Beach City and nearby notes show town updates and events
Beach City reports moves of local businesses to clear space for a post office block and notes residents at Strasburg, Newman, and Canal Fulton. Campcreek and Newman items cover visits, church, school, and Memorial Day planning. Canal Fulton records resignation of Rev Williard and local road and social happenings.
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Beach City
Rose
Speaker
Ramsey
Rev
Sprinkle
Strasburg
George Wetzel
Main Street
Prof
Wingate
Bowerston
Harrison County
North Lawrence
Joe Myers
William Bell
Dennison
Mase
Greensburg
George Galer
Holy Land
Goudy & Crites
Campcreek
May Hall
Tracie Snyder
S. Glick
Patterson Proctor
John Collier
Samuel Netzly
George Hall
P. Proctor
Mr. Berry
Cross Roads
Ira Hole
Clara
Massillon
Bertha Handel
Wm. Snavely
West Brookfield
I. N. Snavely
Henry Eckard
Barburton
Canal Fulton
E. R. Williard
Fulton Reformed Church
Con
Dean of Diplomatic Corps Shifts to Cuba
Washington May 21 Great Britain wins the dean position in Cuba after Congress delays a diplomatic bill. Herbert Squiers was nominated as minister but confirmed only yesterday. Lionel B.E. Carden, British consul general in Havana, was appointed minister and presented credentials, becoming dean of the corps.
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Washington
Congress
Great Britain
United States
Pew Republic of
Herbert Squiers
Lionel BE. G. Carden
Havana
Palma
England
Errors and corrections in business letters praised by Youth's Companion
A Massachusetts business firm prints a message at the top of letters promising cheerful corrections for errors and urging polite, good natured complaints. The piece notes how many regret harsh notes and that early, courteous communication best safeguards rights and resolves issues.
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Haking Erroresichusetts
Cure for Scald Head by Pine Tar Remedy
A Detroit Free Press tale notes a grandmother’s cure for scald head using pure pine tar melted with hard to form a wet ointment. After cleansing the head, the tar ointment is applied to battle infection and promote healing, with claims of curing severe cases.
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Detroit Pree Press
Lightning flashes at Norway fjord cave and romance note
A fragment references a Norway cave near Jorund Fjord where lightning flashes with weather changes, alongside a romance scene where Tom teases Belle about courage to wed, ending with a Novalis quotation about a well educated will.
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Jorend Fjord
Norway
Glass Engraving Method From Simple Home Setup
A Scientific American staffer describes an easy inexpensive glass engraving rig using emery powder. Clamp the glass, use a 4 to 5 foot funnel tube, and a paper stencil overstuck with muciline or bands. Embers flow through the tube to cut initials or bands in glass with several passes.
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Scientific American
Glass engraving by gravity and gelatin frosting method
A practical early 20th century guide describes a gravity driven glass engraver using a weighted cord and spindle to rotate a tumbler for frosted designs. It notes a clockwork option, a cork to stop flow, and a crank reel. A Cailletet gelatin method frosts glass by drying glue to tear surface layers for delicate patterns.
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M. L. Cailletet
French Academy of Sciences
New Source of Malaria Discovered by Trop Med Assistant
A Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine assistant on the West Africa coast reports a new malaria source. Previously blamed on mosquito bites, research shows another parasite spreads the fever. The new disease bearer resembles the horse fly disease insect found in South Africa.
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Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Africa
South Africa
To Render Guncotton Harmless by Formaldehyde Treatment
L Vanino finds that guncotton treated with a 20 percent formaldehyde solution greatly reduces shock sensitivity and almost destroys explosive power. Moistening with formaldehyde solution and drying on a water bath neutralizes detonating capability without decomposition. Restoring with boiling water removes paraform and returns original explosive properties.
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Harmiess
L. Vanino
Oldest Writing Fragment Found by University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania recently acquired what is described as the world’s oldest writing. It is a vase fragment broken in the raid on ancient Nippur, bearing picture writing that dates to about 4,500 years before Christ.
