Pledges and War Savings Stamp Drive Report
Ohio War Savings Committee urges county chairmen to ensure every pledge is paid and not just signed. Induction notices mailed for Camp Sherman July 23 call 213 men, with several delayed or reclassified, as medical exams begin for June 1918 registrants. Local names and weekend trips noted among community updates.
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Ohio War Savings Committee
State War Savings Committee
Treasury Department
State Committee
Camp Sherman
Messenger
Adjutant General
Tiz Eases Tired Aching Feet Adverts Relief Claim
An old newspaper ad promotes Tiz for tired aching feet claiming instant pain relief from swelling soreness and burning. It touts quick action and that it removes shoe tightness with a 25 cent box available at stores.
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Ar Ib
War work enrollment shifts women to farms and embassies
Vasseur, Radcliffe and colleges have enrolled women for war work from fill positions with American embas s abroad to jobs on farms where women actually till the soil or act as supervisors.
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Vasseur
Radcliffe
Colleges
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promoted by Doctors
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a cure for local diseases reaching the seat of the illness. It claims internal action through the blood and lists Cheney & Co of Toledo as makers. It also references Emily Pille for constipation.
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Hall
Cheney & CO
Toledo
O.wists
Emily Pille
Social Visit Recap From Glouster and Nearby Towns
Newngland residents Mr. and Mrs. C G Farres and James Johnson plus children hosted by Mr. and Mrs. W H Morrison. Virginia Van Dyke of Athens visits sister Mrs Arthur Frash. Bean family of Guysville with Copeland visit. Vera Wyatt returns to Martletta after a several day stay with uncle B B Wyatt. Christine Coleman of Athens visits daughter Mrs Emmett Copeland. Villas Bundy Martin and children of Vale's Mill visit John Phetteplace family.
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C. G. Farres
James Johnson
Bh. Wyatt
James Phetteplace
Sam Dolan
Clouster
Christine Coleman
Athens
Emmett Copeland
John Vale
Bundy Martin
Vale's Mill
John Phetteplace
James Burchfield
Cynthia Ginn
Frank Guthrie
Morna
Parkersburg
Tuesaday
G. P. Jarvis
Cherry Ridge Community News Wraps Short Harvest and Socials
The Cherry Ridge column reports a short cherry crop due to a dry season. It notes health of Mrs. Hail Welch and recent visits, weddings in Harrisonville and Pomeroy, many social gatherings, an ice cream social on July 27, and local residents hosting or visiting kin. A theft of ten dollar bills from Eyvera Haning is mentioned, along with updates on residents' health and comings and goings.
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Hail Welch
Unis
Ruth Haning
Dana Howett
Nelsonville
Walter Lutz
Lancaster
France Gilkey
Leo Welch
Bertha Derry
Harrisonville
John Heigher
Wm. Stanley
John Gilkey
Holliday
Asberry
Virginia
Alyora Willis
Clayton Dixon
Pleasant Valley
Howard Welch
Bernice Stanley
Beatrice Wilson
Thelma
Thara Prett
Eyvera Haning
Haning
Lucy Hudd
Jane Cuckler
Mr. Cuckler
Alva Winger
Dale Knopp
H. L. Knopp
Thelma Pratt
Alpha
Bates relatives visit Pratts Fork family roots
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ator and family spent Sunday with Herman Ator's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Ator of Pratts Fork. Laura McLain was the Sunday guest of Vera and Ruby Tippie. Sunday guests at the home of …
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Tippie
Alvira Kenney
J. ©. McClain
Emily Wendell
Walter Wendell
New Lexington
Tipple
Z. D. Ator
Harold
Chase
Herman Ator
Roger
Lena
Marion Robinson
T. G. Robinson
Everette McLain
Camp Sheridan
Ala
Ira Ator
Pratts Fork
Laura McLain
Vera
Ruby Tippie
Jack Grethen Receives Commission as Flying Lieutenant
The friends of Jack Grethen celebrate his aviation commission after earlier denial due to birthplace on enemy soil. Born in Alsace, he proved loyalty and completed Ellington Field training. A telegram from Congressman George R. Luann confirmed the approval after years of effort. Grethen studied seven years at Ohio University and graduated in 1917.
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Jack Grethen
George R. Luann
Delyn
Ellington Field
Houston
Texas
Grethen
Alsace
Ohio University
Rain Needed in Columbus District As July Week Ends
The weekly weather and crop report for the Columbus district notes rain is badly needed. Harvesting and thrashing of grain proceed with wheat nearly finished in most areas while oats are good to excellent and corn lags due to cool nights and low moisture. Early potatoes are practically a failure and other crops also suffer from dry conditions.
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Columbus
Ood
Preble
Shelby
Counies
Population center shifts since early censuses
The 1910 census located the center of population in Bloomington Indiana while the 1790 census placed it 23 miles east of Baltimore Maryland.
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Bloomington
Ind
Baltimore
Hear Ye Huns by Charles B Driscoll
Poem denounces Germany for war crimes with fierce condemnations. It calls for exile of rulers and curses on Germans, promising lasting blame for killings of babies and women and a permanent stain on their nation.
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Charles B. Driscoll
Red Cross Headache and Neuralgia Remedy Ad
Relieves neuralgia and chronic headaches. Free from opiates, quickly absorbed and giving immediate relief. Recommended for headaches from excesses. Includes over one hundred other Red Cross Remedies and Toilet Preparations sold and guaranteed by The Hickman Pharmacy Nelsonville and The Cline's Pharmacy Co Athena.
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Red Cross
Hickman Pharmacy
Nelsonville
Cline’s Pharmacy Co
Athena
Honors Show for Colored Recruits at Mt Zion Church
Mt Zion Baptist church crowded with colored residents as they honor the colored selects leaving for Camp Sherman. Mayor Woodworth urged duty and loyalty to the flag, while Rev C T Isom praised black soldiers and presented each recruit a New Testament. Lt Nsam received a $25 church gift. refreshments followed.
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Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Camp Sherman
T. Isom
Ed C. Berry
Daniela
Isom
Kk. C. Woodworth
Ruth
Lierry Bell
Berry
Lieut
Nsam
Auto Output to Be Reduced in Year to Come
Washington reports that twenty million tons of steel will be needed for essential war work up to the first of next year. The War Industries Board says maximum six month production to date is 16,500,000 tons and that auto output for pleasure cars may be limited to at most 20 percent. A critical note warns against dissenters and mirrors wartime sentiment.
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Washington, D. C
War Industries Board
Typhoid Prevalence Higher Than In 1917
Columbus reports 159 typhoid cases in June 1918, up from 152 in June 1917, but below the 1909 1917 June average of 276. May 1918 had 111 cases with no large outbreaks, only scattered single cases across the state. The note adds a political aside about Europe.
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Columbus
State Department of Health
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