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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1908
Page
4
Local notices urge Marion county Democrats to back candidates for Sheriff Probate Judge County Commissioner Recorder Auditor Prosecuting Attorney Infirmary Director Coroner and more. Submissions emphasize nomination subject to the Democratic county convention and May 2 1908 meeting.
The entry lists births and deaths of 18th and 19th century figures including David Rittenhouse 1732 1796, Richard Grant White 1821 1885, General James L Kemper 1922, and Rev Dr John Jobson 1420, alongside an astronomical events note for tonight and tomorrow morning with Bun sete 6:28 rise 5:20 moon set 2:03 a.m.
In Cleveland in April stockholders of a large consolidated company met but adjourned today until Thursday without directing the directors to resume the local street railway dispute. The decision leaves the fate of the resumed conflict in suspense.
A visitor from W. A. South travels to Delware Monday. Joseph Fisher of Upper Sandusky reports a birth. Mr. and Mrs. William Hurnsides return from a pleasant visit with B. L. W. Martin of Upper Sandusky. Roy Whiteman and Mrs. and Atha accompany W. H. Belper of Seffner Avenue home after a visit. John Kints dies suddenly. funeral set for Thursday at Beulah chapel with burial in the church cemetery.
A man named Oldfield vows to retire early after earning between ten and twenty thousand dollars a year and living off bonds. He plans endless leisure with art and family, while his porter Collins enjoys simple daily happiness with his wife and children. After years of frugality and shifts in lifestyle, Oldfield realizes leisure without purpose drains life, ends in debt, and he dies three years later.
Local events note a Free Baptist Ladies apron sale at the church Friday afternoon on April luth. A Wy R CG event and a wedding notice mention George B. Bryant of Her din county and Mike Kile Oehler of Meanant township, with marriage planned in Marseilles. Frank Willis of Bijou Dream comments that the prior article was only rumor, amid confusion over war talk and pricing details.
A description of party word games and spelling challenges. It explains Initial Letters where a guesser names words by each letter, contrasts beside and besides with examples, and offers a guessing mask game to cover faces for a playful audience.
Pursuant to party orders, the Democratic County Central Committee gives notice of Marion County Ohio Democrats to nominate candidates for county offices to be voted in November 1908. Delegates and alternates to the state convention will be chosen May 1st, 1908, with elections at precincts 7 to 8 p.m. Central Time. A separate state convention in Columbus May 6–7 will name presidential electors and other state offices, with delegates apportioned by votes for Governor in 1905 and additional rules. The Marion convention meets May 2 at 10 a.m. in the Common Pleas Court room to elect members of various party committees and nominate candidates for multiple offices.
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