Christmas Seals Drive Surges Ahead in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg reports more than 14 million additional Christmas Seals requested by tuberculosis groups across counties including Dauphin Philadelphia Lancaster and Erie. Large Health Bond sales and extra bonds are being secured by numerous counties and towns.
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Harrisburg
Pennsyllvania Tuberculosis Society
Beaver
Berks
Bucks
Clarion
Clinton
Cumberland
Dauphin
Brie
Jefferson
Scranton
Lancaster
Lebanon
Wilkes-Barre
Pittston
Lycoming
McKean
Philadelphia
Pike
Windber
Tioga
Warren
Washington
Yorke
Bedford
Crawford
Erie
Monroe
Bellefonte
DuBois
Bethlechem
Shamokin
Oil City
New bus line inaugurated from Kane to Buffalo
A new Dodaro Motor Coach Line service debuted from Kane to Buffalo with a morning 7:00 departure from the New Thomson hotel terminal. The one-bus-a-day schedule aims for a four hour and fifteen minute trip with limited stops. Evening return from Buffalo departs at 7:15 p.m. and reaches Kane at 11:15 p.m.
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Kane
Buffalo
Thomson
Bison City
Dodaro Motor Coach Line
Kane Junction
Bradford
Farmer in Doom Room Burns Self in West Virginia School
Okey Baldwin a 25 year old farmer from Little Birch allegedly locked himself in a Sutton area school building, started a fire and burned to death. He had been suffering from typhoid fever and could not obtain a doctor, police said. His body was found among the ruins of the destroyed structure.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Okey Baldwin
Little Birch
Sutton
Baldwin
Dividends and Savings Boost Holiday Buying Power in New York
New York reports two billion dollars in dividends interest and Christmas clubs, plus employee bonuses, to be distributed over the holidays. Total payments exceed two billion dollars with improved purchasing power, while some bonuses may dip below last year. Major disbursements include Standard Oil at 28 million, General Motors 32 million, and Du Pont 10 million.
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New York
Ous Busness
Standard CO Companies
General Motors Corporation
du Pont de Nemours and Co
Erie Playhouse to Stage The Royal Family December 4 18
The Erie Repertory Company presents The Royal Family at the Playhouse from Thursday December 4 to Saturday December 18. Buna Ferber and George Keufman star in the brilliantly amusing comedy which ran two seasons in New York and marks another milestone in the company’s fifteenth year and 182nd play production locally.
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Corry
Playhouse
Erie
Buna Ferber
George Keufman
Erie Repertory Company
New York
the Playhouse
Oil City Heroine Burned Saving Children From Fire
Miss Marion Akins 18 of Oil City is in the Oil City hospital with severe burns suffered when she rescued two small children from a blaze that destroyed her brother’s home at 106 Hank Hiland avenue. She crawled through a window after a pane was broken when the inferno trapped her. The younger children escaped unharmed.
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Oil City
Bittie Cusage
Marion Akins
Howard Akins
Hiland Avenue
James
Miss Akins
Forest One Of Scenic Spots On New Highway
State College dispatch details J P Lehman turning barren hillside between Coudersport and Port Allegany into a thriving man made forest. Over 20,000 trees planted in two years, now tall crowns crowd the rows and needles cover the ground as pines larches and spruces thrive.
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State College
Roosevelt Highway
Coudersport
Port Allegany
J. P. Lehman
C. TR. Anderson
Pennsylvania State College
Lehman
Mother Jones Stricken as Labor Leader Nears Centennial Farewell
The article recalls Mother Jones Mary Harris Jones a landmark figure in the American labor movement. It notes illness age and a long life of activism. Her death is described as mourned by labor. A funeral pilgrimage and burial plans are mentioned with details of care and last hours.
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Mother Jones
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
Mt. Olivet
Ill
Washington
Wip
Mrs. Burgess
Maude Fowler
Fowler
Ibsom
Mra
Mary Harris Jones
Trdm
Burgers
Dr Hf A Curtis Returns From Driftwood Hunting Trip
Dr Hf A Curtis comes home after several days in the Driftwood area. The narrative mentions a fierce dispute with John D Rockefeller Jr of the family, though details are sparse.
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Hf. A. Curtis
Driftwood
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Bittery
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Finestart
Farmer
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United Press
Virgin Diamond
V.E. Phillips
Virgin Diamonds
Rae
S. Pate
Bridgeville
William Murcel
Model Dairy CO
OUNT
Christmas Savings Citizens National Bank E Bank
Angeles
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