Marker Named New Ohio Highway Commissioner
James Marker of Darke county was appointed by Governor Harmon to succeed James C. Wenders as state highway commissioner. The Pre-McGuire law reorganized the highway department granting full control of state road funds. Auditor Fullington refused old department vouchers, prompting Marker's move from chief engineer to the new role with a $4,000 annual salary.
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James R. Marker
Darke County
State Board of Public Works
Harmon
James C. Wenders
Prre-McGuire
Highway Department
State
Fullington
Marker
Public Works
State Highway Department
Governor Harmon Signs and Vetoes Legislative Bills
Governor Harmon vetoed the students voting bill and nine other measures while signing the workmen compensation bill the Columbus centennial bill and a minor measure on binding department reports. He allowed the woman nine hour workday bill and nine additional measures to become law without his signature.
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Harmon
Ohio factory rule on women workers delayed ruling expected
A committee from the Ohio Association of Manufacturers urged Attorney General Hogan to rule on the Green law limiting women and girls to 54 hours a week and ten hours a day. They asked Shop Inspector Kearns to suspend enforcement until a decision. Hogan will rule and enforcement remains suspended in the interim.
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Hogan
Ohio Association of Manufacturers
Kearns
Measures Acted Upon by Governor Harmon
Columbus report shows Governor Harmon approved nine general assembly bills and vetoed four more. Several measures were defeated in committee or failed to pass, reflecting ongoing legislative battles over taxation and state policy.
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Columbus
General Assembly
Harmon
Harmon vetoes canal survey and police pay bill
Governor Harmon vetoed the bill to survey a Lake Erie to Ohio River ship canal, and the Kennedy bill for a criminal court in Lima. He opposed increasing state judicial force, and rejected the Whiteemore bill due to tax and fee exemptions. Several bills were signed, including banking liability exemptions, oil well cementing, joint ditch construction, fire safety powers, juvenile court jurisdiction, and township reorganization.
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Chitet
Lake Erie
Ohio River
Kennedy
Lima
Harmon
Whiteemore
Harmoh
Governor-Harmon
Scott
Ottawa
Wood
Hudson
Battlefeld
Irving
Israel Township
Preble County
Muhlbach
Mutual Protective
Bszodiktions
Supreme Court strikes bulk sales law in Ohio
The 1908 bulk sales act was declared unconstitutional by the Ohio Supreme Court in Williams & Thompson Co. v Mike Presle, Mahoning County courts affirmed. The ruling holds the law conflicts with property rights and shifts the burden of proof, impacting creditors and merchants alike.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
Williams & Thompson Co
Mike Presle
Mahoning
Supreme Court ruling weakens birth data collection
The state vital statistics bureau and Census Bureau coordination faces impairment after the supreme court invalidates penalties on physicians and midwives for withholding detailed birth data. The ruling keeps mandatory birth reporting in place but removes penalties for withholding age, occupation, birthplace, and race information, risking voluntary, incomplete returns.
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State Bureau of Vital Statistics
Census Bureau
Washington
Supreme Court
Physicians Support Ohio Vital Statistics Effort
Most physicians are willing to cooperate in creating valuable Ohio vital statistics, though some, including Dr. Joseph J. Boone of Hardin County who brought the test case, argue doctors should be paid a fee for filing the return.
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Ohio
Joseph J. Boone
Hardin County
Governor Allows Utilities Bill by Lapse of Time
Governor Harmon refused to sign the public utilities commission bill over objections to telephone company merger authority. The measure became law by lapse of time without a signature.
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Harmon
Public Utilities Commission
State Board eliminates Karsher as canal superintendent
Malcolm A. Karsher, a local Republican boss, is removed from the state payroll after serving two years as superintendent of the southern division of the Ohio canal. The state board of public works abolished his position.
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Malcolm A. Karsher
State Board of Public Works
Karsher
Otis Hurley Returned to Penitentiary after Court Hearing
Otis Hurley, alias atwamet, 30, who has spent 13 years in prison, faces return to the penitentiary after a judge in Kinkead's court condemned him. He had recently been released after finishing a sentence for stabbing a girl in the penitentiary, and the act occurred while he was serving a term for bicycle theft.
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Lamar Ceny
Ze Kinkead
Hurley
Representative Roberts Returns Mileage and Salary to State
Jesse B. Roberts of Cleveland Rep returns 264.96 mileage and 400 salary from three years ago to State Treasurer Creamer. Granville W. Mooney sends a 672 mileage warrant after failing to draw it as candidate for secretary of state. Both cited opposition to mileage grabs amid prior salary raise votes.
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Jesse B. Roberts
Cleveland
Creamer
Granville W. Mooney
Roberts
Corporations Pay Taxes Show Fewer Unpaid Willis Sums
The state reports a drop from about 1 million dollars of uncollected Willis tax to just over 15000 this year. Cashier John A Brennan credits the tax commission's systematic work. Over the past year records show 2 863 DB257 Willis tax proceeds certified to the state auditor and then to the treasurer.
