Local Happenings and Community Notes of Salem
Independen Investigators summarize a busy week. Mrs. Burns recovers from illness while Mrs. Kefower visits Crystal Spring. John Selway guests in the city with the George family. Mrs. Foreman and Mrs. Ritter visit from Redfield Michigan. Canton mill workers seek charter from Amalgamated Association. Shaffer to install. Bethlehem teachers meet at Pleasant Grove with readings and talks. Government inspectors study engines for New Orleans and Kansas City projects.
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Valentine Kefower
Crystal Spring
John Selway
Flushing
David George
Sarah Foreman
Guy Ritter
Redfield
Mich
W. F. Breed
Carnaban Tin Mill
Canton
Amalgamated Association
Shaffer
Bethlehem Township
John Yingling
East Main Street
Massillon
Theodore Kramer
Barberton
L. G. Stahl
Seaman
Main
Wooster
Clyde Rinehart
Akron
Rineharts
Elkhart
Epworth League
M. E
St. Paul's Church
Orrville Church Organ Company
Orrville
Ann Arbor
Lawrence Township
Hannah
Sarah Kerstetter
Miss Starns
Otilla Reich
Twin Lakes
Wis
Chris Bable
Near East
Palestine
Massillon Asylum
Salem News
Wesley M. E. Church
Massillon youths linked to stranded object at North Lawrence
A stranded object connected to a recent event drew several Massillon youths as members on its second day of operation. The report notes the involvement of local young residents and the location at North Lawrence.
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North Lawrence
Massillon
Maude Smith Disappears After Offering Body to Medical Colleges
Maude E Smith 19 daughter of Councilman Peter Smith left home Saturday after writing to medical colleges offering her body after death for money. She later claimed the letters were a joke and said she planned to join a stage troupe, while her mother pleads for her return. She was seen in Canton today en route toward Toledo with a satchel.
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Maude E. Smith
North Street
Peter Smith
Mrs. Smith
Canton
Toledo
Miss Smith
Salem
Maude
Maude Smith
Massillon
Cleveland
The
Independent
Etta May Kennedy
Tennessee Institution
Miss Kennedy
Gretchen
Rip van Winkle
Mrs. Morgan
Anna Rambow
Miss Rambow
Obituary for David Erb longtime Tuscarawas resident
David Erb aged 84 died Monday at his daughter Mrs Charles Lyons West Brookfield from age infirmities. Funeral from Lyons home Thursday at 9 am. He came from Lancaster county Pa fifty years ago and was a shoemaker turned farmer. Survivors include sons Henry J Erb John S Erb and daughter Malinda Lyons. Albert Dommer infant son of Gottlieb and Mrs Dommer died Tuesday evening at 8 pm. Funeral Thursday at 2 pm from their 21 Weber street residence with Rev L H Burry officiating.
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David Erb
Charles Lyons
West Brookfield
Erb
Tuscarawas Township
Lancaster County
Henry J. Erb
John S. Erb
Malinda Lyons
Albert
Prisoner Produces Counterfeit Dollars Beyond Walls
A convict in a large prison crafted counterfeit silver dollars and spread them via outside accomplices. Officials were shocked by the scheme and readers are urged to verify the unbroken private stamp on Hostetter's Stomach Bitters before use, touting it as a long trusted health remedy for indigestion and related ailments.
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Hostetter
John Jacobs Dies at Age of Ninety in Massillon
John Jacobs longtime Massillon financier and coal man dies at 1:30 am at his East Main Street home on the eve of what would have been his 90th birthday April 15. He aided Massillon’s growth as an early bank founder, ship captain, and businessman with a life spanning Franklin County to Stark County. Funeral is Friday at 2 pm with Rev. Cassing Roberts officiating. he was born April 15, 1812 in Pennsylvania and survived by his daughter Mrs Carrier Brown and sons Warren and Oliver Jacobs.
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John Jacobs
Massillon
First National Bank
East Main
East Streets
Mr. Jacobs
Carrier. Brown
Warren
Oliver Jacobs
Hicks
John Jacobs, Jr
Cassing M. Roberts
Jacobs
Franklin County
Ohio
Wellsville
Rawson
Acadia
Cleveland
Eldridge
John G. Warwick
Caroline Cannon
Pennsylvania
Massillon Bridge Company
Olver S
Philadelpia
Carrie
Hacks Brown
Childheart
Stark County
Massilton
Death of ex Governor Altgeld in Joliet
Ex Governor John P Altgeld died at his Joliet hotel at seven this morning after a speech the night before in the opera house. He suffered a fainting spell and was removed, then became unconscious and vomited. Physicians attributed death to cerebral hemorrhage.
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Joliet
John P Altgeld
Opera House
Auncaucsious
Celtic Party in Egypt Arrives Aboard White Star Oultic
The White Star steamer Oultic carrying American tourists reached Alexandria from Haifa Palestine, with heavy seas delaying their disembarkation. Chicago to St Paul travel offers double berth in tourist sleeping cars on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway every Tuesday and Friday in March and April 1802, via train No 1 leaving Chicago at 830 p.m.
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Alexandria
Egypt
White Star
Oultic
Caiffa
Palestine
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
F. A. Miller
A Base Cure for Headache Claim Ad
A vintage ad promotes Civiis Headache Wafers as a heart tonic that avoids low mood and delivers a safe cure. It touts easy use and harmless nature at 10 cents per dose.
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M. Burns
Peter
Clevelands
Cleveland Baking Powder Co
New York
Stark
Feri
T. Baltzly
Altceld
Celtic Party
Clay St
Bell
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