Laborite pledge to keep France ties as power shifts
London dispatch reports J. H. Thomas of the Labor party says friendly relations with France would continue if Labor wins power. The Tory government urges full attendance as a no confidence vote looms and a railway strike threatens MPs.
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David M. Church
International News Service
London
Great Britain
France
Labor
J. H. Thomas
Labor Party
House of Commons
Thomas
Laborite
Ramsay MacDonald
Stanley Baldwin
Baldwin
Locomotive Engineers Union
Police Find Man And Woman Dead in Philadelphia Tragedy
Police discovered a man and a woman dead in Philadelphia in a case described as a tragedy. The report notes the individuals were found at a residence, with authorities treating it as a fatal incident under investigation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphic
Death by own action pact rocks Philadelphia rooming house
Robert Finley of Lock Haven and Helen Brunner of Crisfield were found dead in a rooming house on North Sixteenth Street. Police say Finley shot Brunner then killed himself, the victims believed to have made a financial marriage pact. Finley, a former drug clerk, had been out of work for months.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Jas
Robert Finley
Lock Haven
Helen Brunner
Crisfield
North Sixteenth Street
Finley
Lock Havven
Second Time in Four Days Bomb Shakes District
Uniontown January 18 residents near Lairdance report dynamite blasts in the countryside. A bomb hurled at A H Miller home woke occupants and shattered windows. Four days earlier James Daugherty’s barn was bombed. Moonshiners, seeking revenge against informants, are suspected as the culprits. Farmers guard homes with loaded shotguns amid fear of further attacks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Uniontown
Lairdance
A. H. Miller
James Daugherty
Fairchance
Wovie Owners Bar Mabel Normand Films in New Castle
New Castle exhibitors voted to bar Mabel Normand films following a request from the Federation of Women's Clubs. The action, taken Thursday afternoon January 17, follows Normand's alleged connection to a party where Walter Dines was shot by her chauffeur. This marks the second ban after Roscoe Arbuckle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel Normand
New Castle
Roscoe
Fatty’ Arbuckle
Milk License Plates Display Brilliant Color
Health department issues milk license plates for the year 4924 in a bright red with black lettering, a sharp change from last year’s aluminum plates with red letters. The new design aims to improve visibility and enforcement.
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Health Department
Arthur Mometer and the Primary Campaign Whirlwind
The piece lampoons campaign rhetoric as candidates spar and promise during the primary season. It notes the speaker Silas Q. O Hearn urging support, an adversary deriding him, and references to voting day approaching while a cold, thirty two degree weather dampens the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Q. O’hearn
Oak Park Church Scandal Triggers Divorce Suit
In Chicago on January 18, a divorce suit against Mrs. Albert R. Leland cites relations with Rev. Dr. Carl D. Case of First Baptist Oak Park. Leland alleges infatuation and ardent attentions, while Case denies improper conduct and a church inquiry was ordered.
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International News Service
Chicago
Carl D. Case
First Baptist Church of
Oak Park
Albert R. Leland
Leland
Foell
H. C. Leland
de Witt
Iowa
Case
Investi
Measles Epidemic Spreads Through City Schools
An epidemic of measles is developing among city school children. Except for two schools Lawrence and Mahoning nearly all city schools report cases among pupils. With rapid spread, cases may soon appear in those remaining schools as well.
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Lawrence
Mahoning
Death Record for Edna Hasson and Elizabeth Wiley
Death notices list Mrs Edna May Hasson age 24 of 818 Avson Street and Mrs Elizabeth Wiley age 89 of EN Wood City. No further details provided.
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Edna May Hasson
Avson Street
Elizabeth Wiley
Enwood City
Road link urged to connect New Wilmington and Mercer
A conference of 100 road enthusiasts from Lawrence and Mercer counties urged the state to build a New Wilmington to Mercer road as part of the new program. Mercer and Lawrence counties would gain a direct improved highway linking their seats, with a resolutions committee to push for funding from existing bond issues.
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Wilmington- Mercer Road
Mercer
Lawrence
Q. A. Gordon
H. T. Getty
New Wilmington
P. K. Stevenson
New Castle
Lackawanna
State Highway Department
William Cox
Meade Coryea
J. C. McCready
William Phillips Named to Succeed Child as U S Ambassador
ROME January 18 William Phillips under secretary of state at Washington will succeed Richard Washburn Child as American ambassador to Italy. Ambassador Child plans to leave Rome Sunday and return to the United States diplomatic circles said today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Rome
William Phillips
Washington
Richard Washburn Child
Italy
Ambassador Child
Beleive Crisis s Impending In Mexican Affairs
San Antonio and Texas state officials report Obregon seeks to move Mexican troops through Texas but Acting Governor T W Davidson rejects the request fearing border clashes. Washington observers foresee a crisis as Obregon marches 16 000 troops toward Vera Cruz and Tampico with possible U S railroad passage approved for Federalists.
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International News Service
San Antonio
Texas
T. W. Davidson
Obregon
Davidson
Texas Rio Grande
Washington
Vera Cruz
Tampico
de la Huertistas
Vera Graz
U. S
Naco
Arizona
Plan New Effort To Rescue Crew Of Ice Bound Ferry
A new rescue attempt was planned today to reach thirty crew members aboard the Chief Wawa tam ferry frozen in the Straits off Mackinaw City Michigan with only three days of provisions. Blizzards had driven back prior parties, a lull allowed plans to resume, while travel delays stranded people between Mackinaw and St Ignace.
