Here and There column notes local events and travel
Roy Rubeck of Chicago visits his brother Wall Rubeck while recovering from back injuries. Martino Hartinge is jailed for intoxication after pleading guilty. Brick work along College Avenue moves toward Spring Street as cold weather nears. Mail delivery rules change for rural residents 1/4 mile from the post office. Wooster Gas Co reports plant changes causing gas shortages. Holiday train fares shift with two cent rate for Thanksgiving. Pennsylvania line reports no winter schedule changes. Nettie Thomas improves from typhoid. Shibley and Hanson jewelers complete interior and front upgrades. Various local incidents include a stolen log chain, an insane man misidentified, and charity visitors at a county home. Hunters fill the countryside ahead of Thanksgiving, and trains carry many travelers with dogs and hunting gear. Jerry Quinnett of Campbell Brothers Show returns from Texas. Thanksgiving sermon announced. Arrest search for逃two escapees from Manafield. Local shoe ad for Sorosis. Shale Brick works employe leaves. University student George Luckett loses sight in one eye from an explosion but retains motion. Business and social notes headline a wave of visitors, sports, real estate, and harvest reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Rubeck
Chicago
Wall Rubeck
Mr Rubeck
Martino Hartinge
Martino
College Avenue
Spring Street
The
Wooster Gas Co
Pennsylvania Line
Toledo Firm Legal Oath and Patent Medicine Claims
An affidavit from J Cheney & Co asserts a Toledo business claim while a testimonial extols a patent medicine for constipation and Brights disease, including a patient letter from Robert O Burke praising a kidney cure and improved condition after treatment. The text mixes an oath form with commercial remedies and personal endorsements.
Local cures and medicines advertised in St Albans paper
An advertisement page from St Albans West Virginia highlights cures for nervous disorders, piles, indigestion and coughs. It promotes Electric Bachelors and Dr Shoop ointment with local druggists Laubach Boyd Bixler Modern Krieger in price friendly formats.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Cure for Vexed Conditions
A historic ad-style notice urges readers not to lose hope in curing scrofula catarrh rheumatism and debility with Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming many hopeless cases have improved. It promotes Orino Laxative Syrup for liver digestion and headache relief and endorses DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve via Krieger Drug Store with brief branding notes.
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Hood
DeWitt's
Krieger Drug
Mrs Jane Mann Slips at Home Reception Injures Shoulder
Mrs. Jane Mann of West North street sustained a broken right shoulder and multiple bruises on Friday afternoon at an Ann home reception. She slipped in a room and fell to the floor, was taken home, and Dr John J Kinney gave surgical attention. She rested fairly well but remained in pain through the night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Mann
West North Street
Ann
Divorce Granted to Mrs Pearl Faux in Wooster
Judge 33B Sason granted Mrs Pearl Faux of Wooster a divorce from Bert Faux on habitual drunkenness. She won custody of the two children, $600 alimony, and $2 weekly child support until the children reach 16. Faux did not contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sason
Pearl Faux
Wooster
Bert Faux
Colds and Cough Remedies Advertised at Local Dances
Local ads tout Foley’s Honey and Tar to break up colds after exposure and warn of pneumonia risks from dances. Pine resin remedies promise bladder and kidney relief, while Preventics candy tablets claim to prevent colds when taken at sneeze stage. Krieger's Drug Store markets these products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Krieger's
Foley
Bixler and Laubach & Boyd
Woman in Black Haunts Towns Triggering Fear and Mystery
Reports from Mansfield Shelby Ashland and other cities describe a mysterious woman dressed in black who appears unexpectedly scaring residents. Police, led by Chief Leiner, chase clues across several locales hoping to identify and apprehend her. In Loudonville a similar figure in red is sighted, but authorities suspect the same eerie visitor in somber attire. The phenomenon prompts public alarm and calls for vigilant policing.
