Texan Spendthrift Colonel Handles Large Army Purchases
San Antonio reports Colonel Harry L. Rogers of Funston's staff as chief quartermaster spends large sums on Army needs. He notes 75,000 pairs of shoes in San Antonio, 20,000 at Fort Sam Houston, a shortage of tent cats, 160,000 extra cats to stock, mosquito bars priced at 2.29 for doubles and 2.16 for singles, and gasoline costs ranging from 23 to 71 cents per gallon with 22 cents per ration delivered in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Harry L. Rogers
Funston
Southern Department
Rogers
Uncle Sam
Army
Fort Sam Housten
Pillory Tames Wife Beater
Juda J. T. Brady conducts a reform trial in Kansas City Missouri for a man named Pike 23 who pleads to stay with his wife and promises to reform. The judge frees Pike and orders another companion, R. B. Stephens, to the workhouse for one year for wife abuse and chains.
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Brady
J. T. Pike
Kansas City
J.T. Brady
Mace
Pike
SaNtlog Avenna
Fira Am
R. B. Stephens
Man Survives 12-Story Fall From Building Frame
John Gervicuo plunged twelve stories to a cement pavement while working on a building in New York. A scaffold frame redirected his fall after he toppled from the top story, sending him into a seated position that saved his life though he was badly hurt.
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New York
John Gervicuo
Ito
Muskrats Damaging Roads Across Indiana County
In Valparaiso and the Kankakee region muskrats have burrowed under gravel along rural roads. Within two days three cars wrecked south of Kouts as drivers struck hidden pits. A Chicago man with a sling reported his car overturned at the same spot, injuring his wife and daughter, with a woman suffering a broken arm in one accident.
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Indiana
Valparaiso
Ind
Kankakee
Kouts
Chicago
Virgin statue tilts over Notre Dame de Brebieres tower
French observers link the angled gilded figure of the Virgin and child to the end of the war as the war drags on in ApertIm France. The wandering relic hangs about fifteen degrees from horizontal above desolate streets, a sign in local belief of peace.
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Tgondon
Apert
France
Notre Dame de Brebieres
Do Your Christmas Showeving Early
Advertisement urges early Christmas shopping to avoid scarce merchandise and duplicate orders. Promotes a large selection of men s wearing apparel and invites customers to visit today for best stock.
College meeting at Emanuel Church Hanov ile to discuss higher education
A meeting of Gettysburg Classes will be held in Emanuel Church Hanov ille on Thursday at 200 p m to discuss higher education and the plan of the Association of Schools Colleges and Seminaries of the Reform Church. Mrs Lee Oyler of Chambersburg returned home Monday to find her husband dead, after heart trouble. A white rat was killed by Daniel Baker in his Thomasville barnyard on Friday. A fire in Waynesboro caused by yeggmen destroyed the W C Beast storage building with pigeons burned in the loft. insurance claimed, while Robert Stonder of Wayne Heights was injured in an automobile collision with J M Payne of Cavetown.
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Gettysburg
Emanuel Church
Hanovlige
Association of Schools, Colleges and Seminaries
Reformer Church
Lee Oyler
Chambersburg
Oyler
Daniel Baker
Thomasville
Yeggmen
W.C. Beast
Waynesboro
Robert Stonder
Wayne Heights
J. M. Payne
Cavetown
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H. C. Rogers
Monsey
Pillory
Wife Beater
Wan
Rioux City
Charles
Burga
Alewee
Chaimos
Myster
Ward
Ane Duy Wailu
Gibson
Educational Toys
Ives
Effanbee
Quaker City
Father
5. & H. Green
SEEM
Pennsylvania
Paul E. Sell
Standard Store
Hanover
Broadway
Fischer’s Book Store
Waterman Ideal
Hanover, Pa
Wornwa
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