Return of Old Timers in State Legislature Noted
Legislative directories reveal many veterans back in the Senate and House, with new members increasing. The lists name numerous incumbents from districts across Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, Delaware Ninth, Bucks Tenth, Berks Eleventh, and many more, detailing party and district officers.
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General Assembly
State Senate
Philadelphia
Tioga
Potter
McKean
Robert W. Hilton
Cameron
Clinton
Clarion
Elk
Forest
W. Wayne Hindman
Northumberland
Bnyder
Union
William CC. McConnell
Kaorenty-elebkh
York
Henry Waters
Schuylkill
Charles A. Snyder
Blair
Huntingdon
Plymoth W. Snyder
Mifflin
Juniata
Cumberland
Franklin Martin
Fayette
William E. Crow
Adams
Franklin
John W. Hoke
Center
Clearfield
J. Miller
Cambria
H. A. Thompkins
Bedford
Fulton
Somerset
James W. Endsley
CIS Sr
Edds
Indiana
Theodore M. Kurtz
Allegheny
Charles H. Kline
Westmoreland
Chester Sensenick
R. Wortieth
William H. Semmens
Henry Cooper
William J. Burke
R. Worty
Charles J. Magee
R. Morty
William S. McKee
John, P. Moore
R. Porty
Greene
Washington
John W. Hallam
Beaver
Lawrence
Joseph H. Thompson
Warren
Six Dollar Week Lives of New York Girls Revealed
The Factory Investigating Commission read to day first hand accounts from stores and factories across New York state about underpaid women and girls. Esther Packard outlines daily struggles from skipping meat to skipping meals and relying on male friends for Sunday dinners. The report lists numerous district delegates and party affiliations alongside worker testimonies.
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Associated Press
New York
Commission
New York State
Esther Packard
Consumers’ League
C. W
Miss T
Packard
Submarine talk and neutrality questions reported
The article details Mr. Bryan and Mr. Schwab discussing submarine manufacturing for European belligerents with no disclosure of official positions. It notes State Department awareness, neutrality concerns, and possible consultations with Bethlehem Steel to avoid violations. It also covers Harrisburg Light and Power Company meeting its new general manager C M Kaltwasser with over a hundred employees at a booster session.
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Bryan
Mr. Schwab
Schwab
State Department
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
C. M. Kaltwasser
George B. Tripp
Robert W. Hoy
Kaltwasser
Mr. Kaltwasser
Hoy
Auto Collision Claims 705 Damages in Dauphin Court
Suit filed by William J. Bolton through Wickersham and Metzger against Oc Hi Miller seeks 705 damages after Miller allegedly ran his car into Bolton on Seventeenth Street near Market in Harrisburg on November 1, 1913. The action cites negligence and city traffic ordinance violations and notes damage to Bolton and a closely involved vehicle and driver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dauphin County
William ©. Bolton
Wickersham
Metzger
Es OC Lence Hi. Miller
Miller
Bolton
Seventeenth Street
Market
European War Benefits American Music Instructors
Dr Henry A Clark of the University of Pennsylvania told the Sinfonia Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity convention in Philadelphia that the European war boosts American musicians. He said the conflict ends the belief that only European finish matters and forecasts growing public support for American artists.
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Tated
Philadelphia
Henry A.clark
University of Pennsylvania
Sinfonia Phi Mu Alpha Fraternity
Canoeists Face Boathouse Planning in Hard Scrabble District
Canoeists and motorboat men fear housing for their boats as city plans to open Front street to low water mark. Property owners receive damage estimates. vacate notices expected after court steps with April 1 as deadline. Park officials anticipate boat housing, with a possible permanent concrete boathouse between Mulberry and Market streets and perhaps further uptown.
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Park
Mulberry
Market Streets
East Side banks reel after Kass closure
New York December 2 heavy withdrawals of deposits from East Side banking institutions followed yesterday's closure of the three private Kass banks taken over by the State Banking Department. Other private and savings banks on the East Side faced similar unease today.
