American potato bug and other ills in the news
London dispatch warns of the American potato bug invading British fields and the Canadian thistle devastating U S farms. The Delaware girls’ industrial home abuse case condemns the superintendent and staff. Apuncinado and anti imperialist debates color the US scene as weather woes and irrigation laws spark public chatter. Printer's Ink rails at deceptive advertising while mail-order schemes linger.
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London
Great Britain
States
Nora Ferris
Girls’ Industrial Home
Delaware
Nash
Printer’s Ink
U.cle Sam
Salvation Army Exemplifies Practical Christianity in Aid
The piece lauds the Salvation Army for plain dealing in advertising and for distributing coal to needy families in zero weather. It notes winter coal relief and ice sales to vulnerable women and children in big cities, with orders rising from five hundred to one thousand pounds for distribution.
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Salvation Army
Cleveland
Reciprocity With Cuba Seen As Inevitable Policy
The New York Sun notes President Roosevelt’s Pittsburg speech on Cuban reciprocity as nonpartisan and urgent. It argues reciprocity must come regardless of who leads the White House or party control, and views Cuba statehood as secondary to the reciprocity goal.
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Roosevelt
Pittsburg
Cuba
White House
Congress
United States
Elkins
New York Sun
Roof Gardens Help Heat Prostration Patients
The Boston hospital relief station has set up a roof garden to treat heat illness. Wire fences provide protection while awnings shade patients. A roof access cart delivers patients to the roof, where cold baths, stimulation, proper diet, and rest are used to lower temperatures. The piece urges architects to include roof space for medical care and notes Boston as a climate of mind.
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Boston Hospital
Boston
Stark county forecast tightens congressional contest
A Stark county source in Youngstown reports the congressional race is sharpening with Smith aiming for seventy delegates, while Grant and Phelps back at least sixty five and twenty five respectively. The county official says a dark horse is impossible, Sky Kennedy or Speaker only if no agreement. Also notices for headache remedy and Endive plants appear.
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Stark
Smith
Messrs
Grant
Phelps
Kennedy
Speaker
Youngstown Vindicator
Mrs Sarah Johnson Funeral Thursday Afternoon
Mrs Sarah Stouffer Johnson aged 83 died at 165 North Street after a four year illness. The funeral will be Thursday at 2 pm with Rev G B Smith officiating. Born in Adams County Pennsylvania she moved to Canal Dover then Massillon with her family and leaves several Johnson children including Benjamin Sylvester Charles Helen and Caroline Jarvis.
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Sarah Stouffer Johnson
North Street
L. H. Stewart
M. E
G. B. Smith
Alliance
N. M
Sylvester
Charles Johnson
Helen Johnson
Caroline Jarvis
Charles E. Jarvis
Maxssilian
Anna Johnson
Mary Ann Johnson
Sasac Steese
Canal Dover
New Philadelphia
Mrs Washington Shelt Dies at 86 in North Lawrence
Mrs. Washington Shelt, widow of the late Washington Shelt, died Saturday in North Lawrence at age 86. Funeral services are planned for Tuesday.
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Washington Shelt
North Lawrence
Shelt
New Hotel Leased by Grapewine Plans European Café
Joseph Grapewine, landlord of the Hotel Massillon, leases the South Erie street building formerly occupied by C. L. McLain & Company to convert it into Grapewine's European Café. The remodel will create a modern hotel layout with a large dining room, wide corridors, and well lit sleeping rooms. The hotel should be ready by September, and Grapewine will continue to operate the Hotel Massillon.
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Joseph Grapewine
Massillon
Frederick Loeftler
Erie Street
C. L. McLain & Company
Grapewine
Radical note transformation and health tonics in old ad text
A promotional piece contrasts bank note destruction with turning notes to car wheels and promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters for digestive and nervous ailments. It also lists unclaimed mail at Massillon with names, and a note from Louis A. Koons P M announcing advertised letters remain.
Massillon Miners Choose Delegates for National Convention
Miners in Massillon district hold meetings at district mines to elect delegates to the United Mine Workers national convention in Indianapolis on July 17. District President Robert Legg will represent several mines. Delegates are instructed to favor a sympathetic strike, possibly extending beyond the United Mine Workers to include other crafts.
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Inctea
United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Robert Legg
Ling Scandal Stirs Massillon Stockholders and Suit
Charles V Eades of Chicago seeks a 50000 damage judgment against Ling amid divorce allegations linked to the McCabe Extension Mining and Milling Co. Ling, once a district attorney and territory figure in Arizona, is said to be in Cincinnati with his wife and three children in Prescott. Local board member Kirchhofer doubts the charges as stock worries grow.
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McCabe Extension Mining and Milling Company
Charles V. Eades
Chicago
Reese M. Ling
Prescott, Ariz
Massillon
Eades
Hades
Ling
Cincinnati
Prescott
Arizona
Territory
Pp. P. Kirchhofer
McCabe Extension Company
McCabe
Ohio Town Scorched
Clarksville suffered a major fire with a $50,000 loss today. The blaze threatened the city hall and nearby business buildings before the Morrow fire department arrived in time to save the town.
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Wilmington
Morrow
Clarksville
Ohio Man Acquitted of Concealing Funds in Bankruptcy Case
Charles Bright a civil engineer from Sandusky Ohio was acquitted today of concealing five hundred thousand dollars in bankruptcy proceedings. The case was heard amid other brief notices and society items from July 9.
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London
Charles Bright
Sandusky, C
Nearby Towns Report Lively Fourth Local Notes
Camp Creek reports Harmon Roch straw raised his house frame on July 4. Several residents, including Mr. and Mrs. Budd and Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, celebrated Independence Day with family in the area. Isaiah Cramer injured at the Massillon brick yard remains improving under Dr. Dimon. News from Beach City Navarre Dalton Crystal Spring Genoa covers post office, bank plans, weather, births, and local visits with multiple named residents.
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Camp Creek
Camporeek
Newman
Charles Ashman
Washingtonville
Mary Williams
John Dixon
Mary Lewis
Somerville
Thomas J. Morgan
L. H. DeHoff
Master Howard
Youngstown
Isaiah Cramer
Massillon
Dimon
Turkeyfoot Lake
John T. Harney
Massillon Miners’ Organization
Dalton
New Bank
W. H. Wertz
Crystal Spring
James Beitel, Jr
Thomas Dunckley
Akron
Ellsworth Crites
Canton
Crites
Lower River
Massillon Bridge Company
William Molson
Pleasant City
Guernsey County
William Meiner
Leonard’s Hall
Weimer
U. Ss
Bob’ Gow
Clarence Wiesen
Della Bingham
New Philadelphia
Fred Rosche
Dr. Dissinger
Fulton
Electrical Institute Specialists Visit Massillon July Dates
Prominent Philadelphia based specialists from the Electrical Medical Institute visit Massillon on July 16 and 17 offering free consultations, examinations, and medicines claimed to cure deafness cataracts and numerous chronic diseases. They promise no charge for treatment on this advertising trip and guarantee cures with a strong emphasis on electricity aided medicine.
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N. B
Massillon
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Adams County
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Ohio
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Conrad
Rocky Mountain
Z. T. Baltzly
Odds and
Vassilissa Ivanovna
St. Petersburg
Russia
Calverley
Leeds
England
Supreme Lodge of the Ancient Order of United Workmen
Portland
Ore
Order
Twman
Beach City
Bert Brigis
Navarre
Tunly
J. O. Krichbaum
John McWhiney
Justus
Ruth Staub
Minerva
Genoa
Allen Zerkey
Bunker Hill
Fred Marchand
William Wilson
Richville
Dick Hartzell
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