Local and State News Highlights Various Regional Occurrences
Jones occupies a new building with four shops on the John P. first floor of Clark's shoe store. Frank Quick joins with A M DeWitt in mercantile business in Oridgeville. Wilkes-Barre hosts the country’s largest poultry farm, 36 acres with 20,000 egg incubation capacity. Ed Ringler and wife visit Woodville relatives. Susquehanna Grand Army picnic at Island Park with W O Holmes elected president. Buffalo & Susquehanna to extend Sinnemahoning branch to Dubois amid coal-land purchases. Falls Creek suffers repeated fires suspected arson by local youths. Harvest Home services scheduled across Orangeville St James and Hidlay. Seven people under death sentence in the state. execution date set for George Gantz Sept 22. Cases before Supreme Court or Board of Pardons. Investigation into Cebu coaching party killings reveals ambush twelve miles from Cebu. two teachers shot, others wounded. possible burial alive and cannibalism noted. Dogs dug up two bodies and fed on flesh.
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Executive Department
George Gantz
Berks
Charles Grether
Monroe
Albert West
Delaware
Samuel Greason
Frank Dudesh
Armstrong
Supreme Court
John 8. Gullick
Northumberland
Kate Edwards
Cebu
Cebut
Waswa
Acting President Named During College Head's Illness
Due to illness President Warfield will miss the 1902 03 year abroad. During his absence Hon William S Kirkpatrie will serve as acting President of the college. Administrative letters go to him while admissions inquiries go to the Registrar.
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Warfield
Wm. S. Kirkpatrie
Fire at Gilmore cafe rear destroys privy building
About three o clock on Thursday a fire struck box thirteen behind the F. M. Gilmore cafe. The Friendship Fire Company quickly attached to Iron and Main Streets and held the blaze to a small area, with the involved building and nearby bar unsecured. No major losses.
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F. M. Gilmore
Friendship Fire Company
Los
Baro
Woman Seeks $30,000 After Freight Car Collision Death
Mrs Hale alleges gross negligence by the Jersey Shore Junction Railroad in a freight yard accident that fatally injured a worker on the repair track. She claims failure to protect workers and improper safety systems led to Hale's death on August 8 1901 and seeks $30 000 damages.
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Jersey Shore Junction
Hale
United and Consolidated Telephone Firms Reach Regional Pact
An agreement between United Telephone & Telegraph Co and Consolidated Telephone Co will connect United subscribers to Wilkes-Barre Scranton Pittston Carbondale and Luzerne and Lackawanna counties. The plan extends United from Berwick to Shickshinny and runs Consolidated from Wilkes Barre to Shickshinny where services unite.
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United Telephone & Telegraph Co
Consolidated ‘Telephone Co
United
Wilkes-Barre
Scranton
Putston
Carbondale
Luzerne
Lackawanna
Berwick
Shickshinny
Consolidated
Boti
Mountain Echo
Rev Dr H H Gross to sue ministers after church expulsion
Former Shamokin Evangelical church pastor Rev Dr H H Gross plans a lawsuit against ministers who tried him at Loganton. The committee found unbecoming conduct and recommended expulsion. Gross says he withdrew from the Evangelical association before charges and claims defamation. He will rely on his attorney as the case proceeds.
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H. H. Gross
Evangelical Church
Shamokin
Logantom
Gross
Evangelical Association
Lycoming Fair Promises Major Event With Ostrich Race
The Lycoming fair runs September 2 through 5 with a strong program and 4800 dollars in purses for horse racing. The lineup includes a big field after Punxsutawney and Hornellsville fairs, with a free of all race at 600 dollars. A new feature is Oliver W the racing ostrich, fastest half mile in one minute four seconds, set to race multiple times by day and draw crowds. Half fares have been secured from towns within seventy five miles.
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Lycoming
Lake Erie
Hornellsville
Oliver W
Fare Association
Attorney General limits reformatory custody for juveniles
Attorney General Elkin rules that the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon cannot receive children under 15 sentenced by juvenile courts. He notes the last legislature created the court but lacks provisions for juvenile confinement. He expects future legislation to authorize such placements and cites age restrictions for male offenders 15 to 25, with juvenile courts able to sentence boys over 15 and under 16 to custody.
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Elkin
B. Patton
Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory
Auntingdon
Huntingdon R
Tam
Mrs Hale sues New York Central for husband’s death
Mrs Jenale Hale files a lawsuit in Williamsport against the New York Central Railroad Company seeking damages of 30000 for the loss of her husband. The action is brought by Peoples of Jersey Shore for Hale and her daughter Fanny R. Hale, aged 10. The suit references a July 26, 1901 death.
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Jenale Hale
Williamsport
New York Central Railroad Company
W. B. Peoples
Jersey Shore
Discovery of a Cougar Den and Clean Living Habits
The narrator finds an unusual cougar lair under a rock shelf with a bone-bone yard revealing the dam’s neat feeding pattern. Evidence shows the kits ate mostly rabbits marmots grouse and occasionally small deer with carcasses brought to a creekside dining area and even a badger family served.
