Menace to the Sheep Industry Highlighted in Tax Data
Auditor cites dogs as major threat to livestock and human life while reporting $220,003 in dog taxes collected across Virginia counties. The year’s damages to sheep reached $112,962, with total sheep claims far exceeding local tax receipts in many counties. additional funds $13,178 paid for hyprophobia treatment.
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Union News Service
Columbue
Auditor of State
Butler County
Pike County
Ohio River and harbor funds allocated and trimmed
Army engineers earmark 1.769 million of the river and harbor appropriation to Ohio river improvement and 544 thousand to Ohio Lake Erie projects. Open channel work totals 19 thousand for the Ohio river with most funds for locks and dams under construction. Ohio totals include Toledo harbor 136 thousand Port Clinton harbor 500 Huron harbor 12 thousand Vermilion harbor 3 thousand Cleveland harbor 150 thousand Conneaut harbor 243.5 thousand while Fairport harbor and Cuyahoga river at Cleveland were cut. House plan also included 350.9 thousand for open channel work 2 million for locks and dams plus 3 million authorized for contracts which was later removed by the Senate Commerce Committee and Senate action cut the bill from 63 million to 20 million.
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Cleveland
Army
Ohio River
Ohio
Lake Erie
Toledo
Port Clinton
Huron
Vermilion Harbor
Conneaut
Fairport
Cuyahoga River
House
Senate Committee On Commerce
Burton
Trachoma Prevalent in Ohio After North Lewisburg Outbreak
State epidemiologist Dr. Frank G. Boudreau reports trachoma more widespread than thought. Twenty four cases found in North Lewisburg, six in one family, mostly schoolchildren. Precautions include home isolation of eye discharge cases and school talks with pamphlets on prevention.
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North Lewisburg
Frank G. Boudreau
Boudreau
Ohio
Lewisburg
Columbus
Ohio firm lands Panama-Pacific fair film contract
Dayton based Ia rious Factories of the World won the contract for supplying the modern picture exhibition at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific exposition after bids from thirty producers. Competing firms included Biograph Hollson and Universal with combined capital estimated around 200 million dollars.
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Dayton
Columbus
Ohio State Commission
Biograph Company
Hollson Company
Universal Company
United Capital
Ohio Wheat Crop Tops Last Year By 1.5 Million Bushels
Ohio's 1914 crop outlook shows 28,766,529 bushels of wheat produced, up from 27,266,400 in 1913 with an average yield of 18 bushels per acre. Corn held steady, potatoes fell about 25 percent, oats down 60,000 bushels, and barley and rye also decreased from 1913 levels.
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Columbus
Ohio
the Agricultural Commission
Dam Completion Near at Fortsmouth Dam 28
Despite low Ohio River levels forcing 100 layoffs, a large crew at Dam 28 works double shifts. The next payroll will exceed previous records. Engineers say funds exist to finish the dam and plan to remove the cable in April signaling completion. Plans call for Dam 22 work next, not Dam 27 at Guyandotte.
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Fortsmouth
Ohio
Guyandotte
Newark Gas To Stop Supplying After November
Newark Ohio reports the Newark Natural Gas and Fuel Co will be unable to furnish gas after November unless it can buy gas at a price that allows 18 cents per 1,000 to customers. Logan Natural Gas Co refused to supply after November 30, with both firms said to be subsidiaries of Union Gas Corp. Stove dealers are rushing business.
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Newark
Newark Natural Gas and Fuel Co
Logan Natural Gas Company
Union Gas Corporation
River shows record low water at Gallipolis Ohio
The Ohio River gauge at Gallipolis records a one inch stage, the lowest in steamboat history. Low water halted work on government construction between here and Ashland on dates 26, 28 and 29.
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Gallipolis
Ashland
Daughters of Rebekah select New Paris for next district meeting
Lewisburg Ohio district convention of the Daughters of Rebekah met at West Manchester and chose New Paris as the next meeting place. Officers for the coming year were named President Mrs Braddock of New Paris Vice President Mrs Glimer of Lewisburg Secretary Mrs Hahn of New Paris Treasurer Mrs Markey of West Alexandria.
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Lewisburg
Daughters of Rebekah
West Manchester
New Paris
Braddock
Glimer
Hahn
Mra. Markey
West Alexandria
Ostend Named Official Belgian Capital As Antwerp Evacuates
Reports from Ostend claim the Belgian field army, about 70 000 men, has evacuated Antwerp to join Allied forces after a stout defense. Government transferred to Ostend under protection of British warships. Berlin and Paris dispatches describe bombardment and rumors of Antwerp’s fall amid Zeppelin raids and civilian evacuations.
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Ostend
Nce
Antwerp
London
Amsterdam
Central News
Amsterdam Nieuws van den Dag
Holland
Berlin
Copenhagen
Italy
War Office Report Confirms Small Western Advances
Berlin reports limited gains near St Mihiel and Argonne. A Russian column moves from Lomza toward Lyck in East Prussia, approaching the frontier. Fort Brindock near Antwerp falls and bombardment of inner fort lines begins after the commander assumes responsibility for the action.
