Ohio Industries Practice Shorter Work Week, Croxton Reports
Ohio industries mostly run eight to nine hours daily with a 48 hour week as the norm. Data from 12 779 establishments shows 11 percent at 48 hours, 20 percent at 64 hours, and 23 percent at 60 hours weekly. The report notes half the plants operate six days a week and gives days open per year. mining not included but to be examined later for possible legislation.
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Union News Service
Columbus
Ohio
Fred ©. Croxton
The
Industrial Commission
Mr. Croxton
Veterans Honorlined at Ironton Apple Show Parade
Grand Army Veterans from three states plus Governor Frank B Willis and state officials attended the Lawrence county apple show and homecoming in Ironton Ohio drawing thousands. The day featured veteran activities and a camp fire at the First Methodist Church with Willis as principal speaker. He led the auto parade and spoke at the reviewing stand in a nonpolitical address.
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Ironton
Grand Army
Frank B. Willis
Lawrence County
M. E
Willis
Eight-Hour Day Granted for Standard Oil Ohio
Thousands of Standard Oil of Ohio workers will gain an eight hour day starting October 1 with no wage cuts. About 2,000 local employees benefit while watchmen foremen pumpmen and piece workers receive wage increases of 10 percent.
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Cleveland, O
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
New Jersey
Ordination Ceremony In Northeast Ohio Conference
In Akron at First Methodist church, the fourth annual Northeast Ohio Conference session ordained elders deacons and one deaconess. Bishop William L. Anderson led the service with District Superintendent EF O Buxton assisting. Miss Inez Crow was ordained as deaconess and deacons Thomas A. Gunn James EB. Hines William N. Gable John B. Sanders George BH. Kent were ordained along with a large class of elders.
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Akron
First Methodist Church
Northeast Ohio
The
Methodist Church
William L. Anderson
D. D
L.L. D
Ef, O. Buxton
Inez Crow
Thomas A. Gunn
James EB. Hines
William N. Gable
John B. Sanders
George BH. Kent
Railway men held for wreck verdict names Orient Ohio
Coroner O H Dunton finds Conductor L A Schleffer Flagman R H Fuller and Engineer Fred Stephens negligent in the Orient wreck of August 12 where seven people died. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad also blamed for contributory negligence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circleville
O. H. Dunton
Baltimore & Ohio
Orient
L. A. Schleffer
R. H. Fuller
Fred Stephens
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Norwalk Area Oil Drilling Intentions Reported
Findlay Ohio notices say men are leasing 3000 to 5000 acres between Milan and Monroeville near Norwalk to drill for oil. One well is expected to start soon as oil in sands in the territory tests at about 90 percent grade with prices up to 2.60 dollars per barrel. If wells pumping five barrels daily are feasible many more will be drilled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Findlay
O.—Findlay
Milan
Monroeville
Norwalk
R. R. Books Examined In Hocking Valley Inquiry
Examination of the Hocking Valley railway books and records by C W Hillman and assistants is near completion. The study seeks facts relevant to the coal rate case before the state utilities commission. After data collection the experts will deduce findings and resume hearings early next month, then proceed to the Toledo and Ohio Central railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Hocking Valley Railway
C. W. Hillman
Louisville
State Public Utilities Commission
Hocking Valley
State Utilities Commission
Toledo & Ohio Central Railway
Buckeye Brevities in Ohio Haunts Dozens of Tragic Incidents
A round of brief Ohio notices records deaths and injuries across cities. Charles Steere, 70, president of Massillon’s First National Bank, dies suddenly. A heat wave causes multiple prostrations and six child deaths in Cleveland. A painter in Yellow Springs is murdered. A bride of six months, Arena Morrow, is shot in Martins Ferry. A woman, Anna Jansik, is killed by a car in Cleveland. Gasoline explosion at Hickok Producing Co. in Toledo kills one and injures another. $20,000 in property loss. The National Association of Stationary Engineers opens its annual Columbus meeting with Louis Ziegler’s address. The Catholic Knights of Ohio jubilee convention to be held in Hamilton. Maxine Rice, 6, fatally shot by her father in Cleveland. Williams County Telephone seeks $12,500 to buy Edon Home Telephone plant. Seven injured near Mount Vernon when a car flips. Ohio labor demand cited by F C Croxton of the state industrial commission.
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State Industrial Commission
Gov
Willis
J. C. Callery
Hamilton
Republican
Otté M. Elzemann
Cincinnati
Democrat
Elzemann
Orris M. Patterson
Canton
Thomas
Ohio
Morton W. Bland
State Register of Vital Statistics
State Board of Agriculture
Ten and 12 Die in Separate Ohio Incidents
In Lima Velma Bowers and Goldie Baughan both 10 were crushed when attempting to steal a ride on a threshing machine drawn by a steam engine. In Akron 30,000 baby blue gills died after water near the East reservoir boiled due to heat from hatchery stock. Cleveland banks reject alliance loan with only one posting a denial to depositors. In Preble county Isaiah Talbert, 75, obtained an early hunting license and plans to pursue a squirrel in timbered lodes. In Newark troged nitroglycerin fuses and dynamite caps found in a bathroom are seen as preventing a deadly blast. In Columbus Thomas L. Calvert, head of the Food and Dairy Bureau, ordered 20 deputies to strictly enforce state food laws in hotels, restaurants, and markets.
