Markets Halt May Grain Trades Across Chicago Kansas City St Louis
May grain trading was halted on the Chicago and Kansas City boards and St Louis exchanges. Wheat futures dropped after indemnities were voided and May delivery contracts barred. Butter and other staples posted declines while corn and oats futures fell amid the frantic session.
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Chicago
Kansas _ City
St. Louis
Kansas City Boards of Trade
Chicago Board
Chigo
Kansas City Board of Rade
Stouts Merchants Exchange
Settlement Near For Strike In Ohio Pottery Plants
Strikers in Sebring potteries returned to work after short layoff as five companies grant a 25 cent daily bonus. State mediators announce potential union recognition by the country and only one cent an hour wage difference remains. Optimism runs high for an early settlement of the Stark Electric and Cleveland Alliance and Mahoning Valley Railway dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stark Electric and
Cleveland, Alliance and Mahoning Valley Railway
Wales
Sebring
Alliance
Not Guilty On Concealed Weapon Charge In Mock Deadly Pistol Dispute
A debate between Chief Detective Swope and clerk Ross Hurford over a cast iron pistol held by Griffith Davis delayed grand jury action. The weapon’s safety sparked argument whether it was a toy or a deadly firearm. Judge Quinn offered Davis the doubt and he was freed with a warning. pistol confiscated for further inquiry.
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Swope
Criminal Court
Ross Hurford
Griffith Davis
Davis
Grand Jury
Harford
Quinn
Volunteers Offer Services for Special Registration Drive
Many volunteers have offered to aid the county election board and officials for conducting the special registration under the army draft. Most are men too old for service or disqualified by disability, and officials expect enough volunteers to fill at least two per voting precinct. They will serve without pay and several have long experience as election officials.
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County Election Board
Coal Dealers Arrested In Anti Trust Case In Cleveland
Ten leading Cleveland coal dealers representing about three quarters of the city’s retail market faced trial before Judge Vickery on charges of violating the Valentine anti trust law. Prosecutors allege the group fixed and raised coal prices from May 1 to October 15, 1916, at times boosting the price 50 cents per ton. Defendants include Thomas A Jones Charles A Albright Jacob A Witt Bertram R Taylor James E Andrews Ransom G Miller William J Krause Wm B McDiarmid Wm Schafer and Edwin C Brown.
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Cleveland
Vickery
Doerfler
Thomas A Jones
Charles A. Albright
Jacob A. Witt
Bertram R. Taylor
James E. Andrews
Ransom G. Miller
William J. Krause
Wm. B. McDiarmid
Wm. Schafer
Edwin C. Brown
All the Day's News at a Glance Despatches from Argentina and war news
Despatches from Argentina say fear of war hurting trade. Thousands join officer reserve corps training. A Wooster court case on a wife accused of complicity in her husband's murder. Springfield police puzzle over a poison mystery killing three. U S commission to Russia seeks instructions from President Wilson. New York Stock Exchange opens briskly. British forces capture Reaux after hard fighting. Registrants volunteer for the army draft. Canton churches mark Mothers Day. 2000 attend flag raising at The United Alloy Steel Corp plant. Weather and local notices follow. Despatches note Russian army splitting up and Von Hindenburg opposing Hollweg reforms. A Manchester fire kills four. Three elephants die in Defiance circus fire. Zeebrugge air raid possibly curb U boat activity. Frank Tyson seeks to make steamships torpedo proof. Canton Rotary observes ten acre tract development. Mayors discuss draft spending. reinstate rules for service returning. Canton firemen wage increase stance deferred. Pistol found in prisoner jeopardy case. Suits filed to stop taxes. Massillon Rolling Mill sues striking workers.
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Springfield
Mass
Elihu Root
U. S Commission
Russia
Wilson
New York Stock Exchange
Aig
Reaux
Teutons
Kirk
Court House
Canton
United Alloy Steel Corporation
Zeebrugge
Frank Tyson
Advance Dairy Machine Co
Washington
Canton Rotary Club
Marketaw Road
Henry Neischwitz
High-ay
Photons
Norwood
Massillon
Alliance
Kunkel
Civil Service Commission
Grand Jury
Cyrus Stoner
Isaac Hu
Police to Seek $10 Monthly Pay Increase for Firemen
Canton police plan to follow firefighters in seeking a $10 monthly raise to $100 from $90, with the request to be introduced at Monday night’s council meeting. Safety Director Kunkel will wait for finance committee indications on 1918 budget appropriations before acting. Mayor Stolberg previously urged department reports on needs for the coming fiscal year.
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Canton
Kunkel
Council
Stolberg
Police
Plans For Essay Contest In Congressional Districts
Entrants from congressional districts will compete to choose district representatives, with four prizes per division. The statewide essay contest will be held in Columbus on June 1, replacing the former spelling contest. High school essays must be 1000 words on How to Make Ohio Beautiful. grade entries 800 words on How to Earn and Save Money.
