolidge
John
White House
Amherst College
Coolidge
Arthur M. Cram
Marriage Licenses and Hospital Admission Report
Wm. Cummings Jr. of New Castle and Evelyn Poindexter of New Castle obtained a marriage license. Mrs. William Crane of Waldo Street has been moved to New Castle hospital for treatment.
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Wm. Cummings, Jr
New Castle
Evelyn Poindexter
William Crane
Waldo Street
New Castle Hospital
Deaths of Mrs Rather Booker and Martha Burr
An elderly widow Mrs Rather Booker aged 82 of 516 North Cedar Street dies. Infant Martha May Burr aged 9 months of Slippery Rock Township is noted in the death record.
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Rather Booker
North Cedar Street
Martha May Burr
Slippery Rock Township
Burglars Enter Mercer Street Home
A home at 208 North Mercer Street was entered and ransacked while residents were out. Entry came through a side window. thieves likely sought money or jewelry, but nothing was reported missing.
Noted Chinese Commissioner Is Assassin Victim
Hsu-Shu-Chang, Chinese government commissioner returning from the United States, was assassinated at Langfans, China. The killer Luchengwu admitted the act saying it was to avenge his father executed seven years earlier by Hsu-Shu-Chang while en route to report to the Chinese president in Tientsin.
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International News Service
Peking
Hsu-Shu- Chang
United States
Langfans
China
Luchengwu
Hsu- Shu-Chang
Hsu-Shu-Chang
Tientsin
I Do Not Own a Car I Say
The speaker Musers about life without a car and the imagined thrill of driving. He notes not owning a vehicle while recalling friends’ courtesy and fantasizing about summer spins, contrasting it with mundane car troubles and local traffic talk.
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Nina Kelly
William J. Buchan
Kansas City
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North Pole
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New Jersey
Carroll Kearns
Colonel Coolidge
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