Nelsonville Notices and Civil Service Exam Announcement
Local trade requests a five to seven room modern rental in Nelsonville. Miss Grace McGrath from Athens visits friends. Red Cross headquarters accept knitted goods Thursday and Friday 2 to 4:30 PM. Lost red hornless cow found near North. reward offered. Civil Service announces October 5 open exams in Nelsonville for clerks and carriers with five salary grades up to 1 200 dollars. Freddy Mann, eight, is mourned as the obituary notes the widow and sister.
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Red Cross
United States Civil Service Commission
Nelsonville
Post Office Department
Mills Opens Electrical Shop at Majestic Theatre Building
Ed A. Mills long associated with the municipal light plant has started a new electrical shop in the Majestic theatre building on the Public Square. The business will offer a full line of electrical supplies and fixtures along with automobile accessories.
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Ed. A. Mills
Municipal Light Plant
Majestic Theatre
Public Square
Hocking Electric & Suply Co
A. Mills
Nelsonville
Funeral services for Freddy Crabtree held at Buchtel Methodist Church
Funeral services were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Buchtel Methodist Church for Freddy Crabtree.
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Buchtel Methodist Church
Freddy Crabtree
Y M C A Directors Honor Welch and Sanders Dinner
Y M C A directors held a six o clock dinner to honor Dr C E Welch and Mr C J Sanders who depart for war work. Welch joins the medical department and Sanders goes to Y M C A duties. both expect calls soon. Dorcas Society bid farewell to Mrs R S Weitzell at her home with a silver spoon gift.
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C. E. Welch
C. J. Sanders
Welch
Medical
Sanders
Dorcas Society of the Presbyterian Church
R.S. Weitzell
Columbus
Junior Red Cross Girls Plan Winters Work
The girls of the Junior Red Cross met yesterday afternoon at Red Cross Headquarters to outline plans for their winter activities and service projects.
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Red Cross
Weitzell Couple Departs for New Columbus Home
Mr. and Mrs. R S Weitzell left today for their new home in Columbus. The move signals a fresh start for the couple as they relocate from their previous residence.
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Weitzell
Columbus
Red Men Council Meeting Notice in Kill Eagle Tribe
Notice lists Kill Eagle Tribe No 179 Nelsonville Ohio calling members to Council Friday September 13 for important business by Sachem Charles H Dalton. Also local society notes report visits and travel of Mrs James Harrold granddaughter Catherine Tinkham Miss Fanny Bryant Eva Cotton Mildred Hickman J L Murphy and Mrs Guy Mattox visiting Columbus Toledo and Cleveland.
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Nelsonville
Ohio
Sachem
Charles H. Dalton
James Harrold
Toledo
Catherine Tinkham
Fanny Bryant
Columbus
A. G. Cotton
Eva
Logan
Mildred Hickman
Cleveland
J. L. Murphy
Guy Mattox
Horses kept in Red Star hospitals save 80 percent sent back
Dr. W. O. Stillman notes vast need to ship hundreds of thousands of horses to France for American artillery units. He cites 4.5 million horses in use, western front losses averaging 47,000 monthly, and 80 percent of treated horses returning to duty in field batteries.
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Red Star
New York
France
W. O. Stillman
Red Star Animal Relef
Verdun
America
Europe
Society to curb seat sponging among women formed in Denver
A new group the Society for the Prevention of Seat Sponging Among Women is organized by Mrs. Marie Jeanne Silvestre-Thorpe in Denver. The sponsor says the society aims to foster justice and proportion among idle women in how they accept seats from men who have worked long hours on street cars.
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Denver
Colo
Marie Jeanne Silvestre-Thorpe
Buffalo herd thrives at Yellowstone park in Cody Wyoming
In Cody Wyoming officials report the U S government herd at Yellowstone numbers 820 with 56 calves born in the last six months. Keeper T G Fra zer says the herd was started 25 years ago with 75 animals as part of extinction concerns and has since grown.
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Cody
Wyo
United States
Yellowstone Park
Sam
T. G. Frazer
Presbyterian Church Adopts Pictures for Sunday Service
Carlinville Oklahoma reports the Presbyterian church approved moving pictures into services. A projector was installed and Rev. Osborn announced the aim to reach more people with worthwhile messages during worship.
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Carlinville, OK
Presbyterian Church
Osborn
New Zealand Upgrades Telephone System with U.S. Equipment
The government advances its modernized telephone network using largely U.S. supplied equipment. In every town, at least one man is cited by parents as a warning example of bad behavior.
