Parole Actions and Utility Growth Across Ohio
The Ohio board paroled 6 inmates including one from Charles Warriner with a six year term, while Frank Whisner seeks a rehearing. American Gas and Electric Co expands Ohio holdings by acquiring Mt. Vernon and Lancaster properties, broadening central Ohio electric service. Ohio officials debate crime prevention and death penalty efficacy, noting higher executions align with lynchings in 1890–1911 data, and Dr. McCampbell warns of plague rats threatening public health. Dr. Thomas R. Brown named head of the state board of health. Tax and transit issues surface as liquor taxes settle and Columbus rail services face franchise compliance and service demands.
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Columbus
Charles L. Warriner
Big Four Railroad
State Board of Administration
Thomas Raglin
Clark County
Homer Henderson
Hamilton County
John Feller
Cuyahoga County
Harry Allenworth
Lucas County
Frank Whisner
Franklin County
Feller
Henderson
Allenworth
Ohio
American Gas and Electric Co
Canton
Newark
Tiffin
Fremont
Mt. Vernon
Lancaster
N. L. C. Rachelmacher
Charles B. Galbreath
United States
Health Board Sets Suburb Water Plans and Tuberculosis Rules
The state board of health in Cincinnati ordered Zanesville and Canal Dover to submit water supply and sewage plans within 90 days. It approved linking Kennedy Heights and Pleasant Ridge sewers and enacted monthly tuberculosis reports via over 2,000 local boards, sparked by the State Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. The board urged regulation of the disease as contagious as smallpox.
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State Board of Health
Cincinnati
Zanesville
Canal Dover
Kennedy Heights
Pleasant Ridge
Boards of Health
State Society For the Prevention of Tuberculosis
Grumbling crowd attends a curious Torpidville gathering
The Kansas City Star reports a dispirited event in a Torpidville grove where a brass band played, a wandering pavilion hawked horned toads, a man sold snakes, and old soldiers and farmers grumbled while voters debated the scene as a blemish on a cherished institution.
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Torpidville
Kansas City
Star
Kipling and Dorothy Drew in a lighthearted tale
The piece notes a popular story about Rudyard Kipling visiting Hawarden and befriending Dorothy Drew, Kipling’s visitor role provoking remarks from Dorothy. It then shifts to advice on children and fear of the dark, urging gentle lighting and avoiding forced exposure to darkness to protect a child's nervous system.
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England
Rudyard Kipling
Dorothy Drew
Gladstone
Kipling
Hawarden
Miss Dorothy
Mamma
Dorothy
Mr. Kipling
Moving Pictures Draw Global Audience Across Nations
A recent Daily Consular Reports issue compiles memos from cities worldwide showing the universal appeal of moving pictures. England Japan Turkey Mexico India Australia and distant locales report an instant and lasting welcome for cinematography as it travels.
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England
Japan
Turkey
Mexico
India
Australia
Island of the Sea
Dust-Raising Purchases of Automobiles Prompt Comment
A quotation questions how many can finance cars, noting automobiles are easy to raise dust about. The speaker contrasts perception with reality, suggesting money for such purchases is readily found by some.
Hurry Girls Uncle Sam Calf Fattening Brochure
A Washington Post notice urges women to obtain the new brochure on fattening calves before it runs out. The lines suggest a light social jab about people preferring social obligations to debts.
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Sam
Washington Post
Wise Doctor Promotes Postum For Recuperation
A physician advocates Postum as a nutritious caffeine free alternative to coffee and tea. He reports using it in his own family and prescribing it for indigestion nervousness and convalescence from pneumonia typhoid fever and other illnesses. The doctor says stores now stock Postum due to his recommendations and offers to use his letter as reference.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Ohio Electric Railway Co
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Third Street
James Ross
Coal Township
Perry County
Chartiers Oil Co
Hocking Product Co
New Straitsville
Gates, Davidson and Moran
Upson Coal Co
Lone Star Oil Co
Bremen
Reading Township
Ohio Fuel Supply Co
Jacob Barnes
New York
State Board of Agriculture
Seventy-first Regiment Armory
Jacob Dean
A. P. Sanders
Toledo
State Public Service Commission
New York Central Lines
W. C. Brown
New York Central
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
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Express
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American Express Co
Lilly
Hamden
Daniel Cottle
Big Four
Sherman T. McPherson
D. M. Argen
Cleveland Telephone Co
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