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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1913
Page
2
Watchword lauds the Steubenville Herald Star Ohio Almanac as a valuable new publication with more than 100000 facts about Ohio. Readers are urged to obtain a copy via a coupon on another page.
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Poem fragment reflecting on partnership and shared life through landscapes of challenge and companionship. Imagery contrasts quiet and stormy paths, hinting at mutual support, loyalty, and emotional bonds across years.
A reflective prose piece on the shared life between partners. It argues women sustain men through daily trials and duties and deserve inclusion in rising efforts and dreams. The author notes wisdom, care, and labor extended from woman to household and future aspirations within community life.
The excerpt quotes Billy Sunday on valuing advice, boosting effort, and social classes. It notes three groups the poor, the rich, and the poor rich who cannot afford to be poor. It argues that a person who willfully persists in sin is not entitled to forgiveness.
A German statistician notes two percent of musicians are bald compared with sixteen percent of men in other intellectual pursuits. Turkey objects to a surgical operation as the map shows more than its appendix is endangered. Two women sharing ambitions or dressmaker of a man are likely to be enemies.
A York State hen reportedly laid six dozen eggs in an ice house nest. The note reflects on cold storage era habits and jokes about an umbrella that refuses to turn inside out yet is easily forgotten when needed.
A patent was granted in New York for a burglar alarm that wakes a sleeping person by spraying water. Separately, Governor Green of North Carolina urged an audience of women to wear pants. They cheered but have not adopted the advice yet.
A compilation of aphorisms and witticisms covering hell belief, female superiority, farm fresh eggs, deathbed repentance, and marriage as a legal business, with sly quips about infidelity and ugly interruptions in domestic life.
Billy Sunday quotes about new character will and mind in Christian life. He contrasts loving the world with loving God and condemns worldly attachment as loving the devil.
Peace commissions meet as billions are poured into anti war efforts while the Krupp estate accelerates production and sales of large artillery. The promised millennium remains distant as conflict and defense dominate headlines.
The townsfolk note a man with six daughters is content while a richer man would worry for more. The article also mentions Tom and Jerry as long standing friends whose visits often end with a thumping headache. They are concluding their rounds for the season.
A man missing for ten years in Michigan reappeared with a fortune of one hundred thousand dollars, nearly enough to buy six calves at current prices. An old-fashioned Greenwich preacher who preaches hellfire angers parishioners who order him out, but he refuses, sparking a heated dispute.
A Kansas City judge rules a man may not marry more than three times while a woman may have four husbands one at a time. His wife reportedly challenges the verdict.
The list shows committee allocations with chairmen and members across groups such as Agriculture, Appropriation and Finance, Banks and Banking, and more. Notable chairs include Guthrey, Cowan, Kennedy, Criswell, Bigelow, Barthelmeh, Winters, Kilpatrick, Chapman, Welsh, and Terrel, with many members spanning Ashland, Hamilton, Butler, Coshocton, Summit, and other counties.
A long list of committee chairs and members appears, followed by details on a county home project. Bricklayers will resume work next week on the new building. The home will echo Colonial architecture with Indiana limestone facing on the lower portion and Kittanning white brick above. McCullough favors a red tile roof, despite higher cost. The project began with donations and county support, with the Potters Lumber Company contracted for building at $58,000. Architects peg the total cost around $75,000 for a complete structure.
Wm McCullough a Jefferson county magnate funds a new home for over 100 homeless children, with first building costing about 75000 and occupancy expected by September 1. Completion may bring a second gift a modern manual training and domestic science headquarters. Peterson Clarke, Steubenville architects, designed a well lit vented basement plan.
An account details a $221 contribution by seven women to a fund placed in Union Deposit Bank with accruing interest. A $1200 donation from the W C T U followed. A girls club under the secretary’s daughter hosted entertainments, with proceeds added to the fund. As of January 1st the balance was $787.24. The treasurer denies other legacies and hopes seven contributors grow manyfold.
Daniel McDevitt, a well known farmer from New Alexandria, was assaulted by an unknown man on the road near the town yesterday afternoon. After a punch that felled him, the assailant took McDevitt's wallet and fled. Police have a description but have not yet located the suspect. McDevitt was briefly hospitalized but later regarded as practically uninjured and not inclined to discuss the incident.
State Highway Department correspondence with Steubenville Chamber of Commerce explains a proposed main market road including a line from East Liverpool along the river to Bridgeport passing through Steubenville. The plan aims to connect larger cities and provide more direct benefits from state roads, with Steubenville’s role emphasized amid wood reeds trade and local economic goals.
In Steubenville during 1805 and 1806 women led efforts for a hospital and a home for the aged. Despite hospital funding progress, a deferred push for the aged home was planned, with Howe organization officers to manage duties until successors were elected. The first donor noted in the Therk gwieg collection.
Sheriff transfers lot 28 Div 1 Crow Hollow Bradley to Henry Walker for 715 dollars. Henry Walker and wife sell lot 28 Div 1 Crow Hollow Bradley to Cesare Rosario for 726.28. Caroline Floto sells lot S10 La Belle View City Freeco to Florence Dorn. Mary J. Geog et al to Curtis Laughlin Pt lot 416 Roys 1st Add City for 4480 dollars. Sheriff of Jefferson County to Henry Walker land in Dillonvale Roy KR. Carpenter Trustee to H. Walker 435 A Mt Pleasant Two. George Y. Dean and wife to Mabel L. Welday Mt lots H. B. Mears Add City for 1 dollar. Janes McGrew and wife to Mabel L. Welday Pt lot 14H Bemears Add City for 1 dollar. Nibert F Leah and wife to P i for W Guicui for 5 dollars. William J. McKee to Chemtn J. Sinclair 12 acres Ishend Creek Twp. etc.
An advertorial piece promotes Swift's Sure Specific S S S as a cure for catarrh affecting eyes throat and lungs. It touts injections into the blood through an elaborate series of lab tests at Swift Laboratory, claims quick bloodstream action, and notes S S S is sold at drug stores for $1.00 per bottle with advice from The Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta Georgia.
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