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Newspaper
Steubenville Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1908
Page
8
The note promotes Troy Hand Laundry offering pressed linens laundered with care, pick up and delivery service, and factory and stock work, with contact at 131 N. Third Phoenix 206. The Sugar Bowl advertises ice cream made with pure ingredients, plus candies and drinks at 335 Market St.
Local dental practitioner L. L. Cramer offers guaranteed crown and bridge services with careful attention. Located over Pelley and Bros Drug Store on Commercial Avenue.
Hotel Ash advertises stopovers with clean homelike rooms and reasonable rates. Special weekly rates offered. beds described as comfortable. Proprietor listed as B Blackburn.
An advertisement proclaims that consumption cannot be cured quickly but Scott's Emulsion helps and often cures at any stage. It asserts consistent use aids the ill, with a general guarantee of benefit, asserting that right living plus Scott's Emulsion has done more to cure consumption than anything else. Scott & Bowne, Pearl St. New York.
Speeches and songs framed a Saturday Republican club gathering. Octogenarian Hon Tae Dunbar urged voters to hear issues before four-year terms. Bryan was faulted for tariff views and campaign tactics, while McKinley era prosperity was praised. Several speakers defended the party, praised progress for African Americans, and criticized Democratic stance on banking and labor.
Columbus reports the first test of Ohio's local option law will occur within a fortnight in Warren and Meigs counties with elections set two weeks after the prior Saturday. Officials forecast strong anti saloon majorities and have mobilized Anti Saloon League speakers, with Wayne B. Wheeler coordinating a national list of 200 aides and prominent temperance figures from several states aiding the campaign.
Pickaway, Lawrence, Defiance, Shel by and Wayne counties join the drive with Summit at the lead. Akron is the county seat as agents conduct surveys while Searborn Wright of Georgia launches the speaking ramping followed by a line of orators. The league proposes surrounding larger counties with dry borders and Cleveland area counties will feel the impact first with elections planned in Portage Medina Lake Huron and Trumbull. Preparations also under way for early contests in Sandusky Tuscarawas and Fulton counties.
John Hiat a Slavish miner at Roby Somers mine or on the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad was killed by a fall of store and slate. Mike Ditcho 23 at Lansing mine Lorain Coal and Dock Company was killed similarly. Coroner A W Diven Martin's Ferry to hold inquests. Two foreign miners injured at Adena Sunday. one with a fractured limb and the other with a crushed shoulder and other injuries.
In Columbus Ohio Rev W L Burr pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church urged voters to follow Paul’s Thessalonians teaching in the current election and avoid vengeance by ballot. He warned against the Brownsville affair being used to inflame the race and emphasized the national stakes for laborers and prosperity.
The piece argues that despite prosperity and a strong government, action against perceived wrongs should not harm workers. It calls Christians and especially Black voters to vote for the party that created the day’s opportunity under God, warning against the rival party for failing to act in Black interests.
A one year old child was revived after an apparent drowning in a tub in Gaylord. An elderly neighbor administered treatment before a doctor arrived, with neighbors estimating the child had been in the water for about thirty minutes. The French parents, unable to speak English, had left the tub on the back porch before the accident was discovered. The heroic action by the old lady saved the child though the exact time in water and full outcome were not known.
Burglars struck multiple North Fifth and Sixth Street homes Saturday evening, entering via Alley D and prying open a pantry window at the United Presbyterian parsonage. Rev J Walter Liggitt’s items were disturbed. his gold watch and $15 taken. A suspicious man was spotted near Alley D by H P Powers. Other thefts occurred at Edward Henry’s Sixth Street home and J R Malone’s, with a rear door screen cut and Sunday tables taken. Chicken thieves carried away nineteen spring chickens from Louis Baumgard’s coop on Poplar Avenue.
In Jail, Wm. Kincaide, wanted in Toronto for child abandonment, was lodged in jail here today after requisition papers were secured to transfer him from New Cumberland jail.
A historical notice urges Jefferson County Democrats to contribute locally and expresses hope that Republicans will follow suit. The message questions sending money away and advocates directing funds to local efforts for maximum impact.
A prisoner named Kinkaide at New Cumberland will be transported to Toronto Ohio to answer a serious charge. Governor Dawson has ordered requisition papers and the transfer will occur this week.
A 12 by 16 foot tent owned by Mr. Frohman of Smithfield was stolen on Saturday night while four workers employed by a local contractor near Hill's schoolhouse were away.
Wm Bucey, a carpenter, fell from a scaffold at the Mc Dowell house on Spring avenue Friday, breaking three ribs and suffering internal injuries. He was taken to his home on Coal Hill for care.
Charles P. Filson sustained a fracture of a bone in his right wrist and ligament sprain to his arm on Sunday around 5 pm near Stanton park casino while cranking an automobile. The injury is painful but he remains on duty.
Hancock county day at Rock Springs park in Chester drew about 15 000 people Saturday. Prominent attendees gave brief addresses. Hancock County Association elected officers with E C Freshwater president R M Brown secretary and an executive committee including Alex Mason Leonard Hutson John R Donohue O S Marshall and G L Buchanan. A Washington forecast predicts rain for the drought hit North Central East Central states soon though local signs suggest no relief for 24 hours. The forecast cites disturbances from the North Pacific coast and West Indies with a Southeastern storm expected to bring rain.
Wheeling patent lawyer H. E. Dunlap reports new patents issued to East Ohio inventors. Named creators include J. C. Barnhart Akron with a winging chair F E Dessler Akron with a movable stairway C Boyd Gal ion with a culvert C L Buckwalter Loudonville with audiphone C H Covey Marietta with a nut lock J W Denmead Akron with a box filling machine W Dingman Dresden with a cushioned rocker W L Fuchs Sardis with a safety stirrup J A Hoenika Akron with a friction clutch H J Hough Akron with stove and furnace W S Huffaker Kipton with corn cuttery C O Lake Shreve with a gas engine M M Maher East Liverpool with a compound double acting explosive engine W A Russell Kent with hand controlled power operating meat sow
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