Victors Crowned At Third U P Sunday School Picnic
Loud huzzas echoed at the park as the Third United Presbyterian Sunday school staged a varied program for about 250 attendees. Miss Elizabeth Brown led the girls under 12 in a race while Henry Leslie and Frances Hammond won senior boys events. other winners included Miss Elizabeth Fox, Miss Mary Boston, Lyle Wimner, Ralph Johnston, and Mrs. Mary Fox in various contests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union
Third United Presbyterian Sunday School
Third U. P
Alberta Guy
Cora Zehner
A. M. McConahy
the Grove
Elizabeth Brown
Elizabeth Fox
Henry Leslie
Frances Hammond
James Varrouthers
Mary Boston
Mabel Gear
Mary Fox
Lyle Wimner
Ralph Johnston
John Gordon
Abraham Boston
Mercer Volunteers Organize Fire Department Trial Runs
A volunteer fire department is being organized at Mercer and several trial runs for the volunteers have been arranged to familiarize them with responding to alarms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercer
Hotel Leslie Under Lease Delivers New Manager Dovey to Lead
J F Dovey an experienced hotel man formerly of Latrobe Pa has leased the Leslie hotel from Stevenson Bros and Kepler and took charge this morning. Furnishings were purchased by C C Robingson. Dovey plans renovations and will open the hostelry on European plan with 1 and 1 50 daily rates. A restaurant will repurpose the former barroom and a ladies dining room will be created with table de hotel dinners at 6 pm and breakfast a la carte in the same room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Dovey
Latrobe
Leslie Hotel
Stevenson Bros
Kepler
C. C. Robingson
Mr. Dovey
Josephine Sourbeck
Dovey
Miss Sullivan Sues Heir Hoe For Breach Of Promise
Miss Mae Sullivan of New York sues Arthur Ingersoll Hoe heir to Robert Hoe fortunes for breach of promise and contract. She seeks 150000 dollars in the first suit and 75000 in the second, alleging Hoe promised 50000 dollars yearly to ease her feelings after stating he could not marry because he already had a wife, and that payments are a year and a half overdue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Mae Sullivan
New York
Arthur
Houseflies Not So Plentiful This Year
The author notes fewer houseflies due to long winter, sanitation improvements, public swat campaigns, and screens. It urges maintaining four forces in future warfare to vanquish the pest and imagines future books showing extinct flies.
False Message Kills Mother in Milton Pennsylvania
In Milton Pennsylvania Mrs. Peter Beaver aged 63 died after learning her daughter Mrs. Elmer Burley had died. Her son in law Elmer Burley misread a telegram saying to come for his wife. He went to fetch his wife at Williamsport hospital. She was alive and well. The shock caused the mother to faint and die.
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Milton, Pa
Peter Beaver
Elmer Burley
Williamsport
Williamsport Hospital
Why the Orient Man Walks Ahead in Tradition and Danger
Fielding Hall argues that in Orient and occidental customs a man leads while a woman follows, driven by practicalities of jungle travel and dangers. He cites Japan and Burma, noting that in towns the habit persists from courtesy, forming a convention hard to break.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Occidentals
Fielding Hall
Atlantic
Dunne Signs Suffrage Bill in Illinois History
Governor E F Dunne signed the Illinois woman suffrage bill yesterday, granting voting rights to all women in the state. The 23 year struggle culminated as crowds gathered in the executive offices to witness the signature, marking a historic milestone in Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Lll
E. F. Dunne
Butler Woman Hospitalized After Mercury Tablet Ingestion
Mrs Henry Moser of Butler is in Butler County General hospital after swallowing two bi chloride of mercury tablets. Medical staff report she is under observation and receiving treatment for the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Moser
Butler
Butler County General Hospital
Governor Sulzer Fights Boss Rule In New York
Governor William Sulzer battles Charles Murphy head of Tammany Hall in a political struggle that unsettles New York state politics. The defiant actions threaten entrenched power as many foresee an end to boss rule.
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William Sulzer
New York
Charles F. Murphy
Sammany Hall
Sulzer
Arabs Likely Invented Paper Through History
Harper's Weekly cites evidence that Arabs introduced paper from China via Arabia and early Arab workshops. It notes the shift to cotton pulp and the spread of paper making across Europe, with claims of Damascus origin and earlier uses of flax and hemp before the 14th century. The piece highlights the impact on the renaissance of letters and the uncertain origins across Italy Germany and Egypt.
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India
Europe
Arabia
China
Henry II
France
Paris
Royal Library
Damascus
Italy
Germany
Harper’s Weekly
Powder Wagon Replica Reaches Butler on Erie Route
The replica powder wagon that carried powder from Wilmington Delaware to Perry on Lake Erie a century ago has arrived in Butler. The voyage continues via Mercer, Slippery Rock, Meadville, and finally Erie as the historic route is retraced.
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Wilmington
Del
Perry
Lake Erie
Butler
Mercer
Slippery Rock
Meadville
Erie
Portland cement output growth 1870 to 1912
The country’s Portland cement production rose from 82 000 barrels in 1870 79 1879 to 80 000 000 barrels in 1912. This highlights a dramatic expansion in industrial output over the period driven by construction demand and new methods.
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Real
pReatarais
New Castle
Pure Food & Drugs Act
JAE. AL AO
H Cass
Hotel Leslie
Blue Ribbon
the Blue Ribbon Clothes Shop Co
Rollie Ferguson
Orient Man
Dunne
Lion
NEW Castle Cash Grocery
Waller & McCune
Are Rifts Pride
Uno
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