City Sinking Fund Report Details 1922 Debts and Bonds
The Board of Sinking Fund Trustees filed the annual report showing receipts and expenditures for the year ending December 31 1922. It lists bonds issued repaid investments held and deposits remaining and the city debt including water works sewer and general bonds totaling 2 923 283 91 with property valuation 2 792 080 32 and a tax levy of .25.
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Ocks Fundsansfer
Uredl
Water Works
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R Works
Generals
Mts
Fires Sweep Three Homes in One Day
The fire department responded to three blazes yesterday. John Packard on Ahe Avenue saw a chimney fire start in his house. Walter Wikrent on West River Street had a stove fire that spread to stairs, quickly controlled with little loss. The third blaze near S Miller on Third Street alley gutted a room and stairs, with three machines in adjacent buildings left untouched. cause of the final fire remains unknown.
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E Fire Department
John Packard
Walter Wikrent
West River Street
Central
West Avenue
S. Miller
Third Street
State highway awards five mile Lorain road contract
The state highway department awarded the Highway Construct Co a contract to improve five miles of road west of Lorain. The project costs about $227,000 and will begin early in the spring. The work will widen and resurface the highway.
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State Highway Department
Highway Construct Co
Ley
Lorain
Spirit Love Suspected in Curate Dr. Gordons Death
New York police probing the alleged suicide of Dr. Percy Gordon lean toward blame on a spiritual romance with the wife of a parishioner. Relatives acknowledge a spiritual relationship between the woman, Mrs. Wheelock, and the doctor. The fifty year old woman and sixty year old doctor traveled together last December on a steamship.
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New York
Pelles
Percy Gordon
William H. Wheelock
Gordon
Senate backs limits on new bills after February 26
Columbus Jan 17 Senate concurs with House action seeking early adjournment. Joint resolution restricts introducing bills after February 26. Bills include extending public light and water facilities beyond city lines, abolishing the State Utilities Commission, and transferring state schools for the deaf and blind to Education. Public hearings slated January 23 and 24 on several measures.
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House
Williams
Lake County
Senate Public Utilities Committee
Bender
Cuyahoga County
State Utilities Commission
Department of Public Welfare
Department of Education
Herbert
Franklin County
Senate Taxation Committee
Lefever
Athens County
Kennedy
Brown County
Sullivan
Union County
Auto Fly Wheel Accident In West Street
An Auto Fly Wheel hit A Fillmore of West Street after a failed start caused the wheel to burst. A fragment struck his cheek and another hit his abdomen. He was taken to a doctor then home and confined to bed.
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An Fillmore
West Street
Hado Tarrow
Five Tot Fire Tragedy in Quarrel at Binghamton
Five children aged 2 to 13 die in a blaze started during a quarrel between their parents in Binghamton New York. Police say the father Joseph Kokalis was intoxicated and injured, the mother was also harmed, neighbors restrained her from returning to the building, and firefighters recovered the children suffocated in a closet barricade. The cause appears linked to a quarrel that toppled an oil stove or shattered a night store, with the father in custody afterwards.
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Binghamton
N. Y
Joseph Kokalis
Joseph
Jose
Jene
Stephen
Anna
President Harding Cancels Engagements Due to Cold
Washington January 17 President Harding, advised by Brigadier General Charles E Sawyer, cancels all engagements and rests at the White House while he fights a severe cold. Despite orders to take it easy, he sits at his desk and plans to see callers. Two cabinet members, Labor Secretary Davis and Postmaster General Work, are also ill with colds. Davis may be home at least a week.
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Charles E. Sawyer
Harding
White House
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Grippe
Work
Post Office Department
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Elyria May Get Dayton's Formula Already
Dayton, Jan 17, claims the distinction of being the only city of size in Ohio which lived within its income last year and carried a financial balance of 66,752 dollars. Fred McNelly of West Avenue reported to police that someone entered a building on his premises and stole a radio set. Entrance was gained through a window and boys are suspected.
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Dayton
Ohio
Fred McNelly
Weat Avenue
Arrests Report Shows Drunks Nearly Half of Total
The annual police report by Chief E. J. Stankard lists 442 arrests in the past year with intoxication and disorderly conduct leading. Other categories include assault and battery, auto stealing, burglary, concealed weapons, forgery, gambling, grand larceny, vagrancy, and various violations.
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E. J. Stankard
Arrest Father on Liquor Charge
Sheriff Underhill raided Steve Leschsky’s home on one road seeking stolen property but found a still mash and liquor making gear. He pleaded guilty and paid a 200 dollar fine plus costs. The man is father of John Leschsky, recently arrested for robbing a Huron Street filling station.
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Sheriff Underhill
Steve Leschsky
Town One Road
Leschsky
Justice George
John Leschsky
Huron Street
Lorain
Missing Claire Rogers Leaves Columbus University in NYC
Miss Claire Rogers eighteen, cousin of playwright Eugene ONeill, vanished after leaving Columbus University en route to her aunt Agnes Brennan’s Riverside Drive apartment. Her brother William Rogers of Hartford says neither police nor family have any clue, with uncertainty rivaling Dorothy Arnold’s case. She was thriving in her drama studies and had no known male companions.
