Brigade Encampment Opens With Prayer in Springfield
Dayton Ohio August 12 Over 2000 members of the uniform rank Knights of Pythias camped at the fair grounds Sunday afternoon for the brigade encampment opening with religious services Rev B F Clayton brigade chaplain officiated and music by a chorus of twenty voices A fraternal visit from Canton Earl Patriarchs Militant accompanied by Department Commander Gen J C Whitaker followed Late Sunday a sacred concert was held The week features a brigade parade Wednesday and races and athletic entertainment Thursday Brig Gen W Minshill of Cleveland commands the camp Named for Josiah Catrow Germantown past grand chancellor of Ohio The article notes the arrival and planned activities including parades and programs during the encampment.
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Dayton, O
Knights of Pythias
Fair Grounds
B. F. Clayton
Vythians
Canton Earl
Patriarchs Militant
J. C. Whitacker
W. Minshill
Cleveland
Josiah Catrow
Germantown
Ohio
Receiver sought for Cleveland savings and loan firm
Action commenced against the Guarantee Savings and Loan Co of Cleveland. Special counsel Smith W Bennett asked Judge Davis in Marion for the appointment of a receiver. The move is part of a statewide campaign against troubled building and loan associations amid inspector concerns. The resignation of Secretary Blogett led to withholding the receiver application.
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Columbus
Smith W Bennett
Attorney General's Office
Davis
Supreme Court
Marion
Guarantee Savings and Loan Co
Cleveland
Attorney -General’s
Cleveland Company
Blogett
Attorney General’s Office
Prospects Begin Boring in Darrtown Field Near Hamilton
Oil and gas prospecting crews prepare to bore Tuesday morning in the Darrtown field near Hamilton U. Aug. 12. Derrick rigs are erected on J. W. Nichols farm with engines set and promising outlook. The operation is led by President H. Rentehler, Vice President Peter Schwab, and Secretary Treasurer L. P. Clawson, with directors J. W. Nichols and G. Wagonfield along with the officers.
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Hamilton
Darrtown
J. W. Nichol
H. Rentehler
Peter Schwab
L. P. Clawson
J. W. Nichols
G. Wagonfield
Violence Flare Feared As Steel Strike Spreads
In Warren Ohio on August 13 the Mahoning valley strike sparked trouble at Niles when an angry crowd surrounded the Erie train from Lisbon. Police intervened to prevent mobbing. five men were saved from attack. Tense conditions warned that any restart of operations at the tin mill there could trigger serious trouble.
Works of United States Steel Corp held in Bellaire
In Bellaire Ohio on August 13 the U S Steel plant operates but with limited output as strikers persuade twelve tannery workers and one salaried employee to join the mill. Organizers say a new membership drive is underway amid production slowdowns.
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Bellaire, O
United States Steel Corporation
Impromptu Bavarian Family Concert at McKinley Lawn
A Bavarian family of six gave an impromptu outdoor concert on the McKinley lawn during dinner hour. When President McKinley and Mrs. McKinley appeared on the porch, the players extended their program to include most of the band's repertoire.
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McKinley Lawn
McKinley
McCarthy Injured by Katoll. Ends Season Likely Forever
Left fielder McCarthy of the Cleveland club suffered a severe knee injury from Pitcher Katoll's in shoot in last Saturday's game. Doctors fear permanent knee cap damage and worry he may have to quit baseball for good, ending his season and possibly his career.
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McCarthy
Cleveland
Katoll
Automobiles For Cape Town From Toledo Factory
A Toledo manufacturing company shipped three high power automobiles to Cape Town South Africa. The order was placed by the British government for use by army officers.
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Toledo, O
Cape Town
South Africa
Louisa Cooper 100 Dies. Early County Settler
Mrs. Louisa Cooper died aged 100 years and 15 days in the county seat. An early settler, she moved to the city from Logan county at age 16 and lived there for much of her life.
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Louisa Cooper
Logan County
Inventor Ballantine Dies at 66 in Cleveland
Cleveland August 10. Alexander Thomas Ballantine inventor of the ice on a hinge machine and the method of increasing oil flow by exploding torpedoes in wells is dead at age 66. He gained recognition for innovations in oil field technology and mechanical design. His work included the ice on a hinge device and explosive well stimulation techniques. He will be remembered for contributing to early oil extraction methods and mechanical inventiveness in the industrial era.
