Nagging Wife Triggered Pastor Slayings Confession
Reverend Lawrence Hight, jailed in Nashville Ill, testifies details of his 26 year marriage, his affair with Elsie Sweetin, and the murder of his wife using arsenic. He describes signals and plans to be free, blaming his wife for nagging as the motive while recounting the deteriorating union and his love for Sweetin.
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Nashville
Ills
Lawrence Hight
Little Baptist Church
Elsie Sweetin
Salem
Wilford
Anne
Merc
City suit over Meacham case seeks railroad release
New York Central Railroad filed a motion to dismiss the petition in error in Grace L. Meacham versus The City of Cleveland and the New York Central. The Ohio Supreme Court case questions the Court of Appeals power to exonerate the railroad from a $50,000 verdict after a subway crash on Hast Bridge Street. Hearing date not yet set. accident occurred when two autos collided.
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Grace L. Meacham
New York Central Railroad
Blytia
New York Central
Ohio Supreme Court
D. W. Myers
Supreme Court
Missing Springfield trust guard with $100,900 in cash
Springfield Mass September 25 Wm J Hanifin a guard at Union Trust Company and a post office package containing 100900 in currency disappeared today He went to the post office alone against orders bank officials said he was to be accompanied Police were notified when he failed to return The loss is covered by insurance with a bonding company.
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Springfield
Mass
Five Women Steal Coal Pay Fines
Five women living in the West River street foreign settlement were fined $1 and costs before Justice George in police court today after their arrest on charges of stealing coal from the B and O railroad. Arrests followed a complaint by Detective L Maytmer, B and O agent. Suspects named Julia Smith Celia Kozel Rebecca Roches Lena Janos and Mrs Bleve Rotz.
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West River Street
George
L. Maytmer
Julia Smith
Celia Kozel
Rebecca Roches
Lena Janos
Bleve Rotz
Two Fingers Crushed In Saw At Elyria Plant
Everett Leifer, an employee of the Elyria Iron and Steel Company, was hospitalized yesterday after crushing two fingers of his left hand in a saw he was operating. A judgment for 33 was returned today against Mrs. Hilsie Spaulding in a receiver's suit settling accounts of the former Spaulding Coal Co, by Justice J. C. Conway.
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Everett Leifer
Elyria Iron and Steel Company
Hlsie
Bpaulding
Bpaulding Coal Co
J. C. Conway
Barnum Credited With Lincoln Epigram Claim In Dallas
Dallas historian Mrs. Mida McGillicuddy says P T Barnum originated the famous maxim about fooling some of the people, all of the time. She cites a Lincoln speech at Clifton Illinois on September 8 1858 as a requote.
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Dallas
Texas
Mida McGillicuddy
National Historical Societies
P. T. Barnum
Abraham Lincoln
Barnum
McGillicuddy
Lincoln
Clifton
Illinois
Honduran Rebels Take Comayagua in 6-Hour Battle
General Ferrera, Honduran revolutionary leader, captured Comayagua, 40 miles west of Tegucigalpa, after six hours of fighting on September 22. State department was advised today that provisional government forces were retreating toward Siguatapeque as Provisional president Tosta left Tegucigalpa on September 28 to command troops in the field.
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Honduras
Comayagua
U.S
Washington
Ferrera
Tegucigalpa
State Department
Siguatapeque
Tosta
Borgus Sues For Divorce From Gertrude Borgus
Edward E Borgus files for divorce citing gross neglect and extreme cruelty by Gertrude Borgus. He says she became cold and disdainful, neglected home and family, and he was forced to leave. Court action seeks dissolution of marriage.
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Edward E Borgus
Gertrude Borgus
Barred LaFollette forces rely on Socialist ticket in California
Barred from placing an independent ticket of electors on the ballot in California supporters of La Follette and Wheeler announce they will use the Socialist ticket to present La Follette to voters. Rudolph Speckle regional director says the Socialists have a ballot place and electors pledged to La Follette Wheeler will be named. The Socialist meeting in Sacramento today will formalize the ticket.
