TWELVE REASONS Why Pennsylvania State Grange Opposes Bond Issue
A detailed Argue for defeating a $50 million road bond proposal. Points cover budget, tax plans, past public works debt, governance, and efficiency of the Highway Department. Also discusses corporate taxes, local road funding, and compares states New York and Ohio. Ends with broader civic note on oyster foods and agricultural opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Grange
State Grange
Tax Commission
Young and Sisson
Highway Department
Bigelow
Auditor General
New York
Ohio
Harrisburg
the Grange
No-License League Targets Lancaster Hotels and More
A Lancaster county campaign seeks to remove all hotel licenses amid broad local news items. The sheriff will auction Richard P. McGranh’s farms for a 95000 debt in November. A Christmas anecdote recalls a Colerainer’s lifelong Christmas. Water levels on the Susquehanna drop sharply. A quarries blast kills a Slav worker, blowing him apart. Lancaster boasts the nation’s largest umbrella factory linoleum plant silk mill, and is linked to Hamilton watches and tobacco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster County
Richard P. McGranh
Colerainer
Pennsylvania Water and Power Company
Mingua
MecCall’s Ferry
Billmyer
Bainbridge
Lancaster
United States
Hamilton Watch
Nagle serves fifty-first term as treasurer of Earl Lodge
Henry Nagle has been reelected treasurer of Earl Lodge No. 413 I C O F New Holland for the fifty-first consecutive term after fifty years in office. He joined in May 1852 and attends every meeting at age eighty three. Beatrice Wertz, 11, of Washington borough, fell into an unused well while playing. Her uncle was nearby and she survived but with a broken right leg and multiple injuries including bruises, cuts, a hip laceration, head lump, and internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Nagle
Earl Lodge
New Holland
Beatrice Wertz
J. H. Wertz
Washington Borough
Manheim Man Afflicted by Twenty Fifth Carbuncle
Charles Rickert of Manheim is afflicted with his twenty fifth carbuncle, with current infection in the palm of his left hand. The recurring ailment has appeared on various body parts in close succession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Rickert
Manheim
Taking Better Care of Employees in Industry
Large employers show rising regard for worker welfare as Bethlehem Steel creates a safety engineer role and department safety committees. The Steel Corporation spends about five million dollars annually on welfare work while railroads, manufacturers, and merchants expand health, safety, recreation, and working conditions for staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steel Corporation
Bethlehem Steel Company
Philadelphia Record to Publish Weekly Sunday Magazine
Beginning with Sunday November 2 the Philadelphia Record will add a twenty page weekly magazine to its Sunday issue. It will feature short and continued stories by top writers and illustrated by world renowned artists. The price of the Sunday Record remains three cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Record
Sunday Record
Richard Harding Davis
Gouverneur Morris
James Oliver Ginwood
Mary Roberts Rhinehart
Ellis Parker Butler
Rex Beach
Elinor Glyn
George Pattala
Gelett Burgess
Wallace Irwin
Jas
Montgomery Gragg
Henry Hutt
C. Coles Phillips
Howard Chandler Christy
Penrhyn Stanlaws
Hamilton King
Record
Paper handles may reshape broom industry in Hamburg
Reading and Hamburg manufacturers show strong interest in a shift from wood to paper broom handles. B F Mackelston of the Standard Broom Co Philadelphia argues wood prices force a substitute, predicting paper handles could start a new era. Hamburg, a major broom center, hosts a trade correspondent and monthly industry letters detailing conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading
Hamburg
B. F. Mackelston
Standard Broom Company
Philadelphia
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the Crow
Department of Agriculture
Mentor Union
W. Hi. Buch
Clothier and Gents’Furnisher Record Building
Lititz
Kit Hosiery
Knox
W. H. Buch Oe
Lititz, PA
Clothier and
Ww. H. Buch Gents’ Furnisher
Mentor Lititz, PA
Yale
Farmers National Bank
North Queer
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Dreas
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
East King St. Lancaster, Pa
Dunsley
W. A
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