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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1956
Page
16
Obituary notes the death of former teacher Beech Hl Crowe aged 81 in Athens. Survived by wife and children, service details and pallbearers are announced by Beech Hl Crowe Funeral Home. Local clergy to conduct rites with fellowship to follow. burial at Oak Hill Cemetery.
Traffic on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers shows notable vessel activity with numerous boats listed by name and cargo. Readings include cranes and barge movements, coal and steel loads, and water levels at Kanawha Falls, Mason Pomeroy, and Point Pleasant, reflecting steady river commerce and variable depths along the Ohio.
In Memoriam style text references death of a site and mother Paulina Sorart with scattered phrases about government cries, customers, and family members Norbert W, Puneet, and others. The fragmentary OCR yields little coherent event but hints at a memorial or death notice with multiple names and damaged lines.
A garbled market fragment lists prices, percentages, and codes. The readable items include a cannery reference, case values, and various numeric strings such as 490.1600 and 783000, with unclear units or context. No coherent event or outcome can be determined from the unreadable OCR snippet.
A youth, about 11 or 12, was held today in connection with a fatal shooting that killed 14 year old Charles Williams. Police described the incident as a friendly quarrel when an older youth allegedly pointed a pistol at another boy and Williams grabbed the gun, saying he would handle the situation. The pistol fired, striking Williams in the neck.
A long list of patient admissions and discharges from Holzer Hospital includes numerous names with addresses and medical or surgical notes. Notable entries mention births at Letart Vomeroy and Jackson, and a case of insanity plea for machinist Douglas Gott in Painesville following a fatal tavern incident on December 9.
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