Tax Issue Will Reach Courts Over Corporate Information
The Ohio Manufacturers' Association disputes part of Attorney General Turner's ruling on district tax assessors obtaining unit value. It argues goodwill and non taxable elements should be excluded before appraising property. The opinion allows optional verbal answers to stock and debt questions, while the tax commission backs the optional nature of blank form responses.
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Columbus
Ohio Manufacturers’ Association
State Commission
Turner
State Tax Commission
Cincinnati Dinner Honors Dixie Highway Commissioners
Cincinnati civic leaders and leaders from Kentucky gathered at the Business Men’s Club to honor Harry L. Gordon and George W. Harris, Dixie Highway Commissioners from Ohio. Colonel B. Stanbery hosted a party of upstate business men with Ralph D. Cole Frank A. Zimmer Dudley Foster and Beeman J. Dawes in attendance. Gordon praised the Cincinnati committee’s effort to push building the highway through Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati, C
Cincinnati
Business Men’s Club
Harry L. Gordon
George W. Harris
Dixie Highway Commissioners
Ohio
Kentucky
B. Stanbery
Ralph D. Cole
Findlay
Frank A. Zimmer
Urbana
Dudley Foster
Columbus
Beeman J. Dawes
Marietta
United States
Gordon
Queen City
Chattanooga
Cincinnati to Host 1916 Women's Missionary Convention
Cincinnati will entertain the 1916 convention of the Women's Home Missionary Society Western Ohio Conference. No opposition was offered to Cincinnati hosting. Mrs. W. H. C. Goode of Sidney was re elected president and Mrs. Noah Yount of Troy was chosen secretary.
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Lima
Cincinnati
Women’s Home Missionary Society
Western Ohio
Trinity M. E. Church
Queen City
W. H. C. Goode
Sidney
Noah Yount
Troy
Death ends year’s sleep in Columbus veteran
Henry C. Mankey, 75, Civil War veteran, died in Columbus after nearly a year of continuous bed sleep. He entered his room to retire a year ago and never left his bed again, speaking no more and failing to recognize family throughout his illness.
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Columbus, O
Henry C. Mankey
Mankey
Monkey
White Robin Found at W K Jones Home North of Laura
A rare white robin was found at the residence of W. K. Jones, about a mile north of Laura. After a son shook a small tree, two young robins fell from the nest and one, now grown, has pure white feathers.
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Troy
W. K. Jones
Laura
Mr. Jones
Findlay Chosen For Next Year Ohio Sun Day School Meet
Zanesville reports a mass meeting at Memorial Hall closing the Ohio State Sunday School Association Convention. Findlay was selected as the site for next year's gathering.
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Zanesville
Memorial Hall
Ohio State Sunday School Association
Findlay
Sugar beet crop value and prospects in Northwestern Ohio
Ohio sugar beet growers report beets worth 1 084 000 dollars to farmers in fourteen northwestern counties in 1914. One and a half times that amount has already been produced this year as per J A Brock field secretary of a sugar producers' association. The agricultural department may investigate beet sugar growing in Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Agricultural Commission
J. A. Brock
Domestic
Agricultural Department
Vaccine for hay fever found in grasses and weeds
Cleveland physicians report a new hay fever vaccine that may grant immunity. The serum is derived from common grasses weeds and flowering plants. The regimen requires ten to fifteen injections over four to six weeks before the hay fever season.
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Cleveland, O
Cleveland
Prohibition Endorsed at Ohio Sunday School Meet
In Zanesville a 7000 strong men’s parade led to a Memorial Hall meeting where wet and dry debate framed the Ohio campaign. Anti-Saloon League officials from Cleveland and Columbus gathered literature as delegates passed a resolution endorsing state-wide prohibition. The nominating committee report was adopted.
