Senate panel backs higher minimum wage across more workers
The Senate Labor Committee unanimously approved a bill raising the minimum wage to 75 cents an hour and extending coverage to about 100,000 agricultural processing workers off the farm and to certain retail employees in interstate commerce. Pepper said the bill could lift wages for about 1.25 million people as it moves to the Senate floor. In a separate note, Chief Justice John Marshall presided over Burr treason trial where the act of treason must be proven before Burr’s connection is established.
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Washington
INS
Senate Labor Committee
Sen
Pepper
Fla
Taft
Ohio
Donnell
Senate
Labor Department
John Marshall
Aaron Burr
Burr
Gaston Post to Name New Officers at Legion Election
Perry S. Gaston Post No 343 American Legion will hold its annual election meeting at the Legion Home Thursday evening. New officers for the coming year will be named under a directive from last year’s convention. Delegates to the state convention will also be chosen. A door prize and lunch will follow, announced Commander Merle H. Hildebrand.
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Perry S. Gaston
American Legion
Legion
Merle H. Hildebrand
Fugitive Fortner Body Found After Prison Camp Escape
The body of Jimmy D. Fortner, 35, one of eight convicts who fled a Clarksburg prison camp, was recovered from the West Fork river about two miles from Clarksburg. Fortner, serving two to ten years for auto theft in Mingo county, was last seen diving into the river after the Wednesday escape. Capt. Hill Lewis identified the body Friday.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
INS
West Fork River
Hill Lewis
Jimmy D. Fortner
Mingo County
Fortner
Death Sentences Upheld By State High Court
Philadelphia June 25 The state supreme court upheld death sentences for two Philadelphia killers. In a 6 1 ruling the court affirmed George A Neill 23 for strangling his 11 year old niece Isabel Mallon and upheld James Smith 23 who pleaded guilty to the holdup murder of taxicab driver John J Haines 29.
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Philadelphia
INS
State Supreme Court
George A. Neill
Isabel Mallon
James Smith
John J. Haines
Try And Stop Me by Bennett Cerf and Voelker
The piece recounts a Marquette County Michigan prosecutor John Voelker telling a poker anecdote about a doctor winning with aces and a friend dying of a heart attack during the hand. The doctor suggests we finish the hand standing up out of respect for the dead.
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Bennett Cerf
John Voelker
Marquette County
Michigan
Joe
Planned Vacation Proven Happier Says Keystone Club
The Keystone Automobile club urges shorter trips for happiness and safety. Do not overrun your auto or yourself by driving 300 miles per day on a two week vacation, even if you think you can do 450. Avoid overeating and irregular sleep on trips.
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Philadelphia
Keystone Automobile Club
Health Talks and Kitchen Craft in Family Meals
A local piece discusses how smell looks and tastes influence appetite during meals. It notes parents adjust flavors fats and garnishes for each eater and cites a proverb about love in a dinner.
The Family Scrapbook Rock and Mineral Collecting
Dr Ernest G Osborne suggests children collect rocks and minerals during outdoor days. They can start with local finds, use cigar boxes as trays, and tape small pieces in place. Libraries and natural history museums can aid identification, and exchanges with other junior collectors may occur.
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Natural History Museum
World Series Truffles Skip Triples In 1948 Series
No player on either club hit a triple during the 1948 World Series. The report notes a lack of three-baggers across both teams in the classic matchup.
Atna Automobile Insurance Promises Coast to Coast Security
You can really enjoy driving your car when you have the feeling of security that goes with Atna Automobile Insurance wherever you travel from coast to coast.
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Atna Automobile Insurance
Croix de Guerre Awarded To 79th Infantry Division
The 79th Infantry Division will receive its third French Croix de Guerre and the Fourragere at Muirfield Indiantown Gap Military Reservation Annville Pa. Col De La Boisse will present on behalf of the French government to Major General Robert W Wilson of Drexel Hill Pa. The ceremony marks the fifth anniversary of the 79th Division’s recapture of Cherbourg.
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Philadelphia
Muirfield
Indiantown Gap
Annville
Col
de la Boisse
Washington, D. C
Robert W. Wilson
Drexel Hill
Cherbourg
France
Three MLB Batting Champs and the Caddie Etymology
The record notes only Cobb Heilmann and Williams as four time AL batting champions. It traces the term caddie to Mary Queen of Scots who learned cadet in France meaning student. She used cadet for her ball sighting boy, later Scots adopted caddie or caddy spelling.
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Ty Cobb
Harry Heilmann
Ted Williams
Ary
Queen of
Scotland
France
State Purchases 1160 Acres of Forest Land
The Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters announced the purchase of two forest land tracts totaling 1,160 acres. The tracts are 425 acres in Monroe county and 725 acres in Elk county, raising total forest land managed for public benefit to 1,727,220 acres.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Department of Forests and Waters
Commonwealth
Monroe County
Elk County
Thieves Rob Home As Man Dances
Philadelphia. Lester H. Arthur notes a series of seven robberies during Saturday nights as he dances at home. About $1,000 in property was stolen before he realized the pattern.
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Rob
Philadelphia
Lester H. Arthur
Arthur
Man Given Life Sentence For Slaying Wife
Hollidaysburg Pa June 25 John L Kirstner 44 a World War II veteran of Altoona was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Western Pennsylvania penitentiary for the slaying of his estranged wife Kathryn 35 in a downtown Altoona cafe last April 12 He shot her in a cafe booth and then attempted suicide after being found guilty of first degree murder He had pleaded guilty to a general charge of murder Police testified the shooting followed failed reconciliation efforts.
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Hollidaysburg
INSI
John L. Kirstner
Altoona
Western Pennsylvania
Kathryn
Kirstner
Paulsboro School Board Vice President Killed in Collision
H Douglas Turner, 51, vice president of the Paulsboro school board and cement contractor, died in a two car crash near Mays Landing New Jersey on Friday. Harold Sacks 44 of Paulsboro drove the other car and six other people were injured. The article notes a scientific fact about brain neuron counts.
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Mays Landing
N. J
INS
H. Douglas Turner
Paulsboro
Turner
Harold Sacks
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