Ohio Gleanings A mix of local notes from Defiance to Columbus
Severe windstorm damage in Defiance county prompts estimates of several thousand dollars. Martin's Ferry weighs a $450000 bond for consolidating lighting and water plants. First locust of a 17 year swarm found at Findlay. Humane society in Montgomery county reports $60000 collected from derelict parents to support children. Various obituaries, trials, and local incidents across Ohio including fires, hires, and public notices.
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Defiance County
Martin’s Ferry
A. C. Redman
Findlay
Montgomery County Humane Society
Charles Whiley
Martin Manufacturing Company
Lancaster
John ©. Wick
Youngstown
Brookfield
Trumbull County
Francis Hartrum
Dayton
Haton
Columbus
Philadelphia
Pants
Henry M. Robinson
Ohio
Federal Shipping Board
Ohio Senate
Joint Committee On Taxation
Summit County
C F. Johnson
van Stevan
Marberton
Dime Savings Bank
Toledo
Jacob Fowler
Fairfield Glass
Montgomery
Jefferson County
Steubenville
Arthur McClain
Edward Bour
Boar
Canton
Ted Richards
Herbert Paar
Cox
David L. Rockwell
Kent
Kent Normal School
FE. F. Moulton
Warren
Miller Herman
Dosha White
Marion
Mercy
Miss White
Herman
Lee Patterson
United States
Athens
Common School
Ohio University
Athens County
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Hemlock
Perry County
Washington
Angus Breeders’ Association of Ohio
Bradfute
Xenia
New Philadelphia
Harry R. Born
Huron County
Poultry Advice Urges Confine Roosters After Hatching Season
United States Department of Agriculture guidance urges poultry raisers to confine all male birds after hatching season ends to prevent fertility issues and bad eggs. It warns that roaming roosters lower egg quality, promotes heat sensitivity, and recommends clean nests, frequent egg gathering, cool storage, and removal of roosters to ensure marketable infertile eggs.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Fish Day and Banter in a Boston Transcript Cartoon
A brief dialogue snippet shows Betty being complimented and a Friday remark. The exchange includes playful phrases about calamity and catastrophe and a light pun on pussyfooting. The tone suggests a newspaper cartoon caption from a Boston paper.
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Jove
Betty
Boston Transcript
Castoria Astoria: A Safe Remedy for Infants and Constipation
Castoria is a harmless substitute for castor oil paregoric and narcotics. It relieves constipation flatulency wind colic and diarrhea and promotes natural sleep by regulating the stomach and bowels. For over thirty years it has carried the signature of Chas H Fletcher and warned against counterfeit imitations.
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Astoria
Chas. H. Fletcher
Tuition Will Be Free
A series of quirky aphorisms and pithy sayings on education, social pretenses, and gender, reflecting satirical musings about tuition, singing lessons, poker rooms, romance, and marriage norms.
Bayer Aspirin Marketing Sparks Public Health Caution
An old promotional piece urges buyers to insist on Bayer brand aspirin with the Bayer Cross on packaging and tablets to avoid fakes. It touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin as genuine, American made, with dosage guidance for headaches and related pains, and notes counterfeit talcum tablets once circulated.
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Bayer
Brooklyn
Footprint marks to identify fowls outlined for poultry farmers
The article describes a footprint punching method to identify young chicks before transfer to brooders. Each bird is assigned a number by punching specific areas on the foot web, allowing clear tracking akin to the Bertillon fingerprint system for criminals.
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United States
Departtment of Agriculture
Duckling Fattening Ration Tested For Market
Prepared in the United States Department of Agriculture guidance advises fattening ducklings for two weeks before market. Ration options include a mash of comnment, middlings, bran, beef scrap, with three percent grit and ten percent green feed, fed three times daily. Green feed may be omitted in the last seven days to avoid tinted meat, though it aids steady feeding.
Poor nutrition card causes misread blame at clinic
In a Dallas News anecdote, Miss Helen R. Stewart recounts a health board episode where a nurse's examination record led a boy to cry, and a teacher misinterpreted the note "Poor nut" as a name, only to learn it stood for "poor nutrition" and send the boy away.
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Danger
Central Philanthropic Council
Helen R. Stewart
Board of Health
Dallas News
Von Tirpitz a Pauper in Geneva Guest of Swiss Officer
The Tribune de Geneve reports Grand Admiral von Tirpitz staying at Wildegg in Switzerland as a guest of Lieut Coronel Wille, son of the former Swiss army commander. Tirpitz, once wealthy, has lost his fortune investing in Italian securities to dodge the 1913 German war tax, leaving him penniless. What a patriot.
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Tribune de Geneve
Admiral von Tirpitz
Wildegg
Switzerland
Medium for Feeding Scraps in Beef Scraps Processing
The dry mash serves as a feeding medium for beef scraps with a variable amount needed based on the quantity of meat scraps available in table waste feed.
Old Dudgeon known for locating conflagrations fast
The Petunia tavern landlord proclaims Dorsey Dudgeon prides himself on knowing where fires are as soon as the tires belt. He claims to guide volunteers and observers to fire sites, though a guest doubts his accuracy nine times out of ten.
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Dorsey Dudgeon
Petunia
Kansas City Star
Glossing Over the Facts in a Birmingham Note
A Birmingham Age-Herald quotation explains euphemism through a society report about a widow repeatedly married, described as being led to the altar by a wealthy suitor who delayed marriage until prompted by the preacher.
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Birmingham Age-Herald
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Claibourne
Union County
Charles F. Limbach
Norwalk Township
Norwalk
iUome Telephone Company
Central Union Company
W. G. Cook
Crestline
United States Supreme Court
Jiability Insurance
Portsmouth
Cleveland
Roldt Glass Works
Cincinnati
Alliance
John G. Gogel
Crooksville
Frank Butler
Ilyria
Black River
J. D. Bell
Wooster
Fremont
Ned Frank Worthen
Waverly
Ohio General Assembly
Daston
G. H Schartzer Company
George Biddulph
Josephine
L. J. Taber
Ohio State Grange
Canton Council
Charles Todd
Bk. & Chauncey
Church
Nev
Flol Flinchbaugh
Protestant Episcopal Church
Southern Ohio
Joseph Lenhoff
Princeton
Mike Montena
Forsythe
Belle Valley
Noble County
M. J. Mohler
St. John's Lutheran Church
Delaware
Brookville
Henry Schroeder
Fred Luff
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