Ohio fair boys to hold seventh annual meeting in Columbus
About 600 to 700 delegates and guests are expected for the Ohio fair boys seventh annual meeting in Columbus on January 12. President R. Y. White will welcome, Gov. Willis will respond, and A. V. Donahey and I. B. Myers will speak on fair accounting and agriculture.
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Union News Service
Columbus
Ohio Fair Boys
State Board of Agriculture
R. Y. White
Zanesville
Willis
A. V. Donahey
I.B. Myers
James W. Fleming
Fair Boys
Farmers Week at Ohio State Draws 2000 Grain Growers
Congress discusses preparedness as 2000 farmers gather the first week of February at Ohio State University for Farmers Week. Officials report the 1916 event will be the largest ever with more speakers, buildings, courses and hourly demonstrations to boost crop quality and farm profitability.
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Columbus
Congress
Ohio State University
National Guard absenteeism report from Ohio units
Cincinnati based report by Gen A L Mills shows absenteeism in the Ohio National Guard, while not as severe as Indiana, still undercuts the department’s aims. The document lists enlisted strength at inspection across Ohio organizations and highlights the scope of the issue.
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Cincinnati
A. L. Mills
Militia Division
War Department
Ohio National Guard
Ohio
Indiana
Suit challenges Parrot- Whittemore tax law in Ohio
Willis R. Godfrey, a taxpayer, sues in Cleveland to deem unconstitutional the Parrot- Whittemore measure that decentralizes tax assessing authority. The petition was sworn before John D. Fackler, former tax commissioner under the Warnes law, repealed by the new statute.
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Cleveland, O
Court of Common Pleas
Willis R. Godfrey
John D. Fackler
Engineer Plunkett Falls Fifty Feet at Coal Pit
John Plunkett a stationary engineer at the Big Four railroad plant slipped on ice near a coal pit at the docks and fell fifty feet into the pit. He was knocked unconscious by debris but was hoisted to the surface after a block and tackle was secured. He will recover.
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Dayton, O
John Plunkett
Plunket
Prisoners Work Outside State Prison At Start Of Year
At year start 176 inmates from the penitentiary are stationed at sites outside the state prison. Seventy three work at the Junction City brick plant, sixty four at the London farm, seventeen at Dayton state hospital and Shaker farm, while fifteen are employed at thatate sanatorium.
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Junction City, O
Junction City
London
Dayton State Hospital
Shaker Farm
Thatate
Plan Dixie Highway Tour From Michigan to Florida
The Dixie Highway Association reports a surge of winter inquiries from northern automobile tourists eager to travel south via Cincinnati and the Blue Grass region. They expect to start Detroit to Jacksonville in fall 1916 once eastern division barriers in Rockcastle Laurel and Knox counties are removed.
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Cincinnati, O
Dixie Highway Association
Ohio River
Cincinnati
Blue Grass
Kentucky Mountains
Florida
Knoxville
Kentucky
Rockcastle
Laurel
Knox
Michigan
Detroit
Toledo
Dayton
Lexington
Cumberland Gap
Chattanooga
Dalton
Atlanta
Macon
Jacksonville
Foot and Mouth Plague Probe Planned in Midwest
A committee on agriculture at Washington will investigate the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Ohio Indiana and other states. The plan calls for a Chicago meeting with witnesses from Indiana Ohio Michigan Illinois and nearby areas where the disease has spread.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Indiana
Committee On Agriculture
Washington
Chicago
Michigan
Buckeye Brevities Wet Dry Vote Tallied in Aberdeen
Manchester Aberdeen votes on the wet dry question result is dry 91 wet 59. Lima Seymour Rathburn 15 used cayenne pepper in boots to warm feet nearly burning them. he says others advised the treatment and his condition is serious.
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Manchester
Aberdeen
Lima
Seymour Rathburn
West Virginia liquor limit enforced on trains
Detectives from Gallipolis Ohio and others observed trains from Ohio into West Virginia to enforce a circuit court order prohibiting passengers from carrying more than two quarts of liquor into the state.
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Gallipolis
West Virginia
Ohio
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Eight in Peace Council Conspiracy
The New York grand jury charges a group including Congressman Frank Buchanan H R Fowler and David Lamar with conspiracy to foment strikes in American munition plants. Franz von Rintelen a German agent is named, with others as officers of the Peace Council. Ex-Ohio AG Frank S Monnett and Jacob C Taylor also face indictments. Rintelen is in England. no extradition. Penalties include up to one year in prison and a $10000 fine.
