... DANIEL F DANIEL F RING The Cleveland Public Library and the WPA A Study in Creative Partnership The dole is a narcotic a subtle destroyer of the human spirit I am not willing that the vitality of our people be sapped by the giving of cash1 In a large way this statement of President Franklin D Roosevelt summarizes the philosophy and emphasis of the New Deal which was a desire to substitute work for relief2 Expressions of this philosophy were the proliferation of federal agencies and the ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 219 they have been exterminated by war disease and failure of accustomed food supply consequented upon the advent of the whites The simple and primitive existence and the peculiar characteristics of these children of the forest are entertainingly depicted This chapter is followed by a valuable and full appendix of statistics concerning the Indians-treaties of the United States with the tribes the cost to the government in the case of these aboriginal wards the ...
... URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE URINALYSIS INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION THE STETHOSCOPE ET CETERA OF THE PERIOD 1835-1858 By HOWARD DITTRICK M D The period 1835 to 1858 was one during which there was little or no advance in the scientific side of medicine According to F H Garrison the scientific movement did not start until well after the middle of the nineteenth century Medicine of the early half was with a few exceptions only part and parcel of the stationary theorizing of the preceding ...
... DORAMAE O'KELLEY DORAMAE O'KELLEY Late Nineteenth Century Courthouse Architecture in Northwestern Ohio As one drives through northwestern Ohio the most impressive object to be seen on the skyline of many communities might be the massive towered form of the county courthouse Often the city's largest and most distinguished example of architecture these courthouses were all built in the last thirty years of the nineteenth century The importance these structures held for the people of the county ...
... Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 Report of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting 539 probably purchase these volumes at that price if they had the opportunity to do so It is suggested that two years hence a request should be made for the republication of the volumes to be distributed at cost to those desiring to purchase ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY Within the past year progress has been made in additions to the library Books and bound pamphlets to the number of 882 have been accessioned ...
... LAYING CORNER STONE LAYING CORNER STONE OF THE SOCIETY'S BUILDING On the afternoon of Se p tember 12 1 912 the Trustees and officers of the Society laid the Corner Stone of the building of the Society located on the Campus of the Ohio State University The ground was first broken for the excavation on June 25th The weather on the day of the corner stone laying was ideal and a goodly audience of the friends of the Society including many professors of the University assembled to witness the ...
... 118 Ohio Arch 118 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications EDITORIALANA VOL XXVIII No 1 JANUARY 1919 BIOGRAPHY OF GROVER CLEVELAND The following letter which we gladly publish speaks for itself NEW YORK CITY October 31 1918 Editor Ohio Archaeological and Historical Society DEAR SIR I should be grateful if friends of Mr Cleveland who possess published addresses or other critical comment of historical value concerning his policies or character or letters to or from him or personal recollections ...
... 490 Ohio Arch 490 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications DR JACOB ALBRIGHT SHAWAN Dr Jacob A Shawan for many years recognized as one who had attained high place among educators of Ohio died at his home near DeGraff Logan County Ohio May 4 1927 He was born in Wapakoneta June 15 1850 was reared on a farm educated in the public schools of Urbana Ohio and was graduated from Oberlin College in 1880 He received his M A degree from Oberlin College in 1883 and the honorary degree of Ph D from ...
... 558 Ohio Arch 558 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications and counter-charges on issues growing out of this subject Those interested are referred to this literature and the newspapers for the attitude of men and parties toward workmen's compensation No good purpose can be subserved by the publication in the QUARTERLY of the views of representatives of political parties on this subject It should be sufficient to record here the fact that a protest has been made The Society desires the interest ...
