Local Officials and Court Officials Named in Listing
A fragmentary OCR style list mentions Mr Capede, E R Nash of Franklin, Governor A Caldwell of Hamilton, B B Bradbury of Meigu, Sorenna onnial of Ottawa, LB Canbron of Columbians, Gutri of Noble, KA Hupiman of Van fVert, and others associated with the Supreme Court and Public Works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capede
Nash
Franklin
A. Caldwell
Hamilton
Supreme Court
Wgb B. Bradbury
Meigu
Sorena Onnial
Ottawa
Canbron
AG , Gutri
Noble F4
Public Works
KA. Hupiman
van fVert
Board weighs holiday school closure in Wooster
The Wooster board of education meets tomorrow night to decide if schools will close Monday September fourth for Labor Day. The editorial urges opening Tuesday September fifth, arguing Labor Day is a legal holiday and calls for the board to align with state practice. The note also nods to current events from Dreyfus to England’s war in South Africa and local economic signs in Allegheny County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Himbié
Ohio
Bushgell
Etmiply
Wooster
Patriotic Board of Education
Unie
Wayne County
House of Wayne
Rumsy
Upiu
County of
Wayne
State of Ohio
Pardailel
Nerio
Cuirty
Dorth
Towit
Nugpeas
Secon
Zelthirtegn
Chalingland
Adam W Fixer
Lydia Mickiby
McClure & Smyser
W F Kean
Poaletiil Wooster
Unio
Joy
Republican nominee for land appraiser town results
Aug 21 report notes W K sickman the Republican nominee for land appraiser in the township E J and W Crites to Elyria for work H B Ault returns from Wooster University team defeated our boys by a solid margin Come again
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W K. Sickman
Heapabblican
E. J
Wi. Crites
Elyria
Ault
Wooster University
Local social notes and campus lecture report
Aug 23 Miss Alicb Tifid of Alll ee returned home after visiting. Miss Annie Weaver of Cleveland is guest of her parents. Mr Hoyte a Wooster graduate gave an interesting lecture to the USBC. Miss Gertrude Norton to Spanner for vials. Clifford Martin of Cleveland returned home from visit. Camp meeting at Pleasant Home drew a good crowd despite gusty weather.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alicb Tifid
Alllee
Annie Weaver
Cleveland
Hoyte
University of Wooster
U. S
Electric Bitters Promised To Beautify Woman’s Health
A vintage ad touts Electric Bitters as the world’s best remedy to regulate stomach liver and kidneys and purify blood. It claims benefits include strong nerves bright eyes smooth skin and a rich complexion. Available for 50 cents at Lanbach Boyd’s Drug Store.
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Lanbach & Boyd's
Sudden Death at Asylum Visits Columbus Trip
The Republican reports on August 21 that during a Sunday excursion to Columbus Mr Pater Hahn and wife visited the asylum for imbeciles for their daughter who had been there ten months. On the return journey she fell gravely ill and died Monday morning in Fredericksburg after arriving from Canton. Also noted are visits from several locals, a 14 year old death in Canton area, and community notices including moves and visits.
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Republican
Fredericksburg
Columbus
Pater Hahn
Vernon
McKinney
Blanche
Colorado Spriggs
Colorado
Youngstown
Colorado Springs
Mary KB. Smith
Jeannette
Canton
Geo. D Dunham
Smith
Mary W McElroy
J .O. Campbell
Wooster
C Ik Compton
Ev Wm. Shaw
Northfield
Mass
Alma Scott
Aylesworth
Grace Bolgegrain
Orrville
Homma
Clara Firestone
Allie Bagley
Barnes
Arthur Barnes
Cleveland
Samuel Barnes
Rolling Stone
Wet or Dry Casting Votes in Holmes County Meet
An Aug 20 meeting in M Eaton and a Winesburg event on the same day discuss ballots in Holmes County township voting. Community notices include illnesses, deaths, travel, and local social events. Mt Eaton band’s daylong outing to Indian Trail and a festival at David Morrelies’ home drew a large crowd amid dust, with local obituaries and updates on residents through the weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wooster Republica
Faton
Ballota
M . Eaton
Winesburg
Trere
Old Awcet
Holmes County
Veatmaater Wampler
East Greenville
Stark County
Paulaine Bovey
Louis Stauffer
Louis Schaffter
Dalton
John
John Jaunderson
Itileils
Mt. Eaton
Indian Trail
David Morrelies
Moyeaville
Magaillor
McCullock
Mt. Hope
Mooklin
Mia
John Zankle
Jreveland
John Messner
John Billard
Akron
Huanah D
Ura
Prof
V. Villard
Jacob
Headly Villard
Cleveland
Joy Mille
Charney Thompson
Orrville
Busneag
Alex. Maurer
Sohdaye
Bartroff
Masai
City Council Minutes Record Street Repairs and Curfew Repeal
Regular session notes include water trough repairs at Jank and Greay mill and multiple street paving relays on North Buckeye and Walnut areas. Ordinance re curfew restored then allowed to expire. police arming and Bell telephone matters deferred. council adjourned after pay ordinance.
