Fire destroys Hawkins Manufacturing plant at 1451 Zarker Street
Early morning blaze completely consumes the two story brick plant housing machinery raw materials and records. Owner Jesse Hawkins estimates losses in the thousands and says insurance will partly cover the damage. Firefighters from eight companies battled the flames, which started near 1 05 a.m. again rekindling at 6 a.m. and were controlled by morning. The building is a total loss with walls left standing to be torn down. The plant is operated by Hawkins Paxtang business, located on Zarker Street, and owned by United Ice and Coal Company.
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Hawkins Manufacturing Company
Zarker Street
George Hess
Thirteenth
Market Streets
Allison Hill
Hope
Washington, Good Will and
Citizen
United Ice and Coal Company
DeWalt
Jesse Hawkins
Paxtang
Clothing Wanted for Harrisburg Families
Mrs. Du Pont of the State Dis pensary seeks clothing for needy Harrisburg families. Requests include two women’s sweaters sizes 36 and 42 an overcoat a pair of men’s shoes size 7.
Children’s Chanukah program delights 300 plus in city
The Ohev Sholom Chanukah entertainment attracted over 300 attendees last evening. Rabbi Haas and Miss Lillian Kamsky led the program with candle lighting by Harold Claster, a poem and story sequence, and several dances and skits including Maccabean Cure.
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Ohev Sholom
Rabbi Haas
Lillian Kamsky
Harold Claster
Mildred Claster
Arthur Kades
Florence Cohen
Julius Sagi
Jeanette Miller
Naomi Levinson
Ada Robinson
Sollie Jacobson
Helen Friedman
David Cohen
Bernard Baturin
Sylvia Goldstein
Henry Miller
Sylvian Krauss
Robert Kades
Hilda Seligman
Ilda Gordon
Hannah Baker
Arthur Lehrman
Rosalind Cohen
Sylvan Lehrman
Helen Gordon
Ruth Kepner
Blanche Tausig
Minuet
Dorothy Katz
Ida Abrams
Mildred Schampan
Vannie Gordon
Martha Lahrman
Cecilia Tausig
Elizabeth Seigmund
Ida Gross
Marion Jacobson
Rebecca Levinson
Ruth Gross
Anna Schampan
Hazel Gordon
Florence Cohn
Mildred Cohn
Berger Back in Peace in Milwaukee Special Election
Victor L. Berger the Socialist seeks the Fifth District seat in a special election to fill the 1918 vacancy. Fusion nominee Henry H. Boden stab runs on the Republican ticket as the opposing candidate.
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Berger
Associated Press
Milwaukee
Wis
Victor L. Berger
House of Representatives
Henry H. Bodenstab
Fusion
School Board Plans Bond Sale for Hoffmans Woods Purchase
City school directors were to open bids for 200000 in bonds to fund buying the Hoffmans woods tract and to pay for junior high school equipment. The Hoffmans woods site purchase was expected to be sealed late today.
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Hoffman's Woods
Hoffman's Wood
Wilson to Name White and Peale for Commission
John P. White former United Mine Workers of America president and Rembrandt Peale independent coal operator of Pennsylvania are reported to be named members of a three person commission to investigate wages and prices in the bituminous coal industry. President Wilson is expected to announce the commissioners today. White and Peale aided Fuel Administrator Garfield during the war.
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Associated Press
Washington
John P. White
United Mine Workers of America
Rembrandt Peale
Pennsylvania
Commission of Three
Wilson
Peale
White
Garfield
Russians Disarmed and Confined in German Positions
Eight thousand Russians who returned to Germany with Colonel Avaloff Bermont, commander of the Riga offensive, have been disarmed and confined at Danzig Nauen and Grabow Posen. They will be held until a chance to send them back to Russia arises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Berlin
Germany
Avaloff Bermondt
Riga
Danzig
Nauen
Grabow
Posen
Russia
Denikin Wins Victory in Volga Valley Action
General Denikine has gained a significant victory between Tsaritsin and Kami shin in the Volga Valley. Dispatches report 10,200 prisoners captured along with five Shannon transports and twenty-five machine guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denikine
Helsingfors
Tsaritsin
Kamishin
Volga Valley
Shannon
Millerand to Succeed Clemenceau as Premier of France
Paris dispatch reports former war minister and current Alsace governor Alex Andre Millerand will become France’s premier, replacing Georges Clemenceau. Echo De Paris cites the rumor as of December 19.
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Clemenceau
Associated Press
Paris
Havas
Alexandre Millerand
Alsace
Georges Clemenceau
France
Echo de Paris
Doctor Flies To Island For Boy's Funeral Aid
A Middletown island boy who was struck by a falling limb died Monday after a tree accident. An icebound river and current prevented aid until a plane reached Hill Island three miles from Middletown. The pilot and Dr Blecher landed in a corn field and will assist transport for burial if weather allows.
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Hill Island
Middletown
Krone
Goldsboro
EK. P. Warren
Island
Blecher
Aimost
Two Girls Sent to Reform School by Juvenile Court
Beatrice Lucas and Myrtle Manear, charged with incorrigibility, were sent to Sleighton Farms by Judge 8 J McCarrell at a Juvenile Court session. They faced charges for staying out late and disobedience. Other youths faced larceny truancy incorrigibility with many placed on probation. John Cohick was released on parole to an older brother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sleighton Farms School
J. M. McCarrell
Beatrice Lucas
Myrtle Manear
John Cohick
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Messiah Lutheran Church
Henry A. Hanson
Lykens
Richard Kaines
Lulu Kaines
Miners and
Penna
Lewis
Reform School
Mane
Scott & Bowne
Scott's
S. S. Pomeroy Market Square
Grocer
Pomeroy’s Daily Market
Reily Streets
Georgette
Bermuda
Fitch
Hudson Seal
Sik
Lisle
Voile
Batiste
Dimity
Red Cross
Hewane
Philippine
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