New York Hotels Prepare for New Year Observers
New York City hotels and restaurants plan extensive New Year festivities with extended liquor licenses until 3 am and all night café operations. Major hotels like Waldorf Astoria Plaza St Regis Ritz Carlton and others announce multi room dancing supper options priced from a few dollars to seven dollars or more.
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New York
Mitchel
Cmies
Waldorf
Plaza
St. Regis
Palm Garden
Ritz-Carlton
Palm Court
Pall Mail Room
Powder Explosion Kills Two Children In Punxsutawney
In Timblin Jefferson County Pennsylvania a keg of powder exploded destroying the Haas home killing 10 year old James and 3 year old Mary Hass and severely injuring their father John B Hass and three other siblings Joseph aged 7 John aged 5 and Annie aged 6. The accident occurred Tuesday night when James reportedly carried a carbide lamp to light the way and may have dropped it into the powder keg. The front wall was blown out.
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Punxsutawney
John B. Haas
Timblin
Jffexson County
James Hass
Mary Hass
John B. Hass
Joseph
John
Annie
James
Trainman Killed in Frederick Junction Accident
Wilhaen Engle age 87 a B and O locomotive worker was crushed between passenger coaches at Frederick Junction while coupling a Baltimore train. He died from chest and abdomen crushing and a broken neck. Survived by widow and daughter.
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Frederick Junction
Frederick
Wilhaen Engle
Baltimore and Ohio Allroad
Baltimore
Engle
Creditors Pass On Thompson Plan in Uniontown
In Uniontown Pa on December 30 negotiations to liquidate J V Thompson's indebtedness proceed with a seven member creditors committee to be chosen by New York financiers and Fayette County Bar Association. Over 6000 judgments are sent to Greene and Washington counties for filing with prothonotaries collecting $1 75 per exemplification.
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Uniontown
J. V. Thompson
J. V. Thompson Creditors’ Association
New York
Fayette County Bar Association
Creditors’ Committee
Bar Association
Fayette County
Thompson
Greene
Washington Counties
Washington County
Washington
Ostrich Kicks to Ilile in Christmas Snow Drama
In Bloomsburg Pennsylvania a huge Abyssinian ostrich charged keeper Thomas Worth and others. Worth dove away and the bird slipped in the snow, fell, then kicked at fleeing staff. A defense fork restrained the bird until Worth escaped. County attorney seat to be filled by a Republican choice as commissioners consider several lawyers.
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Bloomsburg
Thomas Worth
Bloomsburg Ostrich Farm and Feather Company
Worth
Elias B. Hartel
Republicans Oust Attorney in Maryland County Race
Hagerstown Maryland December 30 The new Republican County Commissioners voted to abolish the office of attorney and relocate duties to a shared legal staff removing the elected post from the county government.
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Hagerstown
Republican County Commissioners
Pageant of Kansas History at State College
A historically themed pageant titled The Folks Who Are Building Kansas the Heart of the Nation will be staged at Kansas State Agricultural College in Manhattan tomorrow evening as part of Parm and Home Week. It features early U S pioneer days with a focus on Kansas heritage.
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Manhattan
Kan
United States
Kansas
Kansas State Agricultural College
A Daguerreotype Mystery in Every Week
Read Will Payne's serious story A Daguerrotype in Every Week, a fifty year old standing mystery about a pistol and an old daguerreotype. Newspapers never published the secret, as the tale unfolds in a serialized fiction piece.
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Will Payne
Daguerrotype
Landmark timber sale reshapes West Virginia industry
CC E Mollaghan of Heaters sells Tioga Lumber Company plant and 1500 acres of timber near Hes on Anthony and Poplar creeks to Birch Valley Lumber Company. The new firm, chartered with 600000 dollars capital, plans plant improvements and more jobs. it also leases the Baltimore & Ohio line from Allingdale for seventeen years to operate the timber. Local owners retain surface rights and coal beneath the tract. The deal is valued around 100000 dollars.
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Sutton
W. Va
CC. E. Mollaghan
Birch Valley Lumber Company
Tioga Lumber Company
Mr. Molloghan
W. F. Morrison
J. W. Morrison
Hes
Anthony
Poplar
Nicholas County
C. W. Ausler
Marion, Va
W. 8. Burger
Cumberland, Md
E. L. Robins
Dobbin
Stanley Manners
Scranton Pa
Tiago Lumber Company
Tioga
Baltimore & Ohio
Allingdale
Mudlery Creek
Birch Valley
Tanning Company Launches Christmas Savings Plan
Hagerstown Maryland December 30 W D Byron Bona a Williamsport Maryland and Mercersburg Pennsylvania tanning firm started a Christmas savings fund for its employees. Instead of cash at Christmas the company will give each employee one dollar a week for four weeks to seed the fund.
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Hagerstown
W. D. Byron & Bona
Williamsport
Mercersburg
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