Ohio Road System Receives $7 Million Annual Highway Aid
The 1913 Ohio General Assembly designated 2400 miles of inter-county roads as main market streets and created the Hite Hudson half mill levy funding, yielding about $3.5 million yearly from a half mill levy, with counties matching to reach roughly $7 million for highway improvement and maintenance. State aid totals about $30,000 per county annually, under the inter-county system.
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Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Cincinnati
Ohio
General Assembly
Ohio Corn Outlook Improves for 1914
Ohio September crop report shows corn at 142,000,000 bushels, 4,408,000 above August forecast, but still 3.5 million below 1913 final. Wheat rises to 38,665,000 bushels. oats at 51,300,000. apples 11,700,000. National corn forecast tops last year by 154,000,000 for 2.6 billion, wheat at 896,000,000. oats near last year.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Bureau of Crop Estimates
United States
Solon's Reunion Ends With Barber Farm Visit
Akron Ohio hosts three day reunion of eightieth general assembly. The highlight is a motor trip to O C Barbers $2,000,000 Barberton farm where Barber personally hosts visitors and tours the estate. Sightseeing and city tours filled remaining time for attendees.
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Akron
Eightieth General Assembly
O. C. Barber
Barberton
Barber
Stranger posing as pastor candidate vanishes in Bellefontaine
A man calling himself Rev. Albert Holden, a candidate for the Christian church pastorate in Bellefontaine, disappeared after leaving unpaid bills with merchants. Police issued a warrant for his arrest on charges he victimized church men and others.
Ohio Library Association to Hold 20th Session in Dayton
The Ohio Library Association will convene its twentieth session in Dayton from October 6 to 9. Real public librarians and assistants are preparing to entertain visiting delegates during the event.
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Dayton, O
Peders, Association
Dayton
Ohio Spiritualists' convention elects leaders in Sandusky
At the Ohio Spiritualists' association 70th annual convention in Sandusky, 97 societies will use the word church with official titles, to promote equal suffrage reading circles. Trustees elected: Julius Stelvemann Dayton. F B Dunnakin Cecil. Mrs T J Conighan Lime. A R K Lindsley Youngstown. Dunnakin chosen president.
Ohio newspapers plan Trade Expansion numbers in September
Ohio daily and weekly newspapers will publish a Trade Expansion Number between September 23 and 30 to foster optimism and boost business. Publishers are urged to present encouraging local business facts and to counter pessimism with concerted, upbeat reporting across the state.
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Ohio
America
United States
Aldrich Named National Commander in Ohio Legion
Gen. O W Aldrich of Columbus was nominated without opposition for national commander of the Union Veteran Legion. Retiring Commander G H Playford of Zanesville declined reelection and Gen. W H H Isgrigg of Cincinnati also refused candidacy. Next year’s meet moved from Columbus to Fredericksburg Virginia after delegation reconsideration. Region session reports note 288 veterans died last year about a ten percent death rate. Executive committee rejected proposed amalgamation of Blue and Gray.
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Zanesville
O. W. Aldrich
Columbus
Union Veteran Legion
G. H. Playford
W. H. H. Isgrigg
Cincinnati
Fredericksburg
Distributing zones expanded for labor and home seekers
The government extends its clearing house by creating distributing zones with headquarters in eighteen cities. The Ohio Kentucky zone will be based in Cleveland to speed labor distribution and aid settlers seeking opportunities outside crowded centers.
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Cleveland
Department of Labor
End of War Near Claims Ohio Traveler
Cincinnati traveler Herman Wertheimer, a salesman for the Cincinnati Abattoir Co., returned from the war zone and predicted fighting would end within two weeks. He echoed a belief heard abroad that a decisive battle prompting arbitration would end the war, with Europeans seen as steadfast only while winning.
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Cincinnati
Herman Wertheimer
Cincinnati Abattoir Co
Belmont counties may see first municipal saloon in Ohio
In St Clairsville and Mingo Junction Jefferson county a census indicates Ohio law could permit a ninth saloon. If the council applies for the license, Belmont and Jefferson counties along with West Virginia would share the status of having the only municipal saloon in the state.
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St. Clairsville
Mingo Junction
Jefferson County
Belmont
Jefferson Counties
West Virginia
Ohio
Bankers' Association Session Re-elects Officers
In Napoleon Ohio a three group session of the Ohio Bankers' Association re-elected W. L. Lamb of Toledo as president and F. F. Stever of Defiance as secretary and treasurer. A unanimous resolution urged laws to require tax free building and loan associations to bear equal tax burdens.
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Napoleon
Ohio Bankers’ Association
W. L. Lamb
Toledo
F. F. Stever
Defiance
Ohio Building and Loan Associations
Million Spent by Methodists in Buckeye State
The West Ohio and Ohio Conference sessions were held in Toledo and Grace Methodist church, Ohio. The Northeast Ohio Conference will meet at Norwalk. Ohio Methodist Episcopal Church counts 2,286 churches. 423,525 members. 1,131 ministers. Last year 3,237 new members. $1,274,632 ministerial support. $754,139 buildings. $494,680 current expenses. $90,293 home missions. $127,800 foreign missions. $651,611 for general benevolences. There are 2,224 Sunday schools with 320,779 scholars and 46,281 Senior Epworth League members. Thousands were spent on pensions for retired ministers across the three conferences.
