Wyandot County Doings And Local Notes
Weekly Wyandot County items report smallpox cases in Upper Sandusky and nearby areas with school exposures. Col. L Stalter named one of ten supervising protectors in the fish and game department overseeing twelve counties. Obituaries note Emma Grunditsch and several residents, including Francis Montee, Leighty, Dr. William Benton, William Robey, Wesley Gumnther, Edwin Hill. Commencement exercises held for Nevada and Sycamore high schools with multiple graduates listed.
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Upper , Sandusky
Col. L-Stalter
Fish and Game Department
Emma & Grunditsch
Mari Ion Moines
Upper Sandusky
Oak’ Hill Cemetery
Willaim Olpp
Hocking Valley Hotel
Olpp
D. C Parker
R. Dunham
Oak Hill
William J. Robey
Wharton
Mr. Robey
Co K 180Th Regiment
Methodist Protestant
Forest
Guy Miller
Huston
Forest Wesley
Gumnther
Ile
Eden Township
Eleanor Evans
Salem Evangelical
Ro Drummond
Nevada
Edwin J Hill
Sycamore
Crawford County
Galion
Bethel Church
Spore
C V Roop
Bethel Cemeter
Nevada High School
Marguerite Bolyard
Pauline Bachtell
Viola McLaughlin
Marie Wyss
Mildred McBeth
Miriam Failor
Mary Markley
Juanita Burwell
Blanche Balliet
Velmar de Jean
Robert Jacobs
Charles S Barrett
Vance McLaughlin
William Graetz
Eugene Rider
Milton Barrett
Merrill Turney
Monnett Smith
Toledo bootlegger fined in mayor's court for liquor violations
J E Lonfield of Toledo aged 26 was fined 1017.70 after pleading guilty to transporting liquor and possessing intoxicants. A confiscated Ford coupe held liquor and a false car bottom concealed bottles. Lonfield had large bank deposits and police suspected him of distributing bottled in bond liquor.
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J. E. Lonfield
Toledo
George Lytle
Irip
Lonfield
Findlay
Clytle
Ilonfield
Lytle
Findlay Courier
Portland cement reaches century mark in 1924 era
The text notes the 100 year milestone of Portland cement, invented in 1824 by an English mason who named it for its likeness to Portland stone. It states American plants appeared 48 years after and that the United States now leads global production, surpassing all other nations combined.
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Isle of
Portland
United States
Optometrist Warns Against Unlicensed Practice in Ohio
Carey Ohio optometrist John W. Winans cautions residents about unlawful practice of optometry effective January 1920. He cites license penalties, door to door peddling bans, and rewards for informants to stop unlicensed sales and fraudulent glasses.
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Hancock County
John W. Winans
Optometrist
Carey
Ohio
Seneca County Maintains Seasonal Hold-Up Insurance
The Green Springs Echo reports Seneca County's treasury carries $10,000 hold-up insurance for about four months during tax collection. The policy safeguards funds during transport from the courthouse to banks and against office robbery. For the other eight months the county carries $2,000 of this insurance.
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Seneca County
Court House
Green Springs
Only Day Without Rain Noted in May
A man who tracked the weather says last Saturday was the only day in May up to now that did not rain. The report notes a period of frequent rain and highlights the single dry day as of that Saturday.
Arabian Nights tale of three princes and a moral
A father cannot choose the greatest wonder among three princes who each find a powerful device a cure a global transporter and a view all seeing tube. The tube shows the princess dying and saved by the cure and the decision is unsatisfactory yet wise. The piece cites George Hotchkiss and Andrew Carnegie on balance of key elements.
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George Hotchkiss
New York University
Andrew Carnegie
Imperial Type Metal Magazine
Poppy Day Observed By Legion and Scouts
The American Legion posts 1500 silk poppies made by disabled veterans will be sold by Boy Scouts on Saturday afternoon May 24 for not less than ten cents each. Proceeds aid World War orphans. 125,000 veterans have died since July 1919 and one dies every 20 minutes.
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Flanders Field
America
The
American Legion
Cadiz
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Wyandot County Automobile Club
Charles H. Lewis
Harpster
Republican Central
Executive Committees
Eighth Congressional District
Sycamore Road
Francis E. Montee
Little Sandusky
I. C. Wynn
Harpster High School
Donna Bender
Ruby Miller
Leefe Alice Fowler
Catherine Staller
Dorothy Swinehart
Eunice Swartz
Paul McBride
Sycamore High School
Ralph Allenbuse
Berton Honsberger
Alice Gregg
Clyde McPike
Clyde Honsberger
Florence Heck
Martha Corfman
Sarah Curtis
Helen McKibben
Mary Woessner
Mary Spear
Gladys Marshall
Wayne Bloom
Russell Whitehurst
Pliny
Sigafoose
George Markley
Paul Conkle
Carl McCleary
Florence Wininger
Dale Granstaff
Helen Railing
Margaret, Powell
Carey-Overland Co
Geta Su Ita
PN Biew
Ewing Drug Company
Standard Oil, Company
Am Ohio Corporation
U. S
Devoe
R. D. Perkins
Carey, Ohio
Devoe Paint and Varnish Products
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