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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
4
Maud Clarton Braby argues against passive female wooing and calls for mutual, half way courtship. She questions social conventions that enforce waiting and urges honesty in expressing feelings for both genders to meet on equal terms.
An editorial from the Kansas City Journal argues farmers should play baseball to improve efficiency. It cites a Kansas State Agricultural College professor claiming the root issue is farmers not playing ball and suggests a nightly game after chores as a practical, healthful diversion.
Ex-congressman Hon N P Wheeler attacks Senate bill No 285 in a letter to the Oil City Derrick. He denounces eminent domain for water companies and the repeal of checks on them, warning it could enable private water grabbers to seize Allegheny valley properties and fail to control floods per US engineers.
A Harrisburg legislator has introduced a bill to appropriate several hundred thousand dollars to support a state orchestra, enabling free concerts across the commonwealth. The measure seeks to provide sustained public music offerings and cultural access through state funding.
The piece urges state ownership of textbooks to curb graft in school book contracts and proposes amending bills to give households Victrola or Grafo-noma records. It also advocates cheerful civic messaging to attract visitors and notes rural journalism gains from the parcels post, highlighting local advertising.
The third oil well in the Busti field near Jamestown New York was shot with 60 quarts of nitro glycerine at about 2000 feet. The casing blew out sending debris over spectators who narrowly avoided injury. Flow could not be measured for days as crews prepare a pipeline to Jamestown.
Alphose Prince received a sentence of from 20 years to life in Auburn state prison for second degree murder of Frank Bentley in November. In Warsaw court Friday morning he collapsed completely as Judge Bossel imposed the term, appearing dazed as attendants supported him.
Frederick Kohler is ousted as Cleveland chief of police after a civil service hearing found him guilty of gross immorality at 6 pm Monday. The commission discharged him from office and urged full pension, though it said it lacked authority to grant it. Kohler faced accusations of intimacy with Mrs. S. D. Shearer amid her divorce proceedings.
John Langton of Lockport aged 70 and Daniel Burns aged 61 died in a blaze that consumed the rear portion of the Hotel Sutherland in Wilson New York at 2 30 am Sunday. Firefighters used water to save adjacent property as guests barely escaped. Loss listed at 15000 dollars. Langton traveled to Wilson to visit two sisters and lodged there. The hotel was owned by Miss Edna Tenbrook.
The American Locomotive company assigns 250 engines to the Brooks works in Dunkirk to keep 4,000 workers employed for months. Orders include Harriman lines, Pennsylvania system, Northern Pacific, New York New Haven Hartford, and Buffalo Rochester Pittsburg routes. Pennsylvania will receive 50 engines, with 25 more to be built in June.
Onion growers in the drowned lands district hold about 160000 bags in Florida Durlandville and Pine Island near Goshen N Y Prices are so low the Erie railroad will not accept shipments unless freight is prepaid Last year at this time onions sold for 5 a sack this season has been one of the poorest for prices in a long time
Samuel O. Coddington prominent resident of Fredonia New York died at home last Sunday from heart trouble. Born in Geneva in 1847 he spent three decades in Fredonia and worked in lumber with Sly and Coddington. Surviving: his wife and two brothers.
Philip Steitler of Arcadia New York was examined by County Judge Clyde W Knapp in chambers and discharged. He was found sane but denied knowledge of loading the gun or shooting his four year old daughter Hazel last week.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended planned freight rate increases on grain and grain products across the territory north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi. The postponement extends until July 8, delaying the change that would have become effective Saturday.
Frank J Lyons announces his candidacy for District Attorney pending Washington Party primaries and Republican primary decisions to be held next September. He declares his intent to seek the office in the forthcoming election.
A candidate announces intent to run for Tax Collector of Warren subject to Washington Party primaries in September next, seeking the party’s nomination and support for the upcoming election.
Dr. J Cusddle of the state hospital at Fountain Springs Pennsylvania restored the sanity of Joseph White by removing a skull fragment pressing on the brain after a coal fall injury.
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