Volunteers Rally as Mercer Plans Fire Dept and Hotel Move
A volunteer fire department is being organized at Mercer with trial runs to train volunteers. J. Dovey, a Latrobe hotelier, leases the Leslie hotel, takes charge, with Stevenson Bros. and Kepler retaining the redi estate and C. Robinson supplying furnishings. The hotel will run on a European plan with dining and breakfast options, aiming to open after improvements.
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Union
J. F. Dovey
Latrobe
Pictic
Mercer
J. ¥. Dovey
Leslie
Redi
Stevenson Bros
Kepler
C. Robingson
Mr. Dovey
Tatrabe
Josephine Sourbeck
Dovey
Troon
Miss Sullivan Sues Heir for Breach of Promise and Contract
Miss Mae Sullivan of New York sues Arthur Inger Jeoll Heagen and a chic heir to the late Robert Haw fortunes for breach of promise to marry and breach of contract. She seeks $151,000 and $75,000 in two separate suits, alleging he promised $5,000 yearly to ease her wounded feelings after admitting he could not marry because he already had a wife. She also claims he is behind in payments on the contract by about a year and a half.
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Miss Mae Sullivan
New York
Arthur Inger- Jeoll Heagen
Chic
Robert Haw
Miss Sullivan
Houseflies Not, $0 Plentiful in Town This Year
It notes the house fly is less numerous this year due to long winter, sanitation improvements, screens, and public resolve to swat. The piece urges continued effort to vanquish the pest and imagines a future where flies are remembered as anciently troublesome, with readers taught by pictures.
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Atlantic
False Message Kills Mother in Milton, Pa
In Milton, Pennsylvania, Mrs. Peter Beaver, 63, died after learning a telegram misled her that her daughter, Mrs. Mmar Burley, had died. Burley, distraught on receiving a message to come for his wife, went to his mother-in-law and collapsed upon hearing her false news. He later died at Williamsport hospital awaiting his wife’s body.
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Milton, Pa
Peter Beaver
Piace
Mmar Burley
Williamsport
Jake
Oan
Williamsport Hospital
Alin
Mint
Hurley
The Orient Man Walks In Front A Rude Convention
A fragment discusses gender roles in travel across Asia with the man leading and the woman following bearing burdens. It contrasts colonial views of the Javanese and Burman customs with Western courtesy, noting dangers in jungles and the persistence of traditional fronting behavior.
Governor Sulzer Faces Tumult in New York Politics
Governor William Sulzer battles Charles Murphy and powerful allies in a struggle seen as a potential political death for Sulzer. The headline notes his defiance toward the "powers that be" as the fight to control state politics intensifies, with many predicting Sulzer’s downfall.
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William Sulzer
New York
Charles Fr. Murphy
Dammany Wall
New York State
Sulzer
Bass Rile
Arabs Invented Paper and a Powder Wagon Tale
A piece discusses the Arab origin of papermaking and its spread to Europe, noting Arab scholars and various historical attributions. The article also describes a Butler replica powder wagon route from Wilmington to Perry, detailing towns along the path to Meadville and Brie.
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Butler
Wihnington
Del
Perry
Lake Erie
Mercer
Meadville
Brie
Dunne Signs Suffrage Bill In Ilingis State
Governor HB Dunne signed the women's suffrage bill in Springfield, granting voting rights to all women in Ilingis. The long campaign for votes lasted 23 years, witnessed by many in the executive offices as the pen scratched to seal the act.
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Springfield
Ilingis
HB. B. Dunne
Butler woman hospitalized after ingesting mercury tablets
Mrs. Henry Maser of Butler was admitted to Butler County General Hospital after swallowing two bi chloride of mercury tablets.
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Henry Maser
Butler
Butler County General Hospital
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Third United Presbyterian
Third
U.P
Alberta Guy
Cora Zehner
A. M. McConahy
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the Grove
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Fox
Henry Sealls
Frances Hammond
James ‘Carrouthers
Mary Boston
Mahel Gear
Maryox
Lyle Wimner
Ralph Johnston
John Gordon
Abraham
Boston
I. K. Greeneburp
Cottage Grove Ave
Chicago
Geo
W. Clueton
Deliciou
Blue Ribbon
the Blue Ribbon Clothes Shop Co
Rollie Ferguson
Orient Man
Lion
China
Henry Mof
France
Paris
Royal Library
Damascus
Italy
Germany
Harper's Week
India
Europe
Peper
Jarabia
Dunne
Castle Cash
South
Mercer Street
Opera House
Waller & McCune
Gas
Uneeda
Cuy
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