01 Dec 1913
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1913
Page
1
A damaged OCR fragment mentions Manager and Editor J Smith with a note about a $9.00 charge or deduction. Limited readable details provide no clear event or full context. Further text needed for a proper summary.
A jumble of local social notes lists visitors and residents from Punxsutawney Uniontown Pittsburgh Blairsville Irwin and Ambridge with names including Graffius Watson Elkin and Campbell. Also contains a humorous poem about Adam Eve and the devil plus a short historical quip on Daniel Webster’s proposal.
Washington leads with a swift session start as the sixty third congress opens under a long currency reform and antitrust agenda. President Wilson plans to read his annual message tomorrow. Debates over Hetch Hetchy water rights and Alaska railroads begin, with bills on rural banks and independence for the Philippines eyed for early action. George Mercer, a Sharon bank clerk aged twenty six, dies by suicide.
Washington December 1 A revised Owens currency bill endorsed by the Senate Democratic caucus was submitted in the Senate after a Sunday session. The plan, supported by six committee members, would require expenses of regional reserve associations be met, 6 percent dividends paid, and a 40 percent surplus of capital stock. Surplus profits would fund a government franchise tax and a deposit guarantee fund tied to member banks. Seven directors would head the Federal Reserve Board, with a motion to add the controller of the currency as ex officio.
In Pittsburg on December 14 attorney George A. Gumble of Logansport Ind announced the discovery of Mrs Eugene Griffin as the rightful heir to the 200000 dollar Crawford fortune left by her late father Isaac N Crawford. Wayne Ind December 1 Valentine Weisenberger will have his amputated right leg buried with his body as he directed many years ago.
Twenty nine year city solicitor office conveyancer was found dead in a municipal law department record room. No motive or note. Wife and friends could not explain the act.
Marion Ohio December 1 two men Sherman Miller forty of Green Camp and William Burns forty five of Niles were sitting on Erie railroad tracks two miles west of town when struck by an electric railway speeder Burns lost his right leg below the knee and Miller's left leg was badly crushed
Indiana Pa resident D R Pringle testifies to relief from kidney backache after using Dean's Kidney Pills from Hildebrand's Drug Store. He says two boxes removed the trouble and he now recommends the product. Doan's Kidney Pills priced 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents.
A New York physician says doctors would be bankrupt without women’s thin stockings and shoes. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is advertised as effective for coughs in children and adults. Women are urged to abandon cosmetics for a native remedy approach. The Magic Vacuum Massager is pitched by Keystone Supply Co., 418 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Typewriter Sales Company advertises slightly used and rebuilt typewriters at the lowest prices with satisfaction assured. Agents wanted. Ferguson Building, Pittsburgh, Penna.
Ira Smith of Point Blank Texas reports complete cure after using four 25 a box of Chamberlains Tablets and recommends them to all dealers. The piece then shifts to a humorous aside about dressmakers and fashion fit comments, with quotation snippets from unidentified voices and a note that the text is from Lippincott's.
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