Ohio Legislature Debates Mercy Bill And Canals Question
In Columbus on Jan 24 and 25 1909 the senate debated Miss Anne Hall’s painless death bill and shelled various reforms. The senate approved a change of venue rule for civil cases and lawmakers considered measures on child labor permits university funding and banking by title guaranty firms. Jan 25 saw talks on a 2 cent rail fare and a Lima insane hospital site with $200 000 proposed. Anna Hall’s hearing was planned.
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Columbus
Anne Hall
Senate
Schmidt
Matther
Common Pleas
Lybarger
Reynolds
Organized Labor
Chamberlain
Ohio
General Assembly
Berry
Judy
Herrick
Lima
Hunt
House of Representatives
House
George Bassett
Toledo
Russell
Harper
Committee On Judiciary
Kolinsky
Bense
Trott
Entire Coshocton Town to Wage War on Rodents
The Coshocton business men form two battle lines along the main street to hunt rats for 80 days. A tally of rats killed and the winning side will be banquetted at the losers’ expense. The city has suffered thousands in losses from vermin in the past six months.
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Coshocton
Circumstantial Case Weaves Against Eddie Uhl in Murder Trial
In Marietta Ohio on January 26 and 27 the state rests a three-witness case building a circumstantial chain against Eddie Uhl. The aunt Lizzie Kinniard, sister Cora Uhl, and brother Oscar Uhl describe actions and reactions surrounding the murder scene and gunfire. Defense will offer a torn sheet music piece tied to an alibi claim showing a window hole and a shot aimed away from the body.
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Marietta, C
Eddie Uhl
Lizzie Kinniard
Cora Uhl
Oscar Uhl
Eddie
Kellar
Marietta
Ohio River
Senate approves Rathburn two cent fare bill without hearing
Columbus Ohio January 26 the senate by unanimous vote passed the Rath burn two cent fare bill. B B Austin general passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at Chicago and Co P McCarty general passenger agent of the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern at Cincinnati who came to oppose the measure expressed indignation that the bill was reported and passed without a hearing for railroad interests.
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Columbus
Senate
Rathburn
B. B. Austin
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Chicago
P. McCarty
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Cincinnati
Senate Committee On Railroads
Hidden hoard found in dead man's home in Bowling Green
In Bowling Green on Jan 25 a tin box containing the saved wealth of a lifelong resident was found hidden in a wall two weeks after the man's death. The discovery came as a startling moment of surprise to local residents. Salem reports a foreigner riding atop a locomotive cowcatcher from Canton to Alliance with a first class ticket to Pittsburg.
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Cincinnati
Canal
Charlotte Street
Coation
Bowling Green
Robert Stewart
Salem, C
Canton
Pittsburg
Alliance
Painter killed by freight train on Big Four tracks
Cincinnati January 27 George Galbraith age 57 married and a painter residing at Tell Cottage was killed and badly mangled on the Big Four freight tracks below Riverside He left home to go to work and took a shortcut along the tracks.
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Cincinnati
George Galbraith
Tell Cottage
Riverside
Bridge trial motions argued in Napoleon court
Attorney David and T J Keating argued motions to quash bridge true cases. Indictments labeled indefinite and pleas of not guilty withdrawn. A Newcomerstown schools superintendent A A Shearer was fined $5 by Mayor Wallen for jumping on a train while en route to school.
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Napoleon
David
T. J. Keating
Canal Corp
T A
A Shearer
Newcomerstown
Wallen
Parker Boat Luttbeg Wrestling Bout In Steubenville
Harvey Parker of Cleveland defeated Max Luttbeg of Cinem here in Steubenville. Parker won the last two bouts in 12 minutes each after Luttbeg went first in 24 minutes.
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Steubenville
Harvey Parker
Cleveland
Max Luttbeg
Cinem
Parker
Luttbeg Firet
What is a Democrat as party split widens
The Troy Times notes the Democratic Party fractures into rival camps. Figures like Champ Clark and Bryan show differing Democ ratic strains from Hearst Tammany and Murphy with Judge Parker Coler Taggart and western versus southern factions. The old slogan I am a Democrat yields to What is a Democrat questioning unity.
