Appointment at State University Commencement Notes
Gov Harmon names Willis Montgomery to lead Miami University duties until 1911. Ohio State prepares large commencement with 354 graduates to receive diplomas Wednesday. Dr Andrew Fleming West of Princeton to deliver the commencement oration in a tent on the campus.
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Harmon
Willis A. Montgomery
First Presbyterian Church
Georgetown
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio State University
Andrew Fleming West
Princeton
Fatal shotgun tragedy in Steubenville quarrel ends in death
In Steubenville a man rushed to grab a shotgun amid a dispute over a cat and found his wife with a boarder. He wounded them. one man died within minutes, another woman expected to die. He then reloaded intending suicide but was stopped by an officer. Separately Ada Ohio students learn they will be segregated by sex in chapel seating.
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Steubenville
Joseph Benditzk
Mele Daman
Mike Dewick
Dewlck
Mra
Osman
Ada
A. BE. Smith
Ohio Northern University
Drunken fines shrink Washingtonville town coffers
Washingtonville mayor Joe Grimme ordered arrests for drunkenness. Eighteen people were jailed and fourteen fined five dollars plus costs, boosting the town treasury by 112 dollars. The drive aimed to curb disgrace as the town near miles of dry counties.
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Washingtonville
Joe Grimme
Buckeye News Highlights Diphtheria Fight Opium Crackdown and Ballot Ruling
Columbus dispatch summarizes state actions on diphtheria antitoxin lab plans by the board of health, opium fines in Toledo, cocaine penalties, and an attorney general opinion on nominating petition voter eligibility. Also notes upcoming fish shipments to Buckeye Lake and a Summit County suit over business naming rights.
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Board of Health
Toledo
C. C. Probst
State Pharmacy Board
P. Gilmer
Trumbull County
Miller
Election Board
Plant Will Stay in Family Laning Co Sold at Private Sale
Norwalk reports the Laning Co printing plant once in receivership for 14 months was sold privately under court order for 125000. Ford H. Laning, son of exCongressman Laning, bid in the property once the moving force behind the firm. Springfield notes 14 former saloonists and nine bartenders arrested under the county option law for continuing operations with beer and near beer after closures.
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Norwalk
Laning Co
Ford H. Laning
Laning
Springfield
Wooster Editor Lemuel Jeffries Dies After 50 Years with Paper
Lemuel Jeffries 71 longtime editor of the Wayne County Democrat and former Wooster mayor died suddenly in a local hospital. Son of late Judge John P. Jeffries he served in Company E Fourth Regiment V. I during the rebellion and was among Wooster’s first volunteers. Renowned among press men he never made an enemy.
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Wooster
Lemuel Jeffries
Wayne County Democrat
Jeffries
John P. Jeffries
Turnfest Opens in Cincinnati Camp City for 10 Days
Nearly 5000 Turners from across the nation have gathered in Cincinnati for the annual Turners convention. They will live in tents for ten days, with a large tent city erected by the city to meet army rules. Facilities include fifty shower baths and ample kitchen accommodations.
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Cincinnati
United States Army
Girl Strikers Accept Terma at Sebring Pottery
The 140 striking decorators at Sebring Bros potteries have accepted company terms, ending a plant-wide strike that froze operations and left 900 workers idle. Oliver Sebring announced plants will resume with workers earning the previous 1.25 dollars per day plus a share of net profits from a new weaving device.
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Sebring
Sebring Bros
Oliver Sebring
Oliver Pottery
Grand Army to Meet in Salt Lake City Encampment
Salt Lake City will host the forty third national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic from August 9 to 14. President Taft and Commander-in-Chief Henry M. Nevins are expected to review the parade on August 11, with a living flag of schoolchildren along Main Street. The program includes receptions, greetings at the Tabernacle, business sessions, and excursions to mining camps and other sites in Utah.
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Rockies
Salt Lake City
Grand Army of the Republic
Utah City
Utah
William H. Taft
Henry M. Nevins
Tabernacle
Thera
William Spry
John S. Branford
Department of Utah
Teft
Main Street
East South Temple
South Temple
Bingham, Tinto
Park City
Great Salt Beds
Ogden
Provo
Price
Green River
Suitalr
Great Salt Lake
Woman’s Relief Corps
Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic
National Association of Ex-Prisoners of War
Natonal Association
Army Nurses of the
Naval Veteran Association
Daughters of Veterans
Coln D. R. Stowits
Charles C. Royce
G. Lane Tenneyhil
John I. Spence
Alfred B. Beers
William H. Hornaday
Natonal Patriotic
Samuel Fallows
Benlor A. D. O
Bgtaff
J. Cory Winans
John M. Chandlery
Ansistant
Cumbodian
J. Henry Holewub
Wheat figures cited by officials spark sailor joke
Broker Patten compared government estimators to greenhorns in a calm aside. A Dutch sailor misreads a shipboard request for tables, ends up with a sack of dried pens, then proclaims the task ahead will be tough, prompting the captain to order the goods to be handed up one at a time.
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Patten
Eailor
SORE EYES CURED BY CUTLURA OINTMENT
A 65 year old Virginia resident reports severe eye inflammation improved after one week of Cutlura Ointment with sustained relief after two weeks. The testimonial appears amid a batch of humorous notes and printer's errors from historical ads and quips.
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State Capital Notes
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C. H. Hammond
Guy Potter Benton
Miami
Carnegie Fund
University of Milneis
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Toledo & Ohio Central
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Morgan Syndicate
Ohio River
Wagner
George Doinlin
Murdoci
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Frank M. Campbell
Philadelphia
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Arron
Sarah Bittahey
Fast
Akron
Washny
Columbus
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Supreme Court
Buckeye Lake
United States Fisheries Department
Albert Corrodi
Newark
Lancaster
Zanesville
Department of Fisheries
Summit County
F. A. Mlueger
Enterprise Manufacturing Co
Tis Son
Grand Army AT
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Taft
Cutiura
G. B. Halsey
Wilson
Potter Drug & Chom, Corp
Sale Props
Boston
P. P. Parker
Arizona G. A. R
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John Blank
Cleveland
Avie of
Oled Desam
Te Centaur Company
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Wier
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