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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1907
Page
3
A varied 1906 era column blends astronomy verse with civic notes and local notices. It lists global, political, and social quick takes alongside a death notice from Harrison county Ohio and a Cadiz cemetery interment announcement. Notable items include Taft and Harriman political mentions, labor, immigration, and rail themes, with a poetic aside about the heavens and the Creator.
A roundup of real estate transfers filed in the recorder's office across Steubenville and surrounding townships. Transactions include McKee to Levine in Mingo Junction for 5,000 dollars and multiple lot and land sales in Smithfield Dillonvale Brilliant Mingo Junction and Wells townships with prices ranging from 1 to 27,000 dollars, plus numerous parcels in Steubenville and Toronto.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the First M E Church met at Mrs. David Odbert's home on South Fourth Street. Led by Mrs. J H Hutton the session studied Christus Redemptor chapter three and reviewed Hawaii's history, geography, early conditions, religion, missionaries, and civic reforms with speakers including Mrs. Hutton, Mrs. Grace, Miss Hart, Mrs. Halstead, Miss Evans, Miss Mahan, Miss Lighthizer, and Mrs. Oliver.
For sale a fragmentary notice offers a sled with box seat and trees and neck gous. The readable portion oddly lists an address as Dance Jitgtw and a jumbled location context.
Mrs Burt Milligan visits Cadiz to see her mother. George H Kendall ill with fever convalesces. Robert Pollock and family move from Pleasant Heights to Pittsburg. Miss Mame Workman returns home from a holiday visit with Pittsburg friends. Miss Clara Mitchell of Mt Pleasant, guest of Mrs W B Francis of Martins Ferry, departs Tuesday to visit relatives in Toledo.
A Richmond report notes Charles A Culberson of Texas, former governor, is emerging as a potential Democratic presidential candidate to challenge William Jennings Bryan in 1908. The piece highlights his background, temperament, and Senate tenure, with Southern Democrats favoring his bid and North and West watchful.
A C P brakeman killed near Aetnaville used the alias Gustav Albin Andreasen. An official found Swedish letters at his Bellaire lodging, revealing ties to Sweden and possible San Francisco relative. He claimed a home in Sweden, held about $5,000 in a Cleveland bank, a month’s wages, and $1,000 insurance.
Judge Richards made the injunction perpetual as the petition lacked the necessary thirty names, originally 33 dwindling to 29, in Lewis Mc Laughlin et al. vs Eli Ferrow. The suit sought to restrain recording the election on the incorporation. The vote favored incorporation.
Miss Bessie Milnes daughter of Mr and Mrs Edgar Crowther married Carl Hamilton Smith in Elyria Ohio on Wednesday January ninth at four o clock in the afternoon. The ceremony was in the parlors of the leading hotel with sixty guests present. The bride wore embroidered white chiffon over white taffeta and carried roses. Miss Nina Vance served as maid of honor and Rev. Johnson officiated. The couple will reside in the city after February eighteenth.
A quiet wedding united Miss Clara A Schaefer and Mr Charles L Whiteman at Zion church parsonage on Tuesday evening Rev Schaer officiated. The bride wore brown silk and gloves. The groom, Tri State Gas Company employee, and bride's sister and friend attended. Afterward the couple went to a furnished new home. Earlier Misses Ida Spies and Alma Floto hosted a party with gifts and a shower featuring crimson hearts and refreshments.
Miss Anna Castner daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Castner of Alibanna will wed Mr Harrison Benedict of New Jefferson Ohio on Wednesday at seven in Finley Methodist church parsonage Rev Boyer officiating Attendants will be present After the ceremony they will return to the Castner home for a reception and then move to a new home near Wills Creek The groom works in the Island Creek field for Standard Oil Company in New Jefferson Ohio
Mrs Martha M Bovey widow of Col WW Bovey died suddenly in a brief obituary noting her status and relation to the late officer. The notice records her passing and her bereaved family without additional details.
The funeral services for the late Mrs. Young wife of Rev. Sylvester Young of Mt. Pleasant were held at her home on Sunday. The cortege later departed for New Castle Pa where interment occurred in the family burying ground.
