Park Board Row Flares Over Nursery Links
Harrisburg city officials and commissioners clash amid park budget focus and resignations. Commissioner M Harvey Taylor defends budget work while denying ties to Berryhill Nursery rumors. J Horace McFarland insists he is only a customer. He laments the park system’s potential decline amid controversy.
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M. Harvey Taylor
H. F. Bowman
Department of Public Safety
J. Horace McFarland
Berryhill
Taylor
Park Board
Walter H. Manning
J. R. Hoffert
Berryhill Nursery
McFarland
Berryhill Nursery Company
Harrisburg Park System
Manning
Moore Seeks Federal Action to Open Susquehanna Navigation
Representative J Hampton Moore urged Congress to revoke a War Department ruling that the Susquehanna River is navigable only below Maryland. He called for restoring navigation, undoing the McCall’s Ferry closing, and forcing a power company to install a lock or passage to evaluate a dam and lock system for affordable improvement.
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Washington
Squehanna River
J. Hampton Moore
Pennsylvania
War Department
Maryland Line
United States
Susnehanna
Moore
McCall's Ferry
Becker May Never Again Be Tried On Charge Of Murder
Charles Becker former police lieutenant convicted of instigating the murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal has been granted a new trial. He will leave Sing Sing for the Tombs as the Court of Appeals plans are pursued, with DA Whitman deeming a second trial futile. Becker vows to aid in exposing the real culprits once free.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles Becker
Police Leutenant
Herman Rosenthal
Sing Sing Prison
Joseph Ja. Shay
Becker
Court of Appeals
Tombs
Rosenthal
Charles
Whitman
Jack Rose
Ossining
N.Y
Hermann Rosenthal
Judge Kunkel Seen as Best Fit for Supreme Court Seat
Danville lawyer James Scarlet praised George Kunkel, President Judge of Dauphin County, as the best fitted man for the Supreme Court this year. Scarlet, who led Capitol trial prosecutions, dismissed his own candidacy while urging Kunkel's nomination for the bench.
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James Scarlet
Danville
Pennsylvania
Capitol
George Kunkel
Dauphin County Court
Supreme Bench
Scarlet
Supreme Court
Mr. Scarlet
Dauphin County
Old Football Star Dies
Announcement today of the death on Monday of Alexander Moffat fifty one a Princeton University football star from the early eighties and longtime adviser coach rules committee member and official since then Death was due to pneumonia.
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Associated Press
New York
Alexander Moffat
Princeton University
Telegraph offers week of world travel in pictures
The Philadelphia Telegraph announces a ten cent travel week in Chestnut Street Auditorium with color photo views and moving pictures titled Niblo Talks of Travel in Distant Lands. Admission with a coupon and a dime totals fifteen cents, otherwise twenty five cents. Continued on Page 8.
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Novgorod
Cairo
Egypt
The
Telegraph
Niblo
Chestnut Street
Thousand Lutheran Men Plan City Wide Church Canvass
At a union meeting in Zion Lutheran Church Harrisburg plans were laid for a simultaneous every member canvass. From 751 to 1,000 men will visit church members in Harrisburg and surrounding towns between 8 and 7 on Sunday afternoon March 8. More than 18,000 to 20,000 people are expected to be reached in four hours. The effort aims to boost spiritual and financial church interests. River ice update and weather note included in the report.
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Zion Lutheran Church
Harrisburg
Susquehanna
Market Street Bridge
Joseph Pye
Cumberland Valley
Harrisburg Shore
Island Park
Harrisburg Bridge
Rockville
Cumberland
New Cumberland
West Fairview
Weather Bureau
Girl Faints On Seeing Injured Mother At Home
Mrs. Harry Rice, 50, fell on the ice at 1329 James Street and was brought home with a bad head bump. Her daughter, Catherine Rice, 20, fainted on seeing her mother and required restoratives from Dr. H B Walter. Both remained weak the next day.
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Harry Rice
James Street
Catherine Rice
H. B. Walter
American Killed by Mexican Troops Near Hidalgo
United States citizen Clement Vergara was reported hanged by Huerta forces near Hidalgo, Mexico, with his body left three miles from Hidalgo. In Washington Secretary Bryan briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for over two hours on the scene, seeking facts about Huerta and the constitutionalist movement and leaving policy decisions for later.
