Great Ohio tenor Evan Williams enchants audience with masterful recital
The great Ohio tenor Evan Williams delivered a hour long recital of works by Mendelssohn Schumann Schubert Donizetti and Gounod. His rich lyric voice and interpretative genius earned standing applause and highlighted his rapport with the audience. The Choral Society joined in Messe Solennelle with Williams Kurtz Theobald impressing in the Gloria and Agnus Dei under director Prof James Pryor McVey.
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Islayda
Schumann
Schubert
Ronald
Gounod
Queen of Sheba
Williams
Choral Society
Frank Kurtz
Hedwig Theobald
Theobald
James Pryor McVey
New Wireless Telegraph Station Planned at Newport
A $40,000 wireless telegraph plant is being erected in Newport Illinois with a working radius of 1,250 miles.
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Newport
Will Welcome Fleet Returns to Hampton Roads
President Roosevelt will greet the battleship fleet upon its return to Hampton Roads around noon February 22. Details are being worked out at the navy department as the fleet travels from a world cruise, with Admiral Sperry's force to escort near Gibraltar and about 2,500 sailors to Washington for inauguration ceremonies.
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Hampton Roads
Washington
Roosevelt
Navy Department
Mayflower
Arnold
Atlantic
Gibraltar
Abqast
Admiral Sperry
State Grange Session Outlines Resolutions and Leadership
Ohio delegates to the thirty sixth annual State Grange session adopt resolutions opposing excessive recess mileage, backing parcels post postal savings banks and direct US senate elections. They support county local option law repeal and highway aid, with three candidates for master: Derthick Laylin and Dunlap competing as about 1000 delegates arrive in Columbus.
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Ohio State Grange
Seventy-seventh General Assembly
United States
F. A. Derthick
Mantua
T. C. Laylin
Norwalk
Renick W. Dunlap
State Grange
Omaha Opens Big Corn Show Today
Omaha, Nebraska hosts the National Corn exposition for ten days drawing crowds from the West and East. Attendees explore efforts to enlarge the crop and boost its value while the city showcases decorations and hospitality amid widespread optimism for a record corn week.
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Omaha
Neb
America
Christmas Guests in Sharpsburg Visit
Sheriff and Mrs. D. B. Webster were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Pickering in Sharpsburg on Tuesday during the holiday season.
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Sheriff
D. B. Webster
Mrs
Lewis Pickering
Sharpsburg
Reserve Army Chief Executive Urges Peace Time Readiness
President Roosevelt in a special message to Congress urged an emergency volunteer army bill drawn with War Department approval. The measure would replace faulty existing law and create machinery to mobilize up to 2,000,000 men or at least 60,000 if needed, at the executive’s command, with no peacetime cost.
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Washington
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
Cullom
Spain
Army
War Department
Bills Filed in Congress Amidst Immigration Station Talk
Washington reports a flurry of bill introductions in both houses including a measure for a new immigration station in Boston. The House saw committees called for the first time this session yet no measures reported. The Senate handled about 1,500 recess nominations during executive session.
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Congress
Washington
Dec
House
Senate
Boston
Amend Hepburn Bill Proposals Spur Railway Rate Reform
Washington December 9. Representative Townsend of Michigan introduced bills proposing several amendments to the Hepburn railroad rate law. Townsend is among the leading advocates of interstate commerce reforms.
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Washington
Townsend
Michigan
Officers Elected at Paramathia Lodge No 25 F and A M
Paramathia Lodge No 25 F and A M elected its officers for the year Tuesday night led by W M A A Atkinson. New officers include B M Covert 8 W George DeCamp J W F P Phillips 8 D James Vercoe J D W E Peters treasurer James A Palmer secretary and William Hastings tyler. The lodge also voted to attend church in a body on December 27 at the First Methodist church.
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Paramathia Lodge
A. A. Atkinson
W. M
B. M. Covert
George DeCamp
Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter in Ohio Case
Hamilton Ohio December 9 The case of the state against Merle Irwin indicted for first degree murder for the killing of Morgan Howell of Shandon in Venice Butler County last October ends after a private attorney consultation when Irwin withdraws the not guilty plea and enters a guilty plea to manslaughter.
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Hamilton
Merle Irwin
Morgan Howell
Shandon
Venice
Butler County
Irwin
Government anti trust case against Dupont Denemours Powder
In Cleveland on December 9 the government began prosecution under the Sherman act. Austin Powder company officers are to be examined and the firm’s books and records will be entered into evidence.
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Cleveland, O
Dupont- Denemours Powder Company
Cleveland
Austin Powder Company
Proverb on Courtship and Social Perception
The passage notes that courting norms label a woman as chasing an unmarried man while treating a married man kindly leads to accusations of being a home-wrecker. It highlights dated social judgments on female conduct in relationships.
Tax Inquisitor Watson Missing After Back Tax Fee
Cleveland Ohio December 8 Guy L Watson tax inquisitor who weeks earlier received a 50433 fee from the county for collecting 250000 back taxes from the Standard Oil stockholders could not be found when his case was called in court A Binyon prosecuting Watson on an illegal contract issued a subpoena ordering him to appear and bring evidence of the fee location Neither man nor funds could be located
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Cleveland
Ohio
Guy L. Watson
A. Binyon
Warson
Ohio University Seeks 1909 1916 Appropriations for Buildings
The Ohio Legislature will consider state funds to expand facilities at Ohio University. Requests include Ellis Hall and Ewing Hall bond extensions, a central heating plant with electric lighting, a new gymnasium, remodeling Women's Hall, and equipment up to 96 000 dollars. Additional items cover a Science Hall for the State Normal College and athletic field improvements.
