Senate pushes big budget measures in wartime tax plan
Washington December 14 reports the Senate fast tracked the war revenue bill aimed at about 522 million of the six billion estimated for next year. It advanced key tax sections including income excess profits beverage inheritance and other taxes with minimal debate. Also noted are actions on removing taxes from gasoline semiluxuries and motor vehicle use as leaders plan further remarks and early passage. In separate items Marynville announces J Frank Leonard has been mustered out after training at Camp Hancock. New Cumberland records the birth of Raymond Preston Schenck on December 8 1918.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
Smooth
Utah
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Simmons
Middletown Services For Ten-Year-Old Boy
Funeral services for William Stotz ten year old son of Mr and Mrs William Stotz were held at the parents home on East Main street with 2 oclock services officiated by Rev M Kraybill. Burial followed in Middletown cemetery. Pallbearers were Arthur Coble James Young Aaron Brinser and William Dolson.
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Forester
William Stotz
East Main Street
William Dolson
Oma Lutz
East Emaus Street
Lloyd Lindemuth
Raymond Gilbert
Roy Meckley
Romaine Kennard
Charline Fisher
Ruth McNair
Agnes Mackley
Verona Keiper
Erma Brenneman
Aaron Y Poorman
Shippen Street
Royalton
Ilomer Poorman
Harry Poorman
Samuel Brown
Sylvester Schuler
Paul Gephart
Jacob Engle
S&. J. Hutchison
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
George J. King
North Union Street
Charles Holtrider
Canal Street
Holtrider
Methodist Episcopal
Riverside Chapel
Sidney ‘. Cooke
American Bible Society
Army and Navy
Jacob Lockard
Tate Street
Frank Lockard
Mothers’ Confess Circle
J. W. Huntzberger
Wageen
Personal and Social Items from towns on West Shore
West Shore residents and service members are noted in various visits and travels. Lieutenant Walter D. Myers, recently mustered out, visits his Marysville parents before returning to Indianapolis to practice law. Albert Palmer and son Lloyd travel from Marysville to Camp Grant to visit his former son Lieutenant Robert Palmer in Illinois. Mrs George Fuickinger and others from Marysville spend time in Philadelphia. Samuel Spidel of Marysville visits Tyrone and Altoona. The Rev Earl Nauss of Ohio visits parents in New Cumberland. he’s been stationed at Camp Garden in Atlanta. Emma Wentz and Mrs Bertha Shupp of Wellsville see friends in New Cumberland. Gladys Bitner hosts the Shiremanstown Needle Club in East Main Street. Mrs Benjamin Erb of Shiremanstown visits Mechanicsburg. Mr and Mrs Thaddeus Strayer of Lewisberry stay with Mr and Mrs Charles Nebinger in Shiremanstown. Mrs J Howard Beamer of Shiremanstown visits relatives in Mechanicsburg. Miss Mary Harman, nurse at Harrisburg Hospital, visits her parents in Shiremanstown. MINER SUFFOCATED BY GAS BlOam Makin Pa Dec 14 Overcome by gas at Henry Clay Colony Anthony Evaneste aged 10 a contract miner suffocated body found by co workers.
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West Shore
Walter D. Myers
George Myers
Marysville
Indianapolis
Albert Palmer
Lloyd Palmer
Myrtle Avenue
Camp Grant
Hochford
Robert Palmer
George Fuickinger
Guy Flickinger
Tha Shupp
Wellsville
New Cumberland
Gladys Bitner
Shiremanstown
Needle Club
East Main Street
Benjamin Erb
Mechanicsburg
Thaddeus Strayer
Lewisberry
Charles P. Nebinger
J. Howard Beamer
Siters
Mechanicaburg
Mary Harman
Harrisburg Hospital
Makin
Henry Clay Colery
Anthony Evaneste
Lloyd George calls for abolition of conscript armies worldwide
Premier Lloyd George declares in a late night statement that he stands for the abolition of conscript armies in all lands. He argues the peace conference would fail without ending conscription and says any British delegate must push to the end for this goal.
