Indications Of Special Session Called By Governor Pinchot
Harrisburg reports that Governor Pinchot may call a special session to pursue reform measures including election laws and enforcement of prohibition. He will confer with Secretary Mellon and Assistant Secretary Andrews to seek assurances on tougher Volstead Act enforcement before deciding. He declined to comment on a proposed coal bill until reading it, hinting at measures to settle the coal question.
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International
Harrisburg
Pinchot
Treasury Department
Washington
Capitol
Treasury Mellon
Andrews
Public Service Commission
American Tobacco Company President Dies at Home
Percival S. Hill, 1862 born Philadelphia native and longtime leader of the American Tobacco Company, died suddenly at his New York home on Sunday. He served as president since 1912 and was chairman of the board of several related firms, with a history in cotton and woolen trade before rising to corporate prominence.
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International News Service
New York
Percival S. Hill
American Tobacco Company
Hill
Philadelphia
American Cigar Company
Havana Tobacco Company
New Bethlehem Man Killed by Train in Clarion Pa
W C McEwan of New Bethlehem was instantly killed when his car stalled on tracks and was struck by an eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train in Clarion Pennsylvania yesterday.
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International News Service
Clarion
W. C. McEwan
New BethLehem
Pennsylvania Railroad
McEwan
Rotary Club To Give Boys Books In New Castle Library
New Castle Rotary Club plans to expand the boys section in the new library. A committee led by Robert Whitla will arrange book donations and likely purchase additional titles. No final decision before about a week.
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Rotary Club
Civic Club
New Castle
School Boys to Help with Work at Post Office
New Castle post office to recruit extra help from high school and college boys as Christmas mail volume rises. The first group will start next week, with up to twenty five total. Many have prior post office experience and return each season.
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New Castle
Norris
Motorists Urged to Send For License Tags This Year
Motorists are warned by the Automobile Club of New Castle to return their registration applications to Harrisburg promptly or risk missing tags before year end. The highway department, already busy in December, urges early action per Registrar Eynon. Tags may be displayed from December 15 under the new law. Driver licenses expire February 28. renewal cards will be mailed after the new year. The notice ends with thanks for condolences to the death of Mrs. Sarah Reitz.
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Harrisburg
The
Automobile Club of
New Castle
Highway Department
Eynon
Home made cough remedy promises quick relief
A long advertisement extols a home made cough remedy using 2 1/2 ounces of Pinex mixed with a pint of sugar syrup or molasses honey or corn syrup. It claims fast relief for severe coughs throat tickle and chest congestion, praising Pinex as a concentrated Norway pine extract from The Pinex Co Ft Wayne Ind and offering refunds for dissatisfaction.
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The
Pinex Co
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Girls Debate At Westminster College Freshmen Triumph
Westminster College hosts a week of events with the Freshman interClass debate defeating the Sophomores by a 3 0 vote in the college chapel. Debaters include Miss Hazel Brush Miss Jane Gorton and Miss Lorena Garlock on the Sophomore side and Miss Phyllis Coley Miss Dorothy Wray Miss Lois Wagoner and Miss Dorothy Stankard for the Freshmen. Alpha Sigma Alpha leads the event. The article also covers Pennsylvania coal mine statistics for 1924 detailing mine classes production shares and machine versus hand extraction.
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Westminster College
Hazel Brush
Carnegie
Jane Gorton
Connellsville
Lorena Garlock
North Girard
Mildred Lawson
Sellevue
Phyllis Coley
Cochranton
Dorothy Wray
Lois Wagoner
Sharon
Dorothy Stankard
Pittsburgh
Alpha Sigma Alpha
Pennsylvania Leads In Soft Coal Mines In Operation
Pennsylvania operated 2,122 of the 7,836 bituminous coal mines in the United States last year, far more than any other state. The Washington correspondent notes Pennsylvania's dominance in coal production and the competitive standing of West Virginia.
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Binia
Pennsylvania
George H. Manning
Washington
the News
Washington, D. C
Union
United States
Keystone
West Vir
Air attack from north questioned at marshal court
A North Pacific weather experts unit led by Lieut Commander H.H. Horrost testified yesterday to counter Col. William Mitchells charges that the United States is vulnerable to an air attack via the Aleutian islands and Alaska. The unit described the invasion danger as slight and labeled weather as the greatest threat.
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Washington
Dec. S
North Pacific
HH. Horrost
Willian Mitchell
United States
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Frost
Allen Gullion
Mahon
Navy
Flight across the Aleutians stalled by weather and ships
The expert noted the perilous route over the Aleutians and Behring sea. He said favorable seasons still bring bad weather, making an aerial crossing from Japan impossible without extensive surface vessel support.
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Aleutians
Behring Sea
Frost
Japan
Former Newspaper Correspondent Gets Secretary's Post
Washington December 8 William R Douglass former International News Service correspondent of Harrisburg Pennsylvania was appointed secretary of Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania.
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International News Service
Washington
William R. Douglass
Harrisburg
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
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Sarah Reitz
Westminster
New Castle, PA
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