News of the Week Highlights Multiple Federal and Local Actions
A Commerce survey across 34 states shows unemployment waning and industry rising. Hoover announced the trend while Congress faces votes on farm loans and taxation. Other items include a Volstead law amendment proposal, a Lib eria loan, rail policy opposition, a new soldiers bonus bill, a BC liquor sale estimate, a Bethlehem Steel merger, a Detroit divorce, a Chicago labor case reward, a high speed airmail flight, and various weather and natural disaster reports across the country.
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Department of Commerce
Hoover
Washington
Carpentier Knocks Out Lewis in Round One at London Bout
Georges Carpentier world light heavyweight champion stops Ted Kid Lewis in the first round of a 20 round match in London. Lewis, European welterweight titleholder, is defeated early in the title clash.
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Georges Carpentier
Pugilist
Ted “Kid” Lewis
London
France Poincare Absent in Genoa Talks Abstain Policy
Foreign Premier Poincare in Paris rejects withdrawal but abstains from further negotiations on Russia. A Peking cable notes 100 American soldiers deployed to Tongshan near Tientsin to guard lines and protect foreigners at coal mines.
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Poincare
Paris
Genoa
Russia
Tongshan
Tientsin
Balging
Peking
Europe seeks America's aid in Genoa conference delay
The Genoa economic conference will reconvene June 15 at The Hague to discuss Russian questions if a private plan is accepted by the subcommission on Russian affairs. The move aims to induce the United States to participate and may dissolve Genoa without resolving Fr/UK disputes. Lloyd George announced the compromise plan, with Bartho, Schanzer, Ishii and Jasper among attendees.
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Genoa
Hague
Russia
France
Great Britain
Edward Grigg
David Lloyd George
America
Europe
Edward
Mr. Lloyd George
M. Barthou
Schanzer
Italy
Viscount Ishii
Japan
M. Jasper
Belgium
Lloyd George
Yeggs Escape With 25000 In Cincinnati Bank Job
Six professional yeggs bound two guards and blasted two safes at the H and H Pogue Co store in Cincinnati. They looted more than 25000 in currency, mostly small bills, and caused about 15000 in damage to records safes and display goods on the sixth floor.
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Cincinnati
Pogue Company
Fourth
Race Street
Triumvirate Blamed in Chicago Labor Raids
Police say documentary evidence from raids on union labor headquarters links a triumvirate of labor men to recent murders bombings and lawlessness in Chicago. The three men, among 15 seized after two patrolmen were killed during arrests of bombers, allegedly lived off unions and double crossed them.
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Chicago
Woman Falls to Death in Fifth-Floor Fall in Manhattan
Miss Anna MacEdwards, 88, a member of a wealthy Canadian family, reportedly collapsed from overwork and pain and fell from a fifth-floor window of her New York City home. Physicians attributed the paroxysm of pain to her illness among the city’s poor.
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New York
Anna MacEdwards
Manhattan
Belgium honors American Samuel Hill with Belgium’s Commander Crown
King Albert decorates Samuel Hill of Seattle with the Order of Commander of the Crown of Belgium in recognition of services to Belgium. The ceremony took place in Brussels on May 14.
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Brussels
Albert
Samuel Hill
Seattle
Washington
Ring of forged checks uncovered by New York A D A
Assistant district attorney Murphy says a ring has mulched over $100,000 from banks using forged checks. He will seek indictments. Three men, Salo Grosg, George Williams, and George M. Chatzburg, are arrested. A fourth, Isadore Gross, a college student, is detained as a witness.
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New York
Murphy
Salo Grosg
George “Williams
George M. Chatzburg
Montreal
Isadore Gross
Ohio News In Brief Mixed With Tragedies And Politics
Obituaries note Miss Pauline Monroe's bequest to Oberlin for two scholarships. Protests flare over a Bedford High strap policy. Dayton crossing deaths lead to coroner exoneration of a rail crew. Akron robbers target Frank Brehm at the Buchtel hotel. Duffy seeks governor nomination while George White exits race. Lancaster counts a 92 year old death. bankers meet in Cincinnati. Multiple industrial accidents impact Youngstown area. Chinaware plant near Whrichsville announced. Ohio rail and police actions appear across cities from Columbus to Toledo.
