Brown Agrees To Pay “By agreement Walter Brown will pay his wife, Daisy Brown, of Eleventh street, the sum of $10 a week, according to an approved entry filed in the office of the clerk of court. Wednesday, pending the final hearing on her petition for divorce and alimony.” “Judge Continue Reading
Selby Shoe Factory
A Tribute to George D. Selby
“A great man and a good man passed from earthly activities when George D. Selby was called by death. He had long been recognized as one of the successful captains of industry of the United States. By his genius and sound judgement he had developed a manufacturing business until its Continue Reading
Thomas W. Carre Falls Dead
“What is there in modern civilization to cause the awful increase of sudden deaths? Is it the penalty inflicted upon mankind for seeking to become possessed of knowledge beyond the limit of Divine intent, and pushing of the life powers beyond what they were intended to perform? Has the race Continue Reading
Myrtle Purtee Adjudged Insane
“At an inquest held in probate court Friday, Myrtle Purtee, 23 years old, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Purtee, 316 Third street, was adjudged insane by Judge Gilliland and she was ordered committed to the Athens state hospital. The examination was conducted by Drs. WE Gault and Ira N Continue Reading
1908: Industrial Portsmouth by the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
1908: Portsmouth Ohio Shoe Congress
Members in attendance of the Selby Shoe Company’s semi-annual Shoe Congress ready to start for a country chicken dinner up 10 miles up the Scioto Valley on July 22, 1908. George Dyar Selby is pictured in the driver’s seat of the first automobile on the far right side of the Continue Reading
Selby Shoe Worker Accidentally Poisoned
Alice Caroline Bivens, daughter of James Monroe Bivens and Bessie M Arthur, was born in Lewis County, Kentucky, on October 14, 1914. She never married and was a shoe worker at the Selby Shoe factory in Portsmouth, Ohio. She died of a sudden heart attack caused by the accidental poisoning Continue Reading