Home Insurance Co moves offices in Batavia
Home Insurance Company of New York now operates from the Hamilton Building in Batavia occupying the former Judge Joseph office. It has paid many losses in Clermont county and offers lower rate policies for autos and liberal terms. Community notes mention local visits and purchases including Lemon Larkin buying a corner lot on Third and Wood streets for a new residence.
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Lemon Larkin
Third
Wood Streets
Rufus Walker
Wood Street
Church Services Open After Summer Vacation
The Presbyterian church resumes with Sunday school at 9 15 am and worship at 10 30 am. Young People's Society at 6 30 pm and evening service at 7 30 pm on the Impressions of the Chautauqua. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30. Minister T Jas Simpson. U B church holds service next Sunday with Sunday school at 9 am and morning service at 10 am. Young People and English preaching at 7 pm. Pastor E F Wegner invites all.
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Presbyterian Church
Young People’s Society
T. Jas. Simpson
U. B. Church
Perma
Saxon Light Six Demonstration At Coney Island
Saxon Light Six cars will race in four separate classes at a Coney Island demonstration on September 8, 1916. The Continental six cylinder motor uses Trinken bearings full Cantilever springs and an 112 inch wheel base with 85 horsepower. James L. Walls Forestville Ohio promotes the event with $815 F O B Detroit pricing.
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Continental
Bayfield
Coney Island
Clermont County
Detroit
Jas. L. Walls
Forestville
Ohio
Aguitf
Public Sale by Fred Jones Near Merwin
Fred Jones offers horses farm implements and chattel property for sale September 15 at 9 30 at his home 3 miles north of Merwin with usual terms. Attendees will find bargains and are advised to see bills for details.
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Fred Jones
Merwin
Bethel Man Dies by Self Inflicted Shooting in Cincinnati
Bartley fillsworth, 28, of Bethel, died by own action in Cincinnati on August 27 after being found in a restaurant rear by two men. Son of Mrs. Elizabeth Bartley, he formerly lived near Bethel.
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Fillsworth Bartley
Bethel
Cincinnati
Elizabeth Bartley
Cottontown Mother Praises Foley’s Honey and Tar Cough Remedy
Ada Sanders of Cottontown Tennessee says Foley’s Honey and Tar is the best cough remedy for her two young daughters curing colds. The product relieves hoarseness tickling throat bronchitis hay fever asthma and croup as sold by Nash pharmacy.
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Ada Sanders
Cottontown
Tenn
Foley
Nash Pharmacy
William McNair Dies at 80 in Bethel
William McNair 80 died at his Bethel home after short final illness. He moved with wife and daughter from Nicholsville two years ago. Survived by son Walter in California. Funeral Saturday 10 a.m. at Nicholsville Presbyterian Church with burial in Monroe Cemetery.
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William McNair
South Main Street
Bethel
Nicholsville
Walter McNair
California
Presbyterian Church
Monroe Cemetery
Bethel Journal
Female Forgers Suspected in Clinton County Case
Mrs. Goldie Osborn of Midland City and Mrs. Ollie Doss of the Kingman neighborhood were charged with forgery after checks drawn on A J Whitside for 12 dollars at the First National Bank. Deputy Sheriff Stanley Arthur arrested them last week. At a hearing before Squire Stewart they were bound over to the grand jury in 600 dollars each after pleading not guilty. They will be brought before the grand jury.
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Clinton County
Goldie Osborn
Midland City
Ollie Doss
Kingman
Stanley Arthur
Squire Stewart
A.j.whitside
First National Bank
Ice Man Hurt In Milford Ice Plant Accident
George Clark, son of John N. Clark of Milford, working at his father’s ice factory, had his hand badly injured last week when caught in a pulley used to lift 800 pound ice cakes from the freezing pit. Three fingers suffered, but heavy gloves prevented severing.
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George
John N. Clark
Milford
White wolves threaten sledge party in Arctic tale
Don ald B. Macmillan recounts in Harper's Magazine a perilous encounter with twelve white wolves during an Arctic expedition. The team prays they advance, shoots when necessary, and notes wolves’ persistence and diet including muskox, caribou, Arctic hare, lemmings, foxes, and possibly seals.
