Bergdoll Draft Dodger Locked For Desertion Trial
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Philadelphia millionaire draft dodger, imprisoned at Governor's Island in solitary confinement awaiting court martial under the Fifty-eighth Article of War. His mother, Emma Bergdoll, widow of a brewer, held on $10,000 bail for assault with intent to kill and conspiracy to prevent arrest.
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Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Governor’s Island
N. Y
U. S
Emma € Bergdoll
Wartin Family Plans Move Amid Public Utility Inquiry
A clumsy OCR fragment notes Wartin and his family on a street in Ohio planning a move related to a public utility matter. Mentions Mr Martin, Bennn Thomas squatters, and a well known engineer tied to the utilities commission. Friends wish him success in forthcoming proceedings.
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Wartin
Bus
Ohio
Ofm
Martin
Bennn Thomas
Miss Fitch Elyria succeeds LaGrange teacher who wed
LaGrange Jan 13 Mr and Mrs G C Deenard visiting Antwerp for a few days Miss Sunbury visited Elyria during the week Mrs Orva Katwings joyed arrival of a baby born Thursday January 8 Miss Fitch of Elyria fills the vacancy in the high school New Years wedding to Helen Bigelow and Waughant of Orville to teach at the high school Mr and Mrs Leon Curuce Ina Sanders and Frank Sanders spent New Year's with Charles Falkner The Holcombs entertained guests New Year's day Carlton Adams ill with pneumonia improving Mrs Charles Adams caring for him returned home Dewey Knowles returned to Baldwin Wallace college George Jackson Cleveland visited his parents Mrs Ned Gott and Mrs Laura Sage Sunday school class party at church December 27 due to Mrs Sage illness Mrs Andrew Rawson assisted Mrs Mary Denier convalescing Mrs Peers and daughter with her mother Mrs Auxer Russell Heath and Grant Saelby in St Petersburg Fla John Fye and wife lost their daughter Mildred to diphtheria buried Penfield
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Waughant
Orville
Leon Curuce
Ina Sanders
Frank ‘Sanders
Charles Falkner
Noah Holcomb
Anna Holcomb
Paul Sage
C. . Nawson
Andrew Rawson
Thomas Bickerstaph
Wood Counts
Carlton Adams
Charles Adams
Dewey Knowles
Baldwin-Wallace College
George Jackson
Cleveland
Alonzo Jackson
Ned Gott
Laura Sage
Sage
Andrews Rawson
Mary Denier
Whiskey better than silverware burglars believe
Dayton on January 11 burglars ransacked George Baker’s home and took jewelry valued at 2504 dollars. They drank three quarts of whiskey, saw the police, and left behind several dollars worth of silverware and other valuables tied in a bundle.
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Dayton
Jan
Vurelars
George Baker
Turing Thee
Fainting wife questions identity of missing professor in 1920 scare
In Leavenworth Kansas on January 13, Mrs Anurie E branded, wife of Dr John W Brand, fainted upon learning her husband was identified by son Lieutenant Commander Brand of the Philadelphia navy yard as the missing professor. A family statement from Abs Arci bald Sunderland and Dr Brand’s daughter asserts no doubt remains that the famed “Professor X” is the missing doctor, whose search has continued since his mysterious 1916 disappearance. The calendar for 1920 is noted as leap year with February containing twenty-nine days and the peculiar five Sundays impacting social life for bachelors.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Anurie E. Faand
John W Prand
AU Ek
Lambertville
N. J
Sommander Brand
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Abs. Arcibald HW. Sunderland
Brand
Professor X
Dr. Brand
Hoston
THIS LEAP YEAR TO BE LUCKY FOR GIRLS THIS LEAP YEAR TO BE LUCKY FOR GIRLS
New York report notes bachelors, confirmed and unreadable, face alarm as leap year forecasts stir social chatter with lilting forecasts of luck for eligible single women.
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New York
Dernier Opens First Power Laundry in LaGrange
Wellington D Jan 13 Ray Dernier of LaGrange opens his first power laundry. The event marks a new facility in the city, signaling growth in local services and employment opportunities for residents.
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Wellington
Ray Dernier
LaGrange
Open
First Power Laundry
January sale boys slip-over sweaters at Robinson & Llancock Co
Color combination slip-over sweaters for boys reduced to zero and six dollars seventy five cents during the January sale at Robinson & Llancock Co L 71f.
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Robinson & Llancock Co
Robinson & Hancock Oi
Salary too low, Belpre mayor refuses service
Belpre Jan 13 payroll dispute ends with E P Murphy declining to serve as mayor over a 114 dollar annual salary. No raise is planned until the big term expires while the town marshal earns 300 dollars. In a separate incident, election ballots were carried 1200 pounds from Cuyahoga security to Columbus and ditched near Volk. Stave McNeil led the crew, escaped unharmed, then walked seven miles to Ashland for help as a relief truck arrived.
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Belpre
Belpre Village
E. P Murphy
Cuyahoga Security
Columbus
Volk
Hery Stave McNeil
Cleveland Election Board
Election ‘Board
McNeil
Ashland
Wellington Post Office Sells $72,500 in War Savings Stamps
Wellington Ohio reports the post office sold War Savings stamps totaling 72500 dollars. The event marks a strong push for wartime savings with broad community participation and steady sales figures for the period.
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Wellington
Fit as a Fiddler and the Health Message
The article argues that strong health comes from vigor and notes constipation as the main direct and indirect cause of poor health in America. It links refined foods and lack of exercise to kidney liver and stomach troubles, worsened by constipation.
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America
Wilson Ready 70 Call League Meet
President Wilson acting in an unofficial capacity will time from the White House a call for the first meeting of the council for the League of Nations, Washington January 13. The dispatch notes the move as a step toward organizing international cooperation.
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Wilson
Weashington
Wison
White House
Council For the League of Nations
Houstonia Liniment Named to Replace Jones Line
The Jones line, once known as Jones Liniment, adopts the new name Houstonia Liniment to deter imitations. The Dr J C Jones Co of South Charleston Ohio preserves the original formula and retains the portrait on the label, selling at 25 cents for 4 oz and 0.50 for large, with a 1.00 bottle in the old label.
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W. G. Jones
Chilli
G. Jonescothe
Ohio
Dr. J. C. Jones Company
South Charleston
Houstonia Liniment
Jones
Vv. Phillips
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Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Mray
Emma C. Bergdoll
Faori
Palladitan
Hewai
Utilities Commission
Idhigon Company
Ney
Scattery
Prape
Gainibert's Drug Store
Elyria
Lora
Marietta
Parkersburg
W. Va
Prof
V. R
W. Phillips
Broad St
Houstonia Jones
Liniment
THE
Robinson & Hancock CO
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