Wilmot Area News Highlights Local Happenings
Genoa Green Oak and Wilmot note community events with lectures and church services. William Smith from Massillon visits Newman. local education board hires teachers in Canal Fulton. Boxwell Patterson program at Newman school. several social visits and weddings listed. many town festival plans and band concerts.
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Summit Hill
John | Hodgson
John Richards
David Davis
Scranton
Joseph Griffith
Boxwell-Patterson
Newman School
W. P. Walters
Josepha Reese
Clara Burke
Margaret Shaw
Ruth Williamson
Nina Bowman
R. A. Pollock
North Lawrence
Buttermere
Stella Wolfe
Misa Bessie Kerstetter
Massillon
Goat Hill
Stanwood
Wilmot
K. of P
Boughman
Zachariah Boughman
Charles Hall
Edward Harrold
Blanche Burger
Canal Falton
William Pietzcker
Wil
Wages Advance At Pittsburg Mills And Steel Works
In Pittsburg on June 18 Jones & Laughlin and Carnegie Steel announced wage increases affecting about eight thousand workers. Jones & Laughlin lifted wages by ten percent for all except tonnage men, while Carnegie Steel raised furnace workers and is expected to raise day laborers to ten percent above their current pay. Day laborers previously earning 1.35 a day will receive 1.50. The summary notes the broader rise across other laborers under the new scale.
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Pittsburg
Jones & Laughlin
Carnegie Steel Company
Bombs for the Fourth Outdo Giant Fireworks on Market
Fireworks manufacturers unveil new toys to surpass old giant crackers. House that Jack built explodes into atoms. miniature warships and grasshopper rockets promise louder, more dramatic displays. Mont Pelee eruption replica discussed for Easter coast resorts as public fears rise.
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Mont Pelee
Chicago Tribune
Jack
Pelee
Wisconsin Stocking Aims For Pike Fry And Muscallonge
The Wisconsin fish commission plans a large stocking program this year with fifteen million pike fry and two million muscallonge to be distributed in state lakes along the Chicago and Northwestern line. The goal is to attract visitors this summer and provide ample sport with rod and line.
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Wisconsin
Wisconsin Fish Commission
Wisconsin Lakes
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Largest of drydocks in New York harbor planned
New York Herald reports a major shipbuilding combine will build the largest drydock in the world on Staten Island shore near quarantine. Partners include Union Iron Works, Bath Iron Works, Hyde Windlass, Crescent Shipyard, Samuel L. Moore, Eastern Shipbuilding, Harlan & Holingsworth, and Canada Manufacturing. The project aims to cut production costs through cooperation and begin with contracts totaling 27 million dollars.
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New Shipbuilding
Wiil Rector
Staten Island
New York
New York Herald
Statensland
Lewis Nixon
New York City
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Bath Iron Works (Limited
Hyde Windlass Company
Bath
Crescent Shipyard
Samuel L. Moore & Sons Company
Elizabethport
N. J
Eastern Shipbuilding Company
New London
United States
Dinner favors feature miniature games and novelties
The latest dinner favors include a four by two inch miniature pingpong table eleven inches high with light brown wood and green cloth top, a roulette table wheel complete with ball, and a steamship favor for bon voyage dinners. A christening box top in bas-relief depicts a pink cradle scene bordered in pink with a stork, window, and tiny infant.
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New York Times
Giant Meteorite Unearthed in Western Mexico by Ward
Professor Henry A Ward, of Ward Natural Science, announced the discovery of a meteorite weighing over fifty tons and thirteen feet long buried nearly twenty feet in earth in western Mexico. The mass, described as enormous and ungainly, was photographed. transporting the core to the seacoast would cost over $50,000.
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Henry Ward
Mexico
Henry A Ward
Rochester
N.Y
Chicago
Philadelphia Press
Rochester Historical Society
Ward
Ward Natural Science Establishment
Bishop Walters Urges Black Self-Protection in Chicago
At Olivet Baptist church Bishop Alexander Walters of Ohio told a meeting of Afro-American councils that blacks should defend their homes and families if threatened, as he warned of trouble after reports of persecution in Eldorado and Harrisburg Illinois and a Missouri lynching. A resolution urged Governor Yates to protect colored residents. the governor pledged authorities will pursue attackers and uphold the law.
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Chicago
Alexander Walters
Colored Church of Ohio
Olivet Baptist Church
Eldorado
Harrisburg
Ill
Louis Wright
Missouri
Yates
Soft coal shipments to the east questioned
Reports claim soft coal is being sent east to ease anthracite strikes, but Pittsburgh producers say their annual output is fully contracted, mostly for lake trade, making eastern delivery unlikely. Likely origin of eastern shipments is Central Pennsylvania or Clearfield district.
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Pittsburg
Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Clearfield
Boers Surrender Totals Reported by Lord Kitchener
A London dispatch dated June 16 from Lord Kitchener announces 915 Boers surrendering in the Transvaal completing its capitulation. On June 17 Bloemfontein saw 700 surrenders. Transvaal totals show 11,225 men surrendering and 10,813 rifles handed in, Orange River colony 5,280 rifles, with Cape Colony figures incomplete. He notes transfer of the constabulary to civilian authorities as military operations cease.
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London
Lord Kitchener
Transvaal
Bloemfontein
Orange River Colony
Cape Colony
McKinley Memorial Fund Receives Paris Concert Proceeds
Colonel Myron T Herrick treasurer of the McKinley National Memorial Association reports a draft for 7314 dollars from Morgan Harjes Co Paris. The Paris committee organized the benefit concert and collected most of the funds for the memorial project.
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Cleveland
Myron T. Herrick
McKinley National Memorial Association
Banking House of Morgan, Harjes & Co
Paris
Memorial Association
McKinley National Memorial Fund
National convention called by United Mine Workers
President Mitchell calls a national convention to meet in Indianapolis at the soonest date to discuss calling out all bituminous coal miners in the country. The exact date is not fixed and will be announced soon. A testimonial about Rocky Mountain Tea and a letter praising Vegetable Liver Pills and Headache Tablets are also noted.
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Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Kennedy Remedy Praised by New York Health Journal
Editorially endorsed by James H. Montgomery M D of the New York Magazine of Sanitation and Hygiene after tests of Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy for kidney liver bladder troubles rheumatism dyspepsia and constipation. Readers urged to try the remedy. available in 50 cent and 1.00 sizes with mail sample offer. Dr David Kennedy Corp Rondout N Y promotes Cherry Balsam for coughs cords and consumption.
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New York Magazine of Sanitation and Hygiene
James H. Montgomery
M. D
David Kennedy
Jas. H. Montgomery
David Kennedy Corp
Rondaut
N. Y
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