Reduction in Light Rates Is Promised at Port Jervis
February meeting in Port Jervis Chambers of Commerce discussed a proposed merger of several lighting and power firms into the Orange County Public Service Corporation. Officials touted potential rate cuts for gas and electricity, with new electricity charges set at 10 to 20 percent discounts for different usage tiers and a gas rate slight reduction, while opposition centered on capitalization and valuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jervis
Chamber of Commerce
Common Council
Port Jervis Light and Power Co
Amber of Commerce
Alendeville
Port Jervis
Ates
Public Service Commission
Ang
Clr
W. R. Ottery
De SNAP TIES UP . & W. STAND PIPES
A severe cold snap crippled railroad water supply along lines with stand pipes. At O and W near here pipes froze, thawing with engines or fires set nearby. North-facing pipes succumbing to frost was common. A fatal shell explosion in Haskell New Jersey injured several workers at a gunpowder plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Frost
Haskell
N. J
Iony
Dugant Powder Company
Here
Fragmented Erie News Item On Hat Sale Across Street
A garbled OCR snippet describes a woman mentioning a new hat seen on another lady’s head, with a two day delay and implication of sale. The readable fragment hints at a street encounter and a fashion item but lacks full context or clear event details.
Hands Off Policy Is Attitude of War Dept
United States Warships move to four Cuban ports Havana Santiago Nuevitas and Cienfuegos to back Menocal regime if revolt widens A US gunboat appears off Nuevitas to quiet district and Mardi Gras carnival is halted by government decree Washington reports Cuban revolt spreading prompting a hands off stance and arms shipments to Cuban authorities have been sent from US arsenals.
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Sy International News Service
Havana
United States
Santiago
Nuevitas
Cienfugeos
Menocal
Republic
Washington
State Department
Gonzales
Cuba
War Department
Barney Ayers of Sussex County Dead
Sussex N J February obituary for Barney Ayers aged about 75 from Montague township. Pioneer resident and "old settler" in Blue Range, survived by wife and many children, funeral at home Saturday at 10 o clock.
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Sussex
Barney Ayers
Montague Township
Wmai
Jas. Hamilton
Port Jervis
Ayers
Blue Range
Barnet
Rutherfords
Wares
Koog
J. E. Fuller
Col. Kuser
Ella
Charles Paugh
Wanisg T
Edna
Irving Space
New York City
Hattie
Jehan Marriott
New Yorky
Emma
Henry Card
Mid-dletown
Anna
Silas Berry
New York
Grant
Montague
Wiliam
High Point
Percy
Ellenville Meat Co Inc Formed In Ellenville
Albany Feb 16 Articles of incorporation filed with the secretary of state by Ellenville Meat Co Inc of Ellenville to deal in meats provisions delicats and to engage in slaughtering. Capital stock 31500. Incorporators Sam Jacobwitz Menuel Bernstein and Hyman Rosenberg all of Ellenville. Staniex Shimer is home from Cuba where he spent a two weeks vacation.
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Ellenville Corporation
Albany
Ellenville Meat Co. Inc
Ellenville
Sam Jacobwitz
Menuel Bernstein
Hyman Rosenberg
Staniex
Shimer
Cuba
Kind to sick girl reward for O W conductor
Norwich February 16 Conductor Patrick Francisco of the O X W Mountain Express trains 3 and 4 between Norwich and Weehawken received a costly diamond shirt stud. A critically ill tuberculosis patient was placed on his train at Weehawken. The girl died February 13 after arrival in Liberty Sullivan county. The father, grateful for the care shown, presented the stud to Francisco.
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Norwich
Patrick Francisco
Weehawken
New York
Francisco
Liberty
Sullivan County
City Water Pressure Low After Cold Wave
City officials urge residents to run taps at night to prevent freezing as Highland Lake mains show low pressure. A local expert criticizes small mains and storage, urging larger lines and greater storage capacity for the water system.
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Commissioner of Public Works
Highland Lake
Board of Estimate
Highland Lake Main
Times-Press
Storae
Secon
Change in Army Companies Shifts Units on Hudson River
Peekskill reports a fresh realignment of Union Army units along the Hudson between Olive Bridge and Cornwall. Lieut Donovan and Privates Babcock and Kniffen join the new detachments from Middletown Hospital Corps. A plotted bridge sabotage at Poughkeepsie is mentioned, with officials withholding details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Times-Press
Peekskill
Batishon
Uuica
Justice Advises Husband to Transfer All Property to Wife
In Goshen a juryless Supreme Court hearing before Justice Morschauser heard Helen J. Janiowski sue her husband Valdislaw J. Janiowski for an at least implied separation. Testimony showed marriage in 1908, three children, onion farm profits of 2000 to 2500 yearly, and Keeley treatment. The judge ordered the husband to transfer property to his wife for a period to curb his drinking, with the case awaiting final decision.
