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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1913
Page
8
A long humorous tale follows Lucinda Carter born with an unusual nose. She endures lawsuits, injuries, and public astonishment as she navigates fame from exhibitions to courts, including a green gold sign incident and multiple nose reconstructions. The item closes with a Pennsylvania constitutional amendment proposal to authorize up to fifty million in bonds for highway improvements.
A joint resolution proposes amending the Pennsylvania Constitution to permit special labor regulation. The text outlines numerous areas restricted from local or special laws, including elections, taxation, marriages, roads, cemeteries, and labor, with a focus on striking and clarifying provisions related to special or local statutes. The draft reflects a broad revision of what constitutes permissible legislation by the General Assembly.
The document outlines proposed changes to county lines, charter revisions for cities and townships, voting places, school districts, and district boundaries. It references regulating elections, judicial procedures, taxation, labor, and corporate privileges, ending with a note from Secretary Robert McAfee authenticating Joint Resolution No. 2.
A true copy of Concurrent Resolution No. 3 proposes amending section three of article eight of the Pennsylvania Constitution. It redefines election timing for judges and officers, moves terms to odd-numbered years, and preserves current judges whose terms end in odd years until the first Monday of January in the next even year.
The document presents Joint Resolution Number Four proposing an amendment to Article Nine Section One of the Pennsylvania Constitution. It aims to allow classification and progressive taxation while exempting public property used for public purposes religious worship burial places not for private profit and purely public charitable institutions. The text includes official authentication by Secretary of the Commonwealth Robert McAree.
A draft amendment proposes that waterworks, subways, railways and appurtenances be treated as municipal debt to fund construction. It outlines securing obligations against the properties, allows counties to issue debt for interest and sinking fund charges for up to one year after operation begins, and permits indebtedness up to ten percent of assessed property value with a three-fifths voter approval.
The Indiana county fragment shows Hast Wheafield school board scheduling a meeting on a Saturday to hire two teachers, while Eva Mae Hough seeks divorce from Charles W. Hough. Other items include bids for boilers, private sale petitions, guardianship actions, auditor notices, and various legal-administrative notices across Saltsburg, Jacksonville, and nearby towns.
Notice that an application will be made by Guardians of an estate in Indiana county to sell at private sale land in South Mahoning Township containing about 50 acres. The sale aims to settle interests of heirs and claimants with Cunningham & Pfister as solicitors for the guardian. The hearing is set for Monday August 18, 1914 at 11 O clock.
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