Multiple Wage Rises and Local Disasters Across Cities
Notices from Penn Hardward and Birdsboro plants announce wage increases of 10 and 5 to 10 percent amid wartime costs. A gale-fueled fire near East Pittsburgh destroys ten houses. A Cheswold infant dies after a bath accident. Senator Root opposes woman suffrage. Lloyds reports the sinking of the Russian vessel Ans. Tech students plan Christmas music for the Lochiel and Susquehanna buildings with many seniors honored. William Hatteroth, early Bell collaborator, dies in San Francisco.
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Reading
Penn Hardward Company
Birdsboro
Birdsboro Steel Foundry and Machine Company
Pittsburgh
New Oak Hall
Dover
Clifford Anderson
Cheswold
Anderson
Washington
Root
London
Lloyd's Shipping Agency
Birthday anniversary of grocer at 1100 North Sixth Street
The grocer at 1100 North Sixth Street marks a birthday anniversary. He has served the location for five years and has more than 20 years in the grocery business.
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North Sixth Street
Youthful Accomplice of Faust Arrested by Police
William Hirnisey age 16 and Ross Allen were arrested yesterday afternoon by Detectives Schelhas Speese and Patrolman Gardner on suspicion. Hirnisey is the son of Mae Hirnisey who is jailed with Lou Faust for alleged robberies in this and nearby cities. Faust’s arrest left Hirnisey free after he provided information. he was sent to a relative in Baltimore and later an aged grandfather offered help to keep him from following his elders. Presidential elector results show Oliver 703724, Fels 521784, Brown 28525 on Republican Democratic and Prohibition tickets. Watts distributes 10000 Red Cross seals in Carlisle during Cumberland County Teachers Institute.
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William Hirnisey
Ross Allen
Schelhas
Speese
Gardner
Hirnisey
Mae Hirnisey
Lou Faust
Faust
Young Hirnsey
Baltimore
Watts
Shirley B. Watts
Red Cross Committee
Carlisle
Cumberland County Teachers Institute
Red Cross
Kitchen Ware Club Offer Ends Soon
A promotional note offers kitchenware sets to club members. Only 42 sets remain as membership closes once 42 more names are added. The message emphasizes rising prices and urges immediate club enrollment to secure the item.
Girl of Nine Wins Potatoes Prize In London Competition
A nine year old girl fenced a one yard square plot and grew a peck and a half of potatoes winning first prize in a National Food Growing Competition run by the Oxford and District Temperance League and the Oxford and District Sunday School Union. Her yard patch yielded 23 pounds from six seeds and 31 pounds from four seeds. She received a guinea and earned a note of interest from Queen Elizabeth II at Bucking ham Palace. She prevailed over many rivals.
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London
Mary
Oxford and District Temperance League
Oxford and District Sunday School Union
Yard Square
Buckingham Palace
Whisky flask with bedbugs entered as evidence in suit
In Salem Oregon on December 8 the Supreme Court will hear Nancy A Hill versus Floyd J Campbell from Portland. The case includes a whisky flask containing about 100 bedbugs as part of evidence arguing the apartment house was not habitable and the lease should be annulled.
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Salem
Ore
Supreme Court
Nancy A. Hill
Floyd J. Campbell
Portland
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Wm. Strouse
Harrisburg
Market Street
Myers Mfg. CO
Third
Cumberland Streets
Bell
Harrisburg, PA
News of the World
Tech
Lochiel
Susquehanna
A. M. Lindsay
George Stark
Cardigans
Maroon
Harris
Gougler
McFarland
Gipple
Fitzpatrick
Snyder
Miller
Wear
Philippelli
Eyster
Todd
Garman
Athletic Association
Willis Patterson
The
Tech Tatler
the Tatler
California
San
Jack London
Jack London and Wife
Solomon Islands
Charles E, Low
David B. Oliver
S. S. Fels
Harry W. Brown
OUR Kitchen Cabinet Club
Gorgas
N. Third St
Penna
the Telegraph Printing Co
Federal Square
Skleo
Santa Claus Headquarters
Sandy Andy
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