Rogers endorses Smith on baloney photos in letter
In Newton Kansas July 20 Will Rogers writes that Al Smith rejected baloney campaign photos. Photographers urged him to pose laying bricks, but Smith called it a baloney picture and declined. Rogers suggests the public reading of photos matters more than staged images.
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Speclal
Newton
Kan
al Smith
America
Coolidge
Baloney
White House
Will Rogers
Cloudburst floods New Castle streets and travel chaos
Last night’s cloudburst flooded streets and stalled cars across the county highways in New Castle. Motorists faced drownouts, dodging stalled vehicles as people hiked or bathed in the deluge. Campers along streams watched the waters anxiously, crops suffered with hay beat down and wheat rot. The New Castle Motor Club meets at 7:30 pm in the city building. Temperature noon to near 93 degrees. The town recalls early auto history with David Jameson and Frank Douds’s steam car from 1900 on display at Ban Franklin Junior high.
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New Castle Motor Club
David Jameson
Automobile Club of
New Castle
Frank Douds
Ban Franklin Junior High
Nations Sign War Outlaw Pact All Major Powers On Board
International News Service reports Japan accepts the multilateral treaty outlawing war along with Great Britain France Italy Belgium Germany and Poland. Britain acts for empire dominions Canada and the Irish Free State sign separately. Czecho Slovakia Russia Moscow advise acceptance. Spain expected to join later. A Paris signing conference is planned for August or September.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Finternaional News Service
Japan
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Poland
Britain
India
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand
Canada
Irish Free State
Washington
Czecho-Slovakia
Prague
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Spain
Ts | Tt Iss
Paris
Bronx County jail guard shooting and prisoner suicide
A probe into a Bronx county jail shooting reveals prisoner John Jr McCabe killed two guards during a breakout attempt and then killed himself when blocked from escape. Weapons believed smuggled by a visiting Italian. rioting inmates and heavy police response followed. District Attorney McGeehan noted McCabe had sought an interview the day prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bronx County
Morris .Broderson
McCabe
Daniel Horgan
Tai Jar
John B. McGeehan
McGeehan
Five Killed In Omaha Storm
Five lives were lost in a severe rain and electrical storm that struck the area during the night. The dead include D. D. Tucker 44 George Wilson 43 Jesse Davis 22 and John Butts 23 all of Stenberry Missouri and Leroy McCardie 27 of Elkhorn Nebraska. The Stanberry men were railroad workers on a Wabash freight train killed when the train crashed through a trestle near Mineola Town. McCardie was killed by lightning.
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Mineola
McCardie
American Olympic Athletes Arrive in Amsterdam
American athletes arrived today aboard the liner President Roosevelt in good condition and ready to begin land training. National entries for swimming, rowing, yachting, wrestling, modern pentathlon and cycling are closed with a record number of countries signing in. The United States fields teams in all listed sports as thirty four nations enter swimming, twenty six in wrestling, twenty in rowing, twenty three in yachting and fourteen in modern pentathlon.
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International News Service
Amsterdam
Roosevelt
United States
Union Township Sewer Project Report Presented
Frank Miller, city of New Castle engineer, presented to the council a report on Union Township sewer connection costs. The study, based on Puller and McClintock recommendations, estimates 13,170 residents would need service and the upper west side sewer would cost 105000 dollars with Union Township paying 38 percent.
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Frank “Miller
New ‘Castle
Union Township
Puller
A. McClintock
Miller
Harvey Milholland
Willer
Union
Upper West Side
Three Fire Calls During Storm Reported by Chief Lymn
Fire alarms sounded Thursday during a storm. Two were false. At 10:45 Arlington Avenue a car owned by H. Duncan burned from a short circuit, $25 damage. At 10:30 Cascade Street a supposed two story dwelling fire found to be none. Buckeye plant on Butler Road struck by lightning at 10:20. water too high to drive trucks, crew waded to plant.
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Charles H.lymn
Arlington Avenue
H.duncan
No. 3 Company
Cascade Street
Buckeye
Butler
Butler Road
Question Suspect In Bombing Blast That Kills Man
International News Service reports a second bomb found in a garage linked to Vernon Plager and his car blast that killed him. Police question Paul Reed, 39, bachelor and admirer of Plager’s wife, after Plager named Reed in a dying statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Rockford
Vernon
Plager
Yds
Paul Reed
Ive Cook Plager
Reed
Mexicans Begin Mourning Period For Late Leader
Mexico City reports a nine day mourning period for late leader President elect Alvaro Obregon. Congress session delayed to July 30 to consider reforms backing Obregonists aims to extend President Calles term to six years and push through transitional clauses.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Alvaro ‘Obregon
Obregon
Congress
Callles
Jats
Gangsters Wound Four In St Louis Slugging Fire
In St Louis a gang shooting wounded three teenagers and a woman as furniture moved from a South St Louis house. A baby remained unharmed. A man named Jos Stallone was found slumped over his car steering wheel. The assailants arrived in two other cars and opened fire after the family loaded vehicles.
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Gwouis
St. Louis
South St. Louis
Hughes To Lead East Republican Speaking Campaign
Charles Evans Hughes of New York would head the East speaking drive if he accepts an invitation from Representative John Q. Tilson head of the speakers bureau. Tilson said Hughes likely would speak in several places and close the campaign in New York. Dawes and Charles Curtis would also aid, with Dawes speaking in both East and West including New York and Boston, and Curtis invited to cover both regions.
