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Newspaper
Petersburg Daily Progress
Location
Petersburg, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1916
Page
3
Byron and Sons of Hagerstown Maryland and Mercersburg Pennsylvania were cited by the Pennsylvania Fish Department for prosecution over failure to install proper filters at their Williamsport tannery. The notice indicates cross state action and a focus on pollution controls.
A firm claims the Fish Commission has unreasonably pressured it to install a $269,065 filtration system to prevent contamination of Conococheague creek and other streams. The company says the cost is prohibitive and has advised authorities of their position.
In the House of Commons today Bonar Law reported a German assurance that Captain Blaikie, captured after the Coludomia sinking, would not share Captain Charles’s fate who was executed after conviction for attempting to ram a submarine. The promise, conveyed to the American Embassy in Berlin, claimed Blaikie acted in duty, not malice.
Miss Net tie Richardson a 40 year old former cashier from Pittsburgh hotel won a 170000 verdict against Henry Doniston a 75 year old Swissvale recluse billionaire for breach of promise in Common Pleas Court after a weeklong trial. Doniston known for a multimillion fortune reportedly resides on a farm near the city.
Fire at the old Federalsburg High School building uncovered a speakeasy used as a hiding place for stolen goods. Henry Thomas and William Dickenson, who were seeking their missing items, discovered a room half full of straw with bootlegger sleeping areas. Hundreds of whisky and beer bottles were secreted about, and a stolen blanket was found. The School Board had abandoned the building two years earlier, and firefighters contained the blaze before major damage.
In Rockingham county Virginia the first hard cider case under Prohibition is heard. Calvin Bare of Genoa is summoned before the magistrate after sheriff inspectors found 75 gallons of cider and three gallons of molasses in a shanty. Officials note the cider tested up to 2.89 to 51 percent alcohol and that the law allows only 1 percent.
Public auction to sell in Hopewell Virginia on December 28 1916 at 11 o clock a m by virtue of a deed of trust dated April 29 1916 and a circuit court decree of November 22 1916 The sale includes lease No 25 on Eppes Landon Railroad Avenue and improvements with rents from subleases plus a portion of lot 106 Railroad Avenue and machinery used in ice cream making Also includes lease to let No 9 block 5 in Buren Subdivision Prince George County Va The sale begins with the corner Hopewell Street and Railroad Avenue then proceeds to other properties Cash terms a 200 deposit Parties to contact E W Tyler Trustee or Robert Gilliam Petersburg Va
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