Reward Offered for Opium Drug Findings in Miles Remedies
An offer promises a reward for detecting even a single atom of opium chloral morphine cocaine ether chloroform heroin alpha or beta cocaine cannabis indica or chloral hydrate in any Dr Miles Remedies. The notice cites tamper resistant original packages and cites testimonials from users like A ILNG of Philadelphia praising Miles Anti Pain Pills as a headache remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
A. Ilng
Philadelphia
Tacoma Street
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Round Hill Socials Mention Weekend Visits
From Round Hill Pleasant summer weather noted as residents report Sunday visits by John Nitchman his wife and Roy son Mrs Frank Naylor of the locality also Bowers and son of Table Rock spent time with Martin Wentz family. Several others including Misses Bessie and Goldie Naylor with Miss Mable Bosserman and Mrs James Simpson with sister visited At Asher Chronister's. The community was shocked by the sudden death of Mrs Jacob Crone. John Wolf and wife with nephew visited Elseworth Border on Sunday. Calvin Bosserman and wife of Amatus joined their son James Bosserman at his home. Mr Ira Masemore of Boiling Springs visited here Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Nitchman
Roy
Frank Naylor
Mr. Bowers
Table Rock
Martin Wentz
Bessie
Goldie Naylor
Mable Bosserman
Amatus
James Simpson
Asher Chronister’s
Jacob Crone
John Wolf
Elseworth Border
S. Calvin Bosserman
James Bosserman
Ira Masemore
Boiling Springs
Council Proceedings May 5 Regular Session
Council met in regular session with Hulick Hersh Sheely Feiser present. Minutes approved. Building permits granted to A C Dieh J H Hoover and John M Bream. Gutters on properties to be inspected and notified. Ordinance warns against ball playing on Circle and public square with police power to arrest and detain violators. Feiser joins Halick on Finance committee. Bills 49.31 approved: Water 16.72 Borough 32.59. Action planned against United Tel and Tel Co for 1907 pole tax nonpayment. Adjourned to June 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs
Hulick
Hersh, Sheely
Feiser
Sheely
A. C. Dieh
J. H. Hoover
John M. Bream
M. D. Feiser
J. M. Halick
United Tel. & Tel. Co
T. E
Bower, Sec’y
Trolley line to run through Bendersville soon
Work crews have prepared the route for the Mount Holly Gettysburg trolley in Bendersville. Promoters visited yesterday and assured construction will begin in the near future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bendersville
Mount Holly
Gettysburg
Hanover home sold after drunken altercation near store
Luther Melhorn of York, formerly of near this place, sold his Hanover residence to W. K. Jordan on private terms. A drunken fight at midnight in front of N. B. Carver & Sons near Hanover resulted in the large plate glass window of Elmer E. Wentz's dry goods store being broken by a stone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Melhorn
York
Hanover
W. K. Jordan
N. B. Carver & Sons
Elmer E. Wentz
Local residents visit kin and friends in towns and cities
Mr. O. S Wagner spent several days at his parents home in Arendtsville. Mrs. Fred Frank of Sparrow's Point visits her mother Mrs. Louisa Cook. Harriet Cook of Hanover Street returns from Sparrow's Point. Mr. M. J. Smith and Blanche of Columbia were here Sunday. Mrs. Smith and Marion stay with her sister Mrs. H. I. Smith who is ill. Grace Smith of McSherrystown visiting. Mrs. Jos N Hemler and son Ray of McSherrystown were here Monday. T B Himes of Mt. Joy visited friends in town. Mrs. Caroline Robinson and daughter visited Philadelphia with grandson Wins ter Carl Breighner. Mr. Geo. W. Day and family and Mr. William Harman and wife of Uriah Cumberland spent Sunday with Mr. J. W. Fanns. Squire R. M. Straley and family and Mrs. Catharine Straley with William A. Wagner enjoyed several days at York Springs and Dillsburg. Annie Myers returned home Friday after months with her sister in Johnstown. Charles Myers of Pitt Street spent days in Harrisburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. S Wagner
Town
Arendtsville
Fred, Frank
Sparrow’s Point
Louisa Cook
Hanover St. Mies
Harriet Cook
M. J. Smith
Miss Blanche
Columbia
Caroline Robinson
John F. Miller
Winster Carl Breighner
Philadelphia
Geo. W. Day
William Harman
Uriah
Cumberland County
J. W.fanns
Squire R. M. Straley
Catharine Straley
William A. Wagner
York Springs
Dillsburg
Annie Myers
Johnstown
Pitt Street
Charles Myers
Harrisburg
Good Roads Survey Under Way For Conewago Road
