London Seaman Awarded Albert Medal for Heroic Amputation
Alfred William Furneaux, a chief steward in the mercantile marine, received the Albert Medal in gold for heroically amputating a Lascar’s leg with a clasp knife after a torpedo strike in 1917. He then carried the man to a boat, applied dressings, and shared his life belt. He also gave first aid to another Lascar in the boat while risking his own life.
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London
Alfred William Furneux
Mercantile Marine
Furneaux
Lascar
White Shrine Meeting Set For Monday Evenings
The White Shrine holds its regular meeting Monday at 7 30 p m with expected good attendance. John Gillespie and wife announce the birth of an eight pound son on Friday September 20 at 10 Fira Street. Mrs Charles Bumgardner returns from Columbus after surgery at Grant Hospital for a golfer. James Brown Davis of Cincinnati visits his grandfather J D Brown over the weekend. Will visit Mr and Mrs Hal Murphy and Will also see Mr and Mrs Will Bower.
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White Shrine
John Gillespie
Fira Street
Charles Bumgardner
Columbus
Grant Hospital
Golfer
James Brown Davis
Cincinnati
T. J. Davis
J. D. Brown
William Reeves
Savannah, Ga
Hal Murphy
Reeves
Will Bower
Miss Mary Poston Hosts Guest at Majestic Theatre
Miss Mary Poston entertained for Miss Eliza beth Graham of New Lexington this afternoon at a Majestic theatre party. Mr. and Mrs. John F. Butts on East State street received a letter from their son C. R. Butts in France reporting promotion and good health. Captain Emmett L. Hooper in France wrote that he had left the base hospital and resumed command after a bout with grippe.
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Mary Poston
Elizabeth Graham
New Lexington
Miss Poston
the Majestic
John F. Butts
East State Street
C. R. Butts
France
S. I. Hooper
Emmett L. Hooper
Grippe
Wounded Bradford Johnson in Base Hospital from France
Mrs. Amanda Johnson of Athens R D 9 receives a letter from her son Bradford Johnson of the Motorcycle Co 4th Battalion in France noting arm wounds but recovery and unit rest. Dr and Mrs A F B Livingston and Wendell Howell arrive from Chicago to visit before heading to Washington DC for government work. trip by automobile.
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Amanda Johnson
Athens
R. D
Bradford Johnson
France
A. FB. Livingston
Wendell Howell
Chicago
Ill
W. H. Livingston
Washington, D. C
Livington
Livingston
University of Ilinois
Medical College
Y W and Y M C A Welcome New Students
A joint reception of the Y W C A and Y M C A drew newcomers at the gymnasium. Miss Helen Smith and Mr. Fred Plummer led the welcoming party with deans and secretaries in attendance. Groups named after generals in the present war shared war slogans to popular tunes. The event featured college and patriotic songs led by Miss Marie Richter and war refreshments.
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Helen Smith
Fred Plummer
Irma E. Voigt
E. W. Chubb
Eleanor Ward
J. J. Richeson
Dwight Evans
Ach
Snging
Marie Richter
Affair at K. of P. Hall Social Event Dining and Program
One of the most enjoyable social gatherings of the early era occurred at the K of P hall on Thursday evening. Knights of Pythias and the Pythian Sisters with their families shared a six o clock picnic supper followed by readings and music. After the program dancing was enjoyed by all.
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K. of P. Hall
Knights of Pythias
Pythian Sisters
Evening Festivities Attract About 100 Participants
Diversion for the remainder of the evening drew roughly one hundred attendees to the event. Participants enjoyed activities and socializing during the late program.
Storage Rules Set for Coal Stock Piles in Ohio Plants
Columbus Sept 21 The State Fuel Department announced new maximum coal storage limits for Ohio industrial plants. Class 1 may hold 35 days supply, Class 2 thirty days, Class 3 twenty five days, Class 4 twenty days, non-preference fifteen days. No restriction on stocks or screenings.
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United Presa
Columbus
Ohio
State Fuel Department
University to Host 98th ATC Program Under War Department
President Alston Ellis announced Ohio University has secured a contract with the United States Regional Director for the 98th ATC. OU will provide approved academic instruction and meals equivalent to army rations for cadets. The War Department will fund instruction, uniforms, equipment, and lodging and pay per cadet daily board and tuition subsidies.