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Zanesville
State Sunday School Association
Ohio City
Main Street
Red Cross
Memorial Hall
Ohio
Cleveland
Columbus
Dayton Women Win 1916 Western Ohio Missionary Meet
Dayton defeated Cincinnati to win the 1916 convention of the Western Ohio Conference of Women s Missionary Societies, held in Linta Ohio. Elected officers include President Mrs W H C Goode Sidney first vice president Mrs E E McCammon Toledo second vice president Mrs W J Boren Dayton corresponding secretary Mrs Daniel M Bailey Ottawa treasurer Mrs Geo O Marsh Lebanon recording secretary Mrs Noah Yount Troy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Cincinnati
Western Ohio Conference of Women’s Missionary Societies
Linta
Ohio
W. H. C. Goode
Sidney
E. E. McCammon
Toledo
W. J. Boren
Daniel M. Bailey
Ottawa
Geo. O. Marsh Lebanon
Noah Yount
Troy
Referendum petitions fail over Whiteway proposal
Port Clinton petitions for a referendum to rule out the Whiteway plan fail. In Shawnee, Ed Daugherty, 26, son of John Daugherty of New Straitsville, is killed by a train near the Hocking Valley Railroad clubhouse. Charley Mars, engineer at Ohio River Dam No. 19, drowns after being run down by the steamer Odd Fellow while in his motor boat. A monument for former President William McKinley will be built in Niles by the Junior Order United American Mechanics. Orville Wright receives Doctor of Science honorary degree at Trinity College’s 89th commencement in Hartford.
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Ed Daugherty
John Daugherty
New Straitsville
Hocking Valley
Gallipolis, O
Charley Mars
Ohio River Dam No
Sandusky, O
Niles
Ohio
United American Mechanics
William McKinley
Dayton, O
Orville H. Wright
Trinity College
Hartford
Boy Killed Under Sprinkling Wagon in Cleveland
A six year old, Louis Kestilite, was fatally trampled after being knocked down and caught beneath the wheels of a city sprinkling wagon this afternoon in Cleveland near his home.
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Cleveland
Louis Kestilite
Drowning in Mahoning River Near Leavittsburg
Warren Duetler Till of Niles drowned when his canoe was swamped by waves from a motorboat in the Mahoning river near Leavittsburg. he sank before aid could reach him.
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Warren, O
Duetler Till
Niles
Mahoning River
Leavittsburg
Columbus Carnegie Steel mills to reopen with 800 jobs
Columbus Ohio announces Carnegie Steel mills idle two years will reopen at once with 800 immediate hires and a plan to employ the usual workforce as capacity returns to normal. Nelsonville Ohio reports Sunday Creek Co nine mines closed with indefinite suspension, about 2200 miners affected and many families now destitute as little work exists.
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Columbus
Carnegie Steel Mills
Nelsonville, C
Sunday Creek Co
Convention of Xenia Presbytery in session at First U P
About 100 delegates from Columbus Xenia Cedarville Clifton Reynoldsburg New California Sugar Creek and Jamestown attend the annual convention of the Xenia Presbytery United Presbyterian Church in session at the First U P Church in Springfield Ohio.
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Springfield
Columbus
Xenia
Cedarville
Clifton
Reynoldsburg
New Callifornia
Sugar Creek
Jamestown
Xenia Presbytery
United Presbyterian Church
U. P
Fatal shooting in Bellaire involves deputy sheriff’s son
John Rennie, 40, died from wounds after being shot by Charles Fogle Jr. as lawman attempted an arrest. Fogle’s father, a deputy sheriff, was attempting to detain Rennie when he drew and flashed a revolver.
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Bellaire
John Rennie
Charles Fogle, Jr
Fogle
Rennie
Britain tightens blockade in bid to end diplomatic row
Britain defends act blockade and signals stricter enforcement. Crewe memorandum publicized by State Department as US notes expected relief for American cargoes remains limited. Officials view move as sharpening dispute. British offer to pay $450,000 seen insufficient. Paragraphs 16 17 imply tougher port access and end to further talks.
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Washington
Lord Crewe
Ambassador Page
State Department
United States
Great Britain
Ex Congressman Cowherd Dies in California Sanitarium
William 8 Cowherd former congressman from Missouri died in a Pasadena sanitarium where he had been under treatment for three months.
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Cowherd
Pasadena
Cal
William 8. Cowherd
Missouri
Russians Win Over Teutons on the Dniester
Russian forces report victory on the Dniester in Galicia with German losses described as enormous. German and Austrian troops are said to have fallen back to the south bank, with Russians repelling pursuits after evacuating Lemberg. Berlin confirms a German reverse northwest of Halicz and the abandonment of Kopsczyska on the Omulew.
