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Newspaper

New Oxford Item

Location

New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Mar 19, 1908

Page

12

Nervine advertised by Miles Medical Co touts nerve cure

An advertisement for Dr Miles Nervine claims to restore nerve strength to cure ailments tied to nervousness and indigestion. A Worcester woman testifies to rapid relief and lasting improvement, with the product sold locally and a money back guarantee from the druggist.

Miles’ Nervine Howard Ford Summit Ave Worcester Mass Miles Miles Medical Co Elkhart Ind

Sudden Death of Hamilton Township Resident Mr Roland

Mr Josephus R Roland died suddenly from apoplexy at his York pike home near town on Tuesday afternoon aged 79 years 3 months 16 days. He had a history of frailty after a hay wagon accident. Survived by wife invalid three sons Edward Linus Milton and daughter Mrs John B Ferry. Funeral 9:30 Friday at the house with services then burial in Avubottstown Lutheran cemetery.

Josephus R. Roland Hamilton Township York Pike Roland Edward Linus Milton Lancaster County John B. Ferry Near Town Avubottstown Napoleon, O J. Wood Lukens Longmead Iron Company Conshohocken Norristown Birmingham Marshall County Kentucky Congress Tawney Joseph Sartine St. Louis Acheson Pennsylvania Brooklyn Sea Cliff L. I House of the Mississippi Legislature Hugh Bonner New York Bright W. G. Thompson Palmer Hardware Company Burlington N. J Savannah David Pratt Bilings Montana Board of Stock Commissioners Helena Peter Graver Shoenersville Howard Steele Chicago Frank Fuller Rittersville Thomas G. Penn Pittsburg American Sheet & Tin Plate Company South Sharon George W. Whittington Gloucester Mias College Hill Cincinnati Frederic Echoff Philadelphia National Mothers Congress Washington

Public Sale of Entire Livery Outfit in New Oxford

Ill health prompts Charles H Haar J Crist and auctioneers to sell a full livery outfit at public sale on Saturday March 21 1908 at Pitt Street Stables Borough of New Oxford. Items include seven horses four top buggies wagons sleighs harness robes and farming implements with sale starting 12 30. Terms disclosed by auctioneers and clerk.

Pitt Street New Oxford Surrey Dayton Portland Chas. H. Haar J. B. Crist R. M. Straley

Public Sale of Mummert Estate in Adams County Pa

On March 21 1908 Annie E Mummert administratrix will offer at public gate the real estate of Jacob S Mummert late of Hanover Adams County Pa. A tract on York Gettysburg pike Oxford Township containing 18 Acres 119 Perches more or less with a frame shed and threshing floor. Valued land in high cultivation. Auction by MKS Annie E Mummert William Ensor Auctioneer.

Jacob Mummert Borough of Hanover York County Orphans’ Court of Adams York & Gettysburg Pike Oxford Cay Halas Adams County Vincent Staub Frank Miller Othe8 MKS Annie E. Mummert WN. Ensor Auct

Administrator's Notice for Margaret F. Miller Estate

Executor L. Hemillet, Mountpleasant Township, Adams County, Pa, announces Letters testamentary were granted. Debtors to the estate must pay immediately and creditors should present valid, authenticated claims for settlement. Located in New Oxford, Pa.

Margaret F Miller Tyrone Township Adams County Margaret F. Miller Mountpleasant Township L. He Millet T New Oxford

Wanted Fifty men to learn auto operation at Harrisburg School

Advertisement seeks fifty young men or boys to train as automobile operators earning 20 to 40 dollars weekly. Apply Harrisburg Auto School at Third and Hamilton Streets, care Harrisburg Automobile Company, Harrisburg, Pa. 1-16 Communicated. A complaint about town safety is included along with an endorsement for Bucklen's Arnica Salve from D N Walker of Louisa Virginia.

Harrisburg Auto School Third & Hamilton Sts Care Harrisburg Automobile Company Harrisburg D.N. Walker the Enterprise Louisa Ep. T. Auken Draggist

Group listing monthly payments for various residents

The text lists names and places with monthly payment amounts of 12, 15, and 20 dollars. Individuals from Gettysburg, York Springs, Two Taverns, Irishtown, Arendtsville, and Get tysburg are named along with routes like R F D No 1 and Tillie, indicating a distribution or subscription record.

Henry Becker Hanover Wm. H. Frock Gettysburg David Hartzel Tillie Wm. G. Small Bittinger John Flaharty Geo. W. Keefer York Springs Isaac W. Hankey Lewis Carbaugh James A. Lawrence Irishtown Isaac T. Schriver James Hersh Henry Little Arendtsville David Brougher John Zinn Daniel Bowers

Local Option Campaign Funds Sent By Gettysburg Groups

The W C T U of the county names Gettysburg committee members Mrs Geo Houck Mrs Kate Wolf Mrs Twis den and Mrs Helen Keith to collect and turn funds to the County Committee Treasurer for Local Option. A county canvass will follow once candidates are announced and Miss Sallie Blair is appointed to collect in New Oxford.