Edward S Frey of York and a team from the State Highway Department surveyed 13 miles of the Bonneauville road from Plum Creek near McSherrystown through Brushtown to Conewago Creek. Conewago township supervisors seek Sproul Good Roads improvement based on a preliminary survey. A petition to improve the road to Mt Rock is pending with the department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward S. Frey
York
State Highway Department
Bonneauville
Plum Creek
McSherrystown
Brushtown
Conewago Creek
Conewago Township
Highway Department
Mt. Rock
Turnpike Repaired Between Hanover and East Berlin
Abbottstown May 8 The turnpike between Hanover and East Berlin is being repaired by owners Howard Young and John Brough of Hanover. A heavy steam crusher removes large stones and levels the road. The Berlin and Hanover Turnpike Co originated in 1810 with commissioners Samuel Fahnestock John B Arnold William Patterson Boreus Fahnestock Tobias Kepner and Frederick Baugher. The first recorded meeting was December 11 1811 electing President Samuel Fahnestock and a board including Peter Becker Peter Bender Daniel Baker John Deardorff Michael Geiselman Valentine Hollinger John Miley Ludwig Swartz John Fox Jacob Hoffman and William Patterson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbottstown
Hanover
East Berlin
Messrs
Howard Young
John Brough
Berlin and
Samuel Fahnestock
Peter Becker
Peter Bender
Daniel Baker
John Deardorff
Michael Geiselman
Valentine Hollinger
John Miley
Ludwig Swartz
John Fox
Jacob Hoffman
William Patterson
Union of Cigarmakers 316 Organized at McSherrystown
June 25 1890 the Cigarmakers Union 316 of McSherrystown organized with twelve members. Current membership is 910 with sick benefits around 32000. Last year receipts 17000 total benefits 10000. Bank deposits total 36054.02 at Han and MecSherryetown banks. Benefits funded for heirs avoided. instead strike sick death traveling and out of work relief provided to members.
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Cigarmakers Union 316
McSherrystown
Bank of Hanover
Adams County Medical Association Monthly Meeting Attended
The Adams County Medical Association met in New Oxford Social Club parlors on Monday with Drs. Rice, Miller, Cashman, Specz, Merriman, Dalbey, Stewart, Sheetz, and Mrs Palmer in attendance. A gate in Hanover caused Mrs Palmer to fall Monday evening, injuring her right arm and bruising her face.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adams County Medical Association
New Oxford
A. O. Rice
McSherrystown
I. O. Miller
Abbottstown
E. W. Cashman
York Springs
Geo. E. Specz
Pampton
Leroy Merriman
Arendtsville
J. P. Dalbey
Henry Stewart
Gettysburg
J.L Sheetz
Andrew Palmer
Hanover
Mrs. Palmer
Death toll mystery at Guinness farm deepens in Indiana
Autopsy findings on bodies linked to Mrs Belle Guinness saga show Andrew Helgelein died unnaturally and Jennie Olsen's death cannot be determined due to decay. State officials theorize Ray Lamphere set the house fire as part of a broader murder plot involving the Guinness family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Porte
Ind
Belle Guinness
J. H. William Meyer
Andrew Helgelein
Mansfield
S. D
Jennie Olsen
Smith
Cutler Morgue
Lamphere
Helgelein
Guinness
Mrs Guinness Not a Mother in Adopted Family
Chicago May 12 reports from Austin allege Mrs Belle Guinness did not bear the children who carried her name but adopted all of them in infancy. Andrew Olsen, cousin of Mads Sorenson, says neighbors and relatives spoke of the adoption as common knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guinness
Chicago
Austin
Belle Guinness
Andrew Olsen
Mads Sorenson
Chicks Hatch Deaf in Allegheny Tool Box Breeding
In Pittsburg on May 12, six weeks after a worker left two dozen eggs in an abandoned tool box inside the round house, steam pipes kept the box at 103 degrees. A first hatch yielded fourteen sooty chicks, a second hatch twenty more, all deaf, due to the heat and coal dust. An additional hatch is expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
Round House
Corner Stone Laid By President For Peace Temple
President Roosevelt lays the corner stone of the first international temple of peace friendship and commerce in Washington on May 12. Leaders of twenty one American republics attend as dignitaries deliver addresses and a cable sentiment is read from abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cardinal Gibbons
Bishop Cranston
United States Marine Band
Carnegie
International Bureau
Washington
Roosevelt
Root
Nabuco
Brazil
Andrew Carnegie
Circus Wagon Runaway Kills Two Horses in Cleveland Parade
