Richmond Seeks More Train Service Southward
Mayor William ONeill drafts a letter to General Passenger Agent R D Pusey of Louisville Railway asking for added passenger service between Richmond and Corbin. He weighs whether the train should run Richmond to Corbin and back or opposite, with a morning southbound and late afternoon return favored to boost shopping trips and regional access. Local business leaders may assemble to press the request as city leaders seek wider rail benefits.
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Richmond
William O’neil
R. D. Pusey
Rairoad
Louisville
Corbin
Brush Creek
O'Neil
Pusey
Red Cross Workers Finish Good Work
The local Red Cross work room has closed after shipping two boxes overseas containing 383 garments for the destitute children of Europe. Mrs. Blunt, director of production, Cleveland, sends thanks to all who helped. Mrs. W. H. Grider, Chairman.
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Red Cross
Europe
Blunt
Cleveland
W. HL. Grider
Legion Post Honors George Harvey at South Carolina meeting
South Carolina American Legion convention in Newberry adopts resolutions condemning George Harvey for his London Pilgrims Society remarks. They call on President Harding to recall Harvey and deliver a public rebuke for his statements on U S entry into World War I.
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Newberry
S. C
George Harvey
London
Pilgrims Society
America
South Carolina
A American Legion
Harding
Harvey
Attendance records at Blue Grass Fair broken in Lexington
Attendance at the Blue Grass fair in Lexington, Kentucky, surpassed Wednesday’s 12,000 mark on Thursday. Cattle judging concluded with more than fifty Angus entries and over 35 Holstein entries.
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Lexington
Wylie Farm Sells At Public Auction In Madison County
Garrard county’s Capt. W. T. King buys the 75 acre Wylie farm in Madison county for 7 1 a acre at public sale. The property had been offered for less than this price a year before and the sellers expressed satisfaction.
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W. T. King
Garrard County
S. W. Wylie
Madison County
Call For National Banks Washington
The comptroller of the currency issued a call for the condition of national banks at the close of business Tuesday September 6.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency Today
Ruth Homers For His 53rd This Season
Philadelphia reports Ruth hit his 53rd home run of the season in the fourth inning on Thursday with no one on base.
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Philadelphia
Ruth
Seven boys escape from Greendale reform school
Seven boys escaped from Greendale reform school Thursday in an incident that drew police response. Local officials refused further details as investigators review the escape route and any potential accomplices.
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Reform School
Greendale
Aged woman dies in Kentucky house fire
Taylorsville Ky Sept 9 Em ma Mason a woman aged about 112 was burned to death in a dwelling near Waterford Tea. Her husband escaped but was too feeble to rescue her in the blaze.
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Taylorsville
Emma Mason
Waterford Tea
U S delegation to have four members
President Harding announced the American delegation to the disarmament conference will likely include four members with one possible Democrat. He suggested no former service man on the delegation. Rumors place Secretary Hughes and Senator Lodge on the team, with Elihu Root seeking a spot and Senator Underwood of Alabama as the Democrat choice.
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Washington
Harding
Hughes
Lodge
Elihu Root
Underwood
Alabama
Cantrill Urges Rotarians Help Burley Growers Co op
Lexington, Sept 9 Congressman J Campbell Cantrill addressed the Rotary Club of Lexington urging business and professional men to back the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association plan to avert hardship in the burley district. He cited farms selling at 400 at peak two years ago now going for 200 with no buyers and said thousands of Kentucky children leave school to work in tobacco fields due to low barley tobacco prices.
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Lexington
Rotary Club of
J. Campbell Cantrill
Rotarians
Kentucky
Burley Tobacco Growers’ Co-operative Association
Burley
Cantrill
To Build $75,000 Tobacco Warehouse Maysville Ky
Work began yesterday on a large brick concrete and iron tobacco storage warehouse by Nick and Key. It will be the largest here and tenth for the firm, nine already filled with hogshead tobacco owned by buyers lacking storage space. The building will cost about 75000 dollars.
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Tobacco
Maysville
Nick and Key
Boy Beating His Way Loses Foot Under Train
Isaac Morrison a 14 year old boy from Cynthiana lost his left foot in Louisville and Nashville yards at Paris Kentucky. He was hoboing a train and fell under a car while attempting to board after a stop. He was taken to Massie Memorial Hospital and his parents were notified.
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Paris
Isaac Morrison
Cynthiana
Louisville and Nashville
Massie Memorial Hospital
Miss Bloom Sues Over Chewed Wig on Hudson Yacht
Miss Alice Bloom, a model, wore a $125 wig while on a yachting trip up the Hudson. Her host’s terrier chewed the wig when she removed it in her cabin, leading to a municipal court suit. She compromised for $50.
