Fourteen Driving Safety Rules From Keystone Club
Keystone Automobile Club Safety Department releases fourteen driving rules. York County Division Manager Garrison P. Knox says following these tips, based on accident causes, will reduce mobile casualties. Rules cover obeying laws signals, alert driving, signaling, watching others, night focus, school and intersection caution, regular brake checks, traffic in congestion, fatigue avoidance, pedestrian protection, right-side driving, and passenger safety.
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Keystone Automobile Club
Garrison P. Knox
York County
Club
Fifty Years Ago slate demand and production contrast
Fifty years ago the Herald-Times noted demand for Peach Bottom slate was four times production and the region supplied about two fifths of U S slate. The issue also reported six car loads of slate shipped that week inviting reflection on Delta’s past and present.
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Herald-Times
United States
Delta
Commencement Season Urges Choice Between Medocrity And Achievement
The piece argues education should draw out latent powers toward fuller living and completing manhood and womanhood. It warns that ending the process early harms personality, leaving a low path of mediocrity or a high path of rich achievement, and notes youth must choose its destiny.
A Place to Play and the Call for Youth Recreation
The piece argues for a modern recreation center in Delta to serve youths facing unemployment or idle time. It urges community leadership to provide wholesome, supervised recreation and criticizes harsh, unsympathetic views toward youth while stressing practical, organized youth support.
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Lawa
Delta
Chamber of Commerce
Salmagundi In Other Words A Mixed Dish
A collage of verses and aphorisms by Henry Clay Hall and others. It pairs romantic stanzas with brief moral observations on life effort and busyness. The piece blends poetry with quips about fear, success, and aging for a midcentury literary tone.
Washington clashes over relief bill and tax plans
In Washington, President Hoover and Speaker Garner exchange sharp jabs over a 2.1 million relief bill with 3500 post offices and roads. Reports say sales tax options linger as Congress flounders and governors face court decisions on funding.
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Herbert Hoover
United States
Joseph Garner
House of Representatives
Washington
Hoover
Garner
Rainey
White House
Congress
Hanovers
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Supreme Court
Kephart
Pittsburgh
Republican Organization
Pinchot
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Ssgk
Fawn Grove Opens Spring Valley Park With Lake
Fawn Grove marks the season with the opening of Spring Valley Park a quarter mile east of town on last Saturday. The park features a large artificial lake ideal for bathing boating and fishing a tennis court and a baseball diamond adjacent to the park on George W Shanberger property along the Fawn Grove Rocke Road proprietorship and management by Shanberger.
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Fawn Grove
Spring Valley Park
Tawn
George W. Shanberger
Rocke Road
Rural Carrier Mobley Completes 28 Years of Service
On Tuesday evening June 14 A C Mobley a rural carrier from the Delta Postoffice will mark twenty eight years of service.
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A C. Mobley
Delta Postoffles
The People s National Bank Delta Pa Record
The People s National Bank Delta Pa shows capital surplus and undivided profits of 72000.00 with deposits totaling 640881.18. It conducts general banking business and offers 3 percent interest on savings and time certificates for 12 months. Directors listed include E M Kilgore John R Williams John H Fulton George Snodgrass Nelson B Cooper C H Heaps A Clayton Merryman Samuel B H Foard and A Henge.
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E. M. Kilgore
John R. Williams
John H. Fulton
George Snodgrass
Nelson B. Cooper
C. H. Heaps
A. Clayton Merryman
Samuel BH. Foard
Witseen A. Henge
Markham Poem Prompted Wealth From Hoe to Steam Shovel
The New Orleans Times-Picayune notes Markham's Man With a Hoe as the world's most profitable poem, earning about $250,000 in 28 years if dug with a hoe. It speculates higher returns if the poem had praised the steam shovel instead.
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Markham
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Farm Left to Me Dies in Courtroom Quip
A HeraldTimes note recalls a judge describing a will dispute with the remark about a farm inheritance. The exchange highlights tension over an elder relative's bequest and the courtroom fallout.
May Plaudits and Maritime Runs Highlight Local Year
Out of the Past Memorial Day was formally celebrated by the community for the first time. Six carloads of slate were shipped from Delta on Wednesday. May saw sixty four cars of freight moved through the area. Local craftsman W S Bulette displayed six vehicles at the Bel Air Fair. Joseph S Whiteford planted about 10 000 tomato plants. G T Barnett and Miss Mary Jane Maffetti of Lower Chanceford announced their April 26 marriage. The Peach Bottom steam ferry began May 29, matching rail schedules. A large barn owned by Sample Fulton burned with stock. Samuel M Fulton sustained burns while attempting rescue. N B Heaps reopened Brinley’s saw mill near Five Forks, Harford County, a mill once built by N L Brinley in 1842, burned 1860 and rebuilt 1861.
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Delta
W. S. Bulette
Bel Air Fair
Joseph S. Whiteford
G. T. Barnett
Mary Jane Maffetti
Lower Chanceford
Peach ‘Bottom
Sample Fulton
Samuel M. Fulton
N. B. Heaps
Brinley
Five Forks
Harford County
N. L. Brinley
Twenty Five Years Ago Bride Teresa Welch Weds William Culp
Miss Teresa Welch of Whiteford and William A. Culp of Chester Pa were married at Bel Air on May 19. The Packers Creditors Committee sold the 112 acre Mill Green farm to Frank Webster for 34650 dollars. R L Jones Co shipped 11 carloads of roofing slate mostly west of the Mississippi. The Delta Cigar Factory operated under T A P Carman. Miss Flossie Proctor graduated Kee Mar College with high honors. Sailing on SS Caronia from New York on June 4 Richard Rees Sr
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Teresa
R. L. Jones & Co
Mississippi River
Delta Cigar Factory
Ace
T. A. P. Carman
Flossie A. Proctor
Kee-Mar College
Hagerstown
Caronia
New York
Richard Rees
Church party sails for Wales and England wedding
The Rev W C Rowlands and sons Ivor and Ed win along with Misses Jane and Marie Williams boarded the same ship bound for Wales and England to attend a cousin's wedding. Guther Kilgore son of Ellis Kilgore of Lower Chanceford was crushed between two dinkeys at the McCail’s Ferry power dam job on Monday and died the next morning.
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Wales
Man Suffers Shock In Cycle Smashup
William F. Baughman 27 of near Constitution sustained abrasions and injuries to the wrist and back when his motorcycle collided with a car driven by Charles Eyster of York on the Susquehanna Trail near Violet Hill. He was treated at York Hospital and discharged.
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William F. Baughman
Constitution
Susquehanna Trail
Violet Hill
Baughman
Charles Eyster
York
Eyster
Aine
Inme
York Hospital
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Henry Clay Hall
Lfe
Pacific Coast
Senate
Packer
Edward F. Swift
Gold Coast
Pawn Grove
the People’s National Bank
Delta, Pa
Capital
E. Milton Kilgore
Cashier
H. J. Evans
Asst
C. F. Jenness
Piker
Harvie L. Stubbs Notary Public
Stubbs Department Store
Delia Herald
William T. Walter Delta
Baltimore
BRS
the People’s National Bankenna
Delia
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