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Cleveland, C
Alexander Thomas Ballantine
President grants parole to Ohio penitentiary burglar
Columbus Ohio Aug 12 President McKinley has granted a parole to John B Bulley serving a three years sentence in the Ohio penitentiary Bulley was a clerk in the Toledo post office and was convicted of stealing opening and destroying letters.
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Columbus
McKinley
John. &. Bulley
Ohio Penitentiary
Bulley
Toledo
Lorain Plant Operates at Full Capacity Despite Strike Order
Lorain Ohio August 12 no workers quit at the large steel plant after President Shafter issued a strike order. The entire plant is being run to its full capacity as workers continue on the job.
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Lorain, O
Steel Trust
Shafter
Children Drown While Crossing River on Board in Alliance
On August 12 in Alliance C, Don and Holland Vick aged 11 and 5 sons of Clyde Vick fell from a board while crossing the Mahoning river and were drowned. Their bodies were recovered about an hour later.
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Alliance
Mahoning River
Don and
Holland
Clyde Vick
Church Building Shut In Columbus Grove
May or Wells ordered the Methodist Episcopal church closed due to unsafe condition. The 1891 building cost $5,000 and now ceases further services.
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Columbus Grove
Wells
Methodist Episcopal Church
Plant to Be Dismantled in Youngstown Ohio
The official announcement stated that the Youngstown plant of the American Can Co. would be dismantled and its machinery shipped to other plants of the company. The works employed 79 workers.
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Youngstown, C
Youngstown
American Can Co
Saloon Porter Becomes Heir After Texas Estate Discovery
Columbus report states John Cunningham, a saloon worker known for wrestling cuspidors, has fallen heir to a sizable estate near Humont Texas. Details of the inheritance remain limited as local officials verify the claim.
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Porter
Columbus
jJohn Cunningham
Umont
Tex
Suit Filed for 25000 Damages Over Steel Plant Loss
Morris Moody M Dunn and numerous Dennison residents filed a US circuit court suit in Cleveland against American Sheet Steel Co claiming a $25000 damage for loss of a rolling mill site and land bonus. They allege the plant’s dismantling harmed their interests after mills were sold in May.
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Cleveland
American Steel Co
American Sheet Steel Co
Common Pleas Court
Tuscarawas County
United States Circuit Court
Morris Moody
M. Dunn
Dennison
Wife of lake captain kills herself after daughter shot
In Cleveland on August 12 Mrs. Robert Pringle went insane from illness and shot her 13 year old daughter Mildred three times before turning the pistol on herself. She died Sunday night. Mildred likely recovers. A young son was spared when the pistol had already been emptied.
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Cleveland, O
Robert Pringle
Mildred
Akron Varnish Co books show $29000 defalcation by ex-treasurer
Akron Ohio August 12 examination of the Akron Varnish Company books completed Monday reveals the alleged defalcation by former treasurer Homer J McCrum amounts to twenty nine thousand dollars. McCrum fled the scene weeks ago.
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Akron, O
Akron Varnish Co
Homer J. McCran
McCrum
Company Sets Course to Meet All Vote Totals
A company states it will proceed to meet all vote totals. The statement outlines plans to address each voting outcome and ensure compliance with the required thresholds. No further action details are provided in the readable text.
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C.ompany
Dream of a queenly bride ends in a small ceremony
A man dreamed of a graceful wife with a queenly air and waited for the right match. He finally married yesterday to a plump freckled-nosed partner whose children cried as the preacher spoke. The piece from E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald notes the contrast between dream and reality.
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E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Imported workers land at Crescent tin plate mill
Mereland on Aug 13 reports sixteen imported men landed at the Crescent tin plate mills Monday night. A crowd of 500 strike sympathizers jeered them but no trouble occurred. District Manager Bamfield of the American Tin Plate Co said four of six tills would run Tuesday morning and the plant would be fully operating within days.
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Mereland
Crescent Tin Plate Mills
Bamfield
American ‘Tin Plate Co
Mad Sow Mutilates 4 Year Old in Concord Township
In Delaware on August 12, Erastus Dulin's four year old son was badly mauled by a mad sow while playing with a companion in the pen. The injury was severe and described as horribly mutilated. Authorities investigated the incident in Concord township.
