San Francisco Bay ferry traffic praised by 1910 1925 report
A committee report to the State Harbor Commission states that bay travel by ferries is the best among rail, auto, and other transport methods for commuters from 1910 to 1925, noting only two lives lost in a port transportation record and urging continued safeguards including fog signals. The document also cites 913 colleges and universities in the United States.
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Militons
San Francisco
Oakland
State Harbor Commission
Bay
World War Movies Preserved For Future Generations
War Department photographers undertake preservation of World War films to mark the centennial. Motion pictures and stills are stored in climate controlled vaults with duplicating policies to extend life. The Signal Corps creates duplicate negatives to guard the original, ensuring a lasting record of American doughboys in action.
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Washington
War Department
Signal Corps
Signal Corp
Cost of Matrimony Is Figured By Official California Investigators
Sacramento July 20 cost of matrimony examined by state officials. State tables show yearly budgets for a clerk and wife, with one child, two children, or three. budgets for laborers and executives. minimum subsistence figures for dependents. rent, clothing, and food allowances reveal men eat more while women offset with clothing costs. findings aim to guide young Californians planning marriage.
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California
Sacramento
Amy
Braden
State Department of Public Welfare
Tna
Army builds film record of war in peace time training
Moving picture companies and publishers push for wartime footage as the Army catalogs a vast film record. The extent is illustrated by two million feet of war film versus the two thousand feet typical of a current movie.
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Moving Picture
Wave of enforcement sweeps Ohio says clemency board member
Columbus July 20 A wave of law enforcement sweeps Ohio over the past years, says Dan W Williams of the state board of clemency. He bases this on figures from state institutions showing increased commitments for the year ending June 30. Williams attributes the prison rise to stricter court enforcement rather than higher crime, noting Ohio courts have acted more firmly than others.
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Columbus
Ohio
Dan W. Williams
State Board of Clemency
Willama
Willams
South Ridge Social Notes Show Visiting Families
Mr and Mrs Fred Bechtel and others from Lakewood and Cleveland visited Anthony Dellefield's family on Sunday. Neighbors called from Town Line Road and Pittsfield while Linwood Park Vermilion services drew locals. F Spencer returns to duty after vacation as Anthony Dellefield hosts a birthday party for five guests. An unspecified British railway plans locomotive conversions due to coal shortages.
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South Ridge
Fred Bwhert
Danby
Lakewood
Claude Robbins
Cleveland
Anthony Dellefield
E. C. Schubert
Oliver
Town Line Road
Howard Dayton
Pittsfield
C. J. Smith
Albert Willams
Paul Huth
Ilyria
J. P. Bechtel
John Snyder
Norwalk
Margaret Dellefield
Linwood Park
Vermilion
A. Williams
Elyria
F. Spencer
H. Gould
I D. Cartright
Hattie Ackerman
Bernice
Berlin Heights
Eva Bailing
Warren Versey
Monster dog preys on sheep near Delaware
A monster female dog half Airedale and half shepherd preyed on poultry and sheep near Delaware for months, causing farmers to incur losses. The animal was captured in a roadside drain pipe with eight pups and is now caged on the Earl Weaver farm.
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Delaware
Earl Weaver
Ten Ohio Civil War Regiments To Hold Reunion
Ten Ohio Civil War regiments will hold a joint reunion in Cadiz on August 16 and 17. The regiments listed include the 30th, 5th, 76th, 80th, 68th, 16th, 261st, 178th and 185th. The event brings together veterans from multiple units for commemorative events and fellowship.
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Cadiz. O
Regiments Unite As Survivors Dwindle In Retention
Justified each regiment held his own retition. Due to decreasing numbers of survivors, they have united.
Wife's Cruelty Claim Splits Yorkville Couple in Divorce
Frank Boving filed for divorce in Jefferson county court arguing his wife Lilly Boving treated him as a slave and caused daily misery. He charged she chewed tobacco, neglected her duties, refused to cook, and forced him to eat in the kitchen away from other family members, leaving him humiliated and compelled to leave.
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Yorkville
Lilly Boving
Frank Boving
Jefferson County
Boving
Bevina
Two Children Injured As Police Find Jinx Claim
In Columbus Ohio on July 30 police say two children suffered broken arms amid assertions by police officer Paul Stormont that a family belief in a jinx explains the accident.
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Columbus
Paul Stormont Isma
Haya
Twins Share Injuries After Falls At Home
A report notes Paul Jr. twenty one suffered a broken arm while on a trek with friends. His twin sister Mary aided him, then fell and fractured her right arm. Paul has broken an arm three times previously.
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Paul, Jr
Mary
Paul
Blind horse killed in Mechanicsburg accident
In Mechanicsburg Ohio on July 20 a blind horse owned by Clarence Borders bolted after a notice on the highway, dragging an unoccupied buggy. The animal could not see and crashed into a tree, breaking its neck and dying.
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Mechanicsburg
Barney
Clarence Borders
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