Lorain Tornado Appeal Urges Aid From New York Tonight
Lorain mayor appeals to the National Democratic convention in New York to broadcast a relief plea from Union Trust Co in Cleveland. He notes 40 000 residents faced a $30 million loss with 7 900 left homeless and Red Cross efforts underway as schools and churches require extensive reconstruction.
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Lorain
Union Trust Co
Cleveland
Elyria
Lorain Sounty
Ohio
Heven
Dryton
Loraln
Thej
Inborgs
Red Cross
Orain
Lorain Weathering Disaster With Community Aid
Lorain residents cope after last Saturday's storm as surrounding cities send money clothes and provisions. National Guard units arrive and are gradually released while ex service members guard the east river area. Red Cross relief funds begin disbursements as civic groups appeal nationwide for aid.
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Lorain
Pversythloc
Aod
Meyor Hoffman Ban
Governhur Donakhey
Donahey
Red Cross and State Relief Committee
Todoso Tor
Red Cross
Henry Baker
Red Cross National Relief Work
Drunken Brawl Ends With Apparent Fatality at Hazel Street
Police rushed to 202 Hazel Street after a drunken altercation in Frank Buzy’s home. A porter lay on a cellar cot, bloodied but alive. Buzy reportedly fought him and declined charges. Witnesses described a tense scene as officers avoided a streetcar collision on the way.
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Hazel Street
Anto
Frank Buzy
Buzy
Red Cross Fund Boosts Lorain Relief Reach
Lorain relief drive closes its park booth after volunteers raise five thousand nine hundred dollars. Treasurer Braman sends the certified check to Lorain and plans further contributions later. Public subscriptions continue through Mr Braman for those who wish to donate.
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Red Cross
Park
Red Cross Fund
Lorain
M Braman
Braman
Steamer Three Brothers Burns Off Point Light
The steamer Three Brothers carrying about 3706 passengers and 30 crew burned to the water’s edge off Point Light, sixty miles below Baltimore. Many women and children were aboard and were rescued onto other vessels. three deaths and at least fifteen injuries are reported. The dead include Evelyn Parker, wife of a deck hand, and deck hands Robert Crockett and James Mack. Captain Hall reported the blaze was detected shortly after midnight.
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Three Brers
Point Light
Baltimore
Evelyn Parker
Robert Crockett
James Mack
Nagro
Hall
Lorain Tots Celebrate 4th Amid Storm Refugees
Fifty homeless children who lost parents in the disaster in Lorain gathered at Longfellow school for Independence Day. Lieutenant and Mrs J M Saunders of Victory post No 48, American Legion, brought flags as the youngsters sang America and the Star Spangled Banner, easing grief with patriotic songs. A band concert by the 112th Engineers’ band was planned for Sunday to bring more cheer to the wrecked city.
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Lorain
Longfellow School
Mra J M Saunders
Victory Post
No 48
American Legion
America
Observer
Acarcely
112Th Engineers
Mother Identifies Lorain Tornado Victim as Missing Daughter
Coroner confirms the Lorain tornado victim is Marie Bonter, identified by her Akron mother Mrs. Marie Bonter at the police station after viewing 169 bodies. The mother plans to bury her daughter in Akron at a Catholic church.
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Taylor
Fuall
Perry
Carl Taylor
Hunredé
Myera
Oine
Artors
Marie Bonter
Harvard Treet
Akron
Cleveland
Chicago
Cincinnati
Pia
County funds shift to bridge repairs after storm
The county commissioners sought court approval to move 4000 from the county surveyors fund and 8000 from the general fund into the bridge fund to cover urgent bridge repair work caused by the recent storm.
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County Surveyors Fund
Lorain Refugee Reports Suitcase Theft in City
Lorain refugee Tom Reminger told police his auto parked on the square contained his clothing and worldly possessions which were stolen. The report describes the act as carried out by an unnamed thief described as the meanest man in the city.