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Connell
J. Callahan
Kinpey
Jank & Greay
Long Alice
Street and Ailey
Bell Telephone
Rain Drives Community News From Blackleaville U
Rain is needed as farmers cope with dust and drought conditions. Harve Simcox helps with market work while families face fevers and farm shifts. Abe Swarts reports a bumper 1100 bushels of wheat. Canada trips loom for Yeater, Harvey Austin, and Ora Houser. Township picnic boosts morale. Maple Grove band's charity sale nets about 360. Rep Binp and locals plan for winter as roads stay dusty.
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Blachleaville U
Harve Simcox
Harvey Fa
Hustler
Hayer
Curt Harden
Abe Swarts
Yeater
Canada
Harvey Austin
Ora Houser
Caidier Boyz
Hasanary
Maple Grove
Picuic
Howard Harry
Men-Geld
Famly
Bla
Snd
Leonard Wiley
Albert Guitgey
Blackleyville
Dust and a Good Meeting at Smithville Chautauqua
Smithville Ohio hosts a weekend Chautauqua with large crowds despite heat and dust. Col Coppland, reported dead, arrived after travel delays and joins lectures on Progressive Culture and local concert performances. The Geisinger family and Rev Quino attended, with a sacred concert by the Normal Orchestra and Getafngér family. Four children performed, with a refined program and steady audience turnout.
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Smithville
Theaklar
Col. Coppland
Sanjaal
Quino
Cleveland
Geisinger
Leveland
Johotr
Getafngér
Col. Bath
Keantucky
Dalton News: Aug 22 local notes and gatherings
Miss Foma Nawell of Wooster visits Dalton as teachers attend the Institute. A social in honor of Mr. and Mrs. O. & Kelsar precedes their departure for Linin where he takes a petition to the public schools. Daltonites plan tours between the G A H Reunion at Wooster and the Smithville correspondents’ picnic. Local arrivals, illnesses, and a new Greenoak school house project are noted.
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Tita Kgoca
Joan. DaLton
Foma Nawell
Wooster
Dalton
Institute
Kelsar
Lirnin
Greenoak
Weber
Akrob
Wilmot
Jane Mcldowell
Telephone lines reach distant towns in Ohio era
Special correspondence from Lattasburg reports telephone contacts extending south to Holmesville and west to Overton with connections to Wooster. Teachers Ebert and others attended Wooster institute. Pleasant Home camp meeting lacked prior attendance. 22 Maccabees joined Silver Lake picnic. Dr Randebanghe expands practice with a new horse team. K of P excursion to Cleveland. Farmers Club shipped fertilizer to West Salem Overton Wooster and Ashland. Miss Powers of Wooster and daughter Sylvia visited. birth of a girl to Mr and Mrs John McFadden. Dr Raysebiugh Acconcherer noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lattasburg
Ffar
Holmesville
Wellington
Jeromaville
West Salem
Overton
Milleraburg
Wooster
H. E. Ebert
J. W. Ebert
Ratt
Clara Swinehart
Lida Painter
Smithville
Silver Lake
Randebanghe
Baya. C
Ashland
E. ©. Powers
Sylvia of
John Myere
John McFadden
Raysebiugh Acconcherer
Opening a new coal mine east of Doylestown
Doylestown August 22 correspondence reports Looma and Rawley began work on a new coal mine on the Bilman farm east of town. Erie Rik people plan to branch into the mint. Mrs Danbeck and daughter of Exton stay for several months for her health. A storm of fire culled by gaswine caused a near miss at Wm Maronn residence but was extinguished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doylestown
Loomla
Rawley
Bilman
Thia
Erie Rik
Mint
Danbeck
Dangter
T. Exton
Wadsweeth
Porcell
St. Mary's
Dée Winent
Orryile
Munday
Maronn
West Market Street Paving Planned and Main Street Work
Orrville residents push paving on West Market Street and a Mayo's office meeting appointed a committee to confer with council trustees and citizens on street plans. Main Street paving north from the square will open to the public soon as tracks and access improve for the Free Street Fair. Fortunes note harvest travels and rail changes with trains adjusting routes and local freights shifting between Calamaban Orrville and Hodason.
