City to close Market street coal wharf gap plan prepared
City officials prepare legislation to close the gap in the river wall at Market street delaying the coal landing there. The Bowman ordinance may grant Harrisburg Light and Power Company a new island wharf, enabling the shift of coal traffic off Market street.
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Market Street
Bowman
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
Board of Public Works
Electric Light Company
Ancil
Paxton Street
Herr Street
W. H. Lynch
Stucker Brothers’ Construction Company
Ex Judge Gray rules on two mine grievances
Ex judge George Gray, umpire for the Anthracite Conciliation Board, sustains miners of Harwood Coal Company in replacement of props for squeezes and other abnormal conditions. He rules against Audenreidh miners of Lehigh and Wilkes-Barre Coal Company seeking a specific rate on certain grades of work not provided in the contract. Secretary Bryan says the United States will comply with Carranza decree directing diplomacy with him, not through military commanders, in Mexico.
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Associated Press
Hazleton
Washington, D. C
Bryan Today
United States
Carranza
Mexico
Weather Summary Harrisburg Area And Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair to Thursday for Harrisburg and vicinity with little temperature change. Eastern Pennsylvania sees fair skies with cooler readings and light north winds. Susquehanna and tributaries fall, except lower main river remaining nearly stationary. river stage around 12.8 feet. High pressure over the Lake Region dominates while western areas feel a Pacific low moving inland. Temperature at 9:00 am 34 degrees. sunrise 6:51 am, sunset 5:38 pm. Moon in first quarter at 9:58 pm.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna River
United States
Pacific Ocean
Canada
Tennessee
Harrisburg Trade Extension Delegation Arrives at Sunbury
The Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce tour reaches Sunbury on schedule aboard a special train. Local dignitaries greet the visitors at City Hotel luncheon. Millersburg hosts a fire drill at the Johnson Bailey Shoe Company plant as 600 workers rush out. Harrisburg literature and booklets circulate, with speeches by local leaders in Sunbury and Herndon.
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Pennsylvania
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Susquehanna Valley
Sunbury
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce Trade Extension Party
Harrisburg
City Hotel
Millersburg
Dauphin County
H. M. Fairchilds
J. W. Brubaker
H. M. Bowman
Johnson Bailey Shoe Company
Harrisburgers
Millersburg Bunch
H. W. Bowman
Burgess
Henderson Gilbert
Gus M. Steinmetz
Harrisburg Telegraph
W. W. Fisher
A. W. Leib
J. G. Yarnall
Amos Bloom
Sunbury Business Men's Association
Mystery in Allison Hill Bakery Harassment Tale
A baker in a Market Street restaurant district reports harrowing pranks from local jokers. A wrapped paper包 hides a doll from the Kaufman fire, with a skeletal clue from a missing four year old case. The outlet notes a prankster tried to string together a tragedy for laughs.
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Market Street
Allison Hill
Blackberry Street
Kaufman
Skeleton Mystery 9 Till Unsolved Threshermen Bill Introduced
Unsolved skeleton found last Friday in a cellar at 138 South Fourteenth street spurs renewed police and district attorney efforts. County Detective Walters weighs pursuing Bessie Guyer, once said to live with Dr Charles E Ayres as a nurse in 1902. A bill for Threshermen Association regulation of traction engines advances in the House, drafted by Spangler of York. The bill classifies motors into farm and draft types with weight and width limits and licenses for the State Highway Department.
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South Fourteenth Street
Michael E. Stroup
James T. Walters
Bessie Guyer
Charles BE. Ayres
Thresher- Men’s Association of Pennsylvania
Spangler
York
State Highway Department
Governor Brumbaugh Outlines Child Labor Plan Advancing Reform
Governor Brumbaugh discussed the Senate child labor bill by Phipps and urged stronger measures. He backs gradual changes toward a top tier law, supports a continuation school for 14 to 16 year olds, and wants Pennsylvania to lead with the best child labor law in the Union once enacted. A conference favored a three-member commission administration under Commerce and Labor.
