Ohio districts set monthly recruiting quotas under new plan
Washing ton reports Ohio divided into four recruiting districts with Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Toledo as hubs. Columbus district must provide 996 recruits annually based on 996 330 population, one per 1 000 inhabitants per county. Postmasters to aid as recruiting agents with flags at post offices.
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Union News Service
Columbus
Washington
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Toledo
Franklin County
Clark
Champaign
Madison
Union
Pickaway
Franklin
Delaware
Knox
Licking
Fairfield
Hocking
Holmes
Coshocton
Muskingum
Perry
Morgan
Athens
Meigs
Guernsey
Belmont
Noble
Monroe
United States
Dayton Man 18 Chosen for 1917 Medical Society Meeting
Dayton physician L G Bowers was elected president of the Second Councilor District Ohio State Medical Society meeting attended by 250 doctors. Dr A F Garver of Greenville became secretary and Dr W C Taylor of Springfield treasurer. Dayton chosen as 1917 meeting site. New York doctors Joseph Beck Brenneman and J Stanley Squier presented papers.
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Springfield
Ohio State Medical Society
L. G. Bowers
Dayton
A. F. Garver
Greenvile
W. C. Taylor
Joseph Beck
Joseph Brenneman
J. Stanley Squier
New York
Dollar Bill Pays 27 Debts in Bellefontaine
A Bellefontaine newswriter used a single $1 silver certificate to pay debts for 27 people during a city-wide pay-up week. The bill carried a slip recording each recipient's name as it changed hands through the week.
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Bellefontaine
Odd Fellows Hold Grove City Homecoming In Ohio
Rambler Lodge and the Grove City Odd Fellows and Rebekahs staged an annual homecoming with a formal program. The Franklin County Odd Fellows Association presented Rambler Lodge with a silk flag won at Olentangy Park, presented by Attorney Benjamin F. Livingston of Central Lodge.
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Columbus, O
Rambler Lodge
Odd Fellows
Grove City
Odd Fellows and
Rebekahs
Frankin County
Odd Fellows’ Association
Olentangy Park
Benjamin F. Livingston
Central Lodge
Ohio peace monument drive funds shown in Columbus hall
Under the Ohio peace monument commission patriotic film showings and exercises are held at Memorial Hall. Proceeds go to erect a monument in the Statehouse yard commemorating sixty years of peace between the North and South.
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Columbus
Ohio Peace Monument Commission
Memorial Hall
Statehouse
Robbers Fail to Loot Morral Bank Safe
Morral Bank safe wrecked by robbers who fled before entering the vault. Police suspect the same men who earlier blew the Farmers Bank safe at Meocutchenville in Seneca county and escaped with between eight thousand and three thousand dollars. James Bardon, cashier, reports the incident.
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Morral
Morral Bank
James Bardon
Farmers’ Bank
Meo- Cutchenville
Seneca County
Bankers Close Session At Investment Bankers’ Meeting
Cincinnati hosted a session where the Investment Bankers Association called for strong protection of railroad capital and safeguarded mortgages. Lewis B. Franklin was re elected president, Frederick R. Fenton and J. Sheppard Smith were re elected secretary and treasurer. Baltimore slated for 1917 convention pending board approval. Senator Robert L. Owens spoke on The Federal Reserve Act and its relation to investment banking.
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Cincinnati
Investment Bankers’ Association of America
Lewis B. Franklin
New York
Frederick R. Fenton
Chicago
J. Sheppard Smith
St. Louis
Baltimore
Board of Governors
United States
Robert L. Owens
Oklahoma
ERIE TRAIN CRASH KILLS ENGINEER IN URBANA
Engineer John Murphy of Dayton was killed and about a score of passengers injured when an Erie passenger train collided with a standing freight on a siding in Urbana Ohio. Murphy braked and reversed before impact as the freight was on an apparently open switch.
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Urbana, O
John Murphy
Dayton
Erie
Murphy
Five Canning Plants Sold to Sears & Nichols Co
Five corn canning factories owned by H. M. Crites were sold in Circleville to Sears & Nichols Canning Co of Chillicothe for 260000. The plants are in Circleville Washington D H London Stoutsville and Canal Winchester. Sears & Nichols now own ten canning factories including those named and plants at Chillicothe Ashville Frankfort Amanda O Pentwater Mich. The sale excludes the flour mill grain elevator and 1200 acres of land held by Mr. Crites in the county.
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Circleville
H. M. Crites
Sears & Nichols, Canning Co
Chillicothe
Washington D. H
London
Stoutsville
Canal Winchester
Sears & Nichols Co
Ashville
Frankfort
Amanda, O
Pentwater
Mich
Methodists mark 100th anniversary in Upper Sandusky
Upper Sandusky Ohio hosts a two day centennial celebration commemorating the first Methodist mission in America started by John Stewart, a mulato, whose 1816 Wyandotte mission inspired church mission boards.
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Upper Sandusky
America
John Stewart
Stewart
Mission Boards
Church
Buckeye News Notes and Local Obituaries
Findlay Hancock county ends 95 year resident Nelson Draper in his home of 89 years. Tiffin Detroit strike breaker David P. Graham found guilty of manslaughter in the Latona killing during a strike. Dayton dairymen threaten to halt milk deliveries over low price. current 15 cents, demand 20 cents. Bellefontaine Rev. A F Sourd long time St Patrick’s priest died in Galion after serving Washington D C Urbana and Greenfield assignments.
