Telephone company stock sale mobilizes Frederick staff
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company Frederick office launches a 3 million dollar stock selling drive with 3 groups among operators plant and commercial staff. Subscriptions fund Maryland plant and equipment and aim to surpass a Wisconsin record. Local teams vie for quotas and the campaign emphasizes sportsmanship and broad subscriber outreach.
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Frederick
Chesaapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Paull. Payne
Payne
Maryland
United States
Wisconsin
Wisconsin Telephone Company
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company
Snow and frost hitFrederick County fruit crops
Cold spell brings frost across the county with a mix of rain and snow. Reported damage appears limited but alfalfa withers and early fruit varieties show risk. Weather forecast promises rising temperatures and a warmer tomorrow amid unsettled conditions. Gettysburg also reports heavy frost harming early pears peaches and apples though the commercial crop escapes major damage.
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Woodsboro
Frederick
Middletown
York
Gettysburg
Auto Reciprocity Referendum Considered in Washington
The Washington District Commissioner and Engineer Commissioner Keller plan a referendum among Washington motorists who belong to the American Automobile Association on gasoline tax reciprocity with Maryland. A positive result could lead to a District tax similar to Maryland’s. Most District motorists reportedly oppose a new District gasoline tax. Maryland license requirements affect many cars crossing the state line.
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Washington
Keller
American Automobile Association
Maryland
Congress
Maryland line
Market trading shifts as oils lead early session
Oils held early gaiza in New York trading this morning before shifting to rails motors utilities and other sectors. Call money opened at 3 12 percent. Col D John Markey attended a luncheon in Washington at the Metropolitan Club hosted by Secretary Weeks in honor of Marshal Joffre.
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New York
Oils
sual
Call money
Col
D. John Markey
Metropolitan Club
Washington
War Weeks
Marshal Joffre
France
Pittsburgh Small Mills Raise Prices On Metals
Prices on bars plates shapes nails and sheet bars were raised from 2 to 3 a ton by several smaller mills in the Pittsburgh district. United States Steel Corporation and larger independents did not raise prices, but officials expect the move to persist after the coal strike ends. The rise is blamed on smaller mills lacking blast furnaces and rolling mills, forcing purchases on the open market.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Flood Aid Passes Senate and House for Mississippi River
The Senate and House approved $1,000,000 for flood control on the Mississippi River. Immediate availability under terms of the measure. The action followed a proposal by Southern members and approval by Secretary Weeks and Budget Director Dawes.
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SENATE
HOUSE
Associated Press
Washington
Missisippi river
Weeks
Dawes
Raiders Wreck Sligo Newspaper Plant in Ireland
Armed men raided the offices of the Sligo Champion in Sligo Ireland on April 21 smashing type frames for this week s issue and tearing up 19 000 partly printed copies to stop coverage of Sundays meeting where Arthur Griffith spoke for the Free State treaty.
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Associated Prexza
Sligo
Ireland
Sligo Champion today
Arthur Griffith
Dail Bream
Man killed in ninety foot plunge from smokestack
Milton Michael fifty of Hanover Pennsylvania died after a rigging broke while he started painting the Hanover Creamery Company smokestack at the Taneytown plant. He was hurled ninety feet to the roof and then to the ground with fatal injuries. He left a widow and three children.
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Milton Michael
Hanover
Taneytown
Hanover Creamery Company
Michael
Baltimore street
Blockade of Mexico Advocated by Senator King
Senator King of Utah urged the Senate to blockade Mexican ports until American damages for life and property in Mexico are compensated. He argued the measure would press Mexico to settle claims and protect U.S. interests during the Mexican situation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mexico
Senate
King
Utah
Chang Tso-Lin troops seize control of Peking and Tien Ts in incident
Peking and Tien Tsin were taken over by General Chang Tso-Lin’s forces today, replacing local police. The transfer of authority occurred without incident.
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CHANG
PEKING
Chang Tso-Lin
Manchuria
Tien Tsin
Navy Would Keep In Service Hundred Reserve Officers
Washington reports the Navy Department plans to seek Senate approval to amend the naval appropriation bill and retain 100 naval reserve officers in active service to keep about six masters of naval auxiliary vessels. The reserves were commissioned during the war. In a separate note, treasury officials said higher taxes will likely be needed to cover an anticipated fiscal year shortfall of about 50 million dollars, due to a growing deficit.
