Monument to Reuben Rothgeb Stirs Community Over Atheistic Inscription
A marble monument on a Cheshire knoll commemorates Reuben Rothgeb, a river bottom farmer who died in 1855. His will, filed in Gallia County, called for a white marble shaft with a speculative inscription denying divine existence, triggering years of social and religious controversy and court action.
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C. A. Hartley
Omeroy
Cheshire
Gallipolis
Supreme Court of Ohio
Whatnels
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Gallia
Wild horses not truly wild say museum expert
Dr James W Gidley of the United States Field Museum argues that most so called wild horses are domesticated stock enjoying freedom. He notes all current American horses descend from imported stock and that genuine native wild horses extinct long before humans arrived.
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Ashington
James W. Gidley
United States Field Museum
America
Europe
Asia
Gidley
Monument Stirs War of Will Promises in River Road Ride
Judge states that third clause validity does not affect plaintiff as compromise ends long feud. Marble monument, not in graveyard, to be placed by roadside near Chic River. body buried nearby. Rothgeb and Lindbergh referenced as symbols. monument to bear opening sentences facing the road.
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Okey
King
Court of Equity
Cirst
Rothgeb
Charlie Lindbergh
Lindbergh a Hero of American Boyhood Moral Strength
James F. West chief Boy Scout executive lauds Charles Lindbergh as a Sterling example of grit and self-discipline for American boys. He argues Lindbergh’s solo flight proves youths are sturdy and brave, capable of enduring hardship without luxuries.
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Charles AL Lindbergh
James J. West
Boy Scouts of Amer
NBA
James F. West
New York
Lami
George Washington
Kit Carson
Daniel Boone
Charlie Lindbergh
Charlie
Mr. Lindbergh
Charlie’s Monument Dream and a Family Inheritance
The retired executor reflects on Charlie’s wish for a monument and the blank inscription as a symbol of self reliance. His will funds a river road project from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati and leaves vast river bottom land to nephews and nieces, with a ship built under careful supervision and a public test of the estate’s provisions.
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Notic
Charlie
Ohio
Charile
Pittsburgh
Cin Lew
Ex-Slaves Home Proposed in Oklahoma City
The article reports a plan by the Ex-Slave Home association to create a home for destitute or disabled Negroes born before the Civil War. Led by Dr A S Mayfield, the project seeks $75,000 for a 11 acre site housing up to 700 residents with free access and light labor options. Funds raised include $52,000 subscribed thus far. Marks the first such home in the United States and perhaps the world.
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Oklahoma City
A. 8. Mayfield
Palmer
Texas
Mayfield
Eix- Slave Home Association
South
Middlewest
Old South
Arkansas
Oklahoma
United States
Antique Bible clipping centers on sentimental 18th century pages
A 1779 German Bible once belonging to Walter Newman and later owned by Mrs. Clyde Gibson holds a pasted clipping titled The Discontented Wife from the 1850s. Also on display are Welsh books dating to 1739 and a 1843 deed signed by John Tyler, with family notes and a panther escape anecdote from Geneva.
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Martin Luther
Hatch’s Lbrary
Clyde Gibson
Walter Newman
Germany
Newman Familly
Virginia
Plain Facts About Money Now Told In Budget Guide
A new booklet How to Get Ahead promotes simple budgeting by daily one minute steps. It lists budgets by family size and earnings from 60 to 400 dollars monthly, claiming no fixed rules and suggesting living plans for various household sizes. Readers may obtain a copy via a coupon in this issue. Milwaukee and Padua references appear in unrelated notes.
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Washington
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Thia
Thia Newse
Case Suspended to Supreme Court Over Will Validity
The matter moved from the circuit court now called the court of appeals to the Supreme Court. Judge Okey wrote the opinion noting heirs challenged the revisions and bequests of the will. The executor seeks the court to construe the will and direct validity and construction of its provisions.
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Supreme Court of State
Circuit Court
Court of Appeals
Okey
Supreme Court
Four in Ten Persons Working Now
The National Industrial Board reports occupational distribution showing only 29 percent in manufacturing and mechanical industries, 24 percent in agriculture, 7.6 in transportation, 2.7 in mining, and 35.3 in non industrial pursuits. Sixty-two percent rely on investments or those who work. Out of New York on June 18.
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United States
National Industrial Board
York
Floating Grist Mill Built On Ohio River
In pioneer times a floating grist mill was constructed on the Ohio river by early settlers hindered by Indian hostilities. The two boats, joined by beams, formed a working mill that supplied subsistence for pioneers within miles, using stout timber and sycamore logs.
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Ohio
Elpre
Ohio Valley
Ohio River
Fox
Decline of Scioto Buggy Co Marks End of Era in Columbus
The Scioto Buggy Co once a leading horse-drawn vehicle maker in Columbus dissolved as parts of the plant were repurposed and a final charter cancellation occurred. The story recalls Griffin Greene and Captain Jonathan Deval who helped launch the mill project and notes how water power enabled early river mill construction, with Elizabeth and Little Hocking mills facing wartime disruption.
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Noe
America
Columbus
Scioto Company
Griffin Greene
Jonathan Deval
Hilzabeth
Little Hocking
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