Alleged Kidnapper Discloses Identity in Bid for Immunity
Philadelphia reports identify the kidnapper as August Pascal of New Gretna New Jersey and describe his demand for immunity in exchange for revealing the whereabouts of 15 month old Blakely Coughlin. He allegedly hinted the child is in Atlantic City while police and postal agents pursue a woman associate. The case follows Pascal’s capture near Egg Harbor and his movements between New Gretna and Philadelphia with bank accounts tied to the ransom effort.
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Philadelphia
August Pascal
New Gretna
N. J
Little Blakely Coughlin
Norristown
Atlantic City
Abe
New Greins
George H. Coughlin
Plymouth Boulevard
Pascal
Beng
Hig
Egg Harbor
Bicvoy
Ian
Pascol
William Gregory
W. H. Kelley
Tucker
New Jersey
Kelly
Gregoryan
Asco
Philadesyuna Bank
Elyria Receives 2744 From Auto Tax Fund
Columbus reports the third distribution of state auto tax funds this year. Cities listed include Elyria receiving 2744 dollars alongside Ashtabula 251 dollars Alliance 6193 Akron 25810 Canton 31328 Youngstown 638140 Steubenville 4569 Newark 5728 Portsmouth 11 Lima 9855 Springfield 18384 Hamilton 4669 Warren 492 Conneaut 2789 Dover 765 Dennison 4750 Massillon 11259 Tiffin 329 Upper Sandusky 3306.
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Columbus
Smith
Ashtabula
Elyria
Alliance
Akron
Lanton
Youngstown
Steubenville
Newark
Portsmouth
Lima
Springfield
Hamilton
Warren
Conneaut
Dover
Dennison
Massillon
Tifin
Upper Sandusky
Two Real Estate Suits Filed To Quiet Titles
Two court actions were begun to quiet title on Avon real estate. Catherine Lacy of Cleveland sued Elizabeth Frank et al to quiet title to a farm on Snow Road. Max Miller filed suit against William Richards et al to clear title to land on the Lake Road.
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Avon Real Estate
Catherine Lacy
Cleveland
Elizabeth Frank
Snow Road
Max. Miller
William Richards
Lake Rnad
Harding Presses Tennessee Suffrage Ratification Effort
Marion August 5 Senator Harding urged Tennessee lawmakers to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment. He wired State Senator John C. Houck asking for Republican polling on ratification and sent encouragement to Carrie Chapman Catt and Tennessee League of Women Voters leaders, insisting no discouragement remains.
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Marion
Tennessee
Harding
Nashville
John C. Houck
Republican State Committee
General Assembly of Tennessee
All Tickets Sold For Wednesday Baseball Trip
The 651 tickets for the Cleveland New York game on Wednesday August 11 have all sold. Fans show strong interest in the Cleveland team and a program will be published later. A band will accompany the trip and a large group from factories, businesses, and their clerks plus many ladies are expected to attend.
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Cleveland
Root
Will Lay Side Track To Prospective Factories
New York Central engineers visited the city to arrange a side track on the west side of the river linking the main line with several new factories under construction. The switch would extend to the county home road near Wallhead's brick yard. Officials could not confirm timing but hinted work might begin next spring after wartime labor shortages delayed progress.
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New York Central
County Home Road
Wallhead
Camden Township Woman Divorced and Custody Granted
Mabelle Whitney of Camden township was divorced from George Whitney for gross neglect of duty. Custody of the minor child was awarded to her, with an alimony settlement approved.
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Mabelle Whitney
Camden Township
George Whitney
American ships halt British cable laying at sea
Four destroyers and a scout patrol boat under Washington orders block the landing of the British cable ship Colonia in Miami harbor. British Vice Consul Hubbard seeks to direct Colonia to begin landing the cable from Barbados but U S naval forces are positioned to prevent entry and execution of the landing. The Colonia is chartered to lay the South American cable and remains outside the three mile limit awaiting further instructions from Washington.
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Miami
Fla
Washington
Miami Harbor
Colonia
Western Union
Barbadoes
Decker
Seventh Naval District
Cole
Hubbard
Western Union Company
Hubard
British West Indies
State Department
Sir Auckland Geddes
A H. Hubbard
Three Mile
Hmit
Newport News
Florida
Municipal
Corn Crop Threatened by New Disease in County
Chillicothe August report: a new corn disease has appeared in the county. Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station botanists cannot yet diagnose it. The illness, first seen on Thomas Hedge’s farm north of the city, causes stalks to pale and wither as the top falls away. Investigations continue. the affected area is spreading.
