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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1903
Page
2
The Washocton Daily Age issued a 32 page industrial edition detailing Coshotton’s growth from coal bank settlement to a thriving city with diverse industries. The issue is richly illustrated, quality in typography, and aims to attract capital and enterprise.
Francis M. Walker of the Dresden Banking Company files a suit in Squire Eckroude's court seeking $100 with interest for five years. The bank admits one note was paid but the plaintiff alleges two notes existed and only one paid, prompting the legal action.
Telegraph reports from Fulton Kentucky dated March 24 describe a boiler explosion at McAlley's Baw mill near Wickliffe that totally destroyed the facility. Three workers were killed and six injured seriously.
Huntington March 24 United States steel corporation today put in operation more than fifteen hundred new coke ovens on Tug river and as many more to be started within thirty days making this largest coking field in the state Mrs Lyman Taylor returned from Coshocton where she had been visiting with her sister Mrs Dr Edwards and her daughter Myrtle Warsaw Neutral The Age is better every day.
A lengthy display lists engines threshers clover nilers saw mills wind mills pumps pine tanks and other heavy machinery, indicating a broad inventory for buyers. The fragment hints at a general sale or catalog entry featuring farm and industrial equipment.
A lengthy cautionary article outlines how sugar, chlorate of potash, flour dust, and dry air form dangerous explosives. It traces historic factory fires in England and New York to fine powders mixing with air, details guncotton production and properties, and names nitroglycerin, dynamite, kieselguhr, cordite, and various nitrates. It notes dampness does not hinder guncotton and surveys diverse explosive compounds and their origins, uses, and dangers.
In a fanciful tale from the New York Herald a fae mous belle visits her dressmaker and stays long to ensure precise fit and shaping. The story emphasizes that matters of form often govern artistic results, and the dressmaker and Mmanste work to please the visitor with careful adjustments and harmony.
A 12-year-old Port Jervis girl named Stella Lundelius rises to fame as a magnet wonder capable of resisting lifting by strong men and moving heavy furniture. Her hypnotist father August Lundelius faces questions about gravity shifts, svengali influence, and possible testing by scientists as observers seek to verify the powers and their origin.
A reporter attempts to lift Stella, a frail child of about sixty five pounds, in her father’s studio. Despite strong effort and mounting spectators, the girl slips from every grip, holding her gaze on her father as others fail in a dramatic display of strength tests. Several challengers, including a 180 pound man, fail to raise her.
J. B Wilson closed a 328 acre land deal in Frazeysburg for the heirs of Julian Chandler of Philadelphia to James W. Frazier for 19000 dollars. Part falls inside the town limits, part to be laid as building lots for market and the outlook for development in Frazeysburg looks bright.
A long list of curiosities and reports covers sugar prices in Cuba, population trends, military recruitment in Alsace Lorraine, dental anesthesia shifts to electricity, railway and engineering notes in London, trade and taxation talks in Korea and Belgium, and various wartime and colonial concerns. Includes curios like a blackbird with a white head in Devon, peacetime policing trikes, and an auction of Waterloo charger mane.
The Cleveland Trust Company showed strong conservatism before its merger with The Western Reserve Trust Company with capital stock of 500000 and surplus 550000. An appraisal found shareholders received one and a half shares plus a 45 percent cash dividend in the consolidated firm, with no watered capital or goodwill. The management remains the same, the bank pays four percent interest on small savings, and mailing facilities exist with a free booklet available on request.
The April Cosmopolitan highlights 17 stories and 101 pictures with features on The Americanization of the Canadian Northwest by William R. Stewart, a Bjorn Bjornson sketch, essays by Lavinia Hart and Berard MacFadden, and pieces by Geo F. Shears Juan Ralph E Moffet and more. Notable profiles include Jacob Schiff and H Havemeyer with contributions from Wolsely Wells Merriman MasManus among others.
The Daily Age publishes a handsome illustrated industrial edition with clean printing and fine cuts of Coshocton and its county. It highlights residences, business blocks, and prominent citizens, urging every resident or former resident to obtain a copy for its information on growth and progress in Ohio’s Coshocton County.
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