Eloquent figures show Massillon banking gains and deposits
The Massillon financial account reports 1900 deposits of 3,546,705 and a per capita gain of 147.40 since 1896, with six financial institutions holding substantial surplus earnings. Loans and discounts rose to 2,548,204 by October 1900, signaling healthy conditions as interest rates shift downward for borrowers while deposits pay around four percent.
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McKinley
Massillon
Massillon Savings and Banking Company
Wales
King
Massillon Loan and Building Co
Massillon Loan and Building
City debt and bank deposits report for 1900
The notice outlines the city unfunded debt at 62 500 dollars reduced by 2 500 since September. It lists deposits and liability stock from Nations Banks and other lenders totaling 3 586 705 with net four year increase of 1 768 904. It mentions Holloway & Company constructing fire apparatus for the city and potential personal liability if the contract is void.
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People’s Building & Loan Company
John E. Johns
Nations Banks
State Bank
T. H. Seaman
Charles T. Holloway & Company
Baltimore
Akron Brewery Plan Tied to City Site Return
The Akron Beacon Journal notes speculation after the city building fire about who will occupy the vacant site. Anton Kopp of Massillon, a former Akron brewer, seeks to buy the site and invest $40,000 to establish a large Akron brewery upon return to the city.
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Akron Beacon-Journal
City
Columbia Hall
Anton Kopp
Massillon
Kopp
Akron
Fred Horix
CALLED TO ACCOUNT AT MASSILLON IRON WORKS STRIKE
The Federal Union discussed a recent Massillon Iron and Steel Company strike and condemned the workers for striking without notifying union officers. An officer said a special meeting could have been convened to hear complaints and decide a proper course.
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Federal
Massillon Iron and Steel Company
Strange turkey disease alarms farmers in Massillon
Ex sheriff C A Krider reports a new illness among turkeys near Massillon. Birds refuse to eat and gradually die during fattening season ahead of Thanksgiving. Krider consulted experts and returned home with a compound he hopes will cure the flock.
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C. A. Krider
Tuscarawas Township
Massillon
Auntie Lewis Severely Injured In Vine Supporting Mishap
The Deylestown Journal reports Auntie Lewis, over 90, toppled from a box while tying a grape vine last Thursday. She suffered severe bruises and torn ribs but is improving slowly, with friends hopeful for a quick recovery.
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Lewis
Deylestown
Doan's Ointment and Shusser's Liver Pills Sold Widely
Advert says Doan's Ointment cures illness with skin itch relief and constipation. claims 50 cent price. Shusser's Vegetable Liver Pills advertised as full relief for constipation, biliousness, liver troubles. notes sold by all druggists.
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Shusser
Jell O Introduces New Dessert Flavors for Family
Jell O debuts as a versatile dessert with four flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry available at grocers for 10 cents. The ad contrasts it with Foleywell known Honey and Tar and warns against substitutes claimed to be "just as good" for colds and coughs.
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Foley
Rider & Snyder
All Back But on T Charles Emberly Seeks Unique Plan
The article notes escaped asylum patient Wolf the Italian from Columbiana county remains at large, while multiple theater and maintenance updates unfold. Evans & Co. build the power-house engine, Russell & Co. supply, and gas versus coal bill questions loom.
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Charles Emberly
Navarre
Banking and business changes announced in town
Arvine C Wales will leave the Mas sillon Savings and Banking Company on Monday to join the Russell Engine Company as cashier. F W Arnold succeeds him. Thorne T Dillon returns from San Juan Puerto Rico to become assistant cashier at the bank while continuing in the insurance business.
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Arvine C. Wales
Massillon Savings and Banking Company
Russell Engine Company
F. W. Arnold
Thorne T. Dillon
San Juan
Puerto Rico
American Colonial Bank
Arnold
Massillon Cyclists Complete Canton to Wheeling Relay
Massillon riders C H Snyder and W C Swihart rode from Canton to Wheeling in eighteen minutes carrying a message for Governor Roosevelt due at 1 34 this afternoon. Canton pair Hug and Shrake started the relay at 7 26 arriving Massillon 7 20. The run included delays at Navarre and varied speeds with a 15 mph target and a twelve section schedule through Beach City Strasburg Canal Dover New Philadelphia Midvale and Wheeling.
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C. H. Snyder
W. C. Swihart
Massillon
Navarre
Canton
Wheeling
Roosevelt
Hug and
Shrake
Swihart
High
Main Streets
Weidman and
Garver
Beach City
Beach
Strasburg
Canal
Dover
New Philadelphia
Midvyale
Dennigan
Phila
Cross Road
Smithdale
Catz Sd Weetstes Cca
Georgetown Ate
Harrisville
Ole Wees
Canal Dover
Stark County items mix road work and local notices in Massillon
Caxton October 18 reports street car tracks removed on East Tuscarawas and North Market for new rails laid in I pattern. Executive board of Stark County Teachers Institute meets at high school with President William Johns attending. Sed risk: marriage license issued to Eugene Hinderer and Frances Volzer. Guardianship notices include Freida Sailer ward, Emmet Hollinger estate appraisals, and Fred Danner final account. Massillon real estate transfers list several lot sales: Evans to Wells 2800, Wittman to Wittman 300, Bell to Burd 800, Rigler to Slicker 875.
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Frances Volzer
Canton
Freida Sailer
Massion
Ward
Emmet Hollinger
Massillon
Hugh D. Brown
Bethlehem Township
Fred Danner
Jackson Township
William Class
Christena Wendling
Crystal Spring
Chas. C. Evans
Alma B. Wells
Catherine Wittman
Louis Wittman
Robert Bell
Thomas Burd
Chas. Rigler
Jacob Slicker
Diamond Jack to Stay Another Week at Bucher Opera House
Dr W N Long the renowned Indian medicine man receives permission to remain another week at Bucher opera house in Massillon. He promises a family show and offers free consultations at his offices in the theatre foyer from 9 am to 5 pm. He has published works on catarrh and women’s diseases and will give away a pair of diamond earrings and a diamond stud next week.