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Brumbaugh
Senate
Phipps
Crawford County
Pennsylvania Child Labor Association
Pennsylvania
Hout Dev
Capitol Hill
Department of Commerce and Labor
Highway Robbery Suspects Held on Bail In Ohio Arrests
Albert Heagy and John F. Gibb were held for court under $1,500 bail after a preliminary hearing before Alderman Charles E. Murray on a highway robbery charge. The pair, arrested last week in Ohio by Constable Haines, faced the Austin accuser James F. Higgins.
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Albert Heagy
John F. Gibb
Charles E. Murary
James F. Higgins
Austin
Ohio
Haines
Aged Woman Dies at Broad Street Market
Mrs. John H. Deming aged a? years of 507 Muench Street died of heart failure while buying supplies in Broad Street market about 7 this morning. She was alone and died before medical aid could arrive. Survived by husband and daughter Mrs. B. Fe Umberger of 427 Peffer Street. Funeral at daughter's home Saturday at 2 PM.
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John H. Deming
Muench Street
Broad Street Market
B. FE
Umberger
Peffer Street
Russian and German forces clash in East Prussia campaign
The German War Office reports a heavy Russian defeat in the Mazurian lakes region with tens of thousands captured. Envelopments by Austro-Hungarians threaten Bukowina near Czernowitz as German and Austrian forces block Russian advances. A German note on rights of American vessels in the war zone awaits reply in Washington. A new Serb campaign threat and a British naval air assault on Zeebrugge are noted. A New Market delegation plans to petition for a Public Service Commission station.
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Berlin
Bukowina
Czernowitz
British Isles
Gerard
Washington
Dulwich
English Channel
Athens
Serbia
Associated Press
London
Pruth
Sereth
Tageblatt
Bistritz
New Market
The
Public Service Commission
Germany
East Prussia
Great Britain
England
Foreign Office
Page
Mazurian Lake District
Mazurian Lake
Suwalki
Augustowo
William
Government ship purchase bill clears House after long clash
Washington reports the ship purchase bill passed 215 to 121 after a 14 hour fight led by Mann a second special rule ended the filibuster nineteen Democrats opposed the bill with five progressives and all Republicans voting against it.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Mann
Bathrick
Borchers
Callaway
Dies
Donohue
Fitzgerald
Gerry
Gordon
Jones
Kindel
Kitchin
Morrison
Moss
Indiana
Page
North Carolina
Saunders
Slayden
Whitacre
White
Witherspoon
Bryan
Kelley
Pennsylvania
McDonald
Lafferty
Murdock
British Steam Collier Dulwich Torpedoed by Germans
The British steam collier Dulwich bound from Hull to Rouen was torpedoed 20 miles northwest of Cape De La Hare by a German submarine at 6 o'clock last night. The ship sank in 20 minutes. Of 38 crewmen, 22 were rescued by the French destroyer Arquebuse and brought to Havre, seven reached Fecamp, and two are missing.
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Havre
Paris
Fecamp
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Lynch
George Gray
Toy Department
Bessie Guyei
Broad Street
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Mazurian Lakes
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
Batavia and
Seeland
Folkstone
Flushing
Zeebrugge
Ostend
Middelkirke
Ghistelles
Ghistelle
Eport
Falmouth
Wilhelmina
Regu
James W
Wilson
Kenyon
Norris
LaFollette
Are
Mechanicsburg
Duenweg
Joplin
Elmer Stone
Carlisle
Mary A. Miller
Stewartstov
OHIP
Brotherhood
Rome
Varcosabina
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and Order of Railway Conquetors
Transportation Departments
Baltimore & Ohio
Philadelphia & Reading
Lehigh Valley
Erie
Lackawanna
New York
Chamber of Deputies
Georges Berry
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