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Shelby
Agebland
State House
Mansfield
Sheloy
Ashland
Loudonville Wooster
Massillon
Canton
Loudonville
Mansfeld
Seiz
Leiner
Wooster
Protest Against Importation Of Bad Boys Near Warwick
Residents in the northwestern Wayne County near Warwick protest the importation of bad boys to work at the Warwick Works. They claim shortages of suitable workers and criticize Cleveland authorities for sending a large number of boys to the plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne County
Warwick
Clinton
Cleveland
Warwick Lo Works
Auditor Hough Faces New System of County Bookkeeping
Notices from Columbus to Wooster outline the new bookkeeping system under the salary law set to begin January 1. County auditors will open ledgers to track the auditor’s fee fund, treasurer’s fee fund, recorder’s fee fund, probate judge’s fee fund, clerk’s fee fund, and sheriff’s fee fund. Transfers between funds occur on quarterly dates to cover deficits, with reimbursement rules guiding repayments before funds return to the general fund. The bureau also provided form ration books and notified stationery firms of the required forms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wooster
Columbus
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of
Recorder’s
Aneriff's Fee
Farmer Moses Cherry Injured In Hay Wagon Accident
Moses Cherry a farmer living northeast of the city was seriously injured last Wednesday when a hay wagon locked failed and a line broke causing the horses to run into a telephone pole. He was thrown onto the pavement but friends hope his condition is not as serious as first feared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses Cherry
Forph
Beallave
Mr. Cherry
Trustees Appoint William Kuhn to Children’s Home Board
William Kuhn of Clinton township is named to fill the vacancy on the board of trustees of the children’s home, following Rev. 8. E. Neikire’s resignation. Remaining trustees are John C. Schults of Wooster and Joseph Her pel of Wayne township.
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William Kuhn
Clinton Township
The
Children’s Home
8. E. Neikire
John C. Schults
Wooster
Joseph Herpel
Wayne Township
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Hart Schaffner
Marx
Pearl
Ing
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Liberty St. Wooster, O
Road Lad
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Bap
Nettie Thomas
Shibley & Hansob
Riley Howey
West Lurwaill Street
Odenkirk
Terre Haute
Ind
Alex
Lawrence
B. Spencer
Doylestown
L. R. Kramer
Cal van Niman
Shreve
Joseph Gallagher
Smith
Pittsburgh
Irvin Lytle
University of the Clans
North Dakota
Wuncaster
H Quinnett
Campbell Brothers
Shorstay
Texas
Quinnett
Union
S.ot* F. Hershey
Manafield
W H. Wiler
Will Heller
Shale Brick Works
Henry M. Knepp
George Luckett
Washington, D. C
Lyman A. Reed
Diamond Portland Cement
Jus. C. Wilmot
J. C. Wilmot Co
Walter D
Foss
Wilson Kindly
Urrville
C. D. Spiker
John Mertz
Fred Bowes
Swithville
Earnest Skeel
L. W. St. John
Eugene Carlin
al. . Luce
W. D. Tyler
Frick Tyler
Winsonoff
L. B. Bolas
Charles Thompson
Henry Unger
H. G Barrett
Forbes Alcork, Jr
George Kattler
Thos P Brown
Craig
McClarran & Jones
Cedar Valley
Philip Kline
Franklin Township
Nolle Brothers
Fray OF
Toledo
Bran J. Cheney
Firmot J. Cheney & Gs
Oueney
Dtark
Diesass Weir
Robert O. Burke
Elnora
N. Y
Feley
Bright
Charles E Bix
Laibach-&-Boyd
S. Blair
St. Albans
W. Va
Laubach & Boyd
Kotol
Krieger Drug Store
Charles E. Bixler
Lau
Bach & Boyd
Auditor Hough
Farmer
Pes
Lway
Atsratits
Ottawa
Canada
H. M. William B
Gardner
Teleds
Ohio
Meatlou
Ely
Drago Gists
Ely Brothers
Warren Street
New York
S. S. Ball
Ravenswood
Exig
Reksves
Bn ‘Coddel
Was
E. O! Dawitt & GO
Krieger
Lordsis
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