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Goshen
Marschauser
Supreme Court
Helen J. Janiowski
Valdislaw J. Janiowski
Jantowssmi
Janiowski
Big Island
Jantowski
Keeley Institution
Bis | Island
Morschauser
Jantosshi
J. Floyd Halstead
J. Floyd Halstead, of Counsel For the Plaintif
Ani
Prayers by Rev Brittain Open New Jersey Session
Rev Theron Brittain of Downsville opened the Assembly session in Albany and led the Senate session on Thursday. A special health board report to Governor Edge cites disease among prisoners at Trenton prison with over 960 inmates, tuberculosis affecting 65 percent of cases.
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Theron Brittain
Downsville
Albany
Assembly
Senate
Trenton
Edge
State Board of Health
Ackerson Woman Held In Paterson
Agnes M. Ackerson remains held in Paterson to answer a Grand Jury indictment charging abandoning her two infant sons in Middletoan. Extradition timing is uncertain. a March arraignment at County Court seems possible if returned to New York State before March 12.
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Agnes M. Ackerson
Paterson
County Sear
New York State
Plan May Solve Paper Shortage
It was authoritatively stated that many large print paper manufacturers have submitted a signed proposition to the federal trade commission to address the news print shortage with promises of immediate relief to publishers.
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International News Service
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Local Case On Trial at County Seat
Hearing of testimony in the suit by Garry DeFrees against Jas. E. Scott of Middletown occupied Supreme Court in Goshen. Scott testified he was a saloon proprietor and traveling at 15 to 20 mph when his car was struck by a motorcycle carrying DeFrees and another man. Injuries described as permanent. Case continued. plaintiff's summary to follow by Iv an A. Gardner.
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Goshen
Garry DeFrees
Das. i. Scott
Middletown
Morsehauser
Supreme Court
Jas. E. Scott
Penton
Denton Till
Denton
Stete
Scott
DeFrees
Vermece Gantt
Ddeefrees
Thomas C. Raosers
Ivan A. Gardner
Rendich & Garrner
Boy to be sent to Bryant School for speech aid
Merritl Van Elien rurneér aged 11, living with grandmother Mrs. Mary Smith on Smith street, will be sent to Bryant School in New York City for speech remeding. Van Evian Turner, inmate of Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, involved in a suit over his board. Justice Seeger approved funds to send the boy to New York. Appeal filed against verdict favoring the boy's grandmother who has reared him since his father’s insanity. 21 Mexican prisoners from the Columbus raid will be turned over to the Department of Justice.
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Merritl van Elien Rurneér
Mary Smith
Smith Street
Bryant
New York City
Young Van_ Silen Turner
van Evian Turner
Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital
Supreme Court
Goshen
New York
L. Wm. P. Cortes
A. H. F. Seeger
Warren Snyder
Albany
Reported Yarrowdale prisoners not yet confirmed freed
Washington reports no official confirmation of Berlin’s release of Yarrowdale prisoners. State Department says a Kles Raye has been directed to Berlin to verify American detainees’ status, with inquiries possibly through Swiss and Spanish channels. Navy aims discussed, Philadelphia sails to New York, and four more ships sunk in German submarine campaign.
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International News Service
Washington
United States
Berlin
State Department
Kles Raye
Germany
Paris
Austria
Wis
Navy Department
Alladelphia
New York
Philadelphia
Liverpool
London
Lorescar
Greenland
Perm” Av
Spateh
Ie Greenland
Senate Approves Ban on Liquor Ads
Washington report notes Senate approval of amendments to the postal bill barring liquor import into states prohibiting alcohol and ads for liquor from the mails. House Republicans push the national prohibition constitutional amendment, Webb predicting passage within a week. Prohibition champions cheer, though Senate action before March 4 remains doubtful.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Judiciary
Webb
Fot
Light Franchise Approved in Orange County Towns
Albany Feb 16 The Public Service Commission approved the exercise of electric line franchises in Montgomery and Crawford Orange county by Wallkill Valley Electric Light Power Co Central Hudson Gas Electric Co protested the Montgomery grant but the commission ruled it would not interfere with Central Hudson’s business there and approved both franchises as granted by local authorities
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Albany
Public Service Commission
Montgomery
Crawford
Orange County
Wail- Rhi Valley Electric Light & Power Co
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Company
Wallkill Company
Central Hudson Company
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Service Board
Wanoma
Cuban
Santiago de Cuba
Menocat
War Dept
U.S
Sussex CO
Montague Town
Conductor
Diamond
Grateful
biAie Ruur Eill
Laurs
Food and Market
Wicks
George W. Perkins
Department of Agriculture, Foods and Markets
Newburgh
Utica
The
Hudson
Poughkeepsie Bridge
Newburgna
New Palus
Coldenhaimn
Poughkeepsie
Rev
Brittain
Ackerson
Gen. Pershing
Mexico
Columbus
Department of Justice
Yarrowdale
Story
LIGHT
Crawford and Montgomery
Babhi
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