Oberlin wins again as Stolberg falls in primary
In a precincts only vote, Adam W. Oberlin defeats Stolberg by over two to one for renomination. Berlin carries all but two precincts, with some margins as high as four to one. Republican nominee for police judge J. A. Bowman and Homer H. Hill win respectively. Democratic contenders include Charles B. Poors man and R. Witter. Primary totals show about 8,500 votes cast with 3,500 on both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlies A. Stolberg
Ted Tuesday
Adam W. Oberlin
Berlin
J. A. Bowman
Ublican
Police
H. H. Hill
R. Thom
E. Sterling
Stolberg
Canton mobilizes second Rainbow division volunteers for France
Canton dispatch reports 15 soldiers from Co. C depart for Mineola to join the Forty second Rainbow division. The 33 men who left Tuesday were sent to Wooster to join Co. D, Eighth Regiment, raising the quota for the Fourth Ohio to 2,000 with 50 officers. Troops packed field gear for France and faced a quiet station farewell as war department secrecy framed their mobilization.
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COC
Canton
France
Fourth Infantry
Mineola
Co. C
Ohio
Rainbow” Division National Guard
Forty Second
Long Island
War Department
Rainbow
National Guard
Albert L. Mills
Wooster
Co. D. Eighth
Central War Department
Chicacho
Officera of
Chicago
Ellsworth Marriner
Marriner
Col. Vollrath
Bucyrus
Miner
Harry Hazlett
Stark Electric Seeks Half Cent Fare Increase
Stark Electric requests raising interurban fare to two and a half cents per mile starting Sept. 10 if the Ohio utilities commission approves new tariffs filed. If allowed, other Ohio interurbans may seek similar increases, with travel costs rising for many daily riders and traveling men planning appeals to the state supreme court to block or delay the raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stark Electric
Ohio Utilities Commission
Western
Ohio
Cleveland
Southwestern
Columbus
Canton
Commission
State Supreme Court
Explosion Burns Two Men in East Liverpool Shoe Shop
An explosion at a shoe shining shop this morning injured two men. 8 Pontikos, 25, and Rudd Hollander, 30, were burned when a gas leak lighting a rubber hose connection ignited a match.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Pontikos
Rudd Hollander
Haber*ry
Officers Sworn in Fort Benjamin Harrison Training Camp
Aug 15 report on Ohio Virginia and Kentucky seers training camp at Fort Harrison. Newly commissioned officers sworn in after parade. many take leaves until Aug 29 then report to army cantonments or stay at Fort Harrison. others move to other parts of the country. County Y commissioners inspect Beach City road via county aid. road conditions noted as good.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Ohio
Virginia
Kentucky
Fort Harrison
Weather forecast fragment for Ohio and named locals
Fragmentary weather note for Ohio with numbers and names including Canton and an unclear pair of local identifiers. Missing dates and clear forecast details.
Milk dealers warned after seven Canton deaths
The Canton board of health told twelve retail milk dealers to raise milk quality after seven infant deaths linked to excess bacteria. If tests fail, pasteurization of the entire supply may be ordered. Health officials urged keeping milk cool and proper handling from dairy to consumer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Board of Health
F. M. Sayre
Sayre
Dr. Sayre
Claude Hamilton
City weighs appointing a food dictator
May name city food dictator to work with Herbert C. Hoover. Mayor Davis Health Commissioner Bishop and Councilman Mitchell discuss the plan. Mitchell, a grocer, is the strongest booster of the scheme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Davis
Bishop
Mitchell
Herbert C. Hoover
Canton Births Reach Five Year High in July
Canton reports 252 births and 72 deaths for July, the highest birth rate in five years. The column notes births outnumber deaths by more than three to one, with the usual ratio around two to one. Advertisement for Walter H. Double Jeweler Optician and The Hall Mark store at 123 125 Tuscarawas st E.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Optician
Walter H. Double
Jeweler & Optician
Hall Mark
Tuscarawasst E
Wife seeks husband arrest for non-support in Chicago
Mrs Charles H Acker alleged queen of poker flats who earned up to 50 a night during Sergt Lamle s gambling expose asks arrest of her husband on non support saying she has no livelihood. Income ceased after his discharge and during Lamle s trial testimony supported her claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Charles H. Acker
Sergt. Lamle
Samle
Canton Merchants Implement Daily Delivery Plan
Canton merchants began a one delivery a day system on Wednesday with sixty merchants signing the agreement. Extra deliveries will incur charges and all orders must be placed the day before or early on the day of request to ensure delivery. The related order restricting certain exchanges of goods also took effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Jury Convicts Youth of Bigamy in New Jersey Case
Kenneth Shannon, 19, member of the New Jersey field artillery, is found guilty of marrying Lillian Smith while already married. Judge Mulqueen sentences him to report with his rifle for service in France, ordering him sent to France. The case stems from a marriage in East Orange, New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
France
Lillian Smith
Kenneth Shannon
New Jersey Field Artillery
East Orange
N. J
Mulqueen
Wheat Control Offices Open in New York
Openings of the food administration wheat corporation offices in New York designate Julius Barnes as chief assistant to Herbert Hoover on wheat matters. Branch offices are planned in every wheat center nationwide to manage the nation’s grain supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
America
Food Administration Wheat Corporation
Julius Barnes
Herbert ©. Hoover
Swiss mission lands at Atlantic port
Switzerland's mission to the United States arrived today with five members led by Jean Adolphe Sulzer. The group will travel to Washington to press for approval of foodstuffs shipped to Switzerland under the exports license act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Switzerland
United States
Jean Adolphe Sulzer
Washington