Eight horses pulling a circus wagon with a hippopotamus in it ran away down Scranton road hill. The two front horses broke loose and the last pair were crushed by the wheels. keepers calmed the trapped hippo as the wagon halted after a fatal crash. The second item reports a $1,250,000 fire in Atlanta destroying two solid blocks, the Terminal hotel and Piedmont Hat company among the flames, with 200 guests inside the hotel escaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Cleveland
Scranton Road Hill
Atlanta
Terminal
Mitchell Street
Madison Avenue
Forsyth
Piedmont Hat Company
Senate approves agricultural bill and forest road funds
The Senate passed the agricultural appropriation totaling 12 142 146 dollars and increased forest road and permanent improvement funding to 1 million dollars. Senator Rayner of Maryland proposed a court of inquiry into charges against Colonel William J F Stewart at Fort Grant Arizona. Vice President Fairbanks marked his fifty sixth birthday, but was away in Chicago delivering an address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House of Representtives
Rayner
Maryland
William J F. Stewart
Fort Grant
Arizona
Fairbanks
Chicago
Mad Soldier Kills Three in Philippine Troop Tragedy
A telegram to the adjutant general reports Mike Beacham a private of the first United States cavalry killed three and wounded three comrades in a fit of insanity in Troop F Manila May 12. The dead include William Hoey G Wilson and Thomas Woodward. Edward Woodward was fatally shot. Details are sparse.
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Philippine
Manila
Adjutant General
Mike Beacham
First United States Cavalry
William Hoey
G. Wilson
Thomas Woodward
Edward Woodward
First Cavalry
Fire Destroys Stables and Threatens Atlanta Theatre
A blaze in the Piedmont stables on Marietta Street near Spring, Atlanta, caused $100,000 in damage as 175 horses burned and a crowded Orpheus theatre on a nearby block faced panic when someone shouted fire. Scores fled but restraint prevented a worse crush. Six people were injured in the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Piedmont Stables
Marietta Street
Spring
Orpheus Theatre
Tragic Death by Suicide in Philadelphia Suburb Visit
Mrs Elizabeth McPhilomy of Wayne Pennsylvania suffering temporary insanity ends her life on an open Philadelphia lot near her sister s home. She cuts her throat with a butcher knife after leaving a bed and is pursued by her brother in law as she collapses about 100 yards away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth McPhilomy
Wayne
Philadelphia
The Negro Consumptive Debate at Richmond Conference
Dr. Charles B. Grandy spoke on The Negro Consumptive before the public health section of the national conference of charities and corrections in Richmond Virginia. He noted tuberculosis deaths are nearly three times higher among Negroes than whites, suggesting a physical predisposition and that mental defect hinders the black man from coping with urban life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Grandy
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Richmond
United States
Headache Tablets Fatal to Ohio Child
Mildred Wilson a three year old of Upper Sandusky Ohio died after eating about six headache tablets her mother found her in convulsions and doctors failed to save her life within an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mildred
Lewis Wilson
Upper Sandusky, O
Record of Western Pennsylvania's smallest newborn
Dr. A J Colborn of Connellsville affidavit recounts a one and a three quarter pound girl born to Mr and Mrs Hertzog in Morrell Pennsylvania. The second child weighs more than the first and is thriving for a preterm infant while the newer sister is developing and expected to live.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zaby
A. J. Colborn
Connellsville
Pennsylvania
George Hertzog
Morrell
Jury awards $1500 for Lydia Thurston death in Millville case
In Millville New Jersey 1907 a large brick stack collapsed at the J T C Wheaton glass works killing Lydia Thurston. Damages were awarded to her parents Lena Doughty and Sylvia Gallagher after witnesses described the fatal accident and jury deliberations set the verdict at fifteen hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland
Millville
N.J
J T. C. Wheaton Company
Lydia Thurston
Lena Dnoughty
Sylvia Gallagher
Specter
Ana Rockea
Crewmate’s Wife Burned in Alleged Cremation Plot
In Kulpmont, Cushner and accomplice Job Cardish are accused of forcing Cushner’s wife into a dough tray and burning her with papers around her, in a plot to cremate her. The victim is severely burned and doctors fear for her recovery.
