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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1936
Page
7
Washington The Patent Office marks its 100th anniversary with a record of over 2,000,000 patents granted. The first patent in 1836 was for a locomotive cogwheel. The celebration includes patented foods such as a 1909 cocktail claimed to grow hair on bald heads.
The Governor's Safety Co-ordinating Bureau urges motorists to keep speeds down for safety on public roads. The message notes animals like cows and donkeys can be stressed in wet weather and may react by braying, affecting driving conditions.
The Annual Junior-Senior play will be given at Doylestown High on Wednesday Dec 16. The production The Enemy will be directed by Miss Bernice Aultham. Two hundred Social Security blanks were distributed to employees in Doylestown last week.
The article notes collaboration between Merchants and East Ohio Gas Co employees and coal miners on a village water works project, detailing involvement across vendor, utility, and labor groups.
The Chippewa Grange launched its lecture series Monday evening with members of Baughman Grange presenting the comedy drama Among the Stars.
Mr and Mrs William Gill of Ca nal Fulton were Sunday guests of Misses Cornelia Musther Whitman and Emma Nichter. Mr and Mrs Fred Whitman and family spent Sunday with his sister’s family at Wedsworth. Mr and Mrs Guy Johnson and song spells weakenr Mero.
Timeline notes mark events including Thomas Carlyle's birth on Friday 4th in 1796, Prohibition repeal on Saturday 5th in 1938, the US Naval Observatory founded on Sunday 6th in 1880, the execution of Marshal Noy in 1815 on Monday 7th, and the first phonograph message to ship at sea on Tuesday 8th in 1920.
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