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London
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Rutherford Men Seek Straight 8 Hour Day
Rutherford car shop and roundhouse workers urged eight consecutive hours with twenty minutes lunch break. They sent resolutions to Reading railroad car department superintendent R. B. Rasbridge after officials offered eight hours with a half hour lunch unpaid. A grievance meeting is planned for next Tuesday at the P. and R. Y. M. C. A.
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Reading Railroad
Rutherford
Labor Hall
221
Market Street
R. B. Rasbridge
Reading
P. and
Distillery Head Pleads Guilty to Breaking Law
Samuel Gutmann president of the Mountain Distilling Company Cincinnati pleaded guilty in a United States district court at Indianapolis to shipping liquor from Ohio into Indiana with improperly labeled packages. He was fined 1000 dollars plus costs yesterday.
One of America's Successful Flyers
Lieutenant Walter R. Avery of Boston, a leading ace of the American Aviation Corps in France, has won two decorations for daring air victories, which a recent report states numbered eight. GOOD JOBS OPEN The United States civil service.
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Walter R. Avery
Boston
France
Avery
City commission announces exams for pathology and travel roles
The commission lists examinations for a pathologist and travel positions in this city with salaries from 2600 to 3000 dollars. Applications and forms are available from George B McCrone, room 205, Post Office building as the local representative. Also noted is a Pittsburgh report on tax dodging arrests and warrants in Iselin Indiana County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George 8. McCrone
Commission
Post Office
Pittsburgh
Internal Revenue Department
Iselin
Indiana
Two Soldiers Wounded In France Reported From Pa
Marietta Pa December 18 Harvey Keener of Elizabethtown received word his brother Amund Keener has been severely wounded in France. Gordon McLanahan, son of Ha McLanahan of Elizabethtown, injured in France. War Department sent the message yesterday. McLanahan and Keener were drafted men attached to the infantry.
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Marietta
Harvey Fr Keener
Elizabethtown
Amun Keener
France
Gordon McLanacan
Ha McLanacan
War Department
McLanahan
Keener
Real Jumbo Peanuts Roasted Daily at 26 Cents
Advertisement notes new crop Real Jumbo Peanuts roasted daily at 26 cents per pound by Imperial Co located at 213 Chestnut Street. A separate item reports Andrew Bonar Law saying he likely will not be chancellor before Parliament to deliver the next budget, with no change in plans for the exchequer.
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Imperial. Co
Chestnut Street
Law
Gimacow
Andrew Bonar Law
Books as Gifts Across Shelves and Eras
A catalog style feature extols books as ideal gifts for home friends and soldiers. It lists numerous titles from fairy tales to adventure series, with prices and illustrators, including Stokes Wonder Book, Treasure Island, The Mysterious Island, Tom Swift series, and Meadow-Brook Girls, alongside poetry editions and leather bound volumes.
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Stokes
Florence Choate
Elizabeth Curtis Stokes
Florence Choates
Elizabeth Curtis
Robert Louis Stevenson
David N. C. Wyeth
Balfour
Arthur
H. Pyle
King Arthur
His Knights
Jules Verne
Popular Fiction and Poetry Volumes for Gift Buyers
A catalog listing many novels by Zane Grey Rex Beach Harold Bell Wright and others with titles from Tarzan to The Shepherd of the Hills. It includes poetry volumes and cloth bound editions with prices and publishers.
