Baltimore contracting co sells 166 horses and mules to buyers
Notice to farmers and city buyers that 166 horses and mules will be sold by order of the Baltimore Contracting Company. Prices range from 25 to 65 dollars for horses and 75 to 100 dollars per pair for mules. Stock is young and suitable for many purposes. Sale proceeds at rate of 20 head weekly plus 10 fat mares. Call at 2828 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Baltimore, Md. superintendent available. phone Madison 1615.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore Contracting Company
Wilcome Sound
N. B
Pennsylvania Ave
Mae Baltimore
Madison
Public sale at Ezra Myers farm Tyrone township details horses cattle implements
An owner plans a public sale at the Ezra Myers farm on the New Chester and Five Points road in Tyrone township. Items include six horses, 18 dehorned cows and heifers, 30 hogs, extensive farming implements, carriages, wagons, and various household goods. Sale starts 9 am with 10 months credit or 5 percent cash discount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyrone Township
New Chester
Five Points
Ezra Myers
Poland
China
Surrey
Hench & Drumgold
Oarman H. Myers
Kimmel & Crist
Auds
Smith & Cashman
Clks
Public Sale on M. C Myers Farm in Mountpleasant Township
Auction set for Thursday February 15 1912 at 120 o clock. Ammon McIntire and partners sell 5 head of horses and 1 mule 8 head of cattle 9 head of hogs and a full line of farming implements and vehicles. Terms include 11 months credit or 5 percent off for cash. Located 24 miles NW of New Oxford near New Chester road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. C Myers
Mountpleasant Township
New Oxford
New Chester Road
Jersey
Guernsey
McCormick
McCormick Mower
Mountville
Bissell
Osborne
Gale
Ammon McIntire
Crist
Straiey & Cashman
Notice of Property Recovered by Edwin Fair Tyron Township
Edwin Fair of Tyrone township Adams county Pa holds possession of articles claimed as his property and warns against trading or dealing for items including multiple horses cows heifers a Frick traction engine a Peerless thresher wagons gear and implements and a corn planter listed by Joseph Hultz of New Oxford Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Fair
Tyrone Township
Adams County
Frick Traction
Joseph Hultz
New Oxford
News Subzerive Leads Carlisle Street Notice
Fragmentary office notice references Carlisle Street and reading ITEN items. unclear details prevent full transcription of action, dates, or authoritative bodies involved.
Numerous Local Couples Wed in January Ceremonies
A series of January weddings are reported across York Adams and neighboring towns. Harriet Butter and Geo Rider wed in New Haven Connecticut. Celesta Rohrbaugh and Daniel Robert married in Christ Reformed church parsonage. Emma Motter and Ernest Lindablum tied the knot in York. Elizabeth Stouffer and George Trout wed in Hagerstown. John Bushey and Ellen Wagner married in Arendtsville. Earl Martin and Martha Devenport married in Hanover. George Kimmel and Euelah Spahr Dennis united in East Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel A. Robert
Conewago Township
Celesta Rohrbaugh
Manheim Township
York County
Christ Reformed Church Parsonage
F.S. Lindaman
Elizabeth Stouffer
Hagerstown
George Trout
Adams County
G. I. Rider
John Albert survives explosion injuries in East Berlin
Mr. John Albert of East Berlin, badly hurt by a home explosion at his daughter's house, spent Sunday with his daughter in Philadelphia street and still bears marks from the incident. Dr. W F Ruff visited town due to his brother's illness, and Helen Himes left for York with plans for a Bermuda trip with her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Albert
East Berlin
Chas. C. Brown
H. I. Smith
Philadelphia
Albert
W. F. Ruff
J. A. Ruff
Mr. C. A. Ruff
Helen Himes
Center Square
Robi. Manley
York
Kate W. Himes
Bermuda Islands
C. M. Stough
Pitt Street
Geo R. Osborne
Westminster
H. K. Schnell
