... BOZ REPORTS ON OHIO BOZ REPORTS ON OHIO By ROBERT PRICE On Tuesday the twenty-sixth of April 1842 Charles Dickens writing from America to John Forster in London began his letter with the heading Niagara Falls upon the English Side1 Then very suggestively he drew ten dashes underneath the word English 2 Dickens' first tour of the United States then just about completed had not been altogether pleasant The typical British attitude of the time toward people and things in the States had probably ...
... A Public Official A Public Official as a Muckraker BRAND WHITLOCK by NEIL THORBURN One would not expect to find the name of Brand Whitlock on a list of muckrakers Yet several articles he wrote while mayor of Toledo and his most successful novel The Turn of the Balance are so typical of the muckraking literature popular in the first decade of the twentieth century that the resemblance cannot be a coincidence Whitlock thought of himself primarily as an author not a politician although today he ...
... SHIRLEY SUI LING TAM SHIRLEY SUI LING TAM Police Roundup of Chinese in Cleveland in 1925 A Case Study of a Racist Measure and the Chinese Response On September 22 1925 a Chinese waiter named Yee Chock was found dead with his head chopped off in the Chinatown section of Cleveland Ohio Identifying such a hatchet murder as being connected with rivalry among tongs a kind of Chinese association in America the Safety Director of Cleveland Edwin D Barry ordered a wholesale arrest of all the Chinese ...
... Notes and Queries Notes and Queries This issue of Ohio History marks the completion of the editor's first volumeyear and provides the occasion for a brief report on his tenure and a glimpse into the future The journal has undergone a major revitalization during the past three years and the editor's chief task has always been to continue this process We have increased the number of articles and documents carried per issue enlarged the reviews section and tried to give greater weight to those ...
... OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL OHIO STATE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS NOTES AND COMMENTS BY THE EDITOR FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN THE WORLD WAR It may be too soon to write a great history of the World War We still stand in the shadow of that volcanic upheaval We are too close to it in time and interest to measure in due perspective its mighty proportions It is not too soon however to record the facts upon which that history is to be built The part of the United States in ...
... DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS DIALECT DISTRIBUTION AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN THE GREAT LAKES REGION by ALVA L DAVIS Assistant Professor of English Western Reserve University The study of dialect distribution in the eastern United States and in the secondary settlement areas of the Great Lakes Region has now reached a point where it is possible to show some interesting correlations between the linguistic features and the settlement patterns of these regions It is simple perhaps ...
... WILLIAM M WILLIAM M DONNELLY Keeping the Buckeye in the Buckeye Division Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division 1940-1945 On 15 October 1940 Major General Robert S Beightler and the 37th Infantry Division of the Ohio National Guard reported for what was supposed to be a one-year tour of Federal service Five years later Beightler and the Buckeye Division returned to Ohio Its original mission had been to expand to full wartime strength and train draftees from Ohio at ...
... 346 Ohio Arch 346 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications became captain of Company C of that regiment He served with distinction through the Civil War and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel He was again in the Legislature in 1867-1868 and was Speaker in the latter year In 1876 he was elected United States senator and twice afterward re-elected He died in 1891 before the close of his third term His life history as presented by Connelley in this volume is an inspiration to every healthy ...
... KRISTE LINDENMEYER KRISTE LINDENMEYER Saving Mothers and Babies The Sheppard-Towner Act in Ohio 1921-1929 In 1985 the year for which the latest statistics are available 106 American babies died for every 1000 live births in the United States This is a dramatic improvement over the country's 1921 infant mortality rate of 76 per 1000 but as in 1921 the United States' rate continues to compare poorly with many other industrialized countries In 1921 the United States rate ranked seventeenth out of ...
... JON GLASGOW JON GLASGOW The Westward Expansion of the Manufacturing Belt The Ohio Machine Tool Industry in the Late Nineteenth Century For more than sixty years the Manufacturing Belt has been recognized as an important feature of the human geography of the United States Early studies mostly by geographers1 delimited the current areal extent of the region-roughly a quadrilateral with corners at St Louis Minneapolis Portland Maine and Richmond Later attention shifted from description to ...
