Norman Theiss Story From Racine to Broadway Fame
Norman Theiss of Racine rose from Meigs County roots to headlining vaudeville from 1919 to 1925. With Florence Ren as his wife and talent partner, he built a touring act, toured coast to coast, spent two years on Broadway, and disbanded after her death. He retired seven years ago and now enjoys theater and community shows near his farm in Racine.
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tSootlights
Broadway
Meigs County
Norman Theiss
Ra‘cine
Racine
Innells
Rheisg
Facing
Theiss
Minersville
E. M. Nye
Pomeroy
Minneapolis
Barance
Florence Ren
Heaas
Keith Orpheum
Chicago
American Theater
A Theiss
the Majestic
Thelse
Norman J
Agena
Thelas
Stardi Grazie
Florence Allen
Hans
Aged Woman Mary Wood Dies in Harrisonville
Mary M. Wood, 80, died around noon Thursday at her daughter Mrs. George Atkins home in Harrisonville after infirmities of old age. Survived by four children Marion and Lewis of Columbus Jes of Rutland and Mrs Rhode Atking of Harrisonville. Funeral at Rutland Baptist Church at 2 pm conducted by Rev Bolton with burial in Miles Cemetery near Rutland.
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Harrisonville
Mary M. Wood
George Atkins
Marion and
Lewis
Columbus
Jes
Rutland
Rhode Atking
Adam Wood
Bolton Dan
Burinwaw
Miles
Band Concert Given To Large Audience Pomeroy High
Pomeroy High School musicians performed in a concert Friday night in the auditorium. Proceeds will buy new music for the band as announced by director Donald M. Whetstone. Examinations were held today at the Junior and Senior High buildings with a state Edgard Gru exam noted and teachers’ tests conducted. Names of eighth grade pupils in the top 25 percent will be announced next week.
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Pomeroy High School
Pomeroy
Donald M. Whetstone
Automobile License Prices Drop Boosts Local Business
POMEROY April 2 A one fourth price reduction on automobile licenses spurred strong demand. R G Webster in charge reports fifteen mail orders awaiting processing and a surge in tag requests. Meiga County office records show 3287 passenger car licenses, 298 truck licenses, 9 passenger commercial licenses, 16 trailer licenses, 5 motorcycle licenses, and 2 sidecar licenses issued from January 1 to April 1.
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Pomeroy
R. G. Webster
Webster
Brooks-Ebersbach Motor Company
Middleport
Meiga County
Appeal To Court Land Cases for Roadway Through Rutland
Rutland landowners Jackinson and Molden appeal in Probate Court over condemnation suits for State Highway 305 through Rutland. If no agreement, hearing will be set and cases may go to jury. Local notes include community dances and church society updates.
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Rutland
Pomeroy
A. W. Jackinson
Edward Molden
Feeding of Children Will Be Continued in Middleport
Middleport report states feeding program for school children will continue five to six weeks longer if needed. Mrs. Enteminger notes undernourished children risk disease and can spread infections, with church and community volunteers organizing weekly soup making and meals at local schools starting April 1. The effort involves many local women and church groups aiding the program.
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Middleport
Reliit Committee
Dave Enteminger
Mirs
Enteminger
Ghurch of Christ
Entaminger
Bear Graven
Will Reynolds
B. Bult
Ed. Spencer
Alles Brickles
It Melving
Margaret Searls
Frank Abbott
Etta Gh KI
Peery Greaves
Ivan Rusk
Myrtle Alien
Women of the Baptist Church
T Ie Wors
Batsaminger
Warner Withdraws From Surveyor Race
POMEROY April 2 Charles Warner Republican candidate for county surveyor withdraws from the race. Election board clerk Frank Fugate says Warner’s name will be stricken since ballots have not been printed. The race now includes Jed Hartinger and Medders Beegle, both Republicans. Warner leaves highway department job in state.
