Coal seizures avert Harrisburg power shutdown in coal grab
Industrial firms rushed to save Harrisburg Light and Power by seizing eight cars of bituminous coal from Pennsylvania Railroad sidings. Bethlehem Steel pledged 2 000 tons to be delivered, plus seven more cars taken by the fuel administration. The move forestalled a planned 1 PM shutdown and kept plants, offices, and homes from immediate paralysis.
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Harrisburg Light & Power Company
Bethlehem Steel Company
The
Fuel Administration
Ross A. Hickok
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
Weather Forecast for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair and continued cold tonight with temperatures around 2 degrees below zero. Wednesday: fair, warmer in Harrisburg area and not quite so cold elsewhere, with diminishing northwest winds.
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Harrisburg
River Icebound for 59 Days May Break 1871 Record
The Susquehanna has been closed since December 5, totaling fifty nine days. If the cold continues, the 1871 record may be matched. A rapid thaw could bring floods, with historic highs traced by Rudolph Kelker from 1846 onward, including the Johnstown flood year. Ice measures eighteen inches.
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Susquehanna
Rudolph Kelker
Johnstown
Blizzard Grips Regions With Record Cold Across States
An unforeseen cold snap lowers temperatures to historic lows hindering coal production in the anthracite field. Pottsville records 16 below, Allentown 12 below, Williamsport 10 below, Harrisburg 6 below, with mountain districts at 26 below. Philadelphia shows two below at 8.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Pottsville
Allentown
Williamsport
Harrisburg
Heatless Mondays Likely To Extend Amid Cold Wave
Washington reports a stalemate over revoking the heatless Monday order as Garfield and McAdoo confer without agreement. Only President Wilson can lift the directive, while freight and coal movement decline further amid record cold.
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Garfield
McAdoo
Dlo
Wilson
Mississippi
Proposed Increase in County Tax Rate Heads to Vote
The County Commission may raise the tax rate from 4 mills to 4 or 5 mills at tomorrow’s meeting to fund bridge improvements and road work. County Controller Henry W. Gough met with the commissioners on budget needs and may present a revised estimate tomorrow morning. Officials expect a tax increase but debate whether it will be half or full. The commission also approved $500 for the Polyclinic Hospital.
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Henry W. Gough
Shoplifter Held After Downtown Thefts
Margaret Bissinger of 1124 Cowden Street was charged with shoplifting in two downtown stores and arrested by city police. Edward Morton was held on $300 bail on a similar charge.
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Margaret Bissinger
Cowden Street
Edward Morton
Five Below Zero Freezes City Traffic Links
A bitter cold snap cripples city transport as five below zero readings and a riverfront eight below close Market Street bridges. Officials forecast a warm wave by Wednesday evening easing the cold and resuming suburban trolley service by noon tomorrow.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Pittsburgh
Corporal Marries as Bride Inherits Major Sum Before May 18
Corporal Herman Meyers of Company C, 219th Infantry left Camp Lee to wed Miss Irene Traylor of Huntingdon Pennsylvania. She recently inherited 250000 dollars and a Philadelphia house on condition she marry before May 18 1918. Meyers had postponed marriage due to army pay.
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Petersburg
Herman Meyers
219Th Infantry
Camp Lee
Huntingdon
Irene Traylor
Meyers
Pittsburgh
Miss Traylor
Philadelphia
Hand of the Censor Falls on Police Department
The National War Censor bars Harrisburg police from releasing details on German alien registrations at police headquarters this week. Authorities say registrations have been slow but expect about one hundred total. two score have filed and will return with completed papers. Firemen Freeze in Torrington Theater Blaze
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Police Department
Harrisburg
Censor
America
American Guns Batter Hun Sector in Frustrated Attack
American artillery delivered a heavy barrage before dawn in a northwest Toul sector, thwarting a German assault. Patrols probed No Man's Land as gas shells and shells kept roads behind lines under fire. two men wounded amid poor visibility and ongoing artillery activity.
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France
Toul
No Man's Land
German U Boats Claim 14120 Non-Combatants
London reports that in a House of Commons reply by Andrew Bonar Law the German U boats are claimed to have killed 14 120 non combatant British men women and children.
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London
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Rail wage hearing sparks clash over government rail control
W G Lee head of the Railway Trainmen testifies at the wage hearing that railway managers seek to discredit government operation. He argues trained railroad men should run schemes under public control and notes wage demands reflect rising living costs from twenty to forty two percent. A B Garretson counters that management officials attend only to supplement the employee data and not to bargain. Covington rules the officials were invited to provide information, not negotiate with former employers.
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W. G. Lee
Lee
Mr. Lee
A. B. Garretson
McAdoo
Covington
Garretson
Rumanian Troops Press Against Bolsheviks Across Bessarabia
Official telegrams from Jassy report heavy fighting as Romanian forces clash with Bolshevik troops across Bessarabia and Moldavia. Romanian units disarmed two Russian divisions near Galatz and the Moldavian front, with actions extending to Kishinev and the Ungheni Jassy railway depots.
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Associated Press
London
Jassy
Midavia
Bessarabia
Bukowina
Galatz
Russia
Bessarabian
Rumania
Kishinev
Ungheni-Jassy
Dniester
Wadsworth renews fight for war efficiency centralization
Senator Wadsworth argues in the Senate for centralizing war making agencies to unify the nation’s war work. He criticizes the current system as a conglomeration of ambitious scattered agencies lacking coordination and urges radical steps to unify effort amid a long war ahead.
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Associated Press
Washington
America
Senate
Wadsworth
Military Affairs Committee
Wilson
Teacher in Private School Interned For War
San Diego California February 5. Actor Ball a former teacher at a fashionable private school has been taken to Fort Douglas Utah for internment during the war on alleged seditious acts and utterances. Prominent local educators defended him while authorities cited evidence including a draft evader guest in his room and a telegram from an eastern anarchist urging him to stay.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Ball
Fort Douglas
Utah
Rall
Emma Goldman
Alexander Berkman
Cumberland Valley Engine Overturned in Snowbank
Chambersburg Pa February 5 The Cumberland Valley Railway cancelled all branch trains as drifts block lines. A two engine train veered into a snow bank at Brices Church near Waynesboro injuring engine man A Ly Grossman trapped under the cab and fireman with bruises. Passengers remain in nearby farms. Trolley lines blocked.
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Chambersburg
Cumberland Valley
Waynesboro
Brices Church
Ingineman A. Ly Grossman
Inwood
Maugangville
Mayor May Call Snow Brigade on Next Monday
Mayor Keister may urge all non working residents to volunteer in snow removal again unless the heatless Mondays order is revoked. Cold weather kept many indoors but volunteers, with city highway crews, shoveled in many city sections.
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Keister
Weber
Telegraph
U.S. to Furnish More War Support Than Allies Expect
Washington reports the United States will supply more men and money for the war than allied powers dream, with the Foreign Affairs Committee outlining a swift, ample mobilization. The $8,206,087 fiscal next year funds 25 new embassy secretaries and expanded war efforts. In Shamokin, Milton Klinger dies by suicide amid grief over drafted sons.
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House
Great Britain
France
House of the State Department
Flood
Shamokin
National Army
Milton Klinger
Trevorton
Enar
Bowles takes charge of Hog Island shipyard
Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles, managing director of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, arrived from Washington and assumed full control of the Hog Island shipyard under construction on the Delaware River below Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Francis T. Bowles
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Washington
Hog Island
Delaware River
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