Christmas Prize Contest Finds All Winners Are Women
The Couriers Christmas prize contest tallies votes from readers across towns including New Richmond and Milford. MISS JAZZIE WARD of New Richmond wins the chief prize. other named winners include MISS MAY READE and MRS EMMA HITCH. The record notes the loving community effort, with engravers preparing portraits of the winners and readers applauding the outcome. The piece emphasizes women’s rising role in public life and the bustling ballot counting through Christmas Eve.
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Russia
Prize news and year in review from the Courier
The Courier applauds prize winners Mrs L W Hitch of a tobacco family and Miss May Reade of Williamsburg for news gathering talents. It notes a 1890 prize contest with 1220 letters from 63 towns and 1352 letters this year from 65 post offices.
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Courier
Milford Woman Mrs Witham Wins Third Prize
Milford society notes honor Nannie Be Witham of Witham family for securing third prize. The Milford resident, wife of Professor George W Witham, is praised for active community leadership and thoughtful writing acknowledgments by local readers.
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Nannie Be, Witham
George W. Witham
Milford
Witham
Fourth prize treasures priceless value in local page contest
The text notes a prize sequence praising a Mt. Pisgah correspondent Mrs Charlotte P Hayford as the fifth prize winner. It highlights her concise writing and lively field delivering news items that fueled feature articles, earning votes from friends and neighboring towns.
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Mt. Pisgah
Charlotte P. Hayford
Prize awards end with Lew Donley noted for 1801 work
The Courier records its sixth prize to Lew Donley the Moscow news hustler praised for prompt letters and accurate news. Donley keeps his position despite the ballet shortfall, with prizes improving from 126 to 225 in gold this year.
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Lew Donley
Moscow News
Donley
Scott
Shakspeare
Byron
Dickens
Wealthy Canton farmer humbles himself before church
A Canton farmer loses $5,000 to a worn out game and, in a show of emotion, asks his church for forgiveness. The tale offers two morals about reading the county paper and the limits of forgiveness for folly.
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Canton
Dutter
Christmas Eve Exercises at Local Churches Delight Congregation
Pretty Christmas exercises were held at the Methodist and Presbyterian churches. The shoe presentation at the Methodist service featured a solo by little Miss Ore baugh who sang Rock of Ages with moving sweetness. A generous treat followed for all children. At the Presbyterian service gifts arrived from an old fashioned wind mill built by A B Stymers, with miller’s door bag gifts for scholars. The day included music and singing as part of the season.
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Miss Ore
Baugh
Presbyterian Church
A. B. Stymers
Butter Plant Promises in Brown County Faces Setback
A Georgetown Gazette sketch recounts a proposed farmers led butter and cheese plant in Brown county. R E Sturgess J A Roberts raised fifty farms for $100 each, but building halted after investors feel misled and a compromise with Davis Rankin Co is proposed.
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Georgetown
Brown County
R. E. Sturgess
J. A. Roberts
John A. Tweed
Creamery Co
E. L. Hauck
Wm. Hauck
Chicago
Davis, Rankin & Co
Broken Heart Follows Election Ward Death
Gossip columns report a governor campaign unit placed in an Ohio Penitentiary ward died of a broken heart. A white swan shot near Pt William road drew display in town. Press considers sickness and Christmas shopping downturn hurt merchants. Adams county report and pay dispute over large publisher bills. The death of 18 year old Will Mcentush in Madison Planning Mill Co. accident near Avondale. Funeral and burial details follow.
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Campbell
Ohio
Washington
Crane Ponds
Frank Crawford
Sharp
Pt. William Road
Frank Taylor
Wilmington
Will McEntush
Maphet Street
Young McEntush
Madison Planning Mill Co
Avondale
Morla
Clermont County
Old Blacksmith’s Public Notice in 1801
A lettered notice from John Schinddlegger announces his disability and rejects false rumors about drinking. He denounces neighbors’ meddling, requests peace, and thanks friends while railing at enemies. Also mentions Adams county court dissolving an injunction on a soldier monument and cites Simmons Liver Regulator sales.
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Massey
John P. Roberts
Adams Township
Winchester
Cit Hospital
Times Star
John Schinddlegger
Mopest
Adams County
John T. Wilson
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St. Nicholas
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Corres
Country Newspaper
New Richmond
Lizzie Ward
Bantam
Emma Hitch
Mrs
GW. Witham
Williamsburg
Miss May Reade
C. P. Hayford
Moscow
Amelia—J. L. Harris
Owensville
May Mitchell
Crosstown
Lizzie Ireton
Bethel
Jennie Burke
Goshen
W. H. McClelland
Nicholsville
Kate Jackson
Mulberry
George W. Miller
Edenton
J. ©. Jordan
Chile
Florence Clark
Olive Branch
F. B. Holter
Moore’s Fork
E. C. Malott
Neca Te
Newtonsville
William Gillaspie
Miamiville
Chapman
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Jazzie Ward
New Richmon
Miss Ward
Ward
New Richaand
L. W. Hitch
David Swing
Reade
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F. M. Fisuxa
Laurel
Charles Paltz
Calvary
Georgetown Creamery
Madison
Ville
Portsmouth Press
Davis
Brown County News
Simmons
R. D. Bapp
Mosby & Hudson
Cincinnati
Bucyrus Evening Telegraph
Jane Patton
Harshaville
Music Hall
Cincinnat
Cincinnati Busines College
Race Streets
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