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Pomeroy
Charles Warener
Frank Fugate
Election Board
Warner
Fugete
Jed, Hartinger
Medders Beegle
Warner Haa
State Highway Department
Sophomore Reception Honored by Clisk Members Event
Middleport April 2 The annual Sophomore reception for freshmen was held in the high school gym. The program featured songs and performances by Miss McCay's music class Kathryn Clark and Helen Earl French led several class-related numbers. Dorothy Gardner, Bearth Lee Smith, Alice Grim and Franklin Blackstone performed songs and a closing address was given by Mr McCay.
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Middleport
High School
Assembly
Infant Son Dies in Letart Pneumonia Funeral Sunday
Infant Robert Eurogene Cummins, age one year eight months, died Thursday at 8 PM in Letart from pneumonia. Funeral at 2 PM Sunday at Letart M. E. Church, Rev. Law officiating. Burial in Letart Cemetery. POMERGY PERSONALs note.
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Robert Cummins
Hela
Pomehoy
Robert Eurogene Cummins
Floyd Cummins
Letart
Ietart M
Law
Letact
Old Soldiers Will Be Again Honored in Cedar Town
Cedar Urank Chao 72 auxiliary to the Grand Army of the Republic will honor surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox Court House marking Civil War end. The annual meeting invites Civil War veterans ministers and spouses for a noon banquet and a patriotic program with previous years noting nine veterans present.
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Middleport
Apni
Cedar Urank Chao
Grand Army of the Republic
Alata UO
Robert E. Lee
Grant
Appomattox
Court House
Tuesaday
Solitiers
W. B. Patterson
Frank
C. Kreager
Boyd Gey
B. B. Rawlings
Rawlings
Mrs Dolly Tracy Dies at Home Here in Pomeroy
Mrs Dolly Tracy aged 85 died at her Union Avenue home at 10 30 this morning from heart disease. widow of Thomas Tracy she leaves seven children including Sheriff A O Tracy, 4 grandchildren and 29 great grandchildren. She lived on Union Avenue nearly sixty years and funeral plans were not announced. Also Friday night the Past Chiefs Association held its monthly meeting with Mrs Zella Josy South Pearl and Lincoln Streets as hosts.
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Man
Union Avenue
Pomeroy
Dolly Tracy
Thomas Tracy
Tracy
Sheriff A. Oo
Minette
Thomas
Warren
Ohio
James
Arthur
Dana
Charles Wildermuth
Athens
Nellie Wildermuth
Middleport
Past Chiefs Association
Zella
Josy
South Pearl
Lincoln Streets
B. H. Horden
Vat Reynolds
Parents Held on Torture Charges for 7 Year Old Girl
A father and stepmother in Gloveraville New Mexico are jailed on charges of torturing seven year old Barbara Marie Trowbridge. The girl weighed 36 pounds when she testified she was burned by a hot poker pressed to the bottom of her foot by Mrs Anna Smith while Alvin Trowbridge aged 50 beat her with a strap. She says liniment was applied to worsen burns.
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Gloveraville
N. M
Barbara Marie Trowbridge
Anna Smith
Alvin Trowbridge
Local notes from Middleport on visiting and hospital cases
Miss Isabel Keene of Fostoria arrives to direct the high school play Up in the Air and to assist Mrs Iva Brown. Wooster teacher Miss Ruth King visits with her grandmother and Miss Alvira Jones. Mrs Mabel Reusenets plans a Columbus trip to see her daughter. Several residents attend Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra in Columbus. A Kentucky visitor arrives for a family weekend in Russell. Workers return to Bucyrus shops. several locals visit, and hospitalizations and injuries are noted including WEB’s surgery and Mrs Robert McXilnny’s treatment. foot scalding incident reported. Dr Thompkins travels to Bucyrus for his mother’s illness.
