Proposed Laws Have Variety In Pennsylvania
A pension bill would create a state pension commissioner with a $3000 salary and pay emergency Civil War veterans $8 monthly. A boxing and prize fighting act would license events and take 5 percent of gross receipts for the treasury, with a ten round limit and eight ounce gloves. A railroad liability bill would seek to make railroads liable for fire losses on land or rights of way. An incident with Lyman Howe’s Navy life film crew at a shooting site is described, noting a gun carriage accident and hospital recovery. Seat sales for February 10 at the Auditorium are announced.
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Warrigburg
Senate
Martin
Gumberland County
State Treasury
Perry
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Weill
Hilton
McKean
Guna
Lyman H. Howe
Josephus Daniels
Natee County
Florida
State Legislature Debates Liquor, County Split, and Suffrage
The Pennsylvania legislature discusses a ban on liquor to unlicensed distributors, a proposed Penrose County from La Zeme and Schuylkill, and a statewide equal suffrage amendment. Bills also cover janitor pensions for schools and funding for foot and mouth disease eradication, with Adams steering the county bill.
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Antc Railroad
Ethan
Senate
Martin
Cumberland
Sensenleh
Lower la Zeme
Upper
Schuylkill
Adams
Hazleton
Penrose
Cramer
Alegheny
Crowmer
Nless
Lancaster
Fan
Pennsylvania
Lyman Howe Coming to Our Show Next Wednesday
The Always Good Picture Show announces Lyman Howe presenting a feature next Wednesday. The article notes the battleship scene with a 12 inch turret and a crew of twelve men, highlighting one man whose presence serves an entirely different purpose.
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Iso
Zeppelin Destroyed Over Libau by Russian Defenders
Russian defenders of Libau claim they destroyed a German Zeppelin after it dropped nine bombs on the undefended Baltic port. The airship reportedly fell into the water and its crew were captured by small craft. Libau is a major Baltic Sea port with about 75,000 residents and strong fortifications.
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Libau
Petrograd
Russia
Baltic Sea
Germans Fast Getting Fewer and Wasting Away
An official French bulletin reports German army losses through December. It states 2,000,000 men lost, with about half a million wounded men returning, yielding net losses of 1,500,000 or roughly 300,000 per month.
Man Ends Life in McKeesport Police Station
John Knudson aged sixty a well known nation merchant of McKeesport Pennsylvania apparently despondent over arrest and incarceration hanged himself to a bunk in his cell at the local police station.
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Ceil
John Knudson
McKeesport
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Pro Tem
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Senator Kline
Indiana County
Pitts‘church
Sand
Lyman Howe
House of Representatives
William H. Wilson
House
Pennsylvania State Water Supply Commission
Samuel
Samuel L. Measie
Ambridge
Christy & Co
Manatee County
Manatee County Improvement CO
Union Bank
Pittsburgh
Rossmoyne Flouring Mill
T. H. Frantz
Delbert G. Frantz
R. W. Wehrle & Co. Jewelers & Opticians
Indiana
J. M. Stewart & Co
Emery
Dick”’ Thompson Cor. Phila
7Th Sts
Cunningham
Skinner
Red Fox
Misses’ & Children’s
Coats
George
Peryd
Clark
Phoenix
McCall’s
Baker Brown
Endicott
Hye
SLOAN
Court House
John Wesley
the Savings & Trust Company
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