White House changes in oak hall and political notes
Washington reports describe the White House redecoration in oak with game trophies and artifacts once shown at expositions and now in the National Museum. The column also covers Beveridge’s militia amendment easing duty for religious objectors and reflections on Senator West’s health and enduring speechmaking.
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Washington
White House
Norgia
Arthur
Roosevelt
Mbady
National Museum
Coshocton Solons Weigh Bills and Dayton Meeting
The Coshocton council meets with President Weisner in the chair. Members discuss attending the sixth annual League of Ohio Municipalities convention in Dayton February 10 13 and 12 and ponder costs and ordinances including women in saloons and a $650 Voorhees codification bill.
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Weisner
Messrs
Tish
Holmes
Brink
Denzer
Pharion
Powelson
Wisenburg
Zugschwert
Wimmer
C. Griffin
League of Ohio Municipaliies
Coshocton Council
Columbus Council
League
Dayton
Ida May Bordenkircher
Coshocton
Water Works Trustees
Light Committee
The
Light Company
Ohio
Hight
Himebaugh
Council
McDowell
Common Pleas Court
Supreme Court
B. F. Voorhees
Hartman
Weteenberg
Palmist Swindles Gullible Woman
Mrs. Ade laide Perry widow of William Hunt Perry, a Wheeler and Wilson investor, was swindled of $1000 by a self described palmist Sherwood claiming hypnotic control. She handed over gold in a neck bag and the swindler vanished after two days.
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Bridgeport
Con
Adelaide Perry
Willaam Hunt Perry
Courtesy Etiquette In Sweden Impresses Visitors
The Swedes are described as quiet and taciturn with strict courtesy norms. People bow to departing travelers and lift hats to others from all social levels. Hat removal indoors is improper, and bowing to shop staff or hosts is customary. The etiquette fosters slow, polite social movement.
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Sweden
Thieves Break Into Clark Meat Market on Walnut Street
Thieves entered through a rear window of the Clark meat market on Walnut Street late Monday night and stole a large amount of meat and lard. About three dollars in the cash register was left untouched.
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Clark Meat Market
Walnut Street
Visiting Officials at Guernsey Infirmary Visit
The Guernsey county infirmary superintendent and directors met with Supt Lennon on Tuesday. They arrived after Anna Bennett and her child and departed last evening for the infirmary.
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Guernsey County Infirmary
Supt. Lennon
Anna Bennett
K Good Recommendation for Chamberlain's Stomach Tab
A Cascade Iowa druggist Mr J H Weber endorses Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tabs noting their fate in users and urges readers to try them for dullness after meals bad taste appetites loss of appetite and constipation seeking relief and delight.
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Chamberlain
J. H. Weber
Cascade
Iowa
Heirs to English Estate in Colhoction Draft Arrives
A London draft reaches this city detailing an English will from 1867 by Susannah Snoad who left a legatee in America, Thomas Wellard of Isleta. After a chain of letters and delays, executors reveal the estate is being divided, with a modest sum allotted to Mrs Wellard and her four children.
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Bank of England
London
Sussannah Snoad
Sussex
England
John Snoad
Thomas Wellard
America
Isleta
CosHocton
Wellard
Steubenville Electric Plant Burns Halting Car Service
A blaze at the Steubenville Traction and Light Company station destroyed the electric plant and all machinery. Overhead flames shut belt lines from Steubenville to Mingo Brilliant Pleasant Heights. Hundreds of workers lose jobs as damage and outage hit power supplies citywide.
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Steubenville
Steubenville Traction and Light Company
Mingo
Brilliant
Pleasant Heights
Hnes
Carnegie Library Committee Chooses Chair and Plans Site Meeting
The Carnegie library site committee met in R A Powelson's office Monday evening. J F Meek was elected chair man and R A Powelson secretary. A further meeting was set for next Monday to receive proposals on library site options.
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Carnegie Library
R. A. Powelson
J. F. Meek
Mr. Powelson
President Haskins Heads Ohio United Mine Workers Meet
The annual convention of the United Mine Workers of Ohio opened in Columbus with President W. H. Haskins presiding. About 300 delegates from local unions attend as committees are formed and credentials reviewed while many call for a 25 percent wage increase.
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Columbus
United Mine Workers of Ohio
W. H. Haskins
Odd Fellows’ Temple
Coal piled at Panhandle pit and Wheeling line
The Panhandle gravel pit south of town holds two to three hundred carloads of coal while five miles south on the Wheeling and Lake Erie line over a thousand carloads are reported.
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Panhandle
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Horsemen Here Bring Cleveland Dealers to Pocock Barn
R B Shaw and Jacob Bower, noted Cleveland horse dealers, will be at the Pocock livery barn for the rest of the week. Otis Bachman resigns from Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad to join Coshocton Gas company.
