Mystery on Hill deepens as clues shift
New information points away from Dr. Charles E. Ayres after a girl named Bessie Edith Geyer, once connected to him, was reportedly seen in Mechanicsburg within the last six to seven years. Investigators found a dental paste top in the grave and seek any trace of the Geyer family amid uncertain local memories.
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Bessie Edith Geyer
Mechanicsburg
Charles E. Ayres
York
Bessie Geyer
William Geyer
Stewart
Harrisburg
Dr. Ayres
Ayres
R. C. Cashman
South Fourteenth Street
Herbert Garverich
Mr. Cashman
Samuel Hillman
Suffrage hearing planned for constitutional amendment
Senators delayed action on the proposed woman suffrage amendment, blocking a quick report from the Senate judiciary general committee. A public hearing is set for mid March. Also noted, Grand Army of the Republic Post 58 plans to join the fiftieth encampment in Washington with a parade along the old 1865 route and a Chestnut Street entertainment to help cover expenses.
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Senate
Judiciary General Committee
Daix
Philadelphia
Hoke
Franklin County
Grand Army of the Republic
Washington
Detroit
Sherman
Grant
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Noah A. Walmer
Post 58
Commonwealth Band
Chestnut Street
Extradition Ordered for Jack Johnson in Conspiracy Case
Chicago date Feb 16 United States District Attorney Charles F Clyne announced that Jack Johnson the African American boxer who fled to Europe after a Mann Act sentence will be extradited and returned to Chicago on a conspiracy charge.
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Chicago
Jack Johnson
Europe
Federal Penitentiary
Charles F. Clyne
United States
On Trial for Treason
The trial of General Christian De Wet and other South African rebellion leaders charged with high treason began in Bloemfontein today. In Buffalo New York the stock yards at East Buffalo will close this afternoon under state and federal orders due to the reappearance of foot and mouth disease.
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Associated Press
Bloemfontein
London
Christian DeWet
Great Britain
Buffalo
N. Y
East Buffalo
Weather Summary for Harrisburg and Pennsylvania
Partly cloudy and cooler tonight with a freezing low. Wednesday brings fair skies Eastern Pennsylvania and cooler conditions with moderate variable winds. Rivers Juniata North Branch and Upper North Branch fall tonight and Wednesday as lower North Branch and main rivers rise briefly. Wilkes Barre may exceed 18 feet tonight. Harrisburg about 13 feet Wednesday morning. General conditions describe a passing storm from the Lake Region and a broad cooldown with a 2 to 4 degree drop in the east. Temperature at 8 am 38. moon first quarter February 21. river stage 9.5 feet. mean temperature 44. normal 30.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Juniata
West Branch
Upper North Branch
North Branch
Wilkes-Barre
Lake Regi
St. Lawrence Valley
Rocky Mountains
New England
Deaf see sounds with new phonoscope invention
Reports from Lahore say professor Alice of the city has invented a phonoscope that lets the totally deaf perceive sounds through sight, enabling them to see speech and music. The device was announced from Bombay with the date February 16.
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Associated Press
Bombay
India
Lahore
Alice
Robins Most Numerous Birds in New Census Findings
Washington reports a government census showing robins as the most common birds in the United States with about sixty pairs of English sparrows per square mile and robins dominating the population. In the northeast robins average six pairs per farm, while sparrows average five, Chevy Chase Maryland records 161 pairs on 23 acres, and the study notes 34 species represented with overall density low due to protection needs.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
United
Department Agriculture Today
Chevy Chase
City to complete river front steps by July 1
By July 1, 1915, Harrisburg's river front wall or front steps must be completed under an agreement between the city and Stucker Brothers Construction Company. The city will pay $15,000 of 15 percent of the contract price now held, and contractors will accept the final engineers' estimate to finish on time, avoiding future disputes. Continued on Page 7.
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Harrisburg
Stucker Brothers Construction Comany
Kaufman Plans Larger Store Buildings at Market Square
Negotiations finished for a long term lease to 8 South Market Square, previously S. E. Pomeroy’s grocery, after a fire. The Kaufman stores will raze and rebuild at 6 and 8 South Market Square and remodel 4 South Market Square, creating about thirty five thousand square feet of floor space.
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S. S. Pomeroy
David Kaufman
South Market Square
S. 8. Pomeroy's
Kaufman
Harrisburg to Set Quail Closed Season and Appoint Forester
A three year quail closed season is proposed in a House bill by Mr Brumbaugh Blair effective from now until 1918 with a $10 fine per bird. In other news Harry J Mueller of Bellefonte is named Harrisburg's first city forester to start about March 1 with a $1000 salary. Chicago tuberculosis sanatorium dedication noted as largest and best equipped.
