Boards Fight Move to Cancel Poor Aid System
Adams county directors of the poor join other counties and private charities in opposing abolition of poor boards. They endorse elected boards handling all county aid and circulate petitions to governor and legislature, arguing current system is efficient and fair while likening outside social workers as less capable. All board members attended the Friday meeting in Gettysburg with attorney Edgar K. Markley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County Directors of the Poor
State Senate
House of Representatives
Waynebboro
Red Cross
Edgar K. Markley
Gettysburg
Santa Claus origins and late 19th century sale notice
A fragment discusses Santa Claus evolution from the Dutch boy bishop St. Nicholas to the jovial modern figure, noting English unfamiliarity a century ago and Dutch roots in New York. The text then shifts to a public sale notice from Adams County Pennsylvania, detailing a parcel in Conewaro Township seized under a fi fa and offered by Sheriff B W Spence on January 16, 1937, with conditions and penalties for noncompliance.
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Santa Claus
St. Nicholas
England
New York
America
States
London
Coup of Common Pleas
Adams Coun
Court House
Borough of
Gettysburg
Adams County
Conewaro Township
Pennsylvania
Hanover Improvements Company
Recorder’s Office
Linden Avenue
Th Street
Chieser
Francis E. Langerman
Beulah F. Laugermaen
B. W. Spence
Mothers Night to Christmas History in England Told
London Tit-Bits summarizes the oldest English Christmas name Moddra Night or Mothers Night and its customs a contrast with later Yule and Mothering Sunday. the piece notes the fading of Mothers Night and its regional survival in England while Samuel E Strauser is charged in Harrisburg with driving 45 mph on Harrisburg road in a large truck and semi trailer before Justice of the Peace Williams Brown.
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England
London
Samuel E. Strauser
Harrisburg
Justice of the Peace
Williamsrown
Hunterstown
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