Weingartner One Of Three To Attend Second Special Session
Harrisburg expectant to January 13 extra session. Three veterans from 1906 special session remain in legislature. Homsher Flynn and Weingartner bring long service records. Flynn in House, Homsher in Senate, Weingartner in both. Senate staff Miller and Baker also near milestone, with Miller entering as page in 1876 and Baker in 1889. Judge Gordon and Col Watres among few 1883 era members still living.
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Weingartner
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania General Assembly
Senate
House
Dr. Pennypacker
John G. Homsher
Lancaster
St George T. Weingartner
Lawrence
W. Harry Baker
Emate
Herman P. Miller
J. Miller
Tie
Sen
Baker
Miller
Republican State Committee
James Gay Gordon
Philadelphia
Col. L. A. Watres
The
Scranton Republican
Semi-Dry System In Belgium May End
London reports an anti prohibition effort aimed at Belgium's ban on spirits. The semi-dry law allows two quarts as a loophole, costing the government about 15 million dollars yearly in revenue as anti prohibitionists prepare to push Brussels Parliament for repeal.
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Belgium
International News Service
London
Brussels
Mercer County Teachers Plan to Attend State Meet
Miss Kate Barnes Mercer county assistant superintendent joins five Mercer teachers at the State Educational Association convention in Harrisburg next week. Attenders include Miss Ida Gumfory Stoneboro Miss Isabel Davidson Worth and C W Moreland Jamestown.
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Mercer
Kate Barnes
Mercer County
State Educational Association
Harrisburg
Ida Gumfory
Stoneboro
Isabel Davidson
Worth
C. W. Moreland
Jamestown
Man dies as train hits auto near Crafton
William E. Mackenroth, 36, of Crafton, was killed when the automobile he and his sister Mary Mackenroth, of Philadelphia, were riding in was demolished by the Pittsburgh Wheeling express on the outskirts of Carnegie. Miss Mackenroth suffered only slight injuries and they were taken to Mercy hospital.
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Crafton
William E. Mackenroth
Mary Mackenroth
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Wheeling Express
Carnegie
Hospital Scene Follows Brother Pronounced Dead
Miss Macken roth visiting the brother incurred slight scalp wounds when a crossing incident occurred. The same crossing had a prior wreck two weeks earlier in which a woman was killed and another injured by an express striking their automobile.
Firemen Answer Two Alarms On Sunday
Two alarms responded Sunday with small losses. At 11:25 a.m. box 29 sent firefighters to Sumner avenue for F Klink’s automobile fire caused by a leaking gasoline line. loss about 25 dollars. At 4:40 p.m. box 22 sent teams to 107 East Lincoln avenue Samuel L McCracken’s home for a chimney fire eight inches above the smoke pipe. loss about 25 dollars.
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Sumner Avenue
F. Klink
Samuel L. McCracken
Lincoln Avenue
Feathered Alarm Clocks Fall From Favor in Wellesley
In Wellesley Massachusetts residents debate replacing roosters as morning alarms. Mrs Ruth M Fortesque demands an article is added to the town warrant to convert chanticleers into fricassee. Community members relying on roosters fear disruption if the proposal becomes law.
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International News Service
Wellesley Mass
Ruth M. Fortesque
Court Stenographer Reports 1925 Ended in Mercer County
Mercer Pa December 28 1925 Court Stenographer Gordon Miller announces all 1925 work completed A survey shows transcription of shorthand to paper fell short of 1924 levels as many big cases were appealed to higher courts increasing stenographer workload.
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Mercer, Pa
Gordon Miller
Coldest Pennsylvania county record set today
Franklin Pa December 28 The International News Service reports Venango County was the coldest area in Pennsylvania with temperatures at five degrees above zero. Oil City registered 12 degrees and Lewis Run 10 as the next coldest spots in the state.
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Franklin
Ve‘International News Service
Wago County
Pennsylvania
Mercury
Oil City
Lewis Run
Fight the Good Fight Hymn Named Prince of Wales Favorite
London reports the Prince of Wales chose Fight the Good Fight as his favorite hymn in a plebiscite by John O London s Weekly. Notables offer varied views from Man SEL to Lead Kindly Light, Just as I Am and Abide With Me with criticism from Bennet and Lord Riddle.
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H. K. Reynolds
International News
London
Prince of Wales
John O
John Samuel Bewley Mansell
England
Jesus
Wembley
Lord Riddle
Arnold Bennet
Canterbury
General Booth
Salvation Army
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Martin Shaw
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields
John Bunyan
Harry Lauder
W. George
Mercer County Farmers Enter Harrisburg Show
Mercer County farmers prepare entries for the State Products Show in Harrisburg from January 18 to 23. County Farm Agent N. J. Hagar predicts the world's largest egg show will be highlighted by Mercer county products entered for competition.
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Mercer County
Harrisburg
Mercer
N. 3
Hagar
Man 82 jailed for failure to support wife in Berwick
Levi Crawford, 82, was committed to Columbia county jail on a non support charge filed by his wife, 73, who has been separated from him for 18 years. He could not post the $300 bail. The couple lived in Berwick before separating. Crawford is a Civil War veteran. Beatrice Tanner, 12, located in McKean County Children's Home after years with itinerant missionaries and a Terre Haute mother seeking custody. A stray column closes with a reflective musing on history and language.
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Berwick
Levi Crawford
Columbia County
Herndon
Crawford
United States
Beatrice Tanner
McKean County
Samuel Pullim
Terre “Haute
Ind
Bradford
Pullim
Peter Tanner
Beatrice
Virgil
Alabama
Mother Reunites With Son After Seven Years
Bradford Pa December 2 38 a mother who had sought for seven years finds her child in a local children's home ending a long separation. The report notes the reunion occurred after the mother traced the boy who had been placed in the home years earlier.
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Bradford
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