Temperance Crusade Drives Moral Merger Across Ohio
The Anti-Saloon League pushes a united church led effort to eradicate saloons, aiming for local and county option and a constitutional amendment. Rev. Cherrington notes reform requires time and zeal, citing Beall law's passage and a broad, gradual Moral Merger of churches and moral forces.
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League
Ohio
United Effort
Church of Jesus Christ
Lincoln Legion
Mr. Baker
Abraham Lincoln
Baker
Presbyterian Church
Cherrington
Hamilton
Anti-saloon League
Gid
Martin Luther
Gustavus Adolphus
Wesley
Calvin
Knox
Wilberforce
Garrison
Phillips
Lovejoy
Obferlin
United States
Haskell
Harris
Beall Law
Clark
Senate
House
Water Supply Exhausted Halts Wabash Work at Pittsburg
Ed Stafford and J N Rutledge, engaged with Kissner and Spellacy on the Pittsburg Toledo and Western division of the Wabash, returned Friday as work stopped due to water supply failure. Kissner and Spellacy hold the contract for the large concrete arches and will likely be finishing the project by Christmas.
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Ed. Stafford
J. N. Rutledge
Kissner & Spellacy
Pittsburg, Toledo and Western
Vault Arrival at Citizens Banking and Trust
The vault for Citizens Banking and Trust has arrived and workmen with it are busy placing it into position in the bank.
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Citizens Banking and Trust Company
Tax Return Debate Over Kelley System in Vinton County
In a dialogue styled exchange, Farmer Perkins questions how to value horses carriages hogs watches a piano and a pistol for local taxation. Lawyer Thorndike argues for using county averages and practical values noting state acceptance of prior returns while mocking Kelley theory and suggesting conformity to norms to avoid excess taxes.
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Jarmer Perkins
Vinton County
Dad
Dan Will
J. M. McGillivray
Alfred Kelley
Thorndike
Yarmer Perkins
Hamilton County
Cuyahoga County
Butler County
Adams County
Tuscarawas County
Cincinnati
Perkins
McGillivray
Cleveland
State
Farmer Perkine
Rena
Cutler County
S. Eee
Sevedes Ase Stoers
Zaleski Corporation
Perking
Thorndke
General Grosvenor
Athens
Hospital For the
St. Kelley
Perkinsa
Kelley
Ohio Board of Commerce to Formulate New Revenue Measure
The Ohio State Board of Commerce will craft a general revenue measure in response to a constitutional amendment. It aims to safeguard public interests and proposes enacting the plan through the general assembly. The board will hire top economists and form specialized committees to study each subject area.
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Ohio State Board of Commerce
General Assembly
Death Angel's Untimely Visit
Mrs Allie Overholt Hamilton wife of Samuel Hamilton a Coshocton florist died of typhoid fever at age nearly thirty nine after three weeks illness Funeral services will be held at the residence conducted by Dr Hamilton and interment at South Lawn cemetery She leaves husband three sons two sisters and three brothers and her Keene family roots New Guilford notes report local railings and small town items including house moves and farm occupancy and regular agricultural work.
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Allie Overholt Hamilton
Samuel Hamilton
Hamilton
Keene
Coshocton
Orange Street
Amity United Presbyterian Church
Keens Township
Ney
South Lawn Cemetery
Low One Way Settlers Rates To Northwest And California
The Burlington offers very low one way settler rates to California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana from September 15 to November 30, 1903, reducing prices 25 to 40 percent. Travel via Denver, Billings, or St Paul with the Burlington Northern Pacific Express, featuring chair cars and through tourist sleepers to Puget Sound. Weekly California excursions and tours run in through sleepers, with homesfeker excursions on the first and third Tuesdays each month at about half the round trip rate.
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Burlington
California
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Denver
Billings
St. Paul
Burlington-Northern Pacific Express
Puget Sound
Pointe
Burlington’s
Scenic Colorado
Salt Lake Hiomesfekers
Public Sheep Sale Brings Seven Fifty Per Head
A sale at Tiverton township saw two year old ewes, sixteen head, sold from L. M. Given to J. Drummond for 7 50 per animal. Drummond to provide due care as is his custom. Given praised as a top Jefferson township breeder. Also notices a Grand Council Royal and Select Masters and Grand Chapter event by W. L. Cushecton in Akron with a return by October 17, 1903.
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Nationaldelain
L. M. Given
J . Drummond
Tiverton Township
Drummond
Mr. Given
Jefferson Township
W. & L. Cushecton
Akron
Grand Council
Royal
Royal Arch Masons of Ohio
Carey Montgomery Named Lecturer for Farmers Institutes
Newark native Carey W Montgomery selected as one of the state lecturers for farmers Institutes to a cousin of Cargarer Thad Montgomery of the Coshocton National Bank. The W and L E offers very low rate colonist tickets to California and northwestern points. For rates apply to W J Davies.
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Carey W. Montgomery
Newark
Farmers’ Institutes
Cargarer
Thad Montgomery
Coshocton National Bank
California
Northwestern
W. J. Davies
Farmer injured by grain drill cog wheels in Lancaster area
Charles Sadder, about 36, a well known farmer five miles west of Lancaster, had his left hand caught in the cog wheels of a grain drill. His hand was drawn into the mechanism before the team could stop.
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Charles Sadder
Lancaster
Fire near West Lafayette graveyard fears quick action
West Lafayette residents halted a blaze that jumped from a bonfire under a Walnut tree onto a dry hay field and toward the graveyard fence. A strip ploughed around the field dried the ground and stopped the flames before damaging monuments or buildings. A large straw stack narrowly escaped destruction and the village faced heightened alarm before the fire was put out.
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West Lafayette
Clara Johnson
Cupid Seals Marriage Near Cassingham Mines
Dan Cupid arranged a romance with Squire Wimmer as agent. William H. West and Bes sie M Garrett of the Cassingham area wed Saturday after Garrett previously attempted suicide by poison amid alleged unrequited love.
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Dan Cupid
Squire Wimmer
Squire
William H. West
Bessie M. Garrett
Cassingham Mines
Miss Garret
West
The Raging Canal and The State Boat Near Roscoe
A humorous yet alarming account of a state boat anchored across the canal in Roscoe, blocking passage and threatening collision. The narrator imagines heroic rescue attempts by mule, workers, and officials, only to learn the boat will not move until next spring, leaving locals amused and anxious.
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West Lafayette
Roscoe
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Brendel’s
Brendel Bros
Death Angel
New Guilford
New Gulford
Tack Frost
Eva Shay
John
G. Neldon
Mcnlwee
Fred Shay
John Wagoner
Wagner
Dotchar
Ll. D Schott
Lewis Fisher
Samuel Rine
Northwest
Sadder and Wieer
Cupid
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