Cider Production Begins at Mills of J M Welsh
Cider operations start at the Mills of J M Welsh near Orangeville after August 24th with grinding by steam power on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays. The notice is dated August 20 1-m.
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J. M. Welsh
Orangeville
Sackawanna Railroad Bloomsburg Division West 155 610
SACKAWANNA RAILROAD BLOOMSBURG DIVISION WEST PM 155 610 90a 618.
Philadelphia Reading Railway Timetables and Services
Railroad schedule note listing trains to and from Bloomsburg Philadelphia Reading for various destinations with weekday and weekend times, Atlantic City division details, express and local services, parlor cars on express trains, and ticket office guidance. Includes general superintendents and agent names.
Pennsylvania Railways Timetable May 1902 Sunbury Eastward Westward
This timetable lists Sunbury Eastward and Westward trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad network and associated divisions. It details daily and Sunday departures to Harrisburg Philadelphia New York Baltimore Washington and Buffalo with parlor cars sleeping cars and passenger coaches, plus through connections and local stops via Harrisburg Erie Canandaigua Rochester Kane Tyrone Tyrone Belfonte and Wilkes Barre. It names J R Hutchinson general manager and J R Wood general passenger agent.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Washington
Buffalo
Pullman
Points East
Allman
Emporium
Erie
DuBois
Canandaigua
Syracuse
Rochester
Niagara Falls
Canan
Renovo
Elmira
Williamsport
Sunbury, Hazleton and
Wilkesbarre
North and Whest Branch
Farm Daughters Find Profitable Home Business Ideas
A rural lesson urges farm daughters to use one or two acres to grow produce and sell items like eggs honey squabs and chickens to city buyers. Hard work at home can yield better returns than factory or office jobs and stories from New Jersey show cucumbers turned into a profitable pickle trade.
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New Jersey
Farm Journal
Calf Rearing Experience Highlights First-Milk Bond
Mrs Bre Gross shares a farm diary style lesson from calf care noting that a calf nursed on fresh milk from its own dam thrived while others fed on older milk faltered. She describes cases of scours, drowning accident, and recovery when calves were allowed to suckle a freshly calved cow, arguing first milk is essential for newborn calves.
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Bre Gross
Developing and Improving Livestock Tendencies
E P Sirs notes in American Cultivator that farmers should study each animal to cultivate its best productive tendencies. Avoid trying to fit cattle to one generic standard. select and breed individuals for specific lines of production to prevent degeneration.
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Nature
E. P. Sirs
Pioneering American Patent by Joseph Jenks
A 17th century English artisan in Hammersmith, Joseph Jenks, is credited with securing America's first patent. He emigrated to Massachusetts in 1643, settled in Lynn, cut dies for colonial pine tree money, invented a primitive hand pump for fire extinguishing, and received a 14 year monopoly patent from the Massachusetts Bay Court for water powered mill engines. The patent limits export and controls prices, issued at Boston in March 1648.
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Joseph Jenks
Hammersmith
England
Massachussets
John Harvard
Lynn
Jenks
America
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New England
Boston
Photographer's Cure: Electric Bitters Relieve Indigestion
Photographer C Harlan of Eaton Q recounts years of severe indigestion and agony. He credits Electric Bitters with restoring his health after all other treatments failed. The medicine is praised for stomach, liver, and kidney relief, sold for 50 cents with a druggist guarantee.
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A. Kleim
J. H. Mercer
How Long to Keep a Cow
A short answer says keep a dairy cow only if she yields a profit. Maintain ledger records of profit and loss to judge when stock becomes unprofitable. Profitless livestock are a heavy, unavoidable tax on the farm, dairyman, and breeder.
Profit in Eastern Sheep
It is estimated that on poor eastern land ewes can be summered at $1 to $1.50 per head and wintered for up to $2.50 per head including raising the lamb if not early. Good farmers estimate a net profit of about $2.50 per head per year and that no extra help is needed to care for the flock.
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Singer
Pennypacker Seen as Popular Republican Governor Candidate
The State welcomes Republican candidate Judge Pennypacker a jurist scholar and gentleman whose broad reputation precedes him yet whose name is less familiar to rank and file voters. Supporters expect him to overcome critics who label him Quay’s man as party balance shifts during the canvass.
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Commonwealth
Judge Pennypacker
Bucklen’s Arm Salve Heals Severe Piles Case
A patient in Verby, Ala., paid doctors to cure a severe pile case causing 24 tor?s. Bucklen’s Arm Salve cured him after other methods failed. Subdues inflammation and aches. Advertises as best salve in the world for 25 cents at 0. Kleim and J. H. Mercer drugs through Aug 6, 1902.
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Wice
F. A
Skeletons Found Near Palermo Reach Odd Heights
In a Tivicinity near Palermo Italy workers unearthed three remarkable human skeletons. The first stands 21 feet tall the second 30 feet the third 34 feet tall. Authorities date the finds to a distant era and study for verification continues.
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Palermo
Italy
Wythe Hanging On Farm Farm in Omna County
An aged Wythe hanging on a farm in Omna County New York is described as having hung since 1812 with the third hired man named Bergst still noted in the Plaindealer.
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Bergst
Omna
N. Y
Weland
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