Real estate graft exposed in Harrisburg fraud scheme
The Harrisburg Star Independent reports a scheme by a group of speculators to inflate property values through a chain of fictitious sales. Deeds showed inflated values, misleading investors into paying far more than the original purchase price. The scheme lacked legal recourse, prompting calls for public exposure. Also noted are earnings from the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1915 with daily gross income around 1.1 million and record operating profit of 88.3 million, boosting dividends and stock value.
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Harrisburg
Harrisburg Star-Independent
County Recorder’s
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Campbelltown Band Plans Oyster Supper and Ice Cream Festival
The Campbelltown Boys Cornet Band, newly organized by Ray Arnold, prepares an oyster supper and ice cream festival on Saturday February 12 to raise funds for new instruments. Committee members include Harvey Linenweaver Ray Arnold Harry Wolfersberger and Misses Jes tina Dissinger Rebecca Wolfersberger Charlotte Fertig.
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Campbelltown
Boys’ Cornet Band
Campbellstown
Ray Arnold
Hershey Band
Harvey Linenweaver
Harry Wolfersberger
Massachusetts Poultry Club Reports Strong Season Results
Complete reports from 880 poultry club members in Massachusetts show the season totals: 5,857 hens entered, 817,280 eggs secured, an average of 53 eggs per hen, receipts $7,700.48, costs $6,057.66, and net profit $1,642.82. Average net profit per member is $0.61 and net profit per hen 0.11 dollars.
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Poultry Club
Massachusetts
New Speedway Bids Open in Middletown Preparations
Plans to grade and sewer a 35 acre plot for a new automobile speedway and fay building were opened Thursday afternoon. The project aims for construction as soon as possible with local reports noting cautious progress and a nearby incident involving a cow and a protective water shield during an accident.
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Keystone State Wade and
Tadustelat Exposition
Conny New
Golden Wedding Anniversary At Camp Hill
Dr and Mrs Silas C Swallow observed their fiftieth wedding anniversary at their Camp Hill home on Sunday. Dr Swallow is a retired Methodist minister and longtime leader in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. He was a former Prohibition candidate for president.
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Silas C. Swallow
Camp Hill
Siwallow
Central Pennsylvania
Twins celebrate seventy five years apart in birth dates
Louise Barron and Henry Brinker marked their seventy fifth birthday anniversary with a family gathering. Though twins, they were born in different years months and days with Brinker born minutes before midnight on Saturday December 31, 1840 and Barron shortly after 12 welock on Sunday January 1, 1841.
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Louise Barron
Henry Brinker
Mr. Brinker
Barron
Welock
Kennedy Dies After Public Profession at Mount Morris Revival
J. A. Kennedy aged 60 collapsed while feeding sheep near his home in Monant Morris shortly after declaring his religious conversion at a Methodist Episcopal revival. The wealthy retired stock raiser was found dead by his wife at breakfast.
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Monant Morris
Convalescent’s Downtown Tale of Grip Times
Walt Mason recalls a convalescent man who, after recovery, goes downtown to share his grip story with friends. He describes severe lung and windpipe symptoms while doctors and nurses closely tended him for six weeks.
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Chirurgeon
Walt Mason
Harrisburg Odd Fellow Charles A Wilhelm Celebrates Eightieth
Well known Harrisburg resident Charles A Wilhelm famed Odd Fellow marks his eightieth birthday. He has been a member of the order for fifty years and is regarded as one of the best known figures in his region.
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Charles A. Wilhelm
Harrisburg
Order
Eightieth Birthday For Milton Man John A. Grant
Eighty years old Milton resident John A. Grant celebrated his eightieth birthday. He retired last year from the American Car and Foundry Company after nearly fifty years of continuous service.
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John A. Grant
Milton
American Car and Foundry Company
Weimer Seeks renomination in Lebanon county business circle
A. A. Weimer of Lebanon, a leading Lebanon county businessman heading manufacturing and power concerns, is a candidate for renomination. Friends urge him to run for something higher and his name has been mentioned for Congressman at large.
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A. A. Weimer
Lebanon
Lebanon County
R.J. Williamson
Huntingdon County
Department of Labor and Industry
Congress
J. ‘Tieht
Franklin
B. K. Focht
Union County
Glee Club Plans State Tour From Lebanon Valley College
Lebanon Valley College Glee Club prepares a statewide tour visiting Palmyra Hershey Lebanon Harrisburg Middletown Steelton Masonic Home at Elizabethtown Mt Joy Lancaster Mountville and Manheim. The group will travel through the Cumberland Valley and north through the mining region to Sunbury and Shamokin.
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Lebanon Valley College Glee Club
Palmyra
Hershey Lebanon
Harrisburg
Middletown
Steelton
Masonic
Elizabethtown
Mt. Joy
Lancaster
Mountville
Manheim
Cumberland Valley
Sunbury
Shamokin
Thieves Take Jewelry Worth 200 From Omar Hummel Home
Thieves entered the Hummel residence in Hummels town through a rear cellar window while the family was away. On the second floor they stole three gold watches four stickpins several rings and other trinkets worth about 200. Omar Hummel works at Deutrich's clothing store in Harrisburg.
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Omar Hummel
Hummelstown
Hummel
Deutrich
Harrisburg
Cow Drives Off Bear in Susquehanna Lowlands
R M Quinn of Sunbury reports a cow in a cornfield along the Susquehanna chased a black bear that approached a pumpkin. The bear backed away after being gore with a paw, then fled.
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Susquehanna River
R. M. Quinn
Sunbury
Quinn
Anti-Saloon League Rally Highlights Dry Drive Across Pennsylvania
In Awerrisburg on Sunday Anti-Saloon League speakers led by Dr. ET Moore of Philadelphia urged a statewide drive to back the coming primary battles. Moore warned the liquor fight is a life and death struggle between church backed dry forces and organized liquor interests, noting 19 states dry and battles in six more this year. He praised local option but called it only a partial remedy and criticized Pennsylvania as a “heathen” state with little liquor law change and strong political boss ties to liquor interests.
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Awerrisburg
League
ET. Moore
Philadelphia
Moore
Pennsylvania
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Hershey Trust Company
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