Penna Hotel Fire Claims Missing and Dead
A Pennsylvanian hotel fire at Schmidt in McKeegport leaves eleven missing with four confirmed dead. James Simmerly, 24, of Cleveland, in critical condition after a gun accident at a nearby field. Norville Piynale, 24, charged with firearm violation. Fire officials and the coroner search ruins for victims and survivors.
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Penna
Jenry Simmerly
E. St
Cleveland
Lakeside Hospital
Run Martin
Cleved
Simmerly
Norville Piynale
Ird
Piynale
Army
Pars
Mckeegport
W. J. MacGregor
Schmidt
Michael Przybylski
MacGregor
L’olice
John O'Hara
David C. McCrea
SLAIN HONAN FOUND IN MINE IDENTIFIED BY FAMILY
In Ellaire Ohio Mrs Brown Jefferson Ohio and three children identified a body found in an adjoined mine as her daughter Mrs Mary Brown Ferrari 21. The woman had left her husband and lived with an Italian who disappeared. Police suspect the husband and the Italian who aided the crime.
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Ellaire
Y. Brown
Jefferson
Ohio
Mra Tl Brown Ferrari
Uniontown
Minero
Death of Sarah Tippett at 80. widowhood and court filing
Sarah Tippett 80 of Weat ige street died at Memorial Hospital yesterday from age related illness. She was a tailoress who worked for leading town tailors for years and was respected by older residents. Funeral services will be at the Church of Christ this row afternoon at 2 o'clock. A divorce suit has been filed by Mary Chevalier against William Chevalier citing neglect and cruelty and seeking restoration of her maiden name Mary Ball.
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Sarah Tippett
Weatige Street
Memorial Pital
Niy
Church of Christ
Aty Chevaiier
Northrup Street
William Chevalier
Mary Ball
Wellington and Elyria Booze Sellers
Steve Nagy of West River street was arrested for selling liquor after police found raisin jack and mash in his home. Pleaded guilty, fined £500 and costs, and jailed until paid. Sheriff Underhill later searched Sam Rafella’s boarding house, found raisin jack, and he was jailed after pleading guilty and paying a $200 fine and costs.
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Steve Nagy
West River Street
Polles
Mayor Jones
Navy
Western Derebts
Underhill
Wellington
Sam Rafella
W. B. Thompson
Train Special Delights Elyrians At Museum Exhibit
About 2000 residents viewed the New York Central Service Progress special train on Tuesday. The exhibit traced locomotive history from Newton era tea kettles to No. 800, featured DeWitt Clinton’s locomotive, the speed-record 989, and models by Ernest Warther. Moving pictures and a lecture on railroad problems accompanied the display.
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New York Central Service
Isaac Newton
DeWitt Clinton
Ernest Warther
Fire destroys plant and outbuildings near Wellington
A fire at the Horr Warner Company plant near Wellington caused $50,000 in losses. The blaze started when a toy balloon ignited the plant at Garden Isle, burning two dwellings, two barns, four storage houses, an office building, and eighteen cribs.
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Wooster CO
Garden Isle
Here
Horr Warner Company
Ridgewill Man Held on Assault Battery
On Tuesday afternoon Justice George conducted the assault and battery hearing for Elmer Laws charged with assaulting Edward Terrell. Prosecutor Dan Symons and defense counsel D. A. Baird appeared. The motion to dismiss was overruled and Laws was bound over to the grand jury under a sixty cent bond.
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George
Elmer Laws
Edward Terrell
Dan Symons
D. A Baird
Justion George
Laws
Fourth quiet in Tugity as couple weds at park
A quiet Fourth of July in Tugity included a surprise wedding at Riverview Park. Frank A. Grant of Denver, 65, married Lenora Mores of Wooster, 50, with Mayor Jones officiating from a midway stand. Grant presented a $9000 bungalow deed and announced a Denver wedding trip before returning to Wooster.
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Riverview Park
Frank A. Grant
Denver
Lenora Mores
Wooster
Mayor Jones
Cascade Park
Fire Department
Egat Avenge
Mrs Stannard Lauded by Seven Witnesses At Inquiry
Delaware Ohio July 5 Mrs Knotts was dismissed as cottage matron at the girls industrial school by Mrs Mae Stannard over alleged roughness to girls. Witnesses including Miss Alice Double and seven other staff testified Mrs Stannard abused girls and offered to keep hands off. Two teachers and two relief officers resigned yesterday.
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Delaware
Knotts
Mae Stannard
Miss Double
Stannard
Columbus
Matilde Muth
Alice Shoemaker
Mary Livingaton
R. B. Breece
Gardner
Louise Bougher
Sherman Andrews
Mrs Cyrus H McCormick Sr Dies After Illness
Mrs Cyrus H McCormick Sr aged 83 widow of the Harvester founder died at her Lake Forest home after a weeklong illness. She was mother of Harold F McCormick who led the company later renamed International Harvester. funeral arrangements are pending.
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Chicago
Cyrus H. McCormick, Sr
Great Harvester Tmachinery Company
International Harvester Company
Harold F. McCormick
Lake Forest
Union Offered to Buy Guns for March in Logan County
Fred Mooney of the Clothier local testified that the United Mine Workers would guarantee funds to buy firearms and ammunition for a march on Logan County in 1921 if locals could not supply weapons. Swanner said twenty miners bought rifles and that district officers seized local funds to finance the ammunition.
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Lewisburg
W. Va
International Organization of the United Mine Workers
Logan County
Clothier
Fred Mooney
William Swanner
William Blizzard
Mooney
Coal River
Swanner
Mingo
International
Swanher
Childers
On Horse Creek
Charleston
C. Frank Keeney
Missing barber last seen on return trip from Cleveland
Walter Gun of Dearborn Michigan reported to police that William Hartley a barber was missing from a five person party returning to Dearborn from Cleveland. Hartley was not missed until they reached Elyria and officers were asked to watch for him.