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Associated Press
Washington
Navy Department
House
Apr
treasury
Anti flood forces push levees as freshets loom
New Orleans April 21 Activity of the anti flood forces along the middle reaches of the Mississippi increased today with freshets expected from tributary streams. The fight centred between Arkansas City Arkansas and Greenville Mississippi where several new spots in the embankments were noted during the night. Hundreds of men are at work raising the levees to meet the danger.
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Associated Press
New Orlans
Mississippi
Arkansas City
Ark
Greenville
Miss
Dying wife accuses husband before death in Bridgeton
In Bridgeton New Jersey April 20 police seek Charley Johnson after Emma Johnson died shortly after being found on the floor of their Elm Street parlor. The dying woman said he would get her and did amid weeks of drinking and constant quarrels. An autopsy will determine cause. In Atlantic City April 21 Des Ter Gunn and his wife Eliza were found dead in their upstairs hotel room with bullet wounds, jealousy cited as motive.
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Bridgeton
N. J
Charley Johnson
Emma Johnson
Elm street
Nellie Wisham
Johnsons
Shore
Atlantic City
New Windsor to Union Bridge road award announced
The State Roads Commission awarded a contract to Thomas Bennett and Hunter of Westminster for a 3.63 mile stretch from New Windsor to Union Bridge at a cost of 183 865 52. The project aims to create a direct 30 mile highway between here and Westminster, via Liberty Johnsville Union Bridge and New Windsor, and to eliminate the death curve on the Lewistown pike. Oil operations on state roads in the district will begin around June 1.
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State Roads Commission
Thomas, Bennett and Hunter
Westminster
New Windsor
Union Bridge
Carraill county
W. F. Childs
Liberty
Unionville
Liblerty
Johnsville
Union Bidge
Lewistown
Childs
Tichester road
Howard county
Charles Town Prepares for Logan Kanawha Miner Trials
Charles Town W Va gears for the Logan Kanawha trials beginning Monday with hundreds of miners witnesses and others arriving. A business committee asks residents to host diners and lodging while grounds of the Charles Town Horse Show Association may be leased for sleeping quarters and a tent for cooking. Harper's Ferry may house many defendants and witnesses. About 290 travelers are expected Friday on a special train carrying 105 docketed cases from murder conspiracy to misdemeanor tied to Blair Mountain clashes.
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Charles Town
W. Va
Jefferson county
Charles Town Horse Show Association
Harper's Ferry
Charles‘Bown
John Gore
Blair Mountain
Logan
Boone county
California gas blast kills estimated hundred
Associated Press dispatch from Los Angeles reports Downey, a town about 15 miles northeast of Los Angeles, suffered a gas explosion with deaths estimated at a hundred or more. Ambulances and police responded as authorities confirmed the casualty toll.
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Downey
Los Angeles
Associated Press
shet
World Woman's Organization May Be Formed
Dr Bedrich Stepanek, Czech minister, urged forming a world women's organization with the Pan American conference as a nucleus at the Pan American conference of Women in Baltimore. He argued the scope should extend beyond geography to unite all women, and speakers stressed standards of employment to protect health, welfare, and happiness of workers and dependents.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Women today
Bedrich Stepanek
United States
Czecho Slovakia
Stepanek
Stepanek gait
hhis
Mise Mary McDowell
committee on Women In Industry
U. S
Heavy Snow Fails to Change Western Pennsylvania Strike
Pittsburgh April 21 heavy snow blankets coal country as union organizers and mine operators press the strike. Fayette county reports little overnight change and the general view is no clear progress. Steel industry attention centers on how mills adapt as executives say plans to handle the disruption are now in operation and showing results.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Fayette county
Skull Fractured by Locomotive in Stewartstown Incident
John McAfee of Stewartstown was struck by a Stewartstown railroad locomotive, suffering a fractured skull. He was transported to York Hospital for treatment.
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York
John McAfee
Stewartstown
York Hospital
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