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Western
Union News Service
Washington
O. H
West Ohio
Methodist Episcopal Church
Toledo
Ohio
Grace Methodist Church
M. EE
Northeast Ohio
East Ohio
North Ohio
Cincinnati
Central Ohio
Norwalk
Bishop Smith
M. E
M. K
Epworth League
Fall Festival Planned in Ross County This September
Chillicothe Ohio Ross County plans its annual farmers fall festival September 21 to 26 as a homecoming week. Organizing head Forrest C Secrest reports entries in competitions are three times those of the first show. Decorated booths displays and samples from county farms line streets. bands will play. a parcel post demonstration will be shown the first in Ohio. Horse contests fill the parade and a specially arranged stadium hosts the events.
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Chillicothe
Ross County
Ross
Ohio
Printers hold fourth annual Ohio convention in Cleveland
Three hundred delegates and visitors attended the sessions of the fourth annual convention and cost congress of the Ohio Printers' association in Cleveland. The meetings concluded with the election of officers and the annual banquet.
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Cleveland, O
Ohio Printers’ Association
Auto spared death after crossing train in Marion
John W. Severns, 40, tried to drive past a Pennsylvania passenger train at a grade crossing in Marion, Ohio. He was struck and hurled 15 feet but survived. his car was demolished.
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Marion
Pennsylvania
John W. Severns
Thirty Patients Transferred to Lima State Hospital
Lima will receive about thirty patients from Dayton State hospital with Lima State opening. Dayton hospital remains overcrowded with more than 1,400 patients currently.
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Lima
Lima State Hospital
Dayton State Hospital
Dayton
Fall Opening Planned in Eaton by Commercial Club
Eaton will host a fall opening on October 16 17 with committee members chosen at a Commercial club meeting to organize events and activities.
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Eaton
Eaton, C
Commercial Club
Fire destroys six Mount Blanchard frame buildings
A late afternoon blaze in Mount Blanchard, near Findlay, destroyed about six frame buildings and caused an estimated loss of 20000 dollars with only limited insurance coverage.
Russia outlines terms of peace and war updates
Petrograd papers foresee peace talks with terms aiming to end hostilities without revenge, call for redrawing Europe, and restoring national ambitions. Concurrent dispatches report German defeats near Paris, rising British forces, new German offensives around Verdun, and Russian setbacks in East Prussia.
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the Red
Petrograd
St. Petersburg
Europe
Prussia
Germany
Poland
Bucharest
Russia
Italy
Roumania
Servia
France
Bulgaria
Washington
England
Berlin
von Stein
Amsterdam
Paris
Meux
Montmirail
Territorials
Allied offensive reshapes German retreat toward Sotsgon
General view shows rapid Allied movement turning the German right flank. Reported retreat to Sotsgon threatens Germany’s communication lines and shifts the campaign’s balance as the battlefronts tighten.
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Sotsgone
Shells for machine guns standardised with rifle ammo
Popular Mechanics notes both U S military machine guns use the same ammunition as the new rifle. Fire rates reach 200 to 600 shots per minute with 2500 feet per second muzzle velocity and about two thousand yards range. Belts feed many shells, cycling rapidly as belts exhaust. Gas expansion drives the automatic action of the weapon.
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United States
Army
Navy
Allies Push Gains Across Front as Five-Day Battle Rages
Official French dispatches report rapid Allied advance on the left wing north of the Marne toward Soissons and Compiegne. Germans abandon munitions and prisoners while British forces seize guns and prisoners, with heavy fighting continuing near Vitry le Francois and along the Franco German border.
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Havre
Dieppe
von Kluck
Paris
Ghent
Belgium
Muelhhausen
Alsace
East Prussia
Prussia
Berlin
Lyck
St. Gond’s
Vitry-le-Francois
Nancy
Chateau Salins
Lorraine
Champenoux
Bordeaux
Ostend
London
Louvain
France
the Marne
French War Office
Marne
Soissons
Compiegne
Sezanne
Revigny
Argonne
Three Inch Field Gun Joins Land Batteries
A three inch rifle similar to naval field pieces is brought ashore by landing parties from battleships. It fires a 13 pound shell at 1650 feet per second, effective to about six thousand yards, and uses steel or shrapnel shells that detonate on impact or by time fuse. It features a heavy shield protecting the operator, becoming a mainstay of artillery aboard ships and on land.
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Solon
THE
Ohio Library Association
U. V. S. Committee
Bankers’ Association
Buckeye State
Ohio Division
Washington Court House
Prosper
Dolham
Verdun
Airg
Aisne
Souilly
Ornain
Liege
Namur
Longwy
Vitry
Toul
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