Real Meals For Men In Training Camps
Washington correspondent notes the Army quartermaster plans for Citizens Military Training Camps in the Third Corps area to provide higher quality meals for 18 to 24 year olds. Camp Meade and Fort Monroe will host 3,600 plus trainees with enhanced menus, fresh fruit and dairy, and meals purchased locally rather than from army supplies. The program adds 25 cents for special dishes, keeping weekly costs under 45 cents per man while ensuring better portions and home-like meals.
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Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
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Quartermaster Department
Motorists Fear License Fund To Aid Dry Enforcing
Harrisburg correspondence reports motorists fear the Williams Highway Department bill grants the Secretary of Highways power to hire enforcement staff for prohibition laws and to authorize highway officers to stop cars to verify engine numbers and equipment. Objections arise to potential use of state police in training at Mount Gretna.
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Harrisburg
Castle News
Willams Highway Department
Commissioner of Highways
Willames
Secretary of Highways
Reorganization
Highway Department
Lawan
Mount Gretna
State Oil Output Falls in 1922 Pennsylvania Report
Harrisburg Pa June 25 Crude oil production in Pennsylvania totaled 7 287 437 barrels during 1922 a drop of 1 percent from 1921 figures announced by state secretary of internal affairs Tames F Wood ward in a survey by the department The report shows 73 482 producing wells last year up from 70 639 in 1921 with an average production of 8 6 barrels per day per well A total of 2 666 new wells were brought in during the year and 1 919 wells were abandoned In 1927 there were 2 096 new wells and an old one abandoned The largest production was 14 Mc
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Tames F. Woodward
Atfaffa
Department
Oil production by county in 1922 shows Kean and McKean lead
Kean County produced 2,464,728 barrels from 21,258 wells in 1922, surpassing 1921 figures. McKean followed with 2,466,728 barrels from 21,258 wells. Venango ranked second in barrels while Butler ranked third. County-by-county totals include Allegheny 574,552, Armstrong 24,788, Beaver 117,914, Clarion 212,206, Crawford 48,406, Elk 109,244, Greene 317,343, Jefferson 10,020, Lawrence 31,825, Mercer 12,945, Potter 13,375, Tioga 1,779, Venango 1,360,098, Warren 516,781, Washington 499,893, Westmoreland 233.
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Venango County
Venango
Butler County
Allegheny
Armstrong
Beaver
Butler
Clarion
Crawford
Forest
Greene
Jefferson
Lawrence
McKean
Mercer
Potter
Tioga
Warren
Washington
Westmoreland
Radio Chases Crooks Using Police Broadcast System
Los Angeles police test a radio linked chase system to trap criminals quickly. Chief Wallace G Oaks oversees a mock pursuit with police cars equipped with receivers guiding followers to the suspect. The experiment aims to catch offenders within minutes by coordinating outposts on streets near the crime scene.
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International News Servier
Los Angeles
L. O. Oaks
Wallace G. Oaks
Central Station
Tebt Street
Fiftieth Street
Bolt Of Lightning Strikes Pittsburgh Foundry Fire
A lightning bolt during a violent summer storm tonight destroyed the Cop-1 per Clad Steel foundry in Rankin and the adjoining Atchison Manufacturing Company. Total damage estimated at 150000 dollars as Leetsdale and Carnegie areas faced outages and flooding spread across several city sections.
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Pittsburgh
Clad Steel Company
Rankin
Atchison Manufacturing Company
Leetsdale
Carnegia
Radio Tonight on WGY and KNKA Little Symphony
Programmers announce tonight’s schedule with stock market quotes news bulletins baseball scores and musical features. Highlights include the KNKA Little Symphony Orchestra conducted by Victor Saudek performances and the Dreamtime Jundy readings for children followed by additional ball scores and weather outlooks.
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Sonenso Br
General Electric Company
Pittsfield
Masa
Epkea
Weetinghouse Eiectric
Hastwittsburgh
Kdka Laltne Smpagas
Victor Saudel
Mediterranean
Toni FL
KDA
Little Symphony Orchestra
Myrtlen Reynolds
Sith
Brandman
Heathen Tots Benefit By First Xmas Party
A Christmas tree party at the Methodist church in Middleport Ohio raised gifts for heathen children in foreign lands. Organizers say the event supports aid to Janda and brought together local families, with youngsters collecting donated toys and clothes for needy children abroad.
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Middleport
Princess Lily belt sparks Paris subway debate
Paris riders discuss a new belt called Princess Lily that supposedly creates a no man’s land around dancers. A young woman in Le Journal says she wants one for rush hour use despite not knowing the shimmy. She notes the Metra carriage hosts masseurs and shyer riders fear unwanted attention. She asks if Professor Rossi has a men’s version and hopes for a Prince Louis model.
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Alice
Metra
Rossi
Lily
Prince Louis
Lucinda Oil Refinery Fire from Lightning Damages Plant
Franklin Pa June 25 Lightning struck an oil tank at Lucinda Refining Company starting a blaze that threatened the plant. Damage estimated at 60000 dollars. Seven thousand barrels of oil destroyed as flames spread to adjacent tanks, fire department called and blaze quickly controlled.
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Franklin
Lugel Inda Refining Company
Lucinda
Tania
Franklin Fire Department
Paris Booksellers Stretch Daylight Hours
Paris on the Seine features a long stretch of bookstalls along the bank with a bookstore owner proposing a new idea to extend daylight hours for better sales. The scene captures the bustling riverside market and the enterprising spirit of Parisian booksellers.
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Paris
Seine
Gtalla
Paris bookstalls plan longer hours with electric lights
Stalling electric lights to enable patrons to pursue the volumes on his shelf after nightfall. Now proprietors all along the line are planning to put in the same fixtures and, incidentally, add two or three more hours to their already long vigil. The bookstalls form one of Paris' most unique institutions. In them may be found almost every kind of book or pamphlet ever printed.
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Paris
Boar Wrecks Flivver in Wild Charge Near Coolville
In Coolville Ohio on June 2 a 180 pound boar attacked a sliver carrying Athens county on inspection merit. The hog was killed and the car wrecked but the commissioners were uninjured. The owner said the hog, a backwoods product, had never seen a Ford before.
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International News Service
Coolville
Oia
Athens County
American Authors Popular With Russians
Moscow reports American authors enjoy strong popularity in Russia. Jack London tops the list, Upton Sinclair is translated rapidly, and O Henry's stories gain favor. Mark Twain and Edgar Allan Poe have solid followings, while William James and John Dewey are well known and Woodrow Wilson's The State was studied in Russia before the Fourteen Points.
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Gincernational News
Moscow
Russia
Jack London
Upton Sinclair
Sommers Truck Crash Buries 65 Crates of Eggs
In Columbus on June 25 George Sommers drove a truck carrying 65 crates of eggs into a ditch. The harvest of eggs caused about 23 thousand bur ried eyes in the big scramble amid the crash.
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Columbus
Led
George Sommers
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