Bible preacher Neale recalls Washington era anecdotes
An exclusive reminiscence honors Father Neale, a Washington era carpenter and Bible scholar who preached without payment. He urged memorizing scripture, shared humorous and vivid anecdotes, and cited biblical examples to counter critics, including how David crossed rivers and Napoleon's battles. The piece highlights Neale’s memories, Washington lore, and distant town developments influenced by railroads and settlement.
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Billy Sunday
Washington
Neale
Jordan
Father Neale
David
Absalom
Mount Vernon
Record Vote Planned on Dry Amendment Consideration
Washington December 12 The national prohibition amendment to the constitution will come up for consideration in the house next Monday under unanimous agreement. A record vote is planned by house leaders and passage by a two thirds majority will submit the question to the states after the senate passed the resolution last session.
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Washinon
House
Ufder
Senate
Towns Move for Prosperity as Railroads Arrive in Oklahoma
In Oklahoma, Staunton and nearby communities reassess their futures as railroads spur migration. Healdton’s post office shift to New Healdton signals a regional pivot, with Cornish Hewitt and other villages also relocating in pursuit of growth amid industrial change and oil prospects.
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Oklahoma
Ringling
Okla
Staunton
Healdton
John Ringling
New Healdton
Cornish
Hewitt
Bayou
Carter County
Family In Service Roseville Men Go To War
Four members of the Small family from Roseville, a Newark suburb, are serving in the armed forces. Capt Edson L Small, newly re enlisted after retirement, Willis F Small becomes chief inspector of ordnance in the navy, stationed at Bethlehem Pennsylvania. Willis T Small is at Anniston Alabama with Battery A Hast Orange. A son of Willis Small Sr. also enlisted quietly, leaving home for Syracuse New York.
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Small
Roseville
Newark
Stars and Stripes
Edson L Small
Germany
Willis F. Small
Navy Department
Bethlehem
Willis T. Small
Anniston
Ala
Hast Orange
Edson J. Small
Willis Small
Syracuse
N. Y
Ham Meadow: a field named after ham sale profits near Dresden
A Berlin journal questions a local nickname given to a field near Dresden after a farmer funded a meadow purchase with a tourist’s $87 ham sale. It decries the usury, while quoted quips from Mr. Twobble and Mrs. Twobbie feature in a palm shaded social scene with music and a jitney proposal.
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Dresden
Berlin
Wouldn't Stop Her Bargain Walk to Realute Farm
A humorous exchange notes a forty mile distance to Realute Farm and a quip that wives would walk fifty miles to reach a bargain sale, highlighting resolve and humor about shopping.
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Jones
Shears Save Lives Under Car Trapped Pair
A. I. Moore used pocket shears that slipped from his pocket to free his wife and himself when an automobile overturned on a rural road near Pierre South Dakota. The car’s upholstery pressed against their faces suffocating them until Moore’s actions allowed air to reach them before farmers arrived to rescue them.
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Pierre
S. D
A. I. Moore
Military drill by 22 pigs in Belchertown Mass
Jack Newman, a Belchertown pig farmer, formed a 32 pig squad from a 100 pig company and conducts daily drills modeled on infantry regiments. Each morning they march two miles along field edges and parade across the center, performing evolutions even without a commander.
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Belchertown
J. ‘Mass
Jack Newman
Newman
Maine woman repeats marriage with ex husband after ad
Anna Cagley answered a matrimonial ad in a magazine and discovered the suitor was her divorced husband. They remarried this week in Buckport Maine. She says she never realized the man had such fine points until reading the advertisement.
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Maine
Bucksport
Anna Cagley
Right in Line With Cost of Living Fear
A clipped exchange notes the high cost of living as a fearsome burden. The speaker quotes ancient Greek wisdom about fate and pleads for relief, warning that worsening prices will provoke further hardship and visible patches of trouble ahead.
Rubber Outwears Steel in High Pressure Test
A recent test showed rubber outwearing steel under extreme load as a sand mast was blown against rubber and two steel pieces. Rubber endured three times longer than steel, highlighting surprising strength in rubber under pressure.