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Ohio University
Ellis Hall
Hilis
Board of Trustees
Ewing Hall
Founs Woon
State Normal
Saviicds
State Normal College
University Library
Dade Ees
Engineo
Idk St
Bs Annedstece Tae
Christmas Gift in Dividends at Bremen Oil & Gas Co
Bremen Oil & Gas Co to pay a 50 percent dividend on December 20 marking the seventh such payout since April. Stockholders will have received 87.50 per $25 share in eight months, with monthly dividends since August. Other notes cover Thurston Gas Co sale, Logan Gas Co lease, and local oil activity in Lancaster and Perry county.
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Thurston Company
Thurston Oil & Gas Co
Kanade
Logan Gas Co
Rushville Company
Junction City Company
Junction City Oil & Gas Co
Junction City
Lancaster
Ohio Corn Crop Leads 1907 Yield Despite Drought
The 1908 Ohio corn crop rises about 1.3 million bushels over 1907, totaling 103,629,746 bushels with 36.9 bushels per acre from 2,806,895 planted acres. Apple yield is 59 percent of average, cattle feeding steady, and overall livestock quality good despite late seeding and drought.
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Ohio
Coal Exhausted in Fifty Years Warns West Virginia Official
I C White, West Virginia state geologist, told the American Mining Congress that Pennsylvania coal will not last more than 50 years. He warned that large-scale wasteful practices by Pennsylvanian gas companies and other powerful interests are depleting fuel resources across Pennsylvania Ohio and West Virginia, predicting deepened mining and rising costs.
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Pittsburg
I. C. White
West Virginia
American Mining Congress
Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Pretty Wedding at Little Hocking
A ceremony at Little Hocking united George A Six of Chauncey with Laura Leona Foster. The service was at noon at the bride's home and led by W H Boden of Athens Christian church. About thirty guests attended as the couple planned to reside in Chauncey with many wedding gifts received.
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Little Hocking
George A. Six
Chauncey
Laura Leona Foster
W. H. Boden
Athens Christian Church
Thomas Foster
Bbridal
Your Opinions Like A Wealth Of Personal Belongings
A compact reflection notes that opinions resemble possessions: useful mainly to the owner and of little value to others. The remark frames personal beliefs as private assets whose worth is defined by their owner rather than universal utility.
Never Killed a Cat Says Betmakers Challenge
A provocative wager questions readers about acts of animal harm asking if anyone has killed a cat, implying a boastful or cautionary tone about danger and morality.
Requisition Issued to Bring Dr Lynch to Ohio
Governor Harris issues a requisition to Wyoming authorities for Dr Edward E Lynch of Circleville. He faces a malpractice charge after the death of Miss Hazel Graves of Pickaway county.
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Columbus
Harris
Wyoming
Edward E. Lynch
Circleville
Hazel Graves
Pickaway County
Schuh Withdraws Resignation as Capital University Trustee
In Columbus on December 9 trustees of Capital University persuaded Dr. L. H. Schuh to reconsider his plan to resign. He had planned to accept the Lutheran Church pastorate at Valley Crossing.
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Columbus
The
Capital University
L. H. Schuh
Lutheran Church
Valley Crossing
Asylum Trustee Dies in Millersburg Ohio
Dr. John B. Russell aged 48 of Mt. Vernon died in Millersburg after traveling there for treatment of brights disease. He was a member of the board of trustees of the hospital for the criminal insane at Lima.
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Millersburg
John B. Russell
Mt. Vernon
Hospital For the
Lima
Brights
Monroe Goes Dry County Vote Shuts Fifteen Saloons
Columbus reports Monroe County voting dry by about 1200, leading to the closing of fifteen saloons and a major shift in local alcohol policy.
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Monroe
Columbus
Monroe County
Ohio college and university world forms to oppose cigarette use
At the State University chapel in Columbus on December 8 a new organization was formed with a full staff of officers to push anti cigarette work across Ohio. H. S. Wu of Toledo was named president with James Lawrence Lantern athletic editor among the leaders. Fred Marsh Nelsonville is vice president Willard Kiplinger Columbus secretary treasurer and A Bertholf Toledo corresponding secretary.
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Columbus
College and University World of Ohio
Chapel of the State University
H. 8. WU
Toledo
James Lawrence
The
Lantern
Fred Marsh
Nelsonville
Willard Kiplinger
A. Bertholf
Denatured Alcohol Sees Government Boost Reported
Washington December 9 reports say denatured alcohol will get a government boost. Despite freedom from taxes last year no new industrial distillery was established in the United States and American production stood at 7 million gallons versus Germany’s 120 million.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Germany
Ohio woman defends jewelry store during hatchet robbery
In Cleveland on December 9, 19 year old Josephine Case fought a diamond thief armed with a hatchet after he broke into Rowland Russell's jewelry store. Severe head wounds and streaming blood did not stop her from alarming others, though she collapsed at home from shock. she is expected to recover.
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Cleveland
Josephine Case
Rowland Russell
Miss Case
Dispute at Waite Hill School Over Teacher Discipline
In Waite Hill Ohio a school dispute pits parents against a teacher who refuses to resign. The school remains open with forty weeks, while pupils are sent to Willoughby or kept home as tensions rise.
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Painesville
Waite Hill
Willoughby
State Loses Point in Hazel Murder Trial
Toledo Ohio December 9 The state's attorney lost the first fight in the trial of Harvey Hazel 17 for first degree murder when Judge Morris refused to admit an alleged signed confession claimed by police to have been made shortly after arrest The point was argued for two days with the prosecution and defense contending the confession was obtained by compulsion
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Toledo
Harvey Hazel
Morris
Flood fight near Pine Bluff eases as river recedes
In Pine Bluff Arkansas on December 9 the flood risk in the eastern city area eases as the Arkansas River shows a quicker retreat. Officials indicate the most serious phase of the flood has passed and the water level is dropping.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
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