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W. N. Long
Bueher Opera House
Massillon
Bucher
Opera House
W. Ho Long
Canton Court House
Bacher Opera House
Thme
Liverita advertised as cure with $500 reward
An advertiser offers $500 for proof Liverita, a vegetable pill, fails to treat liver complaints and indigestion despite strict directions. Pills priced at 29¢ for 100, 10¢ for 40, and 50¢ for 15. Sold by Nervita Medical Co. in Chicago and T Baltzly in Mastaillon Oblo.
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Nervita Medical CO
Clinton Enda
Chicago
T. Baltzly
Canton-Massillon Electric Railway seeks council action on Main Street switch
William A. Lynch, president of the Canton Massillon Electric Railway, urged Canton city council to approve extending the Main Street passing switch from Factory to Erie streets and to authorize a new Y crossing on Mill and Main. He said material is ordered and steel rails will be used, but council gave no definite action.
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William A. Lynch
Canton
Canton-Massillon Electric Railway Company
Navarre
West Main Street
Akron Street
Lynch
Factory Street
Erie Street
Mill
Main Streets
Russia France Agree to Hague Court for Chinese Question
The Russian suggestion that the Hague international court of arbitration be called to settle the Chinese question has been agreed to by our government and by France.
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Wasuincion
Associated Press
Hague
Millionaire Missing From Paris Asylum Mystery
New York dispatch reports Moses Fowler Chase a young Lafayette Ind. millionaire has vanished from a private asylum near Paris after being placed there by his Cincinnati aunt Mrs Duhine. A Chicago detective found him and while arranging removal Chase disappeared. It is unknown whether he wandered or was taken, and the Duhmes have returned to America.
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New York
Associated
Reserved Seat Sale for Maro at the Armour
The reserved seat sale for Maro the magician at the Armour on October 19 opens Monday at Bahney's Book Store 20 East Main Street at 7 30. First floor seats are reserved with the best section priced at fifteen cents and the remainder under ten cents. The lecture course association calls Maro one of the season's best numbers and hopes for a crowded house.
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Maro
Armory
Bahney’s
East Main Street
Early 1900s Patent Medicine Ads Highlight Remedies
An advertisement page extols Slusser's Sick and Nervous Headache Tablets for sick headaches and neuralgia, and promotes Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a household cough remedy. It includes a physician testimonial for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and notes its digestive action, with sellers Rider & Snyder and Chas Cupples of Tremont Street.
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Slusser
Dr. Wood
Nature
W. T. Lewis
Lawrenceville
Rider & Snyder
West Tremont Street
Bryan in Circleville and Lancaster Attacks Trust
Bryan in Circleville and Lancaster denounces Attorney General Monnett as now backing his campaign. He accuses the Standard Oil Company of attempting to intimidate him to drop prosecutions, saying the company shifted to the Republican party to block his renomination. He questions whether parents want a party that drives youths from their duties.
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Veww Lexinerox
Associated Prosy
Bryan
Circleville
Lancaster
Monnett
Standard Qin Company
Republican Party
MITCHELLS PLANS TO HALT SOFT COAL shipments
President Mitchell seeks to block shipments of soft coal from West Virginia mines to eastern markets using anthracite fuel. He met with M. W. Guernsey, a Harrisburg railway union official, and plans to have railway unions consider tying up rails transporting non union soft coal destined for the anthracite market. Action by railway workers remains uncertain.
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Aby Associated Press
Independent
Lcranton
Mitchell
West Virginia
M. W. Guernsey
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Miners Convention Near End As Plans Considered
Scranton Oct 13 The miners convention may finish tonight with two plans on the table. A thirteen member committee led by President Mitchell will prepare a statement of grievances to be presented to the convention. The alternatives are to refer the issue to a committee or to national officers.
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Scranton
Associated Press
Miners’ Convention
Mitchell
Stevenson Heads to Wilmington for Democratic Campaign
Baltimore Oct 13 Adlai E Stevenson left for Wilmington where he will speak this afternoon. His train from Hagerstown made no stops. Stevenson shows fatigue but bears the strain well and remains confident of Democratic success in Maryland. He declined to discuss Cleveland's money question declaration.
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Baltimore
Associated Press
Adlaire
Stevenson
Wilmington
Hagerstown
Maryland
Cleveland
Youtsey Still Sick In Grovetown Court Report
Grovertown Ky Oct 13 Youtsey again reported unable to answer or talk with his counsel. The court directed that testimony of physicians and others be offered to ascertain if he is in a proper condition to continue the trial.
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Grovertown
Associated Press
Youtsey
Roosevelt in Kentucky speech highlights fair votes
Henderson Kentucky October 13 Governor Roosevelt spoke to a large crowd. He urged every man to have a square deal and vote counted as cast. He framed Kentucky as a crusade for freedom and equal rights. Roosevelt’s tour was hampered by a cold and Madisonville he spoke briefly. He criticized injustices to Native Americans and urged the public to reject mobs, vote suppression, and seating unelected men.
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Henderson
Associated Press
Roosevelt
Kentucky
Hopkinsville
Madisonville
Bryan
Lagala Hamlits
Do You Read the Want Columns Daily
A short query from Niewsrapre Hitt asking whether the want columns are read daily, reflecting reader engagement with classifieds and notices in the newspaper.
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Want
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