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Arctic
Harper’s Magazine
Donald B. Macmillan
Siberia
Axel Helbergland
Sverdrup
Snail Farming Potential Highlighted by Scientist
Scientific American notes new occupation potential as B W Rust suggests snails could be raised on waste land across the United States. He compares U S conditions with Europe where snails are scarce and largely imported, citing the Mississippi Valley as ideal and noting snails could substitute for oysters without typhoid risk.
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Europe
Department of Agriculture
B. W. Rust
United States
Rust
Mississippi Valley
Scientific American
Lumber travels 10000 miles to Port Nelson docks
A cargo of Douglas fir bound for Port Nelson on Hudson Bay will traverse about 9900 miles by ship, routing via the Panama Canal. Consul Julius D. Dreher reports the timber from British Columbia is en route to Polson Iron Works in Toronto to be fashioned into masts for a dredge serving Port Nelson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Nelson
Hudson Bay
British Columbia
Panama Canal
Vancouver
Julius D. Dreher
Toronto
Canada
Polson Iron Works
Big-Eared Holy Man Swayed Formosan Revolt Tale
Major General Hiraoka returns to Japan from Formosa and explains the revolt began from a rumor among aborigines about a holy sage with ears to shoulders. A prophet claimed he was the heaven-ordained Formosan emperor, triggering a rally to support him. The natives rose expecting aid, but were disappointed.
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Hiraoka
Japan
Formosa
Goto
Henpecked Husband Described in Cartoon Line
From the Cincinnati Enquirer cartoon remark a husband is described as henpecked with his nerves in and his wife named. The quip reflects a playful stereotype of marital dynamics.
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Harry
Paw
Cincinnat! Enquirer
Burros Are His Best Pals On Long Desert Trek
Harry H. Cloud, sixty, has walked 1 750 miles with two burros and a cart to start a fortune, while his burro Miranda helps carry the baby. In San Francisco crowds watched the desert caravan pass expositions and Market street traffic. A shopping moment sparked when Miss Louise Burton offered ten thousand dollars for the burros, but Cloud insists they are his only friends.
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Harry H. Cloud
Miranda
Cloud
Loud
Prescott
Ariz
San Francisco
Market Street
Louise Burton
Miss Burton
Mabel
Harry
Jinnie
Tramp Made Easy Money By Collecting Palms Says He
Elmer Norton a one legged man left Parker Iowa July 27 to tramp across 60 towns in 39 days. He kept a ledger of income and expenses claiming to earn at least three dollars per town with Windom his best stop at eight dollars. Police stopped his scheme in Minneapolis and took his ledger. He had nearly one hundred dollars before spending it there.
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Elmer Norton
Parker
Minneapolis
Norton
Windom
Sanitation Scrutiny for New York Skyscrapers
Safety Engineering criticizes the planned board of health review of New York skyscrapers. It argues officials and various city departments caused confinement and poor light and air, blaming civic bodies for past construction choices and the loss of ancient easements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Board of Health
Safety Engineering
Law
Ma's Good Example in Farm Life
A Farm Life anecdote describes a farmer family home where insects are kept out by closed and screened windows and doors. A housewife pursues a lone fly with a swatter and cremates it, prompting laughter from children and a gentle smile from the farmer.
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Fly
Mr. Fly
Departure of Pacific Mail ship Manchuria hailed
The Manchuria sailed from Honolulu to San Francisco festooned with wreaths bearing Aloha Pacific Mail. Honolulu crowds gathered for the departure of the last Pacific mail vessel. Upon arrival in San Francisco the Manchuria will be turned over to International Mercantile Marine after the company sold five steamships with the Persia to Toyo Kisen Kaisha, forming the transpacific fleet.
Bull Moose Calmed by Home Sweet Home on Harmonica
In a Pittsfield dispatch to the New York Herald, Mike the famed bull moose in Henry Payne Whitney's game preserve on October Mountain reacted to the tune Home Sweet Home played on a mouth organ. Lineman Lawrence Kidney and repairman Cleveland Morey, shocked by the animal, fled the fence as Mike raged then, inspired by the music, ambled away dejectedly. Morey narrowly avoided danger, jumping down from a tree to rejoin the helper.
