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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1928
Page
2
In London Ontario Stuart Essary aged three of Delaware township drowned after his head wedged in a small pail of water. He wandered from home about 9 30 am and was found in the chicken coop with the pail in the run. Relatives searched when he failed to appear and the child entered through a hole in the coop.
Heath Greer, a thirteen year old from Bell county Kentucky, was sentenced to life for the murder of Luther Partin seventeen during an April quarrel. Greer said he found a pistol at home and carried it because other boys had them. He described the fatal moment when Partin tried to hit him with a stick and he shot.
In St Johns Newfoundland Captain Burgess reports an Eskimo mother drowned while attempting to rescue her three children from a breaking floe near Rigolet. She used a leaky boat and a tub as bail, but the craft sank and all four perished.
Julia Colon, a Cuban teen, secluded herself after a quarrel with her lover vowing he would never see her face again. She lived in a room at her aunt's house, receiving food through a small door, sewing, and handling daily tasks alone until a fatal illness ended her isolation.
The piece outlines U S efforts toward recognizing the Nationalist government in China and negotiating tariff autonomy while old unequal treaties fade. It notes Japan's stance on revising the treaty, Kellogg's proposed new tariff pact, and the withdrawal of some US forces from Shanghai and Tientsin. It also covers campaign news including Hoover and Smith events, Wisconsin primaries, and party realignments.
O. O. West of Chicago, former Republican National Committee secretary and Deneen ally, becomes secretary of the interior succeeding Dr. Hubert Work. He will handle Boulder dam probe large reclamation and irrigation projects oil leases on public lands and the Alaskan railroad. Coolidge may offer Commerce to William M. Butler as Hoover era looms.
General Nobile and other Italia survivors arrived in Oslo aboard Citta di Milano and were guarded from contact with Italians. Three Swedes joined the party, while the Russian ice breaker Krassin towed to aid after Monte Cervantes struck a rock near Spitzbergen.
During a debate on unemployment Prime Minister Baldwin said lower freight charges on selected traffic including agricultural produce coal and basic industries would take effect next December nine months early and save about 20 million dollars a year. He also said the export credits scheme would be extended two years and the government would help with grants to move unemployed labor from distressed areas. Churchill announced a plan to send more than 16 500 people to Canada from mining districts at a cost of about 3 million dollars.
Britain's beloved actress Ellen Terry dies at her Kent home in her eighty first year. Her funeral in Small Hythe and St Pauls church was no gloom per her request, with ashes laid in St Pauls crypt. Also noted: Dr George Colvin of Louisville University and Rear Admiral W M Fokker.
Capt O B D Collyer and John Henry Mears set a new world distance record after stepping from a boat at the Battery New York. They completed 19 725 miles by steamships and planes at about 840 miles daily. France invites Waka nations to Paris for signing the Kellogg antiwar treaty August 27 in Halle d Horloge.
The unbeaten heavyweight champion ENE TUNNEY retires after defeating Tom Heeney of New Zealand by a technical knockout in the eleventh round. The referee stopped the fight as Heeney lay unconscious by the tenth, and promoter Tex Rickard reportedly lost about 400000 dollars on the contest.
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