Youthful Trio Planned Shepherdstown Bank Hold Up
Washington police shattered a planned robbery at Farmers and Merchants Bank in Shepherdstown. Three youths led by Jack W. Lillis, 20, studied a town map with escape routes, planned to seize $30,000 during lunch hour, and faced armed masks and a stolen car. They are held in Washington jail as investigators link them to other Eastern bank robberies.
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Farmers’ and Merchants' Bank
Shepherdstown
Washington Polies
Jack W. Lillis
Capital Police
Lilly
Youlha
Washington
Earthquakes Hit Ardahan District. Dozens Dead
Incoming reports from Constantinople dated January 15 indicate sustained earthquakes in the Ardahan district of Georgia. The death toll stands at 140 with 33 injured, five villages destroyed and 44 partially ruined.
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Ardahan
Georgia
Mishap While Sledding Could Prove Fatal
Henrietta Nawgal a young daughter of Mr and Mrs John Naweal of 350 North Mulberry Street was fatally injured when her sled crashed into a Liberty Street porch at high speed She suffered internal injuries a badly bruised stomach and liver and may require an operation The girl was unconscious when taken home after the crash on the slope hill collision with another sled on the street اتجاه
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Henrietta Nawgal
John Naweal
North
Mulberry St
Liberty Street
Jury Frees Pen Warden Lewistown Pa
In Lewistown Pa on January 15 the jury tried in the case of BE EB Dayia former Rockview Penitentiary deputy warden found not guilty after 60 minutes deliberation. The report also notes I P Stoner of 466 Vine Street injured with a bruised heel from a machine accident at Moller Motor Car Company.
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Lewistown
BE EB. Dayia
Rockview
I. P. Stoner
Vine Street
Moller Motor Car Company
Hagerstown Newsies Show 200 Boys Working Under Law
The annual report by Edgar P Eyfer notes about 200 young newsboys in Hagerstown and county, all male, aged 10 to 14, selling papers with badges. Most work as newsies, some as store delivery boys. girls are mainly in mills but underage, with permits required and enforcement improving.
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Hagerstown
Hageratown
Edgar P. Eyfer
Nowaboys
Gor Atown
Hisiery Mills
Focal Stores
Obregon to Start Stocking Mill in Sonora
General Obregon former president of Mexico will launch a stocking mill and cotton plant in Sonora to develop cotton acreage. The announcement was made today in Mexico City.
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Mexico City
General Obregon
Mexico
Sonora
Slemp to Quit as Coolidge Secretary. Sanders Named
Washington January 16 C Bascom Slemp secretary to President Coolidge will retire March 4 and be replaced by Representative Everett Sanders Republican of Indiana whose term ends with this Congress. Slemp has served since Coolidge took office and helped mobilize southern delegates for the President.
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Washington
Coolidge
Telegraphers Demand Higher Wages And Benefits
Syracuse January 14 telegraphers announce plans to seek at least a 16 cent hourly raise, time and a half on Sundays, overtime on holidays, annual vacations, and improved working conditions in a conference with New York Central Railroad officials after the current agreement expired March 4.
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Syracuse
Railroad Telegraph Tenat
New York Central Railroad
Bloom and Company Incorporated formed with 160000 capital
The firm of M. Bloom and Company is incorporated with capital stock of 160,000 and will continue as M. Bloom and Company Incorporated. Incorporators and directors are A. Elder Hoover, William Toryer, Harry R. Snyder, George P. Lambert Jr, and Maxwell Lester, who have not yet organized. It is a closed corporation. stock in trade is left under will to Hoover, Borger, and Lambert. Property passes to Hoover and George P. Lambert Sr.
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8. M. Bloom
M. Bloom
Mr. Bloom
Messie
Hoover, Borger and Lambert
Mesars
Hoover
Cieorga P. Lambert, Sr
Houghton Succeeds Kellogg as Ambassador to London
London bound diplomat Alanson I. Houghton of New York, former ambassador to Germany, replaces Frank B. Kellogg who has been appointed Secretary of State. The transfer places Houghton in a key posting amid evolving U S European diplomacy.
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Alanson I. Houghton
New York
Germany
London
Frank B. Kellogg
Tammany's Chief Dies in New York
Thomna Foley, Tammany leader and political sponsor for Governor Al Smith, dies at Rockefeller Institute after pneumonia attack. He played a key role in New York politics and party operations.
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Thomas Foley
al Smith
New York
Thomna Foley
Tammany
Rockefeller Institute
Berlin Names Luther Cabinet to End Political Strife
Dr Hans Luther will form a new conservative cabinet as German Chancellor, aiming to end months of post election strife. President Ebert had appointed Luther after Reichstag reactions, with Stressemann set to remain foreign minister and policy to continue Dawes obligations.
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Berlin
Hans Fauthier
Ebert
Luther
Alo
Hacup
Stressemann
Reichstag
Dawes
Daughter confesses to killing mother over dating 16-year-old
SAN FRANCISCO Jan 16 Dorothy Ellingsen 16 confessed after a two day search that she shot her mother Mrs Annie Ellingson in the back as she stooped to tie her shoes in the bedroom of their Third avenue home The girl said she killed because her mother remonstrated with her for going out with men
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San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingsen
Annie Ellingson
Remon
Submarine 98 18 Stuck Off Nauset Beach
At Nauset Beach Massachusetts January 165 the wrecking tug Resolute aided by the navy tugs Wandank and the ravenne cutters Tampa and Achusnet labored under searchlights to free the United States submarine 98 18 stranded a quarter mile from shore on a sand bar.
