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Newspaper

Harrisburg Telegraph

Location

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1916

Page

7

Construction Boom Posts Record Spending in 1916

The Dodge Company reports that for January through June 1916 building and engineering outlays in Eastern Seaboard and mid-Atlantic states reached 68.5 million dollars, far above 1912 and well ahead of 1915 and earlier years. The broader region study shows 1916 totals near 456 million across multiple states and districts, with 1915 and prior years trailing. In Harrisburg a property at 426 South Seventeenth Street changed hands, while plans for annexation and tax delinquency sales, including 3158 acres, shape local real estate activity.

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West End tracts eyed for large development by Harrisburg firms

A major West End expansion starts with the sale of two tracts near Second and Seneca streets handled by Backenstoss Bros. Hummel and MacNaughton-Fairlamb parcels will become building lots as paving advances. H. J. Fornwalt plans three new houses on the Hummel tract. similar growth expected on the MacNaughton-Fairlamb site.

Second and Seneca Streets Backenstoss Bros. Real Estate Second H. J. Fornwalt MacNaughton-Fairlamb Second Street

Central Pennsylvania News Items Of Interest Summary

A garbled central Pennsylvania column reports a series of injuries and incidents. Fatler injured in a motorcycle crash. Keystone furnace at Reading Iron Co started after an idle period. Noviteky electrocuted at Lytle colliery. postmaster Kester resigns. dynamite explosion destroys three buildings at Nockdale powder works. Helen Lesko sentenced to reformitory for highway robberies. Waynesboro store damage and family connections noted. a worker injured at a plant. a jail chaplain reference ends the fragmentary note.

Carnate William A. Fatler Reading Keystone Reading Iron Company Potteville Joseph Noviteky Lytle J. Albert Kester Nockdale Votteville Helen Lesko

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