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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1925
Page
7
A report notes an auctioneer in Indiana connected to charges described as reasonable, identifying B W and Witmer in relation to the case.
Hazleton Knights of Columbus cleared funds for a bazaar while Coningham council cut street workers’ pay to 40 cents an hour. A mine explosion killed John Dogalski at Cranberry. Bloomsburg sold 35000 dollars in bonds at a premium. A Centuria miner Michael McGinley survived a 100 foot fall. Northumberland County allocates 405000 for bridges and roads. Herndon Water Co seeks charter annulment. A theater party in Bunbury saw thefts of 173 and a wristwatch. Walter Kahek, 2, injured at Hazleton State Hospital after hot water fall. Three hundred miners sign up for a Coolidge inauguration train to Washington. Veronica Lewis Sky, 53, dies after lamp explosion in Jessup. Harry Kocher, 50, dies near Gelienople from an illness linked to a jag bite. Andrew Windish, 24, dies at East Bar Ridge colliery. Shenandoah coal mines resume after floods. 1200 employed. Bethlehem store manager Samuel Fenicle nearly dies from a leg arterial bleed. Frank Baldwin sentenced to 5–10 years for second-degree murder. Eleven foxes captured in local hunts. Gas revenue and tax details noted. highway contracts awarded for routes in Potter, Susquehanna, Crawford, and Bedford counties. Curt Altheeple pleads guilty to illegal liquor after quitting Erie police. Route 286 contract to United Construction. bids rejected for Route 70 in Allegheny. Two Pittsburgh brothers, Adam and Martin Maciejewski, found in a cave after vanishing from home. Albert Kleinhofer disappears during cave exploration.
Washington reports say the Saturday quake centered near the Great Lakes with a depth around ten miles. Georgetown seismologist Father Tondorf warned a heavier aftershock is unlikely for 55 or 60 years while Yale professors noted the tremors as the region’s largest since 1755, caused by gradual coast sinking and crustal faults.
A severe earthquake rattled buildings across the Middle West Saturday night. Tremors were felt from Lacrosse Wisconsin to Kentucky, with the strongest shaking reported in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. The temblor lasted about 30 seconds to a few minutes.
Seismograph at Loyola University New Orleans recorded the quake felt through the East and Middle West. Initial indications show the shock lasting about 16 minutes with the epicenter estimated roughly 1700 miles away.
Priscis McMahon, a Ravre barber, leaped from a second story window to the pavement during the tremor. Both ankles were badly fractured and doctors consider his injuries very serious, possibly ending his ability to walk.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania singer Geraldine Farrar calmed a frightened audience after the theatre shook. Lights flashed and she stepped to the front waving a shawl and assuring patrons there was no fire or danger. The volley of exits quelled as she urged people to return to their seats.
Prohibition officers report a Kentucky to Pennsylvania transfer of whisky valued at 7 821 000 at bootleg prices. From Lexington to Midway then Schenley Pennsylvania the shipment is guarded around the clock and expected to take three weeks and include 43450 crates.
Old residents claim wildcats roam Kane Pa Parkes a village 25 miles southwest and threaten game and livestock. They warn that unless hunters use efficient methods there will be no euteken duck goose or fowl and even dogs risk attack. Cats raid hen coops in daylight causing alarm.
Orville A. Pewster, a federal customs agent, was instantly killed in Niagara Falls Ontario when a bomb concealed in his automobile exploded as he started the engine. Elmer Whitacre was severely injured in the blast. Pewster had worked to suppress illicit liquor and was related to Ku Klux Klan figures, including Lee Pewster.
Jas Preston aged 82, a Civil War veteran, died at the home of W. J. Nesbit in Rome after two months of illness and two days of unconsciousness. The report also notes a Washington episode where Mrs. John W. Weeks fainted at a White House reception but recovered. Additionally, Kenneth Huntsinger killed his mother-in-law and wife before shooting himself in Anderson, Indiana.
General markets show quiet winter trading in Philadelphia with flour at 89.75 and 10.25, spring and city patent at 11.76. No. 2 red corn and No. 2 yellow corn firm near 1.45 to 1.76, oats at 5.66, poultry live hens 27 to 28 cents, dressed fowls 30 cents, eggs nearby 28 cents, western 28 cents.
Live Stock Quotations from Chicago show cattle weak to 15c lower with top at 12.35 paid for yearlings near highest price. Stockers and feeders are scarce then firm with spots higher. bulls range 8 to 10 cents. Near calves 5% to 34% range 11.50 to 12.5.
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