Fraternity Weddings Spark Wooster College Scene
The Kappa Alpha Sheba fraternity at Wooster University hosts seven members soon to wed, a rare sequence in college circles. Contracts announced include Nina Given with Dr Henry Horn of Chicago and Margaret Platter with Dr Lester Brown of Springfield, plus several other Wooster brides to be, as the community awaits spring weddings. A large reception honors Rev Frederick Cromer, new pastor, with church leaders and guests praising his work and welcoming his wife.
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Uni
Kappa Alpha Sheba
Wooster University
Wooster
Nina Given
Herry Horn
Chicago
Margaret Platter
Lester Brown
Springfield
Josephine Taylor
J. K. Slagle
Milwaukee
Irene Flattery
Lee O. Scott
Rockford
Itc
Margaret Elder
Ernest Weld
Princeton Seminary
Mary Elder
James Michael
Pittaburg
Fin Blanche
McClellan
Hev. Marshall
Louisville
the Reformed Church
Perder
Frederick Cromer
yWe
Mev. Cromer
Mra. Cromer
Littell
Cromer
Philip Lent
Bio-Congregation
Mao
Gromer
Periodic Pains and the Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills
An ad touts Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as a remedy for periodic pains including headaches and neuralgic distress. It claims quick relief without morphine or narcotics, guarantees benefit or money back, and cites South Bend Indiana as a selling point.
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Miles
Park
Michigan St
South Bend
Ind
Valley College Sunday School Presents Santa Claus Dream Cantata
Valley College Sunday School No. 5 Wooster township invites to a Christmas cantata Santa Claus Dream Tuesday evening December 25 with E R Wise as superintendent in charge. Also Friday December 28 there is an old fashioned Sunday school reunion with dinner at 7 pm and baskets to share for all past and present members.
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Wooster
James W. Odenkirk
Sherrik
Cora Schmuck
Alexander
Pearl Alleman
Harvey Young
Mra
James Snyder
Mra. Wise
Mra Gladwin
David M. Rudy
Dalton
J. H. Lytle
South Walnut Street
Mr. Lytle
Brotherhood
A. FE. Bair
Buckeye Street
Mohican Oil & Gas Co
J. 8 Edwards
Ethel Mower
Charles Brigham
Katie Bucher
Margaret Vason
Abe Sarbolt
M. P. Killorain
T. J. McKeon
Ofice
Mrs. Bair
Mr. Bair
Isaac Johnson
Fonck
Junior McSweeney
North Market Street
Womens Home and
Foreign Missionary Society
First Presbyterian Church
L. E. Yocum
Stol
Rhope
Syria
Mra. McBride
Jesse McClellan
Redville
N. C
Colorado
Wayne Township
Mm. F.S. Liggett Thoraday
Swinchart
Bixler
Lehman
Queen Esther Circle
Methodist Church
Wallace Schmuck
North Bever Street
Mach
Scripture Jewson
Ruth Wile
Clementine Taggart
Eleanor Holliday
Irene Bixler
Margaret Criley
Katherine Rouson
Mary Kissing
Lucile Orr
Grace Wile
Lena Kioney
Bess Palmer
Valley College
Wooster Township
Santa Claus
E. R. Wise
Narrow Escape at Pennsylvania Depot Crossing
A young woman narrowly escaped death at a Pennsylvania depot crossing when she slipped as she stepped onto the path and fell back to the curb as a train passed. She appeared unscathed and laughed off the mishap amid the close call. Adverts promote Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea and Ely’s Cream Balm with claims of quick relief for congestion and allergies.
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Pennsylvania Depot
Parrow
Piles Cured in 610 14 Days Pazocinthent Claim
An advertisement asserts Pazocinthent cures itching bleeding or protruding piles in 610 14 days. It promises results and offers a return option if not cured, urging readers to purchase for relief from painful symptoms.
