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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1917
Page
1
The document details state hospital populations and farm outputs for Lima, Massillon, Toledo, and other institutions. It covers average daily inmate counts, staff totals, patient labor, dairy herds, crop yields, and facility values, noting shifts in population and expanded farm operations as part of statewide care.
A dramatic study asks readers to weigh how Bertram Meade, Helen Illingworth, and Colonel Illingworth respond when truth, love, and honor collide. The tale follows not only a dam project led by Meade but the moral tests faced by Roberts and Vandeventer as cloudbursts threaten catastrophe and reform.
A concise column argues self control is the prime factor in securing the best coach, urging readers to cultivate discipline as the foundation of athletic and personal success. It stresses steady habits, focus, and prudent decision making over flashy tactics.
The piece argues bicycles regain relevance amid rising motorism and social conflict. It decries capitalist selfishness, endorses education and peaceful persuasion over force, and cites Railway Age Gazette to critique socialist elites driving bike interests through power. It ends by noting cars promise safety while critique remains rooted in rational reform.
Mrs Amanda Gierhart of Waynesfield Ohio commends Chamberlains Cough Remedy praising twenty years of use in her family and reporting it cures coughs and colds. Firemen's Deuce February 22.
The piece analyzes the motorcycle boom and its hazards, noting speed as its main allure and accidents rising with reckless riding. It criticizes harsh cash sales and installment plans, dealer disillusionment, high gasoline costs, and compares shifting demand to the rising bicycle business as producers struggle to sustain profitable output and markets.
A detailed sale list announces a public sale 144 miles north and 3 miles east of Wauseon, 1 mile north of Harrison stop 60 on the railway, featuring horses, hogs, farm implements, and numerous farm items. Names Eli Burkholder, Lewis Ryan, Ahias Leist listed as organizers and auctioneers. Separately, a Marine recruit in Fremont experiences acute fear of a cat during oath, a condition labeled ailurophobia. Additional notices seek information on wild garlic in fields and a testimonial praising Foley Kidney Pills from an elderly couple in Harrisburg, Pa.
Seattle special reports on a dry era where farmers push against saloons, arguing prohibition boosts farming, industry, and tax efficiency. The Business Chronicle defends Seattle’s dry policy, noting population, bank activity, tax revenue, commerce, and investment all rising despite attacks.
A Wheeling Ohio community report describes a misnamed news service, the Unitel Press Jtions, claiming to be the United Press Association. The mix sparked confusion among papers, with several readers fooled by the non-partisan, non-sectarian claim and concerns over attribution.
The Uhrichsville Board of Trade announces a resolution urging national prohibition, calling it a vital business measure and urging government action. The resolution frames prohibition as essential to protecting commerce, minerals, and governance, reflecting early Ohio sentiment.
Denver labor leader William C. Thornton says Prohibition benefits the state and its workers. He notes Ohio workers will follow Colo rado’s dry example next November and argues the saloon harmed labor markets while prohibition has brought prosperity. The piece contrasts labor support for dry laws with past anti prohibition views. Also includes an advertisement for Sloan's Liniment claiming relief from rheumatic pains with quick, stain free application.
Public sale of real estate to settle estate called Randels farm or former Jason Richardson farm located 134 miles south of West Unity on stone road. The 96 acre property is mostly cultivated with 18 acres in pasture. Improvements include a ten room frame house, cellar, cistern water, stone yard frontage, outbuildings, barn, granary, machine shed, hen house, spring house, and an active year round water stream. Sale features down payment, a $5000 first mortgage at 6 percent for five years, and deed/possession after April 1. Continuous stock farm and fruit orchards described. plan to attend and bid your price.
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