December 2 in American History Highlights
On this day in 1776 General Washington reached Trenton New Jersey with his army after a long march. The Monroe Doctrine was promulgated in President Monroe’s message. Jay Gould, notable capitalist, died in New York. he was born in 1836. The Gould estate totaled £72,000,000. General A. Carr, U S A, retired and Civil War veteran, died. born 1830.
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Washington
Trenton
N. J
Monroe
Jay Gould
New York
Gould
5. A. Carr
Evening Star and Planets Align in January Sky
The evening sky features Jupiter as the evening star while Mars Mercury Venus and Saturn appear in morning view. Mercury and Venus will be in conjunction at 8 05 p m offering a rare planetary pairing.
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Jupiter
Mars
Mercury
Venus
Saturn
Public Works Complaint Over Highland Avenue Foundation
The Jeffersonian defends public funds use and praises Cambridge inspector H. Z. Hobson for exposing faulty Highland avenue foundation work. Hobson reports the foreman, not Cisler, completed substandard work after Cisler left, with samples from six locations under specifications. City authorities support Hobson and hold the foreman accountable.
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Cisler
Jeffersonian
Highland Avenue
Cambridge
H. Z. Hobson
Hobson
Kowledge
The
Printer’s Perils Highlighted by Language Errors
A quoted American Press note warns that ordinary printed columns hold 10 000 type pieces and 70 000 error chances plus transpositions yield millions of mistakes. It cites that the phrase To be or not to be could suffer 2 759 022 errors by transposition alone.
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American Press
Mayor Lew Shank Forced to Re Sign by Merchants
Indiana city mayor Lew Shank resigns as chief executive after merchants accuse him of failing to end a street car strike that crippled business. He had touted government control of prices on poultry eggs and potatoes and later ran a cost price shop that lowered local prices, earning both support and enmity.
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Lew Shank
Indianapolis
Merchants’ Association
Marshall
Columbus
Shank
Buy at Home Boosts Cambridge Rail Service
A Marietta Division parlor car project aims to boost local rail traffic and Cambridge’s traffic claim. Agent White at Union Station urges residents to buy tickets at the Cambridge office to credit the city and support future improvements in allway accommodations.
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Marietta
Cambridge
White
Union Station
Round Trip Ticket Advice For Cambridge Passengers
A fragment advises travelers in Cambridge to buy round trip tickets to credit their return, promoting proper standing for the city as a railway hub and encouraging convenient travel to nearby cities.
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Cambridge
Dr Maria Montessori to tour the United States
Dr Maria Montessori, famed Italian educator, will arrive December 4 to lecture on her school methods. An interpreter will accompany her as moving pictures illustrate the House of Childhood. The tour, organized by the Montessori Educational Association of America, includes eight to ten eastern cities with Washington as headquarters, lasting about three weeks.
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Maria Montessori
Madame Montessori
Rome
Montessori Educational Association of America
Alexander Graham Bell
P. P. Claxton
U. S. Commissioner of Education
Col. McClure
New York
Margaret Wilson
Dr. Montessori
National Capital
Montessori
United States
Mississippi
Washington
The
Montessori Association
The New Minister to Be Presented at Brown High
Brown High School will perform The New Minister a comic operetta in its assembly room on Thursday evening December 4 with admission set at 25 cents. The cast includes forty of the school’s best singers.
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Brown High School
Brown High
Col. J. B. Anderson
Zanesville
Leo Sarl
Columbus
Walter DeLong
Colley Block
Temperanceville
John Moninger
Kimbolton
C. W. Dennis
Salineville
J. C. McCracken
Old Washington
C. Hartley
Athens
M. Langley
Byesville
M. Linn
William Langley
Corning
Baumgarten
J. C. Braden
East Cambridge
R. A. Bahney
Massillon
H. A. French
G. H. Bates
John
O. L. Benedum
Gertrude
Uhrichsville
Cambridge
W. C. Rose
Quaker City
M. H. Tedrick
Birmingham
E. B. Freeman
Wheeling
Thomas Smith
Akron
L. D Smith
Armstrong
J. W. Wilson
Adams Township
J. E. Higginbothan
Green County
Lester Morgan
Junction City
J. W. Morgan
J. C. Moorehead
Strausburg
I. M. Branter
East Akron
James Joyce
Hazel Dunn
Anna Dunn
Love City
Nick Allen
Barnesville
Susan Davis
D. W. Ables
Mt. Pleasant
President advocates primaries to Congress
Mrs. Wilson and her daughters sit with Secretary Bryan in the diplomatic gallery as President reads his message. The audience cheers when he urges presidential primaries, with the enthusiasm felt by the crowd higher than at any prior appearance before Congress.
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Washington
Wilson
Margaret
Eleanor
Bryan
Congress
Ex-President Zelaya to be released to Spain home
United Press reports from Washington that former Nicaragua president Zelaya will be released from the Tombs and permitted to travel to his home in Spain. The State Department announced the arrangement today.
