County Bridge Bids Opened Across Ohio for State Plan
Bid notices detail 30 plus counties including Lawrence Meigs Perry Ross and Washington with projects ranging from concrete box and beam bridges to creosoted timber structures. Bids received by December 29 under Governor White’s winter program through Highway Director Merrell address county road improvements and unemployment relief.
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Columbus
O. W. Merrell
Ohio
United Press
George White
Lawrence
Ohio River Road
Raredin Creek
Chesapeake
McFall Creek
Robinson Creek
Big Ice Creek
Venishenham Creek
Meigs
Rutland
Little Leading Creek
Ray Strawser
East
Perry
Logan - New Lexington
Monday Creek
W. C. Grlessman
Grove City
Sat Lick Township
William Loomis
Ohio Civil Service Exams Set for December Dates
Final examinations for year by the Ohio Civil Service Commission will be held December 2, 22 and 23. The listings include supervisor and assistant supervisor posts, cigarette stampage, inspectors for the cigarette tax, engineers, teachers, nurses, parole officers, stenographers, telegraph operators, and other state jobs across multiple agencies. Applications for non assembled exams due December 28.
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Columbus
Ohio Civil Service Commission
Department of Highways
Miami University
Spe
Lima
Ohio State University
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Hamilton County
Franklin County
The
Commission
State Civil Service Commission
Ohio
Athens High School 1931 Football Banquet Planned
Members of the 1931 Athens High School football team and coach P. B. McKinley will attend a banquet Friday Dec. 11 at the Christian Church. Mothers of the players will be in charge of the event.
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Athens
P. B. McKinley
The
Christian Church
Where Two Great Rivers Rise
In Highland Virginia and nearby West Virginia, travelers explore a rugged highland route from Franklin to Monterey passing McDowell and Staunton. The James and Potomac rivers originate near Monterey as the terrain favors mountains, ridges, and sparse settlements with no railroad, only trucks and wagons for supply.
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Alegheny Mountains
South Branch
West Virginia
Franklin
Old Virginia
Monterey
Staunton
Warm Springs
Hot Springs
Covington
Virginia
Trimble
Highland
Trimble’s Knob
Sounding Knob
Winter Wheat Crop Smaller Figures Show
Private crop reports suggest a winter wheat crop next year of 445 million bushels, 330 million less than this year’s bumper 755 million. World wheat may fall about 150 million. with ample carryover and high import tariffs, prices may not rise soon though demand shifts and acreage cuts could raise future prices.
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Columbus
Charles W. Eberhard
Grain
Ohio Farm Bureau
China
From Calfpasture to Potomac Rivers: A Monongahela to Chesapeake View
The article notes streams near Clifton Forge and Monterey including Calfpasture River and Bull pasture Rivers, plus the Jackson River with a foul odor. It explains these streams as parent sources of the James River, and describes the Potomac beginning near Monterey, with tributaries feeding northeast toward Chesapeake Bay. It remarks on the close origins of these two great rivers.
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Clifton Forge
James
Dividing Ridge
Monterey
Potomac
West Virginia
Virginia
Chesapeake Bay
Monterey Country
Health Seal Day Is Set In Ohio Public Schools
Friday is designated as Christmas Health Seal Day in Ohio public schools. State education director B O Skinner asks teachers to allocate a few minutes for Christmas Seal discussion and reading. Athens schools superintendent W W Ankenbrand provides subject matter suggestions for class discussion.
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Ohio
B. O. Skinner
Skinner
W. W. Ankenbrand
Athens
Man Learning To Cook for Hotels
Columbus paper reports Wayne K. Rife 22 of Columbus is the sole student in Ohio State University Home Economics Course. Married, he aims to become a steward on an ocean liner or in a hotel and predicts most meals will move off house cooking as he admits he does not cook for his wife.
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Columbus
Wayne K. Rife
Ohio State University
Rife
Christmas Health Seal marks 25th year in nation and Ohio
The letter from Skinner urges schools to teach hygienic daily living through tuberculosis education. He notes the annual Christmas Health Seal is sponsored nationwide by the National Tuberculosis Association and in Ohio by the Public Health Association, celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary and the funds raised for the program.
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Skinner
National Tuberculosis Association
Ohio Public Health Association
Ohio children urged to help fight tuberculosis with Health Seals
The Ohio Public Health Association supports a Christmas Health Seals drive for school children while emphasizing educational value. It encourages children to contribute, even a penny, after learning the seal’s origin and the work it finances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Public Health Association
Ohio
Tuberculosis Problem Highlights Child Health Value
A fragment stresses that protecting a child's health outweighs money gained from selling seals, underscoring the importance of health over financial gain in public welfare.
Powers murder trial moves to jury instructions
Rebuttal testimony in the Harry F. Powers case ended at 11 01 am today as the court began its instructions to the jury in the Mrs Dorothy Lemke murder trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry F. Powers
Bluebeard
Dorothy Lemke
Cheer Leader Venetia Gribble Dies in Midvale Crash
Venetia May Gribble 17, a cheerleader at Midvale High and member of the freshman class, died in a roadway crash on the pavement near New Philadelphia. Authorities reported the accident occurred as she was traveling with a group from the school.
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Venetia
Couzens Resolution Seeks Congressional Inquiry
The state Commerce Committee approved a proposal calling for a congressional inquiry into the road finances and financial situation discussed by the Couzens resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Couzens
Toda
State Commerce Committee
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Road Head
Merrell
Perry County
Parkersburg Pike
Mexico
McDowell
Pinckney
Highland County
Little Shoulder
Parkersburg-Staunton
Stonewall Jackson
Fremont
Banks
MacDowell
W. Va
James River
Oucsak
Ocsak
Beatsall Dairy
Cash Feed Store
W. Union St
C. D. Shafer CO
Stedman
the Stedman Company, Packers
West State
Betty Crocker
Capital
Chick
Rass
Horns
Dizzy
Hane
LSTEN
SY Nea
Reg
Clarksburg
Killey
New
Philadelphia
Campbell’s Pork and
Pillsbury’s
California
Country Club
Jewel
Santos
Kellogg’s
Chuck Roast
Pas A
Mollar
Kroger
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