Chicago Pageant of Progress Exposition Opens Saturday
Chicago's Pageant of Progress Exposition opens at 10 am Saturday July 30 and runs sixteen days ending August 14. Nearly 1,000 exhibitors occupy a site ten times the Chicago Coliseum area with millions expected to visit by rail road steamship and motor routes. Officials organize motorist tours invite several groups to Chicago and arrange parking and camping sites in Cook County forests for visitors.
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Mt. Vernon
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Country Club
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Loyal Order of Moose
Vernon Aerie F. C
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Municipal Pier
Forest Preserve Commission
Cook County
Steck
Lincoln Park
Field Museum
Museum of the
Great Lakes Naval Militia Exposition Events Planned In City
Poat racing on Lake Michigan and the summer maneuvers of the naval militia of the Great Lakes states are set for display. Aeroplane flights and races between planes and racing fleets will occur. A chorus of over 10,000 voices will perform along with numerous other events. The circus will also be in the city during the exposition.
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Lake Michigan
Naval Militia
Great Lakes States
Warn Public Against Income Tax Experts
Washington notes warn the public against fake income tax experts as the Internal Revenue Commissioner Blatt announces measures to curb evasion. A revised tax code looms and stricter enrollment will vet practitioners, with penalties for aiding tax evasion and disbarment of dozens of attorneys and agents.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Commissioner Blatt
Blair
Treasury
Prisoner Barber Shop Boosts Morale at Cuyahoga Jail
July 21 at the Cuyahoga County Jail prisoners can use a free barber shop. Sheriff Charles E. Stannard notes three new barber chairs and supplies were purchased. Prisoners awaiting trial are trained as barbers and provide haircuts and shaves before court days, with clothes pressed to maintain morale.
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Cleveland
Cuyahoga County
Charles E. Stannard
Stannard
Negro 107 year old dies in Cincinnati City Infirmary
Thomas Anderson, a 107 year old Black man, died at the City Infirmary in Cincinnati. He had worked in Avondale for more than 70 years.
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Cincinnati
Thomas Anderson
Avondale
Prohibition forces plan drag net for rum runners
Washington July 25 Associated Press federal prohibition forces are rigging a drag net to capture rum runners along the north Atlantic coast. Commissioner Haynes discussed possible navy cooperation and said navy ships would be needed to back any action due to limited funds for prohibition. He noted whispers of an international whiskey smuggling ring and said agents are ferreting out crews connected to the smugglers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Prohibition
North Atlantic
Haynes
Navy
Navy Department
Department
Fatal auto crash injures Frew family near Columbus
Mrs Ellen Frew 42 of Bicknell Indiana was killed and her husband Henry 47 along with their five children were injured when their car skidded and overturned east of Columbus early today The family had been traveling from Pittsburgh after attending the funeral of Mrs Frew's mother who died in an accident last week The father was reported probably fatally hurt and the case is being investigated by local authorities The Associated Press rente report from Columbus notes the tragic highway accident occurred shortly after Sunday services.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ellen Frew
Bicknell
Ind
Henry Frew
Here
Pittsburgh
Bonded whiskey poured down sewer by federal agents
A thousand cases of bonded whiskey valued at 120000 to 300000 dollars at bootleg prices were poured into a sewer in Youngstown today by agents under federal prohibition officer D M Brown. Liquor seized in raids was destroyed by court order.
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Associated Prose
Banner
Youngstown
D. M. Brown
Stockman Shot to Death in League City Texas
Galveston Texas July 25 Associated Press reports Henson a 20 year old stockman was shot to death on Main Street in League City two men said to have participated The victim was brother of G C Benson of Dickinson who was flogged by masked men last week
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Baner
Galveston
Texas
Marota
Henson
Main Street
League City
Benson
G. C. Benson
Dickinson
President of Bank Departs Family Missing in Flight
Chicago July 25 The disappearance of Warren C Spurgin president of Avenue Trust Co and his wife Vivian appears staged to cover embezzlement and an affair A state investigator said Spurgin confessed to embezzling funds and to an affair While Miss Spurgin and her daughter were helped to prepare and travel in the family car to Gary Indiana last Monday the bank president had left earlier Victim or suspect the case centers on a planned departure with his wife and other known associates.
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Warren C. Spurgin
Avenue ‘Trust Co
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Spurgin
Peg Viva
Vivian
Ben Newmark
Byler
Byler Suld
Widow of gang victim is slain in Chicago
Chicago July 25 One man under arrest while police search for Emilia Panico in the stabbing death of Mrs Virginia Esposito widow of Carman Esposito shot to death in a Nineteenth ward feud months earlier. Esposito found in a hallway with three wounds. Vitto Scala held as police pursue Emilia Panico believed to be her companion.