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New York
Peace Council
United States
Federal Grand Jury
Frank Buchanan
Illinois
H. Robert Fowler
Frank S. Monnett
Ohio
David Lamar
Jacob C. Taylor
Labor
National Peace Council
Franz von Rintelen
H. B. Martin
Herman Schulters
Lamar
von Rintelen
Rintelen
Wolf of
Wall Street
England
Falmouth
Department of Justice
Great Battle Rages On Russian Front South
London reports fragmentary but strong signals of a major battle on the southern Russian front, seen as potentially reshaping positions within days. German and Austrian dispatches claim Russian attacks have been repulsed while other clashes continue on the Bessarabian frontier and near the Stripa bridgehead in eastern Galicia with heavy losses and 900 prisoners taken.
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London
Petrograd
Bessarabian
German War Office
Schlok
Gulf of Riga
von Linsingen
von Bothmer
Burkanov
Stripa
Galicia
Railroads Storage Coal in Toledo Amid Strike Rumors
Railroads in Toledo accumulate thousands of tons of coal as a precaution for an expected miners' strike next April. Philadelphia officials state the strike is not being considered, and actions are for economic reasons only.
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Toledo
Philadelphia
Ford peace expedition draws near unanimity in Stockholm
In Stockholm a Ford peace meeting at the Academy of Music attracts nearly a thousand citizens. Attendees applaud any talk of early war end. Louis P. Lochner says belligerents are willing to negotiate and the expedition’s executives hold secret encouraging information.
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Stockholm
Europe
Academy of Music
Louis P. Lochner
Mr. Lochner
New York
CAPT BOY-ED DEFENDS SELF BEFORE SAILING HOME
Captain Karl Boy Ed former naval attache to the German embassy in Washington sailed from New York aboard the Holland American liner Rotterdam bound for Rotterdam He defended sending supplies to German warships and blamed a Providence newspaper for spy hysteria His companions included Col E M House and Brand Whitlock the American minister to Belgium
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New York
Karl Boy- Ed
Washington
United States
Rotterdam
Boy-Ed
Providence
Col. E. M. House
Wilson
Brand Whitlock
Belgium
Persia Sinks After Torpedo Hit. 158 Survive
The Persia was torpedoed off its course and sank within five minutes. U.S. consul Robert N. McNeely was lost. Charles H. Grant of Boston survived and was taken to Alexandria, Egypt. Passengers and crew acted admirably during the five minutes before sinking.
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London
Robert N. McNeely
United States
Aden
Persia
Charles H. Grant
Boston
Aleaandria
Egypt
Alexandria
Fire destroys Bellevue apartments in Philadelphia blaze
A five story L shaped Bellevue apartment building at Eighteenth and Wylie streets burned trapping about 200 residents. Twenty injured, six seriously, two feared dead, including Mrs Eliza beth Ostrum and two Nellie Bucard children. Blaze began in a basement waste bin possibly from a cigarette, with $100000 loss.
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Philadelphia
Bellevue
Elizabeth Ostrum
Nellie Bucard
Eighteenth
Wylie Streets
Drink Hot Water With Limestone Phosphate Every Morning
Health advice urges drinking hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. The ad claims it flushes out poisons improves digestion and overall well being and notes New York has 4 500 hotels and restaurants.
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New York
Sioux Chief Ogallala Fire Seeks Death in Hospital
90 year old Sioux Chief Ogallala Fire, a Little Big Horn survivor and ally of Rain in the Face, was found with a slashed throat at the home of his wife Little Bear in Ogallala. Despondent over deteriorating health, he is in a Chicago-Ogallala Fire hospital and is not expected to survive. He had five wives and no children.
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Ravenna
Walter Tompkins
King Street
Tompkins
Chicago
Ogallala Fire
Little Big Horn
Custer
Spotted Tail
Little Bear
Henry Reake
Minnesota Governor Dies in Clinton Louisiana
Gov. Winfield Scott Hammond of Minnesota died suddenly in a Clinton hotel from a stroke likely aided by a prior bout of ptomaine poisoning. He collapsed before doctors arrived as he toured his land and lumber interests in East Feliciana parish. J. A. A. Burnquist was sworn in as Minnesota's nineteenth governor to succeed Hammond.