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Alston Ellis
United States
U. S
Ohio University
War Department
O. U
Yankees in Ho spital hit by German shell
Eight Americans were killed when a clearing hospital near the Lorraine Front was struck by German shells on two consecutive nights. The attack targeted a large tent housing gassed patients under a conspicuous red cross marking visible to German aviators, with claims that the hospital was deliberately fired upon.
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Lorraine
New Alliance Against Hapsburg Rule Possible
Washington reports a triple alliance of Poland, the Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs could unite against Germany and Austria. Dr Thomas Masaryk, chairman of the Czecho-Slovak National Council and commander in chief of Czecho-Slovak forces, said the three oppressed nationalities share grievances against Austria-Hungary and should aid in bringing victory to the Entente to defeat Germany and overthrow the Hapsburgs.
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Washington
Poland
Germany
Austria
Thos, Massaryk
Native grass protects Chinese railroad embankments from floods
Tenacious rooted native grass planted along Chinese railroad embankments resists erosion and safeguards infrastructure during flood seasons, improving stability and reducing washouts.
Royal Woman Takes Hotel Manager Post in Dover Street
The article notes wartime shifts in women's roles with English women leading by example. Lady Honywood, wife of Sir Courtenay Honywood, has become manager of the hotel in Dover Street Piccadilly, marking a widening sphere for women in allied countries.
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ROYAL
Lady Honywood
Sir Courtenay Honywood
Aescee
Dover Street
Piccaily
John R Goddard commissioned in Ordnance service
Amesville Sept 21. John R Goddard has been commissioned second lieutenant after training at Camp Hancock Georgia and assigned to Raritan Arsenal Metuchen New Jersey to study motor and artillery ordnance He is son of Mr and Mrs W R Goddard Penn Township Ohio University class of 17 Delta Tau Delta member and enlisted February 1918 this promotion honors his worth as a man and a soldier.
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Amesville
John R. Goddard
Camp Hancock
Georgia
Raritan Arsenal
Metuchen
New Jersey
Goddard
W. R. Goddard
Penn Township
Ohio University
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity
Ordnance Service
Lancaster Boy Takes Prisoners in Bold Surrender
A Lancaster Ohio doughboy on the Metz Front single handedly captured three German prisoners as they tried to surrender. The German trio, bayonets fixed, offered their guns and said they only wished to surrender.
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United Press
Metz
Lancaster
Ohio
Slavs 10 cause fatal harm allied people
Report from Stockholm dated September 21 notes that subjects of allied countries and U S citizens, especially the latter, have been fatally harmed in Petrograd. Travelers say a German-aspired meeting adopted resolutions urging war on the Allies and calling for arrest of subjects and confiscation of property.
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Btockholm
United States
Petrograd
Germany
Murman Coast
Will wage big fight upon use of tobacco
Rev Frank Waring of the temperance board in Washington told the Ohio Methodist conference that after prohibition ends an active campaign will target nicotine with the same resolve as the prohibition effort. He condemned government policy allowing tobacco companies to ship cigarettes to soldiers overseas.
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Portsmouth
Frank Waring
The
Temperance Board
Washington
Ohio Methodist Conference
Soldier Boys
Hand Power Table Clamp Mill For Grinding Grain
A new hand powered mill clamps to a kitchen table and can grind all kinds of grain into meal, offering a compact device for home milling and food preparation.
Miss Frances Brady Joins McAdoo Railroads Staff
Miss Frances Hawthorne Brady daughter of Thomas Grayson Brady of Washington is the first woman on the staff of the director general of railroads William G McAdoo She was chosen for her directing ability and creative ideas shown in Liberty loan work and is the second appointee of McAdoo She left a Washington finishing school and has long been active in social circles before offering her services to the government at the start of the war
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Frances Hawthorne Brady
Thomas Grayson Brady
Washington, D. C
William G. McAdoo
Miss Brady
Treasury
McAdoo
Washington
Brady
Makes sweaters from raising sheep on up
Seattle, Wash. Six heavy sweaters were donated to the Sedro-Woolley Red Cross. Mrs. H. D. Benson raised the sheep on her Siskiyou farm and, after dyeing yarn in gray and khaki, knitted the sweaters herself using an old fashioned method.