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New Zealand
United States
Thrift Day observes nationwide drive in 1918
Ohio War Savings committee announces all year Thrift Day and Thrift Week plans for 1918. A one day drive on February 4 will precede and follow a year long thrift campaign with aims to have every person own at least one Thrift Stamp or War Savings Stamp. The effort seeks to boost public thrift, wartime support, and national standing in savings.
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Columbia
Ohio
Ohio War Savings Committee
United States
Switzerland
War Savings Stamps Encourage Fitness for Peace
The speech urges work and thrift to prove worthiness for easier peacetime. It promotes War Savings Inos Stamps and Thrift Stamps as marks of financial discipline and readiness for a calmer era.
Ohio War Savings plan urges old license tag sale
The Ohio War Savings committee urges auto owners to save old license tags, junk them, and deposit proceeds in War Savings and Thrift Stamps. The state registrar plans to sell all old tags at his office and invest the funds in War Savings Stamps kept in trust until maturity. Children in some regions are already encouraged to collect scrap to buy War Savings and Thrift Stamps.
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Columbus
Ohio War Savage Committee
Ohio
United States War Savings
War Savings Stamps Push Prompts Home Economy Scheme
Propaganda urging saving and repurposing wartime materials emphasizes salvaging scrap from the war wasteland. The message advocates carrying the salvage ethos into households to support the currency and morale through War Savings Stamps.
Thrift Card Replaces Child Coin Banks in War Savings Push
The Thrift Card and War Savings Certificate substitute for children's coin banks in Ohio. Estimating 10,000,000 coin boxes at $1 each totals $10,000,000. if saved in a bank at 4 percent quarterly compounded, that money could fund War Savings Stamps, with each $4.12 invested yielding 4 percent.
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Child's Savings Banks
Columbus
Coin Savings Bank
Ohto
Vanderlip Quotes Franklin On Saving For War Bonds
Chairman Frank A. Vanderlip of the National War Savings committee cites Benjamin Franklin saying a man who cannot save should invest as he earns. He urges supporting War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps to heed the old philosopher’s practical advice.
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Vanderlip
Benjamin Franklin
Frank A. Vanderlip
National War Savings Committee
San Salvador Hospital Built With Steel Plates Bolted Frame
A new hospital in San Salvador is constructed with process steel plates bolted to a wrought iron frame to resist earthquakes. The design emphasizes structural integrity and safety for potential tremors.
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San Salvador
Electric Washing Machines Save Women Time in U.S.
The report claims washing machines sold last year saved women across the United States about 3,000,000 days. The claim frames the appliance as a major time saver for household chores.
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United States
Praise of Thrift in The Vigilantes
Poem urging thrift and virtue with imagery of wealth, halting wasteful spending, and a pledge to mend ways while thanking a patron saint in calico. It contrasts past spendthrift habits with a plan to reuse resources to feed global hunger and warm homes.
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Hall
Calico
Blondes in Government Service Stir Hiring Controversy
Washington reports on the government hiring of blonde typewriters as new workers for war effort. The article notes initial bias against blondes, the rapid expansion of typing staff, and how blondes sit beside brunette colleagues to steady performance amid nervous temperament concerns.
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Washington
America
Landmark Elm Tree Carving Found In Connecticut Home
A 1768 elm tree carving once graced the Johnson Tavern in Lisbon near Lafayette’s post Revolutionary travels was unearthed at the home of A F Read. The tavern reportedly sheltered Lafayette during his era in this region.
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Lisbon
Conn
Johnson
A. F. Read
Lafayette
Prefers Citizenship Over Regard of Brothers
Pittsburgh, Pa. Julius Demjan, a young Austrian with several brothers in the Austrian army, seeks naturalization here and declares that American citizenship holds more value than the love of his brothers.
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Pittsburgh
Julius Demjan
New Liquid Fire Reported From Denver Inventor
Denver reports a liquid fire of greater killing power than any World War weapon, claimed to be invented by Dr. William K. C. Berlin. The device, developed since 1914, has been offered to the government for use in Europe.
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Denver
Colo
Germany
William K. C
Berlin
Europe
Richest Town in Country St Clairsville Ohio
St Clairsville with 1500 residents boasts three banks holding cash deposits of 8.2 million dollars giving a per capita cash wealth of 2133 dollars for men women and children.
