Booked For Defeat In Ohio General Assembly Session
The general assembly faces defeats on canal abandonment and the municipal code. A substitute canal bill would keep the Miami and Erie canals in part, while the Ohio River section remains under study. a general bond-issue bill may replace local ordinances. The habitual criminal act is targeted for repeal. Ohio counties push for proportional representation in the House. A plan to abolish the state livestock commission and empower the state board of agriculture seeks new disease controls. An executive mansion proposal seeks $100,000 for a new gubernatorial residence.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Leiber
Akron
Miami and Arie
Ohio and Erie
Cleveland
Dresden
Portsmouth
Board of Public Works
Golden Tale Jones
Toledo
Darby
Senate
House
Supreme Court
Ohio
Macedonia
Home
Judiciary Committee of
Franklin County
Fisher
Medina
Nhen
State Livestock Commission
State Board of Agriculture
Husea
New York Standard
Hypes
Metzger
Stark
25 000 May Strike Looms in Virginia Coal Fields
Charleston West Virginia March 24 The United Mine Workers announce a likely strike amid rising tensions in Virginia and West Virginia coal fields. Operators and miners may hold a conference with Kanawha New and Elk river district representatives present. Wages and car supply for next year discussed as organizers may be sent to the New and Kanawha fields.
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Charleston
W. Va
W. B. Watson
United Mine Workers of America
Virginia
Kanawha
New
Elk River
United Mine Weers
United Mine Workers’ Organization
West Virginia Miners’ Association
May Ward Off Strike In Shamokin Convention
Shamokin Pa March 14 A plan to adjourn the joint convention of UMW Districts 1 7 and Y aims to avoid a strike declaration. A special committee is to present a resolution to operators, with only two demands likely insisted upon if adopted. Delegates may approve or modify the report, and the convention could name a committee beyond union officers.
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Shamokin
United Mine Workers of America
Mitchell
Special Committee
Scale Committee
Sinerion
National Executive Board
A Hove
Tet
Lowell Textile Wage Demands Spark Potential Citywide Strike
Lowell Massachusetts faces a possible major strike as mill agents respond to a central textile union wage increase demand. Each agent sent an individual unconditional reply, though the language was identical. The note, reportedly framed in Boston, blocked the increase slated to take effect today, delaying union oversight of the new proposal.
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Lowell
Mass
Textile Council
Boston
Efert
Varios
Sermon on Marriage and Choice at St Marys Church
At St Marys church, Rev H V Kaempker preached a Lent series finale to the largest crowd yet. He discussed marriage as a divine law and human choice, noting some should remain single for race continuity, and urged thoughtful life partnership over hasty unions. The sermon cited Genesis and referenced F J Green of Lancaster N H praising Electric Bitters for health, with a testimonial about its use for a wife and a note of local availability.
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St. Mary's Church
H. V. Kaempker
Cana
Jesus
Kaempker
Adam
Eve
Working 24 Hours A Day Dr King’s Pills Ad
A vintage drug ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills for torpid liver biliousness fever and ague claiming cures for coughs colds influenza bronchitis and throat troubles. Customer testimonial from Mrs Chas Applegate of Alexandria Indiana credits 100 bottles with curing consumption and gaining weight. Trial bottles offered free at Z T Baltzly’s drugstore with small 25 to 100 price range.
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Dr. King
New Life
Z. T. Balzty’s
Chas. Applegate
Alexandria
Ind
Dr King
Baltzly
Union of Churches Eyes Federation Plan for Church Work
A joint commission of the Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Northern General Conference met in Baltimore on March 14 to urge federation across branches. The plan envisions consolidating mission work and publishing houses in Shanghai, a union paper in Mexico, and a shared hymn book, catechism, and order of worship, with revision work restarted to include Southern Church input.