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R. BR. Shaw
Jacob Bower
Cleveland
Pocock Livery Barn
Otis Bachman
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Company
Coshocton Gas Company
Cutting Ice on Upper Basin Amid Snow
J. S. Eliott and a force of men began cutting ice on the upper basin Tuesday. The ice measures eight inches thick and is covered by about ten inches of snow.
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J. S. Eliott
Beclared Geoed Dieiterd
The fragmentary notice references an annual meeting and election of officers. It hints at a group named Home Buildieg and Laan assoe and mentions a 3 percent figure. Details are unreadable and dates are unclear in the OCR text.
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Laan Assoe
Nave Deviare
Semlanewsl
Alvider
Offeers
Pest
Woman in Black Wanders Coshocton Alien to Kindness
A mysterious woman named Mary McKinney, aged thirty two, appeared in Coshocton after a panic across Ohio towns. She claimed robbery funds and transportation needs, but The Age found she is a morphine addict. Local residents sheltered her briefly before authorities passed her along.
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Coshocton
Panhandle
Mary McKinney
Pittsburg
Dennison
Toledo
Columbus
Samaritan
The
Age
Dayton
Piqua
Newark
Uhrichsville and Dennison Seek Consolidation in Push Toward City Status
Uhrichsville and Dennison move to consolidate under a new state code that requires villages under 5,000 to revert to village government. Citizens favor combining resources for free mail delivery and improved fire and police protection, noting mutual proximity and paved streets.
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Age
New Philadelhia
Dennison
Uhrichsville
The Spains Hard Luck in West Virginia Town
A theater in St Marys West Virginia suffered a gas asphyxiation incident during a Bellis company performance. Most of the audience and cast were affected with two actresses hospitalized with poor prospects for recovery. The heated venue used natural gas with cold weather and inadequate ventilation.
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West Virginia
St. Marys. W. Va
Auditorium Theater
Husband and Wife At Deaths Door In North Eighth Street Home
Mrs. Arthur Casey lies critically ill from paralysis as neighbors aid her and her bedridden husband. Miss Sophia Bries rescued Mrs. Casey from a stove fire before tragedy. Niece Mrs. Sarah Ludwig visits at their bedside as local reporting notes a dire scene. Winnie Mercer dies by gas self-inflicted act in California hotel with unnamed motive.
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Arthur Casey
North Eighth Street
Casey
Miss Sophia Bries
Miss Bries
Sarah Ludwig
Selina
Win Mercer
San Francisco
Winnie Mercer
California
Occidental
Mercer
George Murray
Philadelphia
Obituary Fragment From Caldwell County Notice
After many years Garrett Baseett of Caldwell county Miccourl visiting J B W Beevett and other relatives at Platateth, with S M Revert, and left this for continued memory.
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Garrett Baseett
Caldwell County
Miccourl
Te Vielting J. BW
Beevett
Platateth
S. M
Arcola coal train standoff ends as town seizes fuel
In Arcola Illinois a nine carload coal confiscation followed a blizzard and price spike. Locals formed a posse to guard the shipment while a miner’s strike relief effort filled wheelbarrows with coal. Clergymen and workers used varied conveyances to haul fuel to homes.
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Arcola
North Dakota
Sinois Central Railroad Company
Providential
Thomas Lyons
State Bank
William J. Bradbury
George Wall
Clever Rat Trap Aims To Catch Wary Rodents
The Union Manufacturing company formed by N Kirk and W A Smith plans to produce a wire rat trap designed to catch not only common rats but clever ones. Patent pending, with production arranged at BE. R. Reed's tin and stove store, the device uses a central trigger to close a wire cage as soon as the rat begins eating.
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The
Union Manufacturing Company
Coshocton
No. N Kirk
W. A. Smith
BE. R. Reed
Jay Gould
Change of Capital to Mitchell Proposed in South Dakota
Pierre January 13. The legislature passed a resolution submitting to the people a plan to move the state capital from Pierre to Mitchell after December 15, 1904. The measure is expected to win by a large margin at the polls.
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Age
J Pierre
S. D
Pierre
Mitchell
Toledo Quadruplets Baptised Amid Snowy Procession
In Toledo on January 13, the Spychaleki quadruplets were taken to St. Anthon's Catholic church and baptised by Father Sysherski. A massive procession of relatives, friends, and visitors escorted the children through a driving snowstorm, each infant with a separate godfather and godmother.
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Toledo
Spychaleki
St. Anthon's Catholic Church
Sysherski
Poland
Ben
Dorth
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New State Dining Room
Moble Hall
Wallis
Beveridge
United States
Meat
Senator West
Senate
Congress
le Mnoally
Griffith
Indiana
United States Treasury
Quay
Pennsylvania
Benster Penrose
Hartisburg
Towa
Tie Hengwe
Howe
Gubag Gay
Pablic
Philadelphia Press
Solons
Glover Building
Main Street
Clouse & Schanweker
H. V. Shepler
Carnegie Library Committee
Haskins
Vuhrichsville
Strand
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