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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1917
Page
2
The ordinance defines highways and vehicles, sets rules for passing, turning, waiting, and parking, establishes right of way for police and emergency vehicles, mandates signals and lights, restricts speeding and loads, governs horse care, and requires safe operation of taxis and carriages within the borough.
The document records an ordinance enacted on April 3 1917 by E C Livingston and council secretary Thos E Bower with approval by Burgess Geo. Hum mer on June 23 1917. It sets fines up to 100 dollars for violations and penalties including jail time for nonpayment.
New Oxford Borough Adams County Pennsylvania petitions the State Highway Commissioner for aid to reconstruct a 500 foot section of the Lincoln Highway through the borough. The resolution commits the borough to pay half of total improvements when completed as permitted by the May 31 1917 act and supplements.
Resolutions from New Oxford Borough Adams County request state highway aid under the May 31 1917 act to improve a 5000 foot Lincoln Highway segment from Fast to West. The borough urges Adams County to join the state in extending aid and to cover one fourth of the total expense when due.
In Harriaborg Pennsylvania on June 21 1917 a presidential proclamation urges unmarried men ages 18 to 40 with no dependents and not in essential war work to enroll during a designated recruiting week. The goal is to enlist 70000 for the regular army. Signed Woodrow Wilson.
AGettysburg area report covers William W. Bankett finding an old land turtle on P Emory Millars Tyrone township farm. Recutting names from 1884 and 1861 on the shell is visible. The piece also lists prosecutions by Gettysburg board of health, arrests for furnishing liquor to soldiers, a fatal drowning near Goldsboro, storm damage in Cumberland County, and local deaths.
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