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Washington reports on Massey murder at Tomo Mexico and Civil War era recovery. Navy Day crowd eyed, Meeker and Lt Kelly fly westward retrace route in 24 hours. Coolidge backs radio progress and coast to coast broadcasting plan. Crop report flags record wheat, corn and oat yields. Fire, frost, and labor disputes color a bustling national scene.
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Coolidge
Washington
Subcommittee On
Secretary of ‘Commerce
Ohio and Nationwide Crimes and Disasters Chronicle
A wide range of Ohio news items recounts factory abandonments and park purchases, multiple fatal traffic and industrial incidents, burglaries and thefts with large sums, armed confrontations, court actions and indictments, weather and crop notes, and public notices across cities including Elyria Cleveland Toledo Newark Columbus Athens Piqua Marion and Canton. Notable items include a Willys-Overland plant closure, a plan to convert Clark County Fair Grounds to a park, a fatal street fight and a fatal automobile rollover, a package of indictments from Columbus, and a wide array of local incidents and legal actions.
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Elyria
Willys-Overland Company
Springfield
Clark County Fair
Homer Hutson
Washington D. H
D. C. Haber
Cleveland Heights
Emma Schable
Claridon Township
Geauga County
Henry H. Holverstott
Marion
Marion County
Perry County
Cleveland
Milk Company
Logan-Nelsonville Pike
Columbus
Athens
John Sujkowski
Toledo
Roy Winegardner
Piqua
Winegardner
8. L. Allen
Dayton
Negrotes
Akron
Lewis Jacobs
George Jacobs
Matamora
Fulton County
Galagher
Ralph Holmes
Delta
Cincinnati
Joseph Reis
American Glass and Beveling Company
John H. O’brien
John F. Higgins
Court of Justice Hawkins
Dover Village
Cuyahoga County
Brown
Ideal Tire and Rubber
Shanghai Falls to Enemy in Manchurian Offensive
Reports say Lunghu and Shenghai defenses collapsed as Manchurian forces captured key arsenals and a Chekiang counterattack west of Shanghai faltered. A failed attempt to wreck General Wu Pei Fu’s train near Tien-Tsin ended with captured explosive tins.
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Manchurian
Wu Pei-Fu
Shanghai
Lunghu
China
Hang Chow
Tsingpu
Shai
Sungkiang
Darien
Manchuria
Peking
Chingwagtoa
Chibli Province
Shanhaikwan
Chinwangtao
Chiamsen
Han Lin Chun
Chihli
Peking —An
Wu Péi-Fu
Tien-Tsin
Robber Gerald Chapman Narrowly Escapes in New Britain
Police in New Britain, Connecticut collide with the famed outlaw Gerald Chapman known as the East’s Jesse James. Detectives are ordered to capture him dead or alive after a dramatic safe blowing incident that left an officer dead during the escape from a high noon mail holdup in New York three years ago. Chapman, recently escaped from Atlanta penitentiary with a 25 year sentence, is now the target of widespread manhunt across Eastern cities.
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Alph Napolita
Youngstown
Ida May Weaver
Akron
Ohio Institution
Columbus
Sawyer
Mary Sawyer
Marion
Yeggs
Armstrong Milling Company
Laurelville
Logan
Glenn, Hannum's
Raymond
Union County
Frank Salka
Franklin
Cleveland and Western Coal Company
Stewartsville
Cleveland
J. C.tullisland
Washington D. H
O. H. Farrell
Brewster
Wheeling and Lake Erie
Canton
Harry Walker
Dillonville
Jefferson County
Andrews Trinbitasius
Dime Savings Bank
Bowman
Sawicki
Pulitzer
Dayton
Burt H. Skeel
Twenty-seventh
First Army Air Pursuit Group
Mt. Clemens
Mich
Skeel
Cort’ McCavitt
Defiance
Henry County
Damascus Township
Herman Fisher
Harold Disanto
John Conroy
Alfred Arthur
Ohio
Cuyahoga County
Lloyd Rader
Ohio Penitentiary
Arthur
Rader
Charles Boldt Glass Company
Cincinnati
Oscar Heyman & Company
New York
Boldt Company
Henry D. Brown
Thomas H. Darby
Anthony Tekulve
Reeves
Meigs County
Edward Frazier
Pomeroy
Frazier
Eteenesty
W. Va
Fredey
Commerceial Savings Bank of
Bethesda
Belmont County
Ohio We
New Britain
Conn
Gerald Chapman
Jesse James
East
Gerald’ Chapman
Broadway
Chapman
Atlanta
Padlocked 18 Indiana venues in liquor law crackdown
Federal suits seek yearlong closures of soft drink parlors and roadhouses in and around New Albany and Indianapolis for flagrantly violating liquor laws. Actions target common nuisances after recent cleanups in New Albany and Jeffersonville. similar cases planned for Jeffersonville bars.
