Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Relieve Chronic Pain
The ad proclaims Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills relieve pain repeatedly and aid nervous sufferers without weakening them. Mrs S C Robinson of Chattanooga testifies after 22 years of pain, praising lasting relief. Pills sold by druggists with a money back guarantee. 25 doses cost 25 cents. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Tam
Lave
S.C. Robinson
Carter St
Chattanooga
Tenn
Public Sale In New Oxford During June 27 1908
Public sale advertised by HL Smith at the seller’s Philadelphia street residence New Oxford on Saturday June 27 1908. Items listed include stoves tables chairs beds clocks dishes carpets kitchenware tools coal oil glassware and a large number of unmentioned articles with sale starting at 10 o clock. Auctioneers G BR Thompson K M Straley clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louse Reeving
Philadelphia Street
New Oxford
HL Suith
G_BR
Thompson
K.M Straley
Public Sale of Timberland in Tyrone Township Adams County
By order of the Orphans' Court of Adams County the undersigned will expose to sale on July 2, 1908 at 1 p m a tract of unimproved timberland in Tyrone Township adjoining lands of John Kime Frank Eicholtz and heirs of Henry Hooy deceased containing five acres. Two percent cash due at sale balance November 1 1908 when deed delivered. Cor a E Slothocr Trustee. John D Keith Attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orphans’ Court
Adams County
Tyrone Township
John Kime
Frank Eicholtz
Henry Hooyis
SaLk
Cora E. Slothocr
John D. Keith
Ordinance to Regulate Water Supply Prices in New Oxford
Borough officials enact a 1908 water rent schedule effective July 1 for taps and multiple fixtures. The ordinance sets minimum annual rents for taps, water troughs, stables, urinals, and other uses, and outlines building connections and prior-rate continuities. It repeals inconsistent ordinances and includes attestations and approvals by local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Oxford
W.f.sheely
T_ E. BOWER
Jane
G. A. Elingel
Burgess
Weddings Across Franklin and Adams Counties This June
In Holly Springs on Sunday evening June 7 Charles Slaybaugh of Huntingdon Township wed Miss Lola Hummelbaugh of near Fairfield. Lillian Reiling of Gettysburg married Samuel Lott at Harvy Biggs home in Harrisburg. At Dry Run Franklin County Alien Trostle and May Wolf wed at the bride’s home and plan a New York trip before settling in Arendtsville. Frank W. Sheetz married Margie McLain in Hanover with Squire Witmen officiating. Archie Sowers and Carrie Hummer, both of Gettysburg, also joined in marriage in York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holly Springs
Charles Slaybaugh
Hantington Township
Lola Hummelbaugh
Fairfield
Lillian Reiling
Gettysburg
Samuel Lott
Harvey Biggs
Harrisburg
Adam Reiling
Dry Run
Franklin County
Alien B. Trostle
H. W. Trostie
Frank W. Sheetz
Margie McLain
Aaron McLain
Hanover
Squire LB. Witmen
Robert D. Clare
York
Archie L. Sowers
Carrie J. Hummer
Gettysburg College Student Attacks President During Day Exercise
George W. Kessler of Sac City Iowa delivered a sharp rebuke to G Hefelbower head of Gettysburg College during senior class day remarks. He called for new leadership with bold ideas to attract funds update governance and end years of stagnation. The speech sparked campus debate among students and alumni.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg College
George W. Kessler
Sac City
Iowa
G. Hefelbower
Kessler
Gettysburg
Putin
Local items note accidents and events around town
A farmer, John Groscost, broke his leg from a mule kick while feeding stock on his Straban township farm. Mrs. Calvin Chronister received a birthday party surprise. Mrs. Charles Bucher found two copper coins dated 1740 and 1807 while in her garden. John Gulden repaints two Hanover street houses. W S Hawkins learns he is an heir to Elias Sidie estate valued at $90,000. An York dog auction sold twenty dogs to the Women’s Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and others. Warren La France survives a rat attack at the Scranton courthouse after a long midnight struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Rommel
Straban Township
John Groscost
Groscost
Calvin Chronister
Charles Bucher
White Run
Georgius II Rex
Georgius DT Rex
Bucher
W. S. Hawkins
