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Newspaper
Delta Herald Times
Location
Delta, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1933
Page
2
The page shows a 1933 publication from the Ue.ca.d Printing Company with pricing terms for the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association. It lists annual, six month, and three month advance rates, a 0-cent option, single copies, and an issue dated Thursday December 14, 1933.
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board moved swiftly to implement the new law after it was signed on November 29. By December 6 about 1400 licenses were issued or in process for hotels, restaurants, and clubs, with a state-wide cooperative effort from Highway Patrol, State Police, and the Department of Revenue. The program used detailed questionnaires to vet applicants, ensuring proper floor space seating, reputable operators, and avoidance of old saloon conditions.
The Bureau of Motor Vehicles issued licenses and filed records as routine during the repeal transition. About 23,000 motor licenses were processed within three hours the same day liquor licenses peaked, enabling roughly 1,000 applicants to sell liquor and wines immediately after repeal. The Liquor Control Board and Department of Property and Supplies are setting up state stores, while the Department of Public Instruction prepares civil service exams for over 100,000 positions in the stores.
Out of the Past item notes Alexander Douglass of Upper Chanceford bought the Pagen Property in Chanceford township for 1900 dollars. Also mentions poultry shipment from this place to Philadelphia by Whiteford brothers and several local marriages in early December.
Twenty five years ago John W. Bay, aged 13, of Whiteford, secured first prize for his essay How I made some Money this Year.
The notice recalls Fractical Farmer sponsorship and a property sale in Fawn Grove where W Reed Almoney bought William J Manifold's estate for 5200 dollars. It records two weddings Rebecca Markle and Daniel Alloway in York and Guy Morris with Bertha Haslach in Bel Air. A Dublin birth to Fred and Mrs Flaharty is noted, and Sara Lanius wed Garfield Harry near Pylesville with ministers Everitt and Irvine officiating.
Reports recall a man knocked down by a car crank incident in front of Bull's store leaving a broken leg and injuries. Other notes include wartime casualties in France, golden wedding celebration in Cardiff, and births, deaths, and pneumonia linked to influenza in the local area.
Governor Gifford Pinchot urges Pennsylvanians to buy Christmas Seals to protect children from tuberculosis, calling it a dangerous enemy worsened by the depression. He emphasizes the need for preventive checks and public participation to save children from the white plague.
Groups of children across the state show 18 to 31 percent underfed, weakening resistance to tuberculosis. Tuberculosis societies, aided by Christmas Seal sales, promote tuberculin tests and X rays to detect infection early, saving lives as 711 youths up to age 20 died last year in Pennsylvania.
More than 1700 persons were placed on CWA projects under the Pennsylvania Department of Welfare. Officials listed 102 approved projects including Norristown State Hospital where 380 men worked on building improvements. Projects involve grading landscaping drainage construction plus tabulating reports cataloging and filing and revamping mailing lists. The program aims to keep work through February 15. Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
University of Maryland Extension Service publishes Circular No 102 titled How to Calculate Field Areas. Prepared by Ray W. Carpenter and C B Wise Jr agricultural engineering specialists, it covers triangular rectangular and irregular fields and corrections for slope. The circular aids farmers under wheat production contracts and is available free of cost. ROOST HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS
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