The Blue Sky Stock Scheme Exposed in County Court
A court report reveals a failed theatre stock scheme that harmed dozens of creditors and small investors in Blas] A county attorney Watts, receiver for the Banton Theatre Company, describes lists of prospective buyers and the bold assurances used by stock salesmen. Physicians, real estate men, farmers, and other locals were targeted and named as prospects with assigned salesmen and promised investment amounts. The piece details deliberate misrepresentation and the risk to everyday investors amid the collapse of the Blue Sky venture.
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Chronicle- Telegram
Watts
Court House
Banton Theatre Company
Blue Sky Department
Elyria
Lfe
Three Killed Electric Storm Hits Toledo Area
Three people died as a severe electrical storm swept Toledo and nearby areas. Dorothy Roman and Leg Leone perished by lightning, Jacob Carl died in a car accident during the storm near Erie while escorting a Monroe bridal party, and Leone perished while swimming at Monroe pier. Dozens injured and Petersburg, Michigan, cut off by a cyclone with telegraph and telephone outages.
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Toledo
Dorothy Roman
Jacob Carl
Leg Leone
Monroe
Mich
Wolfi
Leone
Carl
Erie
Petersburg
Four Die as Train Hits Open Switch Near Whitehall
Four killed and three wounded when Northern Pacific train 41 crashed into an open switch four miles east of Whitehall Montana. Victims include engineer Thomas Barry of Whitehall and Albert Jacobs of Laurel with two unidentified men. Barry was trapped for three hours before dying. Officials say evidence suggested switch tampering.
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Butte
Mont
Jay
Northern Pacific
Whitehall
Thomas Barry
Albert Jacobs
Laural
Bolinger
California
Barry
Blailroad
Coast to Coast Flight Off After Setback
Lieutenant Russell Maughan, flying from St Joseph to Dayton, was forced to land near here after engine trouble. Major General Mason Patrick ordered the New York to San Francisco flight halted. Maughan plans to resume when weather allows and head to Mitchell Field.
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Dayton
R. L. Maughan
St. Joseph
Maughan
McCook Field
New York
San Francisco
Mason M. Patrick
United States Air Service
Maghan
Cash Register Blessed by Gypsies Raid
A chaotic town incident reports two women entering Finnegan's bakery, blessing the cash register, and later counts show the till short by $16. The article suggests the women were part of a gang exploiting the situation and fled with the stolen money.
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Finnegan
Four Die In Roumania Train Wreck Near Klausenburg
Four people were killed in a train wreck near Klausenburg Roumania, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Carlsbad reported. The incident was detailed in the London based report dated July 11.
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London
Klausenburg
Roumania
Carlebad
Bus Owners and Railmen Meet Commission in Ohio
More than 150 bus owners and operators, railroads, interurban firms, city safety directors and others gathered in Columbus to discuss the state utilities commission’s proposed rules for the Freeman-Collister bus law set to take effect July 27. Prominent participants included Judge R. W. Sanborn Akton and executives from Cleveland-Akron Bus, Martins Ferry, Kenia, Dayton and Toledo associations, with railroads represented by their attorneys.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Utilities Commission
R. W. Sanborn
Ak- Ton
Cleveland-Aktron Bus Company
M. E. Blackburn
B F. Mackey
Martins Ferry
C. Stoner
Kenia
F. J. May
Dayton
F. Capri
Dayton-Wooster Bus Company
F. Schmidt
Toledo
Ohio Association of Commercial Haulers
Murderess Tries Ending Her Life in Jail
Chicago July 11 Mrs Tea belle Nitti Crudelle under death sentence for murdering her husband attempted to choke herself in Cook county jail today. Guards pried her hands away and in the struggle she fell striking her head and losing consciousness. A twenty four hour guard was ordered over her.
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Chicago
Teabelle Nitti-Crudelle
Cook County
Workman Caught in Sewer Cave-In
Joe Loff of Sixteenth Street narrowly escaped death when a trench on Washington avenue at the undercut collapsed yesterday afternoon. He was caught about the shoulder and injured severely enough to require emergency hospital treatment.
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Joe Loff
Sixteenth Street
Washington Avenue
Lorain Girl Dies at Memorial Hospital
Miss Laura Ferris aged fifteen died this morning at Memorial Hospital from heart disease. She is survived by her mother Mrs Laura Ferris of 809 Elyria avenue Lorain and a brother.
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Laura Ferris
Memorial Hospital
Elyria Avenue
Lorain
Southern Mayor Governs His City From U S Prison
Beaufort, D.C. residents express confidence in their mayor R. V. Bray Jr who serves a one year federal sentence in Atlanta Georgia yet continues to govern the city from prison through aides and officials.
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U. S
Beaufort
D. C
R. V. Bray, Jr
Avlanta
Woman May Be Her Own Husband's Mother Mystery
New York city officials puzzled over Mrs. Wilhelm Van Beck Jr relationship to Wilhelm Sr and Jr. City Clerk McCormack presided at weddings, issuing licenses as he tried to untangle a tangle of in laws and step relations in a complex family case.
