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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1905
Page
7
Community notices describe church festivals entertainments and fundraising aims with inquiries about missing home delivery. Ads and acknowledgments are charged five cents per line with office communications addressed to the newspaper rather than individuals.
A publisher announces The Daily Age will discontinue when paid time expires and thanks readers for support. The paper is sold at local outlets including C E Andersons drug store F F Smiths news stand Greek American Candy store and Shrigleys Smoke House.
The Age announces a new chapter as C B McCoy retires from editorial duties after fourteen years, joining The Meek company while retaining a small stake. The paper remains Republican and community minded, promising continued growth for Coshocton with a revamped board and leadership.
A condenser manufactured in Chicago was installed at the steam heating plant on Saturday. It attaches to engines in the electric light department, allowing exhaust steam to be reused and greatly increasing the plant's capacity.
Ruth Buchanan six month old daughter of Mr and Mrs David Buchanan died Sunday evening at 6 30 at John Potter's Walnut Street home. The baby had not seemed seriously ill but died unexpectedly. Funeral services were held this afternoon at two and interment was at South Lawn Lawn.
The text discusses the proverb A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and traces its origin to medieval phrases. It recounts the legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, noting their Christian conversion, the cave sleep of about 230 years, awakening, and burial in a stone coffin in Victor's church in Marseilles. It ends with a social note about Will Manner spending Sunday with friends in Zanesville.
A planned $2,000,000 national theater for New York is announced with Heinrich Conried as head. Thirty prominent financiers will subscribe $100,000 each to fund a Central Park West site and a $2,000,000 theater, plus a $250,000 foyer art gallery and a selective women’s committee for box assignments. The block between Sixty-second and Sixty-third streets is acquired.
A new theater project proposes a pure English pronunciation standard, a Yale Harvard Columbia and Princeton committee to judge differences, a design committee for scenery and costumes, and a etiquette panel to curb stage manners. The plan calls a thirty week season with ten plays yearly and two weekly opera comique featuring artists from Paris Berlin Vienna and the Metropolitan Opera House.
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish denounces men for blindly following derby hats in fashion. She notes derbies misfit, uncomfortably exaggerate features, and degrade appearance, while women resist unbecoming trends and seek comfort and style.
William Nixon of Lorain Ohio praises a local club called the Peanut club he found in Detroit. The club requires rolling a peanut from Dexter street to the loop on North Broadway through the business district. Members are society girls and upcoming initiation may include a feather blow as a novice is guided by a left foot peanut roll.
Harper's Weekly hails Count Witte as one of the world’s top three personalities. He earned czar’s trust while opposing reaction, bridging the chasm between autocracy and reform. As head of Russia’s first constitutional cabinet, he now shapes the nation’s destiny.
Edward M. Paxon's $3,000,000 estate funds a college of agriculture. The Pennsylvania chief justice left land to support practical instruction, aiming to keep youth from deserting rural life for city careers. The will provides for farms to be equipped with modern appliances.
In Henderson Texas on November 13 a mob hanged three Black men after a lynch mob seized them from sheriff and citizens while they faced murder charges in the killing of Elias Howell, a white farmer. Williams named Rees Sherrow and Askew, was voted back to jail. The others were executed in the courthouse yard.
James T. Thorburn president of the William H. Elliott company, shot and killed his wife with a revolver brought home for protection after a prior robbery. While wiping a spot of oil, the weapon discharged, the bullet striking Mrs Thorburn in the temple. A six year old daughter was present in the room.
T. L. Montgomery and F. B. Pomeron reported in Newark on Saturday as Mrs. Elizabeth Franklin purchased the Franklin National bank building appraised at 40000 for 41200. The Franklin farm of 409 acres appraised at 21500 sold to the same buyer for 16850.
Miss Madeline Martter, collector for the Central Union Telephone Company, is confined at home on South Second Street with tonsillitis. Miss Mame McChure resumes school duties after a brief illness. Age Want Ads reflect household concerns in the entries.
An advertisement touts Miona as a cure for stomach catarrh with symptoms like shortness of breath and dizziness. It claims the remedy is free of opium acids or alcohol, and guarantees satisfaction. C. E. Anderson offers the product at 50 cents a box with a money back promise if it fails to help.
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