Spelling Contest Heralds Buckeye State Championship
About 100 contestants, mostly girls aged 13 to 30, competed in Columbus to determine Ohio’s champion speller. Contestants wrote out submitted words, with Claude C. Gossett of Highland County the prior champion. State officials expect the winner to face top spellers from other states and announce 20 prizes.
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Columbus
Buckeye
Agee
Troy
Claude C. Gossett
Highland County
Pearson
Columbus Friends
J. M. Pearson
Manchester
England
Adam Leo Czartorski
London
Detroit
Mich
United States
Hello Uncle Sam Job Link Described By Government
A dialogue outlines Uncle Sam directing Jim Smith to a job through a federal labor distribution network. Secretary Wilson explains post office cooperation creates a national system matching job seekers with employers via blank applications, local posts, and Washington central records.
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Uncle Sam
Jim Smith
X-town
Mr. Smith
Smith
Jones
Smiths
Joneses
Departments of Labor, Commerce, Interior, Agriculture
Post Office
Division of Information, Immigration, Service
Department of Labor
Wilson
Government “Central
Labor
Ohio towns report accidents and crimes in scattered notices
A compiled roundup from Buckeye notes across Ohio lists fatal crashes, suicides, robberies, electrocutions, and injuries. Incidents occur in Fostoria, Napoleon, Lorain, Bellefontaine, Kenton, Springfield, Toledo, Akron, Youngstown, Canton, Elyria, Findlay, Port Clinton, Cleveland, Bellefontaine, Lima, and Galion with deaths, hospitalizations, and legal actions noted alongside civic updates and a new factory project in Findlay.
Dam Breaks World Storage Record at Elephant Butte
The Elephant Butte dam in New Mexico, completed by the U.S. reclamation service, becomes the world’s largest storage reservoir. It stands 318 feet high and 1,074 feet long, weighing a million tons. The lake extends 45 miles, averaging 65 feet deep, with capacity 856 billion gallons. When full it could cover Delaware two feet deep.
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Elephant Butte
New Mexico
Uncle Sam
Delaware
Beriberi Tied to Milling Destroys Grain Vitamins
The article explains that modern milling removes the grain husk and its vitamins, warning against diets based on white bread made from highly milled flour. It notes a beriberi outbreak among Newfoundland fishermen who relied on such bread, emphasizing the loss of nutritive elements called vitamines when the outer grain shell is removed.
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Newfoundland
Uncle Sam urges vitamin rich food to end pellagra
Public health experts cite experiments in the United States showing that the diet of chickens affects disease risk and suggesting humans should eat more vitamins. They warn that white flour and polished rice can contribute to deficiencies linked to pellagra and beriberi, urging inclusion of bran and cornmeal portions with more nutrients.
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Sam
United States Public Health Service
Philippines
Beri
Ealertctty Lapeer
Siberia
Forest Notes on Potash Demand and Forest Losses
Uncle Sam through the forest service notes increased demand for pot ash prompts government scrutiny of wood ash content at sawmills on national forests. The U S waste from sawmills totals 86 million cords yearly, with 2.88 billion cubic feet of solid wood substance, about half unused and burned. Chestnut blight has caused near 50 million dollars in damage while breeding programs have produced resistant trees. Predatory animals decimate West range stock, with wolves causing most losses. Leather manufacturing declined in establishments but rose in product value 1909 to 1914. Cattle hide tanning fell slightly. value rose.
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Uncle Sam
Forest Service
United States Department of l Agriculture
United States
Japan
China
National
Methodist conference sets funds and growth goals
Western Newspaper Union dispatch notes the Methodist Protestant general conference plans a $1,000,000 fund for four years and a 20 percent rise in church membership. A seven member committee will be chaired by L. Davis of Pittsburgh with C. S. Johnson of Columbus as secretary. The group favors erecting a $50,000 monument to Rev Francis Asbury in Washington and Methodist participation in the project. Separately, Youngstown men jailed after a running gunfight with police. bullets grazed officers during a break-in at a show store. Other items include Weygandt considering a bid for secretary of state, opium and narcotics seizures in Lima, death of H. B. Donaldson in Steubenville, and a fatal auto crash in Bellaire involving A J Wagner and Frank Yocke.
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Herbert 8. Bigelow
State Posision League
Hamaldon County
House of Representatives
Tate House
Turner
Charles E. Ballard
Clarke County
Person
County Election Board
A. L. Hoskins
Auglaize County
Joseph McGhee
T. 8. Hogan
Hosking
State Liquor Commission
James M. Cox
Carm A. Thom
P Son
Union News Beevion
Cleveland
Trburn
Noostra-Tlan
Laker
Cleveland Democrats
Haher
Fostoria
B. Stele
B. J. Thatcher
Titfa
Mivkr
Thatcher
Im & Fostoria
Stip
Napoleon
May Sharpe
Hazel Johnson
Florence Robinson
Wanseon
Harvey Graves
Sterling Kaney
Ned Baldwin
Fayette
Independence Dam
Lorain
Roy Washburn
Bellefontaine
East Liberty
Kenton
Floyd Lyman
Springfield
T. H. Balentine
Trémont City
Balen- One
William Bumgardner
Urbana
Lima
Apex Skirt Co
Findlay
Association
Jacob B. King
Toledo
James Stack
Chicago
Cherry Street
Stack
Frank Tentworth
McCoinb
James Rader
Tentworth
Akron
William Warner
Swartz
Kent
Latrobe
Ind
Erie
Youngstown
Mahoning County Bar Association
United States District Court
Canton
United Steel Co
Harry Stuhldrebr
Hudson
Elyria
John Mason
William
Earl Davis
Port Clinton
Colonel O. Brown
Miami
Germantown
Camp Perry
R. M. Martin
Wapakoneta
Springfeld
George Eichelbarger
New Carlisle
Ohio
Howard James
Max Braunn
Braunn
Dill
Rbicasrch
Atregis
Union News Service
Zenesvilla
Methodist Protestant General Conference
Davis
Pittsburgh
Teo. C
Johnson
Columbus
Franeiy Asbury
Washington
Children Bitten by Mad Dog in West End District
Lima police report a dog that died possibly of rabies bit twenty five children in the fashionable West End area. None have shown rabies symptoms.