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Chillicothe
Ohio Agricultural Experimen Station
Thomas Hedge
Turkish Bath Patrons Robbed in New York Heist
Early today at the Lenox Turkish Baths in New York City, five burglars robbed 175 patrons and five attendants. They escaped with about $10,000 in valuables checked by sleepers.
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New York
Lenox Turkish Baths
Ross Read To Speak Tonight At Non-Partisan Rally
A. Ross Red of Akron is added to the list of speakers addressing the Non-Partisan Voters League on the park tonight. Read is the Democratic candidate for Congress opposing incumbent Martin L. Davey. Several local candidates will also speak for the first time.
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A. Ross Red
Akron
Eakers
Voters League
Read
Congress
Martin L. Davey
Knight On Collective Bargaining Debate
The Chronicle Telegram reports Dr. Knight sent a clarification on his stance. He did not state he was against collective bargaining, but did not explicitly say he favors it. He emphasized union power as protection against wrong and oppression and urged mutual cooperation between labor and capital.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Indictments Against Rail Unions Delayed by Leak
Chicago Aug 5 Indictments against 41 leaders in the recent outlaw switchmen's strike were returned today but Judge Samuel Alschuler refused to receive them because names leaked hours before the grand jury completed its report. The judge ordered the indictments sealed pending leak investigation. Grunau, president of the Chicago Yardmen's Association, and leaders of the United Enginemen's Association were named along with the two unions.
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Chicago
Raiload
Samuel Jschuler
Federal Grand Jury
Alschuler
Samuel Alschuler
John Grunau
Chicago Yardmen’s Association
Grunau
United Enginemen’s Association
Trade War Fatal Duel Between Rivals in New York
Abram Freeman of Rosebank Staten Island dies after a quarrel with brother-in-law Isaac Hulineck over customers. Freeman fires a revolver wounding Hulineck in the neck. believing he killed his kin, Freeman flees, turns the gun on himself and dies in the street as a pursuing officer closes in.
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New York
Abram Freeman
Rosebank
Staten Island
Ia l Law
Isaac Hulineck
Freeman
Huliack
Hulhack
Voting Booths Placed Ahead of August Primaries
Superintendent of streets John Conabee with a gang of men is busy placing voting booths in position in the precincts for the August 1 primaries. The workers have become adept at moving booths at dawn and perform the task rapidly and scientifically. After election day they return booths to city property until the next election.
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John Conabee
Fifty whiskey cases seized at Sandusky
Sandusky August 5 fifty cases of Canadian whiskey and gin valued at five thousand dollars were seized and Walter Beaumin of Detroit was arrested following a tip that a Windsor Canada motor boat laden with contraband liquor lay hidden behind Cedar Point waiting to unload. This marks the first successful effort to break up the rum tunnels trade between Canada and Lake Erie ports.
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Sandusky
Walter Beaumin
Detroit
Bandits Hold Up Tourists Near Cleveland
Three armed automobile bandits robbed two tourists from Grove City Pennsylvania Bert Gealy and Scott B Vogran of $600 as they drove toward Cleveland. The attackers fled after the heist.
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Cleveland
Bert Gealy
Scott B. Vogran
Grove City
Governor Allen Ahead in Kansas Governor Allen Ahead in Kansas
In Topeka Kansas Aug 6 the democratic governor race drew chief interest as statewide primary returns came in slowly Jonathan Davy Bronson held a slight lead over Dempster Potts Wichita QOT Wood Liberal and W S Hyatt Parsons with late rural counts expected to shift results The Republican slate showed Curtis Henry Allen and Richard Hopking well ahead of rivals for renomination.
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Topeka
Kansas
Jonathan Davy
Bronson
Dempster Potts
Wichita
QOT Wood
W. S. Hyatt
Parsons
Curtis
Henry Allen
Richard Hopking
Coal Shortage Shuts Transite- Williams Plant in Alliance
Alliance, Aug. 5 The Transite- Williams Company plant shut down today due to a coal shortage. Plant bins are empty with no relief in sight, leaving about twelve hundred workers out of work. The water works pumping station is short of coal, narrowly averted shutdown when a car of coal was found in Pennsylvania yards and placed at the water works.
