Memorial Day Romance in Poplarville
Dorothy Brant, 20, faces marriage with Richard Challoner after he gains Col. Brant's consent during a Memorial Day visit. In the library, Challoner discovers a striking painting on the wall that suddenly unsettles him as the scene of a past battle unfolds behind the family.
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Levison Brant
Dorothy
Mary
Poplarville
Col. Brant
Pop-larville
Grand Army
Papa
Richard Challoner
Virginia
Challoner
Revelation at Poplarville Shapes Richard and Dorothy's Fate
In Poplarville a northern officer Col Brant is revealed as the killer of Richard Challoner’s Confederate father. A witnessed duel ends with Brant’s sword fatal to Challoner’s progenitor, but a letter uncovers forgiveness and a possible union with Dorothy Brant as Richard reconciles with Brant as father-in-law.
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Richard
Dorothy
Col. Brant
Poplarville
Columbus area notes shakeups and public health concerns
Gen J W R Cline resigns as Sandusky Soldiers home superintendent. W B Burnett slated as successor. BE Leeds elected Ohio Shippers Association president. Plain City reports a significant smallpox like outbreak from misdiagnosed cases. Epilepsy hospital steward Frank Cushins chosen. Jackson storekeeper James O'Brien and Gallia assistant steward J L Clark named. Athens State hospital sees C O Fordyce as superintendent. J L Lawler reappointed trustee. Gov Harmon appoints Charles S Wirmel as state labor commissioner. Farmers blame crop reports for stock market manipulation. Secretary Sandles asks Wilson for verification. Wilson denies any basis for complaints.
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Columbus
J. W. R. Cline
Soldiers
Sandusky
W. B. Burnett
Springfield
Ohio Shippers’ Association
BE. W. Leeds
W. S. Thomas
Plain City
Frank Cushins
Ohio Hospital
Gallipolis
C. Barnes
Waverly
James O’brien
Jackson
J. L. Clark
Gallia
Athens State Hospital
C. O. Fordyce
Athens
B. H. Rorick
J. L. Lawler
Perry County
Athens Hospital
Harmon
Charless. Wirmel
Cincinnati
Wm. T. Lewis
Wirmel
Hamilton County
Democratic Executive Committee
Ohio
State Board of Agriculture
A. P. Sandlés
James Wilson
United States
Department of Agriculture
Roll Call for the Missing at the Old Post Hall
The narrator recalls a veterans gathering where twenty present out of eighty nine on the charter roll are counted. Bates of the Twenty third leads a solemn reading of names, honoring comrades who have died since 1898 as memories join the evening breeze.
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Reat
Dal
Bates
Ae Sektie
Drowning in Canoe Capsize Near Hamilton
Albert Martin 19 drowning after a canoe capsized on the reservoir. Mabel Seward 17 swam ashore and May Faucett 16 was rescued with difficulty by a spectator after the trio toppled while changing seats. Seward is daughter of W A Seward. Faucett is daughter of John W Faucett, president of Faucett Transfer Co.
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Hamilton
Albert Martin
Mabel Seward
W. A. Seward
May Faucett
John W. Faucett
Faucett Transfer Co
Martin
Seward
Faucett
Boy Is Carried From Bed In Lakewood
Cleveland May 22. A Lakewood schoolboy aged 13 named John Kutchura was snatched from his bed while asleep beside his father John Kutchura. At 1 30 am the father woke to screams, then found the door open and the boy gone. He suspects a kidnapper used a vehicle to flee.
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Cleveland
John Kutchura
Lakewood
Kutchura
Brewer Fined Over Beer Sale in Dry County Case
Judge Donohue upheld a $200 fine and costs against Walter Scheu of Canal Dover after a Tuscarawas county dry vote blocked sale of beer in case lots from his Canal Dover brewery. The ruling tests the Rose county option law and holds breweries cannot sell in their home counties if dry.
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New Philadelphia
Donohue
Circuit Court
Walter Scheu
Canal Dover
Scheu
Tuscarawas County
Rose County
Safe Crackers Loot New Concord Postoffice
Safe crackers raided the college town of New Concord and carried off 1700 dollars in cash and 1400 dollars in stamps from the post office. They gained entry through a back window and wrecked the safe with dynamite. One witness heard the blast but did not recognize its significance.
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Postoffice
Zanesville
College
New Concord
Aafe
Zanesville Saloonists Fined Under Local Option Law
May 22 at New Concord Mayor Campbell fined Frank Stagg John Goeltz George Metuger John Riley Jacob Offenbacher Frank Buchanan and Albert English all Zanesville saloonkeepers $200 each for violations of the Rose local option law. Civic league filed the cases in the New Court court.
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Zanesville
Frank Stagg
John Goeltz
George Metuger
John Riley
Jacob Offenbacher
Frank Buchanan
Albert English
Campbell
New Concord
Rose
New Court Court
Civic League
Vary Young People Marry in Windsor Elopement
The disappearance of 14 year old Hisse Griggs was explained by a letter to her parents stating she eloped to Windsor Canada with 15 year old Cecil Mears. The couple, formerly of Clyde and now in Detroit, were married there and will reside in Detroit. They have obtained parental forgiveness.
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Clyde
Hisse Griggs
Windsor
Can
Cecil Mears
Mears
Clyde Dut Fe
Detroit
Not a Petrified Leg in Midwestern High Church Circles
A leading midwestern city story recalls a high church dignitary fixated on the mythic petrified leg. During a dinner, a dramatic claim of complete petrification erupts before guests, only to be debunked by a whispered correction that the leg is neither petrified nor his. Also mentions Allen’s Foot-Ease ad appeals to weary feet.
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Middle West
New York Press
Obedience Elicited From Punishment Lesson
A humorous classroom exchange as a pupil answers that obedience comes from getting licked. The line captures a blunt perspective on discipline and a teacher prompting discussion in a practical derivative context.
Unclear fragments hint at gifts and late poker game remark
Fragmented text mentions gifts for Murine and a remedy in your eyes. A late poker game quote asks how long someone sat up. Specific people or events are not clearly identifiable.
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Cornell
Fragmented Local Notice Points To Public Sale
The text appears as garbled OCR with stray phrases about age and boarding-house spring chicken, lacking clear event, date, place, or official action to summarize into a proper item.
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Col. Challoner
Erie
Lewiston Brant
Dorothy Brant
Mrs. Levison Brant
William Challoner
Buckeye
Supreme Court
Toe
William Jennings Bryan
Gulf Coast Country
Mission
Hidalgo Co
Texas
Bryan
South
William Volz
Bermuda
Gulf Coast
Gulf
Allen
Fred
Olmsted
LeRoy
Enara Ie
Bros. Buffalo
Dodds
Guarend
Dr.d.jayne
Hudson Bay
Carey
Paris
Pamph
Io Nena
Maleres
Eerina Mannan
H. M. Williams
Law Building
Toledo, Ohios
Thompson
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