Inaugural Coast to Coast Air Train Lands in Indianapolis
Thousands cheer as the City of Columbus and City of Wichita land in Indianapolis for the first rail-aerial service coast to coast. The two planes, carrying 16 passengers each, depart for St. Louis after the ceremonies, with Mayor Lamp hier aboard the tri motor aircraft observation flight. The event kicks off a multi city route with subsequent stops at Wynoka and Clovis before reaching Los Angeles. Amelia Earhart witnesses the New York flag state dedication and Lindbergh readies the eastward leg from the West Coast.
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Indianapolis
Ind
St. Louis
Columbus
Wichita
Mayor Lamphier
Casey Jones
T. A. T. Technical Board
Port Columbus
Transcontinental Air Transport
City of Columbus
City of
Pennsyyvania
New York
Commerce
Charles W. Lamont
Washington
Wichite
Henry
Edie? Ford
Harvey Firsetone
Tire
W. W. Atterbury
The
Pennsylvania
Los Angeles
Wynoka
Okla
Clovis
WN. M
Charles A. Lindbergh
Webber Law Career and Family Ties in Elyria
Lawrence H. Webber, a Ohio Wesleyan student at 21, pursued law at Cleveland Law School and began practice in Elyria in 1913. He served as city solicitor 1916–1919 and county prosecutor 1921–1924, later partnering with his father Judge A R Webber and Dan B Symons. Married with two children, he lives at 129 Columbus Street. His hobbies include golf, hunting, fishing, beekeeping, and fruit raising.
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Lawrence H. Webber
Ohio Wesleyan University
Cleveland Law School
Elyria
A. R. Webber
Dan B. Symons
Webber
Columpus Street
State Dry Agent Near Death From Bullet Wound
Toledo Ohio July 8 state and federal authorities hunted bootlegger Joe Weston after a raid on his home. L C Fleming the state dry agent was shot at 3 am during the 500 gallon still seizure. Weston fired from his car as officers moved in. Fleming remained hospitalized near death with a .45 caliber bullet near his heart.
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Toledo
Ohio
Joe Weston
Fleming
California fliers aim for 400 hour stay in air
Culver City Calif July 8 Loren Mendell and Pete Reinhart rode their Buhl air sedan into the sixth day of flight within striking distance of a new world refueling endurance record. If they remain aloft until 2 30 p m Tuesday they will surpass the 174 hour 50 second mark set in Cleveland by Byron K Newcomb and Roy L Mitchell. Mendell reports relief from bad weather and more sleep as they push toward a 400 hour goal.
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Culver City
Calif
Loren Mendell
Pete Reinhart
California
Buhl Air
Cleveland
Byron K. Newcomb
Roy L. Mitchell
Mencdell
Ford celebrates Coast-to-Coast Air Railway launch
Henry Ford and son Edsel arrived in Columbus to witness the start of the Atlantic-to-Pacific air railway’s first phase. Ford called the event historic and a milestone for American efficiency as Amelia Earhart joined the ceremony. Governors and business leaders welcomed the dawn of air and rail collaboration.
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Columbdus
Henry Ford
Ford
Edsel
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
America
Zimmerly Claims New Nonstop Distance Record
D S Barney Zimmerly announced a new world non stop distance record for flight airplanes with a nonstop 1500 mile run from Brownsville Texas to Winnipeg Manitoba. The trip took sixteen hours and surpassed the previous best by 753 miles. Takeoff occurred at 2 45 p m Sunday and landing at 6 45 p m at a local airport. Much of the journey passed through clouds and fog.
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Winnipeg
Man
D. S
Barney” Zimmerly
Brownsville
Texas
Zimmerly
Rescue at sea: Prince George collision saves 249 aboard Agassiz
Boston July 8. Coast guard logs recount 249 passengers rescued from the coastal steamer Prince George after a collision with the Agassiz 50 miles off Cape Ann. No lives lost. Agassiz, Mojave, and Tuscarora aided. Prince George docked in East Boston. Passenger accounts vary on order and panic during lifeboat transfer.
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Boston
United States Coast Guard
Prince George
Cape Ann
Coast Guard
Agassiz
Mojave
Silver Maple
East Boston
Tuscarora
Wainwright
Bessie Savage
Lynnfield
Boy Ernie Wash Drowned In Rushing Black River
Ten year old Ernest Wash drowned in the swollen Black river around 1 p m while wading near the shore with two companions. Firemen used life nets and grappling hooks but could not recover the body by press time as crowds watched and his family suffered beside the bank.
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Black River
Ernest Wash
Ford
Cascade Park
Central Station
John
Bob Elek
Edward
Alex Wash
Elyria Steel & Tubes
Boy Killed in Crash Near Mercer Sunday
Clarence Johnson nine year old son of a night patrolman was killed when his father's car collided with another vehicle near Mercer Sunday. The report notes the accident occurred during a night patrol route and the boy was a resident of Spencerville.
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Spencerville
Clarence Johnson
Mercer
Diamond merchant held up in Detroit
In Detroit on July 8 two men trailing New York diamond merchant Robert Rutzky bound him and a hotel bellboy in his room and escaped with gems valued at 45000 dollars. The loss was insured. Rutzky said the robbers accompanied him in the elevator to his room and bound their victims with tape over their mouths before he summoned help by knocking a telephone from its stand.
