Floyd Collins Located In Sand Cave Prison Cavity
Reports from Feb 16 indicate Floyd Collins is officially announced located in the sand cave shaft at 2:45 PM. Early bulletins showed hope but noted the medical commission had not yet issued a condition. rescuers continued digging with bucket-linear methods and slowed by rubble as crowds gathered awaiting official confirmation of life or death.
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Sand Cave
Floyd Collins
Colling
Carmichael
Collins’ Deliverance
Kehoes
Troyid
Elyria Driver Fined For Wild Broad Street Ride
Ralph Bemis of 162 Bell Ave was arrested by Patrolman Faulhaber after a high speed chase through Broad Street. He paid a $50 fine and $9.86 in costs after admitting alcohol involvement. Seven others appeared in court for related offenses as police continued a crackdown on reckless driving and disorderly conduct.
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Ralph Bemis
Bell Av
Faulhaber
Broad Street
Bell Avenue
Bemis
J F Faulhachter
Feru
Marvin R. Hahnel
West Avenue
Wis
Frieda Mmeyers
J F Faulhiber
Lou Hopkins Elyria Real Estate
Lou Hopkins Elyria Real Estate Dea'e
Erie Avenue
Lorain
Jodi
West Streets
WM F. Eckhier
Chestnut Stree
Lincau Nght
Wilson Obitts
Jealousy fueled shooting leaves three dead in Santa Rosa
Samuel Ro Montgomery a San Francisco truck salesman killed his wife Ruth Montgomery and Werner Ronk in a roadside attack after a quarrel and forced the driven car into a ditch. He wounded Mrs Werner Ronk and then killed himself with a brain bullet. An 18-year-old woman was injured. Two men and a woman died on the scene.
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Santa Rosa
Cills
Samuel Ro Montgomery
San Francisco
Ruth Montgomery
Werner Ronk
Montgomery
Germany engages in massive raw material buying spree
Washington dispatches from Commercial Attache C. E. Herring at Berlin report Germany is massing an enormous quantity of raw materials in what observers call a great buying spree. The cables were released to the Department of Commerce on February 16.
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Washington
Germany
Department of Commerce
C. E Herring
Berlin
Crowded Chestnut Grove school transfers 11 pupils
Dwight Bart, district resident, reports Chestnut Grove school is overcrowded with 11 pupils to be transferred to another site. The school board voted to arrange the move and notify parents, with a discussion at the Friday Parent Teacher meeting.
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Chestnut Grove
Pilbeo
Pas Cisi
Dwight Bart
Chestnut Croove
Atoatés
Boird
Odeha Spring
Trades unions seek wage hikes for spring
In Lorain on February 16 five building trades demand higher wages this spring risking disruption to local programs. Sheet metal workers seek 1 to 410 per hour raises, plasterers 137 to 130, electricians 112 to 125, lathers want the same as plasterers. Current rates include carpenters 110, plumbers 125, paters 147, prichlayers 150, and laborers 75. Contractors plan a meeting next week to avert strikes.
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Lorain
Prayer Of No Effect In Preventing Arrest
In Columbus Roy Smith aged 18, said to be fostered by a clergyman, is jailed after allegedly confessing to murderous burglaries and a Sunday shooting of former Policeman Robert Hott as officers pursued him. Authorities tie him to a payroll robbery at Fenton Shoe Co earlier last month. In Vienna the supreme court ruled a wife cannot collect damages from a husband for seeking other women after an interlocutory divorce decree.
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Columbus
Roy Smith
Robert Hott
Young Smith
Hott
Led
Fenton Shoe Co
Vienna
Supreme Court
Italian Bachelors Form Anti Marriage League
In Rutino near Salerno Italy a bachelor association was launched with a banquet. The oath sworn by members pledges not to marry. The Bachelor newspaper has been founded and letters from across the country request membership, already totaling 709.
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Rome
Italy
Rutino
Salermo
The
Bachelor
Church Stands In Lag On Industrial Life Relation
Dr Nicholas Van der Pyl, speaking on Open Forum, urged the church to study troubles in modern industry and oppose unjust conditions. He said the church must not be tied to a single program but should promote service over profit and strive to make bad men good and good men better.
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Holdis
Nicholas van de Pyl
Veste Divfternoon
van der Pyl
Tibor
Elizabeth Beard Dies at Cleveland
Mrs Elizabeth Beard wife of N J Beard formerly of Oberlin died at 700 pm Saturday in Cleveland Ohio She is survived by daughters Mrs O D Busha and Mrs George Aultmane two brothers Martin Birmingham and Tom Brannon and two sisters Mary Birmingham and Mrs A D King Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 900 am from St Vincent de Pauls church in Cleveland.