City council faces water plan split amid bond debate
Citizens weigh three options for water supply including more storage, repairs to current system, or pure water for drinking. Mayor Van Nest backs a large reservoir project to ensure fire protection and summer sprinkling, while opponents seek restraint on new bonds. A notable citizen plans to seek an injunction against bonds beyond repairs.
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Clar Creek
Applecreek
Bia
W. D. Tyler
Keister
Wife exposes husband in divorce case at city
M. C. Fouch, former Wooster resident now in Alliance, was in the city Wednesday as his wife Mrs Mamie Fouch, whom he sued for divorce, confronted him and she revealed she has taken proper legal steps to protect her rights.
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Scc
Beming Point
Flora Doyle
Blanche Richards
Bessie Rayvolo
Jessie Wiley
Mamie Louth
Weasie Wilmot
Bard Mabel Bean
Wilmot
Foss
Aira. Kenney
Rostler's
Mrs. Kenney
Mrs. Wilmot
Mra. Foss
W. D. Fosa
Messrs
Oscar and
Clifford Foss
Fouch
Wooster
Alliance
Mamie Fouch
Diyone
Obituary of Mrs John Brown and John Chapman
Mrs John Brown died at her home near Yhrevye leaving a husband two daughters and two sons Interment in the Catholic cemetery Pallbearers Emile Paumier Michael Landers Dennis Landers Jerry Murphy Dennis Shea John Fitzgerald John Chapman aged 27 died at Orrville from consumption leaving a wife and little girl
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John Brown
Yhrevye
Ahse Leaven
Emile Paumier
Michael
Dennis Landers
Jerry Murphy
Dennis Shea
John Fitzgerald
John Chapman
Orrville
Advertising Tevatn and Twain In a Local Pane Tale
Twain parodies ad praise with a man who credits a newspaper ad for selling his stock of apples. The tale details a bold promise to send a free barrel of Necked fruit with freight prepaid and no charge for the barrel. The testimonial claims the forty cent ad cleared out the man’s entire stock and hints at greater potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark ‘Tevatn
Mark Twain
Lowaway
Edster
Anglo Saxon Denarian Health Compacts Quelled by Danes
A fragmentary note recalls Alfred the Great enforcing fealty and driving Danes from the land amid a period of Danish rule. It mentions the assassination of English leaders and the later adoption of health preservation compacts, often framed in wine, with the custom of drinking to health.
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Higuer
Britain
Alfred
Engtehmen
Spelling Teat Question on English Endings
A fragment discusses a spelling test revealing confusion over how many words end with the letters “eod.” The excerpt notes the common answer and hints at spelling conventions.
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Dous
Wooster in Consolidation Forms Large Cleveland & Southwestern System
The reorganization committee of the Cleveland & Southwestern Traction company plans a comprehensive merger uniting the Cleveland & Southwestern, Cleveland Ashland & Mansfield, and Ohio Central interurban lines controlled by Pomeroy and Mandelbaum. The consolidation will cover 210 miles of track into one system under the Cleveland & Southwestern Railway Company with 15.9 million dollars capital.
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Cleveland
Cleveland & Southwestern Traction Company
Pomeroy and Mandelbaum
North
Ohio
Cleveland & Southwestern
Cleveland Ashland & Mansfield
Colupans
Famine and flood devastate Anhui Kiangsu provinces in China
Advices from the steamer Tremont report heavy loss of life from famine and flood across 40 000 square miles in Anhui and Kiangsu, China. Tens of millions at risk, with widespread starvation, fever, and child abandonment. Also notes a separate New York case where Lulu Grover died by suicide. president's disposal of her affairs honored. Japanese cabinet approves army expansion to 19 divisions, amid funding cuts elsewhere.
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Victoria BC
Tremont
Orient
Anhui
Kiangsu
China
T F McCrea
Shanghai
New York
Lulu Grover
Harlem
Roosevelt
Ninestate Ardae
United States District
Stimson
White House
President Denies McKnight Pardon in Embezzlement Case
Washington reports the president again refused to grant a pardon to William F McKnight serving time in Atlanta for embezzling large sums from the German National Bank of Louisville. He is said to be in no bad health and his pardon had been recommended by numerous parties.
