Multiple Local Tidiots and Changes Reported in Hanover Area
Sheriff closes J H Plymire restaurant on Center Square and a pension increase raises Cornelius Fitzgerald's monthly benefit from ten to seventeen dollars. George Smith buys York Springs hotel for three thousand four hundred dollars with possession set for April first. William C Herman of West High Street recovers from blood poison and convalesces at home. First Lutheran church gifts Pastor Rev Geo N Lauffer a white bed with springs and mattress plus a cash gift as Christmas presents. council grants Lauffer sixty dollars yearly. Two Hanover dray horses owned by Charles E Ludwig die after collision with Western Maryland Railroad train at East Middle Street crossing. driver Harvey Worley escapes with minor injuries.
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First Lutheran Church
This Place
Geo. N. Lauffer
Lauffer
Charles E. Ludwig
Hanover
George H. Conley
Boston
Edward Bastian
Middletown
Del
Will Carter
Kenansville
N. C
Decatur
Reading
Clyde Young
Philadelphia
Corinth Deposit Bank
Corinth
Congress
Hitchcock
Washington
New York
Lloyd Griscom
Japan
Brazil
Pittsburg
St. Benedict's Academy
Erie
Warren
London
John C. Wright
Nobbsville
Ind
First National Bank of
Indianapolis
Tuesaday
S. B. Dibble
National Christian Temperance Union
Grass Valley
Cal
John McCall
J. H. Wells
James Bester
New Orleans
Irvin Baxter
United States
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Charles Eckoff
Coatesville
Toledo (O.) Traction Company
The Key that UnLocks the Door To Lone Living
The piece notes that elderly men 85 and 90 are thin and spare due to a slender diet and warns that middle aged men may overeat or eat unsuitable foods, needing Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to cleanse and regulate digestion. Sold by Ed. T. Auker druggist.
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Chamberlain
Ed. T. Auker
Two Killed in Wreck Milk Train at Perkiomen Junction
A milk train collided with a freight at Perkiomen Junction Reading railroad on December 28 killing fireman Harry Hartman and front brakeman W S Ellsrode and injuring engineer Albert S Hartman and express messenger Harry McCauley. The milk train ignored signals, wrecking its engine and six cars and delaying traffic for hours.
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Perkiomen Junction
Phoenixville
Reading Railroad
Harry Hartman
Reading
W. S. Ellsrode
Harrisburg
Albert 5. Hartman
Harry McCauley
Lebanon
Druggist's Mistake Kills Girl in New Haven Case
In New Haven on December 26 coroner Frank Mix finds Minnie Evelyn Killingbeck died from mercury poisoning after her sweetheart Frank Tucker a drug clerk mislabeled a poison as headache tablets. A pill box marked headache tablets contained bichloride of mercury and lethal dose was taken by the girl.
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New Haven
Conn
Mix
Minnie Evelyn Killingbeck
Anescaia
Frank Tucker
Miss Killingbeck
Miss Roosevelt Sets Wedding Date For February 17
Miss Alice Roosevelt privately announced the marriage date to select friends. The wedding is fixed for Saturday February 17 with the hour to be announced. Earlier date options were debated but conflicts at the White House prompted the final choice.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Alice Roosevelt
White House
Inmates Paid Interest at Jeffersonville Reformatory
For the first time in the history of penal institutions inmates at the Jeffersonville reformatory received interest on money due for extra work. Payments were made from a special fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeffersonville
Ind
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Awful butchery in Moscow reports flood of casualties and siege
St Petersburg dispatch describes brutal fighting in Moscow with machine guns barricades and artillery. Rebels and Cossacks clash amid darkness as thousands killed or wounded and provisions threatened. Report notes 5000 dead and 14000 wounded with ongoing bombardment and looting near Kursk station.
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St. Petersburg
Moscow
Orechoffsneff
Kremlin
London
Daily Telegraph
Mosco
Kursk
Locomotive Blast Kills 2 in Lehigh Valley Crash
A boiler explosion on a south bound Lehigh Valley freight near Van Etten New York fatally injured Engin eers and killed Fireman Frank Morris and Leon Dennison. The blast also fatally injured Brakeman Henry McMann and Conductor Martin Gallacher and left Engineer Fred Swarthout in critical condition. The wreck disrupted tracks and witnesses described a deafening roar and mangled bodies.
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Lehigh Valley
Elmira
N. Y
van Etten
Sayre
Frank Morris
Leon Dennison
Fred Swarthout
Henry McMann
Martin Gallacher
Widow murdered and robbed in Sullivan county home
Mrs. Sarah Whitmire a 53 year old widow was found murdered in her Muncy Valley Sullivan county home with head battered. Robbery suspected as motive as closets and drawers were rummaged. The crime was discovered by Charles Flick who sought shelter after a storm. She was living alone and died before aid could arrive.
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Williamsport
Sarah Whitmire
Muncy Valley
Sullivan County
Defended His Mother A Son Kills Father in Quarrel
Joseph Pollock, 22, of 138 West Cumberland street, defended his mother during a quarrel with her drunken husband William Pollock. The son struck his father after the elder attacked the mother, fracturing the skull and causing death en route to a hospital. The son is jailed for murder. the mother is a witness. Another son was away at a Christmas entertainment.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Pollock
West
Cumberland Street
William Pollock
Pollock
Pennsylvania Flyer Crash Kills Father and Daughter in Delphos
A horse pulling a buggy collided with the Pennsylvania 18 hour flyer at Delphos Ohio killing Henry Henhorst and his daughter Rose. The tragedy was part of a string of holiday deaths across several states with drownings and accidental shootings reported in Florida and Kentucky.
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Delphos
O. Fort Wayne
Ind
Pennsylvania
Henry Henhorst
Rose
Week's news condenser mix of fires, deaths, and crimes
A roundup of incidents includes a fatal gas pit suffocation in Youngstown, a major fire at the Boys' Reform School near Washington DC with $100000 loss, and a deadly wreck near Reading Kansas. Also noted are suicides, hospital injuries, bank robbery, political retirements, and various local crimes and accidents through December.
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William Moore
Elmer Waldros
Youngstown
Boys’ Reform School
Washington
D. C
Reading
Kan
Elinore Bryan
New York
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Cornelius Fitzgerald
Nonallen Township
George Smith
York Springs
Wim. C. Herman
Weet Ligh Street
Tarney Wabomhok
Honhorst
Pennsy Flyer
Parnassus
Fla
Freund
Cecelia Koeffier
Puckety Creek
Edward Southworth
William Coughey
Arnold
Miss Freund
Southworth
Coughey
Miss Koeffler
Charles H. Hansen
Edna
Reading Railway
Camp Hill
Louisville
Theresa Rousman
George Doll
George Irving Harper
Harper
George Chepraan
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Wix Anutibted
Hazel Kirk
Mary
James Kennedy
Matle
Faston
B. J. Wiliams
Portland
Wes
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