Ohio Assembly Convenes With Call for Budget and Reforms
Ohio's seventy-eighth general assembly opens after Gov. Harris calls sessions. Officers elected in both houses, a speaker pro tem in the senate, Granville W. Mooney chosen in the house, and a program prioritizing appropriations for 1909, state treasury reform, mandatory competitive bidding, and an expanded use of convict labor for a new penitentiary.
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Columbus
Harris
General Assembly of
Ohio
House
Carmi A.thompson
General Assembly
Supreme Court
Senate
N. O. Mather
Summit County
John R. Malloy
Franklin County
Fred Caskey
J Leon Yearnick
Ashland County
Thomas E. Green, Jr
Mahoning County
Benjamin Stringer
Jefferson County
George A. Prosser
C. S. Ireland
Champaign County
C. J. Nichols
Marion County
William Strick
Cuyahoga County
Granville W. Mooney
Ashtabula County
Edgar Strvin
Meigs County
John P. Maynard
H H Redker
Highland County
Fred Blenkner
United States
Auditor of State
Feneral
Common School University
Board of Deposit
Cau
Inauguration and deaths mark varied 1908 events
James A. Brady becomes Idaho governor while D W Fitton of Hamilton First National Bank dies. A schooner crew off Cape Cod drowns. Samuel Hunter is released from Ohio Penitentiary after commutation. Chaplain Starr loses his hat to a thief during senate prayer.
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James A. Brady
Idaho
D. W. Fitton
Hamilton
New York
J. A. Lambert
Davenport
Chicago
Harry B. Crow
Freddie Welsh
George Memsic
Los Angeles
Cal
United States Army
Thomas
San Francisco
Philippines
John J. Thomas
Gallipolis
Wyoming
Abraham Lincoln
Grange
Shields
Eng
Tennessee
Kentucky
Landis Banking Company
Nashville
K. King
Columbus
Urbana
Victor Lebrisker
John
Hackensack
W O .Thompson
Ohio State University
Cincinnati
Dayton & Troy Electric Railway
Tippecanoe City
Columbus (O
Harmon
Wolf Clothing Company
Boni de Castellane
Paris
Princess de Sagan
Anna Welland
Bartemes
Amherst
St. Petersburg
Whang Chang
Durham W. Stevens
Taft
Portland
Ore
Hanly
Indiana
Vicksburg
Miss
Democratic caucus backs Campbell for U S senator
In the judiciary room of the senate a caucus elected R A Beatty of Wood county chairman and T A Dean of Sandusky county secretary to serve the session. Senator Huffman named Democratic floor leader. The 14 Democratic senators decided to back Former Governor Campbell for U S senator with H L Yount of Darke county to place him in nomination on January 12.
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Senate
R. A. Beatty
Wood County
T. A. Dean
Sandusky County
Huffman
Campbell
United States
H. L. Yount
Darke County
Government Loses Suit Standard Oil Fine Case
The U S Supreme Court will not review the Standard Oil Company case involving a 29 million dollar fine. Chief Justice Fuller announced the government's petition for certiorari was denied, leaving intact the court of appeals ruling that opposed the government and favored Standard Oil.
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Standard
Supreme Court Deci_sion
Washington
Standard O!l
Supreme Court of the United States
Fuller
Court of Appeals
Tragedy Ends New Year Threat in Cincinnati Street
Clarence Oldham, printer and son of George W. Oldham editor of the Maysville Public Ledger, shot his wife Dulcle Oldham in the street then fatally wounded himself. Both are hospitalized in critical condition as investigators note a volatile domestic life and a threat carried out before year’s end.
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Cincinnati
Clarence Oldham
George W. Oldham
Maysville
Public Ledger
Dulcle Oldham
Oldham
Was Former Columbus Professor
Professor John P. Gordy of New World university and his wife died by their own hand using chloroform. A former Ohio State University faculty member in Columbus and Ohio University in Athens, Gordy was regarded as a leading pedagogue and top institute lecturer in Ohio. The deaths followed the loss of their daughter Gwendolyn, amid despondency.
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Columbus
John P. Gordy
New World University
Ohio State University
Ohio University
Athens
Gordy
United States
Ohio
Gwendolyn
Farewell Dinner Planned for Governor Harris in Columbus
State officials and department attaches will host a farewell dinner for Governor Andrew L. Harris Friday night in Columbus. A hotel venue is to be chosen soon. Inspector Sperre Deputy Brown and Caley head the planning committee with B H O Randall likely to serve as toastmaster.
