Veterans Hold Encampment in Cedar Point Ohio
The thirteenth annual encampment of Ohio Spanish American War veterans opened with a reception for Commander Alex Frank of Cincinnati and Mrs. Belle Colwell of Akron. Adjutant L. E. Peterson led memorial services with Rev. Jesse Lee Corley and Rev. Frank Mitchell officiating. 2000 veterans and 1000 auxiliary members registered.
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Union News Service
Cedar Point
Department of Ohio
Alex Frank
Cincinnati
Belle Colwell
Akron
Woman's Auxiliary
L. E. Peterson
Edna D. Holloway
Jesse Lee Corley
Dayton
Frank Mitchell
Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home
Ben F. Atkinson
Emil Grant
Canton
Frank Ruth
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank
Peterson
Florence Clark
Cleveland
Colwell
Auxiliary
Paper Plant May Close Down in Hamilton
Floods across Severn states threaten the Champion Coated Paper mill in Hamilton. Pulp supplies from Champion Fiber Co. at Canton near Asheville are lost in transit, leaving the plant with almost no stock. Peter G. Thompson, president, calls the situation acute.
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Hamilton
Severn States
Champion
Champion Fiber Company
Canton
Asheville
N. C
Peter G. Thompson
Champion Company
City Isolation Hospital Planned in Columbus
City council and Franklin county commissioners consider building an isolation hospital for contagious diseases on infirmary grounds. A further meeting with officials will review the proposed site and arrangements.
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Columbus, O
Franklin County
Four Hundred Men Walk Out at Transite-Williams Plant
In Alliance Colorado a strike and lockout idle the drop-forging plant of Transite-Williams Co where 1,200 workers are employed. Four hundred men quit after alleging Thomas Williams was discharged for circulating a union joining request and the firm refused to reinstate him.
Governor Willis Attends Civil War Veterans Reunion
Governor Willis spoke at a reunion of Civil War veterans from Coshocton Licking Muskingum and Knox counties near Newark Ohio at the dedication of a Federal Government park. Bryce Baughman donated the park and carved portraits of notable Americans including Civil War heroes in the rocks.
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Columbus
Willis
Black Run
Newark
Licking County
Coshocton
Licking
Muskingum
Knox Counties
Bryce Baughman
M. C. and C Railroads Sold at Receiver Sale
The Marietta Columbus and Cleveland railroad serving Marietta to Palos Ohio was sold for 100000 to Henry H Isham of Elizabeth New Jersey at a receiver sale. The road with 260000 in debt may continue operation as usual pending announced plans. D B Torpey acted as receiver.
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Marietta, O
Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland
Marietta
Palos
Henry H. Isham
Elizabeth
N. J
D. B. Torpey
Painters May Raise Prices At National Meeting
Fourteen states represented at the executive committee of the National Association of Master House Painters and Decorators in Cedar Point. They discussed midwinter sessions planned for New Haven in February 1917 and will ask Secretary Redfield to deliver the principal address. Cost Accounting is the suggested topic.
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Cedar Point
National Association of Master House Painters and Decorators
New Haven
Conn
Paper puzzle to dailies in Cedar Point discuss paper shortage
Publishers from Associated Ohio and Select List Daily Newspapers met at Cedar Point for a midsummer outing to discuss a serious paper shortage. They adjourned with no solution in sight and planned to resume talks. United States Senator Warren G. Harding was unable to attend and a memorial from John E. Hopley, memorial committee chairman, was presented.
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Cedar Point
Associated Ohio
Select List
United States
Warren G. Harding
John E. Hopley
Aviators Fall in Lake Near Sandusky
Elmer Stroud aviator and Otto Cline mechanician were injured when a plane carrying Otto Savanack J A Wilbur and others became unmanageable and plunged into Sandusky Bay four miles from Johnsons Island. Cline injured leg and Stroud cut above eye. Savanack and Wilbur unharmed. Plane about 75 feet up. Rescue by motor boats.
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Sandusky
Elmer Stroud
Otto Cline
Otto Savanack
J. A. Wilbur
Johnsons Island
Sandusky Bay
Cline
Stroud
Savanack
Wilbur
Otterbein Home Receives $14,000 Gift in Dallas Center
The Otterbein home near Lebanon Ohio run by the United Brethren church was endowed with 14000 from James Ramsburg of Dallas Center Iowa. This is the largest single contribution in recent times. Ramsburg and his sister had earlier given 3000 each to the home.