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St. Clairsville
United States
Card of Thanks for Paul Wheaton
We express appreciation for kindness shown during his illness and for sympathy, assistance, and floral offerings after his death. Mrs. H. L. Wheaton.
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Paul Wheaton
Colleens Win American Tars in Irish Rural Romance
American sailors stationed in southern Ireland have wed Irish brides as part of a wave of marriages. Tales include Bert Adams from Hugo Colorado and Brigid O Rourke, Mary Ridge with Harland G Ritchie, and Paul Valachovic pairing with Ada Jones of Cork, among others. Many brides plan to relocate to the United States after the war.
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United States
Ireland
Maine
California
Great Lakes
Florida
Benet
Bert Adams
Brigid O'Rourke
Ritchie
Ritchle
Paul Valachovic
General Electric Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Ada Jones
Cupid
Valachovic
New York
England
Charles Harmon Cobin
Charleston
Cornish
Riviera
Ada Gilbert
Plymouth
Nora Elizabeth Kitt
Joseph W. Highfield
Des Moines
Iowa
Naval Base
Doris Francis Phillips
Mra
Leo Vincent ‘Flavell
Hanover
Mass
Mary Ellen Sullivan
Thomas A. Balschi
Mount Carmel
Mary O'Keefe
Edward ©. Turner
Sunny San Jose
Cal
William Spaulding
DeLand, Fla
Ester Allen
Oral BE. Cox
Iola
Kan
Phyllis Rose Rogers
Benjamin J. Moore
Dallas
Tex
Ebert RB. Bickingham
Buckeye Building and Loan promotes War Savings bonds in Columbus
A Buckeye Building and Loan ad urges five percent savings to fund Liberty Bonds War Savings Certificates and Thrift Stamps. It lists Rankin Building at 22 West Gay Street Columbus and onsite safe deposit boxes. The note states assets of 14.8 million loaned on first mortgages across Pensacola Florida Schenectady New York and names Harry Denver Cole and Michael J. Della Roca with a promising growth outlook.
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Buckeye State Building and Loan Company
Rankin Building
West Gay St
Columbus
Pensacola, Pla
Harry ¥. Denver, Cole
Michael J. Della Roca
Schenectady
N.Y
Local Student Raises Food Budget to 82 Cents a Day
Greensburg and Jeannette resident Roy R. Mumma, a Carnegie Tech graduate now in the aviation service, increased his daily food budget from 28 to 82 cents. After saving $400, marrying, and securing a private rank, he maintains a diet of bread milk cereals cocoa rice peanut butter fruit eggs meat gelatin and oleomargarine.
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Greensberg
Roy R. Mumma
Jeannette
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Tech
Mumma
Radiomechanics
Aviation Service
Doom of Hohenzollerns Tied to Decay of Kaysersberg Relic
An ancient legend links the fall of the Hohenzollerns to the decay of the seventh century statue Christ on the Cross in Kaysersberg. The relic has worsened in recent years and authorities have repeatedly repaired it since the war to avert perceived spiritual impacts on residents clinging to the legend.
Denver society leader rescues dog and injures wrist
Mrs. Alexis Foster, Denver society leader and wife of a millionaire, suffers a wrist injury when she rushes to save her bulldog from an oncoming car. The dog escapes unharmed as the vehicle fender strikes her. A stray line about a giggling girl follows in the text.
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Denver
Colo
Alexis
Foster
Denver Society
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In Care Messenger
Grace McGrath
Athens
D. J. Chapman
C. O. North Liberal
Bell
Civil Service Examination
Arthur M. Mann
Freddy
Junior Red Cross
Hocking Electric and Supply CO
Bell Phone
Nelsonville, Ohio
Columbia Records
Yankee Doodle
Bobby the Bomber
Byron G.harlan
Peerless Quarteete
Charles Harrison
Rainbow
U.S.A
Henry Burr
Quartette
My Marie
van and
Shenck
Alexander
Darktown Strutter’s Ball
Rainbow Girl
Kossovo
Jefianoviceyo
Jazarimba Orchestra
Tambouritza Orchestra
Mall
Hibbard $ Music Shop
N. Court Street
Athens, Ohio
Animal Hospitals
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Church
Ohio War Savings Plan
W. S
By Katherine Lee Batee
Uncle Sam
H. L. Wheaton
Colleens
Union
King
Colorado
Seaman
Hohenzollerns
Rexall
Henry W. Cotner
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