Burned in Hobart Fire Claim Brides and Others
A Christmas Eve fire at Babb's Switch school in Hobart Oklahoma killed the bride to be Gladys Clements and sixteen others, with seventeen more victims likely buried tomorrow. Rescues failed for several, including Aubrey Jones and Vesta Jackson, as families mourn and local efforts organize funds and a monument.
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Hobart
Okla
Claude Polding
Gladys Clements
Miss Clements
Misa Clement
Juanita Clements Stevensert
Michigan
Mixes Clements
Aubrey Jones
Vesta Jackson
Beth
Andrew Jackson
Joose
Little Cemetery
Oklahoma City
Anadarko
Mayes F. E. Gillespie
Babb
Torpedo Mistaken for Candy Injures Dallas Visitor
R. F. Martin of Dallas, a Waco visitor, mistook a torpedo for candy and bit into it on Christmas Eve. The device exploded, wounding his mouth and jaw and sending him to a local hospital for treatment.
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Associated Rero
Waco
Texas
R. FP. Martin
Dallas
Missed bakery sale at Lytle's Grocery Saturday
A fragment notes home baked goods and country items available at Lytle's Grocery on Saturday. Mrs. Ralph Lytle is mentioned in connection with the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lytle’s
Ralph Lytle
Coolidge declines to attend inaugural ball
President Coolidge rejects attending any inaugural ball. He supports a dance socially but will not participate or be present at balls tied to the inauguration, citing his preference to avoid dancing.
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Washington
Coolidge
Mexican Bandits Stop Train Kill Woman and Soldiers
Fifty armed bandits derailed a passenger train near El Cobre south of Saltillo in Mexico City dispatches. A woman passenger and six soldiers were killed. several others wounded as bandits plundered the express car. A Saltillo military pursuit followed. a similar attack occurred at Conerous last October.
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Mexico City
el Cobre
Saitillo
Saltillo
Conerous
Pope Pius Opens Holy Door as Jubilee Year Begins
Rome reports vast crowds at St. Peter's as Pope Pius opened the Holy Door on Christmas Eve inaugurating the jubilee year. About 60,000 people visited the shrine on Christmas Day including Princess Stephanie of Belgium and her husband Prince Lonyay.
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Arsociated Press
Rome
St. Peters
Pius
Stephanie
Leopold
Belgium
Prince Lonyay
Iowa Bankers to Hold 26th Annual Convention in Dubuque
President C G Wholenberer of the IowaBankers Association announced the 26th annual convention will be held in Dubuque on June 15 16 and 17. The event gathers bankers from across the state for meetings and discussions on industry topics.
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Iowa
Associated Press
Des Moines
C. G. Wholenberer
Iowa Banker's Association
Dubuque
Monitor engineer dies at 86 after long ferry service
Daniel K. Lester, 86, who served as the engineer on the Civil War ironclad Monitor during its famous battle with the Merrimac, died last night of pneumonia in Elizabeth New Jersey. For 45 years he was chief engineer of ferries from New Jersey to Staten Island.
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Associated Prose
Elizabeth
N. J
McClintock
Miss Pope
Shepherd
Mrs. Shepherd
Billy
Aakel
Coldest Christmas in 52 years grips nation
Subzero weather shaded much of the country with ten deaths tied to the cold. Chicago reported four fatalities including a policeman. Oregon saw two drownings near a creek iced over. California citrus crop damage reached ten percent while Nevada and Utah recorded extreme lows. Warmth and cloudy skies forecast for plains and northwest.
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Associated Press
Middle West
East
Far West
Chicago
Ohio
Oregon
Texas
California
Eugene
Los Angeles
Columbia River
Nevada
Utah
Elko
Huntsville
Ogden
Rockies
Phoenix
Arizona
Plains States
Northwest
Mississippi
Indianapolis
Rock Island
Ill
Atlantic Coast
Appalachian
East Calf States
Appointment Expected for Assistant Secretary of State
Des Moines Dec 26 It is expected the vacancy in the secretary of state's office caused by the resignation of W T Frame assistant secretary will be filled early next week Secretary Ramsay had an appointment in mind and was waiting for a decision Frame managed corporation matters and resigned to return to legal practice
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Associated Press
Des Moines
W. T. Frame
Ramsay
Frame
Archie Burris Granted Hour Delay for Execution
Archie Burris, sentenced to death for the December 27, 1921 murder of Hattie Renfro Bates, will be executed at 7:30 a.m. January 2 at Ft. Madison. Sheriff reports the hour shift follows a ruling that executions occur between sunrise and sunset, sunrise that day being 7:09 a.m. The change was ordered after county attorney W W Epps identified the law requirement.