Henry Carl, 72, German resident of Steubenville, died at home after grippe. His wife Mary survives. Roy, two, son of William H and Caroline Ely, died after five weeks with whooping cough and pneumonia. Funeral for Roy held Monday with Rev. G H Miller. Lucy Margaret, two years nine months, daughter of Samuel W and Birdie Davis Christian, died after three weeks with typhoid pneumonia.
Funeral services for Thomas Bell were held Sunday afternoon with Rev. Milner officiating. Pallbearers included W. S. Walker William M. Beall F C Chambers C J McConnell George S Hawkins.
Mrs Henry Krye of La Belle View recovers from pneumonia while The Overy Club postpones meeting to Wednesday the 6th. Harry Zink travels to Grand Rapids for furniture business. Blanche Gillespie visits Bridgesport sister Mrs Geo Scheetz and returns home. Mrs W R Alban hosts dinner at Sixth Avenue home. Arch Deacon Abbott visits St Stephen's. John Fink convalesces from typhoid fever and can go out. Mrs William Shyrock visits her mother in North Fourth Street homestead. Mina Applegate, Wellsburg, elected trustee Brooke County Cemetery Association. Beatrice Stevens returns from Steubenville Dennison visit. Mabel Erwin returns from Rochester and Pittsburgh holidays. Boedecker couple welcome their nine baby daughter. Vanhorn Ely and wife host guests for dinner from Lisbon and New York City. Alfred A Hardesty and Lena L Archer wed at the Christian church. Mrs Carrie Wilson and Miss Ida Richardson attend Mrs W Bovey funeral. Mrs Emily D Smith and daughter host cards for Miss Dyer of New York. Mrs Charles A Daniels of Toronto hosts Ladies Aid in Presbyterian church. Mrs Alex Dunbar of Pittsburgh visits for Paul Urquhart Ada McKee wedding. Miss Sarah Anderson of Pittsburg arrives after illness.
A woman with typhoid fever was taken to the home of her sister on La Belle avenue where her mother also resides to receive care. Numerous local social notices follow detailing visits, entertainments, travel plans, and community events involving residents such as Mrs. E. E. Erskine, Rev. Salmon, Mr. Bakewell, Supt. McDowell, Miss Mary Bustard, and many others at gatherings, trips to Pittsburg and Philadelphia, and social parties across the city.
Afternoon tea table in dining room featured a central pink candelabra, pink shades, and place cards tied with pink ribbon to tiny pink and white cups for each little guest. Mothers received pink carnations while a dainty menu was served at three o clock.
About seven hundred workers at Wheeling Steel & Iron Works Benwood tube mills quit work after management moved to abolish three week pay. The day shift and night shift each left at noon and 6 p.m. Wednesday. A mass meeting at Benwood City Hall is planned for Thursday afternoon to appoint a negotiating committee to meet President Hubbard. The company offer of a ten percent raise for returning to the old system was rejected. Workers expected wage increases after nationwide consolidation announced earlier.
Indigestion and constipation are described as recurring sorrows, offered relief through Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. The ad promotes tea or tablets for 38 cents and credits Beall & Steele as sellers.
In Jefferson county probate court a hearing is set for January 26 1907 on multiple accounts including final and first accounts for administrators and executors such as Lottie Klages Margaret Warren Clarence Fisher Edward Weary David Peck John Porter Samuel Davis Lambert Freidl Alexander Palmer Edwin Crawford Mary Knoblock W T Griffith A M Bowers John Barnett Silas McConnell John Re Kendall and Anna Kendall. Objections to any account must be filed by the date. J R McCLEARY judge.
Notice states the undersigned has been duly appointed and qualified as executrix of the will of Henry Vesperman, deceased, late of Steubenville, Steubenville township. Dated this 7th day of December, 1906.
Margart Vesperman appears with A C Lewis and Oscar Naylor as attorneys in a brief legal notice. The fragment cites firm involvement by MARGart Vesperman, A C Lewis, and Oscar Naylor in a likely court or filing context. Further specifics are unreadable in the OCR snippet.
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