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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1920
Page
8
A damaged report from Uniontown Sept 28 describes a mine explosion at Royle Coal Company near Endorn. Bloodhounds tracked suspects toward Fairmount, with company officials unable to identify the perpetrators amid the explosion’s aftermath.
Sept 28 reports warn of slow moving landslides in the Sundslug Alps of Upper Austria with large tracts of surface, hamlets, forests, and fields moved or destroyed. Giffard Pie, state forester, notes forest protection work amid a governor's proclamation amid annual forest damage in Pennsylvania estimated at $700,000,000.
Harrisburg reports a mail plane numbered 316 crashed after striking a wire over the river near Millersburg. The pilot Kipd is reported dead. The craft had departed Maglehurnt Melt.
Washington Sept 28 A movement led by Frank P J Walsh former United States War Labor Board chairman is active to elect Irish independence advocates to Congress. Rourk Cochran of New York linked with Tammany aims to lead the Irish Independence movement in the House while a Senate bloc led by Walsh of Massachusetts and senators Cathon LaFatlette and Gerry push for measures aiding Sinn Fein governance and consular appointments. The effort seeks to rally labor support and influence legislative action, opposing the League of Nations and aligning with Republican sentiment against the Teague policy.
Lewistown Sept. 28 Albert War ren Swank 19 was badly burned when he saturated his body with gasoline and lit a cigarette. The flames ignited in his bathroom and quickly engulfed him from the neck down before he smothered them with a blanket. He was hospitalized in critical condition.
A vehicle plunged into a Pennsylvania reservoir near Prince Galiltx, Alton, Sept. 23. Fohar 350 of Aiminta died, found twenty five feet underwater, pinned to the wheel. The crash followed by a broken fall of the roadway, with a final note about a help wanted advertisement offering results.
Fragmented report notes a bread price surge, potato costs spike, and a bikers strike affecting local businesses. It details wage tips, restaurant pricing, and measures to curb price gouging, with mentions of Joseph Hagedorn and director Long and various city vendors.
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