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House Defeats Clark Bill Repealing Cold Storage Act
Harrisburg report: after an hour of debate the house defeated the Clark senate bill to repeal the cold storage act of 1913. The roll showed 86 ayes to 81 noes.
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Harrisburg
House Tonight
Clark Senate
Pittsburgh Sizzles as Heat Kills Two
Pittsburgh records reveal April 27 as the hottest in city history with a 84 degree high. Heat claimed two lives as records show the day matched 84 degrees at noon and again at 4 pm, surpassing the previous 82 degree record.
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Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
Calling Wife Chicken No Crime Says Judge
St Louis April 26 a police judge ruled a husband may call his wife a chicken and she should like it especially if she nears the age some call an old hen. Charles E Watkins a clerk was arraigned on a complaint by his wife that he had used vile names including some chicken. The case was dismissed.
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St. Louis
Hogan
Charles E. Watkins
Forest County grants licenses despite legal dispute
Forest county licenses two hotels in Tionesta West Hickory and Marienville restoring a wet status after a long dry period. The license hearing sparked a rare legal clash as remonstrants challenged petition wording on nonparticipation in liquor trade. President Judge Hinckley found omissions fatal. two associate judges granted licenses, prompting appeals and a historic legal question awaiting higher court ruling.
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Tionesta
Forest County
Marienville
West Hickory
Act of Assembly
Hinckley
Nice Law
War updates from troubled Europe reported across fronts
From the Carpathians to Belgium and France the fighting continues with heavy losses. In Belgium southeast of Ypres Germans push to seize Hill 60 after Britons retook it with high casualties. Paris notes 3000 to 4000 German losses since April 17. In the Carpathians fighting wanes with thaw and floods hindering moves while Vienna cites a Laborcza clash with Russian forces repulsed. In the West French gains near Fliero include a captured German trench moving the line about half a mile.
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Belgium
France
Ypres
Hill 60
London
Paris
Carpathians
Hungary
Decla
Vienna
Laborcza
Fliero
Germans use gas in retreat of French near Ypres
Saturday fighting north of Ypres in Belgium saw German forces drive French to the west of the Ypres Canal by about five miles. Paris reports gas bombs causing a mile and a quarter of choking fumes. British commander Sir John French says the French retirement did not break the main line, except on the far left where Britons adjusted.
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Ypres
Belgium
Sir John French
Paris War Office
Paris
Warren Clean-Up Campaign Aims for Healthier City
From today through Saturday Warren launches a city wide cleaning and painting drive. Over twenty local organizations pledge cooperation with Boy Scout volunteers already starting work. The Mail urges thorough removal of winter refuse to curb disease, promotes fly control and neighbor involvement to cut costs of illness and death.
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Warren
Boy Scouts
Mail
TIONESTA MAN PERSONAL CRISIS REPORTS BLOWING OFF HEAD
Charles Hunter a Forest County court house janitor in Tionesta died by self inflicted gunshot in his backyard last Thursday evening. He left no known reason for the act and is survived by his wife a son two sisters and a brother.
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Charles Hunter
Forest County Court House
Tionesta
Russell I O O F Celebrates Founding of Order in America
The 96th anniversary of Odd Fellowship in America was celebrated by Conewango Lodge Russell in its hall Monday evening. The hall was filled with three linkers and their families. The program included odes, readings, instrumental and vocal items by Miss Mollie Wagner and Prof J Blaine Peck, remarks on I O O F benefits and Meadville Home, an address by Rev W A Thornton, and a Second Degree drill with strong floor work.
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Odd Fellowship In America
Conewango Lodge
Russell
Mollie Wagner
Warren
Clyde Briggs
Miss Wagner
S. A. Cramer
J. Blaine Peck
Russel High School
Meadville
Noble
Progressive party to fight in 1916 with suffrage prohibition
Topeka Kansas April 28 The Progressive party will be in the 1916 campaign with either Victor Murdock of Kansas or Hiram Johnson of California at the helm and on a platform of national prohibition and national suffrage White Kansas national committeeman says the party will carry these planks The choice of leaders is seen as the embodiment of Progressive goals in the nation
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Topeka
Kan
Progressive Party
Victor Murdock
Kansas
Hiram Johnson
California
W. A. White
McClain Appeals for Less Restriction in Industrial Bill
Pittsburgh April 27 Lieutenant Governor Frank B McClain denounced the current child labor bill and rejected absolutism in legislation saying manufacturers should not be penalized as criminals. He urged removing brakes on business and adding steam to accelerate production alongside speeches by Senator Boise Penrose and others.
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McClain
Pittsburgh
the Americas
Republican Club
Frank B. McClain
Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania
United States
Boise Penrose
S. W. McCall
Massachusetts
Job Hedges
New York
Oilton boasted only privately owned post office in U S
Oilton Oklahoma April 25 Col J W Brady runs the towns private post office boasting 200 boxes many call boxes. Rent is 15 cents weekly with 10 cents more for mail handling and 25 cents for parcel delivery plus 5 cents for two cent stamps via a slot machine. He plans to move operations to Pemeta once a federal office opens.
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Oilton
Col. J. W. Brady
Dilton
United States
Brady
Haskell
Wilson
Bardy
Jennings
Federal
Intation
Pemeta
Prohibition of Raw Cotton Exports From Britain Announced
London reports a special Official Gazette supplement bans the export of raw cotton from the United Kingdom to all foreign ports in Europe and the Mediterranean and Black seas except France, Russia, Spain, and Portugal. Russian Baltic ports are included. The move follows public demand for a specific restriction, countering prior government stance that a general blockade sufficed.
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London
United Kingdom
Europe
Mediterranean
Black Seas
France
Russia
Spain
Portugal
Baltic
Germany
Oil City Fat Girl Delays Train To Join Circus
Oil City traffic on the Oil City Ashtabula branch was held up about 20 minutes when Anna Cheelton a local celebrity known as the fat girl weighing over 700 pounds departed to join a circus. Transported in a specially made wheel chair she was moved to the baggage car at Andover and the car was shifted to the adjacent track to accommodate the transfer by rail officials.
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Oil City
Ashtabula
New York Central
Anna Cheelton
Andover
Roosevelt admits consulting NY party boss in 1901
In Albany court Theodore Roosevelt acknowledged as governor he frequently sought advice from Thomas C. Platt, the NY Republican boss, on official appointments and policy. Letters show discussions on appointing a Democrat to tax commission, public utilities, and a wish to serve another term as governor rather than seek vice president.
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New York
Syracuse
N. Y
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Republican Party
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Grady
Richard Croker
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Tammany
Elihu Root
Hadley
Yale
Jenks
Cornell
James A. Dill
United States
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Barnes
Albany
Glen Shannon
Bandit Leader Yanis Sandusky Slain, Missionary Victim Confirmed
London dispatch reports Macedonian brigand Yan nes Sandusky slain by unknown assailants. The same leader who held American missionary Ellen M. Stone for ransom in 1901 is now dead, according to Reuters Telegram Company.
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U. S
London
Sofia
Bulgaria
Reuter’s
Yanne Sandusky
Ellen M. Stone
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