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Petrograd
Dniester
Galicia
Lemberg
Berlin
Halicz
Linsingen
Kopsczyska
Omulew River
Russian Poland
Georgia governor tucks in martial law amid mob at Slaton estate
Gov. John M. Slaton declared martial law at 11 pm as thousands gathered to attack his Atlanta home over Leo Frank’s murder case. National Guard troops surrounded the governor’s residence, no shots were fired, and the crowd dispersed after midnight as Slaton defended commuting Frank’s sentence.
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Atlanta
Georgia
National Guard
John M. Slaton
Mary Phagan
Leo M. Frank
Slaton
Frank
Carl Person Acquitted in Libel Case
A jury found Carl BR. Person of Clinton not guilty in a libel trial over a September 2 1914 issue of the Strike Bulletin official organ of the Illinois Central System Federation. The court ruled the state failed to prove he was editor at publication. The state had dismissed charges against James J. Meagher Floyd Gibbons and others.
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Clinton, II
Lawrence Allen
Carl BR. Person
Clinton
Strike Bulletin
Umnois Central System Federation
Person
James J. Meagher
Floyd Gibbons
Chicago
Naval Academy Graduate Dies After Auto Collision
Ensign Waelyn John McCabe Manley, 1915 Naval Academy graduate, was fatally hurt near Columbus when his car was hit by an Ohio Electric traction car. He died later at a hospital.
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Ensign
Columbus
Waelyn John McCabe Manley
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Here
Ohio Electric Traction
Huerta Arrested in El Paso on Revolution Conspiracy Charges
General Victoriano Huerta former Mexican leader and General Pascual Orozco were arrested in Newman New Mexico on charges of inciting a revolution against a friendly country. Bail posted Huerta $15000 Orozco 7500 both released. They were held at Ft. Bliss after transfer from the customs house with U S troops guarding. Huerta denied plans to reenter Mexico.
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el Paso
Texas
Victoriano Huerta
Mexico
Newman
N. M
Pascual Orozco
Huerta
Orozco
Luis Fuentes
Fifteenth
United States Cavalry
Du Pont Powder stock hits 700 amid 50 million profit surge
In Wilmington Delaware the common stock of the Du Pont Powder Company rose to 700, lifting the par to 100 and marking a profit to the Du Pont syndicate led by President Pierre S Du Pont of about 50 million dollars. The syndicate acquired General T Coleman du Ponts holdings in February paying 200 a share totaling around 20 million.
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Wilmington
Del
du Pont Powder Company
du Pont Company
Pierre
du Pont
General T. Coleman du Pont
Knoxville agent confess bribes in moonshine tax fraud case
David A. Gates reports that Knox Booth a former Internal Revenue Agent for Tennessee and Alabama confessed to accepting bribes from distillers totaling twelve thousand dollars amid alleged moonshine whisky tax frauds that cheated the government of taxes in Fort Smith Arkansas.
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Ft. Smith
Ark
David A. Gates
Internal Revenue
Knox Booth
Tennessee
Alabama
Gates
Booth
Cincinnati Markets Grain and Livestock Prices Recorded
Market prices for wheat, corn, oats, rye, hay, eggs, poultry, cattle, hogs, and calves listed with multiple grades and bid asks. Prices reflect ranges for No 2 red wheat at 1.19 to 1.20 dollars, corn white at 0.78 to 0.79, oats mixed around 0.46 to 0.49, rye No 2 at 1.08 to 1.10, hay timothy and clover varying by grade, eggs and poultry prices, and live stock values from shippers to fat cattle and hogs across several categories.
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Bologna
Attack on Cameronia Confirmed by Philadelphia
The Cameronia faced a reported submarine attack as it headed to Liverpool on Sunday June 20. Official denial came from Anchor Line and Captain James Kinnaird, yet passengers insist submarines tried to sink the liner.
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New York
Cameronia
Liverpool
Philadelphia
James Kinnaird
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White Robin
Women’s Missionary Society
Port Clinton
Whiteway
Britain
England
U. S
Germany
Rotterdam
Madame Torralbas
Teutons
Gov. Slaton
Leo Frank
Carl Person
Chicagoan
J. J. Meagher
Sam
Francis Lynde
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