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Delaware, D
Erastus Dulin
Concord Township
Five Campers Harvest Pearls Along Cuyahoga River
Five strangers who said they were campers have spent over a month collecting pearls found in clams along the Cuyahoga river and its tributaries in Geauga county, Chardon area.
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Chardon
Cuyahoga River
Geauga County
The Sixpence and a Long Lost Love
Lieutenant Enson, best man at a distant wedding, learns the bride Lysbeth once lost to him was in fact alive. A found sixpence reveals she kept his secret, and Enson discovers she traded a sixpence to fund her own return, gifting him a second chance to claim happiness.
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Lieutenant Hackett
Hackett
Lieutenant Enson
Enson
Maybrook
Ned Enson
America
Ellen
Miss Perry
Hammond
Porter
Far Street
Han
Joh
Mil
Fayette Street
Avenue
Pranklin
Lysbeth
Lytle
Graciou
Strike by Cincinnati Lebanon and Northern trackmen over wage rise
In Cincinnati on August 13, track workers of the Cincinnati, Lebanon and Northern railroad walked out as construction proceeds on miles of track between Silverton and Rossville. About 100 men, paid $1.20 per day, demand a 15 cent daily raise.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Lebanon & Northern Railroad
Silverton
Rossmayne
Erie line adopts limited one cent fare to Buffalo plan
The Erie Railroad reconsidered its decision to set a regular one cent fare from Cleveland to Buffalo and will adopt the Lake Shore and Nickel Plate plan allowing the reduced rate only on Tuesday and Saturdays.
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Cleveland
The
Erie
Buffalo
Strange Coincidence in Massillon Killing Spot
Massillon Ohio August 10 The crossing where W O Rowe Columbus lumber dealer was killed Thursday is the identical spot where the house in which he was born formerly stood.
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Massillon, O
W. O. Rowe
Columbus
Traction Property Transferred to Toledo Railways and Light
Toledo property of the Toledo Traction Co. was transferred to the Toledo Railways and Light Co. as part of the Everett-Moore syndicate for 6 million dollars. It is announced that 1 million will be spent on improvements.
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Toledo, O
Toledo Traction Co
Toledo Railways and Light Co
Everett-Moore Syndicate
Order For Five Steel Steamers Planned For Cleveland
An order for five steel steamers costing about 1.5 million dollars will be placed unless National Transportation Co plans completed Monday fall through. The steamers will carry from 800 to 200 tons in capacity.
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Cleveland, O
National Transportation Co
New Opera House Planned for Lorain Ohio
On August 10 Elyria reports Lorain will build a new opera house. financier George Verbeck of Oil City Pennsylvania provides $30,000, the Broadway site costing over $7,000 has been purchased, and the architectural plans are completed.
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Lorain
Elyria
George Verbeck
Oil City
Case of Hydrophobia Shocks Newark Hospital Crowd
Newark Ohio August 10 Harry Arkin about 30 lies in city hospital with a clearly defined hydrophobia case doctors believe the illness may be hydrophobia and fear the patient will succumb to the disease as tests proceed.
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Newark
Harry Arkin
Bracing a Farm Bridge to Resist Flood Wreckage
An Ohio Farmer article outlines securing a light wooden farm bridge over a narrow stream using wire braces. It describes wiring from a tree to the bridge sill and another brace from a bank stake to the opposite end, tightened to stabilize the structure during freshets.
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Petek
J. Ohio
Private charity and society money in question
A Chicago Post excerpt captures a pair debating the social reach of their wealth. They note charity galas with boxes priced at 200 to 300 dollars seeming to prove their status, while exclusive private functions appear to reveal little. The exchange centers on hypocrisy and wealth in high society.
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Corry
Chicago Post
Mascagni Draws a Line Over Tour Hair Style
Paris rumors claim Mascagni rejected an $80,000 eight week US tour offer with an orchestra to perform Cavalleria Rusticana and L Amico Fritz. Managers allegedly seek to annul the contract after he declines a Paderewski style hair look to boost female audiences.