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Pauline Monroe
T. E. Monroe
First Congregational Church of
Akron
Oberlin College
O.C. Irwin
Bedford High School
Cleveland
Kimbell
Pennsylvania
Dayton
Florence Ehring
Margaret Kilpatrick
Columbus
Frank Brehm
Buchtel
Thomas J. Duffy
East Liverpool
Industrial Commission
George White
Democratic National Committee
Duffy
Elizabeth Mott
Lancaster
Ohio Bankers’ Association
Cincinnati
John Zimmer
Fred Emrick
Theodore Emrick
John Gump
Beaver Falls
Palestine
Whrichsville
American Sewer Pipe Company
Yorkville
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Isaac C. Baker
Butler County
Hamilton Lodge of Elks
Hamilton
Dover
Samuel Groff
Andrew Engler
Port Clinton
Charles H. Conk
Urbana
John H. Patterson
National Cash Register
Atlantic City
Walter Kantoski
Toledo
State Reformatory
Mansfield
Kae
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Madden Station
Zanesville
Hugh Kearney
W. H. McDonald
Triangle Paper Bag Manufacturing Company
Sam Purpera
Ohio Penitentiary
W. P. Donohoe
Hugh McMahon
Fremont
Harry Dame
Western Reserve University
Otto Clayton
Erwin
Tenn
Joseph Hodges
Clayton
Isaac R. Sherwood
National
House of Representatives
Lucas County Board of Elections
Congress
Steel Mills
Youngstown
Lima
Fannie Nuse
Chsville
Walter H. Linn
Sidney
G. B. Punderburg
Ape
Ohio
Tevidl
Davis
Kenton
Helen Silberberg
Aaron Silberberg
Johnson
Jacob Bertsch
Ripley Township
Holmes County
George L. Oles
Oles
Poland Village
Marion
A. E. Culbert
Bucyrus Council
Bradford
Middleport
Nellie Wallace
Harry
Frank M. Woosley
South Charleston
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Springfield
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Monroeville
Sandusky
Board of Education
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Lock Hleven
Gallipolis
James
Francis Bowers
Dixie Highway
Bowling Green
Winn Stein
Walbridge
Otto P. Tracey
Tracey
Stein
Charles P. Taft
Cincinnati Times-Star
Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap
Uhrichsville
Dennison
Supreme Court
State Public Utilities Commission
Ohio Service Company
Freetcar
Earl Langdon
John Freeman
Michael Fisher
Leona Kerstetter
Kerstetter
Eibela Paeraru
Struthers
C. J. ‘West
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Steve Bernard
Youngstowm
Vitto Ricce
Dominic Travis
Kent Seeta Oye
Patriotism and caution in a foreign visit
A Birmingham Age-Herald quote portrays a foreign visitor praising the United States while asking to see Congress. The citizen urges the traveler to witness Niagara Falls Yellowstone Grand Canyon industrial might and institutions, but to avoid Congress to preserve the idea of a great country.
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Congress
Niagara Falls
Yellowstone Park
Grand Canyon
Birmingham Age-Herald
Swamp Root Kidney Liver Bladder Remedy Ad Claim
Purported advertisement for Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root claiming purity and lack of stimulants. Promotes kidney liver and bladder support with a sample offer of ten cents and a note to mention the paper.
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Dr. Kilmer
Dr. Ilmer & Co
Binghamton
N. Y
Conscience whispers or wind in the tum joke
The Philadelphia Ledger notes a clash between a girl and her sister over a remark from Sunday school. Alice believes conscience whispers truth into the heart while her six year old sister dismisses it as wind in the stomach.
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Alice
Philadelphia Ledger
Willing to Divide Gum Dispute Between Teacher and Student
A stern teacher demands a piece of chewing gum from Willie who offers to share half. The exchange captures a classroom moment of bargaining and discipline.
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Willie
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