Legislation Opens County Records to Typewritten Formats
A state bill loosens county record keeping by legalizing typewritten and printed records for county officials, replacing a former requirement for handwritten entries. The measure aims to improve accessibility for public examination. A field report notes a farmer’s eight acre wheat yield of 408 bushels, and a satirical Harvard table on arithmetic ends with a playful moral from Bishop Brewster about a child’s neighbor answer.
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B. D. Hartman
Cedar Valley
Village sidewalk injury petitions damages in Wayne county
Viola Moales of Doylestown files in Wayne county court of common pleas seeking 8000 dollars damages for injuries to her right ankle after being thrown to the ground by a defective sidewalk on September 22, 1902. J B Meech represents the plaintiff.
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Viola Moales
Doylestown
Wayne County
Pleasant Time at the Home of Eugene Schafffer
On Saturday October 18 the home of Mr and Mrs Eugene Schafffer in Marshallville hosted a 25th wedding anniversary celebration. About 125 relatives friends and neighbors gathered for a bounteous dinner with games music and many presents. The hosts were warmly welcomed and guests wished them many more such events.
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Eugene Schafffer
Marshallville
Mr. and
Fire. Schaffter
Svente
Doylestown News Local Visitors and Events
Doylestown reports visitors from Orrville Barberton Massillon and Akron attending Sunday and Monday gatherings. Clergy assisted Forty Hours devotion. Epworth pie supper planned. carnival attendance noted. Born last week to Harvey Cleckner and wife. Local politicians engaging as political tensions rise.
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Doylestown
John Deible
Orrville
Derbin
Barberton
Henry Yost
Massillon
George Ott
Broun
Akron
Plumera
Wadsworth
Sheffield
Hassel
Canal Fulton
Keabler
Mansillon
G. A. Hermann
Rose
Louisa Weinsheimer
Aliss Catherine Brown
Wooster
Harvey Cleckner
Town Hall
Carrie Weinsheimer
Viola McCormish
C. K. Bowman
J.S. Adairne
Neck of the Woods
Local Notes From Lodi Ohio Weddings and Travels
Lodi news reports Mr and Mrs Bi Kuder of Columbus visiting the Rev Barron. Mr and Mrs L Hartel and Clair Griffin from Lodi traveled to Michigan. CG E Parmelee visits Cleveland on business. Mrs Clifford of Wellington visits daughter Mrs Cy Chaan. she quietly married last Saturday. Miss Frank Morse seriously ill but improving. Dr Norman Carey Yurian to wed Miss Grace Alice Taft October 15, both from Cleveland but Yurian has ties to Lodi. Mr and Mrs F M Plank visited friends in Nova last week. Old residents attended a Sunday M E church service for the elderly.
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Lodi
Bi Kuder
Columbus
Norman Carey Yurian
Grace Alice Taft
Clevelad
Yar
Odi
F. M. Plank
Nova
M. E
College Athletics Readies For Big Week Of Games
Captain Lucas travels to Scio to study Scio versus Mt Union and boost tactics for the Mt Union clash next Saturday. Coach St John at Ann Arbor runs Ohio State Michigan ideas while Wooster eyes revenge against Mt Union and prepares for a new track branch with Ogen Weaver named team manager and Ellis Ewing baseball chief.
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Scio
Mt. Union
St. John
Ann Arbor
Wickham
Wooster
Crow
The
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Ellis Ewing
Next Sprite
Ogen Weaver
Bucklens Attica Salve Promises Skin Cure All
Advert describes Bucklens Attica Salve curing eczema, blotches, blotches, sores, pimples and chapped skin. Claims relief for piles and chilblains. Sells for 25 cents at Laubach and Boyd's drug store.
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America
Laubach &Boyd
Mwifk
Press Points and Public Mistrust Across Newspapers
A compilation of brief items critiques political letters from Grover Cleveland to Tammany Hall and anticipated correspondence with Henry Watterson, notes calls to clear railway tracks, references a Kansas senator dispute over Hawaiian land deals, questions a broom trust linked to a 40 percent tariff, and discusses wealth as a social power issue in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Atlanta Constitution
Probate court actions list multiple estate filings and guardianships
Will and estates in Chippewa township and Greene township filed for probate or final accounts. Guardians appointed or renewed for Marion Moncrief Orion Moncrief Joseph Shelly Myrtle Sprinkle Mina McClure with bonds set. Hearings scheduled December. executor and bond details provided. Plus a hospital report noting 66 Wayne county patients for month ending Sept 15.
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Rebecca Dohner
Chippewa Toweabte
J. F. Seas
Marion Moncrief
Lillaan Moncrief
Orion Moncrief
E. R. Kelly
James Patton
Maxsilton State Hospital
Wayne County
Elizabeth Shell
Sia Mendez
Anthony Mendez
David and
Jesse James
Thomas Gilmore
Rebecca Shelly
Joseph Shelly
T. H. Elser
Myrtle M. Sprinkle
Catherine Reichenbach
L. C. Reichenbach
John Rich
Greene Township
Jack McClure
Mina McClure
Electric Bitters Restore Health in Welfare Tex Man
Albert Bee of Welfare Tex writes that biliousness back pain and weakness left him unable to work. After using Electric Bitters he reports better sleep appetite and strength and recommends the remedy sold for 60 cents at Laubach & Boyd's dry store.