Gettysburg Geo. Houck Kate Wolf Twisden Helen Keith Temperance Sallie Blair New Oxford

Will probated for Jesse Diehl of Mount Pleasant Township

The will dated January 6 1863 in Suffolk Virginia was probated Monday. Jesse Diehl a Union Army soldier left all to his wife. Witness John S Eckenrode and Jerome M Lawrence were reported killed at the Suffolk battle. Eckenrode died soon after returning home from typhus fever.

Jesse Diehl Mountpleasant Township Suffolk Virginia Diehl John S. Eckenrode Jerome M. Lawrence Mary A. Smith Pitt Street Eckenrode

Notary Public Appointment and Local Auction Notice

Daniel Straley is appointed notary public with offices in this town and Gettysburg. An auction will be held Friday and Saturday March 20 and 21 at the residence on Carlisle Street New Oxford selling store goods notions glass and queensware beginning at 7 o clock EK. M. Negsy

Daniel Straley Gettysburg Frank Sheely Mountpleasant Township Mary Holtzworth Louise Foster Chambersburg G. Allinger Hanover Street Carlisle Street New Oxford EK. M. Negsy

Tillman Denounces Executive Encroachment in Senate Speech

Senator Tillman delivered a fierce address accusing executive overreach and denouncing corruption on Wall Street. He urged the finance committee to probe New York national banks for perpetual capital in speculative enterprises. He warned of predatory wealth pitting capital against labor and criticized political influence on the presidency.

Washington Tillman Senate Committee On Finance New York Boyecott Supreme Court White House Mr. Tillman

Rosenthal Arrest Follows Reading Murder Warrants

Abraham Rosenthal, sought in Reading Pennsylvania on a murder charge, is jailed in Perry Oklahoma after Billings arrest last Wednesday. He initially denied identity but later admitted it. He plans to go to Reading without requisition papers. Noble County sheriff will proceed east with him.

Guthrie Okla Abraham Rosenthal Reading Perry Billings Rosenthal Noble County

Father and Two Sons Blown to Atoms in Pa

Greensburg Pa March 17 Three males from one family were killed in an explosive accident at Acme Pa when David Brown and his two sons used twenty five pounds of dynamite to blast stumps. A large hole appeared and body fragments were scattered. the father's trunk was recovered while only small pieces of the sons were found.

Greensburg Acme David Brown

Two Meet Fiery Death In Farmhouse Fire

The bodies of Lydia Carter of Bordentown and William Fleck of Roebling were found among the ruins of a farmhouse between Florence and Roebling near Burlington New Jersey after a Sunday night fire. The building on the English farm had been unoccupied. a farmer first found Carter and later the coroner recovered Fleck. The pair were seen together on Saturday.

Lydia Carter Bordentown William Fleck Roebling Florence Burlington N. J Carter Fleck

Four men found guilty in Pennsylvania capitol conspiracy case

The Harrisburg jury convicted John H. Sanderson William P. Snyder W L Mathues and James M Shumaker of conspiracy after six hours deliberation. Motions for new trials were filed and the next case targets H Burd Cassel as the state pursues further conspiracy charges. Matthew Kraschefsky, seventeen, admitted to shooting his father Louis Kraschefsky in Wilmington Delaware after failing to leave home and seek work.

Pennsylvania Capitol Harrisburg John H. Sanderson William P. Snyder W. L. Mathues James M. Shumaker Dunkle Kunkel Sanderson Snyder H. Burd Cassel William L. Mathues Frank Irvine

Treasury Clerk Shoots Wife in Washington Home

Hugh Hollis a treasury department clerk and former private secretary to the internal revenue commissioner killed his wife at their New ton street residence in Washington DC. He had obtained a revolver days earlier and, waking from sleep, shot as she attended their child claiming he dreamed of burglars. Hollis woke later with no memory of the act and has maintained an otherwise excellent reputation.

Hugh Hollis Treasury Department Louisville Internal Revenue Newton Street Washington, D. C Hollis

Jeweled Relic of Fire Horror

Henry Moyer and Dr. Thomas J. B. Rhoads found a human hand amid the burned remains of Boyer town opera house. Exhumation revealed a gold ring and diamond bracelet belonging to Miss Gwendolin Mayer, who with her father Dr. Charles E. Hayer perished in the blaze. Her brother identified the ring as her class emblem.

