Three Fourth of July Auto Accidents Reported
Three car crashes occurred yesterday as the city marked the Fourth of July. Stewart Wilkins, 412 Fifteenth Street, was arrested for driving while intoxicated after colliding with a streetcar on West Bridge Street. a passenger, Walter Milalski, 40, Fifteenth Street, was hospitalized with a dislocated left collar bone. Another crash at West Avenue and Third Street involved Mille Freed of Pittsburgh, colliding with E Griffith. both cars damaged. A third collision on Lodi Street involved A C Stang and Peter Daveiska. Daveiska fled, but license number was obtained.
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Elyria Memorial Hospital
Stewart Wilkins
Fifteenth Street
Wilkins
West Bridge Street
Walter Milalski
West Avenue
Third Street
Mille Freed
Massey Avenue
Pittsburgh
Penna
E. Griffith
Ninth Street
Griffith
A. C. Stang
Spruce Street
Seek Body Of Man Lost In Crevasse
At Paradise Inn Mount Rainier National Park Washington rescuers resumed today the search for Forrest Greathouse missing after Tuesday’s crevasse slide. Two prior days yielded Edwin A Wetzell of Milwaukee, a former University of Illinois football star, but the Mountain concealed the other body.
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Paradise Inn
Mount Ranier National Park
Washington
Mt. Ranier
Forrest Greathouse
Edwin A. Wetzell
Milwaukee
University of Illinois
Wetzel
Railroad Sued For $10,150
John H. Kuhn files suit against Lake Shore Electric Railway seeking 10150 for injuries alleged by his wife Bertha Kuhn after a July 1927 collision at Risden Road crossing. Petition alleges railway negligence and obscured track view.
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Lake Shore Electric Railway
John H. Kuhn
Bertha Kuhn
Lake Shore
Risden Road
Kuhl
Carpenter Career From School Teacher to Real Estate Leader
Joseph Carpenter, aged 21 in the text, taught school near Chicago Junction Ohio then became Spencer Medina County postmaster for eight years. He moved to Elyria in 1916 to work in real estate and insurance, later partnering with F C Billings and serving as trustee of the Elyria-Lorain County Real Estate Board. Carpenter, now married with three children, lives at 405 West Second Street. His boyhood ambition was civil engineering. his hobbies are hunting and fishing.
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Joseph
Carpenter
Celeryville
Chicago Junction
Ohio
Spencer
Medina County
Elyria
F. C. Billings
Elysia-Lorrain County Real Estate Board
West Second Street
Drowning Toll From Independence Day Across Michigan Ohio
After Independence Day celebrations in Michigan and Ohio, a UP dispatch reports numerous drownings and firework related injuries. Grand Haven saw ten drownings. others occurred near Ann Arbor, Lake Milton, Point Place, and Lake Huron. Firework accidents killed a 7 year old in Cleveland and injured several, with traffic fatalities and bridge collapse adding to the toll across cities including Detroit Cleveland Youngstown and Toledo.
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Detroit
Michigan
Grand Haven
Lake Michigan
Grand Rapids
Andertow
Windsor, Ont
Highland Park
Lake Erie
Point Pelee
Richard Lamay
Huron River
Ann Arbor
Meyer Leder
Clinton
Oakland County
Pontiac
Edward Hausherr
Edward Peterson
Rudolph Schlegelmen
Murray Lake
Ohio
United Press Today
Casimir Stachurski
Cleveland
Casimir
Arthur Hahn
Ironton
Hahn
Cunningham Ashenhurst
Columbus
Lewisburg
Ashenhurst
Ohio State University
Lake Milton
Youngstown
Point Place
Hamilton
Alvin Wecklecker
Cortland
Edith Campbell
Jamestown
N. Y
John Browiak
Cuyahoga Heights Village
Edgewater Park
Frank ‘Wichowski
Dayan
Geneva
Conneaut
John Bolenbaugh
Erie
Pomeroy
Dorothy Little
Marguerite Wolff
Ravenna
John Jeziorsk
Arthur Boehm
Jeziorsk
Boehm
Werner Haseley
George Held
Alliance
Almer Anderson
Helen Roositer
Bowdill
Akron
Mary Johnson
Raphael Magone
Peter Waback
St. Clairsville
William Williams
Rum runners shot in Detroit river chase
Detroit July 5 coast guard engaged a rum laden boat in a dramatic chase on the Detroit river near Fighting Island. Two rum runners were shot, three companions arrested, one man escaped to Canada with a bullet wound. Captured were Edward Smith Bert Banta Jack Miller and James Moore. The seized haul included the liquor boat lugger and 300 cases of beer.
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Detroit River
Fighting Island
Coast
Windsor Hospital
Albert le Tourneau
River Rouge
Edward Smith
Bert Banta
Jack Miller
James Moore
Ecorse
Michigan
Danta
Storm Lashes Area With Downed Trees and Crops
Severe storm hit Thursday evening ending outdoor festivities. Trees toppled in parts of the city and shrubs were wind-swept while grain crops were knocked down in portions of the county with no major damage reported.
Earthquakes Reported by Cleveland Seismograph
In Cleveland Ohio today two distinct earthquake shocks were recorded on the John Carroll University seismograph. Father F L Odenbach reported the first shock struck at 9 37 a m and the second ten minutes later. The epicenter was about 500 miles away.
