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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1907
Page
3
A local editorial argues for spending at home to boost circulation and community growth. It warns that dollars sent away reduce local wealth, hurting workers, merchants, and farmers, and suggests practical gains from strictly favoring home businesses led by D. M. Carr.
The passage quotes Section 6480 revised statutes of the United States detailing penalties for mailing fraud schemes. It defines offenses involving devising or intending to defraud, causing others to engage in mail misuse, and actions of placing or receiving letters in U S post offices. Punishments include fines up to $500 and up to 18 months imprisonment or both.
The text argues against large single ownership, claiming a 10,000 acre farm under one person profits less broadly than 100 smaller farms. It questions urban concentration: if the big farm fail, why invest in big-city stores that displace many small shops. It urges preserving local business against centralized control.
A critique of promoters using the word system to justify stock selling and cooperative schemes. Promises of wholesale goods and large dividends mask motives to extract money from the public for the benefit of a few. Beware unknown cooperatives in cities.
Jimmy, sick and broke, shares his last gifts with Paxton alley children during Christmas Eve. Bill Black and family help him recover as a doctor aids his collapse. A Santa Claus idol hides a trove of money found inside the long stocking, revealing honesty among neighbors and transforming the shop into a thriving business.
The article discusses vagrancy in America, classifying tramps by type and calling for town ordinances to regulate vagrants. It argues the number of wanderers declines with better laws and conditions, while urging penalties for wandering visitors to deter them.
A cautious editorial cautions against self destructive investments and quack schemes. It condemns financial ruin from wild speculation and urges farmers to support local shops rather than untested cooperative mercantile ventures in cities.
The piece notes the average American farmer grows more progressive by learning new methods. It stresses the vital role of science as a money saving factor in farming and urges greater educational pursuit to boost success.
Canton Ohio officials report a suit filed in common pleas court by R S Shields administrator of Abner McKinley estate seeking a definite construction of provisions in the late President William McKinleys will. Defendants include siblings of McKinley and related heirs and administrators of the McKinley estate. The petition cites difficulty executing the trust due to unclear will language and notes creditors prompted the action in 1900.
A Yonstown man, Arthur Huntley, was attacked by neighbors who seized his 2 year old son after they overpowered him and stopped him from tossing the child into the Mahoning river. Police arrived to disperse the mob, and Huntley is jailed on Humane Society warrants. Neighbors claim Huntley was crazed with Nyur.
Layton Hines colored defendant stands trial for the killings of Anna Markowitz and Abraham Cohan at McCabe’s Park two months ago. He reportedly confessed to officials but later repudiated the confession. Attorneys Mose Jones and Charles H Kumler were appointed to defend him.
Columbus reports December 1 1908 wheat harvest at 80 percent of normal down 2 points from November 1 with 43 percent of the 1907 crop sold from the thresher. Insects caused under 2 percent damage and the 1907 corn crop totals 192 284 045 bushels, about 235 million below 1900, with much grain soft and unsellable.
A massive blast at King's Mills powder works rocked the area, wrecking the glazing mill and sending seven tons of powder aloft. Five employees escaped miraculously as a spark from faulty machinery is believed to have ignited the powder, shocking a 20 mile radius.
The jurors in this city acquitted George Kirby a saloon keeper who shot and killed business man Fred Marchant during a quarrel. Kirby cried when the verdict was read and testified he was drunk and unaware of his actions at the time.
Columbus Ohio The State Board of Pardons refused to intervene in the cases of Frank Earl and John Solo. Earl is condemned for killing William Logg a Sidney butcher and faces electrocution December 20. Solo is scheduled for December 13 for the murder of a 14 year old girl.
A nine year old boy, Earl Niles son of James Boughton, was assaulted by several older youths. He was beaten unconscious and his body was flung into a gutter, with many fearing he will die.
Lawson Emer son, a former clerk of the supreme court, was arrested in Clatraville by an alienist Supreme Court Marshal McCallister. He was taken to Columbia and charged with contempt for issuing a bogus certificate.
Fremont receives no bids for Banducky county issue 56 percent dtphonda totaling 17 090 dollars. Bankers and bond buyers disposed of the bonds to individuals despite the lack of bids.
An extra on the Dayton & Xenia line derailed on Phillips Hill due to slippery rails and overturned while carrying about 90 excursionists to Dayton. More than 30 injured, many seriously, as passengers crowded the car in a frantic escape. Ambulances took the wounded to La Elizabeth and Miami Valley hospitals. Motorman William Thompson ran the car.
Cleveland Clearing House association will issue new clearing house checks likely totaling 33 million dollars in $1 $2 $5 and $10 denominations. The plan ends certified bank checks and requires no signatures from business houses. Checks will bear lithographed treasurer E R Dale signature and be countersigned by banks’ assistant secretaries.
Columbus Ohio The state highway department and Athens county commissioners accepted the Sugar Creek state highway in Athens county from contractor W J Howard. The one mile macadam road features 20 foot grades and a 12 foot macadam surface at a cost of 7390 60. The project required substantial grading and critics note a legal flaw that bans grading one year and macadamizing the next, with Commissioner Huston urging legislative change to allow macadam on fills only after settlement.
Gen. C. H. Grosvenor of Athens, McKinley era spokesman, is reported ill at the Hotel Linton in Cincinnati. He arrived and went to his room claiming only slight indisposition after a tiring trip. Local politicians hint his Cincinnati stay may stir the Taft Foraker controversy.
State Auditor Gullbert calls for a statement of condition for all 445 Ohio banks at the start of December. Cleveland tops cities with 37 banks, Cincinnati 27, and Columbus 19. Total aggregate capital stands at 40 million dollars.
In Columbus Ohio Thomas Hoffman 20 of Orbiston received 12 months in Mansfield reformatory and a $25 fine. Erastus Willson was jailed six months and fined $50. Roy Jones was fined $25 for sending obscene letters through the mails.
A hotel fire in Millville near Hamilton was likely incendiary. Four hundred farmers rushed to help after bells rang, aiding in quick response to the blaze.
Louis A. Treton, legal counsel for the county, says there is no legal authority to turn over the county infirmary to Longview asylum and that only a special act of the legislature can authorize such a move.
Eaton county filed suit against former Treasurer Alonso Scott for 242122 dollars alleging funds received from Waton banks for county deposits and in the collection of delinquent taxes.
Post mortem on Doyle Weat, aged months, reveals a hatpin eight inches long in the stomach. The pin reached near the surface, and the child reportedly swallowed it ten months ago, with ongoing suffering noted.
Squire Bamuel Bloom died at home in Cincinnati. He served as a peace officer and justice of the peace for eighteen years and assisted with local justices courts as an onetime constable or magistrate for twenty one years.
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