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Lima
Chitten
West End
Urge Pardon of Slayer in Ohio Case
Columbus state pardon board recommends Jesse Sharp of Conneaut be released from the penitentiary where he has served a life term for second degree murder from 1841. The report notes Sharp killed a man in a lumber quarrel and attempts suicide by leaping from a chute. Other brief items report Emma Haugman saved from Lake Myers Park after leaping from a boggan, John F. Dibble 88 killed after a 80 foot fall at National Tube Co, Harry Ripley given workhouse time for striking his mother, and Kenneth Murphy three, severely injured after a Memorial Day parade fall from a second story window.
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Pub- Mc Utilities Commission
Hocking Valley Railroad
Callery
Ohio
Russia
Japan
China
South America
South Africa
Hiram C. Bronson
Columbus
William
Paulus
Wilhelmina Slaymaker
Gallipolis
Ohio State University
State Department of Public Works
J. E. Harper
Joseph F. Hogan
Moe
Perth
Hotalide
Montgomery County
Hamilton Board of Education
A. D. Waddell
State Accounting Bureau
Home County
J. T. Holmes
Benn
Jefferson County
Steubenville
Willis
Hildebrandt
George W. Shaw
Cleveland
Edward €. Turner
Joseph T. Tracy
Portsmouth
Auditor of State
Harmon
Cincinnati
Judson Harmon
State Pardon Board
Budge Snyder
Tuscarawas County
Nanoult
A. G. Hutton
Meigs County
Wallace Davis
Scioto County
Buckley
Jesse Sharp
Conneaut
Sharp
Sandusky
Kenneth Murphy
Donald Murphy
New York Central
Iron Worker Drops 75 Feet to Death at Plant
Loraine John Dibble aged 32, a structural iron worker at National Tube Co., was instantly killed after falling 75 feet from the top of a structure during work at an open hearth plant. The accident occurred at the factory site with no immediate witnesses. Dibble left a wife and two children.
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Falla
Lorain
John F. Dibble
National ‘Tube Co
Loraine John Dibble
National Tube Co
Body of Boy Found in Lake Near Hanna Home
The body of eight year old Herman Atorosi was recovered from a lake near H. M. Hanna's Bra tenahl residence by James Cook, Hanna's butler. Veteran Dies Memorial Day in Marysville. Captain Theodore Mullen, 73, Civil War veteran and former Marysville postmaster family head, died after a stroke.
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Boy
Lake
Cleveland
Herman Atorosi
H. M. Hanna
Bratenahl
James Cook
Hanna
Marysville
Theodore Mullen
Edward A. Mullen
Ex School Head to Run for Congress in 9th District
W T Chalmers former Toledo public schools superintendent announces candidacy for the Republican nomination in Ohio's ninth district. He frames the bid as a call to public service and outlines his platform for education and local growth.
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Toledo
W. T. Chalmers
Toledo Public Schools
Congress
Engine Kills Man on Railroad Tracks
The body of Ben Kennedy, fifty three, was found on the C H and D railroad tracks. He was instantly killed by the oil tank of an engine. Ex educator Lane Sanduaky and Albert Lo trey, former Vermilion schools superintendent, were mentioned in a separate note about insanity findings by the grand jury on April 24.
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Ohloan
Lima
Ben Kennedy
Calla
Lane
Sanduaky
Albert Lo Trey
Vermilion Schools
Court of Common
Western Canada Opportu nities for Farmers
A promotion piece extols Western Canada as a land of great opportunity for farmers offering 160 acre homesteads at low prices with easy terms. It cites Saskatchewan figures and an American farmer turned Saskatchewan homesteader who expanded to 100 acres and diversified into cattle, oats, wheat and hogs, predicting a coming stock-raising boom as postwar demand develops in Europe and North America.
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Western Canada
Lloydminster
Saskatchewan
States
Goverment Creamery
Canada
Europe
United States
Women prefer hand painted china by complexion match
Some lines note taste for hand painted china matching complexions. An ad claims merit sells Hanford's Balsam. A headline proclaims poverty is not a crime but suggests wealth disparity as the real reason many people are poor.
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China
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Ohio National Guard
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Hough
Texas
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Labor Distribution Service
Ogee
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Philadelphia
Federal Employment Office
Forest Notes
Buckeye Record
Grist
Telegraph
Warren
Albert Swanton
Tom Carrigan
Offcers Mahon
Gilles
Weygandt
Wooster
W. 4. Weygandt
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Daily News
Thin City
Friends
Wayne County
Lee Ben
Dorcas Green
H. B. Donaldson
Bellaire
J. Wagner
Frank Yocke
Yocke
Emma Haugman
Myers’ Lake Park
Will
Harry Ripley
Galla
Hanford
Ady
Biufer
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