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Lima
Velma Bowers
Goldie Baughan
Akron
East
State Fish Hatchery
Columbus
Thos. L. Calvert
State Food and Dairy Bureau
Foundry and machine shops top Ohio wage totals in 1914
Ohio industries paid out 47.8 million dollars in wages and salaries to foundry and machine shop products, with steel works and rolling mills second at 40.6 million. The report by Chief Statistician Fred Croxton shows Cuyahoga County leading with 101.4 million in wages across 2,338 institutions. Hamilton County followed with 69.2 million across 2,681 institutions. The study covers 14,776 establishments statewide, totaling 440.97 million in wages.
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Columbus
WENTY
Ohio
Fred Croxton
Industrial Commission
Cuyahoga County
Hamilton
Cuyahoga
Hamilton County
Ashtabula
Belmont
Butleros
Columbiana
Cscsssader
Franklin
Cse
Montgomery
Pro-German Pressure Fails to Halt Anglo French Loan Plan
Threats and protests follow the Anglo French credit loan talks in New York and Washington. Pro-German factions warn of bank withdrawals and demand collateral. Officials say funds will finance domestic purchases and support American exporters as the administration stays neutral.
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Commission
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Morgan
White House
Washington
U. S. Forces Hit Carrancista Units in Two Rio Grande Battles
U S troops killed at least twenty two Carranzista soldiers in two clashes along the Rio Grande near Matamoros and Los Ebanos. There were no American casualties. Carrancista commander Nafarette denies orders but tensions rise. President Wilson recalls American consuls from Sonora and Chihuahua and orders citizens to depart the two states.
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Brownsville
Tex
Rio Grande
Matamoros
Los Ebanos
Nafarette
Washington
Wilson
Sonora
Chihuahua
Mexico
Farmer's Wife Into Work Says Pinkham Medicine Helped
Kasota Minnesota resident Mrs. Ciara Franks reports relief from years of weakness and nerve pain after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She states the remedy restored her ability to work and endorses it to other women, inviting letters for reassurance from a woman.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Kasota
Minn
Ciara Franks
Maplecrest Farm
Local merchant saves home from kitchen fire
A Hartford bound merchant A. R. Gerber stopped his car when a woman shouted her kitchen was on fire. He pulled the blazing gasoline stove from the house, moved furniture to safety, and carried the stove outside before a second alarm could arrive, preventing further damage.
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A. R. Gerber
Hartford
Philadelphia
Gerber
Mount Holly
N. J
Dispatch
Philadelphia Record
Chopping Him Off. Cattle Baron Confronted by Stranger in Hotel Lobby
In Kansas City a prominent Oklahoma cattle baron known as Sandstorm Smith was approached in a hotel lobby by a suave stranger who claimed he resembled an old acquaintance. Smith retorted with sharp humor, saying the man looked far more like someone he does not know and never wants to meet.
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Columbus
W. B. Walters
Walters
Milton
Sandstorm Smith
Oklahoma
Kansas City
Sandstorm
Boston Woman Mistakes Mile Post for Gravesite
A Boston woman wandering away from home sees a mile post reading 1 M. from Boston. She misreads it as a gravestone and muses aloud that it shows being from Boston is simple and sufficient, a quip cited from Lippincott's.
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Boston
Lippincott’s
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Grand Army Veterans
Standard Oil Company of Ohio
R. R. Books
Massillon, O
Charles Steere
First National Bank
Xenia, O—Denman Duncan
Yellow Springs
Martins Ferry
Arena Morrow
John Ault
Anna Jansik
Toledo, O
Hickok Producing Co
National Association of Stationary Engineers
Louis Ziegler
Hamilton, O
Chamber of Commerce
Catholic Knights of Ohio
Order
Joseph J. Pater
Maxine Rice
Williams County Telephone Company
Bryan
Utilities Commission
T Ie Edon Home Telephone Company
Mt. Vernon
Charles Deeds
Granville
F. C. Croxton
Free Employment Agencies
Cleveland
Paton
Preble County
Isaiah Talbert
West Elkton
Talbert
Newark
Dave Steffin
Charles Athey
Wilbur Sorrel
Licking County
Byron L. Clen Denning
State Liquor Scensing Board
Clen Denning
Donahey
Turner
John H. Arnold
San Francisco
Arnold
Charles Q. Hildebrant
Ralph D. Cole
New York
Hotel Biltmore
Finance Commission
Wall Street
Europe
Fit
J. P. Morgan & Co
U. S
Carranza
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