Ohio Legislature Passes Tax and Public Works Bills
The Ohio Senate and House report several measures across Feb 25 to Mar 1. Key items include a le gal residence bill for epileptic asylum inmates, redistricting unchanged, park and forest improvements funded by bonds, school support appropriations totalling 3.7 million annually, and local option bills for municipalities. Also noted are dog tax allocations, prison and workhouse law uniforming, and a Bracken municipal ownership push for streetcars stalled.
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Johnston
Gallipolis
Patterson
Toledo
Emergency Board
State Board of Agriculture
General Assembly
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To
Beall Municipal
House
Crafts
Finance Committee
State Board of Commerce
Cole
Willis Corporation
Park Avenue
New York
Willoughby
Lake County
American Oil Development Co Qualifies to Do Business in Ohio
Columbus March 1 The American Oil Development Co a West Virginia corporation with 5000 capital stock qualified to do business in Ohio The office for the state will be in Woodfield Monroe county.
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Columbus
American Oil Development Co
West Virginia
Ohio
Woodefeld
Monroe County
Two-Cent Fare Bill Proposed by Fischer in Columbus
Columbus legislature moves to regulate car fares with a two and a half cent per mile charge when passengers ride without tickets. The bill imposes $100 to $500 fines on railway agents for first offenses and higher penalties or imprisonment for repeat offenses. Excursion ticket holders who misuse returns face $5 to $25 fines per offense.
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Columbus
Fischer
Medina
Tramps Banned From Eagle Highlands After Hostile Welcome
A tramp appeared near Aberdeen Ohio on Thursday. The town men and married women armed themselves with guns clubs and axes and went to drive out the hobo. He was ordered to leave at once and complied. Tramps had avoided the area previously as a local rule.
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Aberdeen
Eagle Highlands
Pittsburg Coal Co Buys 1123 Acres in Athens County
The Pittsburg Coal Co of Columbus has purchased 1123 acres of undeveloped coal land from the Ewing Coal and Salt Co in Athens county near the Hocking Valley railroad for 112000 dollars. The property was under option prior to Pittsburg Coal Co’s stock acquisition. A strong southeast gale also disrupted northern Ohio with 64 mph winds damaging poles and communications across the region.
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Columbus, O
New Pittsburg Coal Co
Ewing Coal and Salt Co
Athens County
Hocking Valley
Pittsburg Coal Co
Pennsylvania
Cleveland
Ohio
Weather Bureau
Springfield Man Commits Self Inflicted Wound
Michael Shockensy stabbed himself three times in the breast in Urbana while under the influence of pneumonia and a spree. He died soon after from loss of blood in the presence of his fiancée Miss Nellie Shields and Mrs Colliery. The act followed a quarrel Wednesday afternoon during their spree.
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Springfield
Michael Shockensy
Urbana
Nellie Shields
Colliery
Shockensy
Canton Electric Railway Directors Announce Transfer
Canton Massillon and Akron electric railway directors report the Everett Moore syndicate property has been transferred to the Tucker Anthony Co of Boston. New officers were chosen by the local companies.
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Canton, Massillon & Akron Electric Railway
Everett-Moore Syndicate
Tucker& Anthony Co
Boston
Hotel Fealy Roof Blown Off In New Vienna Squall
The March 1 storm in New Vienna Ohio shredded the roof of the Hotel Fealy and collapsed the front of M Rice’s whisky and farm implement building. Rice narrowly avoided serious injury, being five feet from a large crash window as glass showered him.
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New Vienna
Fealy
M. Rice
Lima banker Bartholomew arrested on wife’s infidelity charge
Toledo report says President Bartholomew of a Lima bank was arrested on a complaint by his wife who accused him of infidelity. They met in Toledo on Thursday, he explained, and she withdrew the charge.
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Toledo, O
Bartholomew
Lima
Akron High Wins State Basketball Title In 10–8 Thriller
In Akron Ohio on Thursday night Akron high school defeated Canton high school 10 to 8 to claim the state high school basketball championship in a decisive and highly dramatic game.
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Akron
Akron High School
Canton High School
Laborers Turned Rich From Furnace Fortunes in New Jersey
Two New Jersey hotel workers in Lakewood and their lucky windfalls are described as Garry Estell, a fireman, inheriting 35 000 and Antonio Manges, a coal passer, inheriting 12 500 from an aunt. Both quit work, plan futures, and pursue new lives with sudden wealth and sartorial flair.
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Lakewood
N. J
Garry” Estell
Garry
Estell
Antonio Manges
Tony
Tie
Pasadena
Cal
Weds Mother's Husband In Strange Ohio Romance
In Mount Gilead Ohio James H Nichols and his wife Aman da were married after a hidden past. Nichols previously left after alleged mistreatment, was believed dead in California mining, then remarried Richard Vancouver’s widow. The two later wed discovering their prior connection. Dr Hartman notes Peruna endorsements from Catholic Sisters and a Mother Superior praising its effects on stomach catarrh and malaria cases.
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James H. Nichols
Amanda
Mount Gilead
Nichols
California
Richard Vancouver
Vancouver
Los Angeles
Cal
Sarah
Peruna Laudations From Catholic Sisters Across States
Letters from Ursuline and other Catholic Sister orders praise Peruna as an excellent tonic and remedy for influenza catarrh and related ailments. The article argues catarrh affects many organs and that Peruna can cure it regardless of location, urging readers to contact Dr Hartman for free medical advice.
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Colorado
Sisters of Charity
Peruna
Hartman
Ursuline Sisters of
Cleveland
Ohio
Ursuline Sisters
United States
Sisters of Charity Report From Central Ohio Case
A Catholic institution in Central Ohio presents a dramatic remark from the Sister Superior during a trial. The eminent counsel questions a witness who admits a tramp like life. The witness explains he is too proud to work and too honest to become a lawyer.
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Central
Ohio
Detroit Free Press
Motherless Boy Finds Unlikely Guardian Offer
A fragment from Tit-Bits shows Mrs Mulligan offering to be a mother to a boy who asks for a thrashing. The exchange centers on the boy’s absence of a mother and a proposed protective role.
Love in a Palace Delayed by Earning Plans
Quote from Smart Set sketches a couple debating love in a palace versus a cottage. They sigh over finances and the idea of waiting to afford a grand home before commitment. The humor hinges on timing and social ambition.
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George
Office boy in hospital after smallpox exposure
The office boy who used to take anything in reach is now in Municipal Hospital after contracting smallpox. Nye comments on his fate as the city and papers note the outcome.
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Hook
Nye
Philadelphia Record
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