Cooper House Remembered As Stage Stop Between Athens and Pomeroy
Messenger staff writer recalls the Cooper house once a mid point stage stop between Athens and Pomeroy now a store. The historic site featured a white and blue oval sign. its transfer to Athens in a car dealer window sparked memories of the long road, two daily stages, river travel, and the underground railway nearby.
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Gordon Morrow
Messenger
Pomeroy
Athens
Downington
D. K. Seward
Meigs County
Owmington
Pagetown
Harrisonville
Albany
Cooper House
Coopers
J. M. Cooper
Chester
Meigs
Harrisevville
Jiduin N. Cooper
Ingson
JD. Cooper
Morris Avenue
Gath Tensend
Itill
Merchane Nile
Vir Townsend
Wiliam & Townsend
Tanneend
Anderground
Canada
Hunt of
Tossbut
Townsend
Scipio Township
Andy
Coopr
Athins
Airplane Helps Bishop Meet Eskimos on Time
In Point Hope Alaska Archdeacon Goodman and his small Christian Eskimo flock awaited Bishop Rowe for a triennial Episcopal visit. Unable to travel by water, the bishop flew 700 miles from Nome to Point Hope, the trip hailed as a great experience by locals and marking a swift return to Nome the next day. The visit included confirmation of thirty Eskimo students and a $50 gift from Point Hope parishioners to the Church Missions House.
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Point Hope
Alaska
Hoses
Arie Orean
Goodman
Peter Trimbly Lowe
Arctic Circese
Joshop Jiowe
Bishop Rowe
Victoria
B.C
United States Revenue
Nome
Eakmos
Spirit of Nations
Eskimos
Howe
Tie
Archdeacon Goodman
Church Missions House
Fight-Year Old Kidnaper Traded a Doll for Baby
A hungry, neglected girl named Hazel trades her rag doll for a real baby doll in a street exchange. She carries the infant in a doll buggy while the rag doll takes the baby’s former place, proudly showing off the new toy and conversing with it as she wheels down the street.
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OS Angeles
Hazel
Mazel
Plas
Hagels
Ex-Janitor Now Judge May Hear Tenants PLEAS
A quirky Wisconsin Nebraska item chronicles Homer A McDonald a former janitor who rose to county judge after a diverse career from teaching to running a restaurant and selling life insurance He is described as hearing pleas from tenants affected by floods and now watching as lawyers argue on civil matters The piece notes his unlikely path to the bench and the public support he received and hints at public debate over his tenure
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Homer A. McDonald
Wisner
Ciemtney
Homer
Donald
McDonald
Cuming Faunty
Nebraska
Bessaraban
Mother o'Mines
Homer McDonael
Higelm
Homer McDonald
Amenesa
Coeds Remain Unmarried Despite Education Rise
A survey shows only one in 26 college women married within seven years of graduation. Respondents say higher education raises expectations women cannot find in partners, while men fear educated women. Also a curious note claims New Yorkers buy seven miles of cars weekly, with Chicago and Detroit near 7,000 neon cars per week.
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Chicago
Petroit
Homeless Waifs See Russian State Tackle Grim Plight
Jerome Davis reports from Moscow on Russia’s vast network of shelters and schools for homeless children. He notes 4000 homes housing over 200000 youths, 1000 trade schools, and 1290 agricultural stations, run under Communist oversight to train children and stem starvation after famine and wars. The piece discusses government funding, citizen groups, and the social aim of molding young citizens amid a wartime economy.
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Jerome Davis
Pacints
Yale University Divinity
Boris
Moon River
Ea Puddin
Ag ‘Phe
Ientira
American Relief Administration
Russia
Moscow
Senator's bear encounter in Minnesota mountains
Senator Henrik Silpstead of Congress, while vacationing in Alberta, Canada, photographed two grizzly bear cubs. Their mother charged from about 100 yards away, but kept distance as the camera remained steadied. The bear paused then fed, and the senator continued filming without a gun.
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Inaeapolis
Minn
Alberta
Canada
Henrik Silp'stead
Farmers Labor
Congress
Gold Adventurers By York Set For South American Mine Quest
A steamer carrying miners and supplies sails south along the coast toward South America to seek a legendary gold deposit. A novelty motorist mail box in Houston is highlighted as a convenience, while prospectors prepare to trek across a range to reach the frontier camps, with ore specimens once valued at $35,000.
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York
South America
Houston
Texas
Albert Monteith
Joplin
Breett
Republic
Columbia
Hick
United States
Cirtaigena
Interia
Hazel the Rag Doll Kidnapper Comes Home
A poor mother reports her missing infant to police. Hazel, a woman with a blue coat, had repeatedly borrowed babies and cared for them on strolls. After a long search Hazel is found with a baby, then the mother reclaims the child and Hazel is admonished by officers.
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Hazel
Baby
Sted
Hays
Prisoner Studies Law Wins Suit In Post Office Burglary Case
Hayes Vangorder, a former postal clerk jailed in Leavenworth for burglarizing the Oplar Bluff post office in 1924, studied law in prison and prepared briefs for an appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals. The appellate court upheld his argument about lack of witnesses and delayed evidence, leaving the case likely dropped. Vangorder had been a mail order clerk at the post office for some time.
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Oplar Bluff
Leavenworth
Whale
United States Court of Appeals
Hayes Vangorder
Vangarder
Reno Divorce Rate Tops Nation Chicago Leads
A Chicago divorce surge is blamed for the city’s high rate, with Judge Thomas Wallace noting a 100 percent rise last year. Chicago accounted for about half of Illinois divorces in 1926 and 1927, amid claims that extravagant spending and media drive fuel marital breakdown. Experts cite women filing most petitions and many cases involving children, alimony, and fraud. Some blame societal trends while others point to economic strain and the working wife as contributing factors.
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Chicago
Reno
Miss Itena
Sheld
Circuit Court
Thomas
Wallace
America
Thnois
Chncago
Crueelly
Vorees
Esoorrs
Dwawid
Gils City
Nowice
George Pred Tush
Cone
Inhicago
ATC
Chiago
USA
Tsa
Middle West
Rush
Jidre
Most are American in world auto census
The world census of automobiles by the Department of Commerce reports 24,589,249 registered vehicles with 95 percent American made or built in foreign branches of American firms.
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Department of Commerce
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Homer A, McDonald
Altar Shy
Imoscow
Hesbarley
Turkestan
Childre
Lfe
Executive Committee
Friends of Lhildren’ Society
Hassia
Cantor
Gold Adventurers
Big City
Fy Allene Sumner Nila
Trusband
George Rush
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