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Newspaper
The Marion Daily Mirror
Location
Marion, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1908
Page
5
A sales pitch targets clerks and bookkeepers with overtime questions and promises of faster work, more efficiency, and career advancement. It advertises a booklet titled A that supposedly reveals a plan to gain years of experience, become the top in the field, and secure better salaries.
Mrs George Queen of Mountain Street hosted the Reformed Ladies Aid Society on Wednesday afternoon. The next meeting will be at the home of Mie Christian Keeler on South Main Street in one month. Dr B A Rorick, former Athens hospital superintendent, is reappointed at Athens and will resume duties October 1, succeeding Dr J T Hanson. Milk dealers in Ashtabula warn of higher prices this winter due to drought, with prices rising from six to ten cents per quart.
The city boosted police presence for the fair, with night watch added and several special officers commissioned. Do not leave valuables unattended. Two boys missing from Xenia Ohio’s Soldier and Sailors Orphan’s home, Clarence Overmyer and Robert Carter, were sought after a two day escape. search found no trace. Anthony Kelly arrested after drunkenness plea. fined five dollars by the mayor and ordered confined until paid. Mike Forest, a city stranger, was arrested at 1:30 pm Wednesday by Officer Jack Me.
A man named Donough was found intoxicated and tied up by a local plant manager. Mayor Gehert imposed no workhouse sentence, which was lifted after Mor ext pledged to leave town.
Bitter Republican rift in West Virginia over dual conventions and rival state tickets ended when Scherr and allies withdrew supporting Lincoln Republicans and shifted to William Glasscock. Also reports note acquittal of Abraham Raymer in a mob case, and Roosevelt urging New Mexico statehood with Curry. Cadillacs rain forest fires near Cadillac Michigan checked, damages feared.
Fragmentary note from New Haven outlines plans tied to the New York and Hartford Mallon Co. about a toy steel venture. Early September activity is hinted with a forecast of first wine in twenty months and a potential herdul of te.
After days of exhausting battles against widespread forest fires in the Adirondacks, a large army campaign has succeeded in checking the most serious blazes. Thousands of acres of timber have burned, but containment has improved and spread to neighboring areas is now less likely.
Montreal reports a steamer load of workers arriving by train to replace strikers at a Cann ion project. The adjustment follows a Pacific Angus operation with 125 men shipped from Quebec, while 250 more are en route to positions, as labor tensions continue to unfold across the city.
The report notes Dan Hanna of Cleveland was fined $25 after an incident involving police prosecutor Jon Coll and Dan Rotanta. The events centered on a charge related to an unlawful act against Claude Algian, an automobile salesman, with details provided by Madge McGinnit on the previous Wednesday.
Washington on September 24 reports a decision denying permission for establishing a wire telegraph station. The ruling blocks installation near the Washington monument and related grounds, affecting communications access and local infrastructure plans.
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