Pied Pipers Fight Rat Plague in Hagerstown
In Hagerstown rats threaten homes and shops with over 50 000 rodents in the city. Pied pipers allied with government workers claim 140 rats died in a local grocery during an early battle. They warn of ruined foundations and hundreds of dollars in losses, citing $1.68 cost per rat per year and a decade of damage nearing a million dollars. The group offers extermination help via police headquarters, showcases dead rats at the courthouse, and notes poison approved by the U S Public Health Service.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
West Washington Street
Pled Pipers
Church Rejects Ruhr Mediation Call After Conference Doubt
London March 2 The Archbishop of Canterbury rejected a suggestion by Swedish Bishops to invite President Harding to convene a conference to mediate the Ruhr troubles. He warned international talks have historically worsened tensions. A Cologne dispatch quoted the Catholic bishop saying Pope Pius XI is ceaselessly striving to secure peace and prevent French German fighting.
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London
Canterbury
Harding
Ruhr
Cologne
Pius XI
French reoccupy Gelsenkirchen after siege
French troops re occupied the German industrial town of Gelsenkirchen, previously fined 100 million marks, as municipal authorities refused to pay. Trench cavalry with machine guns and tanks took positions in the center. exact force unknown, with two machine guns observed and reports of increased sabotage. Mayor Charles J. Bowman remains bedridden after grippe but improving at his Mast Avenue home.
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HSSHN
Gelsenkirchen
Charles J. Bowman
Mast Avenue
Comedy Star Is Again Fiance Of Poli
Los Angeles report says Pola Negri and Charles Chaplin renewed engagement after a brief split. Negri announced to reporters at Lasky studio that the engagement was off then back on, describing the quarrel as brief and resolved. The romance of Hollywood’s most famous pair continues amid studio activity.
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Poli
Los Angeles
Charley iChaplin
Wight
Pola Negri
Chaplin
Jimland
Miss Negri
Abduction Warrants Sweep Up Marinkovic Case in Baltimore
Search is underway for Stojan Marinkovic husband of Mary Capan Marinkovic who vanished after a Baltimore County officer abducted his wife in the courthouse. Marinkovic was freed in Circuit Court on perjury charges as Baltimore authorities issue a counter abduction warrant and seek habeas corpus to return the woman to the city. He last spoke with a deputy saying he would spend the night in jail, declaring I love my wife and I’m going to get her back. Authorities lack crews at present.
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Stojan Marinkovic
Mary Capan Marinkovic
Baltimore
Marinkoyle
House of Good Shepherd
Harpor Ballenting
William Boyey
Frank G. Wagaman
Marinkovic
Wourgragaine
Pneumonia Deaths Spark February Health Update
Washington county faces a pneumonia death rate nearly double Baltimore City as February figures show 29 pneumonia deaths and 2 influenza deaths, with 46 other deaths plus infant deaths likely to lift the rate toward 100 for the month. Baltimore tallied 665 pneumonia cases with about half of the patients dying. Hagerstown's rate is not expected to be as high.
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Washington County
Baltimore City
Baltimore
Hagerstown
Harding informs Senate U S will not join compulsory court
Washington March 2 President Harding sent a brief letter to Senator Lodge transmitting Secretary Hughes detailed reply on the Hague based permanent Court of International Justice. He states the United States has no plan for compulsory arbitration of all disputes and will not be bound by the Versailles treaty. The Hughes document addresses the committee questions and notes no negotiations with other powers are contemplated.
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Sun Correspondent International News Service
Washington
Harding
Senate
Permanent Court of International Justice
The
Hague
League of Nations
United States
Secretary of State
Foreign Relations Committee
Wheather
Turks Would Become Ally of Bolshevik
In a speech to the Angora Assembly Mustafa Kemal Pasha urged closer ties with Russia. He said Turkey should consolidate friendship with Angora and progress on a commercial accord. He asserted peace hinges on acceptance of Turkish economic policy and condemned foreign interference.
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Constantinople
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Angora
Turkey
Russia
Kamal
Angala
Altloa
Kemal
Warmest Day of 1923 Recorded by Local Observer
Keedysville weather observer J A Miller reports today as the warmest day of 1923. At 1 pm the thermometer reached 462 degrees, seven degrees above the previous record, with expectations it could rise two or three more degrees before 3 pm.
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J. A. Miller
Keedysville
Mr. Miller
Release Negro Held for Post Office Theft
Three Black men arrested as suspects in the Berryville post office robbery are believed to have no connection with the dynamite blast that opened the safe. John Smith, driver of the car, was released after paying a fine for speeding and firing on officers. Two other suspects in the car face a hearing this afternoon as the postal inspector completes the investigation. Stamps and cash were taken from another area of the post office.
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Berryville
John Smith
Brock held without bail in three deaths after Philadelphia crash
Henry G. Brock a broker and social figure was held without bail by Magistrate Stevenson on a homicide charge after a speeding car struck three people as they alighted from a trolley. Names include Mrs Ellen O Donnell Miss Mary Murphy and Lee O Donnell. evidence cited hair fragments and blood at the scene.