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New York
Wilhelm ,van Beck
Wilhelm
McCormack
Wilhelms
Jndricka Stephania Hoving
Holland
Leonora Wilhelmina Breidenbach
Wilhelm, Jr
Wilhelm, Sr
Fire Hazards of Elyria Discussed by Underwriters
The National Board of Fire Underwriters released a pamphlet on Elyria detailing water works and fire department weaknesses. It notes aging water mains, low pressure, and insufficient high lift pump capacity, with improvements incomplete until a full force main is laid. The fire department is praised for organization but lacking in apparatus and large equipment, with recommendations for better hose, tanks, and alarm reliability.
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National Board of Fire Underwriters Committee On
Elyria
Fire Department
Water Works Department
Lake Erie
Water Works
Chef Bates
O. J Hess
Organization Of Steel Men Now Planned
The American Federation of Labor backs a nationwide drive to unionize U S steel workers with centers in Chicago and Bethlehem Pa The plan aims for a living wage improved conditions and an eight hour day while restricting immigration Gompers supports the move noting past failed attempts in 1919 and 1920 and funds of 70000 available for the current effort
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Cleveland
American Federation of Labor
United States
Gompers
Samuel Gompers
American Federaton of Labor
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Chicago
Bethlehem
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
J. B. McCadden
National and International Organization of the Steel Industry
Organized Labor
Gary
William Z. Foster
McCadden
Federation of Labor
Washington
Twenty Chinese Bandits Die in Kowloon Clash
Advices from Chinese sources report a battle between Chinese soldiers and Canton bandits who looted a Kowloon train. Twenty bandits were killed, while the outlaws escaped with their captives, all natives.
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Manila
Canton
Kowloon
WOUNDS ESTRANGED WIFE AND KILLS SELF IN EAST LIVERPOOL
In East Liverpool on July 11 Elmer O'Brien a 28 year old pottery worker shot and wounded his estranged wife Ruth 26 then killed himself in a bedroom. Earlier an unknown man fell from a New York Central train and was hospitalized after serious injuries.
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East Liverpool
Elmer O'Brien
Ruth
New York Central
Explosion at powder plant kills twelve workers
An explosion at the Weates Cartridge Company near East Alton Illinois killed twelve people, six of them women, and injured many more. Officials said the blast began in a shell cleaning machine using old earth and powder from shells bought from government surplus. Investigators pursue origin of the flames and note many victims were local residents.
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William Brummer
East Alton
Frank Nes
Anna Gorman
Howard Hi Russall Reyburn
Minnie Wier
Bessie Jenkins
Larkin
Alton
Hazel Ewing
Rock Bridge
Ruth Green
Fatré
Child
Jennie Warren
Upper Alton
Charles H Hankin
Brownstown
Ids
Weates Cartridge Company
Aire
State Probes Railroading of Feeble Minded Inmates
Officials at the state feeble minded institution disclosed an underground railway smuggling inmates to Pennsylvania coal fields. A garage near the Columbus institution is under investigation after two inmates were reportedly detained in Pennsylvania. Dr. Cook returned from Pittsburgh with two inmates as authorities consider a joint state and federal probe.
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Columbus
Pennsylvania
G. H. Cook
Pittsburgh
Federal Department of Justice
Columbus Institution
International News Service
Dr. Cook
David Brown
Maywood Butter
Ohio
Cook
False Return on Payroll Fined for Cincinnati Firm
Pach oud brothers of Cincinnati were fined about 35000 for filing a false payroll return with the state industrial commission per J H Lammeck head of the workmen's compensation division. Atlantic City officials reported ongoing hostility between union leaders and coal operators during joint talks on wage scales and working conditions.
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Columbus
Atlantic City
N. J
Union Ming
Chiefa
Trains Collide In New Jersey. Boy Killed
A westbound Hudson and Manhattan tube train collided with an empty eastbound passenger car at 12 10 this afternoon in Harrison New Jersey. An unidentified boy was killed and several people were injured. A defective switch is believed to have caused the accident.
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Harrison
N. J
Hudson and Manhattan
Governors jailed for speeding in North Carolina
Two state governors, Morrison of North Carolina and Peay of Tennessee, were arrested near Greensboro for speeding. Each paid a $10 fine as any other violator, after a patrol officer halted the governor's car and issued the citation.
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Greensboro
N. C
Jay HS
So Ernors
North Carolina
Tenenessee
Morrison
Peay
Tennessee
Electric flash saps Reed burned at eight thirty
Harry L Reed of 1389 me was burned when two high tension wires crossed at eight thirty this morning the Ohie Public Service Company worker suffered the injury.
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Harry L. Reed
Mr. Reed
Ohie Public Service Company
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Wtom
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Robert 1 Wrek
Rving Hunter
Pocantico Union
Pocantice Union Church
Organization OF Steel Men
John Burke
North Dakota
Kardos & Burke
Burke
Kardos
Abdul
Kle
Bues
George Fees
Oak
W. S. Hill
Reveuma
Akron
Fees
Rose Kovacs
Court of Mon Pleas
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