Cambridge Ohio Prospects Bright for Industry and Growth
Cambridge with 5000 to 6000 inhabitants in Guernsey County sits at a healthful 650 feet elevation. At the B&O and Cleveland & Marietta crossing, rail connections link to the Pan Handle 20 miles away. Gas and coal are abundant. two firms are developing wells with 500 pounds pressure. Local amenities include six churches, schools, hotels, an opera house, and temperance sentiment drives growth. Local news notes arrivals, visits, markets, a Pennyroyal Reunion, property transactions, and civic events. a Cambridge G.A.R. day, and a county soldiers reunion are highlighted.
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Guernsey County
Ohio
M.trenner
Court House
Cambridge
Baltimore & Ohio
Cleveland & Marietta
Cambridge Board of Trade
New Concord's Harvest Time at Muskingum College
The June 28 concert closed a prosperous year under Dr. Irons at Muskingum College. Reports praise the president’s thorough work, note rising attendance, and announce new recitation rooms, a planned endowment for a chair, and staff changes including Prof Wallace’s resignation and Miss Lou Evans's appointment. The week featured a baccalaureate, diplomas, and an alumni banquet with speeches by Rev. E. R. Frazier and H. A. McDonald. ten graduates, four literary and six musical, were celebrated.
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W. K. Fulton
Muskingum College
Irons
U.P
E. D. Morris D.D
LL. D
Lane Theological Seminary
J. S. Speer
Cannonsburg
Belle Brown
Florence White
Era Society
Jose i. Martin
Philo
Maggie Shepherd
8. R. Frazier
Youngstown
Ohio
Jno. Bingham
Japan
Wallace
Lou Evans
Eva Grier
College Hall
McCreary
Spencer
T. M. Sewell
Franklin College
D. D
S. A. McClennahan
Allegheny Theological Seminary
John Comin
Drowning of Cameron Youth Joe Foy Attributed To Reservoir Swim
The Vindicator reports Cameron resident Joe Foy died while bathing in the railroad reservoir west of the Union Depot. Five men entered the water seeking to save him. Rippey, Newberry, Baker, and Foy’s father helped, but Foy drowned after multiple submersions. Foy, born March 25 1866 in Birmingham, had lived in Cameron for six years with his family.
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Cameron
Missouri
Joseph Foy
Thomas Foy
Joe Foy
Union Depot
Messrs
Wm. Rippey
A. S. Newberry
Ed. Baker
G. G
Mr. Rippey
Foy
Birmingham
The Mayor and Geese Brought Into Court
The state on relation of Herman Schultz and others contests mayor Scott and town council in quo warranto over election validity. Claims mis canvassed vote and missing certificates and abstracts. Petition filed in Guernsey Circuit Court with council agreeing to halt ordinances pending case.
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State of
Ohio
Herman Schultz
J. T. Cain
J.T. McPherson
Scott
I N. Whissel
T. H. Anderson
J. M. Harris
William Quinn
F. K. Raymond
George Giffen
John Gardner
Er. R. McCollum
Guernsey
M. R. Patterson
Steele & Rosemond
Anderson & Locke
Taylor & Scott
Anderson, Quinn
Gardiner McCollum
Mathews
Beyond the Alps lies Italy in an 1888 Muskingum College talk
Commencement day at Muskingum College features Orin Shrigley and Jose Martin on stage with orations and essays about truth progress and religion. A large audience attends lectures on philosophy and National safeguards, interspersed with piano and organ solos and musical performances by the Apollo Quartet.
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Zanesville
A. L. Carter
Maggie Shepherd
Alps
Italy
Bonaparte
England
Napoleon
Toulon
Gasperin
America
Maine
Texas
Columbia
Mame Harper
Lizzie Gregory
Orin Shrigley
Jose Martin
J. A. Liggitt
Atlantic
Pacific
Lakes
Gulf
Land of the
Free
Europe
Republic
Jesus Christ
God
Chaldea
Assyria
Babylon
Media
Persia
Greece
Heraclitus
Socrates
Plato
Aristotle
Darknes
Aggie Wishart
Renews Her Youth claims from Mrs Phoebe Chesley
Mrs Phoebe Chesley of Clay county Iowa says at 73 she was crippled by kidney trouble and lameness but after using Electric Bitters she is free from pain and can do housework again. Wall & Co's drug store sells bottles at 50c and 1.00 with a money back suggestion.
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Papa
Wolff
Wolff & Randolph
Philadelphia
Phoebe Chesley
Clay County
Iowa
Wall & Co
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Akron
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Oxford Township
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Albia
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Daughters of Rebekah Lodge
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Indianapolis
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Canal Dover
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Londonderry Township
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Morgan County
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Canton, Ohio
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West Cambridge
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Georgetown
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Wheeling
W. Va
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North 5Th Street
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Thrapp
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Claysville
Jerry Hartong
Mr. Dollison
Wilbur Rose
Salesville
M. R. Woodland
Kate Kahn
Eastern Ohio Horticultural Society
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C. C. Black
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Cincinnati
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Ann Arbor
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Washington
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John Nicodemus
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Ava
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McCullough
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Mitchell
William Fowler
al. Brady
Brady
Fowler
William Harris
N. H. Barber
South 11Th Street
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Taylor's Grove
Ida Miller
High Hill
Nicholson Cornet Band
J. A. Johnson
Slaughter Hill
J. Brown
George M. Wilson
N. B. Stewart
D. D. Taylor
Thompson
Crow
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Simons Bros. Foundry
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the Park Hotel
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R. B. Brown
State Deartment
Gen. W. Gibson
Tiflin
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Baltimore Clothing CO
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