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Detroit
Mich
Robert Rutzky
New York City
Rutzky
Davis Arrives in Manila as New Governor General
Dwight F. Davis, former secretary of war, arrived in Manila amid heavy rain to assume duty as the ninth American Governor General of the Philippines. A city parade welcomed him after a lengthy voyage. a legal holiday was proclaimed in his honor. Davis pledged to expand health programs, education, living standards, roads, water works, harbor improvements, and irrigation.
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Manila
P. I
Dwight F. Davis
Philippine Islands
Davis
Manila Bay
Islands
Philippines
Move for settlement in New Orleans street car strike
A mediator from the Department of Labor heads to New Orleans to begin talks between strikers and New Orleans Public Service Inc as the second week of the worst street car strike in the city continues. Union plans to answer an injunction request are set for tomorrow while a riotous act last week left two dead and many injured.
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New Orleans
W. A. Rogers
St. Louis
Department of Labor
New Orleans Public Service, Inc
Carmen
Public Service Company
Poland
Building and Trades Council
Public Service, Inc
Building Trades Council
Pittsburgh
Raids Close 30 Wheeling Clubs in Prohibition Sweep
In Wheeling West Virginia July 30 clubs and road houses were shuttered as federal agents led by deputy prohibition administrator William Wilson arrested owners. With 42 agents and 20 West Virginia troopers 30 clubs including Owl's club and Bird of Paradise Road House were raided shattering plate glass and doors. Over 50 arrests were made and bonds set for October grand jury. Wilson, once prohibition chief in New England, authored a controversial book.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Rold D
Wilson
Prohibition
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Lloyd Laymaan
Parkersburg
Sherif Ambrose
Pete Zellers Place
George Hanna Club
Oriental Club
Wlson
New England
Washington
Youth Struck by Car West of Oberli
Elson Krieg a 17 year old Kipton youth was killed instantly when struck by a Detroit driven roadster four miles west of Oberlin as he walked with his brother along the Oberlin Kipton road. Two others were seriously injured. authorities investigate driver Neal Coughlin and the death car scene.
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Lorain County
Elson Krieg
Kipton
Oberlin
Thomas Capp
Elyria Memorial Hospital
Cleveland Road
Norman Smith
Allen Memorial Hospital
Oberlin-Wellington
Krieg
Oberlin- Kipton
Fison
Detroit
Elyria
Neal Coughlin
Elson
Jack Stewart
Cleveland
Stewart
Allen Hospital
Coughlin
E. J. Krieg
Henrietta High School
Clarence E. Adams
John Harding
Building Collapse in Ashtabula No One Hurt
July Fifteen workers at Mitchell Hardware escaped injury when their three story building on Main Street collapsed during excavation for the new Shea theatre project valued at 300000 dollars. Firemen were removing ruins to check for trapped customers as a traveling salesman, waiting for company president John Mitchell, remained frozen in place by the shock.
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Ashtabula
Mitchell Hardware Company
Main Street
Shea Theatre
John Mitchell
Body of gambler found near roadhouse in Cincinnati
The body of Charles Caruso, 26, a known gambler, was found in weeds near an outskirts roadhouse in Cincinnati today. A bullet had pierced his heart.
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Cincinnati
Charles Caruso
Body of Ten Year Old Boy Found in Boston Creek
The body of 10 year old Salvatore de Mona of Boston was found in a creek in Saugus Massachusetts after 13 days missing. Police said the boy had been kidnapped and slain and his parents Mr and Mrs Santi de Mona identified him. They reported receiving two black hand letters demanding $5000 and threatening the boy’s death if not paid.
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Saugus
Mass
Salvatore de Mona
Boston
Pine River
Santi de Mona
Sacred Heart church cornerstone laid in Elyria ceremony
About five hundred parishioners attended the Sacred Heart church and pastoral residence cornerstone laying led by Msgr. Smith of the Cleveland diocese. A parade of church groups accompanied the event to the site on Irondale. Rain interrupted the service as the cornerstone was placed, containing a 1929 Chronicle Telegram issue and donor names.
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Sacred Heart Church
Msgr. Smith
Cleveland
Msgr
Smith
James A McFadden
Elyria
John Kolopus
Joseph Peter
Sacred Heart
Irondalest
Society of the Young Ladies of the Church
Young Mens
Chronicle- Telegram
U. S
The
Catholic Universe
Strong Los Angelesquake Shocks Downtown and Suburbs
A heavy earthquake rattled downtown Los Angeles and nearby towns including Monrovia San Pedro Wilmington and Long Beach. The tremor lasting several seconds disrupted lights caused a bank window to crack and toppled plaster and bricks. Four girls fainted at San Pedro city hall during the event reported as the strongest here in years.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Weather Bureau
H. B. Herzeg
The
United Press
Monrovia
San Pedro
Wilmington
Point Firmin
Terminal Island
Glendale
Whittier
First National Bank
Path Finder aims for Rome from Old Orchard in treetop takeoff
Gloucester coast guard relays a 9:50 a.m. radio warning that the Pathfinder monoplane is 75 miles off Portland lightship and “going strong” as it begins the 4,800 mile journey toward Rome. Pilot Roger Williams and navigator Lewis Yancey plan to land near Rome Wednesday.
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Gloucester
Mass
Coast Guard
Portland
Leonard M. Melka
Melka
Old Orchard
Rome
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Williams
Yancey
Spain
Fox
Cape Sable
Cape Ortexa
Bayonne
Marseilles
France
Mediterranean
Corsica
Yancer
Sands
Meika
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