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Ottu
Archie Burris
Gor Kendall
Wappelo
W. W. Epps
Ft. Madison
Burris
Hattie Renfro Bates
No Chicken Epidemic Debunked in Midwest Iowa
Ames Dec 26 H A Bittenbender chief in poultry husbandry Iowa State college says there is no poultry epidemic in the Midwest including Iowa. He notes losses come from bad weather and weak fowls unable to resist colds and infections. Recommendations include culling, selling, killing sick birds, ample feeding, and avoiding overcrowding in hen houses.
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Ames
Middle West
Iowa
H. A. Bittenbender
Iowa State College
Middlewest
City Health Board
New York City
Bitten Bender
Sick Jones
Hittenbender
Bittenbender
Woman Sues Over Breach Promise For $20,000
Helen Truehalt files a breach of promise suit in district court against P. E. Richardson seeking $20,000 after alleging he left her waiting at a hotel in Des Moines when she went to Chicago with her father in October to marry him.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
P. E. Richardson
Helen Truehalt
Chicago
October
I BAW Your Ad to the Journal Merchant Motto
The phrase urges merchants to inform the Journal of their advertisement purchase. It emphasizes direct action to ensure ad placement and visibility in the newspaper. The tone suggests a promotional or campaign-style directive.
Autopsy results in Chicago death. typhoid link unresolved
Chicago reports an autopsy on millionaire orphan William N. McClintock shows typhoid may have entered as a factor, but cause of death remains undetermined. Foster father William D. Shepherd arrives in Chicago amid questions over the late plan for McClintock and fiancee Isabelle Pope.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William N. McClintock
Oscar Wolff
Albuquerque
N. M
Wiliam D. Shepherd
Wiliam Nelson McCaptock
M. James D. Davidson
McClintock
Shepherd
Christmas Ho ch Takes More Lives
Three men died and thirty-one people were in Bellevue Hospital with injuries from Christmas liquor celebrations in New York. Police court calendars are crowded as deaths from poisoned liquor increase to thirty four for the month and fifty or more remain in Bellevue’s accident ward from fights and slips caused by excess alcohol.
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Associated Press
New York
Bellevue Hospital
Bellevue
Theater Party Hosted by Fox Manager for County Home Residents
Theater party manager Ralph Pratt of the Fox theater hosted an afternoon gathering for women living at the county home. Pratt and L. A. Jones transported the guests to the theater and back in their cars, a recurring event enjoyed by the attendees.
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Ralph Pratt
Fox Theater
Christmas Visit Among Davenport Swift Family
Mr and Mrs Richard Swift of Davenport spent Christmas with his mother Mrs Martin Swift in a son and mother gathering reflecting holiday family ties.
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Richard Swift
Davenport
Martin Swift
Great White Way Graveling Between Pella and Oskaloosa
The Great White Way through Marion county will be graveled and the highway west of Pella reopened after a court decision that awards the Van der Ploeg estate 5 446 dollars, more than the 3 500 previously allotted by the Marion County board for routing the road.
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Oskaloosa
Marion County
Pella
van der Ploeg
Board of Supervisors
Marion County Board
Oil storage the key to US supply says Interior chief
Secretary Hubert Work warned December 26 in Chicago that unless oil waste is stopped the United States could exhaust its petroleum supply within 12 years. He noted vast new fields and rapid drilling deplete reserves, and urged storing oil underground to reduce evaporation and prevent loss while costs for tanks and supervision rise.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United States
Hubert Work
Interior
A. W. Bissel
Evanston
Work
Wild Ride on Pilot After Train Hits Car injures family
The Associated Press reports Mrs. Kenneth Clark, 18, of Indianapolis, was thrown onto the pilot of a Knickerbocker special after a train struck a car she was riding in. She rode about twelve miles before leaping into a ditch near Oakland. found unconscious, she suffered exposure and minor bruises but was not seriously hurt. Three family members were injured in the crash.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Kenneth Clark
Oakland
Berlin Depot of Rifle Barrels Found by Allied Forces
Paris dispatch reports officers of the inter allied control commission uncovering a hidden depot of rifles and machine gun barrels in Berlin with an inventory tallying 10 000 barrels and an expected total of 100 000. Ambassadors meet to decide on Cologne bridgehead evacuation.
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Paris
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Cologne
Berlin
Military Central Mission
Four more victims found in Saltville disaster toll rises
In Saltville Virginia the dam break aftermath claims thirteen lives with four more bodies recovered from the muck. The victims include children ages 3 to 10 and several from one family as rescuers continue searching for missing persons among the lime mud and flood debris.
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Richmond
Saltville
Molaton River
Mathison
Yatusuke
Harry Prater
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Edward
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Inaugural Ball
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Mexi
Pope
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Pueblo Cola
L. W. Smith
Smith
Christine
Raker M Twyman
Twyman
Peoria
Yreakrs
Claims RE
New Mexico
Mra
Caroline Votan
Harding
Veterans’ Hospital
George A. Carpenter
Virginia
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