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Athens High to Play Waite High in Toledo on October 16
Athens high school earned a prestigious invitation when Waite high school offered a game in Toledo on October 16. Waite and Scott are Ohio’s largest high schools with strong reputations, and Athens will represent southern Ohio and West Virginia against a broad midwest field. Coach Mackie accepts the open date and the trip marks a historic athletic feat for the school.
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Athens High School
Mackie
Waite High School
Athens High
Toledo
Waite
Scott
Ohio
Waite High
Middle West
Athens
West Virginia
Nocky” Ruff
Denison University
Ohio Wesleyan
Five Plots Alleged in Cox Campaign Conspiracy Speech
The Sun and New York Herald deride five alleged plots aiding Gov. Cox in his campaign. They accuse oligarchy control, Republican fundraising, business interests weapons use, press suppression, and a Western campaign trap set by Will Hayes aides. The piece mocks the accusations as crude, undignified theatrics.
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Cox
Albuquerque
Cor
Will Haye
Candor
the Sun and
New York Herald
Weak In A Vital Spot Education in Crisis Warns of Looming Shortages
Federal education chief Philander Claxton warns the United States faces a serious crisis with 3 million pupils lacking accommodations and 75 000 elementary plus 15 000 high school teachers short. Many teachers lack proper training while salaries and housing lag. Britain France and others have improved conditions, yet the U S risks stagnation in scholarship citizenship and health.
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United States
Philander Claxton
Comaissioner
Great Britain
France
Ger ‘Weauy
Brasil
Argentina
Education Today: Planning Ahead to Compete with Global Youth
The piece laments short sightedness in prioritizing present gains over children’s future, urging sustained, constructive planning for the next year. It argues that without continuous investment in youth, future Americans may fall behind other nations’ offspring.
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Tion
Home Manager Proposed as Respectful Title for Homemakers
A Board of Elections clerk settles that the official occupation for the woman who runs a home is home manager. The term, praised as fitting for the new womanhood, elevates housekeeping to a business like profession and allows for all who manage a home to claim it as their work.
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Board of Elections
Opinions on Women Voters and Republican Preference
Reprinted piece argues women favor the Republican party over the Democrats. It asserts Democrats would bring European intrigues and tyranny, calls for federal job cuts, notes government employment rose after the armistice, and claims Democrats inflame class tension while Republicans uphold decency and peace.
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Wonsnsne Nee Tone
United States
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Calf-killer Motorman Encounters Self-Owner Dilemma
After Dinner Stories narrates James Trimmer, an interurban motorman, running down two calves and learning they were his own. He quips livestock on tracks irritate him, while a passerby comments on dusty roads and a ramshackle bridge ahead.
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James Trimmer
End of the Whig Party in 1852 Campaign
Washington Sept 28 1852 marked the final era for the Whigs as a national force. The party again backed General Winfield Scott a war hero who failed against Franklin Pierce. The piece recounts Scott’s letters and motives and notes Henry Clay and Daniel Webster as key figures in the collapsed Whig cause and the 1852 election results.
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Washington
Whig Party
Tme
Winfeld Scott
Mexico
William Henry Harrison
van Buren
Lundy's Lane
Jppecanoe
Scott
New York
General Scott
Franklin Pierce
Union
Pierce
Taylor
White House
Millard Fillmo
Fillmore
Daniel Webster
Henry, Clay
Cticator
California
United States Senate
South
District of Columbia
Texas
New Mexico
Utah
Henry Clay
Democratic Party
Webster
Congress
Senator Jones
Tennessee
Sean Jimmy” Jones
James K. Polk
Choate
Massachusetts
Vermont
New England
Kentucky
Questions and Answers on Politics and World Facts
A compilation of Q and A items listing presidential and party candidates, notable baseball players, science queries on freezing, engine efficiency, Mephistopheles meaning, early agricultural stations, ocean cable laying, Brooklyn Bridge jump date, and recommended child weights with a health booklet offer. Specific names include Warren G Harding Calvin Coolidge James Cox Roosevelt Parley Christensen Max Hayes Robert Macauley Barnum Debs Stedman Watkins Leigh Colvin. Dode Paskett. Mephistopheles means the spirit who denies.
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Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Calvin Coolidge
Mass
James Middleton Cox
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
New York
Parley P. Christensen
Utah
Max 8. Hayes
Robert Macauley Penn
Robert C. Barnum
Eugene V. Debs
Indiana
Seymour Stedman
Illinois
Aaron
Watkins
Leigh Colvin
Dode” Paskett
Chicago Cubs
Mephistopheles
United States
America
Wesleyan University
Middletown
Connecticut
Steve Brodie
Brooklyn Bridge
Washington Information Bureau
Rev Watts Preaches First Sermon in Rutland
Rutland reports the Rev JL C Watts delivered his initial sermon at MBE church on Sunday morning. Ray H Rawlings returned Friday from Cincinnati business trip. Miss Mabel Lyle, Ledlie School teacher, was seriously injured by a runaway horse last week. she suffered a broken harness incident and will miss school for some time but survived. Mr and Mrs George Humphrey are visiting. bridge construction near post office caused a two mile detour. Rutland high school beat Vinton high school we have a complete 6 to 3 score for Rutland at Braley Park.
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JL. C. Watts
M. BE. Durch
Ray H. Rawlings
Cincinnati
Mabel Lyle
Ledlie School
George Humphrey
Rutland
Vinton High Schools
Poston
Braley Park
Local Socials and a Volcano Note From Mount Ararat
The report lists numerous Saturday and Sunday visits among residents of Logan Athens Nelsonville Capaanville and nearby areas with multiple family groupings and weekend gatherings. An Overland car driven by Henry Williams and a Sugar Creek Chevrolet collided near Ed Micheals Saturday night with no injuries though both cars were damaged. Mount Ararat is noted as a volcano with its last eruption in 1840.
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Elmer Coon
Logan Fair
Joe Slater
Rose
Fred
Will Roberts
Athens
Charles Loomis
Logan
John Smart
Capaanville
Anna Geisicke
Lon Humphrey
John Patton
Haydenville
Joe Hutchins
Adam Nash
Nelsonville
Rob Hawk
Vera Burdette
W. J. Hawk
Fletch
Dan Hawk
New Marshfield
Frank Hamilton
Henry Williams
Sugar Creek
Ed Micheals
Mount Ararat
Ruth Homer Sparks Yankees Win in 52nd of Season
Philadelphia Sept 28 Babe Ruth hit his 52nd home run of the season in the opening inning as the Yankees faced the Athletics Rommel pitched.
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Philadelphia
Babe Ruth
Yankees Athletics
Rommel
Beer poured into Chicago River by marshals in 1919
U S deputy marshals poured twenty one thousand bottles of real beer into the Chicago river after confiscating the liquor from a saloon keeper in August 1919. The event occurred in Chicago on September 28.
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Chicago
U. S
Balloon Crash and Racing Inquiry In Cincinnati
E B Weston a 58 year old millionaire sportsman and paper maker from Dayton Ohio and Leo Stevens 42 chief aeronautics instructor at Fort Omaha Nebraska arrived at Hotel Gibson Cincinnati to study how the Delight Wes tons entry in the Birmingham Alabama balloon race stood after Saturday’s event.
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Cincinnati
E. B. Weston
Sportsman and
Dayton
Leo Stevens
Fort Omaha
Nebraska
Hotel Gibson
Westons
Birmingham
Ala
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