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Walter Gun
Dearborn
Mich
William Hartley
Cleveland
New $9,000,000 Electric Plant Planned for Toronto Ohio
Steubenville July 5 Official announcement confirms a nine million dollar electric generating plant to be located at Toronto in this county. Financing by Youngstown capital is settled and 760 to 1000 workers will begin construction within four weeks. When finished the plant will rank among the nation’s largest.
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Steubenville
Toronto
Youngstown Capital
United States
Ethel Barrymore Divorces Husband Over Cruelty
Actress Ethel Barrymore was granted a divorce from Russell Colt on grounds of non support and extreme cruelty. Depositions described severe beatings, a 1909 black eye, and a hotel room incident that interrupted a play. Separately, the Ku Klux Klan held an open field initiation near Elyria with about 1000 spectators and vows from Lorain men.
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Providence
Ethel Barrymore
Russell Colt
Bristol
R. L
Ku Klux Klan
Lorain
Elyria
Big oil fields ablaze report from Signal Hill
Six giant oil derricks blaze in the Signal Hill oil fields threatening millions in losses. Reports from Long Beach reach as President Harding travels to Alaska amid campaign stops and mixed notes on a return trip.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Signal Hill
Long Beach
Slayings of Maid Dorothy Kauffman Sparks Hunt in New York State
Westchester County police spread a manhunt for a black suspect in the brutal slaying of Dorothy Kauffman a maid at Magruder Craighead home. Seven wounds and a throat cut mark a vicious struggle. Kauffman previously taught in Maryland and had recently visited her home town.
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Scarsdale
West Chester County
Dorothy Kauffman
Magruder Craighead
Miss Kauffman
Somerset County
Maryland
Muss Kauffman
Mrs. Craighead
Three Killed In Alto Mishap In Vancouver
Three men were fatally killed and two injured early today when the car they rode in plunged off a highway between Battle Ground and Hepburn near Vancouver Washington. Arthur L. Stewart 42 broker and former securities chief under ex Governor Davis died suddenly Tuesday night on a train from Philadelphia and will be buried tomorrow at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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Vancouver
Wash
Battle Ground
Hetseon
Washa
Here
Columbus
Arthur L. Stewart
Division of Securities
Davis
Philadelphia
Greenlawn
Fourth of July fireworks claim many lives across states
Nationwide holiday notes 23 deaths and around 80 injuries from Ohio to Michigan and Pennsylvania. Auto crashes and drownings predominate with numerous listed victims in Cincinnati Dayton Cleveland Akron Springfield Ashland Columbus Toledo Detroit Pittsburgh and adjacent areas.
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Ohio
New York City
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Adeline Metoy
Thomas Applegate
Dayton
Betty Ann McLane
Willams
Sirty
Michael Drobnick
John Hroban
Augustilan
Walter Donald
Akron
Edwin Hassett, Jr
Springfield
George Biaszier
Ashland
Carl Barnett
Worley Simitie
Adrian
Mich
George Monroe
Clarence Leroy
Carthage
Nathan Hanks
Anthony Bi
Erlanger
Miriam Raferty
Mike Kririla
Tee
Steubenville
Joseph Shaniey
Shaniey
Louis Scheiber
Veman Mirski
Fred Roweam
Nicholas de Angelis
Rath Bobinson
Robert Clark
Anna
Raymond Roller
Jackson
Charles Turner
Detroit
Lion Sale Levenich
Michigan
Expo
Grand Rapids
Pittsburgh
Wader
Elyrians Hurt in Train Mishap Near Elyria
M. J. Smith a New York Central foreman and wife at 172 Huron Street were cut by flying glass when an open door on Irain No. 840 shattered a window as it arrived in Ely at nine. Mrs. Smith suffered a badly wrenched shoulder. Their son was uninjured. An elderly Elyria woman nearby was cut but not seriously hurt.
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M. J. Smith
New York Central Section
Huron Street
Irain
Elytia
Avon Girl 19 Dies From Avon Auto Runover
Loretta Wearsch daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Wearsch of Avon died after injuries from being struck by a car yesterday afternoon. She was taken to St Josephs Hospital Lorain but died this noon. She leaves six siblings and her parents. Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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Loretta Wearsch
Peter Wearsch
Avon
Miss Wearsch
St. Joseph's Hospital
Lorain
Jack Taylor
Cleveland
Limpert
Dover
Frank Klingshirn
Edward Casper
Delores
Ambrose
Roman
Lloyd
Bernard
Harding pays tribute to ex service men at Centralia graves
President Harding, arriving in Tacoma on a special train, honored the fallen veterans of the Centralia riot. He left the train to visit cemeteries, placing a breath on the graves and stating the world was shocked by their deaths and that those responsible attacked the bulwark of the republic.
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Tacoma
Wash
Harding
Centralia
Centrala
Our Republic
Nickel Plate to Bond for $16 Million Mortgage Bonds
The Nickel Plate was authorised by the Interstate Commerce Commission to resume liabilities as guarantors of 16 million dollars of five percent free mortgage sinking fund gold bonds of the Cleveland Union Terminal Company. An earlier note from Mineola N. Y. reports another day's delay in Lt Russell L. Maughan’s hop flight from New York to San Francisco by daylight.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commmission Today
Cleveland Union Terminal Company
Mineola, L
Russell L. Maughas
New York
San Francisco
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Cyrus McOrmick SR
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Edmund T. Meima
Wisconsin
William R. Snow
Illineis
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UNION
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Alaska
Lorain Hospital
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