Famous Wood Carver Fry Dies at 99 in Cincinnati
William H Fry aged 99, renowned wood carver, died in Cincinnati on Thursday after a long life of craft. He had hoped to work to age 100 and anticipated reaching February 5 to complete a century. His last visitor was Mrs Nicholas Longworth, wife of the House Speaker, who had read in the cinema of his passing.
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Willam H. Fry
Nicholas Longworth
House of Representatives
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Carver Fry’s Bath to Longworth Memoir Noted
A fragment notes Fry and a man named Fry recalling wood carvings in Longworth by a Bath Fugland lineage. It mentions Fry learning wood carving from his father in Bath, England, and hints at a local craft legacy connected to Longworth.
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Four Buckeye Cagers ruled ineligible for 1920 season
Four Ohio State University basketball players are declared ineligible for the remainder of the 1920 season after examinations conducted before Christmas. Coach Harold Olsen announced the action, affecting Bob Tittel of Columbus, forward Harold Westraxwelt of Columbus, Ed Weaver of Lima, and Lawton Fontaine of Akron. Weaver and Fontaine were also ends on the football squad.
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Theater project begins in Bucyrus for new venue
A $296 000 motion picture and legitimate theater is planned for Bucyrus with Joan Setter of Springfield and Arden Weisman of Bucyrus as holding company figures. The Order of Moose will sponsor the project with lodge and club rooms on the second and third floors. Opening is slated for early summer 1930. The piece notes a historical shift from bearded rulers to the cleanshaven image.
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Joan Settert
Springfield
Arden Weisman
Bucyrus
Order of Moose
Negro prisoner flees jail after Greeley suggestion
In Nelsonville on December thirteenth, William Colbert a Black inmate briefly in the county jail was ordered to Athens to trade time for a fine. During a meal he slipped away fleeing toward the direction advised by Horne Greeley and was last seen sprinting off.
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William Colbert
Colbert
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New State Bookkeeping System Is Explained in Columbus
Clerks and storekeepers from state institutions attended instructions on a new bookkeeping system to be implemented after January 1. D M Shontons, head of the new division of accounts, outlined the changes to the team. Still stocks harness and horses to stir it in Pauls Valley. A V Frood pasture, long in the harness business in rural southern Oklahoma since 1899, predicts that sales of harnesses will persist for 25 years at 10 percent. Automobiles have entered the scene, but this shop keeper keeps halters, bridles, and t Os for valley farmers, adding leather goods and a boot shop to his stock. The poet Burns wrote two poems before death, the sheep he tended went with him everywhere, and would run like a greyhound to greet the mayor.
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High School Debaters Set Preliminary Meet January 10
The Ohio State High School Debating League stages its second preliminary debate on January 10 in Columbus, advancing toward the third tournament. The first debate occurred December 6, and the league is sponsored by Ohio State University. Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, published in Philadelphia in 1826, recently sold for 375 dollars at a rare book auction.
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Hio State High School
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Cooper
Philadelphia
28 Year Old Man to Be Mayor of Ridgeway
John Perry, 23, of Ridgeway in Logan county's northeast corner, will become one of Ohio's youngest mayors after January 1, 1930. He was elected mayor of Ridgeway on the Democratic ticket over present mayor J A Cottrell in November.
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Bellefontaine
John Perry
Logan County
Ohto
J A. Cottrell
Real Estate Board approves 25 applications at year end meeting
The Ohio State Board of Real Estate announced that 25 applications were approved at the final meeting of the year held last Tuesday. The issuance concerns licenses for real estate salesmen and brokers in the state.
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Ohio State Board of Real Estate
Eixeminers
Primitive flying devices traced to China and Arabia
Fragmentary OCR notes claim a primitive flying mechanism appeared in China and Arabia long before such ideas reached Europe. The scattered text mentions a directlon flider and unclear terminology, hindering a clear attribution or date.
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Arabia
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