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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1907
Page
5
Local households plan Thanksgiving dinners with relatives from Coshocton Warsaw and Mentor while the Eastern Ohio Teachers association hosts sessions for the week. A Friday speaker list and a Grange meeting outline include officer elections and a discussion on education’s health impact on youth.
Community items describe gatherings at the Wolford home, deaths in Clinton, moves and illnesses, plus personal updates on Sproul, Anderson, and Haas families. An inserted medical advertisement promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills with testimonials and pricing.
A mangled hog incident in Steubenville left 76 year old farmer John Norden severely injured after a boar attack, while his son Norden fired a barrel at the recovering victim. In Cleveland, Frank and Henry Hartman drew six months in the workhouse and a $1000 fine for oleomargarine law violations. A Youngstown assault left Lawrence Baker with a fractured skull and missing money. A four year old boy, Howard McKnight, drowned after wandering away. Ohio Red Cross elected new officers in Columbus including A. L. Harris and C. O. Hunter with funds reported at $3,482.51 disbursed and relief sent to San Francisco and abroad. Nelsonville reports an elderly farmer James Pickett shot and robbed during a lumber run. An advertisement promotes Dean's Kidney Pills with a testimonial from Mrs. Sarah Wells of Coshocton Ohio.
Charles Cannon of Bristol Pennsylvania claims to the Philadelphia Ledger that he has broken all former corn cutting records. He asserts he cut more corn in a season than any man who ever lived and would have matched more if given twenty eight extra days.
Three notes drew a parade of a well known Bristol couple, Ursh McGinty and Miss Mary a8 roghan, after their wedding at St. Marks Catholic church. The Rev. Pather Bunce performed the ceremony as onlookers watched mowers, ribbons, and groomsmen create a festive carriage procession through the streets.
Frank Jenkins of Williamsburg Trust Co faced arraignment on a large embezzenment charge and was released on ten thousand dollars bail. On leaving the courthouse detectives detained him and his wife in the street while photographing and measuring him at police headquarters. Frederick Jenkins, his brother, also arrested. They are brothers of John G. Jenkins, linked to a firm said to have borrowed a large sum from the trust company. Rev D N Dodson of Bellwood Pa visits to join Thanksgiving with Rev and Mrs Hamilton resides nearby.
Postmaster Captain Carhart recalls a Roscoe printing room scene during a visit to a large press. He tells of 1804 Rouessean raid memories, noting two local printers from Coshocton helped publish pro Union editorials on both sides of a newspaper sheet. The tale blends war lore with a curious press anecdote and a product ad.
Will travel for Rug House Jesse Mitchell at Zanesville and Ernest Hoffman, two students of West Lafayette college, will visit the institution Monday for weeks. They will travel as traveling salesmen for the Domestic Rug Mfg Co of this city and will cover eastern Ohio. Also note Chamberlains Salve cures chapped hands. Five or ten cents. sold by Peterson druggist Coshocton and Ferguson druggist Rosene.
Washington reports reveal the Panama Canal Commission's fiscal year summary showing government construction costs totalling 45.1 million dollars and a recommendation to continue direct government labor instead of private contracts. Sanitation work described with no yellow fever source on the isthmus during the year.
The Mohawk temperance rally on November 27 featured songs, evergreen selections, and speeches by Wm. Taggart and others. Resolutions were drafted and copies prepared for publication. The piece also reports on local residents’ travels, absences, and new moves, plus brief notices about court decisions, bank closure, and a medicinal advertisement.
Local divorce action centers on Philadédbia tied to Newcomerstown residents, with disputes over property and separation terms. A separate Columbus hospital story details Ligeia Willlansk dying after razor wounds during an attempted operation, with postanesthetic complications and ongoing medical concerns regarding recovery.
Local authorities plan a mock banquet and entertainment for inmates awaiting transfer to the state hospital. Mrs Brownling hosts a reception at Wet Pifasette college with Cambridge Mint Eatara Pettit and others, while a parade and various amusements are promised.
Meonath Mes reports Monday visits by Obin, Lo to their ebmir aggtoteer Maatteles in Pennyville for concrete work. Albus Selin departs Monday for Pitts hur where he screensented a poe sion of brakeman. Smith at Coshocton on Sunday night, Wright ava family visited. WMS society to meet December 1 at the Chapel, all invited. Mrs Harry Forbes of Columbus to spend Thanksgiving at home.
Fragmented 19th century notices announce a new store at Wills Creek by Darner & Sons, plans for town building, and local religious and social details. Advertisements tout a tonic oil, Chattanooga druggists, and a ram sale alongside personal notices, a wedding near Cleveland, and family testimonials about Chamberlain’s remedies.
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