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Associated Press
New York
East Side
Abraham Kass
State Banking Department
Kass
United Mine Workers Meet to Discuss Colorado Strike
Indianapolis reports the UMWA executive board adjourned after calling Colorado miners to a Denver convention starting December 7 to discuss the strike situation. In Bradford England a lyddite explosion at a chemical works killed six and injured many.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers of America
Colorado
Denver
International Organization
Bradford
Eng
Deaths and Funerals in Harrisburg Area
Andrew C Boyson 35 died last night at his sister’s home 537 Curtin Street funeral Friday 2 pm at Covenant Presbyterian burial Harrisburg Cemetery Robert Leo Stouffer 19 died Sunday services at parents home 1137 Derry Street 2 pm burial Camp Hill Cemetery William H Keeseman died Sunday morning services this afternoon 2 pm burial Harrisburg Cemetery Abram Moody died yesterday in Wilkes Barre burial tomorrow lived in Harrisburg thirty five years before moving Abram Moody’s death noted with Wilkes-Barre burial plans.
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Andrew C. Boyson
Charles G. Fry
Curtin Street
H. B. Klaer
Covenant Presbyterian Church
Harrisburg
Robert Leo Stouffer
John B. Stouffer
Derry Street
W. N. Yates
Camp Hill Cemetery
William H Keeseman
Bailey Street
Abram Moody
Abram. Moody
Wilkes-Barre
City Forester Job Attracts Numerous Applicants
City Commissioner M Harvey Taylor reports many applications for the city forester post at $1000 yearly. The park department will oversee the office under a plan shifting from shade tree oversight. Taylor argues the move protects trees and avoids extra costs for property owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Harvey Taylor
City Forester
Park Department
Taylor
Progressives of two states meet amid party unity
Chicago reports show Progressive leaders from thirty two states gathering with the party executive committee to discuss strategy. George W Perkins presided and denied Roosevelt communications while key figures like Jane Addams and Gifford Pinchot attended the meeting. Houston storm leaves one dead and several injured.
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Associated Press
Chicago
George W. Penkins
New York
O. K. Davis
Roosevelt
Sayng
Executive Committee
The Dummy Seen at the Majestic
The Play Producing Company presented The Dummy a four act detective comedy by Harvey J. O Higgins and Harriet lord at the Majestic. Ernest Treux as Barney and Joyce Fair as Beryl Meredith carried the show with standout child acting praised for its charm. The whole company showed exceptional ability and balance with careful production detail and strong character work. Max Robertson.
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the Majestic
Harvey J. O'Higgins
Harriet Lord
Burns
Robert Hilliard
Barney Cook
New York East Side
Barney
Ernest Treux
Joyce Fair
Beryl Meredith
Max Robertson
Lawyers Paid Most of Kunkel's Campaign Expenses
Receipts and expenditures of the Dauphin County campaign for President Judge George Kunkel were filed showing total receipts of 8416.12 with 6450 from seventy five lawyers and 1910 from thirty six laymen. Expenditures included clerk hire rent telegraphs postage advertising travel and information printing and other items totaling 8416.12. Unpaid bills amount to 1569.86 including rent to Charles and Samuel Kunkel and printing costs. Also notes a turkey theft incident and a motorcycle frame failure with injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Kunkel
Dauphin County
Supreme Court
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Charles C. Stroh
Charles and
Samuel Kunkel
Telegraph Printing Company
Scranton Tribune-Republican-Truth
R. Murray
Mr. Murray
Amoskeag Mills Resume Full Time Operations
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester New Hampshire with 16 000 mill workers announced it would resume operations on a full time basis immediately. Samuel Greenslade aged 75 died at Harrisburg hospital after admission November 7 with a complication of diseases
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Manchester
N. H
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
Samuel Greenslade
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
I Uti
Women honored for work on Panama-Pacific Exposition grounds
In San Francisco on December 2, praise was given to the women who contributed to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Mrs Edith Woodman Burroughs was noted for designing many sculptural decorations adorning the New York park and buildings.