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Harrisburg
Mr. Brumbaugh
Blair
Harry J. Mueller
State Forestry Service
Bellefonte
Central High School
Forestry Service of Pennsylvania
Mueller
Chicago, Ill
Chicago
Officials 10 Confer on Sland Landing
City Council postpones final passage of the Bowman ordinance granting Harrisburg Light and Power a coal wharf on the Island until next Tuesday. Planning Commission opposes the site plan saying it would not fix Market Street wharf conditions and questions the proposed location.
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City
Bowman
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
City Planning Commission
Electric Company
Planning Commission
Island
Market Street
Thieves Raid Barn Steal Chickens from Blind Widow
Thieves stole twenty five chickens from the barn of Mrs. Samuel Mater near Middletown on Saturday night. Entry was gained by tearing loose a beard from the barn side. Three men are suspected, but no clues to their identities. This is the third such winter raid on Mrs Mateer, an aged widow who is nearly totally blind.
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Samuel Mater
Middletown
Mateer
Stubborn Fire Rages in Kaiser 19 Building
Fire broke out at 11 am behind the Walk Over Shoe Store in the Bergner building at Third and Market, causing $5,000 to $7,500 damage. It was the third blaze in the business district since January, likely starting near a flue between ceilings. Firefighters cut through partitions and floors to get streams on the flames. smoke spread but caused limited damage. Walk-Over suffered the heaviest losses.
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Bergner
Market
Eastern Front Battles See Mixed Moves as War Rages
Reports from London and Petrograd indicate the Teutonic allies press on the eastern front with gains in Bukowina and Carpathian fighting while activity on the western front centers on artillery duels near Ypres. Russian lines hold fortified positions in East Prussia, with slower German progress.
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Associated Press
London
Warsaw
Carpathians
Bucharest
Czernowitz
Bukowina
Petrograd
East Prussia
Paris
Ypres
Scouring State For Italian Murderer Carlo Conte
Police in Harrisburg and surrounding cities search for Carlo Conte an Italian murder suspect after he fatally shot John Pulmach in a Cherry Street boarding house quarrel Conte fled through a rear door as Mrs Lauda was knocked unconscious Pulmach died at Harrisburg Hospital while investigators issue circulars with Conte’s likeness and coroner Eckinger orders a post mortem and inquest later in the week
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Harrisburg
Carlo Conte
Vincenzo Lauda
Cherry Street
Conte
John Pulmach
Palmach
Pulmoch
Lauda
Joseph Ibach
Eckinger
Jana
Wrecked bank to reopen after cash deficit cleared
The First National Bank of Schaefferstown will reopen after the $42,500 deficit was made good and $170 assessment paid by stockholders. The bank directors will elect a new cashier. Binner's will was probated in Lebanon with Laura Binner as sole beneficiary. The will, dated June 1, 1912, names ex Assemblyman G H Moyer of Palmyra as legal adviser in settling the estate.
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Schaefferstown
First National Bank
Binner
Lebanon
Laura Binner
G. H. Moyer
Palmyra
Steel Company Refuses British Shell Contract for Humanitarian Reasons
In Pittsburgh on February 16 the Electric Steel Company declined to bid on a British order for 1,000,000 drop forge shells valued at $4 million. A note attached to the blueprints stated the firm refuses to consider the contract for humanitarian reasons, despite a proposed value around $450,000.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Electric Steel Company
T City
Pittsburgh Foreign Trade Commission
German Press Hints At Neutral Flag Question
German sources say Washington awaits Germany's reply on using neutral flags as the key issue for a response. Berlin dispatch notes that American shipping in the war zone faces danger and that Great Britain’s stance on neutral flags may affect U S ships. Georges Clemenceau praises Wilson’s appeal to the American people as the note exchanges continue.
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Washington
London
Germany
Great Britain
Germaan
Associated Press
Rotterdam
Rotterdam Courant
Berlin
Paris
America
Prinforth
Georges Clemenceau
Wilson
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Sland
Council
Planning Commission and Electric Co
Hutchison
Kaiser
Kaiser 19
Central District
Boarder
Inter
Steel Company
U. S
Bessie Edith Guyer
Philadel
Phia
Frank Grumbince
Logan
First National Bank, Schaefferstown
Fternoon
Grumbine
House Law and Order Committee
Highspire
Tain
Harry C. Wright
Dauphin County
Harry White
Ann Street
John A. Haas
Court
Wilkes
Beares ST
Barre
Samuel Conrad Besecker
New Cumberland
Domma Lizetta Sanderson
Pleasant Hall
James Porter
Little Coats
Steelton
Frank Fagan
Gertrude McEntee
Chiy
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