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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1923
Page
2
Treasury officials project tariff act of 1922 to raise over 500 million in a year while income tax intake tops 1.5 billion. Congress records show a grueling 624 days with one and a half days per day. Obituaries note Dr George Francis Lydston and leaders Carter Day with pneumonia arteriosclerosis. Emden sank 28 allied ships in 1914.
A woman about twenty five leaped from the brink of the American falls at Niagara Falls N Y and was swept to death over the cataract. Other brief items note Miss Dorothy King found dead in her New York apartment, and varied U S news including tax payments in Chicago Panama Canal voyage of Secretary Denby party and wreck/war news.
The duchess of Brunswick, daughter of the exiled Doorn family, gave birth to a son in Vienna. Reports also note the former Kaiser is a grandpa again as European turmoil continues with strikes, arrests, and political shifts across Berlin Moscow and Smyrna.
Ohio items report Toledo seeking Marysville site for a patent rocking chair plant. numerous accidents, crimes, and weather damage across cities. Notable items include a Marion church project, Crooksville coal lease, bank robberies, a Youngstown shooting, and a statewide flu surge with hospital deaths.
Berlin reports thirteen Belgian soldiers missing from Botrop detachments with speculation they deserted or fell victim to German bands. German press claims witnesses were arrested after two French officers were killed, while ten disappeared. Munich paper links Ruhr occupation and Bavaria uprising to a French plan for a continental league of nations.
New York reports confirm via autopsy that artist's model Dorothy Keenan was killed and robbed in her West Fifty-seventh Street apartment. Chloroform traces in brain and lungs indicate inhalation. bruises on face and neck suggest resistance. Investigators seek two men known as Marshall and Wilson who visited the apartment.
An anonymous donor posts a $1,000 prize for a Yale song to replace Bright College Years. The Yale Alumni Advisory Board announced the plan, aiming to end the postwar controversy over discarding the old tune after a New York Yale Club poll showed many Yale men favoring the change.
Heroic work by about 80 attendants and as many Sisters of Providence enabled the safe removal of eight patients from the Roman Catholic home for incurables, destroyed by fire. The patients were moved to the Gray Nuns' Orphanage as ambulances and volunteer taxicabs aided the evacuation after the blaze began in an elevator shaft.
The Textile Council representing six craft unions demanded a 15 percent wage increase for mill workers in Wall River. April 2 was set as the effective date. The action backs about half of the 86,000 workers in 111 mills in the city.
Word reached London that Captain H. M. Hodges United States Navy retired died suddenly at his home in Senno Italy on Lake Como March 12. He was 68. Hodges retired in June 1905 after 80 years of service 23 at sea.
Mary Elizabeth Wells known as Billie was acquitted by a jury in Mineola N Y on charges of murdering Captain James M Pettitt innkeeper of Massapequa The verdict credited to a jury that judged the merits regardless of the defendant's sex and marked a win for Wells and her attorney Miss Helen McCormick former assistant prosecutor for Kings County
Fragmentary notice lists Horfolka Western schedule with a Sardinia connection. It mentions a daily service at 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. with returns to Hillsboro at 7:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. The text is garbled but indicates leave times and a return route.
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