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Rex Beach
Harold Bell Wright
Dan Matthews
Rupert Hughes
Aunt Jane
Kentucky
Elizabeth Calvert Hall
William MacLeod Raine
Cappy Ricks
Matt Peasley
Peter B. Kyne
Prescott
Saskatchewan
Harald Bindloss
Flaamsted Quarries
Mary E. Waller
B. M. Bower
Ridgwell Collum
Andrew the Glad
Maria Thompson Davies
Limberlost
Gene Stratton Porter
Grace Miller White
Rae Spur
C. C. Hotch
Iss
Perch
Gertrude Atherton
Christine
Alice Chilmondeley
Omar Chord
Edward Kimball
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Fortunate Youth
Wlliam Y. Locke
Henry Owen
Lizzie
Irving Bacheller
Skinner
Henry
Irving Dodge
Jean Webster
Booth Tarkington
Elaine
Arthur B. Reeve
Just David
Eleanor H. Porter
Greenmantle
John Buchan
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Smoot
Marynville
J. Frank Leonard
Lincoln Street
Camp Hancock
United States Service
Commercial Trust Company
Harrisburg
New Cumberland, Pa
Frank Schenck
Benavasta
Raymond Preston Schenck
Middletown
First
United Brethren
FE. A. G. Bossler
Moser
James Cunningham
Church of God
O. M. Kraybil
Presbyterian
T. C. McCarrell
St. Peter's
Fuller Bergstresser
Lord
Royalton United Brethren
C. R. Beldel
St. Michael's and All Angels
Floyd Appleton
St. Mary's Catholic
Jules Fein
Royalton Baptist
George Brown
Satezer A
A. M Pllamer
Distillery Head
America
United States Civil Service
Dives, Pomeroy& Stewart
Wereeeeeee
Lee
the Prince and the Pauper
Mark Twain
Franklin Booth
Frances Browne
Katharine Pyle
the Washington Square Classics
Ays
All ChilDren
Princess and
Curdie
Gulliver’s
Heidi
Beatrice Forbes Robertson Hale
David Cory
Lilian Gask
Fairy Wood
Ethel Cook Eliot
Joaquin Minge
J. Cole
Emma Gellibrand
Laura Lee Hope
Bobsey Twins
Grandma Bell
Aunt Jo
Cousin Tom
Grandpa Ford
Uncle Fred
Boy
Robert L. Drake
Baltic
Jutland
Clair W. Hayes
Somme
Verdun
Allen Chapman
Ralph
Tom Swift
Victor Appleton
Joe Strong
Vance Barnum
Clara Ingram
Judson
Mary Jane
the Meadow
Brook Girls
Berkshire Poets
Lowell
Longfellow
Whittier
India
Morocco
Whittier Wordsworth
Kipling Tennyson
Shelley
Robert Browning
Riley Sykics
Riley
Summer Riley
Standard Poets
Tennyson Burns
Harte Longfellow
Stedman Tennyson
Scott Proctor
Holmes Whittier
Lowell Gilder
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Ralph Connor
Border Legion
Zane Grey
Larry Evans
MR. Brittling
H. G. Wells
Fu-Manchu
Sax Rohmer
Paradise Garden
Geo. Gibbs
Heatherby
Payne Erskine
Barbara Worth
Rebecca
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Helena Richie
Margaret Deland
Red Pepper
Grace
Richmond
the Harvester
Red Gap
Harry Leon Wilson
Tarzan
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Sundance Trail
Robert Neilson Stephens
Blue Ridge
Sylvia
Margaret R. Piper
Arthur E. McFarlane
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Henry C. Rowland
The
Yukon
Rolling Stone
RED Cross
Cornhuskers
Carl Sandburg
Robert Service
Edgar A. Guest
Henry van Dyke
Wisherman
Little Rivers
Holy Land
Rudyard Kiplings
Charles Dickens
Eco Pnomey Tennyson Whittier
Robert Browning Shakespeare
Byron Wordsworth
Ravenna
Kipling
Tennyson
Oscar Wilde
Robert ‘Browning
Walt Whitman
Omar Shayyam
Red Flower
Frank Foxcroft
Herbert A. Gibbons
Capt
Horne
Ccc
Buddy
Jack Turner
George H
City Ways
Company Street
Charles Divine
Little Red Riding Hood
Jack and the
Cinderella and the Glass Slipper
Funland
Wonder Reader
Wonder Word Book
Old Mother Hubbard
Peter Piggy
Small Red Hen
Walter and
the Rabbits
Diddle
Big Animal Piercooks
Little People
Toy Books
Jesus
Bean
Cinderella
Tom Thumb
Birds of America
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