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John A. Brennan
Tax Commission
Governor Dix Denounces Theater Representation of Divine Figure
The governor of New York protests a theatrical use of a "living character representing the Divine person." The Illinois division of the Grand Army of the Republic declines to press congress to bar Robert E. Lee’s statue from the national hall of fame. The Iron Age notes a brighter steel market, while Pittsburg signals relief and expected improvement ahead.
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Dix
New York
Hastation
Illinois
Grand Army of the Republic
Congress
Robert E. Lee
National Hall of Fame
Pittsburg
Tohey
Three Aviators Die In Vincennes Flight Race Start
Paris reports three aviators killed instantly and several injured as 50 of 60 entrants take off from Vincennes in the European cross country flight. Captain Princeteau and M. LeMartin die in midair and a third airman burned when fuel exploded. Others injured include Gaubert Dalgar and Morison as a large crowd of about one million records the tragic start.
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Paris
France
Vincennes
Princeteau
M. LeMartin
Bleriot
M. Lendron
A Gaubert
Dalgar
Villars-Coterets
Billie
M. Morison
Gagny
M. Morin
Chevron
M Loridan
Charleville
Missionary Florence Magee Dies in Rome Pesthouse
Mrs Florence Magee longtime board member of home missions in Cincinnati died in Rome after contracting exanthematous typhus while studying Naples slums. An autopsy confirmed fever linked to her Italian mission work. Magee, renowned among American Italian emigrants, sailed four weeks earlier to aid Italian Presbyterian outreach.
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Rome
Italy
Florence Magee
Board of Home Missions
Cincinnati
Naples
Presbyterian Foreign Missionary Society
Ex-Newspaper Man Describes Rat Torture in Mexican Jail
William L. Dunne, a former American journalist freed in a Madero assassination case, arrives in San Antonio detailing torture in Monterey. He claims Mexican guards dropped dead rats into his small cell and left them to rot, endangering his life during confinement.
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San Antonio
Tex
William L. Dunne
Monterey
Mexico
Francisco I. Madero
Exicans
Prominent Lawyer Drowns at Trenton Falls Gorge
Prominent Rome lawyer Eugene A. Rowland vanished after slipping from the West Canada creek bank at Trenton Falls Gorge while strolling with naturalist John Burroughs. He was swept away in turbulent waters and drowned.
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Utica
N. Y
John Burroughs
Trenton Falls
West Canada Creek
Eugene A. Rowsland
Rome
Uncover Maine Relics in Havana Harbor Cofferdam
Divers reveal artifacts from the battleship Maine as cofferdam work lowers water. Discoveries include plates chinaware captain’s dinner service ward room items and an officer’s dress sword behind the forward portside door from the officers’ quarters to the spar deck.
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Maine
Havana
Cuba
Taft 25th anniversary gala at White House hosts famed guests
Washington reports a grand June 19 silver wedding celebration for President Taft and Nellie Taft at the White House. About five thousand guests, including notable Americans and foreign diplomats, attended a warmly informal reception and later a formal banquet on the grounds and in the mansion.
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Washington, DC
White House
United States
Diplomatic Corps
United States Supreme Court
Senate
House of Representatives
Army
Navy
Cosby
Corps of
White House Corps
Taft
Fort Moyer Bintat
Cutlery Frauds Cheating Uncle Sam Uncovered
Secret agents under Chief Wilkie traced multi million dollar duties frauds on cutlery imports over several years. Treasury Secretary MacVeagh ordered the inquiry which has operated quietly in the United States and in the Seligen district of Germany, where most imports originate. Investigation ongoing.
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Uncle Sam
Washington, D. C
Ben
Customs Service
Wilkie
Seligen
Germany
United States
Worth of the voice and human soul in sound
A quotation from Longfellow's Hyperion extols the voice as the soul revealed in audible form. It contrasts the visible intellect and heart with the voice that discloses inner eternal fountain.
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Longfellow
Hyperion
Too Bad About Joe Arm Injury Looms for Local Pitcher
A brief reads that Joe sprained his arm and may never pitch again, prompting his parents to seek medical advice. The note mentions quotes about fate and contempt, with a literary aside from Pierre Loti and a nod to Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup and Garfield Tea advertisements.
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Ramon
Atwamet
Otis’ Hurley
Hire & Ahadtwoth
Pierre Loti
Alphonse Karr
Diogenes
Cca
Aselo
Ronsirrs
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W. F. Young
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Springfeld
Mase
Costinas
Phich
Pratt
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Department 4
Brooklyn
Ackson
Arcado
Wicly
Common Sense
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Buffalo
N.Y
Specia
Spohm Medical CO
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Ind
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Graf-Morsbach CO
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