How Tom Liked Eggs in the Morning
A short note about Tom enjoying his breakfast as his mother cooks eggs. The scene centers on Tom’s liking for eggs and the mother preparing them, capturing a simple domestic moment.
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Tom
Killer of Augusta Sickles Harding Executed in Ohio Penitentiary
Blaine Shouffer, 28, was executed in the electric chair at the Ohio penitentiary after murdering Augusta Sickles Harding, 25, at her Worthington home on April 10. He expressed gladness to die and requested burial near his victim in Dublin cemetery. The killing occurred after a refused call on the woman who reportedly had another suitor. The sentence was carried out at 12:09 a.m. following a single lethal exposure of two minutes and voltage of 1,750.
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Columbus
Augusta Sickles Harding
Worthington
Blaine Shouffer
Ohio Penitentiary
Reed
Tpos‘gible
Snouffer
Dublin
O. M. Kramey
Harding
Minnie Snyder
Higa
Phillies sell Grover Alexander and Millifer to Cubs
New York December 12 The Philadelphia National League club completed a record deal by selling pitcher Grover Alexander and catcher William Millifer to the Chicago Nationals for cash and a Cub battery. The amount is said to exceed 50 660 dollars with pitchers Prendergast and catcher Dilhoefer to wear Philadelphia uniforms next season.
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Jack Pitcher
Killifer
Cubs
York
Philadelphia
Grover, Alexander
William Millifer
Chicago
Bolsheviki Declare War on Cossacks in Revolt
Bolsheviki government formally declares Cossack revolt with troops dispatched from Kazan on armored trains. Trotsky orders Krilenko to deploy front-line forces to crush the Don and Ural uprising. Kaledin proclaims martial law and readiness to fight as three trainloads of rebels join three more from Sumy under Korniloff. Moscow fears open revolt. Don region remains Bolshevik stronghold.
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Kaleding
Kazan
Trotsky
Krylenko
Ierish
Don
Ural
Sumy
Korniloff
Moscow
Moscony
Child Killed by Electric Car Near Heecock Crossing
Samuel Nestor aged 4 of Sebring died after being struck by a Stark electric car near Heecock's crossing. Overcome by intense cold, his arms were frozen stiff when found while en route to work in Sebring potteries.
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Alliance. G
Samuel Nestor
Sebring
Heecock
Wheat Exceeded: Crops Set Records in Production
Foot crops except wheat show record production and high value this year while frost damage trims cotton and corn. Wheat drops by about 9 million bushels to 650,828,000 with value near 48,272,000 dollars. Other crops including oats potatoes rye tobacco and vegetables set production records. An Ohioan among missing is William T Gifford of Dayton listed after torpedoed destroyer Jacob Jones. John McCormack to donate 10000 to Red Cross with own expenses.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
William T. Gifford
Dayton
Jacob Jones
Navy Department
Sims
Suits Filed in Common Pleas Court and Probate Actions
Joseph Springer sues Springereels trustees for 250 in damages claiming a stone on Snyder road hidden by grass caused a collision damaging his car for 254. Delia Hendricks named guardian of Clinton Hendricks. Florence Gertner administratrix seeks sale of real estate. Esther Horton estate indebtedness noted. Nora Jones appointed guardian for John and Raymond Dershem. Marriage license issued to Glenn Bukley and Myra Gomie. Dr J C Roberts.
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Joseph Springer
Inc
Common = Pleas Court
Springereels Township
Springer
Snyder Road
Delia Hendricks
Clinton Hendricks
Dayton State Hospital
Florence
L. E. St. John
Glenn Bukley
Troy
Soldier
Myra Gomie
Potsdam
J. C. Roberts
Ohio News Snapshot From Dec 12 1919
Ohio report notes governor demanding car releases amid harsh conditions as streetcar lines run to barns and lights fail. Includes Glenn Garfield engagement, a $100000 fire loss in Youngstown, fare changes in Cleveland, a suspended Oak Harbor Press, a Galion death in France, a Marion Prohibition leader death, and wage boosts in Washington October payrolls.