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Elizabeth Beard
N J Beard
Oberlin
West 118Th Street
Cleveland
Beard
O D Busha
George Aultmane
Martin Birmingham
Tom Brannon
Mary Birmingham
A D King
St Vincent de Paul's Church
Henry Klein Avon Native Dies After Home Death
Henry Klein aged 69 died Sunday evening at 227 Sixth Street in Elyria after living there about eighteen months. He previously resided in Avon and Cleveland where he worked in hardware. Survived by wife two daughters Vera and Marion and son John. Funeral from St Marys church Wednesday at 9 00 AM.
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Henry Klein
Sixth Street
Elyria
Avon
Cleveland
Vera
Marion
John
St. Mary's Church
Lake Shore Electric Rumors Stir Lorain Rails
Lorain February reports say engineers appraise Lake Shore Electric and rumors link the line to Newark investors. E W Moore denies the claim though declines further talk. An inventory for a bonding house in New York may reveal Doherty Co involvement. The railway covers 217 miles between Cleveland and Toledo.
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Lorain
Lake Shore Electricy
Newark
E. W. Moore
Street Railway Company
New York
Doherty
Sandusky
Elyria
Cleveland
Toledo
Four violent deaths at Canton
Four deaths from violence occurred in Canton over the weekend. Ernest Neuman, 47, died after being struck by an automobile with an unknown driver. Nettie Hilderbaum, 57, died from injuries after a collision on Millersburg Road. Monica Sanchez, 32, a Mexican laborer, died from knife wounds in Mercy hospital amid a police investigation. Flossie Kautz, whose clothing caught fire from a kitchen stove seven weeks earlier, died at her home after burning herself severely. two thirds of her body was burned.
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Canton
Ernest Neuman
Mercy Hospital
Nettie Hilderbaum
A C Hilderbaum
Massillon
Millersburg
Monica Sanchez
Flossie Kautz
Col. C L Kennan Dies In Fall From Stairs
Mrs Lon Sheldon of West Avenue received word that Col. C L Kennan of Norwalk has died after a fall down stairs. He gained local recognition and led the Fifth Regiment during the Spanish American War.
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Mra
Lon Sheldon
West Avenue
C L Kennan
Norwalk
Col. Kennan
Fractured Hip After Ice Incident In Elyria
Mrs John Brooks of 361 Second Street suffered a fractured hip after slipping on ice yesterday morning. She was en route to morning service at the First Congregational Church and was admitted to Elyria Memorial Hospital for treatment.
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John Brooks
Second Street
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Brooks
First Congregational Church
Cincinnati News Brief on Tuxedo Coat Proposal
City Engineer Frank S Krug proposes using an old tuxedo coat as a substitute for office coats at a Cincinnati Rapid Transit Commission meeting. He jokes about not being insane but his coat idea aims to solve a wardrobe shortage and replace worn outerwear.
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Cincinnati
Irving S Cobb
Grand Canyon
Nowcomes
Frank S Krug
Krug
Rapid Transit Commission
Lorain County School Directory and Local Notices
A Lorain County public schools directory is issued detailing county board and district boards, presidents and secretaries of teacher associations, principals and rural teachers, the County Board of Examiners, Athletic Board of Control, and high school publications. Local items include guilty pleas, a furnace fire, a will ruling, roof fire, auto collision, burglary report, wiring blaze, a note suit, and a title quieting action across Avon Lake.
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Lorain County
County Board of Education
Directors Inc
Udes
County Board of Examiners
Athletic Board of Control
Pastor Marks 41 Years at Clinton Presbyterian Church
Dr. Samuel J Rowland completed his forty first year as pastor of Clinton Presbyterian Church in Clinton New Jersey. Only seven members from his initial congregation remain as anniversary services were held with congratulatory messages exchanged.
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Clinton, N J
Samuel J Rowland
Clinton Presbyterian Church
Clinton, NJ
City to paving and sewer projects set for the coming season
The city plans a series of paving water and sewer improvements. Engineer John M Powell says plans are being drawn and legislation prepared for four street resurfacings, widening, a possible two-street replication, one bridge repair, one sanitary sewer lay, and a water main lay. Work on a mid winter water main should finish in weeks.
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John M Powell
Councal
Im Vn
Olive Street
Cleveland Street
New York Central Railroad
Gulf Road
Columbus Street
West Street
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Hu- Ton Street
Buckeye Street
Willams Street Court Street
Wine and Dancing Gall Trigger Legion Chaplain Resignation
In Rockville Maryland the American Legion Post banquet sparks a rift as Chaplain Rev Nolan B Harmon Jr resigns, calling the entertainment an affront to his dignity. He cites liquor and dancing girls from Washington. The legion responds that cocktails were fruit mixes with homemade wine, not intoxicants.
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Rockville
American Legion Post
Nolan B Harman Jr
Harmon
Washington
Legion
Two Teens Take Poison After Suicide of Companion
Pau line Tacermine of Clarksburg West Virginia and Mildred Cane 19-year-olds who recently moved to Cleveland from Clarksburg both took poison after a quarrel with two men said to be their sweethearts. Cane killed herself in an east side apartment and Tacermine was hospitalized but expected to recover.