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Associated Press
New York
Alice Bloom
Hudson
Miss Bloom
Russian Soviet Resists Relief Commission Visit
The Russian Soviet government refused permission for the International Relief Commission to investigate conditions in Russia ahead of famine relief efforts, despite being appointed by the Allied Supreme Council.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Russia
International Relief Commission
Allied Supreme Council
Madison County ex service men get extra day in Lexington
Sixty five Madison county veterans reported to the Cleanup Squad in Lexington for compensation claim adjustments. The Red Cross paper work was heavy and the stay extended to September 15 with Mr Norman guiding men through the process at Home Service and urging all to visit before September 13.
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Madison County
Lexington
Red Cross
Richmond
Home Service Section
Norman
Soldier Boys
The
Corn Crop Shows Big August Gain Over Forecast
Washington September 9 The corn crop forecast for September 1 stands at 3,186,000,000 bushels, up 154,000,000 from August projections after a July deficit of 91,000,000. Kentucky oats and wheat prospects shift. winter wheat and hay forecasts also released by the Department of Agriculture.
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Washington
Kentucky
Department of Agriculture
Reds Busy In Yucatan
Reports from Mexico City describe unrest in Yucatan with ongoing clashes between radical and conservative factions feared to intensify amid anarchistic conditions.
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Yucatan
Associated Press
Mexico City
Unseasonable Cold Snap Grips Montana
Unseasonably low temperatures sweep across Montana with snow in many areas. Forecasters predict near freezing temps tonight as Helena reports chilly conditions statewide.
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Montana
Associated Press
Helena
Mont
Operators Refuse Talks With Union Heads in WV
In West Virginia's coal region the U S Army plans to withdraw from Logan county on September 12 and redeploy to Boone and Kanawha counties. Delegates from Logan and Williamson counties met President Harding to refuse talks with the United Mine Workers and warned that unionizing non union fields could centralize coal production and distribution under union leaders.
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Associaced Press
Washington
West Virginia
Logan County
Boone
Kanawha
Logan
Williamson County
Harding
United Mine Workers
United States
Hitchcock Attacks Swollen Incomes in Senate Tax Talk
Senator Hitchcock opened the Democratic Senate tax discussion with a call to repeal excess profits tax and cut income surcharges. He criticized vast incomes like 500000 dollars a year as capital gains that harm public interest and should be limited by taxation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hitchcock
Senate
Tarvia Truck Slips Brakes Ruins Buggy
A tarvia truck parked on South First street rolled downhill after its brakes slipped, smashing a buggy near Newby’s blacksmith shop and tearing it apart. The truck sustained minor damage while the buggy, belonging to Mr Sweat of the Irvine pike, was destroyed and valued repairs were planned for Saturday.
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South First Street
Young
Newby’s
Sweat
Irvine Pike
Louisville Post Society Editor Shoots Herself
Kathleen Jennings society editor of the Louisville Post dies by self inflicted gunshot in her home in Louisville Kentucky at age 36. Funeral services set for Saturday as despondency over an impending operation is cited. She was at a dinner party at Ben F Washer home on Harrods Creek when she killed herself in an upper room.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Kathleen Jennings
Ben F. Washer
Harrods Creek
Louisville Post
Monument Sold for Mayor Evans in Richmond Cemetery
Mr Thomas A Shaw sold a monument to Mrs L P Evans to be erected in the Richmond cemetery near the grave of the late Mayor L P Evans in October.
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Thomas A. Shaw
L. P. Evans
Richmond
Methodists Open Annual Kentucky Conference in Somerset
The Kentucky Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South met at First Methodist Church in Somerset with Bishop Collins Denny presiding. Delegates to the general conference in Hot Springs are chose by secret ballot Friday morning, including four ministers and four lay representatives from Kentucky.
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Somerset
Kentucky
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
First Methodist Church
Collins Denny
Richmond
J. E. Savage
Carrollton
J. L. Clark
Hot Springs
Arkansas
W. L. Clark
General Conference
United States
Lexington woman claims 10 million votes in car contest
Mrs. Milligan of Lexington visited this week to solicit subscriptions for the Lexington Herald automobile contest. The paper counts show 300000 daily votes, but she asserts she has about 10000000 votes in reserve and plans to double it by the end, confident of winning one of the cars.
Community Social News Highlights Tobacco Season
Farmers busy cutting and housing tobacco. L L Mathewen ters entertain at dinner with Ollie Black and baby, Bill Mathews and Arleigh. J D Ray hosts guests including Wm Ray and Nannie Ray. Marshall Ray attends Bybee convention. Wesley Simpson finishes tobacco barn. Kirby Teater hosts dinner with friends and relatives.
