Golden Wedding of Mr and Mrs Phillips in Wood County
Mr and Mrs Phillips celebrated fifty years of marriage on the 80th day of January 1898 with all children and twenty grandchildren present. They have lived in Wood County for sixty years on the family farm for over four decades. The celebration featured abundant food music and games with generous gifts from their children.
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Phillips
Sechildren
Jglvee
Toho Wywabt
Docsund
Marr
Bae 3
Shana Een
Migibert
EGG
Admr
Death on the Railroad Tracks Kills John Santymire Sr
John Santymire Sr of Bairdstown died after being struck by a B and O railroad engine while walking on the tracks near Bloomfield. He, with editor Richards of the Bloomdale Derrick, and another man, may have become confused and could not move in time. He left a wife and nine children.
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John Santymire
Bairdstown
Richards
Bloomdate Derrick
North
Baltimore
Itia
Petty Thling Struck by Widespread Small-Scale Theft
Petty Thling in Porryaburg faces a surge of thefts from chicken roosters and hens to clothes, wood, and yards. Poor families, including one with 21 hens, lose nearly all stock. Residents report surveillance of suspects and vow to curb the nuisance swiftly.
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Porryaburg
Ford Post Royal Entertainment for East Toledo Guests
On Friday February 11 1898 Walford Post plans a grand evening at the town hall for Ford Post and their sweethearts of East Toledo. Rev D H Bailey delivers a welcome address as A R members strive for a successful program with songs by a male quartet and a junior chorus. Thomas Crofts of Toledo speaks on the Life of Duncan, followed by more singing and a supper for visiting comrades and ladies. Committee to wait on tables listed with Morton Yengur in charge and assistants.
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Walford Post
Ford Post
Luis
East
Toledo
A. R
D. H. Bailey
Welvome
B. L. Kingsbury
Scnior
H.R. Chart
Thos. Crofts
Duncaln
Quartette
Port Post
Morton Yengur
Helen Lawrence
Linda Chipman
Gertrude Chapman
Donny Lawrence
Anna Clegg
Gertie Hayes
Lena Wedertz
Dolly McAllister
Florence Cranker
Basie Wilson
Gussie Powers
Instructors Appointed for Wood County Teachers Institute
The executive committee selected instructors for the Wood County Teachers Association institute. C. Miller of Lima and Anna Boyan of Cincinnati will tutor the first week. VanCleve of Troy and Mrs. J. Kumler of Dayton oversee the second week. The annual institute runs August 8 through 11.
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Mession
Wood County Teachers Associa‘inn
Exacutye Committee
Stte
C. ©. Miller
Lima
Anna Boyan
Clachinatl
VanCleve
Troy
J. Matic Kumler
Dayton
Death of Will A. Wiggins Linked to Chicago Death
Will A. Wiggins formerly of Bowling Green was found dead on a Chicago viaduct. Police call it self destruction after a period of ill health and unemployment. A former conductor and railway agent, Wiggins lived in Chattanooga and Bowling Green earlier, praised as a popular citizen. His watch and pocketbook missing fueled murder rumors. remains were brought back for burial in Bowling Green with many mourners attending.
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Will A. Wisaings
Bowling Green
Randolph Eireat 1
Chicago
Will Wiggins
Howling Green
Glen Burker
Chattanooga
Tenn
William A. Wiggins
W.T. Wiggins
C. Ho &D
Tnring Southern
Wigging
Suieles
Bow Ing Green
Messy Legal Notices Mention a Web of Damages and Partitions
Fragmented OCR lists numerous court actions and cognovit notices including Delos L. Thomas vs David B. Brown and Aaron Myers, Cummings and Lott executors to W. Lucy, and various real estate transfers with figures such as 83000 1000 and 1500. The text also cites sales and advertisements for Chamberlain's Cough Be to aid consumption and chronic bronchitis, plus local druggists.
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Delos L
Carmitlings & Lott and
Bierly
Cummings
Nicholas Monserratt
Fecolyer
Cummings & Lott
Plagued resolution orders return of regimental colors
In the United States Senate on Monday last Seister Purukker secured the adoption of a resolution directing the secretary of war to return to Ohio the regimental flags of the Twenty-eighth and Sixties regiments, at the request of Ohio's governor.
