Mayor Plans Potato Import to Lower City Prices
Pettaville officials report Mayor Mortimer and Edward Pierce planning to import potatoes to sell at cost to curb high food prices. They cite abundant local stocks held by speculators driving prices toward two dollars per bushel. Mortimer predicts prices will not reach that level. Also notes public boycotts easing some costs and mentions Gen. W. A. Hardy of Oklahoma City at 102.
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Pettaville
Pottsville
Pierce Mortimer
Mortimer
Bursting Boiler Kills Two at Saw Mill Disaster
Two men died instantly when a boiler exploded in the Charles Detwile sawmill boiler room in Hullskin township near Connetteville Pennsylvania. Fireman John Shaffer, 29, and William Hallam, 30, were crushed. Milton Bryer, standing about 100 yards away, was cut and bruised. Investigators suspect low water in the boiler caused the blast.
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Connetteville
Charles Detwile
Hullskin
Here
John Shaffer
William Hallam
Guard
Shaffer
Hallam
Milton Bryer
Boffer
Vote for Railway Strike by Nashville Emploees
Nashville Tenn December 1 Emploees in engine train and yard service of the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railroad vote in favor of flatline. The men want joint conference with brotherhood heads while management says grievances will be taken up separately. Official count shows 1.2 per cent of the men favor tribe. United States yearly import 50,000 birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis
Nashville, Tenn
Dee
Nashville, Chattanooga and
St Louisa
Peyton
New Vicks Vap-O-Rub Salve Promises Bronchitis Relief
A 25 cent Vicks Vap-O-Rub salve advertisement touts relief for bronchitis asthma catarrh and head colds. It claims the vapors absorb through the skin to ease chest throat and nasal congestion and suggests applying on the spine for nervous tension. No internal medicines needed.
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Vick
Alan
Valdeney
VICKS
Pennsylvania Fatalities Hit Record in October Across Industries
Harriskburg December 1 The October fatalities in Pennsylvania industries reached 287, the highest monthly total of the year, surpassing August by 41. The October tally of killed and injured reached 21,065 with a daily average of 829, while up to November 11 total employment mishaps stood at 209,483 and 2,114 fatalities. For 1916 daily losses averaged 820 killed or injured with a monthly mean of 21,773 injuries.
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Harrknburg
Pennsylvania
John Price Jackson
Big game in Webster county prompts bear hunts
In Webster and Pocahontas counties Webster state reports many hunters headed to headwaters of Eli Gauley and Willams rivers. Numerous black bears killed with the market paying fifty cents a pound for bear hams. A local note on abundant game across the mountains.
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Charleston
W. Va
Webster County
Eli Gauley
Willams
Webster
Pocahontas
He Will You Go to the Dance with Me Dialogue
A brief dialogue exchange where He asks to attend the dance with She. She declines and suggests Pit introduce a handsome and clever girl, but He insists he wants She, not another option. The scene centers on romantic intention and stubborn resolve between the characters.
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Pit
Tiger
Cascarets AdPromises Gentle Liver Cleanse
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a safe, gentle liver and bowel cleanser. It claims relief from biliousness, headaches, and constipation and suggests giving Cascarets to sick children for gentle action without prompting griping.
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W. A. Hardy
Oklahoma City
United States
Baltimore
Nec
Pauline Flaherty
Charley Yee
Boston
Tondon
Pomierry
India
Madras
Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Fane
Massachusetts
Berkshire Hills
Crane Mills
Crane
Erick
Eaton-Crane and Pike Co
Frederick
Hagerstown
Harvey E. Smith
Drayman
West Fifth Street
Frederick, MD
Hopolte
Americas
East Patrick St
Frederick Gas & Electric Co
PERLE
Ughiuan
The
Ape
Storm & Shipley
Prphives
North Market Street
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