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Columbus
County Board of Education
Renkert
Charles Barthelmen
Tuscarawasco
Ohio
Venezuela Revolt Reported Tied to German Influence
Word of a new abortive revolution in Venezuela reached Curacao with reports of clashes near Maracay, home of President Gomez. Pro German influences are alleged to be at work, with many arrests made and claims that Gomez holds about $2,000,000 in German banks.
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New York
Venezuela
Curacao
Dutch West Indies
Maracay
Gomez
Caracas
Argentine Fears Trade Cut With United States
La Prensa warns that war could force the United States to curb maritime operations with Argentina. Since the war began the U S has been Argentina's main supplier of manufactured goods and major buyer of its exports. The paper and government urge the Argentine ambassador in Washington to act to avert disaster.
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Buenos Aires
la Prensa
U. S
U.S
Washington
Public reception and donation day at Canton Day Nursery
The public is invited to the opening public reception and donation day of The Canton Day Nursery at 1410 Superior Ave NE on Wednesday afternoon. Donations may be left at Zollinger's store on Tuesday. Adv notice. Also an advertisement urges Grocers and Butchers to attend a meeting at the C. of C. rooms this evening with prominent speakers. An ad for 3 ply garden hose at 9c per foot from The Klein and Heffelman Co Basement.
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Canton Day Nursery
Superiorar NE
Zollinger’s
C. of C
Advt
Klein & Heffelman Co
Canton Rotary Farm Fails to Plow Potatoes
Canton Rotarians hoped to cultivate a 10 acre potato tract on Market Avenue Road but discovered local effort would be overshadowed by Russell Co Massillon offering to plow the land for free. Forty five Rotarians watched a tractor work as the rest awaited crops while an out of town firm proposed planting and later digging the potatoes. L. J. Noaker, president, acts as farmer-in-chief.
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Canton
Rotarians
Rotary
L. J. Noaker
Council to Get Cabbage Survey
Service Director Starrett will present the garbage collection survey by Engineer R W Pratt and urge action by the garbage committee. John S Hissong said council is likely to approve Pratt's proposed free collection plan with initial year cost 17500 and first year maintenance 16500, rising as population grows.
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Starrett
Council
R. W. Pratt
John S. Hissong
Pratt
Canton
Eleven Placed on Farms by Canton Bureau
The Canton state city free employment bureau reports placing 11 men and boys on farms in four days. A 14 year old Canton high school student left for a job near Mineral City to build fitness for football next season. A farmer sought help at the bureau and left with a worker within two minutes. The bureau now has full telephone service Bell 2228 State 3767.
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Canton
Free Employment Bureau
A. J. Sherlock
Sherlock
Mineral City
Bureau
Labor Bureau
Bell
Poison Mystery Stuns Springfield as Three Die
Three people, a six year old boy Clifford Gordon, a lodger Miss Hilda Frances twenty, and housekeeper Miss Nell Cushman fifty five, die from poisoning in the Gordon apartment. Police call it one of the department’s most mysterious cases as detectives investigate the unrevealed toxin and method.
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Springfield
Mass
Clifford Gordon
Bertha Gordon
Hilda Frances
Gordon
Nell Cushman
Gordons
Stork Near In Murder Case In Wooster
Mrs Belva Eshelman stands trial for complicity in the February murder of her husband Charles Eshelman near Easton. Accompanying her, Glenn Landis the Akron soldier already jailed for life. The first Wayne county woman to face murder charges sits with her two children as jurors are scrutinized.
Speculators In Food Traitors In Nation Debate May
May 14 Columbus. Dr. Alston Ellis president of Ohio University told Governor Cox that extortionate coal and flour prices make traitors of speculators. He cited idle loaded coal cars between Columbus and Athens and claimed each coal car yields $100 extra profit. The governor ordered the attorney general to record Ellis deposition for use in plans to lower food and fuel prices.
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Columbus
Alston Ellis
Ohio University
Athens
Cox
Bilis
Ellis
McGhee
Celebrate Golden Wedding Of Mr and Mrs Nieschwitz
Mr and Mrs Henry Nieschwitz of 626 High Ave NW celebrate their golden wedding anniversary. Married May 14 at St Peter’s Catholic Church by Father Arnold, they have seven children, fifteen grandchildren, and two in Los Angeles. He is Civil War veteran and worked for Danner Manufacturing. Both are in good health at 72.
