21 WFMJ archives / March 23, 1912 | Three postcards show the devastation of the great flood of 1913. East Federal Street in downtown Youngstown was a river, box cars outside a mill were nearly submerged, and debris caught up in the flood waters was jammed against the Spring Common Bridge. It was not uncommon 110 years ago for natural disasters to be reproduced on postcards that could be sent to friends and relatives out of town.

March 23

1998: Area pet owners are buying rabies vaccines for their pets at area pet stores, but health department officials say that while the vaccines may be effective, there is no proof that they have been administered.

Austintown Township trustees protest the potential shift of state jobs in the offices of the Bureau of Workers Compensation from the township to downtown Youngstown.

An analysis of Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court records and Cleveland public school payroll records finds 192 people working for the school district in 1996-97 had felon records.

1983: Fire destroys the Church of God at 926 W. Eighth St. in East Liverpool. The church was built in `879 and served several congregations.

The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency says brine from oil and gas well drilling that is being dumped at a Lowellville slag dump is a significant source of abnormal sodium levels in the Beaver River, which provides Beaver Falls with its drinking water.

E. Bradley Jones, chairman and CEO of Republic Steel, predicts that the nation's fourth-largest steelmaker will rebound from a recession that threatened the company's very existence, in part due to a new agreement with the USW that will cut costs.

1973: A 60-year-old Youngstown man is charged by the Internal Revenue Service with preparing a tax return on which two dogs were listed as dependent children.

Two Salem women rescue a dog that was gassed and then wounded by a Mahoning County dog warden at a landfill on Route 62. The warden removed the dog from his truck, believing it was dead, then opened fire on it when it ran away.

1948: Charles E. Wilson, president of General Motors Corp., visiting the new Packard Electric plant in Warren, says a 45-hour work week would improve the lot of both workers and management.

Sheik Bisharat of Cairo, Egypt, is in South Side Hospital after being stricken with stomach pains while visiting his nephew, James Khoury, of 2529 Hillman St.