Keystone Pension List and Untidy Union Town Rescue
A mixed week in the Keystone area reports pensions granted to multiple individuals including George W. Graham Morris and others with small sums listed. A sensational Union Town incident features a society woman and sheriff seizing two infant twins from Mrs Mary Craig amid habeas corpus petitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Graham
Morris
Martin Stoneking
New Geneva
Robert Connor
Knoxville
Carrie Craver
Pitsburg
Margaret W. Gordon
Waynesburg
Mary
Vanderpool
Towards
Charles Qattons
Johnstown
Michael Connor
Butler
Abram Vantips
Pittsfield
Frederick Wenne
Pot
Uniontown
Lida Nichols Witzgerald
Fitzgerald
Business Men's Association of Rochester
Fort Wayne
North
Rochester
H. C. Pry
Stewart
Itirst
Mount Gretna
Ag Goon
Wiley
New Reformed Church
White Oak
Somerset County
Ann, Trexal
Moyersdale
Latrobe
W. W. Keenan
Pennsylvania Railroad
Thomas Brennen
William Maloy
Mike Dedero
Cambra County
Barker
Juty
Huston Station
Cornellsville
Edward Baldwin
John Mc Peek
Irwin ‘Mhursiay
Wilson
Kr. 8
Taylor
Wieless
Sharon Steel Works
Peters Paper Company
I. Z. Roller
Niles
W. EL. Newlington
Joseph Houston
Green Township
Indiana County
Connelly
Branchdale
Dive
Laas
Corrs
Ihe County
Hota
Gamprinus Brewin Company
New Kensington
Ridgeview Park
Sumer
Derry
Cole
B. Dick
Bemustown
Meadville
John Brown
McKeesport
Pusworth
Neatleyville
Alfred PH. Hur Hess
Distribution Improves as Wheat Crop Prospects Rise
A weekly trade review notes improving distribution in dry goods and boots and shoes, with retail activity up east and west. Labor conditions mend and pig iron output hits a new May high, while furnaces shrink. Weather aids dry goods, footwear shipments from Royston stay strong, but leather markets vary. Wheat prices ease after government crop prospects improve and speculative support wanes. Atlantic exports drop. weekly flour shipments total 45,000 bushels versus prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kh. G. Dun & Co
Agricultural Bureau
Wall River
Royston
Jane 1
Department
Elf
Atlantic
Potatoes Pioneered by Adjutant General Corbin in New Mexico
Adjutant General Henry OC Corbin, later major general, planted irrigation fed potatoes in New Mexico over twenty years ago. Skeptics doubted potatoes would grow here, but two bushels were sent and planted with eyes, yielding a crop that fed officers and men and sparked the Southwest potato industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adj
Get. Corbin
New Mexico
Henry OC. Corbi
AL ‘Chet
Corbin
Sweden Seeks New National Anthem in Competitions
A Swedish committee invites song writers to submit works for a new national anthem claiming the current one is antiquated and fails to move modern Scandinavians. Selected pieces will be performed in major towns and the winning composition may be adopted as the national anthem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Novel Honolulu Lighting
Honolulu shows rapid electrification with street and interior lighting, electric bells and fans, and electrically driven vehicles. Private homes feature interior and exterior lighting with globe lamps set in masonry walls, casting light on porches and grounds for outdoor visibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tionolulu
Plague of the Prickly Pear in Australia
An early report describes the prickly pear as a major land settlement obstacle in Australia. The pest outcompetes native herbage, survives droughts, and expands rapidly, with fruit seeds spreading widely. It is likened to the rabbit in its impact and is a national concern in Queensland for extermination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Queensland
Collecting British Coins to Continue From the Mint
Collectors of British coins bearing Queen Victoria’s portrait will likely obtain coins from the mint if not already hoarded. They expect greater value in future years as hoarding is a form of investment. The Royal portrait will shift to King Edward VII, but designs and dies must be prepared, delaying immediate change. Queen Victoria’s long reign influenced the early coinage era before new issues appeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Victoria
Talwant VII
Victoria
Teeland Produces Coal From New Cont Bed
A Copenhagen correspondent reports a firm in Utelty displaying the first samples of coal from the large Teelandic coal bed at Nordfford. The seam is deemed equal in quality to Northumbrian coal and samples are being sent to the Daniel Royal Agricultural Society, Stockholm, and Christiania for examination. The bed is expected to be valuable for local use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Copenhingen
Utelty
Nordfford
Daniel Royal Agricultural Society
Stockholm
Christiana
Unclear ad copy on early patent remedies and hunting law
Fragmented OCR reads as a patent medicine pitch for foot powders and headache cures. Mentions Allen's Foot-Ease styled product, druggists, and a claim of tax payments, with a stray note about New Hampshire game laws allowing more than fifteen partridges per day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Hampshire
Moalie Monday and the Scottish University Ethos
The piece recalls Moalie Monday as a midyear holiday at Scottish universities to allow poor students to return home and replenish their larder. It cites stories from Edinburgh and Chambers about student hardship, shared poor meals, and sacrifices by families to fund education, including a father selling cows to send a son to St Andrew's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scoland
St. Andrew's
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Keystone State
Pitisburg
Aslebsia
S . Baeee
Baltimore
Taos
Philadhelpitla
Frourn
Tanseva
Pennsylvania
New York
Resen
Purrax
Draggista
Pyramids of
Cheops
Massachusetts
The
Union
Kline
R.A. Kure, Ltd
Phila
Dimvegan
Macleods
Scotland
N. W
Ocean Grove
N.J
K. Coburn
Mgr
Clarre ‘Scott
Honolulu
Lion Coffee
Woolson Spice CO
Toledo
Teoland
Alien
Allen
Pont Fred
Alien 6
Olmsted
Loloy
N. C
Suugiuk
Nature
Atchison Vdahe
Eo Rai
Newell
Pllee
Jones St
Sioux City
Howell
Popenc
Atonielis
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