Local social notes and notices from Batavia and region
Miss Ruth Miller of Felicity spends Sunday with Mrs. Stanley Ansteatt. Herbert Ansteatt, librarian at Franklin Marshall College, is home on vacation. Several residents attend the Chicago World Fair. People visit relatives in Batavia, Cincinnati, Columbus, Huntington, and Newcastle. Girl Scout Camp at Armco Park hosts handicraft lessons.
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Ruth Miller
Felicity
Stanley Ansteatt
Herbert Ansteatt
Franklin Marshall College
Lancaster
Martha Heucker
Elizabeth Philhower
Indiana
Holden Leroy
Shelbyville
Leroy
Western College
Sitka
Alaska
Catherine Ratcliffe
Newcastle
Ind
Miss Ratcliffe
Miss Philhower
Still Time to Thin Winter Apples
Ohio horticulture officials urge late June to early July thinning of winter apple varieties to improve size and quality. Focus on spacing 8 to 10 inches per twig, removing sound and defective fruit to reduce future picking costs and salvage marketable fruit amid late-season damage from scab spray burn and rosy blotch.
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F. H. Ballou
Department of Horticulture
Ohio Experiment Station
Ohio
Executioner of King Charles I and the Hampstead tale
A London Times note recounts a legend that the executioner Richard Brandon left a marginal burial register entry in St Marys Whitechapel. It claims he received 30 pounds for the job, was paid in half crowns, and kept a king’s orange stock with cloves and sold the handkerchief.
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Charles
Charles the
Redcap
Tyburn Road
Crack Skull Common
Hampstead
London Times
Charles I
Walter Crick
St. Mary’s, Whitechapel
Richard Brandon
Gladstone Praised For Excellent Debate Style
Kilbracken's Reminiscences recount Gladstone as often mirthful with family but intensely serious in conversation. Lord Balfour notes John Morley recalled Gladstone’s humor as a sharp debating tool like grinning through a horse collar. The passage highlights his excellent debating impact over mere humor.
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Gladstone
Lord Balfour
John Morley
Lord Kilbracken
Small Ships Fight Hardest Though Smaller Vessels Often Feared
A Social Science Abstracts digest of 4,000 periodicals finds small ships with six inch guns have been among the most aggressive war vessels for over a century. It notes ten thousand ton ships endure longer, but fleet endurance rests on its smallest cruiser or destroyer.
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Social Science Abstracts
Farewell party for store staffer starting own business
A manager presided over a farewell for a staff member launching his own venture. The speaker, awkward in public, used a hesitant metaphor about paddling a canoe, a level road, and climbing mountains to reach the top, hoping others follow in his footprints.
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London
Modern Debt to Ancients Rise of Arch and Dome Shaped Civilizations
The text traces the spread of arch and dome architecture from the Tigris and Euphrates region to Greece and Rome, then to modern Europe. It argues that architecture links ancient cultures to modern civilization, suggesting a gift passed through many hands since the time before the Great Flood.
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Tigris
Euphrates
Europe
Pike’s Peak Discovery Question Sparks Commission Report
Pathfinder Magazine notes the Stewart Commission of Colorado College contends Pike did not discover Pike’s Peak in Colorado. The panel says whites knew the peak by 1700, well before Pike’s birth, and claims he learned of it as a Spaniards’ prisoner in Santa Fe in the early 1800s.
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Pike's Peak
Zebulon Pike
Colorado
Stewart Commission
Colorado College
Pike
Santa Fe
Pathfinder Magazine
Wrong Bridge Angling Club Hearts Night Run to Dawn
At closing time the village inn crowd moved to the bridge for night fishing. They cast lines over the parapet and sighed in patience until dawn. A first down train roared beneath the bridge, ending the vigil.
Banks reflect life of the people and economy
Francis H. Sisson argues in Forum Magazine that a bank’s notes and investments mirror local economic conditions. He says regional loans track the production cycle, with rising or falling volumes signaling health or decline, while overextended credit and renewals reveal stress across farming, manufacturing, and securities markets.