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Tiffin
David P. Graham
Detroit
Albert Latona
Dayton, O
Bellefontaine
A. F. Sourd
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Galion
Washington D. H
Urbana
Greenfield
Waverly man loses feet in freight yard accident
Waverly Ohio and Roanoke Virginia machinist Emanuel Young sat on a Norfolk and Western track to warm feet, slept, and a freight engine severed both feet above the ankles. He was taken to Chillicothe hospital. Cincinnati officers of the First Regiment C N G met at Camp Procter and outlined winter plans. A football team under Lieut Church was to be organized.
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Waverly, O
Emanuel Young
Roanoke
Norfolk & Western
Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Camp Procter
William Cooper Procter
Lieut. Church
Lima man found guilty of criminal assault in Common Pleas Court
Charles Daniels, a negro from Lima, convicted by a jury of criminal assault on Mrs. Vivian Baker, white wife of a Shawnee township farmer. The maximum sentence is three to 20 years in prison. In Fostoria a new high school building costing $100,000 was dedicated with Rev. H. C. Jameson and F. B. Pearson as speakers.
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Lima
Charles Daniels
Common Pleas
Vivian Baker
Shawnee
Fostoria
H. C. Jameson
Findlay
F. B. Pearson
Daniel B.torpy
Marietta
Marietta, Columbus & Cleveland Railroad Co
State Public Utilities Commission
Common Pleas Court of
Washington County
Ohio Penitentiary
Ohloan
Connecticut
Robert C. McKinney
Foster
Ohio Building Trades Council adopts five day week plan
The Toledo meeting of the Ohio Building Trades Council adopted a resolution supporting a five day working week. No legislation is sought now, but moral support was pledged to all labor organizations to push the effort.
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Toledo
Ohio Building Trades Council
Budget for Blind Will Be Submitted
Columbus report notes a two year budget for the Ohio commission for the blind ready for submission. It also covers campaigns to prevent blindness and expanding the sales department to handle growing production and workforce.
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Ohio ’ Commission
tariff issue dominates Ohio campaign says Herrick
Myron T. Herrick the Republican nominee for US senator argues the tariff tops the campaign agenda. He cites Ohio’s 1914 wage distress and soup kitchens as proof of the Democratic tariff’s impact. He links national war layoffs to future labor readjustment after peace.
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Myron T. Herrick
Ohio
Republcan
United States
Cleveland
Cincinnati
Salaries Under Herrick and Cox
Analysis of Ohio state salaries shows Herrick’s last appointee earned 4000 dollars, echoed by the insurance commissioner. The first Democratic governor raised this to 6000, and Gov. Cox appointed 23 officials at 5000 or 6000, with others at 4000. Many salaries were increased, tied to laws allowing governor control or approval.
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Herrick
Ohio
Insurance
Gov
Cox
Wilson's Discoverer for Hughes Sparks Debate
Col Harvey of the North American Review argues in its October issue that Wilson lacks enduring principles and urges electing Hughes. He cites a shift in tariff policy, notes Democratic committee changes, and contends southern lawmakers are ill prepared to handle industrial relations amid looming global conflict.
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Wilson
Col. Harvey
North American Review
Hughes
Europe
Committee On Ways and Means
North Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Georgia
Missouri
Arkansas
Mississippi
Underwood
Claude Kitchin
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Conry
Tammany Hall
Gale
Willis as a Public Man Faces Political Attacks
The piece defends Gov. Willis against Democratic attacks as baseless spitework. It cites national and state reactions, noting Willis impressed national observers at Chicago and delivered a landmark speech at Michigan’s Republican convention.
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Cox
Columbus
The
Dispatch
Ohio State Journal
Wolfe Brothers
United States
Wilson
Gov
Willis
Ohio
Gov. Willis
Chicago
Michigan
Associated Press
Gompers A Democrat
The Marion Star questions Samuel Gompers right to drag the AFL into the Democratic camp. Gompers reportedly earns $7,500 a year with expenses and pressures federation members to vote for Democrats. He has previously urged the AFL toward Bryan, but members chose to vote by their own political judgement.
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Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Marion
Gompers
Federation
Bryan
Roosevelt Attacks Wilson in Battle Creek Speech
The piece cites Theodore Roosevelt's Battle Creek address criticizing Wilson and praising open deeds over covert politics. It notes Wilson prophesying war if Republicans win, Cox and Willis campaigns, and Roosevelt urging repudiation of Wilson to preserve America. It mentions Ohio voters and December campaigning dynamics without naming dates.
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Battle Creek
Col. Roosevelt
Mr. Wilson
America
Wilson
Not Worth Knowing Campaign Jabs in Verse
A humorous garbled note criticizes a Democratic campaign opening with a shoe buttoner and rubber stamp legislatures. It mocks Gov Cox’s record via a graphophone and lampoons Senator Pomerone and Pat Sandles with playful rhymes about sleeplessness and monopolized covers.
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