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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1908
Page
3
A brief note notes groups of individuals seeking to collaborate on enterprise ventures. It highlights networking for business purposes and forming partnerships to pursue commercial opportunities. The item reads as a classified style call for connecting like minded professionals.
Heavy rains and cloudbursts shut down all rail traffic in Oklahoma. Bridges on major lines collapsed cutting gas supply to Muskogee and southeastern towns. Waterlogged streets, rising rivers, and evacuations followed as Hatchery grain and hotel services halted amid widespread damage.
Roger Atkinson writes in October 1774 from Cumberland England to Samuel Piravant of Philadelphia about Virginia's seven delegates to the Philadelphia Congress. The missive portrays Patrick Henry as both bold and volatile, a polemical farmer with the power to shake the Senate and provoke discussion in Congress while navigating religious and political identities.
At the Baltimore General Conference several bishopric candidates faced damaging rumors. Rev. Charles J. Goodell of Calvary NYC, Rev. Joseph Hingeley of Minneapolis, Rev. George P. Bekian of New York, and Rev. Dr. Charles I. Goodell endured attacks. Congregants supported Goodell amid a divisive, rumor-filled season as the church seeks unity.
A radio style essay notes how a balloon ascent feels no distinct sensation beyond slow rise and distant landscape fading to a map like view. It also imagines a future bath era with oxygenated water, drying cupboards, and instant grooming tools.
A humorous social meditation on English upper class expense focusing on bridge as a costly pastime for young and old nobles. It notes agricultural depression and rising wealth among nouveau riche driving extravagant living, with women spending on bridge and men on investments, spirits, and lifestyle drains.
A fragment describes writers Hawthorne, Macaulay, Marlowe Crawford, Darwin, Voltaire, Tolstoi, Copan Dolge, and others. It notes peculiarities such as meticulous pen habits, favorite apparel, and rituals before writing, including Holms carrying horse chest and trees, and Harte hiring cabs at night to seek inspiration.
A historical report notes high infant mortality across cities in 1900s England and elsewhere, citing 52 447 infant deaths in large English towns and rates around 276 per 1000 in summer. It discusses hospital strain in London, Birmingham deaths, and global comparisons, including German and American trends, linking feeding practices to mortality and touching on material demand for American hickory wood and the evolution of chimneys.
A fragmentary piece notes Marie Antoinette as a devoted cards player and references royal gaming at Fontainebleau. It mentions Anne Boleyn’s gambling, privy purse expenses with wine payments, and a broader remark on horse slaughter and commerce in Berlin Hamburg tied to slaughterhouses and sausage production.
Nonresident Lime Wike heir of Jona Kasson and Mollie White Wilson heirs of Joh Kasson dec waned own lots. City of Marion Ohio council order authorizes High street reconstruction from Center to Church Street under Public Service department plans. Project cost and terms to be determined, work within thirty days, notices published in local papers.
Marion Ohio council moves to pave Silver street from Leader street to the west corporate line. Non resident owners listed include W C Courtad Kila O Hara Fred Bo Setthige Ikenn Snyder J Leonard Barhest Daniel Vint Berry Avram S Shaw and others. Costs to be assessed on parcels if completed within thirty days per city law. Clerk Charles M Tobin announces publication in local papers.
Notice to owners W A Diffenbaugh Dora Difenbaugh Marion Koster and Heveribed that on April th 1908 council ordered a Tegahlion grade and curb on the west side of Maine Avenue from Bellefontaine Avenue to present stone walk per plans on file. Costs assessed if not built within thirty days. Clerk CHARL Ab. ORLN. Published in Marion Daily Star and Daily Mirror.
In a Gramite-Binetaile Mining Co. operation at Pittsburg a telegraph line supplying a mine and mill caused electrocutions after a 6 GW surge entangled in wires. Since revamp four years ago, 85 have been electrocuted by contact with wires and 14 owl specimens have died in the same route since last November. The 11 mile line carries 10,000 volts along copper wire No. 4 through a rugged, forested area with wildlife nearby.
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