Legion Host Convention Preparations Begin In City
Advanced guard of the American Legion arrives with delegations from Cincinnati Dayton Middletown and Columbus. State Adjutant Saslavsky oversees preparations noting plans for a top convention. Ruth Werner Helen Sargeant Agnes Monahan assist with stenography and clerical work at Newell Hotel.
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American Legion
Cincinnati
Dayton
Middletown
Columbus
Newell Hotel
J. J. Saslavsky
Jie
Ruth Werner
Hielen Sargeant
Agnes Monahan
G. W. Herman
Reading
Ohio
Gerry
Tomorow
A. G. Geary
Y. M
A. Beebe
Merton testifies in court over alleged Liberty bond deal
In federal court, Richard Merton recounts an alleged $391000 Liberty bond offload to German interests. He claims the bonds were delivered to John T King via Goldman Sachs, with a $250000 retainer later paid by check.
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New York
lonemess-Uke Jones
Richard Merton
United States
Harry M. Daugherty
Harding
Thomas W . Aller
Allen
Sre
Mack
Merton
W.berry
John T King
Connecticut
Goldman, Sachs & Co
New York City
King
Emory Buchner
ROVER
Societe Suisse
Societe Busse
Daugherty
Provoes te Mrs Corson New Vi hi New York Swim Hero
Mrs Mule Gade Corson, first mother to swim the English Channel, returns to New York amid acclaim aboard the Aquitanian. Mayor Walker greets her. Cal. Harris notes $250000 in potential contracts. George Michel, Frenchman, sets new channel record at 11 hours 5 minutes, aided by favorable tides and conditions.
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New York
Mule Gade Corson
Teulstles
Majors
Grover A. Whalen
Carson
Clem
Walker
Miners Central jewel robbers held on high bonds
Three jewel thieves arrested after a train stop in Champaign with 300000 dollars worth of jewels faced three charges of robbery with a gun. Oliver A. Berg was identified as the alleged hired killer tied to a Chicago alcohol gang and sheriff John Gray, who helped capture him, in a historic early morning hearing.
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Champaign
Miners Central Railroad
Oliver A. Berg
Chicago
John Gray
Jump From Car Is Fatal To Girl
Miss May McPherson a 16 year old worker at the Advance Bay Company Plant died after leaping from a car on Pixie highway driven by Jerry Sandlin. She was taken home where she died from a fractured skull and hemorrhage. The car carried Ruth Davis and Sandlin and the events followed an offer to take her home.
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Middletown
Pretty May McPherson
Garfield Street
Advance Bay Company
Pixie Highway
Jerry Sandhii
Tytus Avenue
Miss McPhorsen
Ruth Davis
Madowlawn
Jerry Sandlin
Sandlin
Aliss
McPherson
Misa McTherson
Firemen Rescue Dog From River Near Bridge
Firefighters from Station 1 saved a dog stranded in Black River west of the Third Street bridge. Crew pulled the canine to shore after it could not reach safety on its own. The rescue prevented a drowning with no injuries reported.
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Black River
Third Streat Bridge
Padlock Requests In Lorain County Civil Action
Common Pleas Judge W B Thompson granted two temporary restraining orders to keep two Lorain premises as they are until a final hearing on padlocking petitions. The sites at 201 Fifteenth Street and 1940 Broadway involve Rosario Garbo with Charles Gardina soft drink business and Mary Thomas with George Forester Albany Allen operators. The petitions note June 1925 arrests and fines for liquor charges, and seek a one year padlock.
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Common Pleas
W. B. Thompson
Spain
Fifteenth Street
Broadway
Lorain City
Walter Ro Harlan
Rosario
Caterina Garbo
Charles Gardina
Mary Thomas
George Forester
Albany Allen
Hunt for Elmer Woodward in Muskegon case
Sheriff posses scour the woods along Muskegon Ravenna road seeking Elmer Woodward 30 alleged to have slain Celia Barnes 34 and wounded her daughter Isabel 15 at their home. Barnes died from head wound inflicted with an automobile jack during the attack.
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Nuskecon
Mich
Muskegon- Ravenna Road
Elmer Woodward
Celia Barnes
Isabel
Woodward
Miss Barnes
Murder Hunt Sweeps Sweep County for Chester Slayers
Chester police search with farmers and a posse for two masked Negro assailants who killed 15 year old Walter Warden near Bridgewater. Two Chester girls Florence Scott and Anna Kilemsky were injured and hospitalized as authorities pursue fugitives hiding in nearby woods or a barn.
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Chester
Philadelphia
Delaware County
Walter “Budd
Bridgewater
Typhoid Case Reported in Lorain
Lorain authorities move to stop possible outbreak after Agnes Patterson aged 18 of 406 Kansak Avenue is identified as patient zero. No cause determined yet and an investigation is ordered with the family told to take precautions to curb spread.
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Lorain
Agnes Patterson
Kansak Avenna
Mutiny in Athens Guards Triggers Heavy Fighting
Athens reports a deadly 24 hour riot after the Republican guards resisted disbandment. Government says martial law enforced, 50 killed, 100+ wounded, Col. Dertillis among the injured. Arrests ordered for ex mayor M. Vezikis amid fears of Communist and Royalist agitation.
