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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1907
Page
5
A tourist found a small Western Grampians church with a dwindling weekly congregation. On calm days fewer than 20 members attend. storm days reduce that number further. A beadle guards the empty building as an elderly man sits inside awaiting service.
The Ohio Supreme Court reversed Marion county common pleas and circuit court rulings in the Minerva Decker damages suit against the Hocking Valley Railway. Decker, widow of Joseph Decker killed by a train in 1900, had won $2,000 in lower courts. The decision, argued recently in Columbus, leaves the outcome unsettled pending final ruling. Alfred Russell sues I M Electric Railway for $5,000 after a Marion car crash near Prospect in 1906. The board of county commissioners adjourned a ditch improvement project with July 24 set as the final hearing date.
Peter Fitzgerald was deemed sane by doctors after a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity. Probate Judge Foster ordered him released and required he leave town, amid prior testimony from physicians declaring him a danger to the community. John DeColley and Prosecutor Clark had clashed over whose case established insanity. Fitz gerald and his brother Peter planned Topeka departure.
A priest named Candeo developed a new Italian cereal Olco Cafro. A public test at Mesbrino showed bread from its flour palatable and firm. When mixed with one third wheat flour it yields sustaining food at a low price, with claims of Pellagra relief.
A social gathering of the Clubs and Societies group will be held at Mrs. A A Gottsdall's home in Prospert Street to honor house guest Mrs. Claybourne Me Cauley of Key West Florida. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs B G McFarlin on Bennett Street this morning. Irvin Crooke's son in Lae Street received a bean lodged in the upper nasal cavity yesterday afternoon. a physician removed the object.
Ralph and Wijam Brell spend a few days at Weel Haden with Mrs B Kale of Boulevard returns from Pitt org visit. P T Dombaugh recovering from illness. Mitt Hope Fisher returns from Vassar College to spend summer with parents. Mrs Anna Morey heads to Columbus to visit Prof. Morey before summer home in Southern Ohio. Mrs DR Criminger and Donna Rath Crimsinger return from Akron after Byelyteols Leite commencement.
A chaotic city report describes a tramp tailor robbed during a protracted spree. Mayor’s blunt approach to petty crime spreads controversy as fines, notes, and jail threats surface amid arrests for drunkenness and construction work mishaps. Municipal tensions rise over enforcement and accountability.
Contested sermon in Mischvatppi sparks controversy as Representative John Shary Willlane recounts a minister’s remarks about Dan Samson. The clergyman is pressured to retract statements regarding Samson and to amend his sermon. Local tensions rise amid talk of public retraction and accountability.
Jacob Apt Sufers a man aged, suffered a stroke and struck his head on a washstand after a fall near Caledonia two miles east. He lay unconscious in a pool of blood from a deep gash in the back of his head and is in a critical condition.
A man, age around sixty, was attacked in his home by his wife who was overwhelmed by grief after a fatal incident. He sustained a serious head wound near the washstand while a rescue attempt unfolded. Dr J By Baker of Caledonia attended and reported the patient in poor condition with limited hope for recovery.
Funeral service for Mrs AL Metangttin held at St Stary Choirs from the German Lutheran bundle sang at a charity concert in Mbinsfield. A woman in Crater Street with opiate poisoning shows some improvement but remains gravely ill. A 1906 year end meeting is planned Friday at seven o’clock to prepare for a ceremony. Roy Wiant, in Pontiac, Michigan, is critically ill with appendicitis and potential typhoid fever, prompting concern from many friends.
Mrs Benjamin Hurruff of West Columbia rejects reports she intended to desert her husband and children, stating she went to visit relatives near Mt. Veryon and returned home Wednesday. The couple’s two children remained with Mrs Hurruff during the absence.
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