Ramsey comments on no smoke in Columbia yard
President Ramsey of Wheeling & Lake Erie says the line must be upgraded with 2,000 to 2,500 coal cars and 20 to 25 locomotives funded by a 20 year equipment mortgage. Improvements include heavier rails, bridges, and curve elimination to operate at low costs, funded from surplus earnings. New ties and rails will be laid as crews rebuild the Columbia yards starting Tuesday.
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Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway
Wabash
Ramsey
Railway Recorder
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Wheeling & Lake Urie
Johumbia
Massillon
Columbia
Charles Foster
E. M. Nicoles
Taussig
Canton
Pittsburg Post
Pennsylvania Company
Altoona
Pennsylvania
Duluth & Iron Range Railway Company
Duluth & Iron Range
United States Steel Corporation
Mesaba Range
Michigan
Juniata
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia
New York
D. C. Chatterlin
McDermitt
Wheeling
Wheeling & Lake Erie Ward
Norwalk
Canton Akron Electric Railway feud over power house plans
At the annual Canton Akron Electric Railway meeting Welty warned that if the N O T Company fails to close its option on the property the original plans for a Graham's hill power house may proceed. Charles Currie of N C T dismissed the claim as talk, noting the property is purchased and the deal calls for road completion before final transfer. He indicated completion would occur on schedule unless injunctions slow progress.
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Canton-Akron Electric Railway Company
Canton Joho
Welty
Graham's Hill
Akron Beacon Journal
Charles Currie
N. C. T. Company
Beacon Journal
Metzger Seeks Local Option Bill For State House
Stark County legislator C W Metzger and wife spent weekend in the city. He prepared a local option bill to abolish multiple township road supervisor offices in favor of a single road commissioner and will present it soon in the House. He backs a two cent a mile bill if given a chance and expects railway related measures and labor bills to surface.
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C. W. Metzger
Clark
Metzger
Senator Warner
Maier Forms Barbers Union and Seeks Central Labor Body
Organizer Maier of Alliance forms a Barbers Union and aims to affiliate care makers and miners with a central labor body. He says plans will take four to six weeks and Alliance workers are ready for unionism. He is joined by William Wagner, Bartenders Union secretary, as Trades and Labor Assembly eye library hours and a potential McKinley memorial fund donation.
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Maier
Barbers
Mr. Maier
Alliance
William Wagner
Bartenders’ Union
McKinley Memorial
Trades and Labor Assembly
Anne
Three Stark county prisoners arraigned on multiple indictments
Canton January 20 three Stark county jail inmates faced arraignment before Judge McCarty. John Ballinger alias Ballind Alliance Albert Hose Canton and John Popp Canton plead not guilty to charges including assault with intent to rape rape and shooting with intent to kill. Attorneys Robb Meyer Clark Pontius McCarty McDowell named for defense. Prosecutor Day signaled likely full week of criminal work as additional indictments and details emerged. Better formerly Minerva clothing store owner indicted for obtaining signature to a note by false pretenses on behalf of Jack Adams. He faced grand jury action, later bound over, and now stands on $1,000 bond with Atlee Pomerene as counsel. Additional city electric railway franchise plans also discussed.
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Canton
Stark County
Grand
Common Pleas Court
McCarty
John Ballinger
John Ballind
Alliance
Albert Hose
John Popp
Grand Jury
Day
J. L. Robb
CG. T. Meyer
Robb and
Meyer
Ballind
Ballinger
Anna Hoffmeyer
George Clark
Trose
Matt Bast
Canton Township
Popp
Hubert Pontius
McCarty & McDowell
Lucy Haas
Madison Street
Smiley and Smith
Plain Township
William Better
Minerva
Better
Common Pleas Grand Jury
Justice Schachtenberger
William J. Adams
Jack’ Adams
Bernard Walgemath
Cleveland
Jack'’ Adams
McKinley Farm
Atlee Pomerene
W. W. Irwin
John E. Monnot
Canton, Lodi
Indiana official to speak in Canton on McKinley Day
Commissioner William Dudley Folke of Indiana has been chosen to address Canton citizens on McKinley day January 20, the anniversary of the martyr president's birth. The gathering will take place in the Tabernacle.
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William Dudley Folke
Indiana
Canton
McKinley
Tabernacle
Public Dinner Anecdotes Show Ameer Tensions and Folklore
An anecdotal narrative recounts Asindle Humor and Stephen Wheeley describing the Ameer life. A native prostrate before the Ameer amid crowd turmoil while a diver questions defenses. The piece mixes political insinuations with Arabian Nights style whimsy. In medieval burial customs, founders and patrons moved closer to churches, ending with burials under altars. malefactors and stillborns were placed on the north side of cemeteries.
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Ameer Abdur Ratman
Stephen Wheeley
Strom
Man Seeks Entry To Club Through Costly Door Tint
A lank countryman outside a library reading room tries to gain access, offering a dollar, while three congress members let him pass. He explains he belongs to one lodge but asks if the annual cost is reasonable, hoping to sit inside briefly.
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Congress
New York
Protest on Chinese in Foreign Lands Provoked Viewing
The piece discusses Chinese in foreign lands, noting how locals treat them with polite curiosity yet sometimes poke fun at their appearance. The writer cites experiences in Frances, Ireland, Norway, Japan, Spain, and South America as contexts for observed courtesy and differing attitudes. Some Chinese laundry workers in the U.S. may not fully endorse this viewpoint.
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Chingman
Peking
Ching
Phay
Frances
Ireslind
Nersea
Japan
Epaino
South \merica
Vera
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