Two Million Voters Hit Ohio Polls Today
Ohio voters, two million strong, flocked to the polls to decide party control and state leadership for the next two years. Polls opened at 6 30 a m and closed at 6 30 p m with contests for governor lieutenant governor secretary of state and many other offices amid a sharp party battle and national policy questions.
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U.S
Ohio
Common Pleas
United States
General Assembly
Supreme Court
Ohio Politica
Railroad line sold to junk firm for 31500
Property of the Columbus, Marion, and Bucyrus Railway Company was sold late yesterday to Malo Bros., wholesale junk firm, for 31500. The line, which has a bonded debt of about 480900, has been operating since 1908.
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Marion
Columbus, Marion, and Bucyrus Railway Company
Malo. Bros
Shadows Ride Downhill Dreams On A Hill King Tale
A tale where shadows and children bicycle along a road until a hill prompts a wish for all uphills to become downhills. The Hill King offers a magic fix in three lambs tail shades, sparking debate among shadows and children about the consequences of easy riding.
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Mil
Hanid
Flor
Nobel Prize Awarded to Dr Karl Landsteiner
Eminent bacteriologist and pathologist Dr Karl Landsteiner has been named the Nobel prize winner for medicine for work done in America. Former Vienna pathologist, he served at the University of Vienna 1909 to 1919 and has since 1922 been with the Rockefeller Institute in New York. The Stockholm Faculty of Medicine granted the award with a prize of about $48,000.
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Karl Landsteiner
University of Vienna
Landsteiner
Rockefeller Institute For Medical Research
New York
Stockholm
Hill King Altered Hills In a Trick Ending
In a fable tone, Yam and the Hill King swap up-hills for down-hills then reverse the change. The shadows cheer for relief for their masters until they discover the Hill King also turned the down-hills back into up-hills, leaving them no real escape. Copyright 1920.
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Yam
Peasure Service, Inc
Story of Ohio River Bridge on Air Soon
The Parkersburg Community Bridge story will be broadcast Thursday night from Radio Station WJSV Mt. Vernon Hills Virginia. The Route 50 Association sponsors 52 programs to highlight the bridge linking Ohio and West Virginia on the George Washington Highway. The bridge owners pledge profits after debt payments to religious and charitable causes, with over 75000 donated so far to Community Chest churches and Parkersburg Hospital.
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Parkersburg Community Bridge
WJSV
Mt. Vernon Hills
Virginia
Route 50 Association
Athens
George Washington Highway
Ohio
West Virginia
H. N. Burgett
Parkersburg
W. Va
Belpre
Parkersburg Hospital
Feathered dirigibles foreseen by British designer
London reports Lieut. Col. W. C. Fedimond, designer of the R-190, predicts future airships will be feather covered to cut air friction. He says liners will be much larger than present craft.
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London
W. C. Fedimond
Water vow makes Watertown veteran 67 years dry
Henry Bassinger, 100, Watertown's oldest resident, has lived 67 years without drinking water. During the Civil War he was sent to fetch water and found a stream polluted by four decayed mule bodies, and he vowed never to drink water again.
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Watertown
Wis
Henry Bassinger
Bassinger
Firemen work highlighted at Kiwanis Club meeting
Athens safety director Franz L. Woodworth explained the operation and history of the Athens Fire Department to Kiwanis Club members at Hotel Berry. He discussed the dilemma of sending equipment outside the city and supported aiding other communities when possible. The club approved the action.
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Franz L. Woodworth
Athens
Athens Fire Department
Kiwanis Club
Hotel Berry
Woodworth
Robert Hess
Club endorses plumbing code amid aid outreach effort
On motion of Prot Oa. Co. Rika the club also took stand in favor of a plumbing cod for Athens as part of its aid to other communities.
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Weedworth
Oa. Co
Rika
Athens
Mrs Selby Struck by Car in Marietta
Mrs Frank M Selby of 505 Washington Street is in Memorial Hospital with serious injuries after being struck on Putnam Street by a Ford driven by W Beard of Layman. the car jumped the curb as the clutch acted and damaged her right hip.
Wreck on Putnam Street Injures Two Women
An accident near the Singer Bowing Machine Co office on Putnam Street involves Maiby Selby and her sister Mrs. Ida S McDaniel. The Model T driver’s car ran up to the curb and struck them, leaving Mrs. Selby with serious injuries and Mrs. McDaniel hospitalized in California with a fractured pelvis and critical condition.
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Maiby
Constable Fined in Mansfield for DWI
Constable FW Taylor of Butler, near Mansfield, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and fined 100 dollars plus costs in rebate Court after pleading guilty to driving an automobile while intoxicated.
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Mansfield
FW. Taylor
Butler
Here
Costa
Rescue Effort Saves Brothers Amid Poisonous Fumes
In Jackson Minnesota two brothers were overcome by poisonous fumes while working in a gap and a man named Lawrence Royer descended into the well to pull his brother to safety. He and both boys were ultimately saved though Royer died from exposure.
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