Henry Moyer Thomas J. B. Rhoads Boyertown Gwendolin Mayer Charles E. Hayer Mayer

No Local Option In Maryland House Report

An unfavorable committee report was issued on the local option bill from the Maryland Anti-Saloon League. The house’s adoption of the report and refusal to substitute the measure suggest little likelihood of temperance legislation this session.

Maryland Anti-Saloon League

Tragic School Shooting Then Suicide In Georgia

Miss Sarah Chamberlain Weed of Philadelphia killed Miss Elizabeth Bailey Hardee of East Savannah and then died by her own hand at the Laurens School in Boston. The bodies were found by Mrs. Page, the school matron. Weed had been treated for nervous prostration in Newton and had earlier escaped a sanitarium before entering the school with Hardee.

Sarah Chamberlain Weed Philadelphia Elizabeth Bailey Hardee Savannah Laurens School Boston Page Miss Hardee Miss Weed Newton Stedman

Son Kills Father After Being Reprimanded Over Employment

A man killed his father following a scolding about job seeking. Police report indicates motive rooted in alleged unemployment disputes. The incident prompted an investigation and a manhunt before arrest.

Man hanged for 1907 Shenandoah murder in Pottsville

Charles Warzel was hanged at Pottsville Pennsylvania for killing his teen sweetheart Mattie Bolinsky in Shenandoah on May 25 1907. He walked from the prison to the scaffold with Sheriff Evans and the Rev. A Ziebura. He spoke briefly in broken English and fainted after about five minutes.

Charles Warzel Pottsville Mattie Bolinski Shenandoah Evans A. Ziebura Minersville

Orchard Wants to Die Confessed Murderer Ready for Punishment

Harry Orchard, who confessed to killing former Governor Frank Steunenberg, will face Judge Fremont Wood on his forty-second birthday next Wednesday. He rejected his plea of not guilty and any lesser charge, saying he is guilty and ready to take his punishment. The public believes Orchard seeks the death penalty, embracing the extreme sentence for his crimes.

Boise Idaho Harry Orchard Frank Steunenberg Caldwell Fremont Wood Orchard

Ex Judge Buchanan Wounded on Southern Train in SC

Ex judge O W Buchanan of Winnsboro D C was shot through a day coach window on a Southern railroad train near Ward 8 0 as it moved from Columbia to Augusta. The bullet grazed the window ledge and entered his right side leaving him in critical condition. The attack is believed to be malicious.

Buchanan South Carolina Augusta O. W. Buchanan Winnsboro D. C B R. Tillman Columbia Judge Buchanan Southern Railroad

Gillette Must Die Governor Won’t Interfere

Albany March 17 Governor Hughes will not intervene in the execution schedule for Chester Gillette of Cortland condemned for the 1906 murder of Grace Brown in the Adirondacks. He has read the Court of Appeals ruling and evidence, and believes Gillette is guilty.

Hughes Grace Brown Albany N. Y Chester Gillette Cortland Grace Billy” Brown South Otselic Chenango County Big Moose Jake Adirondacks Auburn Court of Appeals Gillette

Election Commissioner Maguire Dies in Court Plea

John Maguire, Brookyn election commissioner and noted lawyer, collapsed in county court during a larceny trial before Judge Fawcett. He fainted while arguing the defendant's innocence, and died from apoplexy in front of the startled jury and spectators.

New York John Maguire Brooklyn Fawcett

Week's News Condensed Highlights From March

A concise roundup covers a devastating fire in Napoleon Ohio destroying the largest school building in the state with a 110000 loss. Obituaries include J Wood Lukens of Longmead Iron Conshohocken and other notable deaths. The summary notes racial violence in Kentucky and various political and legal developments across the United States during March.

Quotations From The Principal Markets

The Latest closing prices show firmer wheat with No 2 spot at 974% 69T%c and steamer No 2 at 92% 93c. Corn remains steady with mixed spot 683 63c and steamer mixed 59 59%c. Butter steady with creamery extras 3vu 3ilc and Maryland dairy prints at 19 20c. Eggs steady with fancy Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia values around 20c and southern 19c.

Baltimore Southern C. Gare Mary d Pennsylvania Maryland Ennsylvania Virginia West Virginia

Pittsburg Stock Yards Market Report

Pittsburg stock yards show cattle steady to choice around 58 to 575, sheep higher with lambs 57.60, veal calves 7.25 to 7.75, hogs active including heavies and mediums at about 5.00, light hogs 1.96 to 4.965, pigs 4.40 to 4.50.

Pittsburg Union

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Mr. Roland Mra. Dietterrich Rev Dietterrich Squire Jacob A. Appler Mt Joy Squire Appler Appler H. H. Eckert Helen Shively J. A. Eckert Lilly Ferry Conewago Township Dougherty McSherrystown Squire Lilly Sadie Gulden Rame Township Oklahoma Matthew Kraschefsky Louis Kraschefsky Wilmington Del Gilette
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