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U. S. Sante
Seister Purukker
Olio
Sanitarium Planned for Maumee Estate by Summer Start
A sanitarium project at the Donnegen property in Maumee is being developed with plans to convert the Mevelad estate into a sanitarium. The aim is to ready the facility to accept patients by the start of the summer season.
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Donnegen
Maumee
sWeuvedad Selluly
la Maumes
Pain Bar Relieves Rosy Knee Suffering Could Cure
Byron Byory of Woodstock Michigan suffered a swollen leg and severe pain. He was advised to try Chamberlain's Pain Balm and experienced substantial relief from the first bottle, with a full cure after the second bottle. Sold by A. Kt. Champney, druggist in the Gray bottle.
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Byron Byory
Woodstock
Mich
Champney
Watertown Landmark Paul Revere House Demolished for Road
A historic Paul Revere house in Watertown Massachusetts was torn down to clear space for a public road. Records note the 1775 printing of provincial notes valued at £100000, with a work bill of £720 shillings and pence reduced by Congress to £60.
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Paul Revere
Watertown
Mass
Congress
Scarecrow Misfortune Haunts Engineer in Night Run
Detroit Press reports a nervous engineer recalls the first accident of running over a scarecrow on a nearly deserted track. He describes stopping too late, finding only hat and coat scraps, the rest under the wheels, and feeling like a murderer upon seeing the distorted body.
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Hneteer
Detroit
Quek Ax Porsille
The Original Handy Man in California Tale
A National City resident inspires Frank Stockton style humor with a jack of all trades figure. The versatile handyman offers nursing, church and schoolhouse work, door and window sercona, lawn work, furniture care, and general jobbing. He advertises from Street 4 near Avenue 2, promising to labor for pay and comfort the sick.
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California
Frank St. Stockton
Carpenter
Stockton
National City
Cal
Philadelphia Times
Mandy Man
Avenue 2
N. B
Mark Twains Stutter and American Humor
Joseph Hatton reviews Mark Twains speech mannerisms in Cigarette Papers noting his drawl rather than a true stutter. He compares Lamb and Dun dreary and recounts a New York audience moment about a Fiji mountain joke. The piece praises American humor's double meaning and timing in delivering laughs.
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Joseph Hatton
America
Mark Twain
Charles Lamb
Lord Dundreary
Travers
New York
Baltimore
Fiji
Mysterious Bequests and Shipboard Breakage Noted in Crumbling Text
Fragmentary notes mention a will leaving a gold cone with a liberty cap to George Washington and a gold engraved cone from doctors to a physician in 1625 era. It also cites rising exam candidates for master’s degrees and shipboard breakage on large ocean steamers with many items broken per voyage, reflecting disjointed historical snippets.
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Minterte
Will Prazdhin
George Washington
Drs. Redallife Om Mead
Aris
Piyatelann
Stiel
Toriaire
Louidayi
Zluga
China
Obeyed the Judge and a Dead Man in a Hog Case
The Lexington Herald recounts a postwar tale of county judge Benjamin Graves known for a strong hand. Austin Thompson, a blacksmith, was charged with hog stealing and claimed he bought the hog from another man. Graves demanded the other man be brought in dead or alive. Thompson later returned with a dead man, claiming him as the companion. The incident sparked talk of impeachment and hanging but nothing came of it.
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Austin Thompson
Sycamore Ar
Lexington (&G
Benjamin F. Graves
Austin
Valor of Two Cows in Wolf Chase at Barbed Wire Fence
A herd of cattle including two cows and calves faced a wolf drive near a five wire barbed fence. The cows charged the wolves as the calves slipped through. One post eventually gave way, the mothers cleared the fence, and despite severe injuries, repelled the wolves and saved the calves.
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Candin
Ore
Illebt
Fishes That Clothe Themselves In Ocean Oddities
A fragment describes tropical fish such as the an tencorihe of the Sarena sea draping itself in seaweed and ornament. It also notes regulatory moves in England restricting magisterial hours and describes judges wearing wigs since the reign of Charles II.
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Sarena Sea
Atavlf
England
Charles TT
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