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Newspaper
Cambridge Jeffersonian
Location
Cambridge, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1903
Page
1
An archaic ad touts Ayer's Hair Vigor as preventing hair splitting and stopping it once started. It claims the product will preserve friendship and offers to mail a bottle if a druggist cannot supply it, with an address in Lowell, Massachusetts.
The undersigned Mary E Mollyar filed December 31, 1902 in Guernsey County Ohio for vacation of part of Carson's addition to Cambridge. The petition covers recorded plat lots 246 247 248 249 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 and adjacent alleys. A hearing will be at the February 1903 term of the Common Pleas Court. Attorney Fred L. Rosemond represents the petitioner.
The community gathers in the Baptist church for the funeral of John Calvin Pollock, a longtime G A R member from Cambridge. Church members, neighbors, and family attend as Rev. Boughton and others eulogize his life, with interment at Northwood cemetery.
The piece narrates James J. Patterson, a veteran Washington Cambridge hack driver, who since 1904 has carried the mail on the route. After renewing his bid for the contract he raises it to 487.50 yearly, is informed no other bidders exist, and accepts a reduced offer of 400 yearly to secure the route.
Delegates from Guernsey county at the Columbus miners convention push for a bureau record of coal mined and wages paid per miner by the checkwaymen. Curran disputes a bureau report citing $3.22 daily for 229 days, claiming Guernsey miners earn far less. Crawford and McMahon provide figures from checkwaymen and a Uhrichsville trip to support lower wages.
A case from North Baltimore involves a young man who claimed a young woman in Cambridge was owed items including a gold watch. Marshal Blair found the woman, who said the man had proposed, given her a ring and watch, and owned other items. The marshal now holds the watch and ring and will return them on agreed terms. Other notes report employees and mills showing enthusiasm for profit sharing plans, with subscriptions reaching substantial sums and requests for allocations to the Canal Duyer sheet mill project.
The text lists three things to govern temper courage gentleness and location and three things to hate delight hate and admire. It notes a five cent rise in coffee price may push some to doubt coffee’s wholesomeness. Local remarks praise Cambridge and county coal and gas supplies amid price shifts with no sign of coal operator extortion.
In Columbia South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Tillman shot editor Narcisso Gonzales founder of the Columbia State after a long feud. Gonzales wounded badly with liver and intestines punctured but alive awaiting further medical updates. Tillman was arrested and Gonzales rushed to hospital as crowd gathered.
In a Washington navy office a poised young woman Betsy Navilla arrives to see Lieutenant John Hinds. The secretary confronts Hinds about a visit from a woman in office, while Hinds and Bettie navigate misunderstandings and a hurried exit with his books.
A secretary corrects a misnaming of "Lieutenant Hinds" blamed on a joke among officers. The prank ends with Hinds assigned as a private clerk at the navy department, earning $200 a year, while Miss Hattie accepts the arrangement.
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