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Newspaper
Carey Times
Location
Carey, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1908
Page
8
Medina June 9 Mrs Bronson M House aged 50 ended her life by setting fire to clothing saturated with coal oil after homesickness drove her to leave the old farm home she shared with her husband. The husband was seriously burned trying to save her as the fire broke out. The piece notes the emotional strain of leaving a cherished past.
Troop B returns from Brown County after 34 days guarding riverfront tobacco beds from night riders. Crowds cheer as they march from Norfolk & Western train to High street Broad Street to their armory. A banquet prepared by mothers and sweethearts awaits them.
Joseph De Haven a 28 year old plasterer was taunted over cards and beaten by three men as he tried to leave a West Side saloon. His skull was crushed with a beer glass and seven ribs broken by heavy boots. He died at St. John's Hospital without regaining consciousness. William Wuest Charles Bowles and William Bowles charged with murder.
Nelson Cannon, brought from Canada to answer bribery charges over city contracts, was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. Judge Rathmell set bond at 70000 due to his flight. Prosecutor Weber requested 200000. unable to post, Cannon remained jailed awaiting trial.
Columbus Ohio June 9 Practically all mines in the Hocking valley are now working to full capacity with contracts that will keep them busy through the summer. The Hocking Valley railroad repair shops at Logan began operation employing several hundred men.
Troops from Company I near Higginsport repelled an attempted raid by night riders. In a farmhouse barn lot four miles away, the raiders fired on advancing soldiers who sought cover then returned fire. No injuries were reported as the raiders escaped on horseback.
State Fire Marshal W. S. Rodgers announces Orloff W. Brown of Columbus as first deputy replacing J. P. Brennan of Urbana. Dr. Clarence Maris of Columbus is reappointed pyrologist. H. H. Hollenbeck is offered the post of chief assistant fire marshal with a $2400 yearly salary.
Governor Harris appointed General W. B. Rodgers of Cleveland as state fire marshal to succeed D. S. Creamer. Rodgers, commander of the Ohio department of the Grand Army, served as a private in Co. E, 60th Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War and began his duties today.
Dayton, June 9 Chester Wallace, 20, convicted of murder in the second degree for killing Alexander Tucker in a quarrel over 25 cents. He was sentenced to the Ohio penitentiary for life after striking Tucker with a stone and crush ing his skull.
On June 9 in a Willoughby Cleveland hotel, architect Charles P Corlett killed his wife Elizabeth then took his own life. The motive cited is jealousy, ending two lives in a single incident.
Cleveland resident Frank Cook has been appointed by Secretary of State Thompson as a clerk in the automobile registration department and will assume duties today in Columbus.
Wilmington June 9 Felix G. Sloane judge of the court of common pleas dies at age 72, the oldest judge in the state.
Four sailors died and ten were injured when a steam pipe in the Tennessee's starboard engine room blew during a speed trial off Point Puenene California. Rear Admiral Sebree narrowly escaped, an official inquiry ordered. one Babcock Wilcox four-inch boiler tube failed, sending scalding steam and debris through the fire pit.
The funerals of J. P. Carroll of Hartford Connecticut and F. S. Maxfield of Toughkenamon Pennsylvania, victims of the U S cruiser Tennessee boiler explosion, were held in San Pedro California. Carroll died at Angelus marine hospital near Los Angeles on Saturday and Maxfield on Sunday. They received military honors at Harborview cemetery. Maxfield’s death raises fatalities to seven.
Louis Andeline Gregori a military writer who shot Major Alfred Dreyfus at the Pantheon June 9 said he aimed to graze him to protest army participation in Zola canonization and Dreyfus rehabilitation. Dreyfus suffered a forearm wound with no bone injury and is reported in very favorable condition.
Brewers from across the nation gather in Milwaukee for the forty-eighth annual convention led by Julius Liebmann of New York. Liebmann says the key issue is local option laws and that brewers must engage in politics for self-protection.
