Death of Ross Halverstadt at Wooster Summer School
Ross Halverstadt died at his Leetonia home at 4 a m Friday of typhoid and brain fever. A 21 year old Wooster Summer School student from Leetonia, he graduated from Lee High School with honors and planned to enter Kenyon College. He was highly regarded by students and townspeople and his death marked the first in Wooster Summer School history.
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Rosa Halverstadt
Wooster
Leetonia
Halverstidt
Leehschootthr
Callye
Kenyon
Ile
Quany
Prominent Educator Dr Wilbur G Compher Dies at 47
Dr Wilbur G Compher dean of Beaver College and Musical Institute Beaver Pa died at his father in law’s home in Seio Ohio from typhoid and catarrhal fever. He taught at Wooster Summer School and Virgil and Ithetorie. He led Lew College literary department and served as acting President before moving to Beaver College where his chair was endowed. He was 47, survived by his wife and parents. Funeral held in Seio Tuesday. His death leaves a large circle of friends in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Wilbur G Compher
Beaver College and Musical Institute
Beaver
Seie
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Omock
Compher
Ot Wooster
Uwine
Haw
Sein
Countes
Mw Scio College
Lew College
Beaver College
Seio
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Beware of Otuments for ¢ atarrh that Contalu Mercury
The notice claims a cure named Talla Gatareb Cure by Foot Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio contains no mercury and works internally on the hood and mucous surfaces. It promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure sold by druggists for 75 cents per bottle and Hall's family pills as the least expensive option.
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Foot Cheney &Co
Toledo
Hall
Sud
F J Cheney & Co
Drugesats
Real New Yorkers as the Daily True Aristocracy of New York
A portrait of New York society tracing families such as the Rhinelanders Harlems and Roosevelts, asserting their historic role in city life. It details lineage from colonial estates to modern social prominence and notes several notable households and their enduring traditions.
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New York
New Brat
Social
Theah
Roth
Clement
New
Beteenay
Krvans
Delatetds
Poysters
Kate Herbacher
Ogden Mills
Alexandra
Mills
City of
Knickerbocker Families and Ties to Colonial Legacies
The article traces prominent Knickerbocker clans such as the Delafields Gardiners and Morrisons, noting arrivals from 1635 through 1783. It highlights Gardiner lineage, estate entailment over 260 years, and the founding of the original Society of Colonial Dames by Mrs John Lyon Gardiner, alongside references to Astors Vanderbilts Whitneys and social standing.
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Ingston
Rice
Bocker
Delafield
Roosevelt
Astors
Vanderbilts
Whitneys
Delafields
Knickerbockers
John Delafield
America
New York
Long Island
Uinckweils Island
Richard Delaesd
United States Army
Joseph Whelnfield
United States
Ghent
Gardiners
Boston
Jobs Lion Gardiner
Tier Gardiner
Princeton
John Lion
Elizabeth
John Lyon Gardiner
Society of Colonial Dames
Gardiner
Old Morris Family
Knickerbockereet
Morrises
New Netherlands
Col
Lewis Morris
Orst
Heroic Stand At Rorke’s Drift By Hook And Comrades
In fierce engagements at Rorke’s Drift during the Zulu War the 2nd British Regiment suffered 21 officers killed or wounded while defenders held a hospital against a vast Zulu assault. Hook and Lance Corporal Williams carried wounded to safety as flames engulfed the complex after an eighteen hour stand.
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Rorke’s Drift
Isandshana
Huw Cow
Levtish Museum
Hook
Rorhe
Lance Corp Williams
Misplaced Brains and Farm Calf Pranks Across Papers
A medical student prods Surgeon General Sternberg with bravado and hints at knowledge. the general retorts that brains are useless without proper use. A Kansas City Star tale recalls a city boy on a farm who sicced salt on a calf, causing a herd to swarm the coated animal. A brief joke from Maj. Gen Adnan Chaffee features a boy denying measles after a prior transmission.
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Drew
Sternberg
New York Times
Smith
Marvinville
Alf
Kansas City Star
Adnan Chaffee
Tommy
Johnny
Baltimore and Omega Railbow Noted in Obscure Account
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Baltimore and Omega Railbow with unclear context and names. No coherent event or outcome is readable to summarize.
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Karl Weaver
Elsie Kinny
Wooster St. Luens
Cleveland
Anna G. Haroilton
Win H Hunter
Clara A Franks
Applecreek
Real New Yorkers
Bronx
Morris
Lewis Murriway
Navy
Ted
New Rochelly
Cettler
Spruce Street
Trinity Graveyard
Schenbers
Rhine
Livingstons
Anlea & Yn
Luton
Delartel Dara
Sergt
Rorke's Drift
Northy
Bente
Jacob Fischer
Wilton L Holland
Ciera F Alent
Warne
Couns
Wilson L. Halland
Holland
Mabion Ruoch
Attormer Worster
R. N. Warren
Romeopathic
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Critchfeld
Herali
Vici
Scattle
W. H. Wiler
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Wayne County Herald
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Ashland
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England
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AL & W
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Fort Wayne
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Chicago
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Eave Colombes
Lagansport
Indianepolis
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Leeda Angele
Poca Fizzre
LE Vege
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Este Enty
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Millersburg
Aiswar
Baltimore & Ome
Cesteal Tler
Pirie
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Washington Az
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Pete Wei
Washington
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USA
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Cleveland Wooster
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