Lost Wife and Child Now on Way to Texas
Samuel Holobaugh, a Columbus flood survivor, travels by bicycle to Jefferson Texas after losing his wife and infant as floodwaters swept away his home. He spent eight days searching, found the baby’s body among debris, and plans to start anew on Bere Farm near Jefferson where food is scarce.
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Samuel Holobaugh
Columbus
Great Southwest
Mr. Holobaugh
Good Hope
Centner Avenue
Holobaugh
Jefferson
Texas
Cincinnati
Cairo
Bere Farm
Age Limit Raised By New Statute
The article reports Ohio's compulsory education law amendments restricting work for youths. It sets ages 8 to 16 for school attendance, requires full-term attendance, and ties work eligibility to school certificates. It specifies penalties and deadlines for boys and girls to remain in or return to school.
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Hogan
Ohio
Standards For Illuminating Gas in Washington DC
The Bureau of Standards of the Department of Commerce has prepared a monograph on legal specifications for illuminating gas. It outlines recommendations for state or city laws to regulate gas quality, with focus on heating value as the principal rating measure and candlepower as a secondary consideration for open flame lights.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Standards
Department of Commerce
Washington
Minister Abolishes Marriage Fees in Local Church
The pastor of a Chicago church declares that marriages should be free, arguing fees are unnecessary and that any minister accepting them should raise salaries or be ashamed. Also mentions a Fort Washington letter from 1861 about a Pottsville civil war veteran and a relay of the letter via M E Richards, who has since died.
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Chicago
Kes Atver Pennewell
Cok Park
Futtaville I
Fort Washington
Tlenew
Pottsville
M E Richards
Pottstown
Uncle Sam aids farmers through new rural service plan
Washington reports a broad investigation by the Department of Agriculture. Secretary Houston and Dr Carver lead a program to reform farm life, improve markets, and organize rural interests. Financed by education funds and Rockefeller philanthropy, the effort aims at strengthening rural schools and sanitation and keeping farmers in the country.
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Department of Agriculture
Education Board
Rockefeller
Washington
Rural Organization Service
Housaton
Tn, Marvel
Harvard
Division of Markets
Houston
Carver
Ufe
John D. Rockefeller
Sitter Education Board
General Board
Govert
Cvedit
Marks of Ax on Petrified Tree Found Near Great Falls
Solomon Abbott of Shelby, Montana reports petrified timber on a butte near Sullivan ranch where an ancient straight pine two feet in diameter stood 50 to 100 feet high. Ax marks remain visible on two foot logs, suggesting prehistoric woodcutting and use of a man’s axe by early inhabitants. Abbott, a pioneer, may be the first white man to reach the summit.
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Great Falls
Mont
Solomon Abbott
Bhelby
Sullivan Ranch
Cut Bank Creek
Two Medicine Creek
Abbott
Sockless husband divorce case shocks Paterson court
In Paterson New Jersey Mrs Jessie Wood cites her husband James G Wood as living in extreme laziness. She endured five years of refusal to work and daily neglect of hygiene. She claims she washed his face and wore his socks to avoid criticism, while he slept by day and skipped baths. The court records confirm a divorce was granted.
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Louis Bobby
William M. Walker
Planters Hotel
Teseidnan
Walker
Red
Freleric
Shaffer
Chicago
Jessie Wood
Fighteenth Street
Paterson
Wood
James G
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