Pennsylvania fruit package law misleads over weights
The article explains there is no separate fruit package law in Pennsylvania but all packaged commodities must display quantity on the outside. It notes a bushel of peaches weighs forty eight pounds and baskets must show exact contents. selling short weights risks penalties. It also states potatoes require sixty pounds per bushel and contracts cannot label less as a full bushel.
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Pennsylvania
Sweeney
Bueau of Weights and Measures
Department of Internal Affairs
Foolish Willie and a Ridiculous Dream
A playful tale contrasts a boy named Willie hoarding marbles with a flirtatious heiress. He muses on greed and wants more than he can use, while a dream sequence reveals a bold proposal aboard a ship. The exchange turns witty as they joke about propriety and romance.
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Willie
Beyond His Training Powers In The Reform School
A dialogue centers on Timmson the trainer and his son being sent to reform school. A bold newcomer offers his singing, but the manager rebuffs, saying the actor cannot sing and the effort was a waste of time.
All the Bluffs Were Called and the Paths Downward
A dialog-filled fragment recalls visitors questioning law and place. Nevada Ned rebukes a stranger about lids and crowds, claiming in this town one can go far as in Philadelphia or Chicago, with reminiscences of St. Louis and London.
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Lawless
Nevada Ned
Philadelphy
How He Got It
A humorous remark questions how a person earned the title colonel asking if he lived in Kentucky or served on a governor’s staff. The reply says he spent three months as ring master in a circus.
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Kentucky
Marriage Engagement Of Ethel Strong And Merle White
Mr and Mrs Harvey Strong of near Indiana announce the engagement of their daughter Ethel to Merle White of Indiana. The couple are well known and have many friends. The date is not known but an early fall wedding is expected.
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Harvey Strong
Indiana
Ethel
Merle White
Jurors Drawn for September Sessions County Court
List of jurors drawn for week beginning September and second and fourth Mondays. Names include Armstrong Kerr Blairsville Burrell Canoe Center Cherryhill Conemaugh Glen Campbell Green Indiana Mahoning North South West Wheatfield White and others with multiple jurors per township. Drawings cover Armstrong, Banks, Blacklick, Blairsville, Brushvalley, Buffington, Burrell, Canoe, Center, Cherryhill, Clymer, Conemaugh, Glen Campbell, Green, Homer City, Indiana, Mahoning, Marion Center, Mechanicsburg, Montgomery, Pine, Plumville, Rayne, Wheatfield East West and White districts.
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Grand Duvors
Lawn
Armstrong
C. W. Kerr
Hlairsville
William Foetzguson
Burrell
Lewis Warald
Center
H. W. Johnston
Cherryhill
H. M. Amond
John Burkett
Cherry Tree
J. W. Smith
Conemaugh
South
Bellystone
JJ. A. McCreight
Mahoning
West
Robért Nin
Pine
Ivy Roser
Rayne—Ward Bishop
Saltsburg
C. Davis
J. B. Per- Buson
Wheatfield
East
T. L. Baird
Frank Kern
James H. Hysong
Elmer Robinson
White
J. N. Cumming
W. G. Johnston
Pett
N. A. Silvis
Blacklick
S. B. Davis
Blairsville
Lawrence George
J. IB. Snyder
P. A. Thompson
Lewis Sowers
Canoe
J. N. Baun
David Stratton
W. H. Adams
J. W. Davis
Clymer
Morrow Conemaugh
Harry B. Fairley
T. Is. Miller
Perry Lewis
W. C. McFeaters
North
William Blose
John C. Carr
Harry Dorn
A. H. Mahon
Montgomery
A. L. Barber
George
Hazlett
K. Bank
A. J. Wetmore
J. G. Wissinger
Thos. Gamble, White
James Borland
Armaagh
Harl Biddleman
Frank Lowry
Banks
S. H. Horton
Harvey Niel
John T. Cribbs
R. C. Bratton
H. C. Ferguson
Tyson Fetterman
I. N. Hicks
N. H. Jackson
George Fetterman
Paul Nesbit
Brushyalley
Robert G. Cummins
Albert Jamison
Buffington
Harry Woodring
W. H.robinson
Charles Stairs
J. Miller
A. J. Cummins
W. C. Berkepile
Clair Chapman
H. Gibson
Clifford Hoover
T. H. Coleman
W. GL. Nesbit
William Patterson
Glen
Waler Neal
L. N. Powell
fFred Mdilts
G. L. Edwards
Frank Hamilton
S. W.hazlett
Marion Center
Frank Braughter
Mechanicsburg
W. D. Overdorff
William Sides
B. 5S
Strong
Ernest, Fletcher
Washington
Robert Root
Murray Stewart
M. M. Dick
Clyde Douglass
Miller McCullough
Harry Mogle
Frank Clawson
Herbert M. Brown
R. B. Getty
Thomas Anderson
A. P. Calhoun
Julius Rungle
D. A. Griffith
J. D. Spich
E. D.compton
J. W. Baker
HM. M. Bergman
A. T. Bree
H. A. Gout
H. J. Hart
Brushvalley
Albert Henry
A.p.mcnutt
Q. Overdorff
Albert M. Mack
W. Ke.stewart
H. D. King
E. W. Gaston
J. W. Runyan
Robert Burnett
J. N.arnold
Glen Campbell
Joseph France
Grant
George Beer
John Hollis
Green
H. ©. Fisher
Homer City
John M. Carson
Indiana
A. C. Clawson
Frank Lichteberger
H. H. Longwill
Oliver . McHenry
B. S. Rankin
Samuel Heltzen
S. . Lockard
A. G. Kelly
George Td. Allen
J. C. Wright, Jr
John Ewing
L. Orner
Plumville
J. N. Cochran
J. RR. Stewart
Rayne
S. M. Black
Anderson Byers
J. A. Condron
Wheatfield, ast—Lawrence Wi. Butt, David Harvey, 8. W. Hess. Wheatfield, West
W. Beal
Young
Ww. A. Anderson
Warn Farmers Not to Plant Wheat Before September 26
State agricultural department warns farmers in the region not to sow wheat until September 26 to prevent Hessian fly damage. Also notes visits by Mr and Mrs Malcolm Mahattay of town to relatives in Clearfield and Fred Gessler visiting his father William Cengier in town.
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State Agricultural Department I
Malcolm Mahattay
Town
Clearfield
Fred Gessler
West
William Cengier
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