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United Press Special
Washington, D. C
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Spain
State Department
Police Chief Farnst Resigns to Join Liquor License Board
Lima Ohio December 2 Police Chief S A Farnst resigns effective immediately to become a special detective for the liquor license commission.
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United Press Special
Lima, O
S. A. Farnst
Liquor License Commission
Local social notes from Zanesville visitors and guests
Mrs Ella Briggs and others travel to Barnesville and Zanesville for visits. A Berwick hotel guest, George Arbenz, returns to Wheeling with his bride from Thanksgiving. Roy Whitcraft receives two live alligators from Jacksonville winter visitors. Various residents return from trips and host friends in Zanesville and nearby towns.
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Ella Briggs
George Galligher
Barnesville
Irwin Powell
Zanesville
M. E. Watson
M. E. Morrison
J. N. Dodson
IL. Mathews
Cambridge
George H. Arbenz
Bride
Berwick Hotel
Wheeling
W. Va
Roy Whitcraft
George Hare
Earl Cook
Jacksonville
Fla
Harold Sions
Newton
A. L. Shuman
Nellie
J. E. Flanagan
Edward
Abe Tedrick
Antrim
Messrs
Loren Speck
Carl Quinn
Birmingham
Supt
C. O. Leonard
The
County Infirmary
Embezzler Brown Sentenced in Cincinnati Court
Mrs. Charlotte Thompson Brown was convicted of embezzling $21,000 from a customer in the brokerage business with her husband. Judge Wade Cushing sentenced her to an indeterminate term in the state penitentiary after overruling a motion for new trial.
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Cincinnati
Dee
Carlotte Thompson Brown
Wade Cushing
Cushing
Tragic Bridge Fall Leaves Dode Johnson Dead
Dode Johnson, 50, of Patterson near Kenton Ohio, was found unconscious at the creek edge with a broken back after possibly tumbling from a 20 foot bridge. He lay at the bottom of the creek as rescuers rushed to aid him. He later died.
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Kenton
Smost
Dode Johnson
Patterson
Johnson
Ile
Alleged rite slave case tied to St Marys man
Burrell Curts of St Marys was arrested in Charleston West Virginia for violating the Mann white slave act. He faces immediate Ohio trial with bond set at 2000 dollars. Miss Alva Botkine of St Marys is the woman involved.
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St. Marys
William Mitchell Files Voluntary Bankruptcy Petition
William Mitchell of Delphi filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Cincinnati federal court. He lists liabilities around 779,822 dollars with assets of 100 dollars. Mitchell was part owner of Cypress Lumber, which went bankrupt in 1908, with most burden placed on him.
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Cincinnati
William Mitchell
Delphi
Mitchel
Cypress Lumber Company
Attorney John O. Licey Dies After Perfume Drinking
Akron Ohio December 2 1920 John O Licey 48 a prominent Wadsworth attorney and son of former Representative A D Licey Medina county died from drinking perfume whose chief ingredient was wood alcohol Investigators have not determined if the death was accidental or self crisis related.
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Akron
John O. Licey
Wadsworth
A. D. Licey
Medina County
No Expense Accounts Filed in Bellefontaine
Clerk F S Moots reports four lists totaling 160 candidates from the last election failed to file expense accounts. He will send the names to Attorney General Hogan for a ruling on whether the delinquent candidates may still assume office.
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Bellefontaine
Market Summary at Union Stock Yards December 2
Hogs receipts 32 000 with dull mixed demand. Butchers 7 40 to 7 80. good heavy 7 50 to 7 85. rough heavy 7 40 to 7 50. light 7 10 to 7 70. pigs 5 00 to 7 00. Cattle receipts 7 000 steady with beeves 6 60 to 9 60. Sheep receipts 26 000 strong with natives 3 90 to 5 18. westerns 3 90 to 5 00. lambs 5 90 to 7 55. western lambs 6 00 to 7 55.
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United Press
Union
Western
Pittsburg Livestock Market Report
Pittsburg cattle market steady with unchanged cattle and light sheep and lamb receipts. Lamb prices range from 5.50 to 8.00 with spring lambs at 6.00. hogs show steady demand from 15 doubledecks received.
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Pittsburg
Grain and Steel Prices Reported in Chicago Markets
Chicago markets closed with wheat at 87.90 to 89 percent, corn 70 to 70.5, oats 38.4 to 41.54, and pork at 21.12 to 21.25. American Sheet Steel quoted common 55 to 44, preferred 1047.
