Woman shoplifter eats broken glass in police station
Philadelphia Aug 5 Detec tives close by as Mrs Mary Miller 85 of Columbia avenue near seventeenth street attempts suicide after arrest for shoplifting. She grabs a milk bottle, shatters it, and swallows glass. Detectives rush her to Jahnemann Hospital. Creedon Farrel and Lambert injured while removing glass.
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Philadelphia
Mary Miller
Columbia Avenue
Seventeenth Street
City
Creedon
Farrel
Lamer
Maplinters
Jahnemann Hospital
Physiaps
Rail Board Now Supreme Power
Washington Aug. 5 The government views the railroad labor board as the supreme authority for industry in the strike crisis. President Harding’s peace proposals aim to unite management and leaders of the shop crafts unions under the board. A White House spokesman said the move, discussed after a cabinet session on the industrial situation, is to ensure the board’s status in the transportation world. Secretary Hoover announced coal distribution by the emergency control committee under informal arrangements pending full organization and orders.
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Firoad
Railroad Labor Board
Harding
Wailte House
Hoover
Shot as He Defends Wife in Near Fatal Attack
A. E. Ketchens of Miami was shot while defending his wife from an attack by three Black men near Southern Pines. Two attackers were captured and three placed in state custody. the couple were en route to New York from Miami when ambushed along the road. Additional item notes a Philadelphia scrap metal sale at Frankford Arsenal with Bridgeport firms among bidders.
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Eband
Garbage
N. C
A. E. Ketchen
Miami
Fla
Gas Strike on Kettle Creek Declared Largest in Years
Flow of natural gas on Kettle Creek near Lock Haven Pennsylvania is described as the biggest in the east in years and the largest east of the Tidioute district. Clinton Natural Gas and Oil Company officials confirm the find with an estimated flow around 1 800 000 cubic feet. The company operates five other wells in the region and has already piped enough gas to serve Lock Haven and nearby towns.
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Kettle Creek
Lock Haven
Tidioute
Clinton Natural Gas End Oil Company
News Ltd
Indiana Troops at Hines Fire Upon Ambush in Miners’ Dispute
Staunton Aug 5 National guardsmen guarding mines were fired on from ambush. The fire was returned and continued for hours. no injuries reported. Militants in nearby towns pledged to “get a flock of soldiers” as guards used machine guns in the occupied zone. In Carbondale Illinois a coal train was fired upon near the Illinois Central line with crew reporting shots against the cab windows.
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Staunton
Ind
Robert Tyndall
Carbondale
Paducah
Illinois Central Railroad
Dynamite Damages Bridge and Home in Uniontown Area
In Uniontown Pennsylvania on August 5 a dynamite blast wrecked the Monongahela branch bridge over Dunlap creek at Footedale delaying coal traffic mined by non union workers. The Finley home at 206 Park Avenue was struck by a bomb injuring no one. Archeologists report bones found in Certaldo linked to Dante’s contemporary Bocaccio.
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Uniontown
Monongahela
Pennsylvania Railroad
Donlap Creek
Footedale
H. Finley
Park Avenue
Dunlap Creek
Finley
Skull Found Buried in Culm Bank at Pittston
A human skull and decayed bone along with a woman's glipper were found by Walter Baker while coal mining at No 2 culm bank in Pittston. Police investigated but found no evidence of foul play and no missing woman record in the area. In Newark New Jersey a 72 year old man Martin Bechtold died by suicide, his body discovered in the bathtub, leaving a widow and four children.
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Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
Walte Baker
Newark
N. J
Depot County
Miningham
Martin Bechtold
Hom Bechtold
Globe Circler Blake Reaches Delhi After World Flight
Delhi reports Major Blake completes another lap of his airplane journey around the world arriving in the city. Bad weather and engine trouble forced a premature landing three miles outside Delhi as the globe circler continues his historic flight.
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Blake
Globe Circler
Delhi
India
Howe
The
Fishermen Load Record Mackerel Harvest Off Norwegian Coast
Fishermen offshore in Norwegian waters load mackerel to reach a historic haul. Boats haul an immense catch, with 10 000 mackerel reported, surpassing previous records. The fleet totals indicate a massive seasonal yield and ongoing efforts to push the season’s limit.
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Jerel Gach
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