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Henry Nieschwitz
Adelaide Witmer
St. Peter's Catholic Church
Father Arnold
Nieschwitz
Canton
Portageco
William Nieschwitz
Louis Seikel
Margaret Farwick
Leo Nieschwitz
Harry Nieschwitz
Los Angeles
Calif
Charles Niesch
Governor Cox Opposes Referendum on Reynolds Suffrage Act
Columbus May 14 Governor Cox said he will oppose the proposed referendum on the Reynolds woman's political suffrage act. He noted both political platforms last year supported suffrage by the states and would oppose any attempt to undo it. He called voting against the referendum an act of bad faith to uphold party pledges.
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Columbus
Cox
St. Louis
Survivors Arrive From Sunk Ships at American Port
May 14 report says fifty four survivors of the American steamships Vacuum and Rockingham, sunk by submarines, reached port. Captain John Kirby and twenty three Gorizia survivors also arrived. Rockingham crew claim two U boats aided the attack and dived away before gunfire. Advertising note for Canton wallpaper store at 315 Market Ave opposite McKinley Hotel.
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Vacuum
Rockingham
John Kirby
Gorizia
Mile of Flags Unfurls at Canton's Steel Plant Ceremony
Two thousand attendees witnessed a grand flag raising at United Alloy Steel Corporation in Canton. A massive flag soared atop a tall mast as cadets, a firing squad, and a patriotic chorus filled the scene with scenes of liberty and national pride. Mayor Stolberg and Rev. George A. Jackson spoke on service and freedom, praising the American spirit in industry and daily life.
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North High School
United Alloy Steel Corporation
United States
Canton
America
United Alley
Mayor Stolberg
George A. Jackson
Rev
Jackson
Stolberg
Rev. Jackson
Thayer
Start Training Officers Corps Opens Camps Nationwide
Washington May 14 About 40 000 men answered the call for officers reserve training camps in 15 sections of the country. Camps will train for three months and those without commissions may take exams at camp end. Camps aim to produce officers to command the first 500 000 men within three months. Additional camps will begin in August as candidates are trained.
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Washington
War Department
Rovernment
Draft bill near ready in Washington after Roosevelt offer
The congressionally negotiated conscription bill nears final approval as conferees expect Senate amendments accepted and presidential sign by midweek. In Moose event notes, a boxing carnival planned for May 16 features 18 rounds with O'Brien from Cleveland facing Thomas of Lorain, buffet lunch included, tickets $1 at club rooms.
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Washington
House
Col. Roosevelt
Moose
O’brien
Cleveland
Thomas
Lorain
Commission to Russia Meets the President
Washington May 14. All members of Americas diplomatic, military, and naval mission to Russia met President Wilson in a final briefing. Led by Elihu Root, the group will start for Petrograd to aid Russia in World War I by organizing a permanent government with popular consent and rebuilding the Siberia railway to restore munitions flow and Russia’s status as a world power.
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Washington
America
Russia
Wilson
Elihu Root
White House
Petrograd
U. S
Root Commission
American Railroad Expert Commission
Siberia
Japan
British Secure Village Reoux In Hand To Hand Fighting
British forces under Field Marshal Haig tightened control of Village Reoux east of Arras after penetrating the western edge and pushing deeper in the pounding streets. Fierce street fighting with bayonets marked the assault as Germans resisted stoutly in fortified houses near the Scarpe river.
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London
Haig
Reoux
Arras
Scarpe
Reaux
Droucourt-Queant
Bullecourt
Roehy
St. Quentin
Ypres
West Flanders
War Office
May curb sub activities after Zeebrugge and Wilhelmshaven damage
May 14. German submarine operations may be restricted as heavy damage hit Zeebrugge harbor works from British shells and a fire at Wilhelmshaven burned imperial wharves for hours last Wednesday before being checked.
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Amsterdam
Germany
Zeebrugge
Wilhelmshaven
French Complete Tour Washington After Transcontinental Visit
The French mission led by Marshal Joffre returned to Washington shortly after noon completing the greatest trans continental tour by a foreign nation. Members praised the warm goodwill and friendship shown to them across the journey. They rested briefly at the Henry White mansion after their arrival.
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Washington
U. S
Marshal Joffre Down
Henry White
Masonic Notice for Canton Lodge Special Communication
A special Communication of Canton Lodge No. 60 will be held Monday evening at 7 o clock. Degree conferred by F Derree. W P Beardsley W M and C EB Norris Secy announce. Lawn mowers Caldwell mowers the best on the market four dollars up. Garden tools of every description at the Klein Heffelman Co Basement Adv.
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Canton Lodge No. 60
F. ©. Derree
W. P. Beardsley
W. M
C. EB. Norris
Sec’y
Caldwell
Klein & Heffelman Co
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Eevee Ereseeseune
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Massillon Rolling Mill
Say Gomez
Canton Rotarians
Hissong
Stork Near
Porter
Electro
State
McKinley
United Alloy Plants
L. BE
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad Co
Plan NE
Willys Knights
Canton Motor Car Co.—Advt
Commission
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