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Seattle
Wash
Sedro-Woolley Branch
Red Cross
D. Benson
Siskiyou
Conductorettes Proven Efficient In New York Service
Three hundred women conductors operate on New York street cars and are praised by Interborough President Theodore P. Shonta as as efficient as men, equally honest and more polite in service.
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New York
Theodore P. Shonta
Interborough Railroad Company
Shade Trees Cut To Ease Fuel Shortage In Prophetstown
Shade trees in Prophetstown Illinois will be scarce next summer after hundreds were cut to relieve a fuel famine. The town was temporarily without greasewood or coal.
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Prophetstown
Ill
Frenchman invents single-hand watch with hour circles
A French inventor unveils a watch where one hand bears the hour numeral and travels along a semicircular minute scale then vanishes to be replaced by a new hand for the next hour. The mechanism advances in hourly steps and cycles as time passes.
Filling Places in Schools of Athens County
The Athens County Office of the County School Superintendent handles filling fifteen to eighteen teaching vacancies. Applicants include married women and others not currently teaching, all with prior teaching experience but not seven to eight years since last in classroom. Emer gency certificates valid to Sept 1 1919 granted by State Superintendent for those lacking regular training. Temporary certificates issued from one exam to the next for those without experience.
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Root
Boards of Education
State Superintendent of Schools
County Boards of Examiners
Cincinnati Market Report Cattle Hogs and Sheep Prices
Cincinnati Ohio September 21 cattle receipts 800 market slow with shivers 18.00 16.50 calves slow to slower 17.25 17.50 hogs receipts 2650 market slow to slower good choice packers and butchers 19.90 sheep receipts 375 extra unchanged 18.00 18.25
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Pittsburg Livestock Market Report
Pittsburg Pa September 21 market steady to mixed with hog receipts of 10 cars. Prime heavies at 20.00 to 20.25, mediums 20.26 to 20.50, heavy yorkers 20.25 to 20.50, night yorkers 19.25 to 20.00, pigs 19.75 to 20.00, roughs 17.50 to 18.00, stags 13.00 to 14.00.
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Pittsburg Livestock
Pittsburg
Chicago Grain Prices Report Sees Mixed Corn Oats and Pork
Chicago grain prices show corn for October at 1.48 and November at 1.45 while oats for September at 0.72 and October at 0.75. Pork for September trades at 40.55.
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Chicago
Ill
Hay Market Columbue Sept 20 Hay No 1 Timothy In
Market report notes hay prices with No 1 timothy graded at the Hay Market Columbue on September 20. Trade activity and steady demand observed among buyers and sellers.
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Columbue
Hay
Timothy
16 Year Old Baldier Killed in France Enlists as Fergus
Harold Soder aged 16 son of Frank Soder was killed in France July 19 per war department telegram. He ran away at 15 to enlist in the regular army in Columbus under the assumed name Fergus. Four brothers also in service with three in France and one at Camp Sherman.
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Baldier
Zanesville
Harold Soder
Frank Soder
France
War Department
Soder
Columbus
Fergus
Camp Sherman
Birds Protected by Law Halt Year-Round Killing
Robins ducks and pigeons are now protected by government law. The law extends year-round protection to migratory birds used by military camps, making their killing illegal throughout the year.
Equal Treatment for Women and Men in Japan Civil Code
A foundational principle asserts equal treatment of women and men under Japan's civil code. The emphasis is on non discrimination and equal legal rights across genders within civil law.
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Japan
Dr Frederick Blankner to Close Athens Visit September 24
A lengthy appeal promotes Dr Frederick Blankner of Ohio who will end his Athens visit on Tuesday September 24. The ad claims high success in painless tooth extractions, no blood poisoning, and endorsements from doctors and dentists across the state. It urges readers to visit room No. 48 at the Athens Hotel, with testimonials from local residents and long-distance patients.
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Fred. Erick Blankner
Frederick Blankner
Athens
Blankner
Athens County
Bankner
Ohio
United States
Dr. Blankner
Wm. Hotchkiss
Green &J
Parkersburg
W. Va
Lewis Hull
R. D
Cora Grimes
Stewart. O
B. Mass
Mayfield
Kelley
Spencer
G. H. Jeffers
Coolville
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