Auto theft ends in chase near Hanover
Police cornered two men during a holdup near Pleasant Hill after they stole C. W. Gardner’s auto from Gettysburg. The pair forced Chief Smead and Bixler at gunpoint and fled toward Baltimore pike, wrecking the car 300 yards later. Authorities tracked them to Manchester, Md., but no arrests were made. The suspects, believed from Baltimore, are about 45 and 20 years old.
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Hanover
Smead
Claude Bixter
Bell Telephone Company
C. W. Gardner
Adams County
Baltimore Pike
Recorder Gardner
York Springs
Gettysburg
Crabbs
York Road
Strausbaugh
Bixler
Chief Smead
Blooming Grove
Pleasant Iill
Manchester
Baltimore
Chinese Labor Exports Rise for French Munitions Work
A London representative reports large shipments of Chinese and Indo Chinese labor to France for munitions factories. He cites transfer rates of 2,000 to 3,000 per ship and notes only the best workers are sent, with contracts promising double wages and return of bodies for dead workers.
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Chicago
Entsin
China
France
Indo-China
Tientsin
French
County Farmers Institute Managers to meet on June second Tuesday
The County Board of Farmers Institute Managers will meet at the County Commissioners Office on the second Tuesday of June to arrange the season's institutes. Members include local State Board of Agriculture, county representatives, Pomona Grange, County Alliance and allied groups.
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County Board of Farmers’ Institute Managers
County Commissioners’ Office
State Board of Agriculture
County Board of Agriculture
Pomona Grange
County Alliance
Board of Institute Managers
Sunday school delegates gathered for Third district convention
Adams county Sunday school workers held the Third district annual convention at Mt. Joy church drawing large crowds. Officers elected include President F A Waybright and Vice Presidents W R Jones Luther Kohler and Ralph Tagg with Secretary John Shue and Corresponding Secretary Dr C A Spangler. Fred C Stock of Hanover has resigned from the Evening Sun repertorial staff after two and a half years.
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Adams County
Mt. Joy
F. A. Waybright
W. R. Jones
Luther Kohler
Ralph Tagg
John Shue
C. A. Spangler
Fred C. Stock
Hanover
Evening Sun
Man Released on Forgery Charge Becomes Wealthy Landowner
Charles Ross, once arrested for forgery and released on his own recognizance thirteen years ago, had his case dismissed by Judge Willis. He is now described as a wealthy landowner in Mexico after being told to go make good by Superior Judge B N Smith in 1904.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Charles Ross
Willis
Ross
Mexico
Jie
B. N. Smith
Auto Funeral for Philadelphia Fox Terrier Wrinkles
Wrinkles the sixteen year old fox terrier of Professor Mauritz Leefson was buried in Fred Triplett's animal cemetery in Camden. It was an automobile funeral after four trips to Europe. The dog rested in a rattan basket, and was known to many West Philadelphia residents.
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Philadelphia
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Farmers’ Institutes
American Press Association
Ilavre
Geo. A. Miller
Lincoln Way
East
New Oxford
Noachum
My Home Maid Way
New Chester
Hunterstown
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania State Live Stock Canitary Board
Nvadium
J. W. Mill James
Hambletonian
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Harrlebureg
Q. J. Marshall
James W. Millhimes
United Grocers Corporation
Toledo, Ohio
United Food Products Mfg
Wilkes-Barre Who
United Printing Company
the Rice Grocery Company
Central Brokerage & Importing Co
S.R. Smith Company
Grantham Preserving & Pickling Co
Adams County Preserving Co
Harrisburg Wholesale Distributing Co
York Wholesale Distributing Co
Toledo
Ohio
Wilkes-Barre
Harrisburg
York, Pa
Quaker Oats Company
Cream of Wheat Company
Heinz
New York Stock Exchange
C.C. Truax & Company
Second National Bankg
Engineer’s
Cleveland
Calder Building
C. C. Truax & Company
United, Grocers Corporation
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