Extortion Allegations In Case Of Missing 15 Year Old
In Coshocton Ohio 15 year old Ernest Nosker returned home with his farmer father Sherman Nosker. Ernest claims a wealthy family west of Coshocton intimidated him into leaving home three months ago and threatened exposure if a large reward was offered. He says they pressured him to obtain a job in Cleveland and urged him to flee the county.
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Coshocton
Ernest Nosker
Sherman Nosker
Nosker
Cleveland
Doctors Threatened Amid Ball Indictment Case
Anonymous letters mailed to Doctors Roach Haggart Taylor and Johnston threaten them with death if they testify in Canton next week in the Dr A C Ball case. Ball is indicted for performing a criminal operation on Mrs Lilian McGuire April 20 last, ending in her death. The doctors who autopsied the case testified before the grand jury which led to Ball’s indictment.
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Alliance, Co
Roach
Haggart
Taylor
Johnston
Canton
A. C. Ball
Lilian McGuire
Johnston, Haggart
Mansfield Woman Cremates Herself
Mansfield Ohio Mrs Clara Terman wife of Elza Terman a laborer died by her own action Wednesday when she burned herself to death. Troubled for months by nervous disorders she saturated her night dress with coal oil and covered her body with axle grease then set her gown on fire. Her husband awakened by her screams found her a burning mass on the stairway. She lived nearly two hours.
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Mansfield
Clara Terman
Elza Terman
Lingefelter Sentenced for Three Years in Bank Forgery
Mrs. Mary J. Lingefelter was sentenced to three years in state prison for forgery tied to wrecking a Newark bank. Judge Campbell suspended the term for 15 days to allow an appeal to the circuit court. Lingefelter denied guilt. Sheriff Browning took her into custody.
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Coshocton
Campbell
Mary J. Lingefelter
Lingefelter
Newark
Browning
Congressman Mouser To Present A Big Stick To Roosevelt
Marion Democrat Mouser left for Washington with a four and a half foot gourd gift from Democratic admirers. The gourd, carved to resemble the president’s famous big stick, was grown on a Marion county farm and conceived as a White House tribute.
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Roosevelt
Marion
Mouser
Washington
Marion County
White House
Niles to Have a New Steel Plant
The Youngstown Iron and Steel Roofing Co will erect a 3 million dollar steel plant in Niles. Construction starts early spring with one blast furnace eight 50 ton open hearth furnaces a blooming mill a billet mill a bar mill and a plate mill. The sheet mill will move from Youngstown to Niles but the company name remains.
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Niles
Niles, C
Youngstown Iron & Steel Roofing Co
Youngstown
Man kills wife then shoots himself during party quarrel
O Donato Milanetti, 27, of Midland, shot his wife twice in the breast during a quarrel over a guest at a party, then fired twice at himself. He lies in a hospital, not expected to recover. Milanetti had come from Steubenville five days earlier.
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Donato Milanett
Milanetti
Midland
Steubenville
Four hunting season ends December fifth in Muskingum ruling
Columbus Ohio. State Warden Porterfield will follow a Muskingum county circuit court construction of state game laws extending the open season to December 5. Previously season end was believed December 4, granting hunters one extra day of sport.
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Columbus
Porterfield
Muskingum County Circuit Court
Man Receives Three Year Term After Fatal Stabbing
Marion Ohio Liberty Reece was sentenced Monday to three years in the penitentiary for slashing John Kline with a tenting knife while claiming the unwritten law justifies the act. Reece alleged Kline seduced his wife and ruined his home, invoking a local honor code.
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Drew
Marion
Liberty Reece
John Kline
Reece
Kline
Ten Years of Pain and Kidney Trouble Healed
Mrs. Margaret Emmerich of Clinton Street Napoleon Ohio suffered kidney pain backache poor eyesight and dizziness for years. She found relief and cure with Doans Kidney Pills after doctors failed. Sold by dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Margaret Emmerich
Clinton Street
Napoleon, O
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Hammocks Try Sleeping Cars In Nova Scotia Train
In Nova Scotia a railway experiment replaced bunks with hammocks in sleeping cars. The test ran on a train and was deemed a great success.
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Nove Scotia
Comic Fragments and Advertising Snippets Review
A jumble of vintage ad lines and quotes mentions Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup claiming cures and relief for children. A motto about a man and anchor contrasts with Putnam Faceless Dyes boasting brighter colors with less work. A note on power for evil versus good closes the fragment.
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Putnam
Garfield Tea Promoted Under Pure Food Law
Garfield Tea for constipation advertised as meeting the National Pure Food and Drugs Act requirements. Claims emphasize adherence to new law standards and approvals for safe use.
Mahogany Bridge in Mexico A Rare Timber Construction
A solid mahogany bridge in Palenque Chiapas Mexico spans the Rio Michel. It measures over 150 feet in total length and 15 feet in width, built almost entirely of mahogany with iron braces. Pedestrians and teams use the sturdy yet primitive structure, noting no sawn lumber in its flooring.
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Palenque
State of Chiapas
Republic of Mexico
Mexico
Guatemala
Rio Michel
Old Mexico
New Year Calls and Postum for a New Era
A 25 year lookback on New Year visits notes past excess with egg nog and apple jack and champions shifts to non alcoholic choices. A Staten Island doctor and his daughter endorse Postum as wholesome and suggest serving it to guests alongside the road to better health. Read The Road to Wellville for context.
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Staten Island
Wellville
Lydia E. Pinkham and Her Vegetable Compound
The biography traces Lydia E. Pinkham born in 1818 in Lynn Massachusetts from a Quaker family to founder of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It details her early teaching career her interest in herbs and roots and how financial hardship led to creating the medicine with her family. It notes the lab in the kitchen the spread of the remedy and the rise of the business and its ongoing work with her daughter in law and later Mrs. Pinkham continuing the outreach to sick women with advice.
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Isaac Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lynn
Pinkham
Pinkhams
Boston
New York
Brooklyn
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Mrs. Lingefelter
WHO
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Estes
Mass
Chesbbrough Mfg. CO
State Street
New York City
Defiance Starch Soriesteronrines Aln. KC
A. L
Buffalo A. L. O
Buffalo Oil Paint 2 Varnish Co
Buffalo, N. Y
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
Douglas
Brockton
L. Douglas
R. Paxton CO
Soston, Masse
Free Farms
Canada
Ottawa
M. Williams
Law
Toledo
Qhie
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