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International News Service
Philadelphia
Henry G. Brock
Stevenson
Ellen O’donnell
Mary Murphy
Lee O'Donnell
Pen Mar Hotels And Cottages Purchased
Randolph QO. R. Debrick of Baltimore and Pen-Mar secures full control of Pen-Rock Hotel and Shelter Oak Ridge Rock and Morrock cottages at Pen-Mar. Purchase price around $30,000. Debrick has lived at Pen-Mar for two years.
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Randolph QO. R. Debrick
Baltimore
Pen-Mar
Pen-Rock
Shelter Oak
Ridge Rock
Morrock
Mr. Debrick
Sugar Price Manipulation Probe Proposed in Senate
Washington March 2 An investigation by the Senate into alleged sugar market manipulation and rapid price advances was proposed in a resolution by Senator Brookhart Republican of Town Brookhart said he was moved by reports that the sugar market is rising so fast the consuming public is being mulcted of millions.
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My International Nova Service
Washington
Senate
Brookhardt
Brookhart
Bronx crime may go down as unsolved
Frederick Schneider a wealthy Bronx contractor is buried after a fatal shooting in his car. Authorities detain Anna Buzzi, a divorced woman connected to the case, as they search for a jealous-motivated killer. District Attorney Glennon says there is not enough evidence to indict anyone at this time.
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Frederick Schneider
Bronx
N. Y
International News Service
New York
Schneider
Anna Buzzi
Glennon
Polish Force Battle Lits Poland Crosses Border into Lithuania
Berlin March 2. Polish troops crossed into Lithuania and were repelled by Lithuanian peasants in a Tuesday night foray. The Lithuanian Legation said casualties are unknown and the Polish Legation had no information on the incident.
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Berlin
Lithuania
Whiskey bandits raid Old Horsey Distillery in Maryland
Bandits from Baltimore in four high powered cars raided the Old Horsey Distillery at Burkittsville Frederick county between 3 and 4 am and escaped with 35 to 40 cases of bonded liquor after a clash with distillery guards. One suspect, Andrew McCarthy of Baltimore, was captured and jailed. The incident marks the first anniversary of a prior mass whiskey theft at the same plant, when 109000 dollars of bonded liquor were stolen. Guards Hemp Rudy and King fired on the robbers as they fled in multiple cars.
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Baltimore
Old Horsey
Burkittsville
Frederick County
Andrew McCarthy
John T. Hemp
Frank Rudy
Frederick
Two Executed in Ohio Penitentiary Double
In Columbus Ohio Charles Arnold a white man 65 and Henry White a negro were executed by electric chair early today for murder. Arnold killed Ruth Lawrence landlady in 1922 and White killed his wife in 1922. Arnold grinned at arresting officer Buck Remert as he died. White confessed then recanted.
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International News Service
Columbus
Charles Arnold
White
Henry White
Ohio Penitentiary
Arnold
Ruth Lawrence
Buck” Remmert
Buck
Strange Cults Threaten US Government Says Davis
Pittsburgh March 2 A powerful warning by Secretary of Labor James J Davis against strange and evil cults undermining the United States government is reported. He cites a distant immorality rising and urges sanctity of the home and marriage, defense of life, property, contract, and labor rights to uphold republican principles.
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Pittsburgh
United States
Labor
James J. Davis
Republic
Auto Stolen From Greencastle Near Factory
The automobile of George Bentz of Greencastle was stolen at about 12:30 today from West Franklin Street near the Hagerstown Shoe and Logging Company. Bentz, employed at the factory, left his car there and returned from Inneh to find it missing. the sheriff's office was notified but no track has been found.
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George Bentz
Greencastle
Franklin Street
Hagerstown
Multiple Local Disasters and Deaths Across Cities
A series of brief, scattered reports from March 2 to March 4 recount accidents and fatalities. Molten metal exploded at a furnace in Detroit injuring several. Irish and Belfast districts report bombings and abductions with heavy casualties. a Chicago youth suffocated after leaving a center and consuming oxygen in a room. a garden accident in Belgium left a man with a broken arm. in Kansas City three men linked to a Denver Mint burglary were arrested in Missouri. Thomas Y. Kane, deputy comptroller of the currency, died of apoplexy in Washington. congressman W Bourke Cockran’s body to be transported to New York for burial preparations.
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Kansas City
United States Mint
Denver
Colorado
Library
Department of Justice
Gotham
Washington
Motion for New Trial in Barr Case Overruled
The motion for a new trial in the case of William Barr, convicted of selling whiskey, was overruled today by Judge Frank G. Wagaman. Other sessions heard Ernest Vosle and Samuel Ebiso le found guilty of manufacturing whiskey, L. Guy Ebbersole pled guilty, and the State entered a non pros in Frank Magaha and John Dean. Cases settled included Calvin Baughman and Otho Myers, and the court dismissed the petit jury until March 2 with arson cases of Harry Sattow and Ralph Baughman to be heard later. Slightly improved Wark Needy, salesman for the Taerstown Shoe and Legetar Company, is reported to be slightly improved after a severe illness.
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William Barr
Illan B. Hartle
Ome
T. Kaylor
Frank G. Wagaman
Ernest Vosle
Samuel W. Ebisole
L. Guy Bbersole
Frank Magaha
John Dean F
Jones
Samples Manor
Calvin Baughman
Otho Myers
Claare
Spring
Wagaman
Petrt
Harry Sattow
Ralph Baughman
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