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Pennsylvania
British Mobilize Over Polish Crisis
The British mobilize two divisions for Poland amid European anxiety as Russian advances toward Warsaw prompt talks with Soviet Russia. London notes with Moscow discuss halting the campaign, while fear grows of a 1914-like escalation.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Russia
Poland
London
Leo Kameneff
Moscow Soviet
M. Kameneff
Leonid Krassin
Lloyd George
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Kaméne
Wiig
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Earl Curton
Foreign Affairs
George Erin
Hites
Surance
Danzig
Pa d
Soviet
Britain
Moscow
Lne
Andrew Bonat Law
Krassin
M. Kemeneff
Run on Ponzi notes eases at Boston office
Boston, Aug 5. More than fifty holders of Charles Ponzi notes seeking 50 percent interest in 90 days gathered for the Securities Exchange Co reopening. Note holders showed reluctance to sell to speculators who had bought notes at a discount, a practice that once yielded large profits, including a claimed daily gain of 14060 dollars by one trader.
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Boston
Charles Ponzi
Securities Exchange Company
One More Recruit Enters Army of Skunk Hunters
George R. Alien, a real estate deal er, has joined the skunk hunters of Seventh St. He reports capturing two skunks last night, one in a steel trap and the other in a rat trap. Ten skunks have been captured in the neighborhood in the past month as residents take a vacation until the air clears.
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George R. Alien
Seventh St
Red Cross Stores Removed in Poland Mission
Washington reports Colonel Robert E Olds of the American Red Cross commission to Europe says all Red Cross stores at Bialystok Poland 177 carloads have been moved to Cracow Supplies in Warsaw hospital equipment at Vilna and the Bialystok orphanage were moved to Kalisz About 40 to 80 percent of the Poland mission personnel have been ordered to Paris with others remaining in Poland for the time being.
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Washington
Robert E. Olds
American Red Cross Commission
Europe
Cableq
Red Cross
Bialystok
Poland
Cracow
Warsaw
Vilna Algo
Kalisz
Red Cross Commission
Paris
Olds
Marriage Licenses Issued In July In Lorain Area
The list shows licenses issued in July for couples including Georges and Williams in Lorain, DoH and Boomer in Lorain, Kort and Herbster in Elyria, and Jackson and Bowen in Elyria. In total 82 licenses were issued during the month.
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Bill Georges
Grace Williams
Lorain
Mark Williams
Carpenter
Akron
Mabel Boomer
Carl Doh
Cleveland
Nellie Cellier
Harvey Kort
Daisy Herbster
Elyria
Candidate for Auditor Here in Town Today
Stephen A. Stillwell, former Warren County auditor for two terms, campaigns in town today as a candidate for Auditor of State at the upcoming primaries.
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Stephen A. Stillwell
Mr. Stillwell
Warren County
Lorain Central Union Endorses Local Candidate
The Central Labor Union of Lorain endorsed J. F Burke for the State Senate today. Members praised his fair wage policy and stance on worker rights, noting the union gathers all Lorain labor groups in support.
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Lorain Central Union
LOGAL
the Central Labor Union
Lorain
J. F Burke
State Senate
Burke
Lotain
Shoplifters Caught In Cincinnati Raid
Four women arrested on larceny charges after detectives recover goods valued at 10000 from a suspect’s home. Police say the group conducted a long series of thefts in Cincinnati stores, including fur coats silk sweaters and dresses.
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Cinncinnati
Cincinnati
Jessie Ignatz Seeks Divorce From Steve Ignatz
Tessie Ignatz of Lorain asks the court for a divorce from Steve Ignatz alleging verbal abuse and that his actions with his daughter from another marriage deprived her of household furniture during her absence. She seeks alimony and restoration to her former name.
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Tessie Ignatz
Lorain
Steve Ignatz
Steve
Firemen Inspect Local Factories in City Tour
Off shift firemen inspect Columbia Steel Co Gray Barr Co and Standard White Metals Co to ensure familiarity with each plant. Citywide checks occur at least twice yearly with careful scrutiny of every block for prompt response to fires.
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Columbia Steel Co
Gray Barr Co
Standard White Metals Co
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France
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Mafin
Army of
Skunk Hunters
Polish Red Cross
Jessie Ignatz
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