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LaFollette- Wheeler
LaFollette and
Wheeler
LaFollette
Sacramento
Bandit Holds Up Estate Party In Chicago
A London-accented burglar robbed Hester White, daughter of Armour and Company’s J Edson White, at her Lake Forest summer home last night. He forced her at gunpoint on the stairs, took a pearl necklace and two diamond rings, then fled through the front door as guests remained downstairs. The crime was reported to bandit squads as authorities searched for the man.
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Chicago
London
Eéective Bureau
Hester White
J. Edson White
Armour and Company
Npllanal
Lake Trorest
Miss White
Henrietta Maiden Burned in Gas Explosion
Miss Dorothy Borneg, a student at Lake Erie College in Ohio, was burned on her face and hands when a gas explosion occurred as she tried to light an armful of gas for baking. Doctors expect to prevent facial disfigurement.
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Henrietta
Dorothy Borneg
Lake Erie College
Revolters Warn Foreign Powers
Pekin dispatch reports that foreign powers notified Chang Ts. Lin to hold him responsible for damage to foreign property bombed outside fortified areas. Also included are brief notices of a postmaster injured in Indianapolis and a Keansburg postmistress. an auto theft in Akron. and the death of Akron policeman J. A. Campbell, with his former patrol partner to be buried Saturday.
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PEKIN
Chang Ts.Lin
Akron
J. A. Campbell
John Duffy
North Side
Duffy
Judge considers injunction to block Ferguson on governor race
Austin Texas Sept 25 Judge George C Calhoun after hearing three days of arguments from half a dozen attorneys will take under advisement the suit for injunction to prevent Mrs Miriam Ma Ferguson from becoming a candidate for governor in November in district court here.
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Austin
Texas
George C. Calhoun
Miriam
Ma) Ferguson
Who Will Pay the Taxes as Doyle Speaks to Kiwanis
Prosecuting Attorney Arthur Doyle of Akron urged Elyria Kiwanis Club members to support the U S Constitution and the Coolidge Mellon administration. He attacked the La Follette and League of Nations causes, warned of state socialism, and said the dreamers in Congress seek to tax the rich to aid the poor. He praised the Coolidge Mellon effort to cut taxes and warned of massive federal spending and a divided Congress.
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United States
Coolidee
Elyria Kiwanis Club
Arthur Doyle
Akron
Doyle
W la Follette
League of Nations
Jthe
Wisconsin
Congress
Walter Watts
Coolidge-Melion
Washington
Goyle
United Congress
Dosle
Celebrates Birthday by Giving Savings Accounts to Columbia Pupils
Richard Putt and wife celebrated their 80th birthday by giving every Columbia school child under eleven a ten dollar savings account at Commercial Bank Berea. Bank books were presented during special school exercises.
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Columbia
Richard Putt
Commercial Bank
Berea
Lorain County Warrants Proceed Ahead of Friday Arraignments
Sheriff office members served warrants on indictments returned by the Lorain County Grand Jury with fifty counts in preparation for wholesale arraignments at 9 a m Friday in Common Pleas Court. In Falls, Ohioan Akron, Sept 25, Dr D H Morgan found a dead man in a plant cellar after tearing a letter and stepping near the edge. Police believe the man fell and died days earlier. no identifying clothing or features were found to reveal who he is.
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Sheriff's Department
Lorain County Grand Jury
Common Pleas Court
Fall Kilis
Ohioan
Akron
D. H. Morgan
Missing Ford Coupe Vanished After Deceptive Varnish Offer
Albert Denk of Lorain reports his Ford coupe disappeared after a stranger from the east offered to varnish the car and drove it away. The vehicle bears license plate 588-299. Denk contacted Elyria police to locate the missing auto and the unknown man.