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Nauset Beach
Capa Cod
Masa
Resolute
Wandank
Tampa
Achusnet
Funds Sought to Create Grandchild Trust From Oil Stock
Chicago reports Harold F. McCormick seeks to set aside 8 017 604 dollars of Standard Oil stock as a trust for his nine months old granddaughter Anita Oser in a suit filed in Indianapolis. Also noted are injuries: Frederick Jor sythe with a lacerated head after a bar struck him at Moore Engineering, and David Lyons with a mashed toe from a falling box at Southern Ribbon Co.
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Chicago
Harold F. McCormick
Mathilde
Max Oser
Swiaa
Indianapola
Standard Oil
Edith Rockefeller MelCormick
Anita Oser
Frederick J. Lorsythe
South Potomac
Atreot
Moore Engineering Company
David Lyons
Summit Avenue
Southern Ribbon Co
Ritchie orders investigation into super power project
Baltimore Md January 15 Governor Ritchie ordered a public Service Commission investigation into the $40,000,000 Susquehanna Power Company project. The inquiry covers development on the Susquehanna and other rivers in the region.
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Baltimore
Ritchie
Public Service Commission
Susquehanna Power Company i
Susquehanna
28 Drown In Ship Wreck Off Irish Coast
Queenstown Ireland Jan 15 Lloyd announced the Cardiff Hull crew of 28 were drowned when the steamer went to pieces off Clona Kilty after leaving the Irish coast.
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Queenstown
Ireland
Lloyd
Cardiff
Gasoline Prices Rise One Cent In State
Beginning today an increase of one cent a gallon in gasoline will be charged by oil companies. In the State all local dealers are charging 18 cents per gallon as this rise aligns with nationwide price trends. Many local dealers foresee a return to 20 and 22 cent gasoline.
Travinger Relocates, Beck Opens Cleaning Shop in Same Building
Earle Travinger has moved his goods and haberdashery from 118 West Franklin Street to 144 East Washington Street. Harry W. Beck opens a cleaning and pressing shop in the same building, with his brother starting a barber shop nearby. The tax company remains in operation there.
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Earle
Travinger
Franklin Street
Washington Street
Harry W. Beck
Beck
Brenner Sells Out To Baltimore Firm In Pipe Supply Deal
Announcement today states Joseph Brenner sells the business to Joseph Pear and associates of Baltimore. Transfer effective January 12. Brenner, 18 years in junk business as Joseph Brenner & Co and Maryland Vipa and Supply, to be Maryland Pipe and Supply. Baltimore group to run yard pipe and metal divisions. offices to remain in Most National Bank Building.
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Joseph Brenner
Joseph
iMr
Yeggs Loot Newark Bank In Northwest Texas Robbery
Yeggs sack Newark Texas in a swift raid looting the village bank of an estimated thousands of dollars. Stores in the town were ransacked as the bandits fled before police could respond.
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Yeggs
Texas
Fort Worth
Tedas
Yegg Rand
Newark
Here
Fire devastates Harper's Ferry pulp mill and power plant
A morning blaze destroyed Harper's Ferry Paper Co pulp mill and the adjacent electric light plant, causing an estimated loss of 200 000 to 250 000 dollars. The plants powered Harper's Ferry and Brunswick, with boiler readiness and recently upgraded equipment intensifying the impact. Fire units from Harper's Ferry and Charles Town responded, but Potomac river bridge repairs blocked Brunswick gear from aiding. The pulp mill, Harper's Ferry’s largest industry, employed about fifty workers when active.
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Harper's Ferry
Harper's Ferry Paper Co
Harper's Ferry Electric Light Plant
Tanso
Hirpera Ferry
Brunswick
Lerief Erdera
Sepulpanish
Arcers Ferry
Charles Town
Avc
Potomac River
Trarper's Terry
Electric Lght
Westchester
Shenandoah
Shenandoah River
Potomac Edison Co
Dirigible Los Angeles Heads to Chesapeake Bay Test
The naval dirigible Los Angeles moored at Lakehurst at 10 27 A M to test the U S S Patoka mast off Baltimore. It will remain moored overnight and return to Lakehurst tomorrow afternoon. The flight path includes the Delaware River and Bay toward Wilmington and Baltimore.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Los Angeles
Chesapeake Bay
Baltimore
Lakehurnt
Delaware River
Delaware
Wilmington
Del
Baltmore
Woman breaks arm after slip on porch ice
Mrs. J. E. Burgesser of Smithsburg is confined to her home with a fractured left arm after slipping and falling on ice on the rear porch last Saturday. She is the mother of Lester Burgesser, a clerk in the Tax Collector’s office.
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J. E. Burgesser
Smithsburg
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John Galen Locke
Colorado Ku Klux Klan
Keith Boehm
Denver
Boehm
Locke
Jin
Mae Nash
the Dragon
Mulberry Street
Slemp
Sanders
Indiana
Mac Nash
Keith Hoehm
Toss
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