Temperance chiefs push statewide prohibition in Maryland
Dr Thomas M Hare leader of the Anti Saloon League tells 3000 at Baltimore Lyric that lawmakers must pass a statewide prohibition amendment or betray voters. He cites pledges by House and Senate members and warns Baltimore will be examined. a joint hearing is set for February 3 with transport arranged from Baltimore to Annapolis.
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Anti-Saloon League
General Assembly
Annapolis
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Baltimore City
Temperance Forces
Temperance Committees
House
Senate
Friends of the Cause
Thompson and board depart for New York talks
Uniontown creditors committee members G S S Marah A Plumer Austin and A F Cooper plus James A Campbell E T Hitchman A R Hamilton and A C Robinson travel to New York to meet Samuel Untermyer about liquidation plans for J W Thompson. The group will discuss the agreement and send copies to unsecured creditors while returning Thursday.
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G. S&s
New York
Mr. Thompson
J. W. Thompson
English prepare to collect damage from Mexico
London reports the Foreign Office will present complaints to the Carranza government over seized British property in Mexico. The Inter-Oceanic Railway seeks government inquiry on return of its lines, and Guayule Rubber protests over 1914 commandeering are noted at the Foreign Office.
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Foreign Office
Mexico
Carranza
Inter-Oceanic Railway of
Arthur Hill
Guaycle Rubber Company
Crippled boy held on track before locomotive
Harrisburg January 25 Joseph Craig of Waynesboro was arrested on a charge of holding 18 year old Samuel Schreyer, a one armed son of Mrs Jennie Schreyer, on railroad tracks in front of an approaching yard locomotive until the engine was within ten feet, causing the boy to go into nervous prostration. Craig said the Schreyer boy and several others were throwing stones at him, and the group ran into a lumber yard before the act. The boy feared the engine as he previously lost an arm in an accident at Smithsburg.
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Joseph Craig
Waynesboro
Samuel Schroyer
Jennie Schroyer
Craig
Schreyer
Witt
Western Maryland
Smithsburg
Maryland Considers Pension For Widowed Mothers
A bill to pension widowed mothers is moving through Maryland's House. The plan funds mothers based on the number of children, stops when the youngest turns 14, and argues savings for the state while keeping children with their mothers at home. The committee includes Azro Cory, Ednaannette Teverdige, and Harry T. Brown.
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Ancys
Azro Cory
Montgomery County
Ednaannette Teverdige
Baltimore
Harry T. Brown
Cleveland's oldest linesman Austin climbs poles for 25 years
Cleveland reports that over the last quarter century Austin has ascended 40,000 fifty foot poles. If he had gone straight up from his first pole he would be far toward the moon, equating his climbs to about 378 miles in filament distance.
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Cleveland
Austin
Advertisement Snippet Offers Teeth Disposal and Diamond Tires
A fragmentary ad lists cash for discarded false teeth at Box 491 and promotes Diamond Tires from J C Orrick & Son Co as economical with fast factory deliveries for Cumberland area. Appears in a January notice with date stamps Jan 20, 1w and Jan 26-28 Feh a ern.
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J. C. Orrick & Son Company
Cumberland
Feha
Shipment Held for New York Orders
A seven day delay to move 75 carloads of alcohol from the Brunswick yards of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to a siding near Mt Airy. The shipment is to be sent to New York then on to France with guards and detectives watching for tampering amid widespread yard congestion and ship shortages.
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Brunswick
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Mt. Airy
New York
France
Corn Is King In Md Says Farm Report
G H Alford reports Maryland farm conditions corn dominates cereal production accounting for over half the value grown on four of five farms. 1915 yield 17 911 436 bushels, wheat near corn at one sixth of improved land. Potato farming common seven of ten farms with 90 bushels per acre. County agents aided 39 farmers clubs totaling 1915 members. John McGill Jr. returns from College Park after agricultural experts conference.
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Maryland
G. H. Alford
College Park
John McGill, Jr
Allegany County
Davis and Elkins College executive committee relieves president
The executive committee of the Davis and Elkins College board relieves President James E. Allen of administrative duties for the next few months. He will devote his time to a financial campaign to raise funds to meet college debt. The decision was announced at a recent meeting in Elkins West Virginia.
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Elkins
W. Va
Board of Trustees
Davis and Elkins College
James E. Allen
College seeks funds and new building in West Virginia
President Allen plans to liquidate debts and secure new funds to begin erecting a new building in spring or early summer while he focuses on West Virginia. Prof. Louis K. Koontz will lead the institution in his absence. Allen just returned from a Pittsburgh educators conference on Christian education.
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West Virginia
Louis K. Koontz
Pittsburgh
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