Convicts and Road Building Divides Ohio Opinion
The Mansfield Shield argues against using convict labor for road building citing moral and social risks. It warns that employing prisoners would attract undesired foreign and criminal elements, raise costs, and harm free labor while offering greater taxpayer value only if convicts remain under guard and in prison camps.
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Ohio
Menna
Alen
Tomain
States
Soni
Amar
Stehoa
Peeved pedestrians spark debate and odd notices from Ohio to Missouri
A rambling column mocks modern pretenses and social opinion while noting quirky public items. It cites a Missouri man crawling along after a wasp sting, a child in Ohio walking after a lightning shock, and mentions wartime and suffrage themes, reflecting on newspaper habits and reader expectations.
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Ohio
Economic policy address calls for rapid banking and tariff reform
The speech urges immediate action to expand free enterprise with ready credit instruments, a public banking system, and elastic currency. It argues businesses need access to credit, warns against new monopolies, and presses Congress to enact currency and banking reform now rather than delay.
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Congress
Goofball Goloshes Lead Ohio Man to Swift & Co Hire
A Ponti a Gazette reminiscence recalls Geiselman from Ohio who, on a first New York trip in a Hoffman House visit with Swift & Co, bought shiny rubbers that drew a con man’s attention. A blundering gambler spots the footwear and asserts a lesson on appearances. Geiselman discarded the costly rubbers and never wore them again, beginning his swift career with the firm.
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Pontias Presa Gazette
Jyds
Job Gesselman
Wooster
Ohio
Pontiac
Aariet N Rural College
Meistnter
Congress
Ohio Agri Cartival’ College
Eli
New York
Chicago
Hoffman
Geiselman
Guselman
Addressing Reform Needs with Earnest Plea for Duty
A speaker urges auditors to join in reform, expressing strong conviction of duty and willingness to serve in any capacity. The appeal stresses the importance of urgent reform and a shared commitment to its success or failure.
Wheat crop not set for large yield in 1913
Columbus reports from W H Phillips of the U S Department of Agriculture indicate the 1913 wheat crop will be below a record yield. Infestation by joint worm is widespread in the southern end of the state with fields showing 50 percent affected and some 75 to 80 percent in worst cases. Samuel Gompers leaves hospital after weeks of recovery and will take several months rest. Reverend Thomas S Hodgson Jr dies suddenly after watching a baseball game in Cleveland.
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State Board of Agriculture
W. H. Phillips
United States Department of Agriculture
Columbus
Gompers
Hospital
Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Boy Kills His Grandfather in Dover Center Shooting
In Dover Center Benjamin Hull, 55, was killed by a shotgun fired by his visiting 12 year old grandson Leroy F Reisinger of Wigria. Mrs Hull was fatally wounded by the same shot. Hulls body bore fifty five pellets with two in the brain and three in the heart. The boy is jailed for a thorough investigation though authorities call it an accident. In New York IMKinjiro Okazaki arrived to study American attitudes toward Japan and opposes war with the United States.
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Cleveland
Benjamin
New York
Danced to Death at Marathon Dance in New York
Mrs Edna Wagner 32 of Brooklyn dies from an acute heart attack after dancing the tango turkey trot and the one step for four hours at a Marathon dance Saturday night In East Liverpool Fred Postels 32 a railroad employee dies from a fractured skull suffered in a fight on Sunday June 23
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New York
Edna Wagner
Brooklyn
Hurton Quarrel
East Liverpool
Fred Postels
Boys Drown After Niagara Falls Boat Drift
In Niagara Falls New York on June 23 two 11 year old Hubert Moore and 9 year old Donald Roscoe drowned when a rowboat carrying them and 12 year old BHe tt Thompson drifted over Niagara Falls. Thompson escaped by jumping overboard and swimming to shore as onlookers watched from the bridge.
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Niagara
Falls
N. Y
Hubert Moore
Donald Roscoe
Niagara Falls
Bhett Thompson
Grain market prices and terms from the Wheat VUorn yard
Grain dealers announce bids for wheat corn old oats clover and timothy seeds with reported prices for various lots and by the bushel and barrel The notes show bids for flour and feed products including middlings screen buckwheat and cracked corn with miscellaneous figures and units.
Institute 15 Holds WCTU Meeting at Fredericksburg
The June 27 30 program at United Presbyterian church Fredericksburg features Devotional Words of Greeting by Mrs Gilbert Armstrong remarks by Mrs Wall Hubble and Miss Genevieve Sackett Amherst Ohio. Activities include discussions on organization benefit purity work and literature with speakers from Wooster Orrville Reedsburg and Amherst. The event closes with a 8 05 pm address The Man With the Ballet by Miss Sackett and a praise service and benediction. Newell Dwight Hillis comment on baldness precedes.
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W. c. T U. Institute
United Presbyterian Church
Fredericksburg
Gilbert Armstrong
Wall. Hubble
Dalton
Genevieve Sackett
Amherst
Ohio
J . Paul
Reedsburg
Stedett
Fredericksburg. Voter's Information Bureau
G. Blackett
W. B. Slutz
Wooster
Je. A. B Landis
Orrville
J Shultz
J Hi. Blocher
Genevieve B. Sackett
R . Smith
C. B.schlossbagel
Allen Clark
Evenin
Market Prices in Brief Across Several Commodities
The notice lists prices for hay and straw including No 1 timothy at 8.60 per ton and No 1 mixed at 7.60, straw at 6 to 3, plus poultry live prices for turkeys 7 per lb and ducks 1, geese 2 per lb. It also reports grain and livestock quotes across New York and Cleveland, with wheat No 2 red at 1.07, oats No 3 white at 45c, and cattle and sheep bids in Buffalo and Chicago markets.
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Timothy Hay
Cleveland
York State
Chicago
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Cry For
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