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University of Pennsylvania
Nippur
Choice Recipes and Bridal Veil Trends from The Boston Cooking School Magazine
The article presents recipes for Excellent Soup with lamb chops and a Maître d Hotel lamb chop, plus a lettuce and cheese salad. It details methods for preparing pureed bean soup, broiled chops, and starch sides. It also notes bridal fashion shifts toward chiffon veils with daisies, away from heavy lace veils for daytime weddings.
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Boston Cooking School Magazine
Embroidered Wedding Veil with Daisy Motif
A decorative wedding veil is described featuring heavy white silk floss embroidery. Each daisy has a yellow center and the write up notes the trend of introducing color into bridal dress as recently seen in England. It also includes a cleaning recipe for grass and fruit stains using Javelle water with sal soda and chloride of lime.
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England
Speedy Justice at Akron for Assault and Robbery
Akron May 20 Charles Rooney leader of three Negroes was sentenced to twenty five years hard labor for criminal assault on Miss Bertha Moore near Cuyahoga Falls and for highway robbery. Thomas Upshaw and William Brent received Mansfield reformatories terms ages seventeen and eighteen. Cooney pled guilty to highway robbery and criminal assault charges.
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Teresa Dodd
J. Morgan
Canton
W. &. Moulton
Canal Fulton
Lawrence
North Lawrence
Association
Newman
O. BE. Hall
Massillon
Charles H. Williams
Portsmouth
Bringyage
Metropolitan Insurance Company
John Dodd
George W. Selway
Albert Stock
Jabez Thomas
Navarre
George W. Hardgrove
Akron
Bertha Moore
Cuyahoga Falls
Charles Rooney
Weber
Thomas Upshaw
William Brent
Mansfield Reformatory
Miss Moore
Cooney
Upshaw and
Brent
Death Toll Rising After Goliad Cyclone Destruction
The May 21 report from Goliad Texas states 123 dead and 175 injured with some dying. Martial law holds, Victoria guards manage order, doctors treat at the courthouse turned hospital, 75 residences destroyed, wind path one mile long and 100 yards wide. Aid streams in as unknown fatalities remain under debris.
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Goliad
Tex
Suanday
Court House
Texas
O’connor
Victoria
Guadaloupe
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Advertisement Claim
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as a teething aid for children. It promises soothing effects on gums, relief from pain, wind colic, and diarrhoea with a price of twenty five cents per bottle.
Market Prices in Pittsburg Dairy and Grain Rise
The Pittsburg market report lists prices for grains, hay, butter, cheese, eggs, poultry, hogs, sheep and lambs. Notable ranges include corn 68 to 70 cents, oats 48 to 56 cents, hay from 9 to 15 dollars, butter around 24 to 25 cents, eggs 16 cents, poultry varying by class, hogs from 6.90 to 7.50, and sheep and lambs priced up to about 5.90 dollars for prime weights.
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Pittsburg
Abe
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York State
Wisconsin
Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Dr David Kennedy's Favorite Remedy for kidney and bladder diseases and related conditions. It cites testimonials and claims rapid relief for liver, bladder, blood disorders, rheumatism, and constipation, with trial bottles offered by mail from Rondout NY.
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David Kennedy
Walter D. Miller
Delhi
N. Y
David Kennedy Corp
Rondout
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WN. Newman
Barbara VeHoff
John Linn
Sear Canal
Fulton
Wooster Avenue Reformed Church
Williard
Steiner
Emmanuel Winger
Lawrence Township
Moody Murray
Nellie Breece
Agnes Taggart
John Parnell
Cleveland
Tom
Belle
Philadelphia Record
Will
Novalis
Choice
New Idea
New York
Speedy Justice
Ham
DR. Clouse
Conrad
Northleveland Ave
Fourth St
Clouse
Lida Endinger
Crystal Springs
Conrad Hotel
John Ostheimer
D. W. Main St
Maseillon
ALBERT CL@OUSER
New Berlin
Pr. Clouse
Austin Koehn
Canton, Ohio
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