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Wide Range of Short News From Across Pennsylvania
Reports describe vast coal dredging in the Susquehanna between Sunbury and Nanticoke nearly exhausted for the year, with fifty thousand tons removed last summer. Other items note James Heckel of Scranton shooting a goshawk that gripped a pheasant, a Swissdale hunter fined for shooting a rooster, and interest in journalism classes for Altoona night school staff. Bishop Bowman returns home, named bishop emeritus after years of work. A York party brought 101 pheasants, four rabbits, and a bear from Potter County. Hungry Bill wins pie-eating contests in Berks County, while C A Seltzer of Middletown whittles a walnut chain with a pen knife.
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Susquehanna River
Sunbury
Nanticoke
James Heckel
Scranton
Chas
Sorgen
Swissdale
Clinton County Court House
Altoona
Levi Zimmerman
Derry Church
Philadelphia
Zimmerman
Bindnagle’s
Thomas L. Bowman
Allentown
The
Evangelical Association
Los Angeles
Cal
York
Potter County
Carlton Hoff
Robrbaugh
H. B. Bichinger
Chas. Osborne
Berks County
C. A. Seltzer
Middletown