... Laying Corner Stone of the Society's Building Laying Corner Stone of the Society's Building 427 that shall be carried on in this building and outside of the buildding and that it will in the years to come add very greatly to the distinction of our commonwealth I congratulate the people of Ohio I congratulate the University I congratulate the State upon this happy hour and the prospect of this building MR RANDALL Prof B F Prince of Wittenberg University Springfield Ohio and one of our most ...
... JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS JOHN FITCH INVENTOR OF STEAMBOATS BY MIRA CLARKE PARSONS By a coincidence of which the writer was not then aware while the article on the Steamboat was in type the name of Robert Fulton was brought to public notice for the purpose of bestowing further honors upon the memory of a great inventor The object of this paper is to offer additional proof of the validity of the prior claim of John Fitch as the inventor and originator of steam navigation While all due ...
... 392 Ohio Arch 392 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications HAYES-TILDEN CONTROVERSY There is a saying Happy is the nation that has no history We doubt the truth of that trite-ism and would certainly take issue with its philosophy To say a nation has no history is to brand it as having been one lacking necessity and activity These latter elements wanting a nation would speedily lapse into lassitude and retrogression Certain it is that the nations that have contributed the most to the progress of ...
... 302 Ohio Arch 302 Ohio Arch and Hist Society Publications THE FIRST COURT IN OHIO From the American Pioneer The first court held northwest of the river Ohio under the forms of civil jurisprudence was opened at Campus Martius Marietta September 2d 1788 It will be remembered that on the preceding 7th of April General Rufus Putnam with forty-seven men had landed and commenced the first permanent settlement in what is now the state of Ohio General Harmar with his regulars occupied Fort Harmar ...
... RESEARCH PROJECTS IN OHIO HISTORY RESEARCH PROJECTS IN OHIO HISTORY Compiled by WILLIAM D OVERMAN A recent survey indicates that there are thirteen biographies and nearly thirty monographs and treatises in preparation or completed but not published dealing with the history of Ohio or the Ohio Valley A list of these alphabetically arranged by author includes the following Nellie C Armstrong and Glenn A Blackburn Historical Bureau Indianapolis John Tipton Papers progress Leland D Baldwin ...
... THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 Exchange warned Hayes that if he failed to veto the bill the interests of the trade and commerce of the United States with the Chinese Empire will be greatly imperilled45 In New York the Chamber of Commerce condemned the bill as exposing the merchant in his dealings to the consequences of public dishonor and finally as presenting the hasty action of our Congressional Body in sorry contrast with the more cautious and dignified wisdom of the ...
... THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 THE CHINESE QUESTION 145 Exchange warned Hayes that if he failed to veto the bill the interests of the trade and commerce of the United States with the Chinese Empire will be greatly imperilled45 In New York the Chamber of Commerce condemned the bill as exposing the merchant in his dealings to the consequences of public dishonor and finally as presenting the hasty action of our Congressional Body in sorry contrast with the more cautious and dignified wisdom of the ...
... EMIL R EMIL R PINTA Samuel M Smith Dr Cure-Awl's Assistant at the Ohio Lunatic Asylum His 1841 Case-Reports on Insanity The first half of the nineteenth century was an enlightened era for understanding and treating mental illness One prevailing theory was that insanity was a physical disease This replaced beliefs that considered the mind to be an emanation from the Creator and therefore not subject to physical laws and interventions In 1812 Benjamin Rush 1745-1813 the Father of American ...
... DAVID E DAVID E KYVIG Amending the US Constitution Ratification Controversies 1917-1971 Do the American people have the final approval of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States or is that power solely in the hands of their state legislators This might seem an inconsequential legal point had not state legislatures on various occasions in the twentieth century actually ratified amendments in the face of clear voter opposition By referendum voters in several states rejected ...
... Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Taft MacArthur and the Establishment Of Civil Government in the Philippines By RALPH ELDIN MINGER ON APRIL 17 1900 a brilliant golden sunny day the United States Army Transport Hancock with the Second Philippine Commission on board pulled away from the crowded dock at San Francisco California while whistles shrieked a shrill farewell and the air rang with enthusiastic cheers1 The boat had barely passed through San Francisco Harbor when the commissioners ...