Ohio Board of Administration to Take Over 18 State Institutions
Ohio Governor Harmon backs Russell law to consolidate 18 boards into a single administration. Four appointees will manage about 25 000 inmates and 4 000 staff, with savings expected from wholesale purchasing and new factory operations for inmate labor.
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Harmon
Ohio
Illinois
Allen W. Thurman
Columbus
D. E. Davey
Youngstown
A. E. Shepard
Dayton
Joseph P. Shaffer
Antwerp
Thurman
Allen G. Thurman
United States
Davey
Shepard
Dayton State Hospital
Shaffer
William R. Shaffer
Paulding County
Central Board
Longview Hospital
Cincinnati
Athens
Cleveland State Hospital
Toledo State Hospital
Massillon State Hospital
Gallipolis
Institution
State School For
Soldiers and Sailors’ Home
Sandusky
Madison
Boys’ Industrial School
Lancaster
Ohio State Reformatory
Mansfield
Ohio Penitentiary
Ohio State Sanitarium
Mount Vernon
Girls’ Industrial Home
Delaware
Limg State Hospital
Passengers recount Empress of China wreck off Mora reef
Passengers from the Empress of China arrive aboard the Empress of Japan and describe the July 27 wreck near Shirihama village, 660 yards from shore. The liner survived a typhoon and fog, struck the reef after engines worked full astern, damaging the stern post and steering gear while passengers remained mostly calm.
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Shirihama
Sensational novels blamed for Cleveland boy gang
Three Cleveland youths 15 and 17 burglarized a grocery on Pearl road. Patrolman Ralph Jaeckel was shot and later died while one suspect Jaroslav Koretski was mortally wounded. two others Fred Mauer and John Gerlisky were captured. Gerlisky and Mauer confessed to multiple recent crimes.
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Cleveland, CO
Cleveland
Ralph Jaeckel
Jaroslav Koretski
Fred Mauer
John Gerlisky
Jaeckel
Otto Sells
Pearl Road
Gerlinsky
Koretski
Gerlisky
Gerlisky and Mauer
Labor Riots in England Result in One Fatality
Liverpool August 13 Serious rioting during a transportation workers demonstration at St George s hall left one policeman dead and many injured. The clash began from an altercation between a policeman and strikers as the strike expanded into a general melee.
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Liverpool
St. George's Hall
Transport and Railway
Manchester
Salford
Trafalgar Square
Tillett
Transportation Federation
King George
Sydney Buxton
Board of Trade
London
Mob Burns Negro Suspect After Hospital Confrontation
Zecharia Welker, a Black man who shot a special policeman, was dragged from Coatesville hospital by a mob of about a thousand, strapped to a bed, and burned alive amid widespread violence. Women joined many rioters as police were overwhelmed and troops called. Casualties reported as rioting spread to Islington and Liverpool districts with police wounded and constables murdered.
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Coatesville
Zecharia Welker
Edgar Richie
Worth Iron Mills
Walker
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
George’s Hall
Islington
Liverpool
Cookson
Bolton
Oklahoma Mob Executes Suspect After Assault on Mrs Campbell
A mob near Duant Oklahoma, numbering about five thousand eight hundred, captured an unknown Black man who yesterday attacked and shot Mrs Redden Campbell. After a running fight, the man was killed with a volley of bullets. The mob burned the corpse after Mrs Campbell identified the assailant.
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Duant
Redden Campbell
Glasgow Strike Sparks Riots Paralyzing Streetcars
Labour unrest spreads from London as Glasgow sees widespread disorder with street cars damaged and tracks blocked. Thirty thousand workers gather at Glasgow Green while strike leaders warn of drastic actions if non union workers remain on the job.
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Glasgow Green
Cincinnati Diplomat's Wife Mrs Larz Anderson
Specal Dispatch notes Mrs Larz Anderson will live in Belgium after her husband’s appointment by the President to minister there. It highlights her two new children stories about insects and birds and her wide charity and travel. She is 34, married fourteen years and once called the richest bride in Boston.
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Commercial Tribune
Boston
Mass
Larz Anderson
Belgium
Cincinnati Is Designated Postal Savings Depository List
Washington announces rapid expansion of postal savings banks from New York Chicago and Boston to major cities including Cincinnati Pittsburg Detroit Buffalo San Francisco Kansas City Seattle Indianapolis Denver Portland and St Louis. Initial deposits mounted to 110000 in five days and annual deposits for the four cities could reach about 7 million as more post offices are designated across classes.
