French Vessel Said 10 Have Been A Fire
British Admiralty denies German reports that ten French ships were on fire and says British and French cruisers remained outside Turkish fire near the Dardanelles. Allied bombardment continues with Queen Elizabeth using indirect fire on forts Hamidiyeh Tabin and Hamisi-Suttanie as civilians flee Constantinople amid shelling. A San Diego exhibition game opens with nine frames between the Chicago White Sox and the Western Coast league teams.
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Constantinople
Queen Elizabeth
United Press
London
Dardanelles
Berlin
Admiralty
Athens
Gulf of
Saros
Strait
Paris
Elizbeth
Queenzabeth
Gulf of Saros
Chanak
Hamidiehi-Tabin
Hamisichi-Suttanie
Dardanos
Souan Dire
Ahe
Hamidich-Tabia
Legislature Has Many Bills Ready
Harrisburg March The largest calendars of the present legislative session await the two branches when they meet for the eighth week of the session. Many bills will be introduced and some Governor Brumbaugh proposals may appear. The Senate has 16 bills on third reading nine on second including port laws amendments and 13 on first reading with woman suffrage cold storage and a third Dauphin county judgeship. The House carries over 40 bills on the calendar and includes pension funds for city workers and civil service reforms. Governor Brumbaugh will meet Tuesday night with platform bill leaders and committees will hear optometry bills and start hearings as appropriations work continues.
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Harrisburg
General Assembly
Brumbaugh
Senate
Dauphin County
Philadelphia
Allegheny County
Brumhaugh
Lwill
House
House Appropriations Committee
Italian Murderer Dies In the Electric Chair
An Italian murderer in Lancaster County dies in the electric chair after a grim trial. Passone, a slight man weighing about 115 pounds, showed no emotion as he was strapped in. The execution delivered two thousand-volt shocks to end his life.
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Bs United
Rockview
Card of Thanks from Miss Rachel Flood
The writer thanks friends and neighbors for help during the Progress contest. She expresses gratitude for the cash prize and for meeting many friends, congratulates the ladies who won the larger prizes, and hopes to someday repay the favors. Sincerely, Miss Rachel Flood.
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Ish
Rachel Flood
Hotel de Gink in New York City proves a success
New York March 8 The Hotel de Gink created by Jeff Davis proves economically stabilizing and self supporting. It feeds about 200 men daily at roughly two cents per meal and provides barber, tailoring, hospital, and lawmaking functions within a renovated Worth and Center streets building. Guests work for wages, contribute to the hotel kitty, and are served Mulligan meals. The operation has helped locate lost men and returned seven runaways to their families.
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Carlton Ten Eyck
United Press
New York
Jeff Davis
Mayor's Committee On
Hotel de Gink
Gary
Worth
Center Streets
Bo's
Jeck Johnson
Ideas Are Sense and Free-Grab One
The speaker argues hoboes refuse strike breaking and will not take others’ jobs for money. He portrays hoboes as fraternal, charitable, and willing to share the last resources, more so than charitable institutions, in a vivid critique of social classes and labor.
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Hotel de Gink
Band of Bad Boys Fleece Local Dealers
Clearfield merchants report dozens of thefts by a group of 13 to 15 year old boys from Paradise. The youths visited groceries and other stores, charged goods to their parents, and used a Guinea Hill camp to stash loot. Merchants know the lads’ identities and will pursue arrest if repeats occur. a police description will be released.
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Clearfield
Paradise
Guinea ‘Hil
Jesse James
Mining Fatalities Decreased in 1914
Figures from the state department of mines show 1914 accidents fell from 1913 levels. Fatalities per 1000 employed dropped to 2.10 from 3.22, with coal production per fatality rising and bituminous output declining. Department chief James E. Roderick credits enforcement and safety rules for the drop.
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State Department of Mines
James E. Roderick
Department
Roderick
Young Briton Miner Fatally Injured at Erion Mines
Victor Younick a young miner at the Erion mines was crushed between a coal car and a rib of coal on a Saturday afternoon. He was taken to the surface, then to DuBois hospital in serious condition. An operation was not performed and his prognosis remained poor.
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Victor Younick
Erion
DuBois
Younick
Peale
Death Claims Two Well Known Clearfield Men
Two long time Clearfield residents Frederick Johnson and Taylor Rowles died within hours of each other. Johnson aged about 60 suffered strokes after a Friday paralytic event and died at his Cherry and Second streets home. Rowles aged about 60 died at his Mill Road home from heart failure after a double marriage, leaving three sons Verne Lorne Luther Guy and a widow Mrs Rowles. Johnson worked 35 years in the Market Street hardware business and is survived by a large family. Rowles was son of the late Taylor Rowles former court crier and leaves a wife and children. Funeral plans pending.
