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Harrisburg letter dusts off trains and treasures
A chaotic local column lists a variety of affairs from a wartime pension examination for Warren-Edwin Burke in Pittsburgh to sales at local shops, civic notices and social events. It mentions a major property listing, a public works plan with park improvements, a jail raid on a Third Ward liquor house, and community notices including church meetings and a pheasant distribution planned by Game Protector Langdon. The jumble paints a busy city page with scattered names, addresses, prices, and schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breat Ogy Boedoren
Ws J. Wilcox
Era
Barlio
Raat
New York
Sta Fiom
Warren
Edwin Burke
Pittsburgh
Haigath
Municipal Club
Chauvelisse
sJene
B. W. Stearnest & Son
Klick's
Swift
Wildwood Park
Harrisburg
Gurdes Ik
RY Seers
State Secretary of Forests
Wature
United States
Henry W. Shoemaker
McElhAtten
Bretitiatten
Shoemaker
Grote
Department of Parks
Wing-Willi
Robert Patterson
Oil City
Raymond —Arhinirger
Mra
Rij P. Armburger
Petroleum Street
Hukle
Jon Petroleum
P.M. Nichols
California
Wil J. Wilcox
Franklin
Third Ward
Mesaera Sparago
Grant Street
Galena Signal Barrel Works
Sparago
Court News
Louis Sparago
Franklinia
Thind
George M. Langdon
Ringneck
James Neville Juft
Dunkirk
Nichols