Public Service Commission hearing on Potomac Telephone rate rise
Washington County Board of Quality Commissioners will register the fight against the Potomac Telephone rate increase at the Public Service Commission. J O Snyder appears for the board. Mayor Bowman opposes the rise and many towns plan to join a July Baltimore conference to map countermeasures. Commissioners also disposed of routing road work and other matters.
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Potomac Telephone Company
Public Service Commission
Washington County
Hagerstown
See Rennett
Baltimore
Young Mother Hikes To Find Husband In Baltimore
Viola Catanese an 18 year old mother traveled on foot from Cumberland to Baltimore in search of her husband who she says works at a location in the city. She washed a baby carriage and accepted rides when offered during her journey. The details describe her methods and the purpose of the trip.
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Viola Catanese
Baltimore
Cumberland
What is the use of living and gendered health claim
An old advertisement argues that women suffer fatigue headaches backache nervous irritability and despondency as inherent to their sex. It promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a safe old fashioned remedy made from roots and herbs, boasting fifty years of restoring women to health and strength.
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Lydia EK
Pinkham
Ady
Cumberland Woman Stranded Reaches Officer After Overnight Walk
Sparrows Point report says Mrs Catanese left Cumberland early Sunday and, exhausted and hungry, was found by Patrolman Charles Bishop in the Western district. She told police her husband had left for Baltimore days earlier and that she had no funds to ride by rail, so she began walking.
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Sparrows Point
Cumberland
Charles Bishop
Rockwell Gets Six Months For Rum Running
Charles BH Rockwell of Williamsport was sentenced to six months in Franklin County jail by Judge Gillan in Chambersburg Circuit Court for rum running. He received the same six month term for carrying concealed weapons, with sentences ordered to run concurrently. Rockwell was arrested by state police near Mercersburg with five gallons of whiskey and a revolver. he said fog caused him to stop in Mercersburg while en route.
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Charles
BH. Rockwell
Williamsport
Franklin County
Gillan
Chambersburg
Rockwell
Mercerabure
Mercersburg
ByLaws Change for Fair Association Charter
The article notes the Fair Association received its 1854 charter and a Legislature adopted a bill to modernize it with two new by laws. It mentions no further specifics and ends with an advertisement for Dr Leonhardt's Hemroid tablets sold at local drug stores.
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Ion
The
Fair Association
New By Laws Adopted for Lagerstown Fair Association
A new set of by laws to govern the Lagerstown Fair Association was formally adopted at a board meeting yesterday. The document does not differ materially from the existing laws governing the organization.
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Lagerstown Fair Association
Organisa
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