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Clinton
Winfield Scott Hammond
Minnesota
Hammond
J. A. Nowell
East Feliciana Parish
St. Paul
Minn
J. A. A. Burnquist
Winfield
Profit-sharing distribution by Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
The Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co announces a five per cent profit sharing on annual wages including overtime, totaling about 360000 dollars in cash. All employees except elective officers and medical and legal advisers will participate under the standard length of service rule.
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Youngstown, O
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
Ohio State Board official urges protest against winter session
Secretary K. Shi mansky of the Ohio State Board of Commerce sends letters to members urging protest to the governor against any special winter session of the general assembly.
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Columbus
K. Shimansky
Ohio State Board of Commerce
General Assembly
Appeal Over Ohio Ballot Ruling Upheld Milroy Mayoral Win
The common pleas court decision upholding the preferential ballot system in Ohio and confirming Charles M. Milroy as Toledo mayor is challenged in the court of appeals.
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Toledo
Common Pleas Court
Ohio
Charles M. Milroy
Court of Appeals
Allies Sink Two Austrian Destroyers Off Durazzo
Two Austrian destroyers Lika and Triglav were sunk in the Adriatic off Durazzo. One went down to allied warships and the other to a mine. The remaining Austrian ships fled toward their base as Allied forces pursued.
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Paris
Adriatic Sea
Durazzo
Lika
Triglav
Charge Vice in Movie Camps
Reiterated claims that immorality and surrender of honor were common in Los Angeles motion picture camps and studios prompted Thomas L. Woolwine to announce an immediate investigation and possible grand jury action. Roscoe Arbuckle denied immorality at California studios, blaming outsiders during a Chicago stop.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Thomas L. Woolwine
Chicago
Roscoe Arbuckle
New York
California
Government Accepts Trade Union Demands For War Labor Plan
London reports that Premier Asquith and David Lloyd George met with a deputation from the Amalgamated Society of Engineers. The government agreed to all union demands in exchange for early adoption of Lloyd George’s labor dilution scheme.
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London
Asquith
David Lloyd George
Amalgamated Society of Engineers
Press Bureau
Mr. Lloyd George
Bryan Halts Peace Trip Due To Ford’s Return
New York December 28 William J Bryan postponed his peace trip indefinitely after Henry Ford returned to the United States. He canceled passage for himself and Mrs Bryan on the Rotterdam. A Stockholm cable also notes Governor Hanna of North Dakota is ill with influenza and hospitalized in Copenhagen.
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New York
Henry Ford
United States
William J. Bryan
Europe
Rotterdam
Bryan
Fords
Stockholm
L. B. Hanna
North Dakota
Copenhagen
Starvation At Triangle Lighthouse Near Yucatan Coast
Officers of the steamship Mexico found seven people and a dead woman at Triangle Lighthouse near the Yucatan coast. The group, two men two women and three children, had been without food for 15 days aside from small fish. Lighthouse occupants had not received a supply ship in over four months.
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New York
Triangle Lighthouse
Yucatan Coast
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Fear for Huerta's Recovery After Gallstone Operation
General Victoriano Huerta, former Provisional President of Mexico, underwent an operation in El Paso for gall stones. Doctors said jaundice had troubled him for some time and after the surgery found signs of a more serious disease, expressing fear for his recovery.
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el Paso
Texas
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
M. P. Schuster
Huerta
Bromo Quinine Ad Claims Stir Public Interest
An ad touts Bromo Quinine as a remedy promising a cold cure in one day. It urges readers to verify via the full name and signature of E. W. Grove, noting the product’s bold claims and the public reception of the advertisement.
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E. W. Grove
Asc
Witty Exchange Sparks Impromptu Marriage Talk
In a Detroit Free Press funny exchange Edith and Ethel banter about marriage. He jokes about immediate vows while she counters with fashion prep delaying plans as the couple teases readiness. The humorous dialogue highlights playful readiness versus timing.
Surely Did His Best
A philanthropic man visits a penal institution and tells a prisoner his effort fell short. The prisoner replies he did his level best but notes it took seven cops to take him to the station, implying he could not have fought harder to gain freedom.
Lack of Money Aided Health in Stomach Trouble Case
AArk woman credits inability to pay a specialist with curing her stomach illness after years of failed treatments. She quit coffee for Postum, noting sleep, pain relief, and overall improvement. She found Postum easy to switch to and priced 15¢ 25¢ or 60¢ tins, with the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Ark
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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