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Middleport
Isabel Keene
Fostoria
Ohio
Iva Brown
Ruth King
the Wooster High School
Ann Jones
Alvira Jonea
South Fifth
Lincoln
Mabel
Nan Moore
Mildred Kim
Ruth Humphrey
Noah Haskins
Ruth Drake
Columbus
Eugene O'Neill
Hartman Theater
A. D. Wilson
Russell, Ky
Frank Knopp
J. K. Smyth
Taamilles
Bucyrus
George Meinhart
Charles Circle
G- D. Sauer
Verne Ross
van Badgley
Gen Erwin
Charleston
William Robson
Paul Scott
Holzer Hospital
Mia
Robert McXilinny
South Third Avenue
Main Street
Herb Chambers
South Fourth
Thompkins
Athens County Red Cross Receives 560 Garden Seed Packages
An additional supply of 560 packages of garden seeds has been received from national headquarters for distribution starting Monday morning at the Post Office Building in the office of H. Johnson county extension agent. Red Cross volunteers will run the distribution. Seeds go to residents who cannot afford them and have one acre ready to plant. Committees will monitor garden progress through summer. Each recipient gets one package including beans beets cabbage carrots corn lettuce spinach radish and tomatoes.
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Athens County Red Cross
National Headquarters
H. Johnson
Red Cross
Security Savings Bank
Pearl French
Kincade Wins Libel Suit in Athens County Court
Thurman Q. Kincade, a Canaan Township schools teacher, won a libel suit in Athens County Common Pleas Court on Saturday. A jury awarded him $300 after he sued Wilford Patterson, Riza W. HII and William Graham for defaming him following charges of drunkenness filed with the board of education.
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Kincade
Athens
Thurman Q. Kincade
Athens County Common Pleas Court
Hhis
Wilford Patterson
Riza W. Hii
William Graham
Canaan
Board of Education
Kincaitle
Great Aunt of Stolen Baby Blames Gangs
Agnes Scandrett, sister of the late Dwight W. Morrow, condemns gangs after news of a kidnapped baby. She asserts prohibition allows crime to flourish, travels from Turkey to Jersey City and then to the Morrow home, describing 250 oriental toys she had bought for her infant nephew.
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Dwight W. Morrow
Exglewood
N.S
Agnes Scandrett
Turkeyes
Alice Morrow
Jersey City
Morrow
Prohibition
Fragmentary Note on Kidnapping and Citizens in the Trenches
Fragmented text discusses kidnapping, public perception, and citizens in the trenches. It references criminology and unclear statements about people being down with pontlegmers, with no clear names or places. The material appears as garbled OCR text from a historical source.
Four rescued after car plunges into Sandusky River
In Sandusky River near Fremont a car driven by 22 year old Fred Kungdler swerved into the river's 10 foot embankment. He rescued passengers Misses Urcline Druckraidler 29 Geraldine McCabit 21 and Fran Johnson 23, all Fremont Port area residents, after a shocking near drowning.
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Citnton. O
Sandusky
Fred Kungdler
Urcline Druckraidler
Geraldine McCabit
Fran Johnson
Fremont
Port
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John Bantage
G. H. Caldwell
Summers & Son Tar
Cline
Athens, Ohio
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Mt Atie
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Fireman's Association
Helen Turn~bull
Glenroy Ewing
Clerk of Courts
George Childs
Mayme’ Holmes
Leroy Holmes
Alfred
Errett Zeher
Mca
George Zeinar
Meiga
Burling
Pomergy Fersonals
Roger Daniels
Cleveland
Western Reserve Medical Colleges
G. P. Daneidhs
Willis Schlaegel
Flint
Michigan
Charles Grueser
Gardner. Reynolts
James Parcher
Grueser
Parcher
Glen Barnett
Jackson
Everett Davia
Needle and Thimble
C. W. Snider
Ray Smith
W. H. Steiff
Paul. Jones
Robert Washington
Fred Thomas
Zella Cross
C. H. Snider
Pittsburgh
Roy Paulus
York
James Kelly
Australia
Zeller
Charles. Jr. Kelly
Kelly
Brisbane
Anna C. Zeller
Porto Rico
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David Nichols Co
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Parker Bros
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