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Newspaper
Coshocton Age
Location
Coshocton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1905
Page
7
The Markets section lists retail and corrected prices for produce and grains including eggs per dozen, butter, beans per pound, beeswax, chickens, country ham, cabbage, onions, and potatoes. It also shows flour and byproducts pricing, with notes on corrections by Snyder Sutter and Hanley & Co.
East Buffalo with cattle and sheep prices including export quality and feeders. Cleveland and Chicago show steers, cows, bulls, and lambs with varied values. Pittsburgh Cincinnati and Toledo list wheat corn oats flour and pooled meat prices across regional markets.
Local grocer touts Mrs Austin's Pawcackes as a superior treat. The ad invites shoppers to try the baked goods for a quality snack.
Ivan Baker age young son of Otto Baker died after a horse he rode at his grandfather's ran frightened and threw him against the pavement. Medical aid arrived but he was pronounced dead from a severe skull fracture.
Reports from Indiana and Illinois describe violent deaths, fires, and legal actions. A plant fire near Connersville caused $1,000,000 loss and Ephraim Raines was killed by his nephew Thomas Ridley near Mt Vernon. A real estate healer Adolph Perbohner died after leaping from a fourth story window in Chicago. A lynching widow sued in Flemingburg, Kentucky. A race riot in Indianapolis left 14 year old William O Connell wounded by 12 year old Edward Hansford.
Zanesville finishes second in the 1905 Ohio Pennsylvania league with .622, Akron third at .617, and Youngstown awarded the pennant. Groundhog Elston and Bert Blue, star local favorites, are drafted by Columbus of the American Association for next year. An January meeting at the Hotel Regs, city, will organize an eight-town league aiming for Central league parity and similar ratings. Braddock and Butler, Pa, along with Newark and others, back independent baseball amid attendance concerns.
Newark Athletic Club arrives in the city for a Riverside Park clash with Coshocton. The home team touts a stronger lineup led by new backs Stewart and Quarly as they seek an upset. Coshocton is favored to win.
Lucy Rosebury, 26, who says she is the wife of a Chinese cigar merchant in Mott Street, fled Highbinders in New York and told a Washington press representative at a railway station that the Chinatown killers targeted white women who knew too much. She cited four murders by Chinese husbands and linked the Boston suitcase mystery to similar disposals.
Free lithographs of Governor Herrick are available to anyone calling at The Age office. The ad also promotes Rocky Mountain Tea and invites readers to place want ads as a household necessity.
An ordinance authorizes the City of Coshocton Ohio to proceed with constructing a sewer on Walnut Street from its east end to the corporate line. The plan follows engineer specifications adopted by council and on file. Bonds may be issued to cover costs with assessments on abutting property paid in five installments. The board of public service is empowered to contract the project to the lowest bidder after lawfully advertised. Ordinance takes effect upon passage.
The second high school team with many rooters leaves at noon in carryalls bound for Warsaw to face the village team on the gridiron this afternoon. The squad is described as a stiff unit and confident of victory.
In San Francisco on October 28 Jack O'Brien, veteran of 200 fights, outboxed and outworked A Kaufmann over 17 rounds to win by knockout. Kaufmann, a 19 year old with a reported punch, showed grit but could not land his power shot as O'Brien's defense and footwork dominated. The bout opened with Kaufmann bleeding from the nose and swelling around his left eye before the final sequence.
Mrs I B Hunt of Lime Ridge Wisconsin says doctors gave up on her dreadful sickness and friends feared the worst until Electric Bitters restored her health. She praises the speedy relief and full recovery. Sold at C E Anderson Coshocton and C M Ferguson Roscoe for 50 cents guaranteed.
A list of college football matchups spans the east and west, including Case at Ohio State, Denison at Kenyon, Oberlin at Wooster, Cincinnati at Ohio Athens, Wilmington at Cedarville, Yale at West Point, Princeton at Columbia, and Purdue at Indiana. An ad notes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea claims to fortify nerves and red blood, priced 35 cents.
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