Contamination Probe Targets Ohio River River Health Crisis
Assistant State Health Engineer Steward County Health Commissioner McIntosh and Elyria Lorain officials led an exhaustive investigation into Black River contamination. They found conditions improved though odors persisted with sewer waste still entering the river from city dumps. The Mendelson Reduction Co nuisance remains under county control while calls for a disposal plant grow stronger amid public protests.
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Steward
McIntosh
Elsia
Chiddle
Chambery
Mischka
Elyria
Mendelson Reduction Co
Mendelson Reeduction Co
Sara Stenwerd
Tigs
Mendelson
Lorain
Coal Peace Looms as Operators Meet Miners
Prospects for an early settlement of the coal strike rise as operators and mine workers meet. The opening session shows cooperation and friendly atmosphere among leaders W. A. Gli gow and T. Ki Maher representing operators, and John L. Lewis and Phillip Murray officers of the miners.
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W. A. Gligow
John L. Lewis
Mine Workers
T. Ki. Maher
Willam G. Green
Phillip Murray
Mine Workers’ Water
PHOGRESS REPORTED At PARLEY
The report from Cleveland dated August 11 states progress in conference negotiations on a nationwide coal wage scale. Officials say a settlement may end the coal strike, though western Pennsylvania Kanawha fields may persist. Government officials view the end as in sight with unions and operators negotiating terms.
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Cleveland
Michael Gallagher
Hesumne
Pennsylvania
Kanawha
West Virginia
Epming
Ilinois
Todiana
Washington
Walska Weds McCormick in Paris Ceremony
Polish opera star Madame Walka Walska and financier Max McCormick wed in a civil ceremony in Paris. The groom's prior wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick, is seeking divorce. Mathilde McCormick, 17, traveled from Paris to Switzerland to meet her father.
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Paris
Cormick
Mula
McCormick
Mathilde Vewurnith
Switzerland
Maxiser
McCorn
Edith Rockefell
D Rockefeller
Evinger Cochran
Yonkersey
Mr Cochran
Madame Waiska Tre
Artion
Mr McCormich
Madame Waiska
Chicago Opera Company
Mrsie Waista
Las
Chieten
Dudley Field Malone Atraines
Mme Walska
Chicago
Swizerland
Mra McCommick
Mathilde
Marie
Paria
Meru Dudley Field Malone
Charles F. Bertelli
President Harding Proposes Rail Strike Settlement Plan
New York August 11 President Harding unveiled a second set of proposals to end the railway shopmen strike. Executives debated with no final decision and a committee was formed to respond. Reports said some favored accepting the plan with conditions while others remained opposed.
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New York
Harding
Tax Return Evasion Probe Nets 200 Suspects Near Cincinnati
Investigation by internal revenue agents in Mt Healthy near Cincinnati results in about 200 tax evaders being alerted to penalties with one man paying 5900 to settle. Others face fines of 1000 or less as collectors weigh additional criminal action and broader scrutiny citywide.
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Cincinnati
Internal Revenue Department
Internal Revenue
la RU
Western Road Union Leaders Tied Up by Big Four Railroad
In San Francisco on August 11, members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen walked out on the Salt Lake division of the Southern Pacific at Ogden, affecting the entire division. The move followed action by the union's big four leaders and tied up cross‑country rail traffic, delaying passengers on the Overland route as Santa Fe negotiations continued and armed guards appeared at Needles. Detained trains and protests in New York followed with calls for government action against the strike as executives prepared for a meeting on the situation.
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Davis Warfield
Seaboard
Organization For Protection of Railway Investors
Hueley Fiske
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Iince
Railway Securitiga
Harding
Robert S. Levett
Anton Pacific
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania
Julius Kruttechitt
Southern Pacific
A. Smith
New York Central
Hale Holden
Chicago
Burlington
Quinney
C. H Markham
Illinois Central
W. R Cole
Tts
Railway Cabot Board
Agpests Railroad Labor Board
Western Road Union
San Francisco
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Salt Lake
Southern Pacific Railroad
Ogden
Ford
San Bernardino
Cal
Desert Points
Santa Fe
Big Four
Needten
Calif
New York
Big Four Brotherhood
Santa Fae
L. F Loree
Delaware and Hudson Company
U. S
Washington
Standard Railroad
Warren S Stone
Brotherhood of Engineers
Stone
Brotherhoods
Lorain county officials praised for solid administration
A state bureau inspection report finds Lorain county offices generally well run with minor technical errors. Treasurer Walter Ludwig and Auditor Monroe Welty are commended for neatly kept books and proper accounting. Probate and Juvenile Judge H C Wilcox’s records are accurate, and unclaimed deposits receive attention.
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State Bureau of Inspection
Lorain County
Walter Ludwig
Monroe Welty
Welty
H. C Wilcox
Bank Robber Handcuffed Escapes from Police Toward Cincinnati
Dewitt Parker, 25, of Indianapolis, was arrested in Portland Tennessee for holding up a bank cashier and stealing about 1,600 in cash and 70,000 in bonds. He escaped custody in transit and was last seen fleeing toward Cincinnati after being handcuffed at Vinita station.
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Cincinnati
Dewitt Parker
Indianapolis
Ind
Portland
Railways hire strikebreakers in Britain
Bulletin items report US railroad companies hiring strikebreakers in Great Britain. Other notices cover a fatal airplane crash near Naperville involving Edward W. Sehillo and Leroy Keller, Alsace expulsions, Lord Northcliffe's frail health, a cholera outbreak after a typhoon, and hopes for a Britain France emiany reconciliation.
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London
Great Britain
Naperville I
Edward W. Sehillo
Leroy Keller
White Star liner Adriatic explosion on voyage
Wireless report describes an explosion and fire in hold number of the famous old White Star liner Adriatic. Captain David sent for assistance and two fire crew members were killed while one was missing. Passengers safe as ship resumed course 304 miles off the American coast with Captain David investigating aboard a ship carrying about six to seven hundred people.
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Adriatic
Cap‘en David
David
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