How They Farm Down in Dixie
A historic reflection on Southern farming practices, focusing on labor, soil, and crop strategies. The piece argues cotton as a key cash crop, notes dependence on Black workers, and cites Booker T. Washington as a path to improved agricultural methods and rural prosperity in the postwar South.
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Dixie
Cincinnatus
Rome
Pemberton
Grant
Vicksburg
Ole Maassa
South
Booker T Washington
Mason’s and
Dixon’s
Tennessee
Charles Mills
Henry Wangerine
Howes Lanndon
Lorain County
Farmers or Planters Callings in the South
The speaker remarks on southern farmers and planters preferring that label. He notes a plantation of 800 acres with 38 cabins filled with children. In Kentucky’s bluegrass, farms resemble Ohio, with painted houses and fences kept up, driven by cold winters and natural ice implying energy and thrift.
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South
Kenucky
Blue Green
Ohio
Kentucky
Hart to speak on Barber shop regulation at health board meeting
At the State Board of Health annual meeting in Columbus January 29 30 Dr W E Hart of Elyria will present a paper on Barber shop regulation. Dr W T Carlett of Cleveland will discuss smallpox and skin diseases. Jacob Murbach will represent the Elyria Board of Health.
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State Board of Health
Columbus
W E Hart
Elyria
Hart
W T Carlett
Cleveland
Carett
U. S
Paris
France
Jacob Murbach
Elyria Board of Health
Elopement Reported for Grace Koshineki in Lorain
Grace Koshineki of Grafton reportedly eloped on Tuesday from her aunt's home in Lorain with an Italian. She had left on Friday, and her father, thinking she was in Elyria, traveled to Lorain to locate her. An Italian called for Grace in the evening and they departed, believed bound for Cleveland.
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Grace Koshineki
Graftan
Lotain
Grace
Elyria
Lorain
Cleveland
Lorain Pride Foresees Growth for County Towns
The Lorain Democrat extols Lorain as the county’s metropolitan center and a booster of neighboring towns. It argues Lorain’s growth in population and industry raises land value across Lorain County and benefits Elyria Oberlin and North Amherst. The piece stresses mutual progress and civic friendship.
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Lorain
Lorain County
Elyria
Oberlin
North Amherst
Massillon Coal Price Trick Sparked false rush
Independent mine owners circulated a claim that Massillon coal rose $1.50 per ton effective immediately, causing a sales surge. The M A Hanna Coal Company denied the raise noting Massillon would stay at $4.75, while other coals increased to near the same level. Independent firms minimized public trust and disrupted local prices.
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Massillon Coal Companies
Massillon
M A Hanna Coal Company
Holloway chosen as B and O division HQ move
The town of Holloway, twenty five miles west of Bridgeport Ohio, will become the new division headquarters for the Cleveland Lorain and Wheeling branch of the Baltimore and Ohio road. Trains begin using the Warmington cut off with a 25 mph passenger and 12 mph freight speed limit under a semaphore controlled approach.
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Holloway
Bridgeport
Ohio
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
B and O
Warmington Ba
Stea
Wheeling and
Lake Erie
Baltimore and Ohio
Hungarian man killed near Band O yards in accident
Julius Aller aged twenty six, a Hungarian resident of Lo rain, was found near the Band O yards after midnight with both legs severed. He died instantly and the body was moved to the morgue. Coroner ruled accidental death, likely struck while attempting to board a moving train.
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Julius Aller
O Yards
Aller
Abducted Father Seeks Child After Divorce Suit
Sandusky authorities warn Elyria and nearby police to arrest and hold Frank Latimer and his three year old daughter until the Sandusky sheriff can take custody. Latimer allegedly abducted the child after filing for divorce from his wife Catherine Latimer.
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Sandusky
Elyria
Frank Latimer
Latimer
Catherine
U S Steel Lorain Plant Improvements May Be Decided This Week
A New York meeting of U S Steel subsidiary presidents signals likely approval of major upgrades at the Lorain Ohio plant. Plans from a January 15 1908 trade publication include new furnaces steel finishing mills and tube mills marking a decisive move for Lorain facilities.
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U. S. Steel Company
Lorain
Nota
New York
Coolidge
Lorain, O., Steel Company
United States Stees Corporation
Wonna Clock Won At Dixon Shooting Gallery Event
Officer Whitney won a shooting match at Dixon gallery on West Broad Street Saturday night, earning a handsome clock as the prize.
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Whitney
Dixon
West Broad Street
Censors Elected by Medical Society Board
The medical society elected a three year board of censors including Win Bence A N Garver and Charles Cushing. They will decide admission standards and handle ethics for members while Dr Cameron was chosen as delegate to the state convention and Dr Martin oversees the fifth district.
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Medical Society
Win Bence
A N Garver
Charles Cushing
Cameron
Martin
New Block Under Construction in South Lorain
Lorain BH Boblmeyer a South Lorain hardware dealer begins a three story brick block. Cellar excavation underway with brick work contract let. Pressed brick with stone trim. lower floor for Mr Kohlmeyer. Erection south of the South Lorain Savings Bank at an estimated cost of 615,000.
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BH Boblmeyer
South Lorain
Kohlmeyer
South Lorain Sayings Bank
Dismissal in Foster vs Bennett Shay Suit Over $10,000
The case filed by Mrs. Ada Foster against Mrs. Ella Bennett Shay was dismissed for want of prosecution. The parties had been divorced by the common pleas court about a year earlier over alleged improper relations. Mrs. Foster later remarried in Michigan in late December.
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Ada Foster
Ella Bennett- Shay
Foster
Bennett
Common Pleas Court
Congressman W. W. Skiles ill in New York room
A dispatch from New York reports Congressman W. W. Skiles ill at the Waldorf Astoria unable to leave his room. He had traveled from Washington with Shelby gentlemen to attend the Madison Square Garden automobile show but his condition is not believed serious.
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New York
W. W. Skiles
Waldorf Astoria
Washington
Shelby
Madison Square Garden
Consolidation of North Amherst Lodges Creates Plato Lodge No 203
At a recent lodge meeting the two Odd Fellows lodges in North Amherst voted to merge. State Grand Master J N Beaver Grand Secretary O H Lyman and District Deputy J F Pierce attended. The combined body will be named Plato Lodge No 203.
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Odd Fellows
North Amherst
J N Beaver
O H Lyman
J F Pierce
Plato Lodge No
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Black Belt
Grafton
The
Lorain Democrat
Massilon
Censors
Congressman Skiles
Odd Fellows Consolidate
F.H. Foster & CO
Elyria, O
Temperance
Temperana Ton
Beal Lo
Resn
Franz
Frank Bartlett
Bartlette
Pitifal
Winnnie Police
Luella Dunn
Twelfth Avenue
the Way Company
Cushing
Otto Stevenec
Tilda Stet
Corney
Nama
Maine
Sud
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