News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
Enrollment in the officers reserve corps hits a new high with a rise of over 4 000 since November 1. The United States Netherlands rum treaty takes effect April 8. A fraud order against the National Disabled Soldiers league heads to a grand jury. Various state, federal and international developments unfold, including resignations, prosecutions, and policy notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Washington
United States
Netherlands
Great Britain
National Disabled Soldiers’ League
Post Office Department
Gordon
Cincinnati
United States District Court
Ex-con Curran Meets Governor in Ohio Discussing Youth Programs
James J. Curran known as Jimmy the Trusty, ex-convict and former swindler, meets Governor Vic Donahey in the Ohio Statehouse. The governor supports directing boys toward positive paths and endorses youth associations. Curran promotes the I'm on the Level with Mother League pledge drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
James J. Curran
Jimmy the Trusty
York Society
Vic Donahey
Statehouse
Curran
Mother League
Jimmy
Mother
Buckeye Briefs spark statewide notices and tragedies
A collection of short items reports denatured alcohol deaths in Springfield and a jail death in the same case, two truckers killed near Lima, a self-inflicted gunshot ending a pastor’s life in Louisville, a mother and child burned in a Powhatan fire, a Dayton wedding death before ceremonies, a murder Guilty plea in Hillsboro, a truck crash amid monoxide poisoning in Norwalk, a Hungarian girl’s reunion hopes dashed, a Port Clinton auto rescue, a bond release in Akron, a high school band contest update in Fostoria, a secret marriage revealed in Higair, and a Steubenville blaze at Stanton Motor Co. with over fifty vehicles lost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steubenville
Stanton Motor Co
Gerald Chapman
Hartford, Conn
Coolidge Swears In On Family Bible at Inauguration
Washington report notes President Coolidge took the oath of office on the family Bible kept at his Vermont home. The Bible, used previously in 1923, belonged to generations of Coolidges and dates back to the family lineage. Colonel Coolidge had administered the oath to his son in August 1928 and brought the Bible to Washington for the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coolidge
Washington
Kent Shaffer
John
Shaffer
Chicago
Denver
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Vermont
Harding
Bombing Target Set On Tortola Island
The United States government designated Tortola Island in the Pacific near Panama as an army air force bombing target. The five acre island is largely iron ore and will be used for military practice missions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
Saratoga
Camden
N. J
Tortola
Pacific Ocean
Panama
United States
The Chair that Sold Myra Curtis Heart
Myra Curtis hides a lie about a secret admirer as her auctioned chair becomes the center of a moral reckoning. Tom Brannon, the auctioneer, confronts love, pride, and a burned promise as the home life of the Curtises collapses and a confession reshapes their future.
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Myra Curtis
Tom Brannon
Myra
Brannon
Tom
Flo
Curtis
Tuleland
Curtises
Pig bath beauty routine noted by naturalists
Naturalists describe a pig that enjoys mud baths as a form of beauty care. The pig dries the mud and rubs off the dirt on a straw stack or fence post, preferring mud to water in hot weather.
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Kellogg
Daeschner
France
Edward B. Brodie
Siam
Washington Dispatch
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Blair
Treas Department
Fisher
Jardine
Morris-Armour Packing
Packers and Stock Yards Act
Great Lakies Naval Station
March Bros. of
St. Louis
Veterans’ Bureau
University of Chicago
Oscar Pacey
Salem
Wis
Arthur Pacey
Kenosha
Piggly-Wiggly Corporation
Clarence Saunders
Smith Hickenlooper
Memphis
Jacob Ross
Times Square
New York
Marion, II
Herrin
Gaston B. Means
Daugherty
Brookhart
Federal Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Kans
Carbon County
Wyo
Department of the Interior
Connecticut
James Skelly
New Britain
Minnesota
A. J. Weigel
Morton
Wiegel
Frazer
Altoona
State Supreme Court
Madison, Wis
Wisconsin
Victor X. de Caro
Grand Haven, Mich
Grand Haven
Highland Park
Medical School of
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tenn
Rockefeller Foundation
School of Nursing
Tennessee
House of Representatives
Nashville
Senate
Memphis City Commission
George W. English
Federal Court
Hast St. Louis
Congressional
Evanston
Oak Park
Charles H. Barrett
Willis McFeeley
Dever
Abbie Carrington Lewis
America
San Francisco
Albert Dickinson
Board of Trade
Orange City
Fla
James Mauran Rhodes
National Society of Mayflower Descendants
Philadelphia
Ardmore
Santa Barbara
Cal
Tikhon
All-Russia
Moscow
von Hindenburg
Germany
Marx
Berlin
Bertram B. Holloway
The
Mexicano Railway
Calles
Mexico
International Railway Congress
Mexico City
Jerusalem
Nablus
Melbourne
Sydney
Grand Fleet
Australia
Dollar
Shanghai
Ismet Pasha
National Assembly
Angora
Kurdistan
Ghendi
Brisbane
Bares
Criminal Life
Donahey
Reformed Swindler
Govenor
Boys’ League
Lelia
Ogle
Ohio State University
Ohio Agricultural Extension Workers
Miss Ogle
H. C. Sherman
Columbia
Mias Ogle
Hgal Reserve Life Insurance Companies
C. C. Crabbe
State Insurance Department
Harry L. Conn
State Superintendent of Insurance
Crabbe
A. V. Donahey
Qgiara Wood Derr
Buckeye
Springfield
Frank Higgins
John Liddy
Lima
Peterson
Ada
Dola
Here
William H. Snyder
Louisville
Bridgeport
Arthur Kirchbaum
Powhatan
Kirchbaum
Alo
Dayton
Leonard Adisky
Dayton View Church
Hillsboro
John Boggs
Harry T. Magill
C. Craig McBride
Common Pleas
Norwalk
Joseph Schepfer
Cleveland
A. ©. Smith
Julia Nemes
Joseph Nemes
Port Clinton
Mud Creek
Frank Brandt
Bellevue
Akron
Paul Keiley
T. B. McShaffrey Co
McShaffrey
Read
L. 8. Pardee
Fostoria
National Music Supervisors’ Association
Kansas City
J. W. Wainwright
Gary
Ind
Helen M. Rice
Miss Rice
Foster I. Fackler
Shelby
Harrisburg
Cupid
Short Story Pub. Co
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