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Baltimore
Methodist Episcope Church South
General Conference
Shanghai
China
Mexico
Hyman
General Conference of the
Southern Church
Miracle sermon on mission flood at Char tiers avenue
Rev Ralph Eliott of the McKees Rocks mission preached on A Miracle at the mission rooms on Char tiers avenue. He described four inches of floodwater in the district, with the room remaining dry while surrounding areas flooded. A large crowd heard the discourse and some townspeople viewed the event as a divine sign amid skepticism.
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Pittabure
Ralph Eliott
McKees Rocks Mission
Mision Rooms
Chartiers Avenue
Elliott
Mr. Elliott
Battleship Retvizan Joins Russian Navy in Philadelphia
The Russian battleship Retvizan, completed at Cramps' yard, was formally added to the czar's navy in Philadelphia. Chaplain Father Ratskowfsky officiated as 760 crew and officers stood with bare heads while Greek church services were read. The ship, commanded by Captain Stebensnovitch, hoisted the blue cross of St Andrew and will sail to Cronstadt around April 12 after being moved to mid stream by four tugs.
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Indelphia
Philadelphia
Retvizan
Cramps
Father Ratskowfsky
Stebensnovitch
Cronstadt
Rioting in Belgium Over Suffrage Parade
Brussels reports a Liberal and Socialist parade with a deputation to the burgomaster seeking universal suffrage and proportional representation. A crowd shouted for suffrage at Prince Albert’s departure from a theater as dynamite damaged a La Louviere post office and an attack on deputies’ homes in Binche was linked to the suffrage agitation.
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Brussels
Chamber of Deputies
Albert
Leopold
la Louvere
Hainaut
Belgium
M. Derbaise
Binche
Woman Kills Self After Shooting Husband in Quarrel
Pittsburg March 24. Mrs Birdie Askinski 28 fired twice at her husband then killed herself at 4 30 pm in Coraopolis following a quarrel. Coroner's report cites anger as trigger.
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Pittsburg
Birdie Askinski
Coraopolis
Reduced Rates for West and Northwest Second-Class Tickets
Pennsylvania Lines announces special fares for one way second-class colonist tickets to the West and Northwest during March and April 1902. Details on fares and travel times available by applying to Passenger and Ticket Agents. J. A. Shoemaker is the agent.
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Pennsylvania
J. A. Shoemaker
For Over Sixty Years Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup
Advertisements tout Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething aid for children, claiming it calms the child, softens gums, relieves pain, cures wind colic, and diarrhoea with a 25 cent bottle. Bucklen's Arica Salve cited for scalp issues, erasmus, and various skin ailments at 25 cents plus Clinic Headache Wafers offered as a heart tonic at 10 cents.
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C.D. Ishill
Morganton
Bucklen
Name Chase Used by Imitators as Sham Medicine
The name Chase, made famous by Dr. A W Chase, is copied by scammers to fool the public into believing their pills are his. They imitate the portrait and signature to sell so called Nerve Pills with claims to cure nervous ailments and restore vigor. The public is warned to look for the initials A W on genuine boxes and to buy from E S Craig in Buffalo, N Y.
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McNamee
Pratinlin
Patrick
Ireland
gang @ Tephtabion
Guerin
Erie
Judiciary Committee
McNairre
Chase
Birds of Prey
A. W. Chase
Br. A. W. Chase
A. W
A. W. Grase
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Han
Wis
Boene
Mary
Resi Diant
Guebul
Commissioner of Common Schools
Finance and Public Works Committee
T.e House
Fnance
Finance
George U. Marvin
West Virginia
Kanawha Finlds
J. A. Kreamer
Arkansas City
Kans
Miles’ Cart
Father Kaempker
F. J Green
Lancaster
N.H
Z. T. Baltzly
Union OF Churches
North
M. E
Federa
Tion
Church South
Cod
Mission
Stetson
Spain
Evermond
Mat Mack
Columbia Stetson
Atlanta
East Main
Jand Black
Utria
Pennsylvania Lines
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