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Dayton, O
Otterbein
United Brethren Church
Lebanon
James Ramsburg
Dallas Center
Ramsburg
Files suit in state court over 350000 contract dispute
The Consolidated Manufacturing Co. of Toledo sues Canadian Car and Foundry Co. in state court for 350000. The Toledo firm held a subcontract for shrapnel shells and alleges Canadian Car failed to supply steel and other parts as agreed.
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Toledo, C
Consolidated Manufacturing Co
Canadian Car and Foundry Co
Toledo
Toledo Concern
Ice famine threatens Toledo as ice firms halt deliveries
Toledo faces a looming ice famine as local producers withhold output of natural and artificial ice. Detroit Tiffin Findlay and Defiance appealed for aid but ice companies refused due to the short supply in Toledo.
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Toledo
Detroit
Tiffin
Findlay
Defiance
Buckeye News Notes Headline Roundup From Ohio Localities
In Zanesville Mr and Mrs Fred Hardesty die after their car is struck by a train near New Concord Ohio. In Cedar Point the National Dyers Association meets next after Louisville convention. In Fremont Lester B Lyttle dies and five others are injured when his car overturns nearby. In East Liverpool a labor publicity campaign is planned to tackle pottery vacancy shortages. Martins Ferry considers building a municipal ice plant as council weighs next steps after price boosts in extreme heat.
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Zanesville, O
Fred Hardesty
New Concord
Car Crash Leaves Five Hurt In Head-On Collision
D Ray Casper sustained serious head injuries and four other men were badly hurt when the car they rode in collided head on with a heavy truck. The impact demolished the car and pinned occupants beneath the wreckage.
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Kenton, D
Ray Casper
Cleveland Observes 120th City Anniversary
Cleveland marked the 120th anniversary of its founding by Gen. Moses Cleveland with decorations across public buildings, businesses, stores, and residences. Municipal courts closed to honor the day.
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Cleveland
Moses Cleveland
National Tube to Expand With 200 Coal Ovens Plant
Lorain Ohio reports National Tube Co plans 200 coal ovens and an open hearth department at a cost of 6 million dollars. The expansion will add thousands of jobs to the current 7,000 workers.
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Lorain, O
National Tube Co
Bishop A. T. Howard Recovers From African Fever Treatment
Dayton reports Bishop A. T. Howard of the U. B. church, just back from Africa in a critical state, is recovering after care by Dr. Zenora Griggs who spent 15 years in Africa and knows the illness and its mishandling.
Britain Publishes American Firm List Sparking Trade War Fears
Washington July 2 A flood of protest against the British boycott pours into the White House and state department. Officials say Britain’s public list of American firms trading with England's enemies could trigger a relentless trade war, with action planned by the state department if London does not respond.
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Washington
United States
White House
State Department
Great Britain
England
London
British Board of Trade
Senate approves three year naval expansion plan
The senate approved a three year naval building program on Tuesday afternoon. It covers 16 capital ships along with ten scout cruisers 50 torpedo boat destroyers nine fleet submarines 58 coast submarines one Neff system submarine two gunboats and numerous auxiliary craft.
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Washington
Senate
Belgians Defeat Germans in East Africa Reach Lake Victoria Nyanza
Belgian troops operating in German East Africa reached the shore of Lake Victoria Nyanza and in a seven hour engagement on July 7 dispersed German forces, captured the German commandant, and inflicted losses, per an official Belgian war office statement.
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Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Africa
Havre
German East Africa
Belgian War Office
U Boat Peril and the Deutschland Case
Washington reports that Britain and France urged the United States to not regard submarine merchantmen like the Deutschland as true merchantmen. They argued these ships cannot be searched, evade laws, can become warships, and could be bought by smaller nations to threaten enemy ships. They warn against setting a neutral precedent.
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Washington
Cecil Spring-Rice
M. Jusserand
State Department
United States
Large Army Is On Border
Ninety eight thousand state troops are on the border or en route by train, according to official figures issued Tuesday. The militia forces come from 88 states, with ten states not yet represented, per General Funston.
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San Antonio
Tex
Funston
Flood Toll Rises as Bodies Found in North Carolina
Raleigh reporting more flood victims as four deaths are confirmed statewide and a score or more are still missing.