Hanover Street
Social visits span multiple towns in Central Pennsylvania
From New Chester Wesley Slaybaugh and family of Center Mills spent Tuesday with N J Waltman and wife Milton Wagner and wife spent Sunday with David March and family near Bendersville John McIntire and daughter Alma spent Sunday at the home of his son James in East Berlin A supper for St John Reformed church will be held here on Friday evening J Frank March wife and daughter Mary spent Sunday with Joseph Weaver and family near Heidlersburg Reuben Wert and wife of Biglerville spent Sunday with Mrs Elizabeth Hulick and son Harry James Heller and sister of Biglerville spent Sunday with Jacob Emlet and family Mrs Gervis Cool and Mrs Coops of Granite Station spent Wednesday with Mr John Jones Misses Mary Shank and Anna Stauffer of York spent Wednesday with the former's uncle Jacob Trimmer and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Slaybaugh
Center Mills
N J. Waltman
Milton Wagner
David March
Benderaville
John McIntire
Alma
James
East Berlin
St. John Reformed Church
J. Frank March
Mary
Joseph Weaver
Heidlersburg
Reuben Wert
Biglerville
Elizabeth Hulick
Harry
James Heller
Jacob Emlet
Gervis Cool
Coops
Granite Station
John Jones
Mary Shank
Anna Stauffer
York
Jacob Trimmer
Two Local Deaths Reported In Wisconsin and York
George H. Crist of Wiota slipped on ice at Bittinger last Saturday and cut above his right eye. Frank Steininger, Civil War veteran, was found dead in York, frozen to the floor with no fuel or food, over $700 in his pockets. He likely died from paralysis and freezing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George H. Crist
Wiota
Bittinger
Frank Steininger
York
Steininger
Notable Local Tragedies Reported In Abbottstown Area
Brother Simeon of the Paradise Protec tory fractured a bone in his left arm after a slip on ice near Abbottstown last Tuesday. Milton Burg, 65, a Windsor Township farmer, was found hanged in his hog pen with notes indicating suicide due to presumed madness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simeon
Paradise Protectory
Abbottstown
Milton Burg
Windsor Township
York County
Ecuadorian General Montero Executed by Mob in Guayaquil
General Pedro Montero once hailed as a hero was captured after clashes with government forces. Court martial sentenced him to sixteen years, provoking a furious mob that stormed the courtroom and killed him, then mutilated his body and burned the head and trunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pedro Montero
Guayaquil
Ecuador
Montero
Flavio Alfaro
Quito
Eloy Alfaro
Flavio Elfaro
Medardo Alfaro
Ulpiano Paez
Manuel Serrano
Mud and Guise of Butter Case Leads to Arrest
S W Vining of Wayne Illinois is charged with selling mud for butter and using the mails to defraud. Pearsall Butter Company of Elgin Illinois claims a 650 dollar butter purchase yielded Illinois clay. Vining was arrested in Altoona Pennsylvania after arrangements with Elgin police and waived extradition to Chicago for postal defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. W. Vining
Wayne
Altoona
B. S. Pearsall
Pearsall Butter Company
Elgin
United States
Pearsall
Vining
Illinois
Peargall
Chicago
Terre Haute Family Poison Pact Fatal End
In Terre Haute Indiana Gertrude MeVey aged twenty narrates a murder suicide plot by her father to wipe out his wife and three children insisting William E MeVey Mrs MeVey and their five month old child died from poison. Neighbors found the trio in a two room shack after Gertrude’s frantic screams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
Gertrude MeVey
William E. MeVey
Steel Bill Passed As House Approves Tariff Revision
The Democratic bill revising the Payne Aldrich iron and steel tariff law cleared the House 210 to 109 amid Republican protests and extended debate. Final passage saw twenty Republicans join Democrats including Berger of Wisconsin. Republicans Jackson Murdock and Young of Kansas and others opposed or split on the measure.
