Do Your Shopping Early for Holidays Pressure
Margaret F. Sangster in the December Woman's Home Companion urges shoppers to ease the burden on salespeople, post office workers, and express staff by spreading orders over December. She notes long hours and tired clerks, messengers, and cashiers and calls for buyer consideration to prevent fatigue next season.
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Margaret F. Sangster
Woman's Home Companion
Woods
Postofice
Express
The Christmas Spirit in Sunday Schools
The piece urges Sunday School officers who skip the Christmas treat to reconsider and teaches children to give as well as to receive, recalling the blessing of giving over receiving in the season. It emphasizes helping the less fortunate and remembering the true spirit of Christmas.
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Hint
Enforcing the Law in Old Fiatt
The Fayette county district attorney shut down turkey rattles gambling and dispatched detectives on Thursday. The Bradford Era editor investigates the Indian summer mystery near the Cattaraugus reservation, while McKean county Republicans blame Democrat weather after a November political blizzard.
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Fayette County
Bradford Era
Cattaraugus Reservation
Br'er Dennison
McKean County
Warren Merchants Report Strong Early Christmas Trade
A survey of Warren mercantile establishments shows merchants expect a robust Christmas season with larger displays and brisk business. The piece notes the festive spirit in the air and even Santa Claus sending postcards to ease his burden as shoppers rush to buy gifts.
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Warren
Santa Claus
Advertise in the Mail and Get Re suits
An advertisement notes that mailing customers can obtain replacements or suits. The notice promotes placing ads in the Mail to receive suit-related offerings.
Physical Directors urged for Franklin school district
The Franklin Evening News argues for a county wide program of physical education and health screening in schools. It envisions informal talks, consent cards, and a trained physical director who could inspect homes and sleeping conditions to detect vision, hearing, posture, and nutrition issues before they lead to illness and later institutionalization.
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Franklin Evening News
Warren
Franklin
Tightening Grip of the Beef Trust
Chicago leaders vow the Beef Trust dominates the meat trade at home and abroad. It has invested in Argentina cold storage to curb Argentine competition and seeks to control foreign markets, with exports from Argentina around 220 million pounds this year compared to about one third from the United States.
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Chicago
Beef Trust
United States
Argentina
South America
Philadelphia
Causes of high prices fancy off the wall quip
A California Sentinel quote suggests teaching girls piano and boys bookkeeping could push potato prices to eight dollars a barrel in twenty years. The remark satirizes wage and demand links and economic forecasting.
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California Sentinel
Dairy Milk Ticket Compliance In MA Office
Sanitary milk tickets printed at the Massachusetts office. Milk dealers must display and use them to comply with state law. Call to view samples and verify requirements.
Sunday plans erie meetings may boost temperance drive
New Castle dispatch reports Reverend Billy Sunday plans to devote more time to evangelistic work in Pennsylvania, starting May with a series of meetings in Erie. The piece notes dropping saloon business, rising church attendance, and renewed community reform as Sunday’s impact grows.
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New Castle
Billy” Sunday
Pennsylvania
Sunday
Erie
Keystone
Wells
City Incineratory
God
Dreams Foretell Theft Then Death in Latrobe
Westmoreland county’s oldest veteran Johnny Adams near Latrobe reports a dream after his 91st birthday. He saw a man steal four chickens from his neighbor’s coop and later the same man dead with Satan crowning him in the lower regions. Adams awoke to find more hens missing.
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Johnny Adams
Westmoreland County
Latrobe
Paul Klinteinsmith
Mr. Adams
Satan
Advertising vs News Blurred by Financial Benefit
The excerpt contrasts news and advertising, arguing that items benefiting individuals or organizations should be classified as advertising. It emphasizes the difference and suggests testing items by potential financial gain to determine if they are ads.
President’s Congress Message to Double Length
The President plans a message twice as long as last year’s to Congress. Election results seem to have left him with little appetite for eloquence. On the North Pole topic, Dr. Cook’s tale of discovery will be eclipsed by his account of the non discovery.
