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Newspaper
Wooster Republican
Location
Wooster, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1903
Page
2
The piece discusses Inuit diets and cold exposure with focus on fatty foods for warmth and nourishment. It notes digestive benefits of Scott’s Emulsion and urges readers to consider it for thin bodies or wasting disease. Names and details appear inadvertently due to OCR.
Buffalo report on the Burdick and Pennell deaths shows the inquest unable to determine if the automobile plunge was accidental or deliberate. Testimony on defalcation was restricted, and Justice Murphy prepared to issue findings while noting lack of conclusive motive or action linking Pennell or his wife to the deaths.
The crowded court heard Judge Eason instruct the jury at 10 45 am as the panel weighed complex evidence against the defendants. The verdict found the accused guilty after a trial stressed by the emphasis on evidence over assumptions and the court forewarned they were to be held until proven.
The document lists the grand jurors for the May term of the common pleas court. Names include DOP Gretemer, Frankin Wallbasher, Woester Toba Pti, John Hall, Tadley Milter, and several others, along with ward and district identifiers. The OCR text contains numerous garbled spellings.
Railway officials outline monthly crop condition reporting requirements for the Pennsylvania Lines west of Pittsburgh. Agents must submit two reports monthly covering crops from the first to sixteenth and sixteenth to month end, including principal crops, locality, acreage, expected yields, and weather influences. Hood's Sarsaparilla advertisement follows.
Reading notes show James Castella a glassblower and Moses Alive Sepner’s daughter set to wed on a Saturday night. Multiple local names and places appear, including North Street, Bartel Taller, and city references as events, anniversaries, and society updates fill the page with marriages, church affairs, elections, and business openings.
An old advertisement argues that colds and flu threaten pneumonia but that Chamberlain's Remedy prevents this outcome if used promptly. It touts widespread success, asserting no known cases of pneumonia among users and that the remedy cures a cold or grip faster than competing treatments.
Wayne County records list numerous property transfers in Chippewa and Franklin townships including 50 acres in Chippewa to Christena Dew and others, various lot numbers in Orrville and Wooster, and 14 acres in Franklin plus exchanges of property. The notice contains multiple conveyances with sums modestly noted, followed by a block of medical advertisement text for Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and testimonials.
A middle aged man named H N Ames visited Jo Yaytor's grocery and claimed to be part of a party bound for Oregon. He attempted to buy gourds for Monee and had items including canned salmon and other goods, then departed without completing a transaction as staff watched for more action.
The congregation rejected Pittsparygatts for the new building and issued separate bids for stone brick carpentry plastering roofing painting and related work. On Apr 9 Philp D Senff closed an eight year service as superintendent of the Reformed Sunday school and Wesley Ho Zany was elected his successor. About fifty members retired to present a handsome chair in appreciation of Senff’s long service.
New players join the squad as Coach St John works on finding a top bat. O Neil Abbey and Crawford lead catching, Lovett Banleys and Compton the trusted arms for pitching. Regular practices begin after grounds work as the team prepares for the two week countdown to the opener with Buchtel at Wooster. The schedule spans Buchtel Berea Oberlin Hiram Akron Ohio Wesleyan and others across the Big Six aligned slate.
H A Bloomberg & Company plans a new store in Canton starting July 1. Joe Bloomberg, a long time Wooster resident who previously ran the local store, will transfer to Canton to oversee operations.
Jurors in the Levien and Ramsey cases reportedly agreed not to disclose deliberations but conducted two ballots. The first showed eleven votes for conviction and one for acquittal. A juror’s boyhood ties to Ratesey influenced the second ballot, with every ballot now for conviction.
Frank W Perry of Enterprise Shortevle NY testifies that one bottle of Cham berlains cough remedy knocked out a second grip attack. He says night coughing ceased quickly after taking a dose, with relief lasting through the episode. He notes the remedy surprised him with its effectiveness and that Mr. Grip left him after the second use. For sale by all druggists.
Fire at noon Thursday destroyed Henry G Brown’s residence three miles west of Congress on Pleasant Home road. Family away at dinner, belongings saved from downstairs. Structure valued 2500 dollars, insured with Ohio Farmers. Cause believed to be a spark from a rout. Brown is brother-in-law of farmer Shuit WwW We tarver. and has been working in Wouster.
Fire razed the Ti residence of Mrs. David Newton near Barhek on Wednesday, consuming all contents. Scattered rumors mention possible incendiary cause, with local informants suggesting accidental combustion or arson unlikely. Loss is estimated around 3,000 dollars with scant details on insurance or pole damage.
Returns reveal Mayo KO OJ Sunth R 645 Van Nest 2 sed Van Nest’s majority 1h. Critchfield D 761 Mayeraty 64. Bryson R 678, Minuet D 778. Kinney R 624 Tawney D 884 Tawney’s majority 210. Htdell Ro 744, Hay D 107. Ryall D 97% with 214 majority. Board of Public Service names Forbes Alad RosO S. ER Swith R 685. Rahl R 605. Vanover 2D 40. Schaffter D 701. Perr D 705. Johnston over Fisher 42. Sweeny over Wier 0. Johnston over Fisher. Sweeny over Wier.
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