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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1903
Page
2
An profitable plea extols the Enquirer as essential to business people. It touts the paper as a main prop for wealth and knowledge, urging readers to subscribe to the Weekly Enquirer at $1 a year and the daily at $14 a year, via agents or postmasters.
Advertises land along a coast country 60 miles wide and 400 miles long with thousands of acres described as rich productive land. Claims low taxes, strong shipping facilities, growing emigration, and rapid population increase. Prices cited from 5 to 20 dollars per acre with incentives for farmers. promotes cheap excursions from Cincinnati and invites contact with L M Dawson and John W Davis, emigrant agents for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
This bulletin notes bitter rot as the most destructive apple disease in southern Illinois and Missouri, describes its appearance and progression, and explains infection cycles. It advises removing cankers and infected fruit and spraying with copper sulfate and Bordeaux mixture to control spread.
Prof. F. M. Webster urges hands on spraying with skilled workers. He warns against relying on hired help or inexperienced labor. He stresses direct supervision, proper pump and hose roles, even coverage, and even distribution to ensure trees are treated thoroughly and evenly.
The passage details making an excellent whitewash by slaking lime in boiling water, then dissolving four pounds of zinc sulfate and two pounds of coarse salt to prevent cracking. It notes a cream color can be achieved with two pounds of yellow ochre and estimates two and a half to three buckets of wash for an ordinary room.
The St Louis convention brought together President Roosevelt and Colonel Bryan as speakers for the good roads movement. Bryan endorses the national aid plan and argues on justice, productivity, and city rural parity, urging permanent, universal country roads and federal, state, and local collaboration.
Instructions describe backing a wagon to a fence post, tying a chain with a slipknot, sliding a 20 foot plank, and using a team to pull posts, then loading them. The note adds a comment on hens and advice not to blame the breed if hens do not lay.
The piece argues both parties seek a big 1904 win with Democrats split over nominees and Republicans optimistic about carrying Virginia Maryland Delaware and West Virginia while ignoring the South. It notes Hanna shifts to endorse Roosevelt and Bryan hints at a North Carolina candidate to force southern input.
Long text outlines proposed constitutional changes in Ohio including legislative reading rules and governor veto processes. It cites dates surrounding adoption by the General Assembly and secretary of state certifications, with sections on how bills become law and ballot wording for voters.
Resolution filed by Ohio General Assembly for a statewide vote on November 1908 to amend Article 13 Section 6 of the state constitution creating city class distinctions. The measure sets first second and third class city definitions by population and requires ballot wording for yes and no in capital letters. Secretary of State Lewis C. Laylin confirms the copy on October 22, 1902.
A notice of a proposed constitutional amendment in Ohio asks voters to approve changes to Article XII Sec 2. The text outlines uniform taxation by class, funds for state and local purposes, and exemptions for specific public and charitable properties and personal property up to two hundred dollars per individual. The measure is to be submitted on the first Sunday after the first Monday in November 1903.
The General Assembly of Ohio proposes a statewide ballot measure on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November 1903 to amend section 2 article 11 of the constitution. The plan details county representation based on population tiers with a guaranteed one seat per county and a Yes or No designation on the ballot.
Ohio State voters would decide on a proposed amendment to Section 3 of Article XIII to limit stockholder liability to unpaid stock. The measure, titled For single liability amendment or Against single liability amendment, was submitted after approval in 1902 with dates noting April 29 1902 and January 27 190? on official rolls in Columbus.
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