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St Washington
United States
State War Board Bulletin on Thrift and Potatoes
Join the Thrift Society by investing your small change in Thrift Stamps. Your stamps begin to accumulate and are exchanged for War Savings stamps which yield four percent interest. A thrift thought urges saving potatoes by not wastefully peeling them. After washing, boil briefly, strip skins, and use the tender potatoes in escalioned fries, French or German fried potatoes, or baked with a thin golden crust.
Feeder and Gift Items at Thoma's Jewelry Store
Advertises a wide selection of practical and ornamental gifts at Thoma's Jewelry. Plate and spoon sets priced at 50c, spoons at 60c+, gold rings from 50c, pin sets 25c+, chair and jacket $1+, silver cups $1.25+. Includes various low priced items for babies and home.
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Thoma
Ruby Council Bazaar Opens December Dinner Menu
Ruby Councill of A. will hold a Christmas Bazaar in a room of the old post office building Friday and Saturday December 14 and 15. Friday dinner features vegetable soup baked beans pie bread and butter and coffee. Saturday dinner offers roast beef with potatoes town gravy baked beans pickles bread and butter coffee and pie. Supper includes chicken baked pot pie gravy mashed potatoes.
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Ruby Councill. of
A.’s
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Endorsed for Women
Northcliffe praised the work of English women in wartime and American women are urged to follow the same example. The ad touts Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for nervous prostration and female ailments, claiming it aids girlhood, motherhood, and menopause, with tablets available 60 cents and mail offers for free medical advice from the Buffalo specialists.
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Drs Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo
N.Y
Obituary of Herbert Ault in Fairfield County
Herbert Butlie Ault born March 22 1872 in Fairfield County near Columbus married Myrtle Richardson July 1 1895. Survived by wife Myrtle, seven children four sons Delbert Clarence John Forrest and daughter Catherine, aged father, one brother and sister, two half siblings, many friends. eldest son Delbert C. Ault serves in US Army and will attend funeral before resuming duty. Express thanks for help and flowers. Rev Grauser offered sympathy.
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Fairfield Co
Columbus
Daniel
Grace Ault
Myrtle Richard
Delbert
Clarence
John
Forrest
Catherine
Sunshine
Ev‘erybody
Delbert C. Ault
U. S
Canadian club plans to aid orphans from Halifax disaster
The Canadian club of New York plans to encourage New Yorkers to adopt children left parentless by the Halifax disaster. Dr. Morales of Panama introduced a resolution in the national assembly declaring Panama at war with Austria-Hungary. An engineer was killed and four men injured when a snow slide derailed a snow plow on the Denver and Salt Lake railroad in Colorado. Count Christian Gunther Von Bernstorff and Marguerite Vivian Burton Themason wed in Berlin. Dutch bulbs will be plentiful for American nurserymen as 26 000 cases have shipped from Holland.
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Canadian Club of
New York
Halifax
Morales
Panama
National Assembly
Republic of Panama
Austria-Hungary
Denver and Salt Lake
Mount Corona
Colorado
Christian Gunther von Bernstorff
United States
Marguerite Vivian Burton Themason
Burlington, N.J
Berlin
Department of Commerce
Holland
Avai
Art Treasures Burned in Butler Mansion Fire
Fire destroyed the three story residence of Joseph G Butler Jr a Youngstown millionaire steel magnate in a brisk wind. A vast art collection valued at up to 3190000 plus a deluxe library of early American life manuscripts and bronzes were destroyed in the blaze.
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Palace of
Youngstown
Youngstown, CO
Joseph G. Butler Jr
Butler
Selva
Timates
Yange
Allogrand
Irem Lincoln
Wilson
Forty Thousand to Strike in Twin Cities Labor Stoppage
A general strike has been called by union men in St Paul and Minneapolis to begin this Tuesday. The action aims to paralyze key industries and express solidarity for worker demands amid mounting labor tensions.
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St. Paul
St.Paulis
Minneapolis
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