Investigations and Charges Roil Dayton State Hospital
Friction at the Dayton State hospital leads to the dismissal of Dr. J W Koch and disciplinary charges against Dr E A Baker by the departed official. Attendants accuse Baker of cruelty amid a hospital rumpus. Koch claims a joking remark about a patient was misreported. charges allege abuse and misuse of staff.
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Union News Service
Dayton
Dayton State Hospital
J. W. Koch
E. A. Baker
Aith
State Board of Administration
Fioepital
Karl Murray
Koch
Murray
Columbus
Baker
Flood loss to railroads cripples Central Ohio lines
Revised figures show floods damaging seven railroads in Central Ohio with total losses of 20 million dollars. Big Four and Pennsylvania lines suffer extensive bridge and track destruction including 18 Big Four bridges and 41 miles of washed track.
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Hamilton, O
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Big Four
Baltimore & Ohio
Monon
Toledo & Ohio Central
Lake Erie & Western
Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Governor Cox Urges Y M C A to Expand Across Ohio
Gov James M Cox addresses Y M C A members launching a state wide membership drive. He says extending the Y M C A to villages farms could reduce prisons, praising the association as essential to citizenship during an open air luncheon on the state house steps.
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Columbus
Ohio
James M. Cox
State House
No More Normal Schools In Ohio
Governor Cox vetoes a bill by Senator Moore to build a western state normal school. He notes Ohio already funds two schools at Bowling Green and Kent, and argues additional capacity should be proven by operation before authorizing another institution.
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Columbus
Cox
Moore
Jefferson County
Bowling Green
Kent
Post Office Robbed Again in Eden
Eden post office robbed for the fourth time in four years. Safe blowers gained about $100 in parcel post stamps and large denomination stamps and a small amount of cash. Explosion damaged $100 worth of stamps.
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Bryan
Eden
Parce Post
Murdered Man Unidentified in Columbus
Local police continued their search without results for the murderer of a man found with a cut throat and a gunshot wound to the right breast. BH Bishop, foreman of a railroad company, identified the body as Moss Greenlee of Arbuckle West Virginia, whom he had sent into West Virginia weeks earlier to recruit workers and had not heard from since.
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Columbus
Bishop
Hailway
Moss Greenlee
Arbuckle
W. Va
West Virginia
Union of forces forms flood relief group in Ohio
About 150 delegates from flood-stricken Ohio cities joined with the special Army Engineers board to create a permanent coalition. They urged a central river and bridge supervision authority, laws restricting river encroachment, and federal state and local cooperation on flood defenses. Senators Hudson and Somerville proposed a dedicated relief corps within the army or state militia to aid communities in disaster hospitals.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Board of Army Engineers
United States
J. I. Hudson
Archibald T. B. Somerville
Portsmouth
Legislators' Vouchers Issued For Next Year Questioned
In Columbus, the 1914 $1,000 salary vouchers for general assembly members were issued in advance. A banker asked Auditor Donahey if vouchers payable before death or resignation would be honored. The auditor replied the assembly had no authority to prepay and the state would pay only the earned portion if a member dies or resigns.
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Columbus
General Assembly
House and
Senate
Pomeroy
Donahey
Louis P. Horwitz
Grand jury declines indicting Portsmouth movie owners
The grand jury reported in Portsmouth Ohio that theater operators charged with violating the Sunday labor law were not indicted. It was indicated they could be held if further complaints arise about failure to close on Sundays.
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Portsmouth
Standard Oil Fire narrowly averted in Ironton Ohio
In Ironton Ohio the Standard Oil Co feared a major blaze as oil barrels partly filled with oil in the yard caught sparks from an engine passing on the Norfolk and Western tracks. No injuries or further damage reported.
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Ironton, O
Standard Oil Co
Anti-Saloon League selects Columbus for twentieth anniversary convention
The headquarters committee of the Anti-Saloon League of America announced Columbus will host the biannual convention and celebration of the league’s twentieth anniversary, to be held November 16 and 17.
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Columbus, O
Anti-Saloon League of America
Columbus
Ex-Postmaster Orr Dies in Piqua at 75
Joshua Williamson Orr longtime Piqua postmaster for nearly seven years died at his home 412 Broadway from heart failure brought on by inflammatory rheumatism contracted during Civil War service.
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Piqua, O
Joshua Williamson Orr
Broadway
Citizens Move to Impeach Bellefontaine Mayor
Bellefontaine Ohio and Urbana citizens hire attorneys and announce impeachment against Mayor David Green after he fired the city engineer and refused reinstatement following an indignation meeting.
Medical examiners named by state board
Columbus Ohio state facility board of awards named medical examiners for Marion Noble and Williams counties. The selections are Dr Herman B Rhue of Marion Dr W B Radcliffe of Caldwell and Dr M V Replogle of Bryan.
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Columbus, O
State Lacility Board of Awards
Marion
Noble
Williams Counties
Herman 8. Rhue
W. B. Radcliffe
Caldwell
M. V. Replogle
Bryan
Prosecutor Declines Dayton District Post
Piqua Ohio prosecuting attorney Frank L. Johnson Greene county, offered by the Anti Saloon league for Dayton district superintendent, declines. An official of the Dayton YMCA will take the appointment and Johnson will assist in legal matters. Crabbe, former holder, preferred Johnson.
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Piqua
Frank L. Johnson
Greene County
Anti-Saloon League
Dayton
George W. Crabbe
Dayton Y. M. GC A
Johnson
Crabbe
Infernal Machine Found Ticking at St Pauls Amid Suffrage Terror
London reports militant suffragettes planted an infernal device in St Pauls cathedral and bombs at Fleet Street offices and a Bishop's Park pavilion after the suffrage bill defeat. A verger found a ticking parcel near the high altar. police believe militants placed the bomb. Another package appeared on Fleet Street steps.
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St. Paul’s
London
Verger
House of Commons
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Great Britain
Fleet Street
Bishop’s Park
Fulham
West End
Lambeth
St. Paul's
May Crop Report Highlights Strong Wheat Outlook
The May crop report shows winter wheat at 91.9 percent of normal with 36,938,000 acres to be harvested. Estimated yield 16.6 bushels per acre and total crop about 513,471,000 bushels. Rye condition 91, meadow lands 88.5, pasture 87.1, hay on farms 16,823,000 tons. Spring plowing 67.2 percent and spring planting 57 percent completed.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Three Tuberculosis Bills Pass Assembly In California
Sacramento reports three measures totaling 27000 dollars to combat tuberculosis. One bill allocates 20000 dollars for a state department of tuberculosis, another 2000 dollars for treatment of patients, and a third 5000 dollars for public education on prevention.
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California
House
Sacramento
Cal
Assembly
State Department
Steamer Ophir Fire Claims Sixteen Lives
A deadly blaze aboard the steamer Ophir, which sailed from Vancouver and tied up at Brunswick cannery near Ladner, trapped 81 crew members. Eleven sailors were aboard at the time. flames engulfed the ship and killed six workers before rescue.
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Vancouver
Brunswick
Cenoe Pass
Ladner
Frager River
Right Soap for Baby s Skin and Cuticura Ad
Promotes Cuticura Soap as a trusted choice for baby skin and hair care with claims of purity gentle emollients and soothing properties for eczema rashes and itching. Notes Cuticura Soap and Ointment widely sold worldwide with free samples from the Skin Book and a Boston address. Also includes unrelated consumer quips about blueing and an ostrich fact.
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Cuticura
Dept. L. Bostoz
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