Saleslady Wanted At Kenny's Drapery Department
Job ad seeks a saleslady for Kenny's Drapery department contact Mr Fetzer on the 4th floor for applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenny's
Fetzer
Canton's First National Guard Honor Roll
Canton's initial honor roll lists the city's first national guardsmen sent to France. Names include James Pettitt Walter Simler Luther Elkins Homer Mansfield Owen Lindsay Gerorge Nan Harry Floom Earl Weber Carl Rosler Georgehe Barb at Harl Borington Plsworth Marriner Harry Huat Albert Reemsnyder Elden Gerber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
France
Walter Simler
Luther Elkins
Homer Mansfield
Owen Lindsay
Gerorge Nan
Harry Floom
Earl Weber
Carl Rosler
Georgehe Barbat
Harl Borington
Plsworth Marriner
Harry Huat
Albert Reemsnyder
Elden Gerber
Regulations Bar Discharge Appeal in Widely Cited Case
A draft board hears a case where a man with a crippled sister and aged grandmother, both dependent on him, seeks a discharge. Regulations do not cover grandparent support, leaving the board uncertain how to proceed. A ruling from Provost Marshal General Crowder may be sought to resolve the exemption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Draft Board
Crowder
Father Chains Son in Brutal Home Confinement
Frank Pacut, 11, told police he was chained in a four by three by five foot cell in his home for ten and a half hours. He said his father beat him with a cat-o-nine tails after he ran away, leaving food just out of reach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank Pacut
Lehman faces two charges over pool hall license and jitney tag
A warrant was issued Wednesday for Louis Lehman on two counts. He allegedly operated a pool room without a license and ran a jitney bus without proper license tags under city ordinance. Lehman is to be arraigned this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Lehman
Lehman
Hog prices rise to 18.10 at Pittsburgh yards
Hog prices topped the $18 level at Pittsburgh on August 15 with quotes at $18.10 a hundredweight, up 25 cents from yesterday's record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Col Hough to Lead Ohio Unit to France in WWI
Col Benson W Hough of the Fourth Ohio national guard rises through ranks from private in 1892 to colonel in 1915, after service on the Mexican border and adjutant general. He is six feet two, a former athlete and horseman, recently named commander of the Fourth Infantry bound for France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benson W. Hough
Delaware
Ohio
France
Hecause Hough
Ohio National Guard
Hough
Ohio Wesleyan University
Co. K
Signal Corps
Frank B. Willis
Fourth Infantry
CANDLESTICK ON SALE FOR ONE DOLLAR IN COLUMBUS
A brass candelabrum once used by Henry Clay was sold by Kentucky relatives to a Columbus junk dealer for one dollar. The item, polished and displayed in a store window, carries a high marked price. Mrs. Charles Walgamott said she had no other relics and grew tired of the cellar clutter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Henry Clay
Charles Wolgamott
Farewell Trip Sparks Two War Marriages in Cleveland
On August 15 officers and guardsmen moving south prompted two remarriages in Cleveland. Mrs Gertrude Bryan of Detroit divorced from Sergi Bryan of the Fifth remarried him before his departure. Herman Bove of the Ohio Engineers remarried his former wife Marie Christopher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Gertrude Bryan
Detroit
Sergi. Bryan
Herman Bove
The
Ohio Engineers
Marie Christopher
Washington commissions two engineers to reserve corps
Word from Washington said Roger B. Kelley of Northwest Washington received a commission in the engineer training camp Fort Leavenworth Kansas as first lieutenant engineers in the officers reserve corps. Millard L. Hamaker of Northwest Washington was commissioned second lieutenant engineers in the officers reserve corps.
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Washington
Roger B. Kelley
Rosewood Pl
Engineer Training Camp
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Millard L. Hamaker
Fultoard
Allied Troops Parade Through London to Buckingham Palace
United States troops marched past Buckingham Palace cheered by large crowds after being welcomed at Wellington Barracks. The Guards bands led the parade while Lord Derby watched from the royal route.
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London
United States
Buckingham Palace
Wellington Barracks
Lord Derby
Palace
British Drive Cleans Lens Objectives as French Press West Front
British forces storm German trenches along the Lens Loos sector after a heavy bombardment. French troops advance on the West Flanders front near Dismude road as the Portuguese fight with the British at Neuve Chappelle, held on both sides by Allied flanks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Lens
France
Lens-Loos
West Flanders
Dismude
Neuve Chappelle
Lumber for 1000 ships reported by Southern bureau
The Southern hardwood emergency bureau in Cincinnati says it can furnish lumber for 1000 ships to counter U boat danger. Government orders total 78 ships so far. The bureau gathers data from 2500 sawmills to speed future material assembly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Southern Hardwood Emergency Bureau
City Sells Old Property to Pennsylvania Railroad
The board of health voted to sell city equipment from the old detention hospital to the Pennsylvania Railroad for 500 dollars. The building had been previously sold for 7,000 dollars. Sale of beds and fixtures brings the total to 7,600 dollars, meeting the original asking price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
Detention Hospital
Pennsylvania Railroad
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Beri
Treasand
Adam W. Ober
C. A. Fisher
James A. Bowman
James R. Graham
Fred Hafer
William T. Kirk
Charles B. Poorsman
Erman R. Witter
E. J. Hilbert
Herbert P. Perch
M. J. Branch
William R. Thom
C. Halder
Frank Tyson
Edward A. Zinninger
Oberlin Stolberg
Third Ward
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Perens
Seventh Ward
Eve
Cmeeeworwerndes
Pewee
Fficers
Beach City
Ey, Hee
Noz'e
Dara
Willys Knights
Car
Man
Open Wheat Offices
Canton’s Honor Roll
Are, James Pettitt
Col. Hough
U. S
Dixmude Road
Field Marshal Haig
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