Epworth League Institute draws huge attendance over two days
More than 200 Epworth League members attended a two day institute in Nelsonville with sessions at Ohio University led by ministers including E Hubble J B Batterson and Wesley Foundation staff. The program featured sermons social and religious discussions a mass adult department address and a closing worship service.
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Epworth League
Instland
Methodist Church
Fa Uity
Minisar
Shank
C. E. Hubble
J. B. Batterson
Teadgayler
Wesley Foun
Ohio University
McClure
Methe
Epworth
Central Avenue
Sev
Coulserman
Kinnear
Te Ing Brotherhood
Tignor
Frances
Heason
Coakley
Helen
Kennedy
Martin Ginther
H. A. Sayre
New Pastor Outlines Plans for Rendville Nelsonville Churches
Rev. J. B. Harewood announces efforts to unite Rendville and Nelsonville congregations for moral uplift. He seeks 100 Bibles 100 songbooks and $100 to repair Nelsonville electric light, with support from benefactors.
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J. B. Harewood
Nelsonville
Rendville
Ohio
Lord Dunmore Camp Site Found Near Nelsonville
Local history buffs note evidence that in 1774 Lord Dunmore and his army camped on a knoll behind the Frank Minner home on West Washington Street Nelsonville during the Hocking River march to the Logan Elm. The site shows Indian tools and a spring, with the terrain matching historical accounts.
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Lewis
Point Pleasant
Dunmore
Fort Gower
Hocking
Nelsonville
Federal Creek
Sunday Creek
Camp Charlotte
Logan Elm
Scioto
Ohio River
Confederacy
Great Britain
King George
Daniel Nelson
Massachusetts
Lord Dunmore
Virginia
Hocking River
Pickaway County
Frank Minner
Washington Street
Mr. Minner
James Call
Daniel Smith
Wither
Hockhocking
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Frank Poston
Northwest Territory
France
Andrew Lewis
Camp Union
Lewisburg
West Virginia
Great Kanawha
Ohio
Mines Work No 6 at Millfield Sets New Record
Nelsonville Ohio district notes 352 idle or dead head cars this morning, down 104 from Saturday. Mines were mostly in operation today with New York Central 181 cars C and O 115 B and O M Z and W 22. Sunday Creek Mine No 6 Millfield dumped 2311 tons of coal, surpassing the prior 2233 ton record set about a year ago.
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Millfield
Nelsonville
New York Central
Sunday Creek
Young People Review Markheim by Stevenson at Nelsonville church
Miss Florence Wood led a Young People's Society meeting at the Presbyterian Church reviewing Markheim focusing on the struggle with conscience. Mary Wolfe read the Scripture lesson and a memory drill followed, with Mary Jo Haffner singing and Josephine Sharp leading an open forum. The boys' quartet performed Now the Day Is Over as part of a prominent program.
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Stevenson
Florence Wood
Nelsonville
Markheim
Robert Louis Stevenson
Young People’s Society of the Presbyterian Church
Miss Wood
Mary Wolfe
Mary Jo Haffner
Margaret Galvin
Josephine Sharp
Joe Galvin
Elwood McCreary
Charles Evans
Harold McCray
Lindbergh Aides Held As Police Link To Murder
Salvatore Spitale and Irving Bitz, key New York underworld figures named by Colonel Lindbergh as negotiators for his kidnapped son, are jailed on murder charges they deny. Police suggest the men were considered to be preventing further gangland killings and were detained on weapons charges in addition to the murder counts.
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New York
U.P
Salvatore Spitale
Irving Bitz
Charles A. Lindbergh
Two Ex-County Workers Charged With False Alarms
In Cleveland on January 30 two former county employees were held on charges after police say they turned in 12 false fire alarms in under six hours, causing crews to respond to non existent fires.
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Cleveland
Farmers To Attend Private Sale To Protest Foreclosures
More than 5,000 farmers from Wood Seneca and Henry Counties are expected at a private Tuesday sale near Deshler Ohio to satisfy a loan on Cecil Kestner’s farm. The Farm Holiday Group says the gathering is an orderly protest against finance company foreclosures. Allen Lane says Wood County will be represented at the sale following a similar auction near Bowling Green last week where farmers bid in equipment and secured a long lease for the former owner.
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Deshler
U.P
Wood
Seneca
Henry
Cecil Kestner
Here
Allen Lane
Wood County
Bowling Green
Wallace Kramp
Columbus Man Slain By Daring Burglar
A burglar shot and killed 53 year old William G. Slade as he opened his bedroom door in Columbus. Police, joined by seven radio cruisers, search the neighborhood for the killer and consider a possible motive linked to an ex convict and an Ohio Penitentiary guard who lives in the same house.
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Columbus
U.P
William G. Slade
Jeffrey Manufacturing Company
Slade
Ohio
Famous Poetess Finds Peace After Suffering
New York reports on Sara Teasdale as of January 3, noting the famous poetess once wrote of peace after death. The brief item reflects on her life and enduring stature in American letters.
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New York
Sara Teasdale
Insurance Plot Believed Bared By Detectives
Cleveland detectives plan to question an insurance agent who wrote policies on Frank Sadowsky after his body was found being lowered into a grave at Calvary Cemetery. Autopsy will decide if poet Miss Teasdale died by heart disease or suicide after a troubled year.
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Cleveland
Frank Sadowsky
Calvary Cemetery
Thomas A. Burke, Jr
Miss Teasdale
Ernest B. Filsinger
London
Rita Brown
Insurance Ring Probe Ties Agent to $60000 Policy on Sadowsky
The prosecutor said an insurance agent would be questioned over $60000 in policies on Sadowsky. A physician who examined Sadowsky during policy issuance was to be questioned. A man seized at a cemetery autopsy and backed by police insisted he carried only one policy taken out on the ill man. Burke suspected the agent and the man as operators of an insurance ring using substitutes during medical exams.
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Napoleon
M. Chabert
Sadowsky
Bernard Woll
Burke
Ance
Progressives Unite To Push Sentiment Nationwide
Senator Norris, a veteran liberal who bolted Hoover in 1932, revealed to UP a plan to form a bi partisan Senate progressive committee to coordinate progressive sentiment across the nation.
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Washington
Senate
Progressive Committee
United Press
Norris
Ned
Hoover
Bomb Found At Factory Official Home Explodes Nearby
Youngstown police and the Research Department of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co examined a bomb on the porch of A. M. Smith, the company’s general superintendent. A smaller bomb exploded at the Smith residence causing minor damage.
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Youngstown
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company
A. M. Smith
Smith
Proven skin tonic boosts blood and clear skin claim
An ad promotes a tonic called 3.8.8 to improve blood structure and oxygen delivery, claiming stronger immunity and clearer skin. It markets a 20 oz bottle as economical for a two week treatment, urging readers to buy at drug stores.
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