Dayon Flood Devastates Downtown and Hospitals Across City
The Dayton flood leaves millions in damage as water rises to six feet in most areas and twenty feet on Main Street. Fires spread through submerged blocks while hospitals and hundreds of residences vanish. 3000 homeless seek shelter at National Cash Register offices as rescue relies on stranded survivors and scarce resources.
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Minsters, Students Save Delaware Flood Victims
Delaware Ohio faces record flooding with about 10 000 residents displaced as Wesleyan University students and local ministers organize rescues. The river surged 14 feet in main streets while boiler rooms and a power plant provided refuge and boats rushed to stranded residents.
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Cottolene: A Better Cooking Fat for Frying and Shortening
Cottolene is not for table use but is the best fat for shortening and frying. It costs less than butter, with one third less consumption than butter or lard. Being a pure vegetable fat, it yields wholesome, digestible food.
Train service blocked as floods close routes to Columbus
Flood gates shut on all lines into Columbus except the Norfolk and Western. A N and W train crawled to Union Station at 9 a.m. through high water from Portsmouth. East-bound trains were detoured via Columbus on the N and W but bridges near Columbus to Pittsburg washed out, delaying service. officials warned operations may stop tonight or tomorrow.
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Dayton Gem City of the Middle West
Dayton Ohio known as the Gem City developed into a modern city with population over 125000. It sits on the Great Miami near Mad River and along the Miami and Erie Canal with major rail lines and a premier railway terminal. It houses public buildings a county courthouse jail public library with 100000 volumes and the State Hospital. Dayton is famed for railroad car and cash register manufactories and limestone quarries supplying building stone. Its industries include agricultural implements carriages foundry products machinery paper cottons and woolens. Established in 1796 incorporated 1805 and site of Harrison presidential convention in 1832. The city features many churches modern schools palatial homes and extensive hydraulic canal waterpower driving prosperity.
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Genesee River Flood Reaches Higher Levels
Mt Morris reports Genesee River at flood height with high water forces evacuation in lowlands. Belfast and Penn Yan report washouts on the Pennsylvania and Northern Central rail lines, with repairs estimated at two days. Keuka Lake rises about a foot in 24 hours as river crested three feet from 6 to 8 pm.
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