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von Cushner
Kulpmont
Neue Shamoukia
Cushner
Job Cardish
Uae
Wustiras
Dundee Creamery Heads Fined in Schuylky County Case
J Lenderman head of Dundee Creamery in Fitts burg and N Be Burns Bly agent were fined $1300 total over thirteen indictments in Pottsyville Pa. for illegal sales. Authorities say the men had extensive business dealings and a confiscated store or goods were seized in the past weeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olec
J. Lenderman
Dundee Creamery Company
Fittsburg
N. BE Bburns Bly
Pottsyvile
Schuylky County
OL Seduyski County
Falls Three Stories Into Baby Carriage
A three year old boy falls from a third floor tenement window while feeding sparrows. He lands seated in a baby carriage left on the sidewalk. A crowd gathers as his mother hurries downstairs expecting the worst. The child is frightened but unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Prendelbitt
Cut Off Little Sister's Hand in Farm Accident
In Shippensburg Pennsylvania on May 12 a nine year old girl attempting to chop birch with a heavy axe severed the wrist of her six year old sister. The incident occurred on the Amberson valley farm of C. B. Stake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Sister
Shippensburg
C. B. Stake
Amberson Valley
May 6 1907 Briefs Fredericksburg to Harrisburg And More
Local option election in Fredericksburg Virginia reports 700 votes with a 31 vote majority. Frank Paese hanged in Dauphin county jail yard Harrisburg for a 1906 murder. John McCarthy Pennsylvania newspaperman dies at Weatherly. Princeton Theological Seminary awards seven $600 fellowships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fredericksburg
Frank Paese
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Charles Lehman
John McCarthy
Pennsylvania
Weatherly
Hazleton
Princeton Theological Seminary
Shaw
Houston
Tex
Lanning
United States Court
Trenton
N. J
Frank Wyant
Edmund Price
New Jersey and West Virginia Bridge Company
White House
Cardinal Logue
Ireland
Cardinal Gibbons
Mgr. Falconio
Grain and butter prices in Baltimore market report
Quotations show steady Baltimore wheat and corn with various grades and spot prices. Butter remains soft with creamery and prints ranges. eggs steady across Maryland Pennsylvania and southern states.
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Baltimore
Southern
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Egus Steady
FREY
Pennsyvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Jie
Live Stock Markets Pittsburg Stock Yards Report
At Pittsburg Union Stock Yards cattle were strong with several grades reaching seven dollars and higher. Sheep trended lower with prime wethers around six eighty to six seventy five and lamb prices showing strength in the mid forties to high forties. Hogs remained active with varied weights and prices from about five to six and a half dollars, roughs and other classes noted in lower ranges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Union Stock Yards
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Round Hill
Council Proceedings
Good Roads Survey
Mrs. Guinness
Frida
J. W. Titus
Scranton
Naples
Jobn Williams
Orchard Street
Board of Food and Drug Inspection
Cortelyou, Wilson and
Strauss
Edward R. Lowndes
Marine Corps
W. E. Loucke
Selma
Southern Pacific
Reedley
Margaret Kierowskis
Charles B Warrington
William McIlhenny
Adams County
Punxsutawney
John Becke
Helen I. Moses
Christian Woman's Board of Missions
Indianapolis
Illinois
Mercer
Henry
Jacob Pouch
Warsaw
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