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Newspaper
Wayne County Herald
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1902
Page
2
A muddled notice outlines advertising rates for a Wooster Ohio publication and subscription terms including yearly dues and postmark deadlines. It mentions a stockholders meeting for the printing company on Saturday February 22 at 10 a.m and requests all holders to attend.
A grand concert in the Lutheran Church benefiting the University fund raised about twenty dollars. Also notes staff changes at E D Dixter's store with Ad Barnhart replacing 1 F Achott. Weekend guests include L Z Thoor family J H Rice family and Mr and Mrs Snater. Lincoln McKinley Day events and High School program outlined. A Wooster wreck near Manafield prompted a train crew to clear a freight-car incident.
February 8 report shows tight cattle receipts and a slow market with mixed price levels. Prime heavy cattle bring around 6.35 to 6.40, Yorkers and other grades around 5.60 to 6.10, veal and fat lambs modest with lambs steady at 5.66 to 5.75 for prime weather. lamb group and yearlings noted as light and rising demand uncertain.
Mrs E D Whitmore a longtime Wooster resident aged 73 died at her S Walnut street home on Tuesday February 18 after several weeks of illness from cacarrhal pneumonia She was born near Chambersburg PA and is survived by one son and four daughters Funeral services will be private at her home Friday afternoon with interment in Wooster cemetery Miss Slose Pree
Miss Stone the Roxbury Massachusetts native and Salonica mission worker freed from brigands after captivity since September 3 and now serves at the American legation in Constantinople. A ransom of 72500 dollars was paid February 6.
Various items report engagements marriages and social events in Ohio and Indiana. Mentioned are Florence Peckinpaugh of Cleveland planning marriage. Samuel Graber’s wedding in Maximo. Mrs Kreiger’s improving health. Ed Mott taking a storographer post in Pittsburgh. and a Wooster visit by Earl Underwood’s son. Also noted are theft warnings and a police appeal for suspects selling pumps or tanks, plus a discussion of Ohio education reform bills including compulsory tuition and high school standards with Boxwell Law history.
The column records multiple obituaries including Mrs Elizabeth Schrock of Milton Township judged insane and sent to Massillon hospital. Berry of Wooster dies in Springfield Ohio aged unknown. Elizabeth Holm of Chippewa Township dies aged 66. John Donnelly, ex resident, dies in Fort Wayne Indiana aged 78. Wabash Manchester line wreck near Sterling delays traffic after three box cars derail.
In the early 1870s Lord Koellu then Sir William Thomson sailed the Lalla RoskhAaa near Veest liciing waters. At Madeira a dinner conversation sparked a plan to simplify sea signals. A host’s daughter, quietly admired, tested reading and replying to a yacht signal. She read the signal and answered yes to marriage.
Ainslee's Magazine recounts an east coast Newfoundland landing where Governor Sir Henry McCallum is greeted by a seasoned fisherman. The exchange features playful questions about local loyalties and ends with a courteous invitation to share tea, highlighting local hospitality.
Readers in the English town of Somersby share memories of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson. A middle aged woman described him as quiet and sleepy looking with a long beard and dusty clothes. Her husband confirmed locals once mistook him for a tramp along the road to Brigg.
A Philadelphia Record anecdote recalls a boy leaving a car door open on a breezy November day. An old man scolds him, then softens, saying he did not mean the barn remark. The boy retorts with a sharp jab about being raised in a barn and jackasses.
A rare German coin commemorates 1079 Danish raid on Hamburg. The medal carries the legend The king of Denmark has been to Hamburg look on the other side with the other side blank, a witty jab at the raid and its outcome.
A reflective piece notes how faces reveal emotion and character in daily life. It argues strangers in transit show passion or gentleness through wrinkles and expressions, and that people continually write their own stories on their faces for others to read.
The New York Tribune recounts a Ramapo tale about Terne mountain, the highest peak where on clear days one can glimpse Bandy Hook. Halfway up lies a cleft with a spring that, locals claim, makes a ticking sound like Washingtons watch as water falls, supposedly dropped by George Washington to mark British movements.
The article ranks coins by value and weight from Anam in eastern Africa, noting the loof gold ingot worth about £66, the obang of Japan at £10, the benda of Ashanti near £9, the California fifty dollar piece, and the heavy Anam silver ingot around £3, followed by the Chinese tael and the Austrian double thaler.
Mr. Cecil Aldin argues dogs generally lack conscious humor. He cites a clown dog as not truly amusing and says people misread canine comedy. He notes dogs enjoy play with children when tickled, showing a basic, not subtle, sense of humor.
A young gentleman and a younger lady play cards beside a cheerful fire. What began as Euchre on a table edge soon becomes Hearts, after an hour and a half of conversation and playful distraction. Moral: we cannot always tell the game.
A beggar pleads for money as a professor questions his age and cites European mortality tables. The exchange ends with the professor declaring the beggar has no right to flee his fate.
In a settlement A asks B to lend 50 cents but B has only 25 cents and parts with that. A agrees to owe B the remaining 25 cents. Later B seeks settlement and A argues the 25 cents owed by B offsets the 25 cents he owes, canceling both debts. The Baltimore American ponders the financial arithmetic of mutual debts.
Fragmentary OCR from a 19th or early 20th century rail timetable shows routes between Cleveland and Cincinnati with stops at Columbus and Crestline. Timings like 4:35 and 7:00 appear, with connections noted via Pittsburgh and Crestline, listing various stations and service notes.
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