Wanderer Hanged After Confessed Murders in Gallows Walk
Chicago’s Carl Wanderer, hanged for the murder of his wife Ruth their unborn child and a robber, confessed to jailer Peter Lawrence during the walk to the gallows. He sang as the trap dropped and faced execution at 7 19 a m after a 15 month fight to prove innocence.
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National League and American League Scores Report
National League action shows St Louis defeating Pittsburgh 5 to 1. American League results list Washington beating Boston 6 to 4 and Cleveland over Chicago 4 to 2. No other games were played.
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Trial and execution delays in a 19th century murder case
A defendant confessed to murdering his wife but was barred from a later trial for another death. The jury imposed twenty five years imprisonment, then the court admitted the confession in a second trial for the later homicide. The death penalty was assessed but execution was postponed multiple times amid insanity hearings and legal maneuvers.
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Governor Spares Arkansas Slayer
Governor McRae halted the electrocution of Amos Ratliff, who confessed to killing Miss Winford Frazier near Eureka Springs, after Ratliff agreed to a life sentence to avoid execution.
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Census counts 1526 illiterate in Washington state
Washington report from October 1 states the Census Bureau found 1,526 persons aged ten and over in Washington who cannot write in any language.
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Turks In New Offensive Near Ismid Attacks Greeks
Turkish nationalist forces in the Izmid region have begun an offensive aimed at striking the Greek forces from the south at Bilejik.
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Two Minute Prayer Call For Armistice Day
President Harding issues a proclamation calling all Americans to observe a silent two minute prayer at noon on Armistice day November 11. A nation honors the unknown American Soldier buried at Arlington National Cemetery as the country yields thanks and seeks divine mercy.
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United States Congress
Smoot Proposes 3 Percent General Sales Tax
Washington Oct 1 Senator Smoot a Republican proposes a manufactur ers sales tax of 3 percent to replace all war excise luxury stamp capital stock tele graph and other taxes. The plan keeps corporation income tax at 10 percent and exempts tobacco liquor and inheritance taxes. The tax would apply to goods sold for consumption or use without further manufacture and be noncumulative.
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Tax Exemption for Agricultural Goods and Fire Tax Proposal
A bill proposes to tax certain commodities while exempting agricultural products and small sales under 86,000 per year. It includes a fire tax on imported goods to protect American products with an estimated annual yield of about 7.88 billion dollars, vetted by Harvard economist Charles J. Bullock.
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Brotherhoods Weigh Strikes as Rail Unions Vote
Chicago October 1 The Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen shows strong support for a strike but will wait for similar action from other major rail unions. W G Lee says trainmen will strike only if one or more other brotherhoods join, with meetings and reports due by October 10. He plans to stay in Chicago to coordinate.
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Needle in a Haystack Quip Becomes Witty Parade
A wry remark notes that finding a needle in a haystack is easy if you simply sit on it, turning a mundane challenge into a darkly comic line reflecting stubborn optimism.
Ireland Ready for Peace Parley Opens London Conference
De Valera accepts the British invitation to a London conference on October 11 to settle the Irish question. He says positions are stated and understood and that conference, not correspondence, is the practical path toward understanding. London editorials praise Lloyd George while hinting Sinn Fein responses may vary.
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Sinn Fein leaders and De Valera peace reply question
The Daily News questions whether Sinn Fein leaders want peace and whether De Valera would simply say yes. It argues no provocation in a plain affirmative answer and hopes for a direct response free of mystic phrasing.
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Treaties Vote Planned For October 15
Washington reports Senate approval likely by October 15 for peace treaties with Germany Austria and Hungary. The pact set debate to close at 11 30 p m October 14 with sharp ten minute limits afterward and a stated vote time on October 15.
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Arbuckle Back Home Again
Roscoe Co. Arbuckle returned to Los Angeles from San Francisco where he had been admitted to bail. A large crowd gathered at the railroad station as his arrival was announced in advance and women rushed forward to embrace the film comedian amid cheers from the men.
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Jobless at White House picket unemployment conference
Fifty “human documents of unemployment” arrived in Washington from New York Philadelphia and Baltimore. Urbain Ledoux called them the shepherd of the shorn lambs of labor and said they will picket the national unemployment conference and then sit at the White House threshold.
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Howat and Dorehy jailed over Kansas industrial law protest
Alexander Howat and August Dorehy were ordered jailed for six months each by Judge Frank W. Ross after refusing bond to refrain from striking in protest of Kansas industrial court law. About 4,000 miners gathered as Howat urged a state wide strike to strike down the law.
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China and Japan fallout over German land cables dispute
The Chinese foreign office in Peking informs the United States and Japan that China canceled Germanys land cable rights due to its war with Germany. The former German cable from Yap to Shanghai is deemed illegal regardless of possession, a move seen as a rebuke to US Japan talks.
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Stillman Divorces Hearings Delayed in New York
Poughkeepsie N Y Oct 1 Resumption of hearings in the divorce action brought by James A Stillman New York banker against Anne A Stillman has been postponed until November 1. The delay was necessary because Referee Daniel J Gleason has been ordered by his physicians to rest for several weeks.
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James A. Stillman
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End of Hunt for Man’s Body Believed Fatal Boat Accident
After a five week search for Paokahe Harris who vanished while on a family vacation trip from Isle Royale, a small boat was found near Thunder Bay. Authorities believe Harris fell overboard during a squall and could not reach the vessel. Harris had scratched his name and a message inside the storm-damaged boat.
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Veterans Quit Indianapolis Encampment Closes
The Grand Army of the Republic end of its fifty-fifth annual encampment in Indianapolis with Des Moines, Iowa chosen for the next meeting. Elected national officers include Lewis S. Pilcher of Brooklyn as commander in chief, Robert W. McBride of Indianapolis senior vice commander, Henry Al Johnson of Washington DC junior vice commander, M. W. Wood of Boise surgeon general, and George B. Smith of Minneapolis chaplain in chief. Clifford M. Ireland of Peoria Illinois was elected commander in chief of the Sons of Veterans.
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Washington
George B. Smith
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Clifford M. Ireland
Peoria
Mrs Harold J McCormick Arrives After European Trip
Mrs Harold J McCormick returns from Pocantico Hills with her father John D. Rockefeller and meets her husband the president of the International Harvester Company of Chicago and daughter Mathilde. The visit aims to secure consent for a stage officer for daughter Muriel, a request she says has been granted.
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John DP. Rockefeller
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Bombs Repel Moor Attack on Spanish Wagon Train
Madrid war office dispatch reports heavy fighting as Moor forces attack a Spanish wagon train en route to Virsa. Aircraft aided by bombs, both sides suffer heavy losses before Moors are driven off in sustained engagement.
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