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Chicago
Emilia Panico
Virginia Esposito
Carman Esposito
Esposito
Japan Accepts Invitation to Far East Conference
Washington July 25 Apparent Japanese acquiescence to not conditioning acceptance of the invitation on defining the conference scope and arming limits is seen as removing the main hurdle to holding the international meeting proposed by President Harding. Officials note Japanese press reports that Japan will join the discussion.
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Associated Press
Washington
Japan
United States
Harding
Diplomatic Advisory Council
Hughes
Britain says no note on Silesia troop dispatch
London July 25 Great Britain has not sent a note to France with reservations to dispatch French troops to Upper Silesia as reported. The government maintains no need for more troops if an immediate decision is reached and is willing to discuss France's procedural views with that condition.
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London
Great Britain
France
Upper Silesia
Two Big Barns Destroyed at J. E. Kelly Dairy Farm
Fire near Xenia Ohio on July 29 destroyed two large barns and their contents on the J. E. Kelly dairy farm. The loss is estimated at $18,000, with investigators attributing the blaze to spontaneous combustion.
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Associated Press
Xenia, O
J. E. Kelly
Here
Fire breaks out on Cunard liner Mauretania at Southampton dock
A significant blaze erupted this afternoon aboard the Cunard liner Mauretania at Southampton dock. The fire, described as potentially serious, prompted emergency responses as crews battled the flames. No further details on injuries or containment were provided in the report.
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Associated Press
London
Cunard
Southampton
Laborer in asbestos suit fights oil blaze at No 5 well
An Amatan oil worker wearing an asbestos shield stood within yards of a blazing well No 5 in Mexico City on July 25. After 16 minutes in intense heat with flaming oil, he nearly closed a crucial valve to halt the oil flow. Officials expect cooling pipes will allow full shutoff and end a fire burning for over a week, with losses estimated in the millions.
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Associated Press
Bannert
Mexico City
Virgin Islands Protest Against Tax and Laws
The Virgin Islands colonial council drafted a protest to be sent to President Harding and Congress arguing for a hearing before any federal tax or Volstead Act extensions. The protest notes House passage of tax extension but Senate rejection, and calls for rapid forwarding by the governor.
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Associated Press
The
Banner
ST. Thomas
Virgin Islands
United States Congress
Colonial Council of the Islands
Council
Former White Sox players testify in 1918 World Series scandal
Eddie Cicotte Joe Jackson and Claude Williams told their stories in a Chicago court as the 1918 World Series fixing case unfolds Their confessions were said to be promised as non usable against them and aimed at stamping out baseball gamblers The defense argues the confessions were involuntary and the jury awaits Judge Friend's ruling on admissibility Jackson's testimony sparked laughter in court as he recalled sprees and getting two bailiffs drunk
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Chicago
Eddie Cicotte
Joe Jackson
Claude Williams
Foremer White Sox
Charles A. McDonald
Hartley aSplogle
Jackson
Missing auto dealer vanishes after Saturday test drive
Steubenville July 25 Searching parties in Jefferson County scoured highways and ravines for Harry Cummins Jr 83 an auto dealer who disappeared Saturday afternoon while demonstrating a car to a stranger. Police say the stranger claimed to be a barber from Wellsville and four suspects were picked up there but no trace of Cummins or the machine.
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Steubenville
Jefferson County
Harry Cummins Jr
Aingle
Carter
Wellsville
Hoover proposes broader powers for War Finance Corp
Secretary Hoover suggested expanding the War Finance Corporation to address railroads farm credits and export finance as a unified approach to economic readjustment. He noted approval from Mellon and Eugene Meyer and anticipated President Harding's congressional note on railroads.
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Associated Press
Bannery Washington
War Finance Corporation
Hoover
Mellon
Eugene Meyer
Harding
Congress
Bank Robbers Strike Imperial Bank Near Heaver County
Six bandits robbed Imperial State Bank of Imperial Pennsylvania this afternoon, entering by force and taking about $700 in silver. They held three officials at gunpoint, forced them into a rear room, breached the cashier area, and fled in an automobile after exchanges of fire with cashier B H Calhoun. The getaway headed toward Ohio One via Steubenville.
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Pyptsburgh
Imperial State Bank of
Imperial
Heaver County
8. H. Calhoun
Ohio
Stenbenville
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