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West Markat Street
Mayo
Weys and
Meade
Tracaiay
J. M. McDowell
Feltle
Siocx City
Omahs
D C. Stinson
Samuel Stinson
David Neuswange
M. A. Ke
Calamban
Orrville
Hodason
Columbus
Republican
Nomination prospects loom for Holcombe at supreme judge race
Omaha delegates gathered in the city as Democratic-Populist and Free Silver Republicans meet. Reports say ex-Governor Silas A. Holcombe is favored for the supreme judge nomination, with Secretary Root traveling from Washington to discuss with the president and bring a cache of documents and cables. The era also brings curious anecdotes from Mars communications and a British soldier’s meat diet tale featuring leather breeches.
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Omaha
Silas A. Holcombe
Doleful cry and social notices from Mechanicsburg area
Aug 21 report notes John Wagner and family as guests of Charley Spangie at Mechanicsburg. Hemlock Pleasure club picnic attendees are listed. A Wooster trip incident tells of a horse kicking after losing a tail line, requiring a borrowed buggy home. Bethel church Bethe Sunday school annual picnic planned for later in grove with combined schools and a preaching service on Sept 8 at 9 am.
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John Wagner
Charley Spangie
Mechanicsburg
Hemlock
Liey
W. S. Miller
Wooster
The
Bethe
Bethel Church
Ambiguous Odds of Enduring Will and Orgic Pledges
Fragmentary OCR reads like a dubious ad for life pills claiming to improve eye power brain and body. Mentions Laubach Boyd and New Life Pills with faulty phrasing and unclear event or result.
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Laubach & Boyd
Ice cream social planned by C E Society Sept 1
Aug 21 notes report an ice cream social planned for Friday evening September 1 at the pleasant home of Mr Sam Whitmore. Other items note Mr Daniel White and family moving back to Canaan arriving Saturday night and several local visits and mishaps with injuries and church events from the Presbyterian sermon by Rev Kilgore and Clinton Orrs wagon accident Sunday evening.
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C. E. Society
Sam Whitmore
Daniel White
Canaan
Russell
Walter
Orrville
Steele
D. Franks
Masailfon
Slatz
C. T. Darrah
Tis
Adam Bishop
Gertie
Medina
Thos
Rousell
Thorne
Kilgore
New Athens
Clinton Orr
Sudden Death in Mt Eaton Claims Local Farmer
Thomas King, a well known farmer living a mile and a half from Mt Eaton, died suddenly at 5 o clock morning from heart trouble. He had returned from milking and collapsed. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Thomas King
Local residents mark a brief Prairie visit and health note
Aug 22, Mary Aylsworth returns home from Akron for a few days. Miss Bessie Tawney and Mr P B Aylsworth of Wooster enjoyed a moonshine evening on the Prairie last Thursday. Dr Hanna has turned his scarlet favor patient over to the cooks, while Henry Heckoran’s center of gravity, heavy in the bemsetees, has returned to its usual condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Aylsworth
Akron
Bessie Tawney
P. BR. Aylsworth
Wooster
Hanna
Henry Heckoran
Bemsetees
Wedding Trip to Macktus Island Steamer Service
The notice describes a popular wedding trip by steamer to Macktus Island in Michigan. It notes acquaintances and a steel passenger set and references Schantz, G. P. in D. G., Detroit. The fragmentary text implies prepared arrangements and advance payments for the voyage.
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Macktus Iland
Michigan
Austen
Ereesas
Schantz
G. P
D. G
Steamboat Service Opens Between Detroit, Cleveland and Mackinac
First class floating steel palace steamers set to run two weekly trips among Detroit Cleveland Toledo and Mackinac Island. Regular schedule begins June 1st with limited fare details and pamphlet distribution promised by officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Cleveland
Toledo
Detroit and Mackinac
Mil l Brook surveyors map route for camp road
August 22 report notes repeated surveys for a railroad or camp road through Mil l Brook area. Experts differ on the only practical route hugging the railroad, with Strong two years earlier and Cris now commenting. Public interest remains high as plans drift toward a soldiers reunion and Perrysville gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strong
Cris
A. M. Miller
Clyde
Perrysville
Wooster
Onder
One-Way Out Declines Court of Inquiry Kruger Reply
President Kruger refuses Chamberlains demand for a court of inquiry. British officials fear war as Krugers counter proposals are unlikely to satisfy London. Dispatches describe Krugers prayers for peace amid frontier tensions and reports of mobilization in South Africa. London and Cape Town commentary suspects Krugers motives and Anglo Boer hostility rising.
