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Newspaper
Portsmouth Times
Location
Portsmouth, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1908
Page
2
A Saturday sermon extols home and Scioto County, urging Absent daughters and sons to return to Portsmouth. The piece paints a transformed city with modern factories, paved streets, and civic hospitality, promising welcome, entertainment, and a peaceful reunion beside the Ohio and Scioto rivers.
A satirical piece argues that female alighting from streetcars is unsafe because cars move the wrong way. It contends streetcars should travel left and drivers sit on the right, claiming changing practice would prevent accidents and improve balance for passengers, especially women.
We learn that another Portsmouth in Virginia has felt the hard times little. It is not an industrial center but a hub for rich huckstering, with crops abundant. Potatoes beans cucurbers cakes head to New York with cheap freight and strong prices. Bank deposits rose about one hundred thirty thousand dollars in the past month, nearly seven percent, totaling about nineteen hundred thousand dollars, compared with our own Portsmouth by roughly half a million.
A Portland era style note describes Trenton women organizing a Civic Improvement League to clean and beautify the town. Membership open to any local woman paying twenty five cents yearly, with a view to sparking constructive rivalry and broader city improvement.
Bessiel Rostair of Manayunk Pennsylvania knocks her escort W Harris Willington into the river after objecting to his rowing. He survives the struggle and plans a safer outing. A separate tale notes a Hardin woman finding a big diamond in a potato, later reunited with its owner in Oklahoma.
Classified notices list contractors and builders offering roofing, guttering, painting and tinning with estimates and prompt service. Also druggists Alexander Pharmacy Hagar's Pharmacy advertise medicines, chemists and the Pure Food standard. Sign painting firms Grady & Schwable and Geo Burkhart highlight quick service and satisfaction. Sewing machine agents C Del promoting repairs and supplies.
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