Baseball Trial Confession Details in Immunity Waiver
Eddie Cicotte Joe Jackson and Claude Williams testified they confessed to taking part in the 1919 World Series fix after promises immunity. They said they signed something in the grand jury room and could not confirm it was an immunity waiver.
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Eddie Cicotte
Claude Willims
Joe Jackson
Chisago
Claude Williams
Sox
Charles A. McDonald
Hartley Replogle
Alfred Austrian
Chicago American
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Austrian
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McDonald
Grand Jury
Maharg
Ross
Govan
Billy
Philadelphia
Harry Grabiner
White Sox
Gorman
Ma’ Hare
Erand Jurf Room
Replogie
Mr. Gorman
Blairsburg Man Not Implicated in 20Year-Old Slaying
Des Moines July 25 Willis Peterson of Blairsburg was cleared in the 19 year old murder of Thomas and Lena Peterson on a rural road northeast of Des Moines A report had accused him of involvement but investigation showed the accuser ill and Peterson returned home after cooperating with authorities
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Thomas
Lena Peterson
Willis Peterson
Blairsburg
W. E. Robb
Peterson
Robb
Meyer
Petersen
Hoover Opposes Russian Relief While Americans Held Prisoner
Secretary Hoover reiterated that the United States cannot extend relief to Soviet Russia while Americans remain prisoners of the Soviet government. As head of the American Relief association he said the group is willing to provide aid if terms are accepted. A Moscow-forwarded telegram notes Soviet circles expect Hoover’s terms may be accepted.
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Washington, D. C
Hoover
Russia
E. J
Maxim Gorky
Petrograd
American Relief Association
Associated “Préssy
Riga
Herbert Hoover
Soviet
Moscow
Woman Vigtn in Ward Feud Breaks Unwritten Law
United Press report from Chicago describes the Bloody Ward feud with Mrs. Virginia Esposito identifying her attacker as Mrs. Amelia Panico after being stabbed while leaving a wedding celebration. Police surround Panico’s home as investigations begin. Also notes Sterling political charges causing confusion across South Dakota towns with no familial relation between the Sterlings.
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United Press
Chicago
Esposito
Amelia Panieco
Panico
British Empire to Have One Vote at Disarmament Talks
Washington reports the British empire will have a single vote at the Washington disarmament conference. The delegation will include 12 Britain dominion representatives but Secretary Hughes will state Britain has only one vote. Pacific dominions may seek representation and Jan Smuts may attend from South Africa. Secretaries Hughes and Root are key figures in the American delegation.
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United Press
Washington, D.C
Washington
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
Jan C. Smuts
South Africa
Hughes
Root
Braves Close Blazing Amatlan Oil Well After Fire
An oil worker in Amatlan, Mexico, sheltered by an asbestos shield, approached the No. 5 well amid 15 minutes of extreme heat and flames to try to close a valve. Fire has burned for over two weeks, causing multi‑million dollar losses. officials believe cooling pipes may allow total shutoff later.
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Associated Press
Mexico ‘City
Amatlan
Former Villa Aids Held at Border as Plotters
Nicolas Rodriguez and Ricardo del Palacio former officers in the Villa revolutionary army are jailed in Marfa Texas charged with attempting to organize a military expedition against a friendly motion. They were arrested by customs officers crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico with arms ammunition medical supplies clothing and other army stores. Last April Rodriguez led a band that robbed a Mexican Central passenger train north of Chihuahua City taking 200000 pesos in gold.
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EL Pago
Tex
Nicolas Rodriguez
Ricardo del Palacio
Villa Revolutionary Army
Marfa
United States District Attorney
Rio Grande
Mexico
Rodriguez
Chihuahua City
MacMillan Party Plans Arctic Voyage From Sydney
Donald B. MacMillan and his expedition prepare to sail from North Sydney for two years in the Arctic. The Bowdoin arrived from Halifax after slow seas. crews stock up on food and adjust navigational gear before departure into Baffin Land.
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Arctic
Associated Press
N. S
Donald B. MacMillan
North Sydney
Fars North
Baffin Land
Bowdoin
Halifax
Girl 9 Killed as Auto Plunges 350 Feet at Mount Wilson
Pasadena report says Catherine Messenger aged 9 died when the automobile carrying her left the road on Mount Wilson near the observatory and plunged 350 feet into a gorge. Her father I Messenger of Los Angeles was driving and escaped uninjured.