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Columbus
State Departments
Andrew L. Harris
State Building and Loan
Sperre
Brown
Registrar of Automobiles
Caley
O. Randall
Doctor Dies in Office Accident In Pomeroy
In Pomeroy Ohio on December 31 Dr L P Lee was accidentally shot in the head by a revolver handed to him by J L Williamson. The weapon discharged instantly killing the doctor.
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Pomeroy, O
Burton Named for U S Senate by Ohio Republicans
In Columbus on January 4 the Republican members of the Seventy eighth Ohio General Assembly endorsed Representative Burton of Cleveland for the United States Senate. He is slated for election at a joint session on January 12 to succeed Joseph B Foraker.
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Burton
Columbus
Cleveland
United States
Seventy-eighth General Assembly
Joseph B. Foraker
Italian man slashes wife over bread and meat dispute
Salem Oregon December 31 Shrader an Italian resident of Teegarden attacked his wife with a butcher knife after she baked poor bread refused to buy meat and baked no pies. He was mobbed by coal miners and severely beaten.
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Salem
John Shrader
Teegarden
Shrader
Wealthy Meigs County Man Shoots Self at Home
Peter Bentz a wealthy resident of Racine Meigs County killed himself with a gun at his home. Authorities attribute his act to worry over troubles from the Peter Harpold estate, related to J W S Starkey presently in the Ohio penitentiary, which eroded his reason.
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Pomeroy
Peter Bentz
Meigs County
Racine
Peter Har Pold
J. W. S. Starkey
Ohio Penitentiary
Fall Fatal to Workmen at Cleveland Blast Furnace
A scaffold collapse at the Central blast furnace in Cleveland Ohio drops 15 Italian workers 30 feet to the brick ground tearing down a chimney. One man is dead and the rest seriously injured with several likely fatally hurt.
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Cleveland, O
Nolle Murder Indictment Ends Trial Bid in Dayton
Layton Hines once sentenced to life for the murder of Anna Markowitz has the indictment for shooting her companion Abraham Cohan nolled by the common pleas court. The defendant will not be tried on that charge.
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Nolle
Dayton, O
Layton Hines
Penitentiary
Anna Markowitz
Abraham Cohan
Common Pleas Court
Fire destroys Erie county fair barn and three race horses
Sandusky Ohio January 2. A fire of suspected incendiary origin gutted the Erie county fair grounds barn killing race horses Cash Jr Sconia and Lottie Hart owned by Philip Rice of this city. Edward Yates who usually slept in the barn is missing.
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Sandusky
Erie County Fair Grounds
Cash Jr
Sconia
Lottie Hart
Philip Rice
Edward Yates
Funeral of Carothers In Cincinnati
Funeral of Jane and Daniel D Carothers, late chief engineer of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railroad, who died in Baltimore, was held at Spring Grove cemetery chapel in Cincinnati. Interment followed services in the cemetery chapel.
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Carothers
Cincinnati
O. Jane
Daniel D Carothers
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Ra’‘s Road Company
Baltimore
Spring Grove
Boy Drowns While Skating in Mahoning River
John Roland Jr aged 17 drowned in the Mahoning River at Niles Ohio while skating. Four companions went under with him but all but Roland reached shore after desperate struggles.
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Niles, O
John Roland, Jr
Mahoning River
Actor Barney Reynolds Dies in Cleveland Hotel Room
Barney Reynolds aged 72, renowned comedian and showman of the old school, was found dead in a Cleveland hotel room. Heart disease is suspected as the cause of death.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, O
Barney Reynolds
Canvass Set as Senate Confirms Ohio Appointments
Columbus January 5 The general assembly sits in joint session to canvass November votes and adjourn until January 11. Harris and Morris appointments were sent to the senate and confirmed despite Democratic opposition. Numerous state officials receive terms expiring 1910 to 1918 with hospital trustees and university trustees named.
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Senate
James #. Morris
Charles C. Lamert
Kenton
John L. Sullivan
St. Marys
W. T. Lewis
Columbus
W. H. Phipps
Paulding
Board of Public Works
Charles E. Perkins
Akron
W. S. Rogers
Cleveland
State Bank
B. B. Seymour
Ashtabula
J. C. Wonders
Bellefontaine
Athens Hospital
G. B. Robbins
Chillicothe
Dayton Hospital
George Sohngen
Hamilton
Toledo Hospital
Charles L. Johnson
Sandusky
Hospital
William Rusler
Lima
Girls’ Industrial School
Delaware
L. H. Williams
Ripley
Ohio State University
John T. Mack
Charles J. Krupp
Madison Home
A. C. Wengling
Salem
George S. Mardoff
Norwalk
Wilberforce University
W. A. Galloway
Xenia
Andrew J. DeHart
Cincinnati
M. W. Beacon
Board of Health
Darwin G. Palmer
Geneva
Board of Veterinary Examiners
Walter Shaw
Dayton
Fish and Game Commission
Paul North
Chicago Markets Report Prices for Cattle and Hogs
Market notes show cattle ranges in Chicago with steers from 4 60 to 7 65 and cows at 3 00 to 4 25. Hogs largely quoted 4 26 to 6 20 with choice heavy shipping around 6 10 to 6 20. calves 3 50 to 9 00. Wheat 1 05 to 1 06. corn 57 to 68c. oats 49c.