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The
Grim Reaper
Clearfield
Frederick Johnson
Taylor Bowles
Cherry and
Second Streets
Isaac
Sarah Johnson
George
Market ‘Street
Eliza
Sarah
Lissey
Nebraska
Charles
Chehalis
Wash
John
Wichita
Kas
Johnson
Taylor Rowles
Mill Road
Miss Owens
Verne
Lorne
Luther
Litte
Guy
Rowles
Philadelphia Police Force Deemed Inadequate by Official
Philadelphia March 3. Director of public safety George D. Porter declared the police department inadequate and said he will ask councils to appropriate funds to hire 500 additional policemen. He cited a wave of robberies and crime and stated the current force cannot provide necessary protection.
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Philadelphia
George DB. Porter
Public Safety
Porter
Governor urged to declare Good Roads Day in Pennsylvania
A petition to Governor Brumbaugh urged a state wide Good Roads Day on May 26 to boost highway improvement. At the Pennsylvan ia conference of commercial organizations in Harrisburg more than 40 groups attended. Eugene F. Weiser of York was elected president and Charles M. Ketchum of Washington was named secretary and treasurer.
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Brumbaugh
Penylvania
Conference of Secretaries of Commercial Organizations of
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Eugene F. Weiser
York
Charles MM. Ketchum
Washington
Cast of characters or patronesses ad pitch sparks debate
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a press agent bragging about college girls play promotion and patroness lists. Phrases mention cast of characters, patronesses, and advertising urgency. Disjointed remarks reference Cleveland Plain Dealer and various city papers as sources.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Pennsylvania bill seeks Department of Conservation overhaul
Harrisburg reports Gov Brumbaugh endorses a bill to dissolve fisheries forestry and game commissions and fold their duties into a new Department of Conservation. The plan promises efficiency and expense cuts, trims salaries later, and places appointive power under the conservation commissioner while preserving current staff until reassignment.
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Fisheries and Forestry Departments
Board of Commissioners, Water Supply and
State Forestry Commission
Department of Conservation
Lesa
Sale
Departments of Fisheries and Forestry
Board of Game Commissioners
Water Supply Commission
Forestry Reservation Commission
More Dead Miners Found At Layland Mine
Hinton West Virginia March 5 The recovery of 11 bodies yesterday raises Layland mine death toll to 96 with an estimated 20 more buried under slate falls. Of 47 men rescued after four days and four nights without food or drink all are in good physical condition and expected to survive. Rescuers nurses and government experts showed strain as memories of earlier living men in the wreck resurfaced and tears flowed. The scene mixed joy and grief in homes along Quinnimont Mountain as families learned of returns and losses including a father killed and his son saved.
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Hinton
W. Va
Layland
Quinnimient Mountain
Johnsonburg to Build Sewage Disposal Plant
Johnsonburg authorities have state approval for a 70 000 dollar sanitary sewer system and disposal plant. Work must be completed by December, with most effort on the disposal plant near the B R and P tracks and a trunk sewer to serve the West End which currently lacks sewers.
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Johnsonburg
Johnsonbuug
State Department of Health
Harrisburg
Terre Haute Officials Go On Trial Today
One hundred fifteen Terre Haute politicians were to be arraigned in federal court on charges of gross election frauds. Indictments were upheld. 83 pleaded guilty, five pleaded not guilty. Mayor Don M. Roberts, Vigo Circuit Judge Eli Redman, and Sheriff Dennis Shea among those to face trial. Also notes a boxing bout in New Orleans with George Chip versus Jack Dillon scheduled tonight.
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Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Don M. Roberts
Eli Redman
Vigo
Dennis Shea
Russians and Austrians in Fierce War in Poland and Carpathians
Lalled Frese reports from Petrograd that Germans hold a violent offensive position at Opoceno and Pomosot, with heavy damage to the Kenzies on the right flank. In Poland at Pilica a great battle overshadows other actions, while the grand duke's army advances west of the Mlava swamps. The Russian War Office claims continued offensives on the Niemer left bank and in the Sawa district with hundreds captured, and Austrian attacks in the Carpathians near the Ondawa and San rivers are ongoing as counter attempts disrupt the San crossing.
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Lalled Frese
Petrograd
March
Opoceno
Pomosot
Te Kenzies
Pilica
Poland
Mlava
Niemer
Grodno
Sopotzkin-Lypskov
Sawav
Carpathians
Ondawa
San
Lutewisko
Semytriet
Ane
Trian
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Frederick’ Johnson
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Tyley
Boston
Crank
Gow
Martin G. Brumbaugh
Department of Fisheries
Estry
Board of Gamescommissi
Pele Eoromsission
Pittsburg
Pen
United States Aquatet
West Virginia
United Prag
New Orleans
George Chip
Jack Dillon
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