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Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
Plague Danger Declared Passed by U S Health Service
Washington July 22 The United States public health service announced that danger of a further spread of infantile paralysis has passed and that the situation is now entirely under control.
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Washington
United States Public Health Service
Americans Decorated with War Crosses in Paris
Paris reports two Americans from the American sanitary unit were awarded the war cross. The honorees are Joseph Wendell and Henry Hollingshead of New Jersey for acts of valor in service.
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Paris
American Sanitary Unit
Joseph Wendell
Henry Hollingshead
New Jersey
Britain Maintains Blacklist Policy Not to Modify
London July 28 Lord Robert Cecil announced that Great Britain will not add to or alter its blacklist of American firms and has no plan to withdraw the policy, signaling a steadfast stance.
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London
Great Britain
Robert Cecil
Rewards Offered in San Francisco Bomb Murders
Mayor Ralph pledges city rewards totaling 5 000 to help catch the bomber of the diabolical killings in San Francisco. California may add 5 000 or more, while Ben Lamborne contributes 1 000. Police have no trace yet as officials review the anarchist links and possible leads.
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Ralph
State Likely
Union News Service
San Francisco
James Rolph, Jr
White
Ben F. Lamborne
State of California
Fickert
Rolph
M. T. Pendergast
Oakland
Misgivings Rise Over U S Statutory Blacklist
London reports financial circles fear extralegal reprisals after the United States publishes a statutory blacklist of American firms. Firms active through prohibited entities face trouble obtaining substitutes as former correspondents threaten to boycott new American partners.
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London
United States
Cordon Tightens Around Villa Forces in Durango Engagement
El Paso reports say Carranza troops tighten a cordon around Villa as his main band suffers defeat and is driven off in Northern Durango. Private dispatches describe the pursuit and dispersion following the recent clash.
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el Paso
Texas
Carranza
Villa
Durango
Cincinnati Markets Wheat and live stock prices listed
The Cincinnati market report shows grain prices for wheat corn oats hay and eggs along with live poultry cattle hogs bulls and related stock ranges. Prices are given for multiple grades and weights including No 2 red wheat No 3 red corn and assorted oats and hay categories along with live poultry and cattle figures.
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Timothy
Guns and Ammunition Found Near Columbus
Seven Albuquerque residents and one Mexican were arrested south of the border and jailed on smuggling charges. Two cars loaded with whisky wine shoes guns and ammunition were seized near Palomas fifteen miles below Columbus. The bodies of two unknown Mexicans were found two miles west of Columbus.
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Columbus
N. M
Albuquerque
Palomas
Mexico
Proverbial Wisdom on Wives From Various Cultures
The passage weighs several proverbs about wives from Afghanistan Senegal and China. It notes two good women exist in the world according to Senegalese belief while offering a comforting Don Quixote line that each husband should view his wife as the one good woman.
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Afghanistan
Don Quixote
Free Book Promise for Rheumatism Cure Advice
Advertisement offers a free book by Jesse A. Case from Brockton Massachusetts on rheumatism and neuritis. It promises a definitive cause and cure and urges readers to write for the booklet.
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Jesse A. Case
Dept. C. W
Brockton
Mass
Adv
Dentist Off ers Free Teeth to Then Aged Ladies
A London Tit-Bits item describes a dentist who pledged artificial teeth for the first twelve impoverished elderly women. An anxious husband arrives claiming his wife must hurry, warning the doctor of family trouble if she is delayed, while the waiting room audience reacts to the unusual publicity stunt.
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London
Red Ink Confusion At Drug Store
A pharmacist corrects a customer named Fanny who says her father wants a bottle of red dick. The exchange reveals the mishearing reddick for red ink as they untangle the sleepy morning mistake and clarify the order.
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Reddick
Fanny
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Peterson— Daytonian
Champion Paper Mill
Gov
Ohio
Hart
Iowa
Buckeye News
National Dyers Association
Louisville
Sandusky, O
Lester B. Lyttle
Fremont
Lyttle
East Liverpool
Potteries
G. W. Hoover
Chamber of Commerce
Martins Ferry
T. Louis Republic
NAVAL
Belgans
Madman
Black
Chicago
Irving Avenue
Britain
List
Mecca
Ae Coe
Vienna
Libby
McNeill & Libby
Neil
Phelps & Bigelow Windmill Cos
Kalamazoo, Mich
Husband
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