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  • April 13, 2010
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Ohio consumers who use debit cards at gas pumps and ATMs could run the risk of being scammed through devices called skimmers, Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray cautioned recently. “Skimmers are designed to steal debit card numbers and corresponding account information stored on the card’s magnetic strip. They often are camouflaged to fit gas pumps and ATMs, and they may be equipped with...

Looking at the Browns Draft

  • April 14, 2010
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This will just be a quick hitter on the upcoming NFL Draft, which will be held in a new three-day format for 2010. I have never claimed to be very knowledgeable about the game of football, but as a casual fan we sometimes can see the obvious better than the lifers. Regardless of its entertainment value, the Browns have some business to address, and they have the draft picks with which to do just...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 8

  • April 14, 2010
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It is well within the literal truth to say that no American writer of our day has given so large a number of people so great an amount of innocent entertainment as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. This is obviously a matter quite apart from the question of the fineness of literary quality in his work. On that point critical opinions differ; there are those who consider that Mr. Clemens "Joan of Arc" may...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 7

  • April 14, 2010
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POTATO PRICE TAKES TUMBLEThe bottom is dropping out of the price of potatoes. While the tubers sold for many months at 50¢ to 60¢, yet there is no sale now at any price, and the best that is offered is 25¢ to 30¢. Many people stored their crop in the cellar last fall, instead of selling, and now the market is flooded. People who can not afford to eat meat under the high prices should have no...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 6

  • April 14, 2010
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WATER SCALDS WOMAN BADLYMiss Urshal Mickley, aged about 19 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Mickley, was terribly scalded about 11 o’clock Tuesday forenoon at her home on north Portage street, says the Doylestown Journal.She was doing the family washing and had removed a partly filled boiler of hot water from the stove. She started with it for the porch on the north side of the house and...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 5

  • April 14, 2010
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POSIES ALL AROUND HIMMotorman Harry Johnson, who pilots the limited cars to and from Cleveland was surrounded by posies when he came in at 1:15 Thursday. Seventy-five baskets of pansies, consigned to Smith & Lautzenheiser, grocers, were piled around him, covering all of the available floor space not taken up by the motorman’s feet. When the car got to Wooster several baskets had to be moved...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 4

  • April 14, 2010
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NEW MEN GET THERE QUICKLYThe fire department was called to the barn at the rear of the Yinkey home on High street at noon on Wednesday, a grass fire having made its way to the structure. H.L. Allen headed a party of fire fighters, and when the department arrived at the scene the flames had been extinguished.Mayor Feeman was at the fire department when the call came in, and afterwards stated that...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 3

  • April 14, 2010
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FOUR CHILDREN HEREFour of the five Burkey children, whose father and mother died of typhoid fever at Canton, two months ago, arrived in the city Saturday and will make their home with their uncle and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Frye south-east of the city. Three of the children have just recovered from an attack of scarlet fever. They all show signs of homesickness although everything possible...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 2

  • April 14, 2010
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MEETING WAS A GASWellington Matz just couldn’t help making the councilmen laugh Monday night. Mr. Shupe was the busy councilman Monday evening, and he was on the floor many times during the evening, taking an active part in the discussions. They were talking about Bloomington well drilling. “Now during the past 36 hours I have been talking to some gas men–” That is as far as Mr. Shupe got...

Wayne County the Way it Was - Part 1

  • April 14, 2010
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SEASONAL STYLESStraw hats were out in Wooster Saturday. On several occasions previously this season a straw lid could be spied, but Saturday they were quite numerous. Most of us, however, are getting our money’s worth out of winter headgear and waiting for the more enthusiastic to break things in well before donning the real sun shade. PUNCTUALITY ON THE SQUAREIt has often been said that...