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Associated Press
Pasadena
Cal
Catherine Messenger
Mount Wilson
Here
Tthe Observatory
Messenger
Los Angeles
Paper Delivery Guarantee Slips to Home by 5 30
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30 o clock. If due to carrier error or other causes you do not receive your paper by that time, please Phone 30 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 23 0 p m.
Navy May Aid Revenue Men In Fight On Rum Runners
Federal prohibition forces rally to trap north Atlantic rum runners. Navy aid sought to build a ram hunting fleet as authorities close in on two international whisky smuggling rings with fronts in New York and Atlantic City. Fishermen profit from contraband cargoes run ashore under cover of darkness.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Prohibition Forces
North Atlantic
Haynes
Navy Department
New York
Atlantic Coast
Atlantic City
Leroy W. Ross
United States
Brooklyn
Montauk Point
Bahama Islands
Ross
Hog Cholera Epidemic Hits Northwestern Iowa
A hog cholera epidemic sweeps through northwestern Iowa with severe virulence around Sioux City. Thousands of swine have been attacked in recent days and about 269 dead in the last ten days. On three farms alone, 500 hogs infected with high deaths.
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United Press
Sioux City
Iowa
Ternes Nominated for Dubuque Postmaster
President Harding nominated Herman Ternes for the postmaster position in Dubuque. The AP reports the nomination was announced in Washington on July 25.
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Ternes
Dubuque
P. M
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Herman Ternes
Harding
Dubuque, Ts
Senate Committee Backs Farm Market Coop Bill
The Senate Judiciary Committee reported a substitute for the House cooperative marketing bill favorably. It strikes out a price fixing risk in the House draft and adds a provision banning agricultural associations from monopolies. The substitute authorizes co operatives to deal in non members products within membership limits.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senate Judiciary Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Walsh
Montana
Freight train derailment kills three near Kansas City
Three railroad workers Louis Nelson engineer Clarence Says fireman and Charles Mainhart brakeman all of St Joseph Missouri were killed when a Burlington freight train fell from weakened tracks into the Missouri River five miles north of Kansas City Divers aided by Kansas City police reported crews blamed high waters for the weakened road bed and the ensuing derailment
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United Press
Kansas City
Yoreewen
Burlington
Missouri River
Louis Nelson
Clarence Says
Charles Mainhart
St. Joseph
Dr. William Cannon Dead Elma 1921 Iowa U Graduate
Elma Ja July 25 Special Dr. William Cannon 24 died at 4 a m after emergency appendectomy for peritonitis He was a 1921 graduate of the Iowa University College of Dentistry son of Mr and Mrs John Cannon of Elma Survived by his parents and sister Mrs Robert Meuley
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William Cannon
Elma
Iowa U
Cannon
John Cannon
College of Dentistry
Iowa University
Robert Meuley
Flames Threaten Liner Mauretania at Southampton
A serious fire erupted aboard the Mauretania in Southampton on July 6. Firefighters battled flames that spread rapidly from a state room on deck 6 to the upper decks as the Cunard liner prepared for its regular return voyage to New York. Built in 1907, the Mauretania is described as a great boat of the Cunard line.
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United Press
Southampton
Eng
New York
Caunard
Martial Law Declared in Petrograd Report
Copenhagen dispatches report martial law declared in Petrograd to suppress a workers revolution. No details of the uprising were given in the dispatch from Reval dated July 25.
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United Press
Copenhagen
Petrograd
Reval
American ambassador to Italy reaches Rome with family
Ambassador Richard Washburn Child arrived in Rome with his family and secretary last evening. The party was met by Franklin M. Gunther of the American embassy and stayed at the Grand hotel while seeking a residence.
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Associated Press
Rome
Richard Washburn Ghild
Italy
Franklin M. Gunther
Grand Hotel
Biggest Passenger Plane Makes Flight
Two six passenger airplanes depart Chicago for Milwaukee to greet the Santa Maria largest flying boat, which left Detroit Friday for Chicago for the Pageant of Progress. The planes carry five passengers and will be welcomed by Mayor W. H. Thompson and city officials.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Milwaukee
Detroit
W. H. Thompson
West Virginia Dean Joins Illinois Law School
Dean Henry Craig Jones of the University of West Virginia is named Dean of the Illinois Law School. George W. Gobble of the University of Kentucky is named professor in the law department. Dean Jones led WVU law since 1914. both are Harvard and Yale Indiana alumni respectively.
