Retiring Pomeroy Mail Carrier Passed Twenty Year Route
C D Bentz to retire after twenty years handling Star mail between Alfred and Pomeroy daily. He carried 32 mile round trips as his son J M Bentz takes over. Bentz logged 199 680 miles across various roads, began with a one horse buggy, ending with a one ton truck. He never saw his wife except mornings evenings Sundays, as she handled chores solo. Now he will stay home at fifty three to share duties and enjoy life.
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Pomeroy
C. D
Alfred
J. M. Bentz
Bents
Uncle Sam
Hoe
Folloy
Bentz
Bent
Potatoes Yield Tops in Cheshire Bottoms Report
Rutland resident Edward Moulden reports an unusually large potato acreage across Meigs county and the upper Gallia area with early potatoes now in, noting a price-driven planting pattern where higher seed costs spur larger plantings and hoped-for reversals.
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Rutland
Edward Moulden
Meigs County
Gallia
Cheshire
Moulden
Habrecht Boy Undergoes Adenoid and Tonsil Operation
Mr and Mrs Raymond Habrecht took their son Phil to St Joseph hospital at Parkersburg for surgery performed by Dr Harris to remove adenoids and tonsils.
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Raymond Habrecht
Phil
St. Joseph Hospital
Parkersburg
Harris
First Vacation for 73 Year-Old West Virginia Merchant
Frank Higginbotham a Nitro WV merchant takes his first vacation in forty years visiting his uncle Joseph Higginbotham at Letart Falls and merchant G W Burson at Pomeroy He recalls schoolmates Joe Shank and G W Burson and notes his first teacher Samantha Adkins died at 85 His career began in Buffalo WV then Meigs County Chester and finally Nitro remaining there since.
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Pomeroy
Frank Higginbotham
Nitro
Joseph Higginbotham
Letart Falls
G. W. Burson
Burson
Joe Shank
Samantha Adkins
Mr. Higginbotham
Buffalo
W. Va
Meigs County
Chester
Shank & Higginbotham
West Virginia
County Farm Agent Discovers Corn Worm Here
Pomeroy June 30 George W. Kreitler county farm agent found a strange worm in a bottle and big book. He reports many Meigs county cornfields overrun with worms like the specimen. It differs from European corn borer and Southern ear worm and appears to be a southern ear worm that endures cold poorly.
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Pomeroy
George W. Kreitler
Meigs County
Kreitler
Meiga County
Judge Roberts Better Pomeroy Probate Judge Expected to Hear Liquor Docket
June 30 Mrs Cora B Roberts probate judge has recovered enough to hear the derelicted liquor cases on the docket as she was ill. Court may convene Friday.
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Roberts
Pomeroy
Cora B. Roberts
Sister Rescues Brother From Bull On Cutler Farm
Miss Carrie Dunbar of Cutler used a pitchfork to drive off a 5 year old Jersey bull attacking her brother Deane in a barn on the Cutler home farm. Deane sustained a cracked jaw a badly bruised face a broken rib and body bruises. Carrie entered the barn tied the bull and saved him, avoiding fatal goring after the animal charged.
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Marietta
Carrie Dunbar
Cutler
Deane
Dunbar
Carrie
Little Solace Judgment Against Former Cleveland Leader
The Cleveland Discount company was awarded a 2 923 053 dollar judgment against Josiah Kirby, former head of the firm now in Atlanta prison. The ruling, in a 39 page opinion by Common Pleas Judge N Craig McBride, marks the final chapter in the company’s collapse.
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Cleveland
Cleveland Discount Company
Josiah Kirby
Atlanta
Discount Company
Common Pleas
N. Craig McBride
Hillsboro
Donahey Sends Haubrich to Inquire in Mining District
Governor Donahey dispatches Colonel Robert Haubrich to investigate conditions in South Eastern Ohio coal mining area. He will start at Kimbolton Guernsey County where Cleveland Collieries keeps a temporary restraining order against union mine officials. He will then visit Jefferson County to report on Adena where Pittsburg Coal mine trouble was reported.
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Columbus
Donahey
Robert Haubrich
Ohio
Haubrich
Kimbolton
Guernsey County
Cleveland Collieries Company
Jefferson County
Adena
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Herrick Is Back as French Ambassador Returns to Cleveland
U S Ambassador Myron T Herrick arrives in Cleveland after a transatlantic goodwill mission to France. He steps from the train to a reception led by Col. Carmi A Thompson and Mayor John D Marshall with police escort, appearing tired but smiling.
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Cleveland
U.S
Myron T. Herrick
U. S
France
Col. Carmi A. Thompson
John D. Marshall
Steel coaches save lives as Nickel Plate train wrecks
Chicago June 30. Steel coaches on a Nickel Plate train from New York jumped an open switch at the southern edge of Chicago and wrecked. The four trailing coaches plunged over an embankment but engineers and crew are credited with saving many passengers.
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Chicago
New York
Not enough readable to form a proper headline
Fragmentary text reports a collapse or overturn trapping over 50 people with six injured and one in serious condition. Details are unclear about location, cause, or responders.
Veterans pick Chillicothe for 1928 encampment in Ohio
Bucyrus dispatch notes the Spanish American War veterans' department of Ohio selects Chillicothe as the site for the 1928 encampment.
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Bucyrus
Department of Ohio
Chillicothe
Funeral services for Dr Guy Potter Benton
Benton funeral announced in Oxford with services Friday for Dr Guy Potter Benton who died in Indianapolis yesterday from sleeping sickness contracted while serving as president of the University of the Philippines at Manila. He previously led Miami University in Oxford.
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Oxford
Guy. Potter Benton
Cr ‘Ty of Benton
Neapolis
University of the Philippines At
Manila
Miami University
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