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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1914
Page
4
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In Northwest Gorham and nearby towns there are multiple social updates. Families and individuals attend reunions and visits in Fay, Toledo, Detroit, and Ottawa, with notes on farm and depot work, church gatherings, and school openings. The Cordilleras provide a brief unrelated geographic note about Guatemala’s drainage and Pacific slope.
Ohio organizers promote a large state fair featuring automobile showpieces, machinery displays, and a busy schedule. Visits will be policed for crowd safety, with tickets available and grounds provided for youth activities, water stations, and exhibitions in the A and Woman's Buildings, aiming to please attendees and women visitors alike.
State Inspector demonstrates grading grain and explains factors like weight moisture purity weed seeds and mixture. Inspectors at markets often lack knowledge of origin beyond railroad line samples. Minnesota sends expert graders to farmer meetings to explain grades No 2 and No 4 and the grading standards used.
A historical critique argues that despite America’s industrial prowess, it leaks wealth through foreign marriages and travel. It claims $50 million yearly in cattle exports feed Europe while American heiresses fund European nobility. It highlights timber exports and American tourism abroad, urging domestic reform over treaties or tariffs.
Dr Charles Sheard tours the new optometry program at The Ohio State University and notes it is the only other program in the country beside Columbia. He criticizes the two year course as not training for medical practice, aiming to teach optics to aspiring optometrists while covering eye diseases and hygiene in year two with no diploma awarded. Admission requires two years of high school or equivalent and a certificate is granted upon completion.
Officials report parcel post eliminates middleman profits in egg distribution. 466 lots totaling 9 131 eggs shipped nationwide. only 327 cages arrived intact. Cost of ten dozen eggs for 60 miles is 4.7 cents per dozen, including transport and container. Ohio farmers report selling directly to consumers with strong results, cutting middleman margins.
Gov Colquitt calls a special session on August 24 to pass a warehouse bill enabling farmers to store cotton in bonded warehouses with negotiable receipts. Banks may loan at low interest, aiding producers to hold or store cotton as European demand shifts postwar.
The Annual Fulton County Teachers Institute runs August 31 to September 4 in Swanton. Instructors include Dean S. B. Laird of Michigan State Normal School Ypsilanti and Harlan E. Hall Cumberland Ohio. L. W. Bates presides. Miss Herma Robinson is acting secretary.
The piece explains 1920s slang where a golfer is bunkered meaning in trouble and bad, while merchants and towns are bunkered when customers bypass them for mail order and fail to attract new industry or support a live Board of Trade.
A mirrored column retells old pistol tricks used by New York youths to bluff theft, from a shopkeeper in Manhattan to a riverboat crew. It recounts teens brandishing lookalike pistols, a citizen arming a whistle-blown confrontation, and the strict New York penalties once applied. Also included are notes on poison ivy care, stray anecdotes about city life, and humorous quips from various papers.
In England the Smiths are the most numerous family, while in Ireland they rank fifth behind Murphy, Kelly, Sullivan, and Walsh.
Dodd Gaston notes a newspaper earns from three main streams advertising circulation and the owners of lost dogs. The remark highlights unusual revenue ideas reflecting local paper economics.
An old advertisement touts optimism as a personal screen against yesterday's gloom and promotes a product named San Jak as a stomach and heart cure, urging readers to purchase at Fink and Haumessers. The fragment hints at a dated direct-sales style.
The printed rules define who must observe traffic rules on streets and public places in Wauseon Ohio. It covers vehicle inclusion of riders, signals, pedestrians, lane, passage and turning requirements, backing restrictions, priority for emergency and service vehicles, passing rules, slow moving vehicle behavior, crossing and turning maneuvers, blocking and stopping, required lights, accident duties, and enforcement by village council.
Ohio government shows will fill the Star Fair with health and other departments. The Great Wooster Station Exhibit will be a must see in Columbus. The Mammoth display and General John C. Steele head the lineup, promising an array of informative displays to benefit citizens. The Health Exhibit and other official exhibits are expected to attract many visitors and extend lives.
The text argues for stronger farmer cooperation, reform of farm business laws, and improved credit to end tenancy and high interest rates. It stresses practical farming, shared knowledge, and extending cooperative facilities to farming operations while noting regional product imbalances. It ends with advice to keep Hanford's Balsam in the stable.
The 1975 assessment rate set by Northwestern Ohio was seventy cents per thousand dollars of value. This flat levy applies to property assessments and determines local tax bills for the year.
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