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Indianapolis
Ind
New Albany
Jeffersonville
Man Dies Standing Up in St Paul Room Door
Henry Wier died standing at the door of his room in St Paul Minnesota as a servant opened the door causing his body to fall into the hall. An apparent sudden collapse led to the fatality with no further details given.
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Paterson
N. J
Wilk
Jake Daubert
Cincinnati Reds
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cincinnati
St. Paul, Minn
Henry Wier
Americans On Tour Landings In London Ports 1924
An official report states that in the first months of 1924, forty five thousand seven hundred fourteen American tourists landed at British ports during the London phase of their tour.
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London
Bull Causes Injuries as Nine Men Are Trampled
A bull escaped from a pen in the Cheyenne railroad yard injuring nine men. Authorities assessed the scene as chaotic with workers fleeing the animal as it charged through the yard. Medical teams treated the injured on site and transported several to nearby hospitals.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Son Saves Father With Blood Transfusion in St Louis
J B Watkins donated blood to his father in St Louis, saving his life through a transfusion. The act highlights a family medical emergency and timely care.
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St. Louis
J. B. Watkins
Typhoon Strikes Cagayan Valley. Thirty Dead Amid Widespread Misery
A telegram from the Cagayan Provincial constabulary commander reports thirty dead and many missing after a typhoon battered the Cagayan Valley. Communications are cut in many areas, and the death toll is expected to rise as complete reports come in. The storm capsized several boats and disrupted transport.
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Manila
P. IL
Cagayan Valley
Cagayan
This Rabbit a Nuisance in Northern Minnesota Forests
The snowshoe rabbit, abundant this year, is unpopular with locals in northern Minnesota. It feeds on tips and needles of young pines and foliage of young spruce, aspen, and maples, and gnaws bark at the base on trees over three feet tall. In one plantation 79 percent were damaged, 43 percent probably fatally.
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Minnesota
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills Advert
Pills advertised as purgative with a tonic action on digestion. Test them yourself. Address 872 Pearl Street New York.
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Wright
Pearl St. N. Y
Adv
Ignorance Is Bliss Exchanges Playful Chat
Mae asks if the handsome lifeguard taught you to swim and Lucile replies he has but doesn’t know it.
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Mae
Lucile
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William B. Massey
Tomo
Mexico
State Department
James B. Stewart
Tampico
Washington Dispatch
Army
Kelly
Ezra Meeker
Seattle
Tax Appeal Board
Irish Free State
Timothy L Smiddy
President Coolidge
J. P. Moorgan
Alaska Steamship Company
Alaska Railroad
Chicago Sanitary Commission
Lake Michigan
Congress
Missouri
Tennessee
Louisiana
Supreme Court
American Red Cross
Society
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Devils Lake
Grand Forks
N. D
Matthew VP
Boziich
Chicago
United States District
Harry F. Hamilin
Detroit
A. Barnsdale
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
University of Chicago
James Rome
Zein Ione
Kid McCoy
Los Angeles
Cal
McCoy
W. G. Ross
Theresa Mars
United States Labor Board
The
Brotherhood of Clerks
John J. McNamara
Los Angeles Times
Blacktail
Lowell H. Smith
World Flyers
Slighe Hope
Cincinnati Nationals
Idaho
State Supreme Court
Boise
James Sheffield
New
United States
Mexico City
Edward R. Thomas
New York Morning Telegraph
Lucy Cotton
Houston
Texas
Paris
Loyal Order of Moose
John W. Ford
Thomas L. Hartigan
Philippine National Guard
William A. Lacy
Zoology
Northwestern University
Evanston
Nathan Allan
Wisconsin
Kenosha
Nathan R. Allen
Allen Sons’ Tannery
Natal
Newcastle
South Africa
Jules de Payer
Polar
National Assembly of
Panama
Chiari
Joseph Starrett
Transportation Committee
France
Paul Yewell
Chihuahua
Warsaw
Vienna
Moscow
Maj
Pedro Zanni
Kagoshima
Japan
Morocco
Madrid
Spain
Rangoon
India
Mrs
Glengon
American College
Kiangsu
Savee Hie
Bakers
feRemannos
U.S. Pat
Walter Baker
Frey
E. & S. Frey
Baltimore
Maryland
Lydia
B.pinkham
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Comfort Powder Company
Boston
Massachus
Heber CO
Heap
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