... THE SECRET SIX THE SECRET SIX AN INQUIRY INTO THE BASIC MATERIA MEDICA OF THE THOMSONIAN SYSTEM OF BOTANIC MEDICINE By PHILIP D JORDAN PHD Perhaps no single man of medicine exerted a greater popular influence during the hectic days of scientific thought in the nineteenth century than did Dr Samuel Thomson Although the intimate details of his professional career did not always coincide with the stories which Thomson himself told1 the general biographical facts are rather well established The ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR THOMAS BARTLEY ACTING GOVERNOR AND JUDGE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF OHIO Singular though it may seem the biographies of Judge Bartley that have appeared from time to time in Ohio publications are without exception incomplete Beyond the record of the fact that he served a short time as governor to fill out the unexpired term of Wilson Shannon who had been appointed ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 26 7 Defiance has better claims for such a monument as is proposed The beauty of the site here situated in the heart of the city should give Defiance the precedence The Maumee Valley Pioneer Association wishes to save Roche de Boeuf from being used as a pier for a bridge to be built across the river at that point by the Cincinnati Northern Traction Co Secretary J L Pray said the association would probably first attempt to persuade the electric company to change its ...
... REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY HELD IN THE MUSEUM AND LIBRARY BUILDING OF THE SOCIETY MARCH 26 1 931 The Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society met in annual meeting March 26 1931 at 2 o'clock p m in the trustees' room of the Museum and Library Building The following members were present Johnson Bareis Florence Orton Spetnagel Goodman and Hinkle ...
... 244 Ohio Arch 244 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications EQUITATION IN AND ABOUT COLUMBUS Mr Frank Tallmadge a life member of the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society a prominent citizen of Columbus and the dean of equitation in central Ohio has written a book entitled Horseback Riding in and around Columbus 1774-1924 It is neatly printed and bound interestingly written and a unique addition to local history The foreword is written by Henry M Neil of Columbus The book is published ...
... Editorialana Editorialana 577 PRE-HISTORIC MAP Concerning the archaeological atlas of Ohio now being prepared by The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society under the direction of W C Mills Curator of the Society the Associated Press has given out the following statement Work on the archaeological atlas of Ohio a work unique of its kind in the history of literature is about one-fourth completed but so quietly has it been in progress that few if any persons outside the membership of ...
... NOTES NOTES Contributors to This Issue WELLINGTON G FORDYCE instructor in history at Euclid Central High School Cleveland received his master's degree from Ohio State University This is his second article on immigrant groups in Cleveland CLARENCE H CRAMER is a member of the history faculty of Southern Illinois State Normal University JEANNETTE PADDOCK NI CHOLS o f the Library of Congress and her husband Professor Roy F Nichols of the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR SARGENT GENEALOGY Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants by Emma Worcester Sargent and Charles Sprague Sargent Houghton Mifflin Company publishers Boston and New York 1923 One of the most valuable and finely wrought books that has been added to the library of the Society is the sumptuous volume entitled Epes Sargent of Gloucester and His Descendants ...
... Reviews Notes and Comments 643 Reviews Notes and Comments 643 in the minds of the students to imitate them We lack a book describing such people Whereupon some person in the audience called out perhaps not without sarcasm Why don't you write one The challenge was accepted and the result is here presented to the teaching public The choice of subjects is not beyond criticism and the method of treatment may not satisfy all admirers We are too near the subjects for exact appraisement All are ...
... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY April 12 1 946 Meeting in Executive Session at 11 00 AM and 400 PM The following members of the Board were present Johnson Eagleson Miller Amos Belden Coppock Florence Holzer MacLean Rightmire Wittke and ex-officio Governor Lausche and Hissong A tentative program covering the Society's activities for the coming year being presented by the President it was ...
... BENTLEY'S LAKE BENTLEY'S LAKE A J BAUGHMAN MANSFIELD Secretary of the Richland County Historical Society The Bentley Lake seven miles east of Mansfield was created in 1846 and had a peculiar origin In 1821 Jonas Ballyet entered the northwest quarter of section 15 Mifflin township Richland county and near the center of this tract there was a circular marsh of eight or ten acres surrounded by a rim of elevations of gentle slope giving a bowl-like appearance in the place At the east side or end ...