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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1923
Page
2
Daily service notes for the Hillsboro branch with connections at Sardinia. Trains depart Sardinia for Hillsboro daily except Sunday at 6:00 am and 10:00 pm, and return from Hillsboro at 7:16 am and 12:16 pm. John L. Blade of Cincinnati, Ohio is listed.
Flo Leeds, back from abroad under the name Mrs K Lincoln, was detained by customs for jewel proof. She claims Stillman deserted her and may sue for support while gossip swirls around the high profile divorce and possible new romances.
A portrait of Mrs George J Gould widow of the American financier who died in France is given. The article notes the complex family ties and estate fights surrounding George J Gould and his heirs, with mention of a suit over the $80,000,000 Jay Gould estate and expected attention on the children from Gould's second wife. It also links Gould’s illness and Tutankhamen’s tomb visit to rumors of a curse and pneumonia.
Chief Morgan Collins, veteran of the force, leads Chicago’s police as crime declines. the Chicago Crime Commission notes fewer burglaries robberies and murders while court penalties rise. An advisory board of captains and reforms push to add chaplains a juvenile department radio crime tracking and a criminal index.
Floods across Kansas claim at least five lives as streams overflowed their banks and widespread damage appears in the dozens of towns. Arkansas City reports the worst flood, while Winfield sees drownings and a student from Southwestern College among the dead.
Paris reports Bulgaria's coup d etat with anxious forebodings in French and Bulgarian circles. Officials show misgivings it could trigger Balkan trouble and hostilities while Allied observers fear a pro German shift altering Western Europe and destabilizing the Near East.
Frederick Arnold former treasurer of a Newark loan society read a warrant for embezzlement dropped the paper and died after taking a powerful poison. Authorities say defalcation may reach $1,000,000 and police note he had other personal troubles beyond the embezzlement charge.
The court found Krupp von Bohlen and fellow directors guilty of conspiracy against public order. Sentences ranged up to fifteen years with hard labor in France, plus fines of 100 million marks for several defendants. Others faced five year terms for actions from unoccupied territory.
Howard Heikes, former deputy sheriff, was found not guilty by a jury in Watseka Illinois of killing Harl Jennings Wendell a University of Illinois student from Chicago. Evidence showed a quarrel over road space on the Dixie Highway last September.
A British steamship Maidan bound for London Calcutta with a heavy cargo sank off St John’s Island in the Red Sea. The ship carried passengers and crew who were saved according to a Port Sudan dispatch to Lloyd’s.
Two ocean liners the Carmania and the France arrived with sealed lockers to comply with the dry ship ruling effective now.
Lee Stiles sued Miss Leona Voris and her mother after giving a $1000 engagement ring. A jury awarded $1000 to Stiles, who claimed the case covered the ring price and interest from 1921 when the romance ended. Voris broke the engagement and kept the ring, according to Stiles.
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