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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1912
Page
8
A classification style ad lists white serge skirts with price points and sale discounts. It shows quantities labeled 9 skirts and 8 skirts with tidy reductions. Final prices include 2.98 and 5.98, with original values up to 18.50 and 8.50 respectively.
The document outlines Joint Resolution No. 1 proposing to amend Article Nine Section Four to allow up to fifty million dollars in state bonds for highway improvements and declares other sections to permit such debt. It also outlines Joint Resolution No. 2 proposing to amend Article Three Section Seven to authorize special legislation regulating labor and related local affairs with broad removal of local law restrictions.
A concurrent resolution proposes amending section three of article eight to set all general and municipal judge elections on the municipal day in odd-numbered years. It also allows a different day by law and ensures current judges in odd-numbered year terms stay until the first Monday of January of the next even-numbered year.
Joint Resolution No. 4 proposes amending section one of article nine to allow graded or progressive taxes by class, while preserving exemptions for public property, religious worship, burial places, and purely public charity. A true copy signed by Robert McAfee.
A resolution from the Pennsylvania Senate and House proposes amending the eighteenth article of the Constitution. The measure follows legislative action in the General Assembly to form an official amendment.
The document explains that obligations issued by counties or municipalities other than Philadelphia to fund water works, subways, underground railways, or street railways shall not be deemed municipal debt if net revenue covers interest and sinking funds for five years or liens secure the obligations. It allows up to ten percent indebtedness with three-fifths voter assent, and notes procedures for construction and operation periods and tax implications. A true copy of Joint Resolution No. 6.
Gentral Manager R A Philips of the Lackawanna and Western proposes a general mutual benefit association with company and workers contributions to support dependents of miners killed or dying. He suggests workers stay at work and donate a portion of the day’s pay, while the company adds a substantial contribution. A conference of miners from various collieries will discuss the plan.
Philadelphia report says 72 year old John Schoenherr, wealthy curled hair manufacturer, fled his son and partner to Wilmington to wed 22 year old Julia Kleinbach who worked in his home. The license return exposed the marriage. son Edwin Schoenherr vows to sue for annulment. The groom’s daughter, nearly twenty years older than the bride, accompanied them. The ceremony was performed by K. Wolfe, the so called marrying parson.
Ambassador Bryce will return to Washington in September, announced by Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey in the London House of Commons. He denied a report that Bryce would never go back to America.
A humorous exchange between Mr. and Mrs. Cliffe about moving into a suburban home. He vows to plant lilacs once settled, while she jokes about preferring him clean shaven.
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