Good Roads Day Proclaimed by Governor Brumbaugh for Pennsylvania
Governor Brumbaugh designates May 25 1916 as State Wide Good Roads Day urging citizens to devote the day to highway improvements or contribute money or materials to local authorities. Proclamation notes 1915 participation with 78000 workers and 11000 teams, calls for county and township support, and urges motorists to aid safety and travel on roads statewide.
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Brumbaugh
Martin G. Brumbaugh
Department of Highways
Pennsylvania
Not Even as a Brother
Clarice rejects Percival's plea to be loved as a brother but then changes her mind and asks him to forge her, a dramatic turn in a Detroit Free Press excerpt featuring Wiegan and a sharp rebuke from Clarice.
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Percival
Little Wiegan
Wiegand
Clarice
Detroit Free Press
VIAN Gleanings Sunday Attendance and Local Moves
Fishburns Sunday School attendance reached eighty. Mr and Mrs Samuel Lelsey of Annville visited George Koons who moved into the Moyer home. Mr and Mrs Ray Gruber of Hummels town visited relatives, Mr and Mrs Benjamin Longeneeker of Campbelltown visited his brother John. John Flumer and family moved from A J Shenk farm to William Peters firm near Hummelstown, Mr Horner of Hummelstown occupied the vacated place. During rainy weather last week Paul Ulrich killed seventeen muakrats.
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Fishburn
Samuel Lelsey
Annville
George Koons
Moyer
Ray Gruber
Hummeltown
Benjamin Longeneeker
Campbelltown
John
John Flumer
A. J. Shenk
Wm. Peter
Hummelstown
Mr. Horner
Paul Ulrich
An Excellent Start in Princeton Freshmen League
An Excellent Start notes Richard Polyom Cleveland son of Grover Cleveland making an impressive freshman debut at Princeton. The New York Sun quotes optimism about his early performance and potential.
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Richard Polyom Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Koon
Princeton
New York Sun
Marriage Is a Lottery Says Cynic and Mike Cayenna
A Washington Star quote frames marriage as a lottery with a sardonic remark about tearing up the ticket and forgetting it. The exchange contrasts cynicism and a response from Mike Cayenna on love and fate.
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Mike Cayenna
Washington Star
Gasoline Shortage Sparks Talk of Efficiency and Innovation
An authority cites potential relief from gasoline shortages via alcohol benzol and other fluids while urging carmakers to improve carburetors. He notes efficiency gains, road improvements, and the self starter as key factors, predicting smaller, more efficient engines and greater mileage as fuel costs rise.
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United States
Facts of the Progress of the World in Small Doses
A collection of curious notes on world trivia. Topics include life spans, Damascus as an ancient city, women patrolling English camps, Guinea pigs, newborn kangaroos, birds’ seed consumption, eiderdown as insulation, murder statistics in Austria, chalk origin, a blue rose attempt, pencil production, ships with on board chapels, wood use in papermaking, calf meat export flavor, Thai or Greek shipping novelties, vodka bans, and global population standpoints.
Safety drive urged for Pennsylvania industries
A Capitol conference on workplace safety backed safety organizations in every plant and stronger employer employee cooperation. Governor Brumbaugh warned of up to 1000 daily accidents and urged a 25 percent reduction while praising workmen compensation. Leaders from labor and industry debated causes including overwork and carelessness as they endorsed vocational training and English for aliens.
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Pennsylvania
Capitol
Brumbaugh
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
W. H. Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Macaroni Balls For A Change In Diet
An old recipe suggests making macaroni balls as a novel addition to meals. Boil milk with butter and flour, add grated cheese, then fold in beaten egg yolks. Stir in macaroni, chill, form into one inch balls, coat with egg and cracker crumbs, then fry in hot oil and serve hot.
Cheese straws recipe for Lenten snacks
A compact recipe for cheese straws describes mixing one cup flour with one cup parmesan or gruyere, salt, and cayenne, binding with an egg yolk and melted butter, rolling into strips, and baking on buttered waxed paper until browned.
Grandson reports cow death as God calls livestock home
Four year old George rushes in shouting Grandpal Mgr Barton's cow is dead, God called her home, reported in the Holton signal.
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George
Mgr
Barton
Worth Seeing, Anywhere Here
A clipped sports item mentions Mabel running a quarter mile with puzzled observers and references to a phonograph purchase, in a terse local column tone. The fragment hints at race results and casual chatter about names and events surrounding Chaparral and Sound Red Tye.
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Mabel
Chewers Decline to Become Excited Over Annual Ligaventiment
A paraphrased note from Toursvilla Courier-Journal reports public indifference to a large chewing event described as the nation’s most expensive luxury. The piece cites a New York Herald framing Congressmen as a standing army generating wind.
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Toursvilla Courier-Journal
Have New Organist Now
A Philadelphia Record account recounts a church organist frustrated by a pensioner who continually played after tunes ended. The organist wrote a message for the choir boy to deliver to the preacher warning to stop at instruction, but the note was misdelivered and read aloud, shocking the congregation.
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Philadelphia Record
The Pig
A speaker meets a mottled pig in moonlight and asks if the animal can see the wind and celestial seas. The pig shows indifference, offering no insight as the speaker wanders under a night sky. The poem ends with the pig’s nonchalant response to cosmic questions.
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Damascus
Syria
England
Guinea
Austria
National Steam Navigation Company
Greece
New Zealand
China
Colorado
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Heaven
Havana
J. W. Brenneman
Millersville, Pa
Amn
The
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Ralph M. Maulfair
Agt
Hershey, PA
Hershey Products
Hershey
America
Blue Mountains
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