Dauphin County Farmers Rally For Full Farm Extension Funds
Dauphin county farmers criticize a House passed bill in the Senate that would cut agricultural extension funding to 200000 dollars. Farm Bureau leaders note Pennsylvania’s federal allotment was 370000 and warn Bonafide extension work would falter without full funding. The extension program has grown to 56 bureaus with many county agents and greatly aided local agriculture.
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Dauphin County
House
Senate
Pennsylvania
A. B. Shenk
Dauphin County Farm Bureau
Farm Bureau
Extension Department
Mr. Shenk
Man Ends Life Over Prosecution Fears in Carlisle
George C. Fromm, 35, of Carlisle, died after leaping before a Cumberland Valley express at Carlisle Junction. He had faced pending litigation and a warrant over a complaint by a woman. His brother H H Fromm operates a local garage. Also noted is the death of hotel proprietor George O Sheaffer, 60, a longtime Harrisburg figure who succumbed to pneumonia.
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Carlisle
George C. Fromm
Carlisle Juncion
Fromm
Carlisle Junction
H. H. Fromm
George O. Sheaffer
Swatara
Sheaffer
Harrisburg
Telegraph Outing at Paxtang Park Showcases Spelling Contest
The Harrisburg Telegraph reports on the annual Telegraph Picnic at Paxtang Park where a large crowd watched a spelling contest among 7th and 8th graders led by Prof. J. J. Brehm. Eliza Shupp and Ellen Feehrer are noted among prize winners as Governor Beidleman lauds intellectual aims with praise for students and volunteers from local schools and Boy Scouts.
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Harrisburg
J. J. Brehm
Beidleman
America
Brehm
Lincoln
Governor Sproul
Missouri
Ellen Feehrer
Melrose
K. Gamble
Miss M. Gamble
Miss Walter
Miss Fisher
Forney
Hamilton
Vernon
Maclay
Reily
Paxtang
Harris
Stevens
Allison
Wickersham
Willard
Verbeke
Miss Williams
Miss Marian
Harry Beck
V. Grant Forrer
Doc” Miller
Katherine Gamble
Cameron
Maude Gamble
Penn
Anna Walter
Lara M. Fisher
Susan Kurzenknabe
Betty Cornelius
Leah Klavans
Miriam Brown
Mr. Davis
Commonwealth
William H. German
German
Harrisburg Gas Company
Mulberry Street Bridge
Troop 18
Tarman
Schools in Need of More Room and Better Grounds
The report urges enlarging the W. S. Steele building at Fifth and Mahantongo to relieve crowding. It notes central buildings Reily Verbeke Boas and Willard are old and unsanitary, recommends abandoning them and selling to fund new facilities.
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Derry Street
Seneca Street
Third Street
Riverside
Downes
School board rents Fager building for police HQ
The School Board decided yesterday to grant the city the Fager building for police headquarters at a rental of 2500 dollars per year, contingent on the city covering costs to convert the Fifth and Walnut streets property into a continuation school. A board committee will report to Council on Tuesday.
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Fager
Fifth and
Walnut Streets
Socialists Urge Germans Sign Peace Treaty
Berlin dispatch notes Independent Socialists issue proclamation urging the German government to sign the Peace Treaty in its present form. The message warns of serious consequences if the government refuses to sign.
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Paris
The
Temps
Berlin
Former New York Police Chief Devery Dies at Home
William H. Devery formerly head of the New York Police Department died at his Far Rockaway home during a thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon.
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New York
William 8. Devery
Far Rockaway
Marshall Talks to Masons at Reading Reunion
Vice President Thomas R. Marshall addressed over 2,000 Scottish Rite Masons and their wives at the Reading Consistory reunion in Reading Pennsylvania. He spoke on prohibition woman suffrage League of Nations Bolshevism and legal abuses and urged adherence to core principles inspired by Washington Jefferson and Lincoln. Congressman A G Dewalt followed as a second speaker.
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Associated Presa
Reading
Thomas R. Marshall
Marshall
Valley Forge
League of Nations
Washington
Jefferson
Lincoln
America
A. G. Dewalt
Italian Consul Appeals to Governor Over Perretta Execution
On behalf of the Italian government, the New York consul general asked Governor Holcomb to commute the death sentence of Joseph and Erasmo Perretta of New Britain who are due to be hanged next Friday for murder.
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Associated Press
Hartford
Conn
New York
Holcomb
Perretta Brothers
Joseph and
Erasmo
New Britain
Girl Takes Murder Blame to Shield Father in Kane Affair
Margaret Decello confessed that her father James Decello shot and killed Tony Grecco on New Year's night at the Decello home in Kane Pennsylvania. The 16 year old initially admitted killing Grecco while defending herself from an attempted assault.
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Kane, Pa
James Decello
Margaret Decello
Tony Grecco
Decello
Grecco
Bernstorff to Sign Peace Treaty Rumor
Paris report cites Army Intelligence Bureau in Coblenz saying Count Von Bernstorff, former German ambassador to the United States, named minister of foreign affairs and will travel to Versailles to sign the peace treaty.
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Associated Press
Paris
Army Intelligence Bureau
Coblenz
Count von Bernstorff
United States
Versailles
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