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Congress
North Pole
Cook
Clarence Hesch
Pennsylvania Avenue
East
Riverside
Taft Advocates Economy in Government Spending
President Taft urges rigid economy and paring department estimates as a means to reduce government expenditures. He argues thrift by citizens supports broader budget cuts and efficiency in public service.
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Taft
President Taft urges regulation cuts and ship subsidy in annual message
The president's address to Congress endorses economy of administration, a permanent tariff board, and anti pork barrel policies. He calls for a ship subsidy to boost shipping, fortifying the Panama Canal with a 19 million dollar appropriation, and postal reforms including rural parcels and savings banks. He supports federal incorporation laws and revised second class mail rates, with fiscal year estimates at 680 million receipts and 630 million spending.
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Tarif Board
Panama
Taft
South America
Tariff Board
Panama Canal
Tmaster General
Hitchcock
Post Office
Secret service arrests agent in Italian counterfeit ring
Washington reports the secret service has arrested Caesar Paotelli in New York as he disembarked from the Anchor Line steamer Italian. Paotelli carried 2,509 counterfeit five dollar bills believed to be produced in Italy with him acting as the agent for importation and distribution. Authorities plan to press Italy through the state department to target others involved.
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Washington
Pec
Secret Service Division
Treasury Department
Caesar Paotelli
New York
Paotelli
Secret Service
Italy
Mexican editor jailed amid government suppression of anti Diaz papers
Mexico City reports that anti Diaz newspapers are being banned nationwide for fomenting sedition. Silvester Terrazas, editor of El Correo in Chihuahua, was arrested and imprisoned after the government closed the paper days ago.
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Mexico City
Mex
Silvester Terrazas
el Correo
Chihuahua
Women Gain Vote on Bond Issue in Albany Case
The New York Court of Appeals upholds the right of women taxpayers to vote on a $240,000 waterworks bond issue. The Seneca Falls controversy in 199 centered on denying women voters and set the precedent for broadening municipal bond referenda participation.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Seneca Falls
Panhandlers Deported and Local News Roundup
Two well dressed panhandlers were ordered by Chief Berdine to leave Warren within half an hour. Other items note Peterson Gregerson sent to State hospital, a Titusville game win over Youngsville, a Warren fire loss, a sulfuric acid burn, a robbery case, a jungle show plan, elected Royal Arcanum officers, Harkins jailed for drunkenness, Knights of Pythias ball planned, and local business moves in Warren and Jamestown.
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Warren
Berdine
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Library Theatre Orchestra
Jamestown
United States District Court
Youngsville
Kane
Warren Concrete Company
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Titusville
Titusville High School
Warren County
Joe Wolkse
Gladerun
Wolkse
Wagoner
W. C. Lane
Jones Brothies Circus
Royal Arcanum
Romano Council
John W. Elliot
Ed. W. Johnson
C. S. Kirchartz
Fred H. Pollock
J. T. Newell
Benjamin Frey
Harry E. Armstrong
Clarence H. Hepfinger
Carl S. Peel
Willis Cowan
H. W. Sandy
Victor A. Anderson
Harkins
William Harkins
A. O. Caldwell
Wheeler
Warren Knights of
Wesley S. Reed
H. C. Drake
Fredonia
N. Y
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Pennsylvania Railroad
O. A. Caldwell
Caldwell
Warrren
Clarence Beckley
Ridgway
Hyde-Murphy Company
James H. MacGowan
Helen
West Third Street
Warren, Pa
West Hive
Anna Watt
Mattie Pollock
Mary Johnson
Mary J. Witz
Lizzie J. Berger
Mary James
Mary Erickson
Sentinel
Lena Fellers
L. Shuler
Alice Weakley
Charles J. Gearing
George K. Kurtz
Gearing
Butler
Producers’ Oil Company
High Grade Oil & Refining Company
Chicora
Butler County
Venango County
Pleasantville
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