Chocolate King's Chauffeur Killed in Auto Accident
Ira Kohr of Hershey died when a car skidded on an icy Beaver School Hill near Hummelstown. He had joined to help E M Hershey's vehicle after a prior wreck involving Mr. Hershey, his wife, and son. Kohr, 32, left a wife and two children. funeral plans were not set.
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Ira Kohr
Hershey
Beaver School Hill
Hummelstown
E. M. Hershey
Harrisburg
Mr. Hershey
Kohr
Eckinger
J. M. Hershey
Oberlin
Beaver School
Rutherford
M. S. Hershey
Daniel Kohr
Highspire
Miss Emrick
Samuel Emrick
Swatara Station
William Karmany
Bergner
North Third Street
Hand Car Accident Claims Life Near Mercersburg
Charles H. Trittle was killed instantly when he fell from a hand car on the South Penn railroad near Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, yesterday.
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Chambersburg, Pa
Charles H. Trittle
South Penn
Mercersburg
Weather Summary for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair tonight and Sunday with colder conditions and low around 25 degrees. For Eastern Pennsylvania expect fair conditions, chilly nights, and fresh west winds. The Susquehanna River and tributaries fall slowly or remain nearly stationary through Sunday morning with a stage near seven feet above low water.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Riveranna
Harrinburg
Harrisburg Operatic Society to Perform The Mikado
Proceeds from a February 11-12 Majestic Theater show benefit Belgian sufferers. The Mikado features Ada Heishly as Yum Yum and Frank Davies as Koko. The cast includes Helen Kiester Peep-Bo Ada Heishly Ruth Hoover Piti-Sing.
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Harrisburg Operatic Society
Majestic Theater
Helen Kiester
Peep-Bo
Ada Heishley
Ruth Hoover
Frank Davies
Koko
Yum-Yum
Middletown Car Company Expands Plant With Large Investment
Facing expected surge in trade especially in South America the Middletown Car Company speeds up plant improvements. A five acre expansion in the borough's residential area will cost nearly half a million dollars and add new departments to the big facility.
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Middletown Car Company
Stough Evangelistic Campaign Faces Site Clash in Harrisburg
Reading Herald reports on the Stough campaign in Harrisburg where interviews with local leaders reveal fierce opposition. The city struggles to secure a suitable site for the Stough tabernacle as divisions widen between hill residents and lower-quarter supporters.
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E. Z. Gross
Henry B. McCormick
Stough
Harrisburg
Reading Herald
Reading
Stough Tabernacle
Elevated trains collide on Ninth Avenue line
A local train and an express on the Ninth Avenue elevated line collided at Fiftieth street during rush hour. Nine people were injured. The forward car of one train and the rear car of the other burned to the trucks.
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Associated Press
New York
Ninth Avenue
Fiftieth Street
Arkansas House Approves Woman Suffrage Amendment for Vote
In Little Rock on February 6 the Arkansas House passed a resolution to submit a woman suffrage amendment to the state constitution. The plan limits general elections to three amendments, and three amendments are already certified for the next ballot by the Secretary of State.
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Associated Press
Little Rock, Ark
Arkansas House
Secretary of State
Fewer Marriages Reported Under Wisconsin Law in 1914
Madison reports that four thousand fewer marriages were recorded in 1914 than 1913 under the Eugenic marriage law. Pittsburgh notes a South Side market house fire destroying the two story brick building with an estimated loss of 150000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Madison, Wis
Wisconsin Board of Health
Pittsburgh
South Side Market House
Capitol Annex questioned as state plan moves forward
The State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings will convene its first meeting since Governor Brumbaugh took office. Samuel B. Rambo seeks approval to study an annex to the Capitol and landscape plans for Capitol Park extension. A $2 million wing expansion is tentatively envisioned, with final action likely delayed by finances.
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State Board of Public Grounds
3Uildings
Martin G. Brumbaugh
Samuel B. Rambo
Capitol
Capitol Park
Rambo
Terrible fire in Stone Street Kitchentown reported by Aunt Este
Aunt Este writes to her readers about a terrible blaze on Stone Street in Kitchentown. She promises a fuller town story next week and signs off warmly to her young audience.
