Miners Seize Train Sparks West Virginia Turmoil
Coal miners rebelling against union chiefs captured a Chesapeake and Ohio passenger train at Danville West Virginia and fired shots as hundreds gathered at Blair and Marmet amid martial law. State officials in Charleston and President Harding watched developments with calls for a conference to resolve the Mingo county strike.
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Charleston
W. Va
Chesapeake and Ohio
Danville
Blair
Logan County
Boone County
Indianapolis
Ind
Harding
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Mingo County
West Virginia
Lewis
International Union
Madison
Marmet
Mingo
C. F. Kenney
District 17
Keeney
Peyton
Peyton-Madison
Broken ZR-3 Girders Spliced During Bedford Construction
Frank M. Gorey, former chief machinist's mate U S Navy and original ZR 3 crew member, swore in a statement published by the New York Daily News that 12 of 25 girders broke when the dirigible was inflated at Bedford in 1919 and the broken parts were merely spliced.
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New York
Frank M. Gorey
New York Daily News
Gorey
Bedford
Bandits Loot Huntington Park Bank Branch
Bank officials say four or five armed masked men robbed the Huntington Park branch of the Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank in Los Angeles. They secured between 20000 and 45000 dollars after knocking unconscious the branch manager A Adams and another employee, then fled by automobile with all customers present.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Huntington Park
Los Angeles Trust and Savings Bank
A. Adams
Hundreds of Villages Wrecked by Yellow River Flood
The Hoang-Ho or Yellow river overflow after heavy rains has destroyed hundreds of villages in Shantung province and left thousands homeless. The flood spreads across multiple counties causing widespread ruin and displacement.
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Peking
Shantung
Plane Falls in Channel With Mail from London to Brussels
An airplane carrying mail from London to Brussels fell into the English Channel a few miles off Calais after the explosion of its patrol tank. It is unknown whether there were any fatalities.
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London
Brussels
English Channel
Calais
France
World Happenings Terse Yet Wide in Scope
Census figures put Great Britain at 42 767 530 with London at 4 488 249. Greek forces push toward Angora as Belfast rioting erupts with gunfire and bombs. A British admiral promoted. Panama braces for Costa Rican move on Coto. Norway mine kills entire fishing crew north of Haugesund. Oil talks between Germany and U S falter. Greece nears Angora. Stanford White art losses noted in New York fire. Whisky raid hits Terre Haute. rent cuts loom in McKeesport. Klan probe opens in San Antonio with subpoenas to reporters.
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Great Britain
London
ZR-2 Airship Destroyed in Hull Blast Killing Many
London reports the US airship ZR-2, the world’s largest, exploded over Hull after 35 hours in the air. 43 dead include Commander Louis H. Maxfield and Air Commodore Maitland. Six survivors, cause of the blast unknown. ship broke in two and plunged into the Humber.
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London
United States
Humber
Hull
England
Atlantic
Louis H. Maxfield
Washington, D. C
Maitland
Britain
James Phipson
Birmingham
Local Iowa News Highlights From Cedar Falls to Clinton
Six farmers northeast of Cedar Falls unload sixty tons of crushed limestone for farm use. Knights of Pythias election in Iowa names L. S. Robinson as grand chancellor. Corwin Brown sues his uncle for $10,000 over alleged alienation of his wife Ethel. A farmer near Atlantic hangs himself after notice of suit. The Farmers Elevator Co of Dawson sells to R. S. Witter who will run the business. Fatalities include two youths in Waterloo and a woman in an elevator shaft fall. A mason City man is killed by an interurban collision. others injured. A Des Moines arrest follows a youth escape from Eldora’s industrial school. A Belle Plaine man linked to a Clinton shooting. Infantile paralysis cases rise in Webb, with spread suspected but no epidemic. Rabies remains in dogs and livestock. seven Pasteur treatments reach forty eight for the year.
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Cedar Falls
L. S. Robinson
Glenwood
Knights of Pythias
W. R. Law
Waterloo
Corwin Brown
Ames
Warren Scott
Ethel
Brown
Paul Brown
Atlantic
Farmers’ Elevator Company of
Dawson
R. S. Witter
Witter
Louis Vollenweider
Denziel ‘Leeper
Hartington
Bloomfield
Verdigre
Neb
Washington
P. J. Larson
H. J. Weldne
C. A. King
Bono Keptno
Sioux City
Edward McIntyre
Nick Giatrakis
Mason City
Clear Lake
Iowa
John T. Lohner
Kirkman
Great Western
Council Bluffs
Lohner
Ray Brandon
Eldora
Des Moines
Brandon
Massena
Norbert Svenksen
Belle Plaine
State Hospital For
Independence
W. C. Davis
Clinton
Soenksen
Davis
State Board of Health
Webb
Clay County
Board of Health
God Cares for Paul and Silas Amid Persecution
Lesson text outlines Paul and Silas in jail in Philippi with a midnight deliverance by an earthquake. It marks the jailer’s conversion after belief in Jesus and baptism of his household, then covers magistrates’ humbled status and subsequent preaching in Thessalonica and Berea with emphasis on courage amid persecution.
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Paul
Silas
Philippia
Christ
Lord Jesus Christ
God
Thessalonica
Jesus
Berea
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