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Washington
New York
Chicago
Boston
Genet
Pittsburg
Detroit
Buffalo
San Francisco
Cincinnati
Kansas City
Seattle
Indianapolis
Denver
Portland
Ore
Ae Iia
St. Louis
Death in Newport Woman Dies of Heart Trouble
Mrs. Clara Mann aged 53 of 562 Lexington avenue Newport died from heart failure after a seizure as she rode with her brother H J Conkling from Avondale to Cincinnati. Doctors arrived too late. coroner’s inquest returned a death verdict. She was widow of George Mann and mother of three daughters.
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Clara Mann
Newport
Brother
Lexington Avenue
H. J Conkling
Somerset Flats
Avondale
Third
Pike Streets
Cincinnati
Digby
Rose Pitonof completes East River to Coney Island swim
Rose Pitonof, 16, from Boston, completed an eight hour and seven minute swim from East Twenty-sixth Street Manhattan to Coney Island. She covered about 21 miles of the planned 18, facing tides and occasionally swimming off course. She used breast stroke most of the journey and overhand for two stretches, taking no food or stimulants.
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New York
Battery
Coney Island
East River
Swat the Fly Club Formed in Urbana
The Urbana board of health launches a citywide swat the fly campaign. It will install large wire fly traps on streets filled with swats as bait to reduce fly numbers and improve sanitation.
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Urbana
Board of Health
Man shoots wife then kills himself in Adair county
Muskogee Ok Aug 13 I L Martin of Adair Ok shot and killed his wife then committed suicide last night. Report says the Martins had domestic difficulties.
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Muskogee, Ok
I. L. Martin
Adair
Martins
Taft Leaves Beverly for White House
President Taft closed a weekend visit to Beverly Mass by departing for Boston in a White House car with his veto message on the Flood resolution and statehood for Arizona and New Mexico. He headed to Washington to deliver the message, likely Tuesday if Congress is in session.
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Beverly
Mass
Arizona
New Mexico
Taft
Boston
White House
Federal Express
Washington
Congress
Man Drowns in Ohio River Fall from Skiff
Steubenville reports Melvin Smith a 50 year old teamster drowned this morning after he fell from a skiff into the Ohio River. The incident occurred in Steubenville area with no further details provided.
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Ohio
Melvin Smith
Steubenville
Ohio River
Eighteenth Hour Flyer Wreck Near Fort Wayne Claims Many
A Pennsylvania eighteen hour flyer from Chicago to New York derailed near Fort Wayne on August 13. Four dead and about thirty injured as engines collided with a freight train and toppled coaches. Names of dead and many injured listed from Fort Wayne and Chicago hospitals amid ongoing recovery efforts.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
New York
FT. Wayne, Inc
Pennsylvania
William E. Arrick
Winter Street
Fort Wayne
Ind
Valentine Snyder
Crestline
St. Joseph's Hospital
Peter Malone
R. Curton
H. C. Kohl
F. C. Bolyare
F. B. Brobs
Cifago
Steward
William Marrall
ED Cohn
New York City
E. J. Massagar
Milwaukee
Wis
Earl Thomas
East Palestine
L. B. Havens
Aviator
J. E. Sullivan
P. J. Dole
Leroy Bense
H. ‘Crewford
Philadelphia
R. B. Russell
Toronto
Ontario
Sam Rosenthal
Grand Forks
N. C
Victor Sowers
Mansfield, C
James E. Sullivan
William Creig
Tonigh
Hammond
Mineral Point
Hamilton
Ft. Wayne
Antho Hotel
Extra session ends with gains in Canadian reciprocity and campaign law
Washington notes a mixed session ending with immediate actions. Key laws ratify Canadian reciprocity terms and widen campaign finance disclosure while signaling reapportionment of House seats. The president seals gains despite initial opposition and bickering over publicity provisions and electoral map changes.
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Canada
House of Representatives
Congress
American Congress
House
Senate
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E. F. Brown
Auditor’s Office
Cleveland Boys
Mauer
Roy Koegele
Indian.’’ Koegele
England
St. George’s Hall
Birmingham
Tom Mann
Oklahoma
Glasgow
L Anderson
Cincinnatii
Postal Savings Bank
Hitchcock
Queen City
RAILS
Ribes
Solons
Census Bureau
Co. C
Charles P. Skillman
Mr. Skillman
St. Mary’s River
Swinkey Park
Velparaiso
Winona Lake
Robert Russell
Fred, Beckwith
Dan Kintz
Py Russell
George Mitchell
Los Angeles
Mr. Mitchell
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