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London
War Office
Berlin
St. Mihiel
Argonhes
Lomza
Russian Poland
Lyck
East Prussia
Augustowo
Antwerp
Petrograd Claims Russo Front Success On October War Report
The Russian war office reports on October on the East Prussian border fighting two enemy groups. One group operated near Vladislavoff and Wisballen in Suwalki Russian Poland and was dislodged from Vladislavets with a surrounding hold. The second, a strong force, began an energetic assault.
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Petrograd
Russian War Office
Advance Of A Great Army In European Conflict
The article explains why front lines move unevenly in a long European campaign. It notes stronger units may push ahead, risking gaps, and that coordinated advances require all divisions to come up under the commander in chief. It emphasizes holding back advanced sections until support arrives.
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Scientific American
Offensive advances near Ratch ka lake and Lyck in East Prussia
The report describes a morning Oct 8 offensive near Ratch ka lake and Bakalarze East Prussia, capturing enemy positions then occupying Lyck. It notes continued energetic frontwide operations. Subsequent dispatches mention the fiercest fighting on the left wing near Arras and cavalry actions reaching toward the sea, plus Italian mobilization with 1.4 million in arms and Berlin reporting overall army corps totals.
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Getic
Ratchka Lake
Bakalarze
East Prussia
Lyck
Training German Boys Remains Push for Reserve Army
Berlin reports that several states of the German empire are forming a reserve force of boys aged sixteen to nineteen for military service. The Prussian education minister authorized school headmasters to cooperate with military authorities to raise and train this youth reserve for potential active duty.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
Germans still in force as French retake positions on Meuse
German forces hold St Mihiel and northern Meuse positions while the French regain several captured posts near Verdun and Roye experiences heavy fighting with no clear advances. German reports claim success on other fronts as they move troops for strategic reasons and claim gains in Poland and Russia. In France teens sixteen to start special military drill to become soldiers at sixteen.
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London
Arras
Somme
Oise
Meuse
Verdun
St. Mihiel
Hattenhhatel
War Office
Marse
Opatow
Ostrowiec
Russian
Poland
Rudow
Ivangorod
World War Casualties Reach Over One Million
War office estimates total casualties among all European combatants at 1,160,000 killed wounded or missing. Germany 225,000. British French Belgian 325,000. Russia about 400,000. Austria 125,000. Servia and Montenegro 85,000. No reliable data outside Germany available.
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Berlin
Amsterdam
War Office
Russia
Austria
Servia
Montenegro
Germany
Russia Plans Internal Loan of 600 Million Rubles
The Bourse Gazette reports that Petrograd will invite subscriptions for an internal loan of 600,000,000 rubles at 5 percent, funded from London, with favorable wartime news prompting the issue.
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Russia
Petrograd
London
Bourse Gazette
British Officers and Men Lost
London October 8 official press bureau reports new casualties. Officers four killed seven wounded two missing eight prisoners of war total twenty one. Other ranks sixty two killed two hundred seventy four wounded six hundred thirty one missing total nine hundred seventy.
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London
Viscount Acheson
Coldetream Guards
War outlook from German papers cites focus on Britain
German newspapers received in Rome via Paris forecast a war against Great Britain starting at the end of October. They say Antwerp will become the base for operations against Britain after Belgium falls, noting Admiral von Tirpitz is involved.
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Rome
Paris
Great Britain
Antwerp
Belgium
Admiral von Tirpitz
Moltke Remains Chief of German General Staff
Inquiries from German military circles say reports of von Moltke being removed are incorrect. General von Moltke retains his post as chief of the general staff.
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Rome
von Moltke
Chilef
England Prohibits Export of Raw Wool
London reports the government has banned raw wool exports from England to any foreign country effective immediately, aiming to conserve domestic supplies and support industry.
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England
London
Kaisers Invading Army Advances Toward Ostend
Paris reports lead air raids dropping 20 bombs on Notre Dame and surrounding areas injuring four civilians and wounding twenty. German forces push toward Ostend as Antwerp defense collapses and Belgian government flees. London dispatches note Germans driven back near Arras with heavy losses and renewed fighting around Ghent and Termonde.
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Paris
France
Rue St.Lazare
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Quai de Bourbon
Seine
Bridge of
Cathedral
St. Lazare
Antwerp
London
Quatrecht
Termonde
Ostend
Albert
Daily Mail
Arras
Amsterdam
Ghent
Begium
Cincinnati Market Prices展
Prices for Wheat Corn Oats Hay Eggs Butter Poultry Cattle Hogs Sheep and Lambs listed with various grades and weights. Includes No 2 red wheat at 1.07 1.08 and multiple corn white and yellow grade quotes, eggs at 24c prime frets, butter ranges, and livestock values across shippers farmers and packing categories.
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Colored, LLC
Bologna
Boulder crushes into coach near Grand Junction
A boulder weighing about twenty tons fell from a precipice and struck a Denver Rio Grande passenger train No 3 eighteen miles east of Grand Junction Colorado. Three people were killed and fourteen injured with six likely fatally hurt as the day coach and smoking car roofs were torn and sides crushed before the automatic air brakes stopped the rear section.
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Grand Junction, Col
Amaker
Denver & Rio Grande
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L. F. Gehres
Gehres
Waverly
Kentucky
Rebekah
Teutons
Emperor William
Kaiser
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Cincinnati
Boulder
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