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Mike
Henry Payne Whitney
Morey
Police to Patrol Depths in New Submerged Search
New York police plan a divers corps under Police Commissioner Arthur Woods to search for bodies and perform submerged duties. He seeks four experienced divers from the department noting many have prior training and will volunteer for helmeted underwater work.
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New York
Broadway
Murphy
Arthur Woods
From Names to National Signs in Paris and St Petersburg
The piece recalls rulers renaming places after upheaval. It compares Russia changing St Petersburg to Petrograd with Paris renaming Rue de Berlin to Rue de Liege after Liege’s defense. It notes Napoleon III’s fall and the French assembly’s fixation on renaming streets and even the Paris zoo Bengal tiger to National.
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St. Petersburg
Petrograd
Paris
Liege
Women drivers prove skill at New Field auto school
The Y M C A auto school in New York shows women excel in mechanics as well as fashion. About a dozen women in a class pass exams with 90 percent or better, three achieving 100 percent. They learn cogs and carburetors and diagnose engine trouble, often getting under cars with Mother Hubbards. The city reports over a thousand women auto drivers and rising.
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New York
Mother Hubbards
Britain Chooses Home Cures For Vacations This Year
The article notes Britons forego continental trips due to war and instead seek cures at home. Gout sufferers head to Buxton Harrogate Llandrindod Wells Bath and Strathpeffer while those needing physical therapies find bracing air in the Scottish Highlands and Irish lakes.
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Great Britain
America
Germany
Austria
Italy
France
Britain
Buxton
Harrogate
Llandrindod Wells
Bath
Strathpeffer
Highlands
Scotland
Ireland
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Clermont Courier
Batavia, Ohto
Courier and Com. Tribune
Courier and
Weekly Enquirer
Cincinnati Post
Courier
Cincinnati Times Star
Batavia
Rebecca Lodge
N. B.S. Heidlebaugh and
Mrs. H’s
Ethel Huling and
Granville Mead
Clara Titus
Leonard
Clay,Cartmell
Springfield
Eliza Kain
G. W. Hulick
May
Avondale
Gail Anderson
Hamilton
M. Burkle
South
Lebanon
Will Kirgan
Walnut Hills
P. F. Jamieson and
Helen Bishop
Columbus
McTomany
J. F. Dial
Norwood
Lou Devine
Mise Kerney
Misses Marsh
Mae McNellen
Milford Public Schools
Jennie Titus
Gatch Speidel
Robert Hill
John Nichols
Mt. Washington
Kate Hulick
Chicago
John Cover
Beacham
Thomas
Williamsburg
Len Miller
E. E. Ruby
Troy
Kentucky
H. 8. Hulick
James Ashburn
Ashburn
Jean McDonald
Mary McDonald
8Th Regiment O. V. I
Boston Fair Grounds
Bessie Paxton
Judge Paxton
Berwin
Virginia
Geneva Schofield
Hartwell
J. O. Weaver
Marjorie Hulick
Clermont
Massalon
Gershom Lease
Rose Wasner
Beas Rhodes
Akron
Mary Wasner
Washington D. C
J. J. Werner
M. E. Church
Flora Trout
Walter S. Smith
Charles Frazier
Bertha
Rush
Ed Bishop
Cornwell
Hulick
Harmon Dover
Monterey
Frank Reynolds
Linwood
Charles Crane
Fee Naylor
Moscow
Feesburg
Dr. Bolender
Saxon Light
Ice Man
Big-Eared Holy Man
Burros
Moose
Attorneys AT Law
F. Roudebush
Jwwid
Bly
Clermont Hones
Muins
A.B. Nichols
H.L. Nichols
Nchols & Nichols, Attorneys-At-Law
Hamilton Building
Main Street
Orman L. Burnet
Clermont Bldg
Batavia, Ohio
Awson E. Bradley
E. Cor.4th and
Walnut Sts
Gianté
E. B. Holmes
Pocahontas Range
Brick Yard
Agiti
F. O. B. Detroit
A. E. Price
Riety
C. R. Gaskins and
M. Barnes Nursery Co
Tobasco
Anna M. Riggins
Éth and
Walnut St
Ind
Cincinnati, O
Batavia Foundry Co
Cara
Best Companys
Hugh J. King
Office Courier Bldg
Alanio
Abd B.aqb
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