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Mascagni
Paris
Ka Ia
United States
Cavalleria Rusticana
L’ Amico Fritz
Names of Vienna Schoolchildren Revealed in Census
In Vienna public schools 500 boys were tallied with Karl leading at 70, Franz Joseph 46, John 44, Rudolf 26, Leopold 24, Otto 10. Other names ranged from Friedrich 16 to Wilhelm 12. Among 550 girls 91 were Marie, 52 Anna, 23 Leopoltine, 21 Hermine, 19 Katharina and Rosa, 18 Helen, 17 Therese, 16 Josephine, 15 Johanna, 14 Margaret, 13 Caroline, 12 Emma.
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Vienna
Karl
Franz Joseph
John
Rudolph
Leopold
Otto
Friedrich
Ferdinand
Alfred
Anton
Ludwig
Gustav
Henry
Nee
Wilhelm
Marie
Anna
Leopoltine
Hermine
Katharina
Rosa
Helen
Therese
Jousephine
Johanna
Margaret
Caroline
Emma
Fine Academy at Annapolis will cost three million
The Annapolis naval academy project will cost about 3 million dollars when finished. It promises superior accommodations and is expected to surpass other government structures outside Washington. The complex will accommodate about 50 personnel.
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Annapolipolis
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Washington
Courage and family humor in the Ohi Journal excerpt
The Ohio Journal quotes Mrs. Meek expressing pride in courage while joking about her baby and the hired girl. Mr. Meek queries about his child’s actions as the couple share light banter reflecting domestic life.
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Mrs. Meek
Mr. Meek
Meek
That's All Right Mama But She Was The Game Cat
Dorothy, daughter of a western minister, shows willful temper at a folly. She scolds her kitten after it refuses a doll’s cape and blurts out a sharp insult. Nurture and punishment follow, yet the child’s resolve fades as she declares the kitten still the “game kind.”
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Dorothy
Milwaukee Sentinel
Misdiagnosis Twists as Patient Corrects Doctor
A Victorian anecdote recalls Dr. Reed summoned to a festive bedside. He miscounts a pulse, mutters drunk by Jove, then orders a harmless mix ture. The next morning the patient confesses the doctor had correctly diagnosed her ailment despite the error.
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Ead
Chicago Chronicle
Ohio Official Condemns Chemical Preservatives in Food
J. E. Blackburn of the Ohio Pure Food Commission argues that chemical preservatives should be uniformly condemned and prohibited. He notes rare cases of harmless use do not justify widespread use, cites borax boracic acid salicylic acid benzoate of soda and formalin, and urges prosecutions in milk butter and meats.
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Ohio Pure Food Commission
J._ E. Blackburn
Never-Tip Milk Stool Brings Safe Milking Solution
A feature in Orange Judd Farmer describes a never tip milk stool with legs inserted through angled holes in a two inch pine seat. The design spreads legs over a wide area to prevent tipping even with unruly cows. it suggests using broomstick legs trimmed to fit into the holes for adjustable height.
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Orange Judd Farmer
All Servants Alike Political Cartoon Exchange
A brief exchange in the Philadelphia Press prompts a joke about public officials as bosses versus servants. Towne and Browne discuss the idea of officeholders as public servants and the notion of keeping house as a comparison.
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Towne
Browne
Philadelphia Press
Quick Quips From Dailies On Affairs And Banter
A collage of lighthearted exchanges from papers across the United States. Jabs about foreigners in American affairs money questions Civil War and late wife jokes, a quip on dieting, and a remark on today as part of tomorrow’s worry.
Idle Words and Foolish Voices From Old Newspapers
A brief assemblage notes quips about fools and idlers from the Atchison Globe and Ram's Horn. The lines reflect editorial wit and a sentiment on public chatter.
Fragmented Slogan Dialogue From Ohio State Tour
A brief, readable fragment shows a father urging restraint as Johnnie and others speak in a rural voice. The passage includes a stray line about Ohio State tour and a quip from Uncle Eben about chasing nothing for something, reflecting regional dialects and everyday humor.
Neighbor and mother clash over a crying baby joke
A Chicago Tribune item reports a neighbor question about jogging the baby to stop crying, while the mother defends the method as producing a striking tremolo effect. The brief exchange highlights a humorous but controversial parenting remark.
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Chicago Tribune
Pneumonia Cure Claim Ad Fragments
An OCR fragment advertises a pneumonia cure with bold claims and a price, noting an infallible remedy. The text is incomplete but suggests a patent medicine pitch and short product description.
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