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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1914
Page
5
Partial transit schedule shows No. 32 and No. 16 westbound trains with times 9 14 a m and 4 45 p m, plus No. 15 for Dayton and No. 7 for Chicago with later times 2 1 and 4 7 pm.
Population counts, reunions at Brookfield and Lance town, and local incidents. Diphtheria quarantines in Rittman. a motor cycle crash injures John Vial. a West Salem bond issue for water works passes 153 to 6. Garden theft, weather, drownings, school enrollment, and newspaper consolidation featured with civic updates and local hires.
A flood of visits and calls records a busy week with Mr. W. E. Glennon in Akron and many residents from Wadsworth, Barberton, Kent, and Seville seen Sunday. Local officials and travelers, including Frank Brubaker, T. W. Orr, and George Deger, circulate through Medina, Ashland, Wooster, and Cleveland on legal business, family visits, and church and club events.
July Ist marks the dry date for West Virginia with saloon and brewery property valued at 60 million dollars affected and 25 000 workers to seek new jobs. The state previously voted dry by a 90 000 majority in 1912 with medicines containing alcohol to be barred and no whiskey advertising permitted.
A garbled collection of small ads offering wants and sales. Notices seek a lost spectacles pair near Harmon Faber’s house, a rubber tired Wertz buggy for sale, a silver plated trombone for sale, and items like poems or espresso trade requests. Contact details reference S Petit and L J Giga ndet with various mis-spellings.
A newly observed beetle reportedly eats lead rather than other metals. Found in Chicago fuse boxes and California telephone cables, specimens show larvae and a half inch adult that target lead. Scientists study jaws and classification as the insect remains rare and poorly understood.
Grover Krautz, a telephone exchange employee near Chicago, detected a fire in a switchboard cabinet. He used a sand can instead of a liquid extinguisher, subduing the blaze by abandoning charged wires and removing smoking cords. His quick action saved service and earned him a substantial employer reward.
A private wire runs from the astronomical observatory on Monta Rosa to the royal palace in Rome, claiming the world’s highest telephone three miles above sea level on the Italian Alps peak.
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