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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1910
Page
3
Governor Harmon defers canals and road questions to a special message while outlining plans on taxation revenue and a single state board of control. Officials clash over reform as committees prepare for a long legislative session with anticipated record bills.
Dairy and Food Commissioner Reneck W. Dunlap reports to Gov Harmon seeking expanded authority for rigid sanitary inspection and supervision of cheap hotels and restaurants. He notes last year’s sanitation law is weak in operation and urges enforcement of weights and measures, broader food standards, and compulsory registry of cream eries milk depots condensed milk and cream factories.
William L. Davis former vice president of Canton State Bank was convicted in Lisbon of abstracting 50 shares of bank stock and sentenced by Judge Hole to five years in the Ohio penitentiary. Davis sank in his chair and kept silent as a stay of execution was granted for appeal. He proclaimed innocence before sentencing.
Testimony in the bankruptcy case of William Vale shows the private bank of New Carlisle allowed an overdraft to ten thousand dollars. Vale owed the bank more than fourteen thousand dollars when he failed. His generosity enabled a large business, but drained his fortune. farmers mourn the loss of their best buyer. Jefferson inventory filed in probate for state treasurer W. S. McKinnon lists personal state value at 133000.19 with Union National Bank stock, Columbus Savings & Trust, Commercial National Bank, Capitol Trust Co. holdings and several life policies totaling significant sums.
Solicitor H A Pounds says he will sue to test the validity of a salary ordinance granting a $300 increase. The move follows a taxpayer request by Tom C Johnson, son of E G Johnson. The passage involved a last day signing by Vice Mayor F N Smith during the mayor’s absence and a disputed veto.
Columbus reports State Attorney General Denman has asked independent telephone company reps for the purchasers of properties acquired by J. P. Morgan & Co. with a January 1 deadline. Cleveland lawyer H. B. McGraw and St. Louis attorney Jeffries are also involved to supply relevant facts on potential legal violations.
Akron judge G Washburn dissolves injunction stopping National City bank from paying $85 201 to East Ohio Gas Co pending suit outcome. BE Alderedfoe plans appeal. Also noted are a Youngstown family story and a fatal Christmas injury in Youngstown as Andrew Hilan dies from a fall at a friend’s home.
Mary Malin Aky a 33 year old deaf Polish woman was killed by a freight train at Ramsey Steubenville Ohio The tragedy follows a prior accident two years ago in which she lost a leg according to local reports.
Cincinnati official W Kesley Schoepf president of the Cincinnati Traction Co. was indicted by the Hamilton county grand jury for four counts of failing to keep street car vestibules at or above 60 degrees. Each violation carries a $25 fine and a separate offense for every car and day operated in violation.
Justice A N Kaley ruled in Massillon Ohio that a landlady may seal a room to bar access when a tenant withholds rent. Milton Treish, a Pennsylvania railroad section hand, sued Mrs Katie Lortze for 50 dollars damages after she plugged his door with sealing wax preventing him from retrieving his clothes. Treish had failed to pay rent.
A diner questions a doctor who intends to inoculate himself with cholera to study results, while the proprietor deems the act mad. The exchange highlights concerns over self experimentation and safety in medical inquiry.
A 1909 Philadelphia reader endorses Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills for eczema in a boy, claiming cure after two boxes per day regimen. The letter accompanies assorted humorous anecdotes and health advice pieces from the same column.
An old advertisement promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children claiming to cure feverishness headache and teething disorders while regulating bowels and destroying worms. It promises quick relief within two hours and describes the product as pleasant and harmless as milk with a 5 cent price and free sample by mail to Allen Olmsted Le Roy New York.
A brief exchange from Lippincott’s features a quip about age and humor with a narrator proclaiming the joke to be theirs and a remark about being eighty. The concise snippet captures period voice and playful banter.
An advertisement style fragment urges use of Pettit's Eye Ve for eye discomfort and mentions druggists. It also includes unrelated maxims about opinion and human nature and scattered odd phrases. The text references Bromquinine and a vague medical product in an unclear historical snippet.
Dr. George W. Bloomer of Yale announces a $100000 prize to the first person anywhere who discovers a cure for tuberculosis. The award is unconditional on time or place, with the sole conditions that the cure has been in constant use for at least five years and proven by an investigating board.
An assortment of circa early 20th century advertisements and quips. Includes claims for Hall’s Catarrh Cure sold by Cheney & Co and Azo Quintent for piles, plus humorous, literary, and miscellaneous notes about business and office life.
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