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Kruger
Securiney
Court of Inquiry
London
Chamberlain
Colonial Office
Great Britain
Pers
War Office
Transvaal
Geat
Britain
Cape Town
Roya
South Africa
Pitéanl
Jameson
Victor Fire Levels City Business District
A fierce August fire in Victor, Cripple Creek, destroys the town’s business section, with an estimated loss of 2.5 million dollars. The blaze, fanned by south wind, raged six hours, consuming banks, telegraph offices, depots, and hotels, while residents fled. The residential area largely escapes damage as the business core is paralyzed and evacuees rush to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cripple Creek
Col
Bank of Victor
Third
Victor Banking Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
The
Colorado Telephone Company
Victor
Florence and Cripple Creek
Midland Terminal Railroad
Boats Capsize Drowning Fourteen Fishermen Near Wan Island
In a fierce storm at Wan island near the Neuse river sixteen fishermen camped on the islet were swept from their boats as the island flooded. All but one boat capsized. fourteen men from Piney Point Cataract county died. A separate incident reports nine privates drowned on the Moriquima river during a river crossing.
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Beaufort
Wan Island
Neuse
Smith
Saiter
Piney Point
Cataract County
Manilla
Twenty-fourth Infantry
Crane
Moriquima River
United States
Tartar
San Francisco
Joseph Wheeled
Nineteenth Infantry
Guerin 6 Be Starved in Ont Paris Hospital Release
An Ontario report states Guerin was moved to hospital after his cook was removed. He claims his injuries stem from private issues and alleges M. Guerin has only 12 men with him.
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Logersol
Guerin
Paris
M. Guerin
United States Minister to China Sets Tour on Gunboat Princeton
Washington Aug 22 United States Minister to China Conger embarks on the gunboat Princeton for a tour of points along the China coast where American consulates are located State and Navy departments say there is no political significance to the trip The Captains Sentiment detailed at length describes a cavalry engagement with Indians on No Man's creek including a sketch of a skirmish with a looming foe and a later whisky theft incident told with humor by Cleveland Plain Dealer writer Degler.
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Washington
United States
China
Conger
Princeton
China Coast
State
Navy
No Man's Creek
Cuttoom
Hin
Sam
Cleveland Plain
Market Reports Cattle Hogs Wheat and Grains
Market reports show cattle prices from good fat cows at 1.75 to 4.40 cents, steers and bulls varied to 4.15 and 2.75 for lower grades, calves at 4.50 to 8.00, hogs around 5.25, and grain bids for No 2 red wheat at 0.78, corn 0.264, oats 0.264, and No 2 western rye at 0.60.
Hog and cattle market data from diverse regions
Market report lists hogs, sheep, cattle with bid prices across categories. Hogs prime to heavy yorkers shown at 5.05 to 4.00. sheep and lambs range 4.00 to 5.60. cattle good to prime from 3.00 to 5.75, with calves up to 7.00. Includes regional notes: Cincinnati wheat, Baltimore beef prices, and assorted steers and butchers' bids.
Wooster Markets Produce and Local News Summary
August 22 1909 corrected market prices for butter lard beans and potatoes plus fresh poultry and livestock quotes. farm products include wheat flour corn rye oats barley wool and seeds with notes on market receipts and regional prices. Major Harrison improving in Santo Domingo Cuba reports and U.S Havana Cuba census ordered with Sanger as director. Chicago fire on Dearborn street describes blast and damage with names of firms involved and costs. Samoa unrest noted with COcorrespondent reports and calls for no king and a German headed government head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocraignhead & Coy
Geaismio
W. DL
Tyler
Timothy Bead
Allen's Foot Ease Promises Quick Foot Comfort
A vintage advertisement claims Allen's Foot-Ease cools swollen hot feet and relieves soreness from tight shoes. It pledges relief from sweating feet, corns, bunions, blisters, and ingrown nails, with a trial package offered for 25 cents through Allan Olmsted in Roy, Nebraska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allan
Olmsted
Roy
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England
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Cincimati Hnquirer
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Labort
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Frederick Halle
John A
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NEW York Weekly Tribune
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