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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
2
Reports from Hagerstown Westminster Frederick and Waynesboro describe a severe hail storm on June 6 and 7. Homes and crops were ruined with estimated damages ranging up to 750000 dollars. Roofs damaged windows shattered and gardens wrecked across multiple towns.
On registration day 2441 men aged 21 to 31 filed their blanks across county polling places with totals at Abbottsown 21 Arendtsville 24 Bendersville 23 Berwick 42 Biglerville 37 Butler 90 Conewago 120 Cumberland 88 East Berlin 23 Fairfield 22 Franklin 134 Freedom 35 Germany 69 Gettysburg 32 Hamilton 60 Hamiltonban 131 Highland 28 Huntington 8 Latimore 95 Liberty 48 Littlestown 18 McSherrystown 128 Menallen 116 Mt Joy 68 Mt. Pleasant 116 New Oxford 63 Oxford 65 Reading 82 Straban 86 Tyrone 52 Union 60 York Springs 15. Elizabeth Batter, 83, of Shippensburg, marks a half century of Sunday school attendance at Memorial Lutheran. The body of Jack Landen Layea, 5, a Western Maryland fireman, was recovered in Hagerstown. D. Harry Seyler, 40, Edison Electric Light foreman in York, died after contacting 2300 volts. Ammonia fumes killed Oliver Shealer of Gettysburg in Lancaster. Paul Zeigler, 830, died from injuries when an elevator fall at a York plant caused a broken back. San Salvador, capital of El Salvador, destroyed by earthquakes and eruptions. Frank Rife of York sent to Eastern Penitentiary for 3 to 5 years for robbery. Pullman Car plant in York sold for 260000 to National Products Co. of Newark, NY.
An advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh cure not aided by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The text praises the honesty of a signer and claims internal consumption and direct action for treatment. It mentions price and distribution through a national bank of marble. the wording is garbled and partly unreadable.
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