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New York
Claire Rogers
Eugene O'Neill
Columbus University
Riverside Drive
William Rogers
Hartford
Claire
International News Service
Miss Rogers
Anti Labor Film Banned in Ohio By Censors
Columbus, Jan 17 The state motion picture censor board ordered a ban on the exhibition of The Strangers Banquet by Marshall Neilan. Labor groups allege the film misrepresents labor. Frank Krehe, 67, longtime treasurer of this village, died today.
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Columbus
Ohie
Marahal Neilan
Motion Picture Censor’ Board
Riegel
Frank Krehe
German coal barons now facing arrest in looming crisis
At Bastrop Louisiana Judge Fred L. Odom ordered prospective defendants in the hooded mob murders case to testify if called, while protecting against self incrimination. The ruling opens the door to summoning Klan leaders including Captain J E Skipwith as witnesses, amid defense objections about third degree interrogation. In other dispatches Paris reports France authorizes hostage hold on Ruhr mine owners to assure coal deliveries to allies. Polish government begins conscription for men 22 to 40 as Pilsudski probes frontier movements.
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Bastrop
Louisiana
Morehouse Parish
Fred L. Odom
Barnette
Grey
Paris
France
General de Goutte
Rhineland
Ruhr
Shaw to Run for City Treasurer in Republican Primary
F. L. Shaw of the Savings Deposit Bank & Trust Co announces candidacy for city treasurer pending the upcoming Republican primaries. He has spent many years with the bank and enters politics for the first time.
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F. L. Shaw
Satings Deposit Bank & Trust Co
Shaw
Senate seeks full report on surtax evasion by corporations
Washington Jan 17 A senate resolution calling for Secretary Mellon to provide full information on penalties for corporations accused of evading surtaxes by declaring stock dividends was passed unanimously. Senator Brookhart Republican of Iowa introduced the measure and read a lengthy list of corporations he charged with such evasions.
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Washington
Mellon
Senate
Brookhart
Iowa
Timberman Appeal Hearing Scheduled for Friday
The grand jury in the Timberman bribery case moves to Friday’s appeal hearing before the Supreme Court. Prosecutor Dan Symons and attorney Chas Adams of Lorain accompany the defense advisor as the court reviews alleged error from the common pleas conviction. The Court of Appeals found no error and the case advances to the highest court.
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Grand Jury
Dana Symons
Lawrence Webber
Chas Adams
Lorain
Supreme ‘Court
Timberman
Court of Common Pleas
Court of Appeals
Italy resents French Ruhr policy and plenary power
Rome protests the French army occupation in Germany and the grant of plenary authority to General De Goutte. Italy withdraws mora support for seizure of the Ruhr while aligning with American and British views. Italian officials say Paris did not consult Rome after Italy promised mining engineers to aid coal production for the Allies.
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Italy
France
General de Goutte
Ruhr
America
Great Britain
French Plan Pushes 15 Miles Toward Hamm
Amsterdam dispatch says French troops at Dortmund will advance toward Hamm if Ruhr mine owners refuse to resume reparations coal. Movement to continue within 36 hours if Germany persists in turning over coal and coke to the Allies.
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Dortmund
Hamm
Ruhr
Iother
Dusseldorf
France Delivers Note On Reparations Policy Viewpoint
Paris dispatch reports Secretary Hughes states America will not set Germany’s reparations amount. Observer Roland Boyden notes no formal proposals were planned, only outlining a personal view. The despatch confirms Boyden’s position according to International News Service.
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U.S
Paris
France
Boyden
Mission to Memel to set provisional government
The inter allie d nations council of ambassadors plans a Memel mission of military officers to establish a provisional government and expel Lithuanian irregulars who seized the district. A truce with allied forces at Memel ends fighting while the Lithuanian minister protests a Polish gunboat arrival.
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Paris
Inter al Ned Council of Ambassadors
Memel
Iron Wolves
London
Riga
England
Dangers to Europe Prompt New General Strike Call
The German communist Clara Zetkin Karl Radek of the Russian Soviet government and J T W Newbold a British communist member today ban upon workers in London Vienna Amsterdam and other European capitals to arrange a general strike in protest. This move threatens to intensify the looming danger of another war as the Ruhr invasion activity escalates across Europe.
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Gan
Vedlasshsi
Europe
Clara Zetkin
Karl Radek
J. T. W .Newbold
London
Vienna
Amsterdam
Jim Armitage Arrested Over Displayed Pig At Furnace Street
Local health issue arises after a pig is found in a cellar at 22 Furnace Street. Mayor Jones instructed Sanitary officer Frank Williams to inspect. Jim Armitage must appear before the mayor at 9 AM tomorrow to answer a health ordinance violation. The pig, given at Exchange Club meeting last night, links to Mrs. Armitage. Also notes new Civica Finance and Loan Co incorporated in Elytia with 500 dollars and officers Crain Kellener. Mrs. C J Sheanan breaks right wrist after a fall near East Bridge Street while heading to town.
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Jim Armitage
Furnace Street
Frank Williams
Cear
Exchange Club
Community Chest Campaign Planned in City
A vigorous Community Chest drive will launch Friday with a plan to use canvassers drawn from their best acquaintances. Businessmen will be called on by fellow businessmen and manufacturers by peers to minimize missed households, Chairman George Stevens said. The campaign aims to mobilize a circle of supporters and start with a focus on familiar contacts despite unfinished details.
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Community Chest Fund
George Stevens
Cam
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