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Cleveland
John Carroll University
F. L. Odenbach
Aneke
Father Odenbach
Drunken Drivers Sentenced After Fourth of July
Three men were arraigned in Justice S. J. George court after Fourth of July celebrations. W Altefather of Cleveland received a $200 fine and a six month license suspension for driving while intoxicated. Zipp Ott of Elyria got a $100 fine, 30 days in jail, and a six month license suspension. Dennis Rafferty, arrested with Ott, was fined $10 and costs for intoxication.
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Court of Justice
S. J. George
W. Altefather
Cleveland
Zipp Ott
Elyria
Columbia
Dennis Rafferty
Ott
Death toll on Fourth of July rises across nation
A United Press survey tallies holiday deaths in 153rd anniversary celebrations. More than 125 lives lost, with drownings in Michigan and Lake Michigan undertow cases, numerous auto deaths, and a tally of fireworks causing few fatalities. Ohio and New York report isolated incidents.
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Uncle Sam
United Press
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Michigan
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Lake Michigan
Missouri
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Colorado
Alabama
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Iowa
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New Hampshire
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
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Rhode Island
Texas
Tennessee
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Wisconsin
Severe storm demolishes Knights of Pythias Children’s Home outbuildings
A July 5 wind storm in North Springfield caused extensive damage as outbuildings at the Knights of Pythias Children’s Home were demolished. No injuries reported.
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Springfield
Knights of Pythias
Two Kentucky Men Turn Themselves In For Car Theft
Sam Rowtt and Charles Gill from Maysville Kentucky confessed to stealing a Chevrolet coach on June 23 and damaging it between Elyria and Oberlin. They surrendered at the Augusta Kentucky theft inquiry, saying they drove through Ohio before returning home to avoid further trouble.
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John G. Shrock
Augusta
Kentucky
Elyria
Oberlin
Mr. Shrock
Feliows
Sam Rowtt
Charles Gill
Maysville
Ohio
VanWert
Toledo
Gill
Rowtt
E. J. Stankard
Lorain Firm Wins Cleveland Elyria Road Paving Contract
Ohio Engineering Company of Lorain was named low bidder for paving six miles of the Cleveland Elyria road in concrete, at a bid of 562 318. Highway Construction Company of Cleveland received a brick paving contract for four miles of the Cleveland Burton road at 394 842 plus 103 157 for brick supply.
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Columbus
Robert N. Wald
Ohio Engineering Company
Lorain
Cleveland-Elyria Road
Ward
Highway Construction Company
Cleveland
Dr Harlan T Stetson Named Head at Ohio Wesleyan Observatory
Delaware Ohio July 5 Dr Harlan True Stetson named assistant professor of astronomy at Harvard head of the astronomy department and director of Perkins Observatory Ohio Wesleyan University He has taught at Dartmouth Middlebury Northwestern and served with Smithsonian in 1927 He led May 9 eclipse expedition in Dekah Malay Peninsula and will oversee rebuilding of the observatory mounting to fit the 61 inch reflector to the 70 inch lens in Pittsburgh.
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Harlan True Stetson
Harvard
Perkins Observatory
Ohio Wesleyan University
Stetson
Dartmouth
Middlebury College
Northwestern University
United States
Dekah
Malay Peninsula
Smithsonian Institute
U. S. Shipping Board
Stetgen
Sworld
Pittsburgh
Rich Man Found Dead In Car In Canal
CHICAGO July 5 Robert T Hansen wealthy coal dealer was found dead at the wheel of his sedan submerged in the Chicago drainage Canal He was shot before his car was driven into the water A highway patrolman spotted the car near shore after flood gates opened Sag Channel rose three feet The body was pulled ashore A diamond ring worn by Hansen according to his wife is missing with his gloved hands remaining.
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Chicago
Robert T. Hansen
Lockport
Hansen
Fireworks Display Draws Huge City Crowd at Gates Hospital
A large crowd gathered at Gates Hospital grounds on a Wednesday evening for a Rotary Club sponsored fireworks show. Children patients and thousands of adults enjoyed the display as streets around the area filled with cars and families visiting and playing on the lawn.
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The
Gates Hospital
Rotary Club
President Has Quiet Fourth
Washington July 5 It was business as usual at the White House for President Hoover but most of his cabinet officers were away on a Fourth of July holiday. Hoover kept to his routine at the executive offices before 9 am and spent the day with baseball games in the afternoon and a fireworks display in the evening.
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Washington
White House
Hoover
Endurance flight to beat world record amid storm wrecks
In Cleveland, Byron Newcomb and Roy Mitchell aboard City of Cleveland aim to surpass the 172 hour 32 minute endurance record, after their refueling plane was wrecked in a severe storm. A new Stinson-Detroit er refueler transferred 85 gallons during the 22nd contact as observers watched from the airport.
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Byron K. Newcomb
Roy L. Mitchell
Stinson
Baltimore & Ohio
Lorain
Cleveland Airport
City of Cleveland
Dieaster
Reg Robbins
Jim Kelly
Fort Worth
Texas
Mitchell
Newcomb
Stewart Aircraft Corporation
Ernie Basham
Thomson Aeronautic Corporation
Detroit
Department of Commerce
Dar
Bic Stinson-Detroiter
Eddie Stinson
Stinson Aircraft Corporation
Akron
Markeand
Hell
Newk
Endurance
Basham
Riots Mark New Orleans Car Strike
Riots in New Orleans accompany a street car strike with 400 imported strike breakers operating under armed escort. Police squads armed with shotguns rifles and tear gas bombs patrolled cars for the first time since the strike began, as reports said one man was fatally injured and many others were wounded or trampled amid the demonstrations.
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New Orleans
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A. R. Thumbling
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Good Samaritan Hospital
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London
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