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Uternarional
Washington
Charles Evans Y Hughes
New York
East
John Q. Tilson
Castom
Thikson
Herbert Hoover
California
Hughes
Tilson
Dawes
Charles
Mooyer
Chicago
Boston
Charles Curtis
West
Hoovers
Agiinltely
Ci UN
Normines
Hoover Arrives In California Quietly as Nominee
Herbert Hoover touched down in California for the first time since being named the Republican presidential candidate. In Benicia he met a small group of family and old friends including Allan Hoover, T. C. Gregory, Milton Earg, and Mark Requa, but there were no cheers or remarks during the visit.
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International News Service
Oakland
Cal
Herbert Hoover
California
Allan ‘Hoover
Hoover
Benecia
Death mystery surrounds Capt. Loewenstein case
French and Belgian authorities face resolving whether Belgian financier Captain Alfred Loewenstein died by accident while crossing the English Channel on July 4 or by suicide. The body, found ten miles off Cape Griz Nez and identified by a wristwatch, was taken to Boulogne morgue and later Calais for examination as rumors of a hoax end.
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Internutionsl
Paris
Alfred Loewenstein
English Channel
Suide
Finacier
Boulogne
Lowenstein
Cape Griz'Nez
Calais
Fege Two
Ice-Breaker Abandons Arctic Rescue Efforts
International News Service reports the ice breaker Maligin has halted search for Nobile expedition survivors due to fuel shortages and melting ice. The vessel returns to Archangel while Krassin remains at King's Bay with seven rescued Nobile party members aboard Citta Di Milano.
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Moscow
Maligin
Nobile
Amundsen
Archangel
Denfergus
King’s Bay
Sipitabergen
Citta di Milano
Two Guardsmen Missing In Cape May Ship Collision
Coast guard patrol boat CG-113 sank after collision with passenger steamer Culbertson near Cape May in heavy fog. Two guardsmen, Clarence Haines and Dewitt Hale, are believed drowned. seven crew aboard, five survivors describe the crash and quick sinking. Government probe expected.
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Arthur P. Becker
James Daubler
Cecil Boggess
Halmes
Hale
Urban Wright
Thomas Riddick
Riddick
Wright
Haines
Coast Guard
Reach
Readjustment In Bituminous Fields Sought By Union
Pittsburgh June 20 The United Mine Workers District No 6 policy committee meets to set a basic wage scale for striking members to return to mines. The union aims to negotiate with smaller independent operators after abandoning Jacksonville scale demands. A proposed daily lease around 6.80 dollars is discussed as a target in Ohio Illinois and nearby fields. Industry conditions show slow improvement with favorable Lake freight rates and better shipping in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
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Pittsburgh
United Mine Workers of America
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Pittsburgh’ Terminal Corporation
Jacksonville
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Death notices for McKim Holliday Sitler in Ohio records
Death records list Mrs. Mary Beatty McKim 55 of North Beaver township Clyde Hockenberry 20 Steubenville Ohio Jolett F Holiday 72 West State Street and Tal F E Sitler 63 Columbiana Ohio with unclear relations and locations reflecting a local obituary notice.
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Mary Beatty McKim
North Beaver Township
Clyde Hockenberry
Steubenville
Ohio
Jolett F. Holliday
West State
Rain Floods New Castle Streets and Sewers
Torrential rain drenches New Castle causingBridge collapse widespread washouts and undermined sidewalks. Police report peak damage around 9 pm as Neahennock Creek and Bhenango River rise. Sanitary and storm sewers fail. citywide repairs underway with Bell Telephone noting 15 lines down and 70 telephones out.
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New Castle
East Street
Weshamnock Avenues
Croton Avenue
Neahennock
Bhenango
Moravia
Terrace Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lyndall Street
Division Street
Cunningham Avenue
Cascade Street
Grant
State Streets
Youngstown
Jane Street
Quest
North Streets
Bankey Street
Sutton Street
McCleary Avenue
Bell Telephone Company
Rainstorm Delivers 1.83 Inches In Ninety Minutes
Last night between nine and ten thirty the city recorded an extraordinary rainfall of 1.83 inches, the greatest in months for the period. Measurements at the Water Company pump station near Shenango showed this figure, while chemist C. F. Johnson noted the city likely saw even more rain than the station reported.
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Water Company
Shenango
C. F. Johnson
Ais
G. O. P Leaders Map Budget Plan
Washington July 20 Republican campaign finances take shape as National Chairman Hubert Work and National Treasurer J R Nutt study departmental estimates. No cap on individual gifts. $3,000 tentative budget with room for supplemental estimates. Democrats expected to hold a larger war chest due to subscription openness and Democratic chair John J Reskobe.
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Washington
Hubert Work
J.R. Nutt
Nutt
Work
John J. Reskob
Reconstruction bid sought for New Castle Ellwood road
Pennsylvania Department of Highways invites bids to rebuild the macadam section of New Castle Ellwood road in Shenango township from New Castle city limit to the start of concrete pavement about 2519 feet long. The new road will be reinforced concrete 18 feet wide. Likely bridge over Western Allegheny railroad remains unpaved. Proposals due at the state capitol by 10 a.m. August 10. contract awarded as soon after.
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Pennsylvania Department of Highways
Maccadam
New Castle-Ellwood
Shenango Township
New Castle City
Western Allegheny Railroad
State Capitol
Noah's flood mocked by old tales and night life
A fragmentary, whimsical piece imagines Noah touring a rain soaked city nightly scene. It invokes old timers like Arthur Mometer and Gil, referencing floods, streets and gardens now awash with drink, and the idea of a Noah who would have enjoyed a dry ending despite modern traffic. The voice is playful and dated in tone.
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Noah
Sax
Gil
Ark
Warren Youth Drowns in Allegheny River During Outing
Warren Pa July 20 James Mander Greenland 42 drowned in the Allegheny River after cramps struck during a river outing. Two companions tried to rescue him but were unable to save him.
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International None
Warren, Ps
James Mander Greenland
Allegheny River
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