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Cleveland
Pauline Tacermine
Clarksburg
W. Va
Polmon
Mildred Cane
Clarksburgh
Pittsburg
John Barry
Youngstown
Man hurls self into path of interurban
Police detain a man who gave the name Watt Zgurich about 40 alleging he leaped onto an interurban track in Lorain County this afternoon. Motorman Farl Schiller of the Yellow Line stopped the car inches from the man and the conductor Frank Feagler turned him over to Elyria police.
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Yellow Line
Watt Zgurich
Farl Schiller
Zeurich
Lorain
Schiller
Llyma
Frank Feagler
Zgurich
Elyria
Four in One Family Killed at Crossing
Four members of the Stein family are killed when the auto they rode in was struck by the second section of the Twentieth Century Limited at a crossing twelve miles east of Toledo Ohio. The victims are Mr and Mrs George Stein and their children Arnold 0 and George 3. Stein reportedly waited for the first section to pass but moved onto the tracks as the second section approached. visibility was blocked by an elevator.
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Toledo O
Century Limited
Martin
Here
George Stein
Arnold
George
Stein
Slay Home Breaker in Charlotte Hotel Murder
The body of Joseph F McDonough, a Fort Wayne Ind photo engraver, slain last night by traveling salesman Thomas I Watson, who found Mr and Mrs Watson together in a Charlotte hotel room, was to be shipped to Cincinnati today.
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Charlotte
Joseph F McDonough
Fort Wayne
Griffin Death Report Sparks Cash Discovery at Hotel
County authorities awaiting reply to a telegram to Mrs Josephine Griffin of Detroit describing Patrick Griffin of Upper Sandusky who died of heart disease in Pittsburgh. He was found in a rooming house with 1623 dollars hidden in his clothing.
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Hunt
Pittsburgh
Josephine Griffin
Hotel Statler
Detroit
Patrick Griffin
Upper Sandusky
Griffin
Believed Seven Lost In Sea Tragedy Off Nova Scotia
Gloucester Massachusetts reports a fishing schooner Republic has been lost with Captain Peter Dunsley and six crewmen after fog cut the ship down off the Nova Scotia coast. Wireless news from Cape Sable reached Gloucester today, confirming the disaster.
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Gloucester
Mass
Peter Dunsley
Republic
Nova Scotia
Cape Sable
Wellingtonite Escapes From State Asylum
The sheriff reported Amos Sturm of Wellington escaped Massillon asylum where he was confined after an indictment for criminal assault. He was spotted at Spencer and brought back to jail. Massillon was notified to pick him up.
Raid Nets Two With Stolen Silver Flasks Near Cincinnati
Cincinnati March 16 192? Police raided Terrace Inn roadhouse near Cincinnati seizing silver flasks. Proprietor Henry Pfalzgraf and two customers James Lowell of Winchester Ohio and Samuel Grumbacher of New York City were arrested on liquor possession charges.
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Cincinnati
Terrace Inn
Henry Pfalzgraf
James Lowell
Winchester
Samuel Grumbacher
St. Nicholas Apartments
New York City
Ohio Official Car In Court For 2nd Time
A state owned auto, license ONG NO 1, used by Adjutant General Henderson, reappears in a police court case for the second time in three days. Hal Donahey, 19, son of Ohio's governor, faces a three day city jail term for speeding while driving the adjutant general's car. Frank Ross of Middletown and Sam Williams, a Columbus garage worker, are linked to a Springfield collision investigation involving the adjutant general's vehicle.
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Columbus
Henderson
Hal Donahey
Ohio
Sam Williama
Frank Ross
Middletown
Springfeld
Williams
Alter
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Ernest Schoedsack
France
Armenia
Near East Relief Society
Sargasso Sea
Oy Gautier IA
S. E. Stone
Night
Los Angeles
May
Nina Martin
Stone
Jack Hoxie
Hoxie
Rumor Doherty
Lake Shore Electric
W. B. Thompson
George Samaha
Amherst
Francisco Kent
Harold Perry
Stanford Avenue
Perry
Engine Company No 1
John Dollard
Court of Common Pleas
Edward Dollard
Mary McNeal
Joseph Maple
Fast River Street
B B Hinnvan
Walnut Street
Court Street
Hixon
J. B Plumb
Third Street
No 1
Mra W B
Gilson
Riverside Court
Middle Avenue
J L Edwards
Ruth Yeakins
Frank van Wye
Alexis Miller
Avon Lake
Jersey
Banks
Aliss Catherine Lenroot
Irvine Lenroot
Wisconsin
Childrens Bureau
Department of Labor
Maugham IO Mal
Gall Cause Legion
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