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Chicago
Cleveland
Tomas
East
S.uf
Pittsburg
Catitle
Pri.e
Boston
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Kentucky
Cincinnati
Questions for Teachers Test on Mental Qualifications for Public School Certs
Prepared by the State School Commissioner the document lists exam questions for prospective elementary teachers. It covers fractions and arithmetic word problems, measurement and geometry, investment comparisons, volume calculations, rate and notes, and punctuation and syntax analysis. The items require demonstrations and explanations suitable for teacher instruction.
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State Commissioner of Public Schools
Theory and Practice School Quiz Prompts
A series of educational prompts asks about teacher aims in shaping ideal self and community, ethics of conduct, publicizing work, hygienic school practices, books on education, funding sources, and aims of good school management. It also seeks promotion criteria and five pedagogical maxims.
Writing From Manuscript In Orthography
A note on writing is presented emphasizing fidelity to original manuscript orthography. The statement signals a focus on preserving archaic spelling and stylistic choices rather than modernizing text.
Orthography and word forms practice in 19th century text
Educational questions on pronunciation diacritics and synantonyms. Includes lists of words to spell and proscribed terms like Roosevelt Bismark Dakota chloral em barrass.
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Dakota
Grammar notes on sentence types and parts of speech
The text covers simple compound and complex sentences, connectives for each type, and defines subject and predicate. It asks to identify complete subject and predicate in a long sentence about Mr Matthew Adams and his library. It also requests noun murals, word meaning differences, and active versus passive voice with six examples.
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Matthew Adams
Bath
Muse
Freman
Gas
Turkey
Musselman
Art
Adams
Literature eight selected topics for study and questions
A set of literature prompts including questions on Othello Hamlet and Byron Wordsworth Dryden and Coleridge. It asks to name authors of Task Enoch Arden and Pilgrim’s Progress and discuss poets verve and meter. It requests brief plots and biographical notes and lists school useful productions.
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Jonghia
Hamlet
Lamb
Shellay Bae
Byron
Wordsworth
Task
Enoch Arden
Dicker
Ur Dryden
Civil Government Questions on U S History and Politics
A set of civics prompts asking to name influences on discovery of America, European claims in American territory, British rights claimed by colonists, Northwest Ordinance bonds, key War of 1812 engagements, year of Confederacy formation, Utah statehood and Union Pacific telegraph, notable figures’ distinctions, written versus unwritten constitutions, and presidential succession order.
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Northwest
England
Dia
Union Pacific Railroad
Utah
John C. Calhoun
Justice Taney
Jefferson Davia
Stephen A. Douglas
Physiology Study Questions from a Medical Primer
A set of physiology prompts covering sleep and waste repair, heart function, necessity and types of food, digestive secretions and their sources, diagrams of eye focusing, middle ear structure, nervous system control of muscles, treatment for cuts and bruises, bone composition and anatomy, and questions on whether alcohol and opium are foods and their stomach effects.
Geography questions for study and map skills
A set of geography prompts covering Earth's axis directions in seasons, North American resource based occupations, practical travel from Columbus Ohio, river systems and mercantile cities, Mediterranean and Pacific ports, city size comparisons, waters separating regions, location of Crete Bosnia Herzegovina and Bulgaria with current events, major exports, and tools aiding geography such as newspapers railways gas pictures and outline maps.
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North America
Lumbus
Ohio
America
Mediterranean Sea
Pacific
Columbus
Toledo
Ton
Connecticut
England
Arabia
Africa
West Indies
South America
Crete
Bosnia
Herzegovna
Bulgari
Reading Dust in Radio Noise
Fragmentary OCR notes reference dust in radio astronomy contexts, hinting at readings or signals. The readable text is sparse, offering no clear event, date, or involved entities to identify a full news item.
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Shio
Buckeye News
Tray Tsat
Mr. Holmes
El'zabeth
Aleeller
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