Wilson Cabinet Seek Ways To Avert Deficit In Finances
President Wilson and his cabinet convened to address a looming federal deficit with estimates showing expenditures far exceeding revenues. Plans discussed include curbing river and harbor funding and contracting rural free delivery costs, plus possible tax and military budget adjustments to avert embarrassment and extend war tax deadlines. A second item reports the hereditary Prince of Brunswick, infant son of the Duke, gravely ill after an ear operation and influenza relapse.
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London
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Duma Budget Sees Tax Revenue Rise Despite War
The ways and means committee reports that direct taxes for the coming year will total about 171.23 million dollars, up by 33.22 million from last year. It notes the first budget with alcohol tax removal.
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London
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the Duma
Puck Magazine Advertised With Telegraph
A notice promotes a Saturday edition of Puck sold with the Telegraph for one cent. The publication claims forty years of influence in American humor and literature, praising its concise, lively cartoons and witty writing that launched many artists and humorists.
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Puck
Telegraph
America
Weather Summary for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Fair and much colder tonight with a cold wave. low around 8 degrees. Friday fair but colder with northwest to north winds. Susquehanna and tributaries falling slowly. main branches likely frozen within 48 hours. Area of high pressure shifting southeast from the Mississippi Valley brings 2 to 6 degree drops. Sunrise 7 18, full moon January 30. River level 15.4 feet above low water mark. Highest 37, lowest 16, mean 3, normal 28.
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Mississippi Valley
Wednesda
Missouri
Mississippi
Ohio
Plains States
Elevator crowd traps women at Y W C A building
A crowded Y W C A elevator on a New York day traps women as a planned lecture on Mormonism draws a crowd. Miss Marshbank guides an escape to the second floor after the car jams near the third floor, prompting alarm and a playful exchange among passengers.
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New Y. W. C. A
Not Light Globes For Street Signs Trial Under City Plan
City Commissioner W. H. Lynch tests light globe standards atop street lamps to use as illuminated street signs at Third and Market. Words Market North Third and South Third are painted on globes for visibility day and night, with potential expansion to cluster standards pending results and cooperation with the electric light company.
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North Third
South Third
Lynch
Electric Light Company
Taylor to Open Bids For Motor Apparatus at Noon
Bids will be opened at noon February 6 for Harrisburgs five new motor fire apparatus three tractors and two chemical combinations funded by the remaining 18000 of an 25000 appropriation from 1913 The city council will finalize the opening ordinance Tuesday and advertisements ask for one or more motor combinations plus three tractors including a 5 ton unit for the Mount Vernon Hook and Ladder Company and two 444 ton motors for fire engines If bids meet expectations the Harrisburg fire department will add four motor driven chemical combinations one motor tractor driven truck and two motor driven fire engines by summer.
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Harrisburg
Taylor
Mount Vernon Hook and Ladder Company
Agricultural Board Ends Meeting Amid Bills Debate
The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Board wraps up its thirty-eighth annual meeting after rejecting a move to form a special committee on a seven member governor appointed commission. Legislative committee proposes fertilizer disclosure, fair weight standards, and tighter sale regulation for farm products. President Wilson vetoes the immigration bill due to literacy tests and other restrictions.
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Posge Tracks Thieves Cobb Learns Talk In Snow For Miles
Constable Frank Yingst led a farmer posse across snow covered fields into Middletown to arrest three men after a henhouse burglary near Fidler's Elbow. John Cockey Albert Jolly and Thomas Jolly, all colored, were arraigned. two held for court, one discharged. Irvin S. Cobb spoke at the Harrisburg Club lunch about war news and the value of talk as money.
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Swatara Township
Middletown
Edward McCurdy
John Cockey
Albert Jolly
Thomas Jolly
William Kennard
Isaac Kettering
Fidler's Elbow
Cockey
Farmer Kettering
Yingst
Kettering
McCurdy
Squire Kennard
Eight Degrees Above Zero Predicted For Tonight
Forecasters predict eight degrees above zero for tonight with a coming eastward cold wave. No snow is expected during the cold period, and low temperatures will prevail. The Dakotas and Southern Canada report readings 15 to 25 degrees below zero.
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Dakotas
Canada
Hair Longings Identified At Police Station In Altoona
Five switches in varied styles and colors are at the Altoona police station awaiting owner claims. The items were seized from a trio accused of obtaining hair under false pretenses. Colonel Hutchison warned the public five days remain before sale if unclaimed. Miss Mary Kennedy, 22, remains serious after an attempted suicide at 529 Filbert Street. A bullet fragment remains in her head, with hope for recovery. Paris case of Francois Desclaux, ex-finance official, arousing political debate as military stores allegedly sent to a woman are cited.
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Altoona
Colonel Hutchison
Mary Kennedy
Filbert Street
Harrisburg
Joseph Ibach
Paris
Francois Desclaux
M. Caillaux
Auto Splintered Pole Two Escape Injury In Steelton
Steelton councilman Thomas J. Nelley and Police Sergeant Valentine Masters escaped serious injury when Nelley’s car left the road struck a trolley pole and rammed a bank near the Cumbler stone quarries. They were en route to Middletown to identify a foreigner tied to a hotel robbery at the Halfway House earlier that morning.
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Thomas J. Nelly
Steelton
Valentine Masters
Nelley
Sergeant Masters
Middletown
Adam Souliard
Pennsylvania Railroad Police
Cumbler
Chalmers
Mr. Nelley
H. P. Longwaker
Joseph Trombine
Battlefronts flare across Galicia in wide eastern clash
A great battle develops along a hundred mile front in Galicia as Austro German forces push south from Central Poland. Russians and Germans claim gains and losses across Bukowina Warsaw front and Alsace as fighting intensifies with unclear outcomes.
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Hungary
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Bzura
Soissons
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Upper Alsace
Craonne
French War Office
Grand
Associated Press
London
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Egypt
Caucasus
New Cumberland Hotel Gets License
Special from Carlisle Pa reports Edward Sheesley awarded a hotel license for New Cumberland after a remonstrance of 500 residents claiming no necessity. Cumberland county court overruled that objection and granted the license.
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Cumberland
Edward Sheesley
New Cumberland
Chicken stealing convict sentenced in Cumberland County
Cariisie Pa January 28. Lewis Red Sultzaberger was brought for sentence after being convicted of stealing chickens at Mechanicsburg. He received costs and one year in the Eastern Penitentiary. The court ordered that future chicken theft convictions in Cumberland County be sent to the penitentiary.
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