Decks Cleared for Big Bills in Harrisburg Legislature
Harrisburg legislature moves to clear calendars of minor bills as major measures on school code and Sproul Jones good roads bill transition to the floor. Proposals include tax and inheritance changes, corporate registrations, oil and gas taxation, and a potential $50 million bond for roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
House
Senate
Board of Education
Sproul-Jones
House Committee On Public Roads
Tener
Pennsylvania
Ohio
West Virginia
Maryland
Extended Terms Of Borough And Township Officers Under 1911 Act
An 1911 act extends terms of borough and township officers to conform with new primary and election rules. It covers burgesses tax collectors school directors councilmen auditors election officers assistant assessors constables and assessors with varying start dates through 1913 1914. The article notes exceptions for 1911 and debates over the scope of assessors.
Numerous Local Residents Visit Family and Travel
A sweep of brief notes lists C. C. Rogers returning to Duke Centre after two weeks with son A. S. Rogers, A. L. Shaw family’s three months South and East visit, departures to Raleigh county West Virginia for mill repairs, and various calls on relatives and friends across Warren, Bradford, Corry, Franklin, Oil City, Youngsville, Conneaut, Harrisburg, Philadelphia, New York, and other cities with short visits and arrivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. C. Rogers
Duke Centre
A. S. Rogers
Clara Harrington
Bradford
South Penn Oil Company
Warren
J. P. Burns
Grace M. E. Church
Spartansburg
C. C. Burrows
Burns
F. B. Campbell
Corning
N. Y
O. J. Groves
Gertrude Heasley
Franklin
Harrisburg
Pottsville
Walter Heasley
Willard J. Davis
Youngsville
Warren Friends
UP TO THE MINUTE PARISIAN FASHIONS
Paris settles on final verdicts for the year and the Sunday North American will publish an eight page section on the new French styles. Readers will learn the latest Paris fashions as the Parisienne herself. The fashion numbers are in high demand as guides for enduring gowns, with early orders advised to ensure delivery.
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Paris
America
United States
Clever Detective Work The Adventure of Channel Marsh
The New York World offers a booklet story with thrilling crime solving powers of London’s famed detective. Portable weekly feature to accompany every copy. advance orders needed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Channel Marsh
New York
Gasoline Form Promises Easier Use Says March Popular Mechanics
The magazine describes a solidified gasoline for cars as a stiff white jelly that becomes liquid with 144 percent alcohol and soapstone. It cites space economy as the claimed benefit.
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March
Popular Mechanics
Robinson Purchases Farm In Warren County
Theodore Douglass Robinson nephew of ex president Roosevelt has bought the Joseph Ward farm in Warren town Herkimer county comprising over 100 acres. He plans to move from New York City May 1 with his family and supervise both properties as he pursues the Republican nomination for assembly this year.
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Utica
N. Y
Theodore Douglass Robinson
Roosevelt
Joseph Ward
Warren
Herkimer County
Robinson
New York City
Douglass Robinson
Young Robinson
Assembly
Mrs. Theresa Schenk Arrested After Husbands Slaying
In Chicago on March 23 Mrs Theresa Stanton Schenk confessed to shooting her husband Charles Schenk last Saturday morning during a dispute sparked by fear burglars were in the house. She was arrested on returning from the burial and jailed. Police theorize the shooting occurred during a quarrel.
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Chicago
Theresa Stanton Schenk
Charles Schenk
G A R Encampment Funds Approved by Senate
Albany March 23 The senate passed Cy W Phillip bill to appropriate 50 000 from the state treasury for the entertainment of the G A R at the national encampment in Rochester next summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
Senate
Cy W. Phillip
Rochester
White Deer Skins as Early Chinese Banknotes
In ancient China skins served as cash like notes as Emperor Ou Ti restricted skins to white deer hides in royal parks. The monopoly boosted demand, allowed high prices, and refilled the treasury while skins circulated as coin equivalents. Russian seal fisheries workers were paid with stamped walrus hide currency as well.
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China
Ou Ti
Alaska
London
To Destroy Gunpowder Safe Disposal Method
The safest way to destroy black gunpowder is to throw it into water to dissolve the saltpeter.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Robert Haight
Expres
Commonwealth
Auditor General
Tustin
Elections Commission
McIlhenny
House Committee On Railroads
Committee On Labor and Industry
James H. Maurer
Berks
Hunter
Schuylkill
McNichol Tax Commission
James F. Woodward
Allegheny
Woodward
BORO
ACT OF Assembly
Mrs. A. L. Shaw
DeForest Lacy
Raleigh County
Harry Crandall
Toledo
Charles
Philip J. Bayer
Emlenton
D. H. Siggins
Coffeyville
Kan
W. H. Taylor
Sinclairville
Cuba
Will Kopf
Byron Nutting
Oil City
G. B. Ensworth
George Potter
Prof
Adison White
W. F. Sweet
Corry
C.j.brown
Tidioute
George Siddons
Conenango Avenue
M. W. Dennison
Conneaut
Harry and
Manley Putnam
H. F. Jones
Falconer
W.H. Allen
Fred Peirce
Smethport
Er. M. Peirce
Laura Jackson
Mrs. C. H. Marker
Buffalo
Warren J. Summerville
Brookville
J. W. Elliott
Prospect Street
W. H. Radspinner
Los Angeles
Cal
F. H. Rockwell
Annie
Philadelphia
Fred Lockwood
Cassadaga
A. S. Lawson
Philip Robertson
Detroit
Mich
W. M. Robertson
Montreal
Canada
C. A. Dobson
Mark
Mark Twain
Mack Twain
Brander Matthews
Moliére
Cervantes
Count Tolstoi
Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Pudd’nhead Wilson
Stevenson
Thoreau
Hadleyburg
Frost
Newell
Smedley
Thulstrup
Clinehinst
Kemble
Opper
Harper
Harper & Brothers
Franklin Sousre
Mark Twa
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