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International News Service
Mackinaw City
Mich
Wawatam
Upper
Lower
Peninsular
Mackinaw
St. Ignace
Neck Of Murderer Broken By Hanging In Fort Madison
Roy Maupin, a black slayer of Joseph Haynes, died at Fort Madison penitentiary after a rope broke during the hanging. His neck had been broken by the execution, and his body fell to the scaffold floor as the line snapped.
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International News Service
Fort Madison
Roy Maupin
Joseph Haynes
Births Exceed Deaths in New Castle City 1923 Record
Official 1923 vital statistics report shows 1 418 births and 593 deaths in New Castle. Deputy registrar W G Wilson notes 65 percent of births to foreign born parents and urges prompt reporting to ensure records mirror reality. All deaths are recorded for burial permits. Deaths rose from 561 in 1922 to 593 in 1923.
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Stork
New Castle
W. G. Wilson
Registrar of Vital Statistics
State President To Speak At Banquet
Banquet of the New Castle Business and Professional Women's club honors Dr. Bertha Maxwell Huntingdon of Williamsport Pennsylvania president of the Pennsylvania Association of Business and Professional Women's clubs tonight at Fountain Inn at 6:15 PM. More than seventy five members and guests expected. Miss Mary Browne will preside as toastmistress. Dr. Huntingdon will speak on the clubs work and aims of the national association. Representatives from multiple groups will attend and speak, including Federation of Women's clubs board of trade Quota Rotary Kiwanis and Lions clubs plus city and county administrations. A musical program is planned.
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New Castle Business and Professional Women’s Club
Bertha Maxwell Huntingdon
Williamsport
Pennsylvania Association of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Fountain Inn
New Castle Club
Mary Browne
State Association
Dr. Huntingdon
Business
National Association of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs
Federation of Women's Clubs
Board of Trade
Quota
Rotary, Kiwanis and
Jions Clubs
Secretary Davis To Warn Miners Against Strike
Secretary of Labor Davis will address the United Mine Workers meeting in Indianapolis on January 31. With President Coolidge’s approval he plans to urge miners to avoid extravagant wage demands, warning that many bituminous mines are overmined or partially shut, and a strike could elicit drastic federal action.
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International News Service
Washington
Coolidge
Davis
United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Tacoma crew lands after two days stranded at Blanquilla Reef
Part of the Tacoma crew stranded two days on Blanquilla Reef in the Gulf of Mexico has been landed at Vera Cruz. The rest of the crew remains aboard. The cruiser Richmond is due to arrive off Vera Cruz tomorrow to assist the Tacoma off the rocks.
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International News Service
Washington
Nan
Tacoma
Blanquilla Reef
Gulf of Mexico
Vera Cruz
Navy Department
Richmond
Former Probate Judge Executed For Wile Murder
A former probate judge was executed for the Wile murder case. The court held the inmate responsible for the crime, delivering the sentence in a pending penitentiary setting.
Firing Squad Executes Ex-Idaho Probate Judge
Omer R. Woods faced execution at Utah State Prison in a yard firing. Hooded and strapped to a chair, he was shot at 8:17 am as guards watched in the snow. Five concealed rifles fired on a heart target. doctors announced death two minutes later.
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International News Service
Salt Lake City
Utah
Omer R. Woods
State Penitentiary
Woods
Idaho
St. Pauls Lutheran Plans Westlake Property Purchase
At a special morning service St. Pauls Lutheran Church will propose buying the Westlake property at Jefferson and Grant to expand its campus. Dr. Burgess of Pittsburgh Synod will preside and deliver a sermon as council installation follows with quartet performances.
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St. Paul's Lutheran
Church Council
Westlake
Jefferson and
Grant Streets
Burgess
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Synod
United Lutheran Church
Winter Avenue
St. Paul's
St. Paul's Church
Leta Johns
Fall denies Caraway charges over Teapot Dome leases
Albert B. Fall, former interior secretary, denies to Senator Caraway that he took any money or favored Sinclair interests in Teapot Dome oil leases. Fall, ill in New Orleans, says Caraway’s charges are absolutely false and asserts immunity would bar testimony.
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Washington
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
T. H. Caraway
Arkansas
Senate
Fall
Teapot Dome
Sinclair Interests
New Orleans
Caraway
International
A. B
Drownings and Shootings Reported in Various States
Snapshots from across the region recount a 9 year old drowning at Arbuckle Ohio after skating on a pond broke, a 9 year old boy shot by a chum in Letart Falls Ohio, a wage suit by Miss Ida France against Burrel township school board in Uniontown PA, and a Va couple losing twins at two separate times. The Greensburg judge declines return of a seized automobile with liquor cargo. A stolen Oil City car found in Erie after leaving a tag to notify John Zimtelt. Western Star cemetery trustee Samuel Gold reports vandalism of monuments and vaults in Youngstown.
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Ida France
Burrel Township
Uniontown
Greensburg
Whitten
Oil City
Erie
John Zimtelt
Oi City
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Mabel
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Arthur Mometer
Shenandoah
Lakehurst
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County Commissioners For Action
Child
Pico
New Mexico
Tr’p
Miss Browne
Bertha Huntingdon
President Coolidge
Utah State
Peni
Tentiary
Supreme Court
St. Paul’s Church
Secretary of Interior
Warren Chapman
Arbuckle, O
Charles Larsen
Letart Falls
Death
Thomas Shubella
Windber
Samuel Gold
Western Star Cemetery
Youngstown
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