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Athens
Republic
Kondylis
M. Vezikis
Kondyllis
Republican Guard
M. Pangalas
Col. Dertillis
London
Kondinfs
Siaty Buried in Lisbon Cork Factory Collapse
A Lisbon cork factory collapsed trapping sixty workers. Dispatches report thirty five dead and many injured as foundations failed, possibly due to excessive heat weakening the structure.
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Siaty
London
Lisbon
Central News
American Ships on Yangtse Fire Upon
Dispatches from Hankow report U S destroyers Stewart and Pope fired on by rifle and machine gun fire on the Yangtse River. Two American sailors were wounded as Cantonese radicals launch frequent fusillades, increasing tensions and danger to vessels and crews.
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Yangtse River
London
Yangtse
Hankow
United States
Stewart
Pope
Courts Open in Ohio Fall Term With Busy Dockets
The fall term of three courts will open within ten weeks at the courthouse. The Ninth Appellate District Court of Appeals in Ohio leads the schedule with a September 29 session presided by Judge W. E. Pardee and associates G. Washburn and R. W. Funk. Sixteen cases are set, eleven appealed on error. Lorain seeks injunction against a garbage disposal contract with W. G. Morrison Co. by John G. Moos. Common Pleas Court favored the city in spring. Lorain County Commissioners face a $60,000 damages suit from Adelaide Farmer. a directed verdict followed an eight day trial. Grand Jury to convene Sept. 29 with 39 cases. 1,200 suits pending as the Common Pleas Court plans a Sept. 27 opening and a new jury.
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Court of Appeals
Ninth Appellate Pistnes
Ohio
W. E. Pardee
Akron
G. Washburn
Elyria
Ross W. Funk
Wooster
Lorain
John G. Moos
W.G Morrison Company
Ot Daton
Common Pleas Court
Lorain County Commissioners
Adelaide Farmer
Cleveland
Miss America Will Be Crowned At Atlantic City Pageant
Miss America 1926 will be chosen today at Atlantic City from four competitors Miss Tulsa Norma Thecygene Smallwood Miss Washington Marjorie Joesting Miss Denver Deloras Conrad and Miss Greater New York Ruth W Patterson. A jury of fifteen artists and sculptors faced the toughest decision of the year as the secret of the crown neared reveal at high noon.
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Atlantic City
Misa America
Vestryman details crucial evidence in Hall Mills case
In Somerville New Jersey Ralph V Gorshine a vestryman at St John the Evangelist admitted to police he was in Russey Lane the night four years ago when Rev Edward Wheeler Hall and Mrs Eleanor Mills were murdered He said he heard shots and voices while with Catherine Rastall a chorus singer who was questioned after inconsistencies surfaced during an all night interview
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Catherine Rastall
Gorsline
Gerline
Miss Rastall
Gorstine
New B Brunswick Y. M. Co
Phillips
Briand Sees France and Germany Enter League as Peace Dawn
In Geneva on September 10, Aristide Briand declares war ends for France and Germany, saying guns yielded to peace. Stresemann voices disarmament as delegates applaud. Briand and Stresemann welcome each other amid joyous, tense scenes.
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Geneva
France
Germany
Aristide Briand
Cioermany
Jong
League of Nations
Err Stresemann
Sir George Foster
Bandits Steal $100000 in Mail Pouches on Train
Two armed robbers stole mail pouches containing currency from a Grand Trunk Railway train near Evergreen Park Illinois. They locked two clerks in the mail car and fled in an automobile before the robbery was found at Harvey. The money was consigned to the First National Bank of Harvey.
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Chicago
Evergreen Park
Harvey
First National Bank of
Canton Hearing Ties Lengthy Case to Police Chief Scandal
Carl Studer surrendered on perjury charges linked to yesterday’s testimony in the Canton hearing into former police chief Scranny A. Lengel. Authorities pursue Patrick McDermott, a suspected hired killer, amid a nationwide manhunt and claims Lengel’s ties with known violators spurred the probe.
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Canton, CO
Carl Studer
Scranny A. Lengel
Studer
Patrick McDermott
Triggerman
Lonny Mazer
Ben Rudner
Mellet
McDermott
Pat
Canton
Brady Lake
Here
Sejanus A. Lengel
Hootserger
Underworld
Melfett
Daniel van Gunten
van Gunten
Chuck’ Burns
Burns
Lengel
Ruth Gordon
Nm Rege Gn
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English
George Michel
Michel
Gris-Nez
St. Margaret's Bay
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Ernst Verkoehte
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Lchel
Tifty
Butcher
Paris
Richel
Goodwin
England
Chb
Green Man
Boulogne
International
Verkoetten
Padlock
New Hampshire
John G. Winant
Huntley N. Spaulding
Hunt
Auon
Hall-Mills
Companion
M. Briand
Herr Stresemape
Herr Stresemann
M. Ariand
MM. Briand
Brasil
M Issiand
Flore Stresemann
Frau Stresemann
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