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Chicago
Orpheum Tonight Selections Include The Girl O' the Woods
Florence TM Lawrence stars in The Girl O the Woods a Victor two reel feature from Harry Solter and C B Hoadley The Higher Law a gripping melodrama Their Two Kids a Nestor film with Ramona Langley Lee Mor an Donald MacDonald and Russel Bassett Four big reels at the Orpheum tonight Continuous show Matinee daily at 1 50 Ady
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Florence
Lawrence
Harry Solter
C. B. Hoadley
Nestor
Ramona Langley
Lee Moran
Donald MacDonald
Russel Bassett
Orpheum
Ady
Pathe and Vitagraph Films at Cambridge Lyric
The Cambridge Lyric presents Pathe weekly and Vitagraph specials starring Norma Talmadge and Harry Northup in two part “Under the Daisies” and “A Tale That is Told.” Essanay’s The Rose of Sharon and Edison’s The Meadow Lark headline a diverse lineup withnew pictures and Lyric orchestra.
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Pathe
Vitagraph
Norma Talmadge
Harry Northup
Edison
All New Pictures
Cambridge
Lyric Orchestra
Community Notes From Port Washington Area
North Salem residents report visits among neighbors and relatives including Mrs. Bert Jones and Mrs. James Turner near Port Washington. Dozens of children are afflicted with chicken pox while hogs decline due to corn shortage. Several trips to Cambridge Zanesville and East Liverpool are noted for farm and family visits and Thanksgiving gatherings.
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R. Jones
Bertha Jones
Bert Jones
James Turner
Port Washington
Craig Thompson
David Dougherty
Cambridge
Will Travis
East Liverpool
Dr. Cowden
Annie Schwyhart
W. J. Pollock
Colonial Tonight Screens Seven New Photo Plays
A full program of seven new photo plays lights up the Colonial tonight from 6 to 10 50 PM. The lineup includes The Turning Point The Wiles of Cupid The Lost Diamond The New Gown A Modern Garrick Tears of Blood plus two reel Eclair drama. Admission five and ten cents. Coming Thursday Hansel and Grethel in four reels. A building survey on Wheeling Ave and North Ninth St by J Fr Orr prepares plans for a three story business block. The Cambridge City Bakery offers Fish Roe Spaghetti Tomato Soup Salmon and Tuna Fish.
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Pathe
Lubin
Cupid
Wheeling Avenue
North Ninth Street
Carl Brenan
J. Fr. Orr
Pleasant City Note Rich in Local Visits and Family News
Pleasant City and Cambridge residents share visits and meals with relatives in many towns, with several hospital stays, school notes, travel to Columbus and Newark, and a large birthday party for Evelyn Archer. A long obituary for Charlotte Salladay notes her life, faith, and family.
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Almyra Davidson
Myrtle Point
Ore
W. J. Adair
Pleasant City
Jacob Salladay
Waltz Sumner
Pataskala
Ohio
Roy Wesley
Cambridge
Bethel M. FE
Harmony Ev
Lutheran ‘Church
Hartford
J. Walter Bressler
Pleasant City Cemetery
Glasses sale offer from H Le Grand Williams optical ad
Dr James Early ophthalmologist room 11 over Postoffice offers glasses fitting with day and night exams. Year end Christmas trade push discounts a dollar off on a pair if visited this month and glasses can be reserved for Xmas with small deposit. November 4 notice.
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James Early
H. le Grand Williams
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R. R. Miller
J. A. Daugherty
Nettie Hixon
Cassell’s Station
Chicago Livestock
Chicago Grain Market
Orpheum Tonight
Lyric
Esely
H. L. Stewart
Central National Bank
Cambridge City
William Mercer
Belle Valley
Mary Belle Stewart
Clevelane
Nice
the Cambridge Grocery Co
Thomas Minto
James Braden
Diamonds
Esely's
O. F. Lowry
M. D
J. C. Purkey
Belle
Cambridge Glass Co
Coral Necklace
Sabbath
Steubenville Avenue
L. H. Wilson
Greenwalds
Dec
Haberdashery
North Salem
George Fluhart
Isaac
J. H. B. Danford
Worcester
Sadie Shively
Senecaville
Robert Shields
Hilda
Beryl Fisher
Mirian Rang
William Secrest
Mary Moorehead
Linnie Breidenthal
Adam Davis
F. W. Shafer
Gladys
Bowns
M. E. Church
Joe Gray
Good Samaritan Hospital
Crooksville
O. R. Taylor
Filmore Spaid
M. FE. Ross
Edith
Isaac West
Mesdames
Joseph Secrest
John Hanson
Charles Shively
F. C. Shively
Ollie Bradshaw
Karl Conner
Ludley Knight
George Dunlap
Mae
Mary
Ruth Watkins
M. H. Devine
Valley Junction
M. F. Devine
M. S. Trott
Newark
Yearing
Ira Howell
Kinney Brothers
Alfred Barton
Thurston
W. P. Fisher
Myron
J. B. Fisher
L. L. Archer
John Worthington
Champ Snyde
John Snyde
McLaney
Edna Conner
Eyesville
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