York
Elias Sidie
Sinking Spring
Scranton
Major Boynton
The
Maccabees
Toledo
Joseph Bartdogle
Chicago
Mattie Brubaker
Brickerville
Lancaster County
Frank Good
Peabody
Kan
Harry D. Hayward
Crown Point
Ind
Albert F. King
Norristown
Henry Lentz
Young Wife Mrs Mabel Weaver Undergoes Appendicitis Operation
Mrs Mabel Weaver wife of Bernard Weaver of the Weaver M P Co was seized with a severe appendicitis attack last week. She was removed to York City Hospital on Saturday afternoon train where she is under treatment and will undergo an operation. Friends express hope for a successful operation and speedy recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mabel
Bernard Weaver
Weaver M.ps. Co
York City
Crow steals rabbits from York Springs nest
At York Springs on June 13 Robert Moorehead saw a crow take a young rabbit from a nest. He found several more young cottontails and covered them with a handkerchief. By evening the crow had carried off all the young, presumably for feeding its future offspring on Bonners Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York Springs
Robert Moorehead
York Spring
Bonners Hill
Big Rattlesnake Report From Arendeville June
In Arendeville on June 13 Mr S Yohe a Gerrysburg baker killed a four foot rattlesnake on a porch after a resident called for help. He also saw a man nearby killing a large black snake as snakes are reported plentiful this summer in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arendeville
Marriages and Visits Noted in Local Area
Marriage licenses listed for Rev David Martin and Miss Mary Byers, Samuel Lott and Lilian Reiling, Arlie Sowers and Carrie Hummer. Visitors include Col and Mrs Wr Wolf arriving from Baltimore at Hotel Oxford and Guy Warner in town. Local families hosting relatives and attending commencements and a fundraising hike through the North Mountains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David &. Martin
New Freedom
Mary 3. Byers
Littletown
Samuel C. Lott
Highland Township
Lilian K. Reiling
Harrisburg
Arlie L. Sowers
Straban Township
Carrie Hummer
Gettysburg
Col
Wr. Wolf
Baltimore
Oxford
Guy Warner
G. Wiest
Fred
Ashland
Ohio
Frank Miller
Ida Holliday
Wiest Miller
Hanover
Geo. A. Muller
East High Street
Henry Emlet
Near Town
Littlestown
Uniontown
Westminster
Pauline Emmett
Center Square
Dickinson Seminary
Williamsport
R. D. Clare
York
Milo Clare
Gettysburg College
North Mountains
Capitol Trimmers Acquitted After Graft Trial Verdict
After fifteen hours and ten ballots in Harrisburg Pennsylvania the jury acquitted Representative H Burd Cassel and Architect Joseph M Huston of capital graft charges. The court instructed the jury to acquit three ex state officers William P Snyder William L Mathues and James M Shumaker of the alleged conspiracy to cheat and defraud the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
Harrisburg
H. Burd Cassel
Joseph M. Huston
William P. Snyder
William L. Mathues
James M. Shumaker
Cassel
Huston
Women drown in New Jersey bathing tragedy and trunk deaths
In Mount Holly near Birmingham New Jersey Lizzie McConnell twenty five of Philadelphia drowned after venturing beyond her depth while swimming with girls. Kate Heptel attempted to assist but could not swim. Alfred Andrews saved Heptel from drowning. In Fall River Massachusetts two Beaudry children aged eight and five were found suffocated in a trunk used to hide from school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Mount Holly
N. J
Lizzie McConnell
Philadelphia
Kate Heptel
Alfred Andrews
Fall River
Mass
Joseph
Andre Beaudry
Large Tax Evasion Find In Allegheny County
More than five thousand individuals in Pittsburg Allegheny County are identified as dodging personal property taxes. The new assessment notes a total subject value of 181 million dollars, four mills per dollar, up about one million from 1907. A.W. Byers 70 of Patton near Johnstown died by tying his feet and sinking face down in a water pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Allegheny County
A. W. Byers
Patton
Johnstown
Mr. Byers
Tragic River Run Kills Six on Pleasure Car
A runaway 25 car carrying a six person party plunges from a West Fifty-sixth Street dock into the North River. Four passengers Adeline Berdon Rose Coleman Johnny Coleman Virginia Knight die. chauffeur John Bauer survives and surrenders to police. The incident follows brake failure during an abortive dock exit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Fifty-sixth Street