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F McKnight
Washington
William F McKnight
German National Bank of
Louisvile
Atlanta
McKnight
Vatican Protest Over French Palace Search and Exile
Vatican protests sent to diplomatic reps denouncing the Paris palace search and seizure of documents and the expulsion of Mgr Monnol as unprecedented. The note asserts respect for foreign archives even amid severed relations and archives protection.
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Rome
Nee v
Papal
Merry del Val
Pontifical
Paris
Mgr Monnol
Santa's Christmas Mail Surges With Holiday Postal Load
The United States Postal Service expects Christmas mail to far exceed last year as millions of Americans send and receive cards and packages. New York City remains the world’s busiest mail hub handling thousands of registered parcels and letters hourly, with ships to Europe carrying mass mail and large sums in money orders.
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Santa
United States
Christmay Nail
Santatina
New York City
I T
Foreign Mall
New York
Europe
DOW
Injunction Sought Over Dividends at United Boxboard
Chicago December 22 Sidney Mitchell owner of 2000 United Boxboard shares files a circuit court bill seeking to restrain dividend payments and demanding an accounting amid allegations that directors conspired to wreck the corporation valued at 14,000,000. The filing cites misused earnings and a related transfer of Uncas Pape stock for 268,000 to American Strawboard. list of directors given.
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United Boxboard Company
Chicago
Sidney Mitchell
United Boxboard and Paper Company
Mitchell
Mitchel
Box Board Company
O C. Barber
William Graves
E. R. Stettinius
W. A. Russell
J. K. Robinson
S. B Fleming
E. H. Watkins
Inited Box, Board Company
American Strawboard Company
Uncas Pape Company
Buckeye Adjutant General clears Sixtieth Ohio record
Columbus reports Adjutant General Critchfield states the Sixtieth Ohio was mustered out and honorably discharged on November 10, 1862 in Chicago. He says no authority supports claims of disorganization or mutiny and notes prior commendations for bravery. Detention camp issues and a board of survey are referenced. Raise For Big Four Engineers. Columbus, Dec 22. Big Four engineers secure 8 percent wage increase after negotiations with General Manager J. Q. Van Winkle, with compromise accepted by workers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Roosevelt
Qoun
Gress
Twenty-Siik
Critchfokk
Columbina
Aun
William ’ Trimble
Hillsboro
West Virginia
Maryland
Harper's Ferry
Annapolis
Camp Douglas
Chicago
Critchfeld
Board of
Sixtieth Ohio
Critchfield
Big Four
Big Four Railroad
J. Q. van Winkle
Name Origins of Tuxedo Creek in Early Colony History
The article recounts how Tugelo cout derived its name from a fashionably named Tuxedo colony near Duck Cedar Lots. Early settlers and natives visited the area, calling the place fie Pond or Tidabech, with Es Bons and Tidabech noting ducks and cedar trees along rocky shores. The name evolved to Tuxedo after local usage persisted for years.
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Tuxedo
George Tidabeck
Cour
Wuel
Ueda
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Forrest Sinnock
Masasllon
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Charles J. Campbell
Gilbert
Loudonville
Mra. Platter
Mt. Riga
Marax Twaio
Mateer
Valley College Sunday
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
H. Boyd & Co
Ely
Ely Bros
Warres Etree
Council
van Nest
Cleveland & Southwesten
The
Vatican
Houston
John Hamilton
Barney Parsons
Hamilton
Wes
Plymouth
Eng
Jacques Schoenberger
Schoenberger
Tours
France
Santiago
Chile
Emilio Au8ofs
Ens
Santa’s
Chrristimas Mail
Jen
Buckeye
Ceneral
Tvon
Hood
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