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Tom Reninger
Lorain
Reminger
Lorain Disaster Appeal From Elyria Business Men
Elyria business men appeal to Ohio and America after Lorain disaster. They describe visiting wrecked Lorain, interviewing sufferers, and witnessing deaths. They praise the militia and Red Cross and urge communal action from a forty thousand strong body of supporters.
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Lorain
Elyria
Ohio
America
Red Cross
Corner stone laid for new ME church in Townson
Considerable interest surrounds the corner stone ceremony at 3 pm for the new Metropolitan church. Bishop Henderson and District Superintendent Smith are expected. William Bennington will lay the stone. Construction begun May 15 under contractor Henry Heldrich with local labor. cost estimated at 165000 dollars, largely raised by subscription.
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Bishop Henderson
Smith
William Bennington
Henry Heldrich
Edwin Kirby
Ofcelal Board
The
Indian Society
Fm General
Worries Over Klan Plank Split at Progressive Action Conference
Cleveland July 5 The resolutions committee drafting a platform for an independent bid by Senator Robert LaFollette faced a clash over a proposed anti Ku Klux Klan plank led by Nicholas Inleim and supporters from Jewish society and Chicago. The plank denounces the Klan and warns it threatens labor rights and constitutional freedoms.
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Cleveland
Resolutions Committee
Conference For Progressive Political Action
Robert Marion LaFollette
Tate
Ku Klux Klan
New York
Nicholas Inleim
Clovinnati
N Chanin
Jewish Society Verbund
New York City
Max J Sillinsky
Taller’s Union
Ernest Ettlinger
Chicago
Carl Mullen
Hammond
American Federation of Japar
Portland
Judge Allread Donates 5000 for Lorain Relief
Columbus judge Allread of the Court of Appeals in the Columbus district sent a 5000 check to aid Lorain disaster victims. Judge Washburn of Elyria received the letter after returning home and forwarded the funds to the Red Cross. A separate item notes three year old Coletta Bachstant of Cleveland fell from a porch and was treated at Memorial Hospital with non admission.
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S Allread
Court of Appeals
Columbus
Washburn
Elyria
C G Washburn
Allread
Washburnet
Ely
Red Cross
Coletta Bachstant
St Clair Atrest
Cleveland
Memorial Hospital
Deadlock persists as convention vote stalls in New York
Delegates at Madison Square Garden fail to move the Democratic National convention from New York to Kansas City despite a plan by Oklahoma delegate A H Ferguson. The roll call ends with 82.7 to 1007.3, New York excused from voting, and Ohio and Michigan votes shifting the tally. McAdoo and Smith leaders remain far apart on ballots 74 and 75.
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A. H. Ferguson
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Oklahoma
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Missouri
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Roosevelt
La Follette Endorsed as Independent Progressive Leader
Convention at Cleveland endorses Senator Robert M La Follette of Wisconsin as an independent progressive candidate. Delegates hear British Labor Party cablegrams urging American Labor Party formation while clashes over recognition erupt. credentials committee excludes Communists and workers party members.
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Robert M LaFollette Republican
Wisconsin
Naval Organization
la Follette
England
British Labor Party
Ameri
Can
Labor Party
James Mercer
Chicago
Wm H. Johnstown
Johnston
Mercer
Tim
Workers Party
Lafelietts
Wee An
Mahoney
St. Paul
Cows Attack Wakeman Man and Ambulance Crash
Memorial Hospital treated Thomas Fay of Wakeman after a farm cow attack left him with a fractured right ankle. Mrs. E A Welsh, riding with her husband, suffered forehead and hand cuts when the ambulance hit a track with no lights. Dr. Forest Monachele also received upper lip and wrist injuries in the Welch ambulance crash.
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City
Upto Memorial Hospital
Thomas Fay
E A Welsh
Bridge Street
Forest Monochele
Alec
Ritg
Welch
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