North River
Adeline Berdon
Rose Coleman
Johny Colenman
Virginia Knight
John Bauer
John Nolan
Bayer
Bauer
Nolan
Miss Berdon
Seamed Heart Surgeries Save Woman After Stabbing
Doctors at Roosevelt Hospital report Susan Grace a Negro woman may recover after an extraordinary operation to sew shut her heart. She suffered three stab wounds in a fight, one through the right breast another in the back and a third in the left breast as surgeons Frederick Van Croft and C H Peck stitched the heart and the patient withstood the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Susan Grace
Roosevelt Hospital
Frederick van Croft
C. H. Peck
Meat Prices Jump Amid Kansas City Flood
The Kansas City flood will affect almost every American family this week as meat prices are expected to rise three to five cents. Packing houses are flooded hindering slaughter operations for several days. Dealers must rely on cold storage stock and shipments from other cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
America
Maryland Fastest U S Warship. Child Dies After Fire
Rear Admiral Dayton reports the armored cruiser Maryland averaged 22.25 knots on a four hour full speed test while sister ship West Virginia reached 22.1 knots. In Pottsville, three year old Joseph Teasdale burned to death playing with matches after being left alone in his father's study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maryland
U. S
Washington
Dayton
Navy Department
West Virginia
Pottsville
Joseph Teasdale
C. W. Teasdale
Minersville
New York Adopts Agnew Hart Antirace Gambling Bills
Legislature enacts antirace gambling laws restricting penalties for betting and bookmaking at tracks. Chapter 306 repeals a civil recovery provision and imposes a general penalty of up to one year in jail or penitentiary for related gambling offenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnew-Hart
New York
State Racing Commission
Drowning Fatality in Schuylkill Canal At Pottstown
Martin J. McCarthy aged twenty jumped into the Schuylkill canal at Pottstown Pa to cool an overheated body. The sudden cold water caused a fatal shock and he died instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin J. McCarthy
Schuylkill Canal
Pottstown
Drownings and fires mark flood week headlines
Seven people drown in Helena floods. Titusville man dies in epileptic seizure. New Cliff hotel at Newport destroyed with $100000 loss. Also Princeton University gifts tallied, Naval militia yacht Vixen reassigned, and other June 10 16 items recorded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Mont John
Leech
Joseph Graff
Titusville
Board of Trustees
Princeton University
New Cliff
Newsort
R. 1
American Piano Company
Trenton
League Island Navy Yard
Naval Militia Organization of
New Jersey
Stephen Oberhase
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Addison Henry
Baltimore & Ohio
Guiseppe Viscioto
Wilmington
Del
Quotations Baltimore Wheat and Commodities Mixed Markets
Prices show weak Baltimore wheat at No 2 spot 954 percent S544 c and 89 c for steamer No 2 spot. corn dull mixed spot 74 c for steamer. oats steady with No 2 white 39 c and No 2 mixed 56 c. butter firm creamery extras 24 4 25 14 c. eggs steady fancy Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia 16 1 2 c. cattle lower through prime range 7 7 40 to 8 90. sheep higher with prime wethers 5 37 20. hogs active prime heavies 4 90 to 5 75. pigs 5 10 to 5 20.
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Baltimore
Southern
Sic
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
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Elingel
C. A. Blocher
Milner
Pregklir County
Stranser
Albert Nicewander
Hehiyrs
John Gulden
Hanover Street
Ditenhofer & Wagner
Fred Cooper
Mercy Hospital
Cadillac
Mich
Cooper
Daniel Cooper
Mrs. Cooper
Harry
Inez
Samuel
Georgiana
Florence
Robert H. Green
Waynetown
Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
That Place
Indianapolis
State
Green
William K. Kennedy
Crozer Hospital
Chester
William
Chester Creek
Joseph Vanea
Vanea
E. Cole
Albert
Spartanburg
S. C
National Congress of Mothers
New Orleans
John D. Pickles
St. Paul’s Church
Boston
Massachusetts
Charles Reibe
Rudolph Ploetz
Prairie du Lac
Wis
Ursula Hunges
Jerry Lynch
Buffalo
Otto Susdorf
Gertrude Kennedy
Erie
Wea
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