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L. L. Mathew
Ollie Black
Bill Mathew
Arleigh
Miley Walker
Steve Walker
Kirby Teater
Cleo Ray
J. D. Ray
Wm. S. Ray
William Black and Baby
Nannie Ray
Marshall Ray
Bybee
Wesley Simpson
Will S. Ray
Paint Lick
S. N. Sanders
Train Bombing Near Atlanta Shocks Area
An Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic freight train was dynamited within eight miles of Atlanta Wednesday. The sabotage occurred as authorities investigated possible links to a wider disturbance along the railroad corridor.
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Atlanta
Birmingham and Atlantic
Livestock Markets Report from Cincinnati and Louisville
Hogs in Cincinnati push higher with packers paying around $9.50 and lights up 25 cents. Cattle market steady with slow trading. Lambs at $10. In Louisville cattle about 300 head slow and unchanged, hogs 1,000 head up 25 cents to tops $9, sheep 700 steady.
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Cincinnati
Louisville
Weather outlook for Kentucky unsettled tonight and Saturday
Unsettled weather covers Kentucky with no change in temperature. Rain or showers expected at times as conditions stay variable through the weekend.
Officer shoots man on Monticello street in Kentucky
Fox Lovelace of Cooper was shot and killed by Deputy Jeff Blevins on Monticello streets. Blevins, said to be intoxicated, reportedly told Lovelace he would shoot him before firing. The two men were once friends, and Lovelace was arrested post incident.
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Eseig Peeioossy Ag
Monticello
Fox Lovelace
Cooper
Jeff Blevins
Blevins
Novelace
Blue Lick to Meet Bears in Park Showdown Saturday
Richmond Bears clash with Blue Lick at Greenland Park Saturday at 3 30 pm. Blue Lick rides a hot circuit and aims to test local Bruins. Maupin leads the Bears lineup. Canfield provides free shuttle service from the courthouse 2 30 to 3 30. Admission 25 cents.
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Richmond Bears
Blue Lick
Greenland Park
Perea
Berea
Bears
Bruins
Baum
Maupin
Canfield
Court House
Wide Range of News from Across States and Nations
Police seek identities of people who threw a newborn from a train near Catlettsburg. Typhoid outbreak in Burlington County traced to a harvest supper chicken sand. Winchester near finish of Twilight League, rivaling Richmond Church League. U.S. pursues two Pacific islands off Chile. Spain orders 1.4 million mfutes worth 150600 at St Louis. New York women robbed of 10000 jewelry at Seligman camp on Upper Saranac Lake. Brig Gen Butler deserts to aid two Marines jailed in Greenville. Illinois and Northwestern students row Lake Michigan. Cynthiana vs Hustlers set for Winchester, Wiedemanns visit Reos in Lexington. Ex-British aviator Janney on 33rd day hunger strike over arrest. Frank Kerr accused of stealing 1000 from Agricultural Just Company. serves as assistant treasurer.
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Tri-state
Catlettsburg
Burlington County
New Jersey
Winchester
Richmond
St. Louis
Isaac N. Seligman
S. A. Lewisohn
New York
Seligman
Upper Saranac Lake
5. D. Butler
Marine Corps
Lee Swain
Greenville
S.C
University of Illinois
Northwestern University
Lake Michigan
Cynthiana
Wiedemanns
Reos
Lexington
E. L. Janney
Frank E. Kerr
Lancaster
Agricultural Just Company
Dixie Highway Delegates Tour Kentucky En Route to Cincinnati
Dixie Highway delegates traveled through Richmond on Thursday en route to Cincinnati for the eastern branch dedication. Kentucky towns Somerset and Pineville seek routing, while Jellico Lexington remain in contention. The Chattanooga club led the largest delegation. Rev Boswell will dedicate the eastern branch. The group plans a parade in Cincinnati and a visit to Dayton before returning.
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Dixie Highway
Cincinnati
Richmond
Clark Howell
Atlanta Constitution
Chattanooga Automobile Club
Lexington
Berea
Chattanooga
Tennessee State Line
Kentucky
Somerset
Pineville
Eln- Tenn
Jellico
Gibson
Ja. S. Boswell
Georgetown
Zoo
Trotel Gibson
Dayton
Elkhorn Baptists Plan Wide Reform Campaign
The Elkhorn Baptist Association, including 33 churches in Fayette Woodford Bourbon Franklin Jessamine and Scott counties, votes to start a united drive October 2 against motion pictures dancing immodest dress mixed bathing divorces Sunday baseball card playing horse racing gambling and violations of laws. The group also recommends Kentucky Baptists join the fight against race track gambling at Hopkinsville on November 15. Dancing is labeled highly dangerous and immoral.
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Associated Press
Woodlake
Elkhorn Baptist Association
Fayette
Woodford
Bourbon
Franklin
Jessamine
Scott Counties
Central American states plan women's suffrage admission
The Central American states will admit women to suffrage, expanding political participation. The move signals broad social reform and potential shifts in election dynamics across the region.
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Central American States
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U. S
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