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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1915
Page
3
Harlan Gridley, the harsh manager, confronts Christmas amid memories of his lost wife Nadine and their child. Visionary scenes by the Christmas tree reveal his regret and a awakening of pity as a nurse omits a tree for the child. The final moment finds him consoling his son beside the star atop the tree.
Ohio union wages on May 15 1915 rose over the prior year with about one quarter of 75 000 workers receiving higher pay. Most increases came via peaceable conferences. Lima showed no increase. The report by Fred Croxton notes an average weekly rise of about one dollar across benefited workers.
Adjt. Gen. Benson W. Hough proposes Cincinnati adopt the same civilian military training as Cleveland. The plan will be laid before Col. R. L. Hubler and Lieut. Col. William Cooper Procter of the First Infantry Ohio National Guard, with state help offered to organize a military school and possibly expand to other officers and counties.
Attorney General Turner writes for the State Tax Commission that foreign manufacturing firms owe an annual franchise tax in Ohio based on in state factory sales and the value of goods manufactured there less raw materials, plus the value of capital and plants in the state. The tax rate is three twentieths of one percent.
The Public Utilities Commission authorizes a 13 dollar stock issue for Middlepoint Home Telephone Co of Van Wert county to supplement a prior 3 545 dollar issue and make each share an even dollar amount. Farmers are the major stockholders. In a separate matter the Supreme Court is asked to rule on whether a saloon license can be assigned a market value in a breach of contract suit involving a transfer denial in Cleveland.
Contractors seek the Drave-Doyle versus The Village of Orville ruling, which invalidates a section forcing villages to acquire private gas or electric works before competing with incumbents. Utility leaders foresee renewed municipal ownership efforts and reduced private utility capital in villages due to the decision.
Dewey Hanes, 18, wins state corn and wheat growing contests and will lecture alongside national agronomic experts during Farmers' Week at Ohio State University. He will address 126 prize-winning county boys from 42 counties, competing in a stock judging contest in Columbus. The County Auditors' association adjourned after a half day of tax discussion and noted selective annual appropriation for land appraisal reform. Officers elected include J. M. Pierce as president Ralph Oberlin as vice president Albert Davis as treasurer and Sam A Hudson as secretary.
The Hocking Valley Railroad filed with the public utilities commission a tariff restoring the old 1.00 per ton rate from Nelsonville District to Toledo. The present 0.85 rate would change January 20, 1916, with no pleadings or explanations attached. The commission took no action and may suspend the tariff pending a hearing if the case remains undecided by the effective date.
Governor Willis announced three appointments to the state boards. Douglas Perkins of Cleveland and Benja min J McKinney of Marietta join the state board of charities with terms ending September 19 1919. McKinney had been in the role of M T Mooney’s successor. W W Ryall of Youngstown was named to the state board of health for a term ending December 13 1922. About 2500 nurses have registered with the State Medical Board to avoid the licensing exam set for the new year. Additional clerks assist the board as the rush grows and every applicant will face an exam after January first.
Quoted Yale Record humor aside the clipping notes a concussion following an incident described as a "sad affair about Jones." The piece mentions an "idea struck" moment and references a joke exchange about Jones. It also carries a drug advertisement for laxative bromquinine and a whimsical poem teaser from The Waves.
The column cautions against envying the husband of a wife who marries for money and fails to obtain it, framing the warning as a moral observation on vanity and financial bargaining in marriage.
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