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San Francisco
Edith Woodman Burroughs
New York
Allison Fire Company Elects New Officers
At the annual Allison Hook and Ladder Company meeting Edward F. Eisley was re elected president. Officers named include John S. Lutz as first vice president Jacob Tippett as second vice president George P. Drake secretary C W Fitzgerald assistant secretary and financial secretary Ed C Thompson treasurer trustees directors and foremen with Eisley and Lutz holding key posts.
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Allison Hook and Ladder Company
Edward F. Eisley
John S. Lutz
Jacob Tippett
George P. Drake
C. W. Fitzgerald
Ed. C. Thompson
George H. Seachrist
George Rickenbaugh
Samuel Beatty
Arthur Wynn
William Mueler
Joseph B. Beidleman
Huber
Clayton Wolf
Samuel Doan
Irwin Hoepfer
Charles Devie
Dan Tuber
Charles Glessner
J. J. Sourbier
Joseph Greidleman
Charles Revie
William Mueller
Firemen’s Union
F. Eisley
Firemen’s Convention
Lewis Bolton
Dan Huber
Firemen’s Relief
John 8. Lutz
Rush to file election expenses in Prothonatory office
Tomorrow marks the deadline for filing election expense accounts as candidates and party treasurers rush to submit reports. The Republican county committee spent 8449.27 in the county, with 10064.34 in contributions, led by 8000 from Charles Johnson, state committee treasurer. Other figures include payments to poll workers, watchers, and distributors of information, and detailed spending by Harry I F Oves and W Lewis.
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Prothonotary
Republican County Committee
Charles Johnson
Treasure
Republican State Committee
Whitchers
Harry If’. Oves
Republican City Committee
Kr. W. Lewis
Washington Party County Committee
Cochran Sets Sails for Belgium Relief Work
Alexander Smith Cochran, noted millionaire yachtsman and reputed richest U S bachelor, sails from New York on the Cunard liner Ordura to Belgium to take up relief work after having toured Belgium several times.
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New York
Alexander Smith Cochran
United States
Belgium
Cunard
Ordura
Cochran
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Edwin H. Ware
Samuel W. Salas
James P. McNichol
Edwin W. Patton
Richard V. Farley
Owen B. Jenkins
Augustus F. Daix
W. W. Smith
Delaware
William C. Sproul
Bucks
Clarence Buckman
Berks
Edwin M. Herbst
Montgomery
Frank P. Croft
Lancaster
John G. Homsher
Carbon
Monroe
Pike
Wayne
Elmer Warner
Dauphin
Edward
Beidleman
Lehigh
Horace W. Shantz
Lebanon
Daniel P. Gerberich
Northampton
W. Clayton Hackett
Chester
John Gyger
Luzerne
Asa K. de Witt
Sterling R. Catlin
Lackawanna
William M. Lynch
Wyoming
Susquehanna
Charles E. Mills
Columbia, Lycoming, Montour
Sullivan
Charles W. Sones
Leopold C. Glass
John McDermott
T. G. Gordon Foster
C.a Roney
J. S. Lafferty
William H. Wilson
Fred. W. Willard
Edwin R. Cox
Warren C. Graham
Thomas I. McNichol
Ephriam Lipschultz
Jefferson W. Smith
Henry Gransback
A. W. Richards
A. W. Twibill
Richard Curry
Harry T. Bauerle
R. J
BE. Arthur
Joseph H. McArdle
R. C. Wobinsmith
J. W. Cummings