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Associated Press
Laredo
Tex
Clement Vergara
Hidalgo
Mexico
United States
Garrett
Atuevo
Washington, D. C
Nuevo Laredo
Huerta
Clemente Vergara
Bryan
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mr. Bryan
Des Moines Vault Robbery Attempt Ends With Small Loot
In Des Moines Iowa two would be robbers bound two state house watchmen and tried to dynamite the State Treasurer vault. After two blasts they fled the capitol with five dollars from a treasurer’s cash drawer as a third failed attempt interrupted the plan. A third watchman slept through the event in the supreme court room.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
State Treasurer's
State House
Capitol
Supreme Court
Goethals police bills hear delegates clash at Albany
Rival delegations from New York City attended a legislative hearing in Albany on the Goethals police bills. Mayor Mitchel led a group urging passage, while William B. Ellison headed the opposition backed by police department organizations.
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Associated Press
New York
Albany
Goethals
Mitchel
William B. Ellison
Recommendations for labor condition bureaus at post offices
The annual report of T. V. Powderly, chief of information division, proposes bureaus at post offices to officially register labor conditions. These bureaus would determine the number of unemployed at any time, improving statewide data.
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Associated Press
Washington
T. V. Powderly
Division of Information
Department of Labor
Hear Wiff's Funeral Service Over Telephone in Bed
In Paterson New Jersey on February 25 an improvised telephone allowed the dying former Judge James Inglis to hear the funeral of his wife Ella M Tagus read from the parlor downstairs. The scene shows the wrenching decoupling of personal loss and advanced communications as the committee on industrial development of Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce later convened at 4 pm to outline yearly plans.
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Wiff
Associated Press
Paterson
N. J
James Inglis
Ella M. Tagus
Inglis H
Inglis
Committee On Industrial Development
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce
Penrose Travels in Zero Weather to Visit City
United States Senator Boies Penrose visited Harrisburg area towns amid a brisk zero degree morning. He spoke in Lykens at a Patriotic Order of America rally, met Governor Tenet at the Capitol, then attended a luncheon at the executive mansion. He declined to discuss his candidacy.
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United States
Boies Penrose
The
Patriotic Order of America
Lykens
Tenet
Capitol
Executive Mansion
Miliersburg
J. B. Seal
H. M. Fairchild
Elizabethville
James A. Lentz
Lykkens
H. B. Buffington
A. F. Thompson
Senate
Mr. Thompson
McAfee
Smith
Beldley Man
C. E. Wolfe
Willamsport
Philadelphia
Zion Lutheran Church to Buy Parsonage
A five member committee will recommend a site for Zion Lutheran Church parsonage this Sunday. The committee has been pursuing properties and a central city house is believed chosen. A congregational meeting is set for next Wednesday to approve the committee’s selection. Members listed are John Weaver, W A Zollinger, Ralph L Brown, P I Brown and Dr Croll Keller. The pastor has rented at 107 Lobust Street since the old Walnut Street parsonage sold two years ago.
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Zion
Lutheran Church
John 8. Weaver
W. A. Zollinger
Ralph L. Brown
Pp. I. Brown
Croll Keller
Zion Lutheran Church
Lobust Street
Walnut Street
Weather Summary for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair in Harrisburg area tonight with a low around 10 degrees. Thursday will bring increasing cloudiness and likely snow. Eastern Pennsylvania remains fair but colder tonight with snow possible Thursday afternoon or night and moderate southwest winds. River conditions show no major changes and the frozen surface area will grow. High pressure dominates eastern U S while southeastern disturbances bring rain and sleet elsewhere. Record shows 8 a m temperature 4 2 p m 17 with sun up 6 41 am and sunset 5 46 pm March 5 river stage 5.4 feet above low water.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Florida
Jacksonville
Charleston
Montgomery
New Orleans
Seta
A Fertilized Field Yields the Richest Harvest
A manufacturer promotes dealer advertising through newspapers to boost sales and profits. Position goods in windows and on counters to attract customer interest and build reputation. The Bureau of Advertising in New York invites inquiries for a cooperative dealer program with a booklet available.
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Mr. Merchant
Bureau of Advertising
American Newspaper Publishers Association
World Building
New York
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