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House
Wonderwond
Berger
Wisconsin
Jackson
Murdock and Young
Kansas
Aikin
New York
Davis
Linabergh
Minnesota
Haugen
Woode
Hubbard
Iowa
Warburton
LaFollette
Washington
Lenroot
Moore and Nelson
Norris, Sloan and Kinkead
Nebraska
Kent and Stephens
California
Lattery
Oregon
Helgersen
North Dakota
Brandeis Attacks Steel Labor Policy in Senate Hearing
Brandeis denounces wage hardship in the United States Steel case calling England’s steel industry humane. He cites 72 hour weeks and 24,722 workers, with 12.26 percent earning 12 to 14 cents and 69 percent under 16 cents an hour as he argues stock distribution harms workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis D. Brandeis
Boston
Vr. A. Reid
United States Steel Corporation
Stanley Steel Trust
Washington
Reid
Stanley
Brandeis
Gary
Charles P. Neil
England
Mr. Stanley
Mr. Brandeis
Carnegie
Steel Corporation
Ireland
D. A. Reijd
Commissioner of Labor
John A. Fitch
Russell Sage Survey
Ms. Stanley
Iron and Steel
Old Dutch painting found in Boston cellar
A $10,000 painting by Anthonie Palma de Staelerts, an early Dutch master, was discovered grime covered in a North End cellar by a junk dealer. Experts have verified its genuineness and it is among Staelerts largest works, about 25 inches high. The 17th century piece is now valued at ten thousand dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Meissner
South Boston
Freind
North End
Boston
Anthonie Palamedes Staevaerts
Staevaerts
Hunter Killed by Wolves Near Birch River Michigan
A hunter and his two dogs were found near Birch River Michigan, five miles from Lake Superior, after a fight with wolves. Four wolves lay dead around them, and one dog lay with its teeth sunk into a wolf it had slain, the hunter identity unrecoverable due to wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lie
Birch River
Mich
Lake Superior
Wears Out Glass Heels At Washington Fashion Event
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth shows off cut glass heels on slippers as part of a Washington fashion debut. Her gown features tulle shoulder wings and a two part train that parts to reveal sparkling heels during dances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas Longworth
Washington
Longworth
Survivor guinea pig pulled from Equitable ruins in New York
A guinea pig aged sixteen days was found alive in the ruins of the Equitable Building in New York City. A chemist from the medical department discovered the animal in the shattered lab, and the exhausted survivor greeted the rescuer with squeals. It is hoped the creature will not be used in further experiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable
New York City
Medical Department
Atlantic City Boss Fined and Sentenced for Graft
Louis Kuehnle longtime Republican boss of Atlantic City and county received one year in state prison and a $1000 fine for awarding a timber conduit contract to a firm in which he had a direct interest while water commissioner. George Amole and Thomas McDevitt were sentenced to six months and three months respectively for conspiracy to defeat election laws in 1909. Frank Enderline John Unsworth and J Harry May, county freeholders implicated in graft, got one year each. all appealed and were freed on bail pending higher court review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Kuehnle
Atlantic City
Atlantic County
Supreme Court
May's Landing
N. J
Kalisch
Kuebnle
George Amole
Thomas McDevitt
Frank Enderline
John Unsworth
J. Harry May
County Board of Freeholders
Bogus Elk Teeth Made by Japanese in Omaha Scandal
Local jewelers uncover a major swindle involving bogus elk teeth sold nationwide. The teeth, claimed to come from Indian mounds and valued at $1.35, are said to be walrus tusks processed by Japanese workers in Seattle. A counterfeit western trader posed as a hunter to bolster the scam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Order of Selkcs
Seattle
Dog Convicts Barn Burner In Venango County
Lowry Hoffman of Venango County Pennsylvania was convicted at Franklin of burning his brother’s barn and livestock last August. The verdict cited bloodhound evidence tracing the scent from the ruin to Hoffman's home as a key factor. Judge George Criswell noted Pennsylvania case law on this point is unsettled though other states allow it. Hoffman allegedly burned the barn to avenge his brother’s sons testifying in a separate stealing incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris County
Hamilton
E. M. Robinson
Atlanta
Sloton
Norman Hadley
Hadley
Belle Hathaway
John Moore
Eugene Haming
Robinson
Lowry Hoffman
Venango County
Franklin
George
Criswell
Pennsylvania
Hoffman
General Markets Philadelphia Flour and Commodities Dip
Market notes show quiet trading in Philadelphia with flour around 3.85 to 4.10 per barrel and corn and oats holding firm. Poultry, butter, and potatoes listed with steady to firm prices across various grades and categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Western
Live Stock Markets Pittsburg Yard Prices
Pittsburg Union Stock Yards reports steady catyle at 7.05 to 7.08, prime sheep and wethers around 4.60, lambs near 6.85, veal calves about 9.60, hogs active with heavy and medium hogs 6.56 to 6.76, pigs 5.5 to 6.76, cattle and related goods showing varied bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Union Stock Yards
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. Snyder
Carlisle Street
New Oxford, Pa
Harry McLean
New Haven
Emma Motter
Levi Motter
Littlestown
Ernest Lindablum
Jos. Peters
John F. Bushey
Ellen L. Wagner
Arendtsville
D. T. Koser
Earl Martin
Martha Devenport
McSherrystown
Rev
A. M. Heilman
Hanover
George S. Kimmel
Harrison Kimmel
Reading Township
Euelah A. Spahr Dennis
Elias Spahr
W. H. Miller
Arisors
Kuehnle
Harlem
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