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Urbana
Henry Craig Jones
University of West Virginia
Illinois Law School
University of Ilinois
George W. Godble
University of Kentucky
Law
Dean Jones
Law Department
West Virginia
Harvard
Gobble
Yale
Indiana
Mystery Girl Returns Home After Amnesia Illusion
Miss Constance Phillips of Rosston Texas, dubbed the mystery girl, was en route to her Texas home with the Cook county Texas sheriff after an amnesia episode in Denver. Authorities later said she feigned memory loss claiming kidnapping, then admitted her name and said she had been abducted. The Texas sheriff arrived to bring her back home yesterday.
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United Press
Denver
Colo
Miss Constance Phillips
Rosston
Tex
Cook County
Texas
Phillips
Flight of banker Spurgin and family mystery unfolds
Chicago reports reveal Warren J. C. Spurgin fled amid a $1,000,000 bank shortage at Michigan Avenue Trust. His daughter Vivian and her mother reportedly traveled with cash and sought work while detectives pursue Blond Ethel leads and possible European escape routes. Byler, Vivian’s fiancé, described a chaotic home and a long trip prep as the case unfolds.
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Warren Ge Spurgin
Michigan Avenue Trust Company
United Press Today
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Herman Brier
American Discount Company
Byler
Vivian
Detroit
Europe
Ethel" Emters
Associated Press
Warren JC. Spurgin
Michigan Avenue
Vivien
Ben Newmark
Outarie County
Newsmark
Newatak
Midwest Zionists Meet in Kansas City
Zionist leaders from Missouri Kansas Nebraska Iowa and Oklahoma meet in Kansas City to discuss industrial reorganization of Palestine and a mass return to the country. About five hundred people are slated to attend with prominent eastern speakers on the program.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Oklahoma
Palestine
Mayor Breniman of Ackley Targets Cars Draws Egg Attack
In Ackley Iowa July 25 a mob of about 200 youths egged Mayor E M Breniman over alleged harsh enforcement of traffic and license rules. He is said to stop motorists inspect vehicles declare arrests for speeding and scold occupants. The mob chased him from streets to his office and eggs were taken from nearby grocery cases. Breniman sought sheriff J W Stickler for protection.
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E. M. Breniman
Breniman
J. W. Stickler
Hardin County
Clinton Boy Scouts
Tax Revenue Up as Internal Revenue Reports 1911 Figures
Washington reports the government collected 1.268 billion dollars in income taxes for 1911, a rise of 141.9 million from 1913 figures, per an Internal Revenue Commissioner's report. meanwhile France and Britain reach a compromise on the Silesian issue and Premier Briand agrees to a meeting of the Allied supreme council.
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Washington, D. C
Internal Revenue
Air
Paris
France
Great Britain
Briand
al- Hed Supreme Council
Court injunction halts U9 ships seizure by shipping board
A temporary injunction was issued restraining the United States Shipping Board, the Emergency Fleet Corporation, and the United American Line from interfering with ships seized from the United States Mail Steamship Company. Judge William P. Burr ordered the halt, effective until Thursday, on application by Bainbridge Colby former secretary of state. The case centers on possession of the America and George Washington amid government and union tensions.
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New York
United States Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
United American Linen
United States Mail Steamship Company
United American Line
America
George Washington
United States Mail” Steamship Company
High Seas
Shipping -Board
Bainbridge Colby
Airectaneeaieat
A. D. Lacker
Shipping Board
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Satarda
Oilfield Fire at Beaumont Plant Extinguished
Lightning sparked a blaze at a Sun Oil Company plant near Beaumont Texas destroying large oil tanks. Firemen used chemicals to finally extinguish the fire which had burned since Friday. Losses exceed 1 000 000 dollars and included extensive property damage.
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Associated Press
Beaumont
Tex
Sun Oil Company
York officer elected president of international upholsterers union
The Officer Union Chief of the Farmer Labor Party in York was elected president of the International Upholsterers of North America today. He succeeds James Hatch who retired due to poor health after 15 years leading the union.
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Associated Press
York
International Upholsterers’ Son of North America
Tames Hatch
Union
Towa Most Active for Socialist Fund
Chicago July 23. Towa is leading the Socialist campaign for a $20,000 fund to pay off the debts of the national office. Otto Branset, executive secretary, announced the drive. The state has reached 56 percent of its quota. National collections total $913.74.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ian
Otto Branset‘ter
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Weather Summary for Charles City and Nearby Areas in 1921
Partly cloudy conditions reported for Charles City and Dubuque with scattered showers over the past 24 hours too light to affect conditions. Forecast calls for easily fair weather tonight and Tuesday with light winds and no major changes expected.
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Charles City
Dubuque
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