Fresh and cured meats at bottom prices now on hand
Local butcher advertises full line of fresh and cured meats available at consistently low prices. Shop emphasizes a steady stock and affordable options for daily needs and special meals.
05 Feb 1914
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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1914
Page
1
Local butcher advertises full line of fresh and cured meats available at consistently low prices. Shop emphasizes a steady stock and affordable options for daily needs and special meals.
Com. va Wm A Higham was found no true bill after Judge Swope disqualified over Gettysburg Water Co. ties. Civil trial list shows nine cases of which five settled. Notable rulings include verdicts not guilty for Paul M Starner and Clarence Yenser, harsh sentencing for Leo Carr, a six month jail term for Jacob Moore, and clemency actions for Clarence Heagey. John Seasely appointed Biglerville burgess. several continuances and forfeitures noted.
Regular session notes from February 2, 1914 document discussions on water drainage from E M Neely to A P Wagner, street grading on Hanover Street, clearing obstructions on Hanover and alley openings behind Webler Wolf and Sheely properties, and a new public building site inquiry. Also approved are a street lamp placement on Philadelphia Street and an ordinance on digging drama. Reports on finances and a flood of local incidents follow in the broader column.
Marriage licenses filed by Clerk of Court include Hawn C Appler of Mt Joy township and Myrtle B Snyder of Mt Pleasant township, John W Grove of Gettysburg and Beulah E Sherman of Mt Joy township. Miss Mary Bierman, 22, missing since Wednesday night, recounted being struck on the head and left unconscious while crossing a bridge near Bethlehem, with no description of her attacker. In Watts township an Atlantic Refining driver and two of Albert Hammaker’s children were killed or injured when a wagon rolled after skidding on icy ground. one horse also died in the crash.
John Erbel a former Syracuse steel mill boss was executed in Lycoming county prison Williamsport for murdering Grace Stidfole a twenty year old woman of the underworld. He said liquor made him irrtoneable before his death and that Monor led him to crime after she refused to quit her life. The girl lingered four months after the Nov 8 1912 shooting.
The New Jersey House approved a constitutional amendment extending suffrage to women by a 49 to 4 vote. Opponents were J. J. Griffin and Leonard of Union, Nutting and Quigley of Essex. The measure moves to the Senate and would require re passage by the next legislature before a public vote.
James Sherman aged 42 from Mahanoy City fell from a freight train in the Philadelphia and Reading railroad yard at Tamanua Pa. and was decapitated by the wheels.
In Dupont near Wilkes Barre Pa a store robbery ends with merchant Friend firing on two burglars. Thomas Chowanis seventeen? fifteen? shot and hospitalized in critical condition with chest and spine wounds. John Rudy eighteen held at pistol point. Rudy allegedly confessed to multiple thefts including Friend’s store looting.
In Andover Massachusetts a will of Melville Cox Day an alumnus of Phillips Academy who died December 29 in Florence Italy leaves three hundred thousand dollars to Phillips Academy for general school use unrestricted The bequest aims to support the school without restrictions Killed as He Kloses Baby Reverend G J Tidwell pastor of a Baptist church was killed at his East Macon Georgia home when a pistol dropped from his pocket exploded as he bent to kiss his two year old baby The minister carried the pistol to keep children from handling it.
Market notes show flour quiet at 3.75 per barrel with 350 toll rates. No. 2 red and yellow oats steady or lower. oats 44 to 46 cents per bushel for lower grades. Poultry steady with hens around 18 to 19 cents, old roosters 11 to 12 cents, turkeys 16 to 18 cents. Dressed poultry firm with choice fowls and roosters at 13 cents, fancy creamery butter steady. eggs around 36 cents for nearby and southwest markets.
A brief market note shows weak wholesale demand in Chicago with bulk sales around 8.80 to 8.35 per unit. Trade descriptions reference Ben Us 5 1 and Saceean as cursory identifiers in the region.
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