William T. Weir, Jr
James A. Dunn
J. J. Hefferman
R. T. Wodges
Theodore Campbell
William Neider
S. J. Perry
C. A. Rowell
R. J. Reynolds
Jack
Elmer B. Latshaw
R. Beaver
John Kk
Gormley
John K. McClure
D. Blair
Neninger
Brumbaugh
Samuel McCurdy
R. Bradford
John C. Mather
Judson W. Stone
R. Bucks
Daniel G. Fretz
Henry Y. Pickering
R. Butler
James O. Campbell
John M. Leighner
R. Cambria
William J. Gompers
Frank P. Hollern
A. J. Oaks
R. Cameron
C. Jay Goodnough
R. Center
Harry B. Scott
R. Chester
Samuel A. Whitaker
Morris M. Hollingsworth
Charles P. Greenwood
R. Clarion
Harry H. Arnold
R. Clearfield
Don Grigory
Pearl E. Phillips
G. Milton Alcorn
R. Clinton
Michael Bond Rich
R. Columbia
Charles A. Shaffer
D. Crawford
J. C. McKay
W. L. Mentzenbacher
D. Imberland
Harry B. Shoop
Murray E. Godyear
Augustus Wildman
J. W. Swartz
John C. Nissley
Walter S. Young
William T. Ramsey
Richard J. Baldwin
Henry H. Heyburn
John M. Flynn
D. Berie
June R.boyce
Miles Bb. Ketts
Cassius L. Alexander
R. Fayette
T. R. Lynch
Duncan Sinclair
Lee Smith
D. Harry Horton
BR. Fore
George F. Watson
D. Franklin
J. Edward Beck
Charles Walter
R. Fulton.—George B. Mellor, D. Huntingdon,—J. G. Bell
Wilmer H. Wood
R. Jekeerson
Henry I. Wilson
Hiram H. Brosius
R. Juniata
James Bergy
R. Lackawanna
William Luxemberger
H. A. Dawson
Fred. C. Ehrherdt
William Haggerty
Iran T. Erdman
RH. Dietenderfer
Albert E. Rinn
D. Luzerne
William L. Adams
Peter Murphy
Joseph Evans, Jr
Richard Powell
R. R. Hubler
R. R. Hubler, R
Thomas D. Finnerty
D. Lycoming
John Ruppert
Ralph Gibson
R. Meckean
Robert P. Habgood
Y. A. Ostrander
R. Mercer
Fred. T. Flint
C. B. McConnell
R. Mifflin
C. G. Corbin
R. Monroe
T. Kunkle
D. Montgomery
Charles A. Ambler
William Neville
Joseph M. Landis
Harvey Christman
D. Montour
William Kase West
Frederick B. Geiser
William M. Brunner
Reuben H. Trach
Daniel FF. Gallagher
George E. Klinger
William W. Robertson
R. Perry
John S. Eby
R. Pike
Edward F. Peters
D. Potter
Henry T. Albee
R. Schuylkill
Adam C. Schaeffer
Alfred B. Garner
Christ Becker
Cyrus M. Palmer
Johnk. Sones
R. Snyder
J. W Sampsel
R. Somprset
John P. Statler
RAM
D. Rees
R. Sullivan
Charles E. Taylor
D. Susquehanna
Edward E. Jones
George W. Williams
Frank H. Marvin
R. Union
Harry M. Showalter
R. Venango
Donald Glenn
Daniel B. God
Schwab and
Bryan Talk
Aoes
William C. Bolton
Clarence H. Miller
17Th Street
IS Frel
R. L. Stouffer
William Keeseman
Houston
Perkins
Texas
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Britannica Authority
Brawley
Holy Cross
Worcester
Mass
Edward W. Brawley
Medford
Kunkel
Joshua Miller
C. W. Smith
Shermansdale
Raymond R. Shapley
Kelker Street
Highspire
Middletown
Ina
Edith Burroughs
Chopin Fisher Herbert the Ball
Paddy
Pauline
Gruber
Herald Angel
Holy City
Trinity Chimes
Bethlehem
J. H. Troup
South Market Square
Joiner ‘Adams Decker Neidlinger
Allison Fire Company
Long Beach
Cal
Popular Mechanics
ED. F. Eisley
The
William W. Lenker
Tthe
Walter §. Young
M. BE. Stroup
C. C. Cumbler
D. L. Kaufman
J. H. Kreider
H. A. Sherk
A. S. Cochran
U. S
S. Cochran
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