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Albert Denk
West Sr
Lorain
Denk
Elyria
Flight crew departs Santa Monica for San Francisco stopover
Clover Field, Santa Monica, Sept 25. The round the world fliers left at 10:05 a.m. bound for San Francisco to complete the first leg of their flight to Seattle. Lieut Lowell H Smith led the group with Lieuts Wade and Nelson close behind as the escort flight got under way.
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Santa Monica
San Fransisco
Clover Field
Cal
San Francisco
Seattle
Lowell H Smith
Lieuts
Wade
Nelson
Nude murder follows first ballot in New York Republican scene
The nude body of ten year old Anna Tomicich was found near Gary Indiana after Peter Vergonne confessed to luring her into his car and murdering her. He was held for grand jury on murder charges. Separately Colonel Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for governor on the first ballot at the Republican state convention in Rochester New York with Roosevelt winning decisively.
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Gary, Inc
Anna Tomicich
Gary
Peter Vergolne
Vergolne
Vergoine
John
Peter
Benere
Indiana
Vergonne
Crown Point
Yarrington
Rochester
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
United States Navy
Roosevelt
Calone
William Hayward
New York
Supreme Court
Arthur
Tompkins
Nyack
Guy B. Moore
Buffalo
Hamilton Fish
Putnam
Hayward
Moore
United States
James W. Woodsworth
New York State
Memorial Hall Meet Delayed By Hall Booking
The Memorial Hall committee meeting scheduled for tonight has been postponed until Oct 8 due to Legion Hall already in use for another event.
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Memorial Hall Committee
Legion Hall
New York Robbery Suspect Arrested in $56,000 Jewel Heist
John Feinstein a chauffeur was arrested as police say one of four bandits who robbed Miss Edith Bobe, a wealthy modiste, and Robert L. Hague of Standard Oil, of jewels valued at $56,000. Detectives traced him after a prisoner claimed to have provided tip information in exchange for clemency.
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New York
John Feinstein
Edith Bobe
Modiste
Robert L. Hague
Standard Oil Company
Feinstein
Moose Initiate Class of Fifty
The Moose lodge initiated a class of fifty at their lodge rooms last evening. A delegation from Lorain lodge attended with Dictator Keck and Secretary Snyder present. Organizer Clark conducted the initiation and several speeches followed. A buffet lunch concluded the exercises.
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Moose Lodge
Lorain Lodge
Keck
Snyder
Clark
Riots, censorship, and battles across nations in Sept news
Reports from Toledo, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Warsaw, Cairo, London, Moscow, and Friedrichshafen recount protests against bullfights, Bulgaria censorship, bread economy worries, a divorce involving Princess Andrea Roncomopasni, a tram robbery with bridge explosion in Warsaw, Wahabi siege rumors in Taif, Egypt Egypt Egypt political talks, flood relief after Leningrad, and a planned 1928 dirigible campaign including ZR-3 tests and aviation forecasts.
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
America
Ernest A. Lehmann
Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation
Akron
Ohio
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Elsie
Failroad
DANK
Nicholas
Czar
Cyril
WAR Transactions Bureau OF
Department of Justice
Paul Shipman
Syracuse
N.,y
Huge Bandit
Armouri& Co
Henrietta Maiden
Indianapolis
Ind
Milton Lowrey
Scranton
National Association of Postmasters
Arabelle C Broadner
Keansburg
N. J
Broadner
Lowry
Anthony Ross
Middle Avenus
Kiwanis Club
Ging Savings Account
Sheriff Office
Leaming
U. S
Isabella
W. Callahan
Astoria, CO
Airlie
Britain
Janet Ogilvie
Jane
James M. Farrar
Birmingham
Ala
Mana
Alann
Nab
Toledo
Spain
Berlin
Bulgaria
Paris
Rome
Andrea Roncomopasni
Raspen
Warsaw
Lameec
Catro
Egypt
Seige
Taif
Hedjaz
Trans-Jordania
Irak
MacDonald
England
Zaghioul Pasta
Moscow
Leningrade
Neva
Friedericshafen
Milan
Italy
Como
Loearnorm
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