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Troy Times
Army of Democracy
Congress
Champ Clark
Missouri
New York
Judge Parker
Bird S. Coler
Brooklyn
Coler
Tom Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Bryan
Hearst
Tammany
Boss Murphy
Press comments wrap around Bryan and tariff wars
A compilation of editorial quips from Buffalo Express Burlington Hawk-Eye Chicago Tribune Philadelphia Press New York Press and American Economist musing on Bryan Hearst Mindanao datto and tariff policy. The clippings note Philippine adventures and U S political economy under Wilson tariffs and railroad regulation.
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W. R. Hearst
Tammany Tiger
Col. Bryan
Datto
Mindanao
Buffalo Express
Shaw
Burlington
Bryan
Philippines
Chicago Tribune
United States
Philadelphia Press
Europe
Grover Cleveland
N. Y
Great Britain
Washington Star
Facial Paralysis and Nervous Ailment Cure Claim
A promotional account asserts slight nervous attacks can signal serious disorders and promotes Dr Williams' Pink Pills as nourishment for nerves. It cites Harry Bemis of Truthville New York who allegedly recovered after persistent paralysis symptoms in 1902 following medical failures and his wife’s recommendation. The ad notes pills are sold by merchants and by mail from Schenectady New York with a free booklet on nervous disorders.
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Williams
Harry ‘Bemis
Truthville
Washington County
N.Y
Bemis
Tam
Rhodes scholars and church school notes across nations
Rhodes scholars at Oxford are noted among intellectuals, Boston writer John Bartlett dies aged 86, a Japanese agricultural student attends Minnesota, and church missions report 16 new workers a year. The Holy See plans a Milwaukee diocese split, Milwaukee diocese totals 349 priests and 293 churches, Bowdoin professor urges art and music credits toward degrees, arguing art trains character and civic training.
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John Bartlett
Boston
Yoshitaro Nakamura
Imperial Agricultural College
Sappho
Japan
Minnesota State School of Agriculture
Foreign Mission Board
The
Southern Baptist Convention
John R. Mott
New Kingland
J. A. Woolson
KE. H. Dunn
KE. M. Taylor
Nebraska
Holy See
Milwaukee
Madison
Fond du Lac
Racine
W. T. Foster
Bowdoin College
New England
Mrs Crimsonbeak and the Doctor's Advice Cost Two Dollars
A Yonkers Statesman line notes a quip about following medical advice. The exchange shows Mrs and Mr Crimsonbeak discussing costs, illustrating a humorous street quotation. The humor centers on a simple two dollar charge for treatment.
Science specials cover kite experiments and radioactivity notes
The article reports kite experiments over the Mediterranean showing temperature and wind speed decrease with altitude. It mentions Prof Nichols's heat sensor capable of detecting warmth from a face at 2000 feet, furnace ventilation in mines, psychic trance experiments in Ruvo, and physics notes on radium decay and atomic weights.
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Mediterranean
Nichols
Ruvo
Ticklesome Tales in a Village Classrooms Memoir
A football player visits a classroom during the season shocking students who then mock him until discovering his knowledge earns him respect. In Beaconsfield churchyard a visitor asks for graves of Burke and Waller and is told no memory exists. He notes a chemist shop once tied to Devereaux the trunk murder apprentice.
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Beaconsfield
Burke and Waller
Devereaux
Fall Wheat Raising in Alberta
Alberta shifts from ranching to thriving wheat production as Southern Alberta grows winter wheat. No. 1 Hard spring wheat gains world notice, with elevators and mills rising to meet demand. U.S. settlers bring capital and growth, expanding the Fall and Spring Wheat belts and attracting buyers to the Orient market.
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Alberta
Manitoba
Orient
United States
Moose Jaw
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South Bend
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Foster-Milburn Co
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