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Albert Bee
Tex
Laubach & Boyd’s Dry
Mowikr
Watch the Kidneys and Liver This Season
Dr. Abernethly warns that kidney and liver trouble endangers life. Advertisements urge Dewitt’s Early Risers to cleanse the system, move the bowels gently and copiously, and tone the glands, with Tonics from Laubach & Boyd and Zimmerman & Co. in a period voice.
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Raser
Abernethly
Foley
Laubach & Boyd and Zimmerman & Co
Zim- Co
Lau ‘Tone
Zmeérman. & Co
Laubsch & Boyd
Wayne County property transfers recorded in quitclaim and deeds
A catalog of numerous property transfers in Wayne County listing grantees and grantors. Transactions span Wooster Blackleyville East Salem Wayne Clinton and Plain townships with parcels ranging from 1 to 100-plus acres and prices from 120 to 5 744 dollars. Names include Sweringen Miller Ric Ganeth Hoff Reynolds Heichel Johnson Barrents Royer Cornelius Ames Ray Fombel Heller Fritz Brown Sewer Pipe Co Frost Tanner Frost Jr Folk and others.
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Sarah Ann Sweringen
Benjjmin F. Miller
Wooster
Alice A. Ric E Ganether
Blackleyville
George Keener
Henry Berry
Salem
Andrew K. Hoff
West Salen
James K. Reynolds
Luther Heichel
Alice C. Ray
Emma Slaybaugh
Ambrose M. Fombeile Et al
Daniel Heller
H. M. Hoff
D. W. Fritz
Wayne Township
Thomas A. Brown
Clinton
Clinton Township
Griffith
Marione
Crippled for life after crossing at Pennsylvanian crossing
Eight year old Ray Rapp, an orphan living with sister Mrs Painter and others at Pittsburg Avenue, was crushed by a coal train at East Liberty Street crossing. The right foot four toes were crushed. doctors in Pittsburgh decided to remove only the four toes. The operation succeeded and a return to mobility is hoped in weeks.
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Ray Rapp
Mra
Wm. Painter
Pittsburg Avenue
East Liberty Street
Pennsylvania Road
Jerry Murphy
Wr .W. Firestone
John J. Kinney
J. H. ‘I'ressel
Alliance
Rew Invention by Jefferson County Resident
Curtis L. Mellinger of Jefferson County developed a box cover securing method that locks or detaches without a key, ideal for eggs and other shipments. He partners with Abraham O. Miller to market the device. US letters patent were awarded, announced by Judge H. B. Swartz today.
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Curtis L. Mellinger
Jefferson
Mellinger
Abraham O. Miller
Dr Kings New Discovery Claims Wide Cures
Davis Kentucky merchant touts Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption and coughs as a universal cure. Advertisers claim it saves throat and lung sufferers, with trial bottles free and refunds offered. A Fort Wayne pharmacist endorses it for kidney and bladder issues.
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Dingeist C. T. Smith
Davis
Zet Np
Bicana
Laubach & Boyd
Mwfk
The Worst Form of Indigestion Cured by Kodol
Multitudes praise Kodol the new discovery that digests what you eat and cleanses the stomach to transform food into rich red blood. Mrs Cranall of Troy Illinois reports long indigestion and dyspepsia cured after four bottles. She endorses Kodol to all sufferers.
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Cranall
Troy
Stranger mother travels alone to Wooster from Alsace
Mrs Fred Hecky and two children arrived in Wooster on the 686 train from Alsace Ger to join her husband living near Creston Asthera. No one at the depot aided them until Republican staff learned her story. The infant was ill and the mother exhausted after weeks of travel. Helped to Fort Wayne hotel, then Reid house, then to husband’s ready home. Mrs Hecky spoke only German and faced a slow welcome from locals.
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Fred Hecky
Alsace
Ger
Hecky
Creston Asthera
Epointér
Ft. Wayne
Reid House
Reid
Mr Hecky
Gus Hunsicker
Farmaduse Robbery at Schrock Farm Residenza
An unknown person entered the A. C. Schrock farm residence three miles northeast of Smithville on Monday afternoon and stole $42 a suit of clothes and a pair of shoes from the household.
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A. C. Schrock
Smithville
Officials decide no changes to PF Pennsylvania fall train schedules
PF Pennsylvania officials have practically decided to keep current passenger and through train schedules this fall. A preliminary review suggested altering through train times would disrupt freight traffic, so no changes will be made. Local train service was not discussed, and other roads share the view of avoiding faster trains this season.
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PF Lvania
Tas
Feneral
Eee Geersson T
Doctor Claims Cure for Chronic Diseases Across 15 000 Cases
A physician asserts a specialty in chronic illnesses, stating he has treated over 15,000 patients in Feausyiaals the past 12 years. He claims previous diagnoses of incurable conditions, including deafness and blindness, have been reversed, with recovery of hearing, sight, and other functions.
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Feausyiaals
Trains 602 503 Parlor Cars Cleveland to Cincinnati
Trains 602 and 503 offer Buffet Parlor Cars on a Cleveland to Cincinnati route via Columbus with Sleptay Cars on Nos 527 and 625. Cleveland Sleeping Car on No 527 ready in Columbus. Talo Station timing and connections via Cleveland division for Pittsburgh and the East.
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Cincinnati
Columbus
Clevaland
Talo
Hudsoe
Clevenland & x Este Division
Pittsburgh
East
Baie Yn Cote
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