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Newspaper
The Perrysburg Journal
Location
Perrysburg, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
9
The piece argues that women's clubs neglect their real duty by focusing on culture and literary debates while ignoring slum areas such as Chicago's West Side levee district. It urges clubs to aid fallen women with practical care and reintegration rather than lectures on Wagner or Browning.
An English observer laments American girls imported for wealth influencing English society. He argues tariff protection should curb such imports, claiming parents use trusts to fund daughters and outcompete in the matrimonial market.
Andrew Carnegie argues poverty offers advantages for poor children over wealthy peers. He cites Scotland to illustrate a child guided by a mother and family, with no tutors or servants between parent and child. He urges living so as not to discredit his native land and its traditions.
A reader argues that gravy or sauce on meat causes weight gain and harms digestion. He asserts French naming inflates gravy consumption and urges banning it from diets to protect the health of future generations. He claims gravy interferes with salivary glands gastric juices and digestion.
A Paris discussion recalls 1792 funeral oration for John Paul Jones and renewed, though uncertain, talk of disinterring his remains for honorable burial in the United States. The grave location under a photograph gallery is noted, with doubts about identification and the lack of formal repatriation by Congress or the U.S. government.
In a Capitol naming shuffle Hawaii's delegate to Congress is shortened to Mr Kunio after debate over pronunciation. William Haywood proposed simplifying the title, Roosevelt agreed, and the delegate from Hawaii gains a debating privilege but no vote. The previous envoy Wilcox is remembered as a fine orator.
Cora, Countess of Strafford, widowed twice, marries Martin Thomas Kennard after a life of travels and wealth. Kennard, an Englishman known in London, enjoyed Africa explorations and big game hunting. Their union follows a worldling social arc from Durbar to Bugton barber shop chatter.
Ohio news reports a probate court ruling on the will of Gay Nash naming Nash as executor and trustee. The court notes undisclosed investments and lack of asset appropriation by the quern, with the matter bound for appeal to the master commissioner. A separate street duel in Columbus ends with Mike Medinn shot and gravely wounded by Tole Garrett, who receives a stab wound in turn and is later jailed.
A large Ohio gathering, including GarcoIvet Merrick and George J. Cox, met Friday at Senator Hanna’s home to discuss policing and state policy. Attendees also included John T. Malloy and Wade Ellis. Foraker did not attend. A lineman at Cleveland’s electric company electrocuted at Broadway and Willson Avenue after climbing a pole. rope ties failed to save him.
Cleveland reports a sharp rise in typhoid fever deaths for the year amid underreporting of contagious diseases due to physician laxity and reporting gaps. The health office document notes the city’s death tally through the year’s last days, highlighting the ongoing public health concern.
Springfield Ohio detective Norris seeks a new trial after a circuit court loss over technical errors in Judge Fisher's charge to the jury. The case concerned alleged blackmail and involved the penitentiary sentence originally imposed.
Dewston Avalny is introduced to the president and nominated for Cleveland pentmaster after a Cleveland officer, noted for bravery during a Wednesday arrest, dies of injuries at Cleveland General Hospital. The report names Burtany as representative and Welk Dow as the patrol official.
Washington December 15 news reports the president has nominated Ohio postmasters Andrew J Meinley Neftgeport Chandler W Carroll St Clairsville and Robert C Stewark Toronto in a presidential appointment move.
A distressed Parmer man amid domestic conflict attempted to hang himself and his wife witnessed the act. He then redirected blame to Keania and threatened further violence before inviting his wife to write as the tragedy unfolded. A neighbor alerted Bowie, and the incident ended with authorities likely involved.
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