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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1903
Page
2
Dr Silas S Neff of Philadelphia argues salespeople should act as psychologists guiding buyers. He outlines handling different women types intellectual emotional volitional and wealth levels while stressing avoiding negativity and focusing on fitting purchases to the buyer's needs.
A Cyrus McQueen Baltic O advertisement pledges to fulfill all promises and deliver best quality farm equipment. It invites readers to call or request prices for engines threshers clover hoppers saw mills windmills pumps pipes and more from the dealer.
Belknap, Republican nominee for Kentucky governor, urged President Roosevelt at the national convention and predicted victory. He claimed the state would back Roosevelt in the election. Mrs Richardson traveled to West Lafayette.
Roscoe council met Tuesday with all members present except E. C. Gleason and approved funding to cover recording and printing costs for village incorporation totaling 227.39. It borrowed 700 from certificates of indebtedness, split into 185 for streets 135 for police and 280 for general fund, and eyed a workhouse for violators. Street repairs and widening of the old slate road were planned with fence encroachments to be corrected.
The Methodist Episcopal church in Canal Dover was condemned by the state board of public safety. The congregation met to arrange securing a hall, razing the old building, and constructing a new one estimated at $25,000. George McQuuston spent Sunday in Adams Mills.
Philadelphia telegraph reports that Charles M Schwab, the steel magnate, stayed days under the name Charles S Lee at the St James hotel. Guests observed his health improve and the physician who escorted him left for New York as Schwab departed with better spirits.
The letter confirms Andrew Carnegie’s gift of 15000 for Coshocton library construction. The money is deposited with Home Trust Co Hoboken and will be drawn as needed via architect certificates signed by library president and treasurer. No formal agreement or conditions accompany the gift. A separate note mentions a social event at the Gallachers and a bridge trestle collapse on the Chartiers branch with two injured workers.
Thomas Costello, a Licking county convict in the penitentiary, was caught by Guard Archer Russell molding counterfeit quarters and half dollars. Costello claimed he made ornaments for sale. Officials have long monitored floating counterfeit halves quarters and nickels but only yesterday learned their sources.
John E Madsen reported a fire at Hamburg Place in Lexington destroying the entire barn. The horse Mouthful valued at 100000 dollars died after a 12 15 a m lightning strike. Total loss to property estimated at 200000 dollars with thirty attendants unable to save the stallion. Other horses’ fates not yet known.
Pretty Laura Greenough of Rochester battles a male rival claim after vowing she could bend her heel behind her neck and make a head cushion. Nellie and Minnie witness as a doctor confirms the feat and the bet is paid.
In a cave run schoolhouse shootout near Jackson Kentucky James and William Barrett Mack Howard and his 14 year old son were involved. James Vires 12 was shot in the abdomen. Mack Howard wounded. James Barrett shot in the head. Authorities sent soldiers to arrest the Howards and Barretts. one Barrett man later faced murder charges in separate cases. The schoolboy may recover while the two men are fatally wounded.
Sixteen passed and five failed in Coshocton post office civil service exams. The list includes William O. Renner and Edward Gaumer among others with scores ranging from 72.50 to 85.35 for clerks and carriers, and Grace I. Hanks to Lucy Parsons among clerks with scores from 72.40 to 84.95.
A dream reportedly guided Charles Brissock of Allegheny to uncover $250 in gold buried in a cellar corner. After a clairvoyant detour and a jail release for boarder Cato Fercine, Brissock and his wife found the hidden coins under a rock near a bathing pool. Fercine received a fine, paid by Brissock, and the couple celebrated the recovery. In Fremont Ohio, Hon. John I Green prominent attorney and founder of the G A R died of paralysis.
An ice cream social planned at McCabe's market by the Sacred Heart church ladies, originally set for Thursday night, has been postponed.
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