Phone bill stalemate delays $1500 vouchers
On Hogan's counsel a delay blocks approval of a $1500 voucher package. Solons authorize action but push remains, awaiting further action.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1911
Page
7
On Hogan's counsel a delay blocks approval of a $1500 voucher package. Solons authorize action but push remains, awaiting further action.
The seventy-ninth Ohio legislature adjourned with labor interests well served. Highlights include nonpartisan judge elections, a 54 hour work week for women, direct election of U S Senators, city initiative and referendum, a workers compensation act with employer funding, stricter safeguards for elevators and machinery, counter floors in new buildings, full railroad and passenger train crews, a boiler inspection department, a state building code, and penalties for fraudulent union labels. House leaders and aides received gifts of esteem.
Governor Harmon reprieved Cletus Willaman of Canton until July 7 after all court appeals failed and pardon board rejected the case. Attorneys Braucher and Sweitzer plan to seek commutation to life imprisonment. Willaman killed Mr. and Mrs. Warren Koons in Canton in April 1910. execution had been set for Friday night. Ohio publishers to tour western Canada on a free 16 day trip arranged by the Buckeye Press association with the Canadian government. A Reform League organized in Columbus to push constitutional initia tive and referendum powers. Brand Whitlock of Toledo elected president. Hass salary loan bill controversy reports detail a $100 payment by Akron loan agent L. C. Miller to Akron Rep. Owen J. Evans, per Kem pel’s confession.
The senate voted to compensate the sergeant-at-arms, postmaster, and clerks with ten extra days pay and mileage for two home trips monthly. It approved art funding including 500 for a Treadway portrait and 100 for a composite portrait, and 1500 for a telephone bill from session calls. House reporters’ pay of 665 for ten days post-session was rejected as unprecedented.
The pardon board refused commutation for Cletus Willaman, sealing his fate for the killing of his wife's parents. If the governor follows the board, he faces electrocution on June 9. Three Cuyahoga county men seeking relief were rejected. John Tracy and George Piscotta received alternative terms or conditions. In a convention, YMCA secretaries sang God Save Our Native Land on state house steps as the legislature adjourned, with remarks on timing for songs and prayers.
Walter Swinderman, 22, died instantly when the motorcycle he borrowed from Jesse Dotts struck a telephone pole south of New Philadelphia. Swinderman, an experienced rider, was killed at the scene.
R G Dun & Co reports uneven but growing business activity with better demand in agricultural machinery and rail orders, while steel price cuts aid some sectors. Woolens slow on tariffs talk. leather, hides, and chrome goods show strength. overall crops and tariff debates temper optimism. Food for home use notes Hewitt’s Easy Task soap aiding domestic chores at five cents a cake.
The Cincinnati markets list grain prices for flour patents and various wheats, corn, oats, and mixed lots, plus cattle, bulls, calves, hogs, sheep, and lambs with price ranges. Miscellaneous Cincinnati items cover poultry, eggs, butter, apples, carrots, celery, eggplants, honey, lemons, onions, oranges, pineapples, potatoes, and turnips with regional price figures.
A Boston physician documents two curing cases from 1910 using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. He details a severe dermatitis case and a wife with thickened, bleeding skin who improved after warm baths and ointment, leading to a full recovery and strong endorsement.
The fragment discusses preparing to act at the right psychological moment by making satisfactory arrangements before a decisive action. It emphasizes timing and readiness but lacks concrete names or events.
Mrs Orville Rock of Paw Paw Michigan shares a testimonial claiming she avoided a surgical operation after suffering a replacement for two years. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health and returning her to housework. The letter urges other women with female complaints to try the remedy instead of unnecessary operations.
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