East Buffalo cattle prices list exports and stock types with varying bids. Chicago Cleveland Pittsburg and Boston markets show mixed cattle hogs sheep and grain quotes, with notable figures for steers cows calves hogs and wheat across multiple cities.
Prepared under the state commissioner of public schools the list of questions for examining teachers on June 6 for elementary school certificates. The document outlines the mental qualifications required for those seeking positions in the public schools.
The passage discusses how disasters test and elevate women, contrasting with how men are broken by misfortune. It notes women often display extraordinary courage, sometimes approaching sublimity in character. The quotes from Irving frame this view.
A practice test style prompt asks about school board rule power over governance, attention factors, thought culture and individuality, classroom routines like recitation and questioning, methods to strengthen morals, distinctions among instruction training and inspiration, pros and cons of class versus individual instruction, and a paragraph on a key pedagogy book.
A set of math problems including defining number and metric units, field area and crop revenue, sun time versus standard time, clothing price changes with multiple markdowns, stock investment income and interest rate, compound interest for a future value, gas meter readings and monthly bills with cash discount, and coal bin volume for 30 tons.
Words to spell for pronunciation include cartilage elavicle coughing perennial bobolink alfalfa delirium privilege cabal article vertical valleys manufacturing proportion assessor Apennines Sweden Philippine treasurer control hygiene bronchitis maize mosquitoes humus bacteria pistil recede grievous forceful.
A set of questions covers religious intolerance colonies Cavaliers Oglethorpe’s colony name first and last Revolutionary War battles and outcomes Northwest Territory states Missouri statehood secession Johnson administration slavery impact on commerce education and society naval development through major wars and definitions of monarchy oligarchy ex post facto treason.
This item outlines the general character of The Canterbury Tales, names its central figures, and discusses the dramatic unities and Shakespeare’s view of them. It also prompts brief notes on rise of the English novel and categories of prose with examples.
Ten questions cover seating and lighting for eyes. ventilation for clean air. oxygen entering blood. classes of foods with examples and digestion sites. heart contraction frequency and rate factors. muscle versus tendon differences. action of the biceps. nails as skin modification and care. dental structure uses and hygiene. and harmful alcohol effects on four organs.
A list of geography prompts covering the torrid zone Gulf of Mexico countries and ports Philippine products largest island and interests in several cities sources of US sugar European city latitudes Europe south of Columbus line Japan government city exports Canadian provinces border cities Spain vs Scotland differences forest removal impacts.
The note states that examiners evaluate writing based on the manuscript’s orthography. It emphasizes accuracy in spelling punctuation and capitalization to judge revision readiness and linguistic precision.
Examiners will conduct an oral examination in reading. The event outlines test procedures, scoring criteria, and allowed materials for participants.
Provide four prefixes with meanings. Use diacritics to show pronunciation for bird work gape nautical has. Use each of the five given words in two sentences with emphasis on the first syllable and then as a created form of the second syllable. Include five words adopted from fos as written.
Feltham cites joy in modest living and personal growth through emulation of noble minds rather than envy of others. A humorous aside notes men’s hair grays earlier than women.
J A Smith advertises revised farm lists for sale near Trumbull and Portage counties. Listings include farms priced 15 to 125 per acre, a 7 room Clay street house, a finished garret home, corner lot blocks, a Hill addition lot, and an 87 acre Carey area farm with brick house and red barn. Buyers’ expenses refunded. Come quick.
John Morley joked with Sir George Trevelyan about a famed misquote by Lord Macaulay. Trevelyan affirmed the line was deliberate not a mistake, noting the army moves one step at a time and the noise comes from many marching feet.
The Boston Transcript notes a Philadelphia group Societas Scandi navigensis claimed George Washington was an honorary member. It reports Washington in 1782 saying he descended from a Danish Wass family said to have moved to England in 970 and founded Wassingaton. The piece questions public fixation on Viking ancestry.
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