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Francis H. Sisson
American Bankers Association
Forum Magazine
Ife
Bank Rebuilds By Modernizing East Side Tenements
A large New York savings bank gained 6 percent on an $80,000 investment after spending $40,000 to modernize 40 year old tenement houses on the lower East Side that it had to take over after foreclosure. The overhaul included oil burning heating, incinerators, and other upgrades. The property now generates about $14,000 annually in rent, replacing prior losses.
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New York
Lower East Side
American Bankers Association’ Journal
Theneetnet
Deposit Insurance Plan Marks Early Step in Reform
Congress approved a 150 million dollar funding nucleus to back a potential two billion dollar federal deposit insurance program under Glass Steagall. Banks would subscribe stock, with coverage starting at 2500 and expanding to 10 000 and beyond by stages, and federal reserve membership impacted for eligibility.
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Congress
Glass-Steagall
Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve
Deposit Insurance Fund
Federal Insurance Corporation
Comptroller of
Deposit Insurance Corporation
Price of business speed and bank resilience in America
Dr. Harold Stonier of the American Bankers Association told the American Institute of Banking that business failures follow but do not cause bank failures. He noted the United States has more banks over 100 and 50 years old than any country, and that bank system stability remains despite episodes of rapid enterprise growth.
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Chicago
Ill
Harold Stonier
American Bankers Association
American Institute of Banking
Government's Farm Credit Plan Sparks Finance Debate
Professor John Hanna cites 52 financing institutions under the United States Government with 1.38 billion par value stock and nearly 2 billion in total investment. He warns consolidation should precede any major reform and suggests a federal finance corporation to separate business functions from price-support policy.
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John Hanna
Columbia University
American Bankers Association Journal
United States
Federal Reserve Banks
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
New Farm Credit Administration
Hanna
Farm Credit Administration
Corporation
Bureau
Keeping Soil Neutral in Ohio Cropping Experiments
Ohio State University Wooster experiments show yields rise when soil is neutral. Initial lime brings pH to neutral, then about 600 pounds per acre annually keeps it balanced, or 1 ton per 4 years. Free soil testing aids determining lime needs.
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Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station
Wooster
E. E. Barnes
Agronomist
Ohio State University
Neutra Point
Railroad Legislation Fails To Pass In State Assembly
A recent state bill proposed strict rules for trains at grade crossings requiring a day lamp and bell carrier to lead trains, conductors to smile during questioning, and penalties for misdeeds. It also sought lifeboats and life preservers on trains during river crossings. The measure did not pass.
Churches in Batavia Hold July Services and Sermons
Batavia churches announce July 9 services. Samuel Huecker minister leads midweek 7:30 p m services at The Churches and Sunday school at 9 80 morning worship at 10 45 with sermon The Man of Fire and Frost. U B Church hosts Lord's Day Bible School 9 30 and morning worship 10 30 with Rev G W Hazelwood preaching. An all day Guild meeting and quarterly conference 8 p m July 6.
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Batavia Presbyterian Church
Samuel Huecker
Cabiet
U. B
Ludwick
Batavia
Lord’s Day Bible School
Wonderful Mountain
G. W. Hazelwood
Amelia M. E Church
Martha Nash
Dorothy Daugherty
D. P. Holt
Bethel M. E. Church
Holt
Guild
Weaver
C. T. Nelson
Frank R. Arnold
Cincinnati
Cincinnati- Lexington
Dairy Cows Pay For Fly Spray
Experienced dairymen say fly spray costs are tiny per cow and can pay for itself through calmer cows and higher milk flow. At 80c per gallon the spray adds about 14 cents daily per cow, with farmers willing to pay more for relief from constant swatting. Clermont County Farm Bureau offers free home mix formulas. Inventor Alden L. Putnam of Lansing, Mich., developed the balloon tire.
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Clermont County Farm Bureau
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George Maxfield
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George Boyer
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M. E. Church
Alden L. Putnam
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Claude B. Smith
Dental X-Ray
First National Bank
Federal Land Bank Loans
Nat's Farm Loan Association
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Blanche Welch
Bone Wilkinson St
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Frank Schubert
Owenville
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