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Este
Kitchen Town
Stone Street
Kitchentown
Aunt Este
German statement says ships with American food safe from seizure
Washington reports the German embassy declares it does not intend to molest or seize American vessels carrying civilian foodstuffs for enemy nations. The note says the German navy will continue to destroy enemy ships but not target neutral aid, and hopes Britain will not force a reversal by seizing American ships like the Wilhelmina.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
British Isles
Germany
England
Imperial Navy
North Sea
English Channel
Germany’s Shipping Policy Discussed by Dutch Cabinet
Amsterdam via London February 5 An extraordinary cabinet meeting in The Hague discussed Germany’s statement on how enemy shipping would be treated. No decision on the Dutch position was made as many German points required explanation per Handelsblad.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
London
the Hague
Handelsblad
Germany
Bank cashier Binner shoots self at home near Schaefferstown
Tebanon Pa Feb 6 Alvin Binner cashier of the Schaefferstown National Bank killed himself with a gun at his home just outside Schaefferstown. He had not returned home last night and Mrs Binner heard two shots in the yard early this morning. Uriah Horst bank president found him dead in the yard. Binner formerly headed Schaefferstown high school before resigning to take the bank post.
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Tebanon
Alvin Binner
Schaefferstown National Bank
Schaefferstown
Binner
Uriah Horst
Schaefferstown Bank
Men Entombed in West Virginia Mine Explosion
Fayetteville West Virginia February 6 One hundred sixty eight men were entombed in the New River Coal Company mine at Carlisle by an explosion today All but ten reached the surface Six men in the affected section were killed and the fate of four others was unknown
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West Virginia
Associated Press
Fayetteville
W. Va
New River Coal Company
Carlisle
Here
Fourteen Bids Opened for New Motor Apparatus
Commissioner M Harvey Taylor opened fourteen bids for a combined chemical and tractor fire apparatus. Bids ranged from 17 1800 to 19 650 with Morton Truck and Tractor Co offering total 18000 and American LaFrance bidding 17800 for the various components. Other bidders included Marti Carriage Works York International Motor Co New York Bent Landis Auto Harwood Harley Front Driver Motor Car Hoboken and more.
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M. Harvey Taylor
Morton Truck and Tractor Company
la France
Taylor
Coucil
Morton Truck Company
Marti Carriage Works
York
International Motor Company
New York
Bents- Landis Auto
City
Jeffrey Company
Ahrens-lox Fire Engine Company
Philadelphia
Couple-Gear Freight Wheel Company
Harwood- Harley Manufacturing Company
Front Driver Motor Car Company
Hoboken
N. J
American and
British Manufacturing Company
Front Drive Tractor Company
Brockway Motor Car Company
Municipal Euipment Company
James Boyd
Eight Inmates of Odd Fellows Put to Death
Yonkers New York February 6 Investigations into Fred Morss claim that he killed eight aged and infirm German Odd Fellows at the Home because they were a nuisance extend to day with physicians who signed death certificates. Adam Bangert the home superintendent and three porters are under arrest as witnesses while Morss is in Bellevue Hospital under alienist care. Morss said five inmates were killed with anaesthetic and three with other drugs.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Fred Mors
Adam Bangert
Mors
Bellevue Hospital
New York City
District Attorney's Office
New York
Russian Carpathian advance broken by Austrian forces
Russian attacks in the Carpathians were repulsed with heavy losses, while Austrians pressed forward in the same region. Petrograd reported retreats near the mountain pass and renewed fighting along the Warsaw front as the broader war effort hangs on the Carpathian outcome.
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Carpathians
Paris
Warsaw
Petrograd
Austria
Poland
Galicia
Vienna
Argonne
Alsace
Flanders
Germany
England
Scotland
Ireland
Washington
Berlin
London
Carpa
Germany displeases Italy over neutral ship policies
Rome reports the Tribuna denounces German measures against neutrals as disregarding rights and dignity, noting Britain accepted U S and Italian protests while allowing distinction between absolute and conditional contraband.
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Rome
Tribuna
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Italy
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Chocolate King
Atlantic States
North Carolina
St. Lawrence Valley
Middletown
Leaders Day
Schaefferstown National
U. S. Examiner
Richland
Morton Company
American LaFrance
Odd Fellows
Czar
Tokio
Christian Bors
Sasebo
Shanghai
San Francisco
Wilson
Congress
Admiralty
Gerard
State Department
Shetland Islands
Great
Brittany
Hays
DACIA
Norfolk
Norfolk, Va
Galveston
Rotterdam
Ing
Hatteras
New York Medical Journal
Drs. Seymour Oppenheimer
Mark J. Gottleib
Sayville
Budapest
Hungary
Bukowina
Paul Wesley Sharp
Charlotte Catherine Gardner
Newport
Frank B. Bleyer
P . Fredahler
Steelton
John J. Potterger
Anna M. Spielman
John Horwath
Annie Portas
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