Water boy becomes steel magnate after huge stock purchase
New York November 18 Special. J Leonard Reploglie began as a water boy for Cambria Steel in Johnstown at $5 a week. Thirty-eight years later he paid $15 million for 240000 shares of Cambria stock after a hard fought negotiation against William H Donner and the Frick and Schwab interests. He survived the Johnstown flood that claimed two relatives and rebuilt his path from clerk to senior positions.
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New York
Cambria Steel Company
Johnstown
J. Leonard Replogle
Pennsylvania Railroad
William H. Donner
Frick and Schwab
Replogie
Wartime Oddities and War News from London Paris and Aldershot
London reports government approval of a full set of wartime navy films. A West End butler recalls a Zeppelin inspection and a parlor observer. Paris notes a wounded soldier on a tramcar with a missing leg. Chacombe and Enge describe a wartime vicar who doubles as organist bellringer and gravedigger. Aldershot highlights a Welsh bantam brigade and a ballroom repurposed for blind soldiers learning to dance under Red Cross nurses.
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London
West End
Paris
Quail Des Tuileries
Chacombe. Enge
United Kingdom
America
Canada
Aldershot
Lord Londesborough
Regent's Park
Red Cross
New Russian Offensives Near Lodz Reported
One year ago today strong Russian offensives developed near Lodz in Polish territory. The United States asked Turkey for explanation over the Tennessee firing at Smyrna. Japan ceded to Australia seized German island possessions.
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Lodz
Poland
United States
Turkey
Tennessee
Smyrna
Japan
Australia
Looters Fail to Find Cash After Lumberport Post Office Heist
Clarksburg West Virginia police and bloodhounds searched yesterday for burglars who looted the Lumberport post office Monday night, taking several hundred dollars in stamps and money orders. the men remain at large.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Lumberport
Company official elected vice president in 1913
The text notes a man serving as superintendent of multiple departments including axle, forge, and order, plus assistant general manager and assistant to the president. On September 26, 1913, he was elected vice president and resigned March 1 to enter and win a fight.
Two Million Women to Make Shells for War Effort
United Press reports from London that two million English women pledge to work in shell production if permitted by Lloyd George. They claim each can make at least one shell daily, potentially yielding two million shells per day, surpassing prior war-demand estimates.
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London
Lloyd George
England
Shell
Profitable Hour: Mc Mullen Bros Offers Discount Black Messaline
Saturday morning November 20 from 10 to 11 o clock Mc Mullen Bros sells 36 inch black messaline at 59 cents a yard well below the usual 89 cents in stores asking a dollar. No phone orders or COD. no mail orders filled. Ad appears in NoviS-2t.
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McMullen Bros
Novis
Successful Though Rich editorial in Every Week
Albert W. Atwood discusses the idea of wealth and brains in a straight from the heart opinion piece. The editorial argues against worrying about riches and focuses on the foolishness of fear and anxiety.
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Albert W. Atwood
Ries
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Franklin
H. C
Nice
Glisan’s
Leonard Repiogie
Thorized
Navy
Insurance de Sales
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CK Real Estate
United Press Correspondence
Ting
S. & H. Stamps
the Imperial CO
Arthur Ah
Steinweg Baltimore ST
Cumberland MO
Norfolk
Sheffield
Powells
Baltimore Street
Virginia Avenue
RED Men
RED Men’s
Morehead Building
Mechanic St
Maryland
Howard Street
Cumberland, Md
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