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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1913
Page
7
American consul C L Williams reports Swatow residents are abandoning Western attire after a post 1911 12 trend. He notes about 60 percent who adopted foreign dress last year have returned to native clothing as silk prices rise and demand for native wear grows.
A York Pennsylvania jail inmate went on a hunger strike and was released promptly by authorities. In St Louis the police board lowered the minimum patrolman height from five feet nine to five feet eight due to a surplus of shorter applicants.
Professor Ferdinand Brunot of the Sorbonne plans a world phonographic museum to preserve today’s languages and voices. He tours from Peking to America and aims to record every dialect, including Sioux, seeing phonographs as vital as printing and hoping for a vast collection rivaling the national library.
The Stanley Dollar ship in Los Angeles harbor began taking aboard 6,000 Chinese remains, many deceased for decades, to be reinterred in family lots per Chinese belief that eyes must be closed in ancestral soil. The undertaking aims to honor filial duty and ensure proper respect for ancestors buried abroad.
In Warren County Pennsylvania a writ of Levari Facias from the Court of Common Pleas directs a sheriff sale at the Court House in Warren Borough between May 1 and May 31. Henry Park is named in the notice.
Public notice of a mortgage foreclosure sale in Corydon Township Warren County Pennsylvania. The land along the Allegheny River near the Pennsylvania Railroad is described with measured bounds and includes a two story frame dwelling and a frame barn. Roswell Canfield and Violetta Canfield mortgagors with O C Sparks as real owner. May 1.
A writ of Levari Facias from Warren County Court of Common Pleas directs a sale at the Warren Court House. The exact date and purchaser details are not provided in the readable text.
On Monday June 2 1913 at 2 o'clock p m a lot numbered Five in the F A Lesser subdivision in Warren County Pennsylvania will be offered for sale as the property of Anna B E Erickson and John Erickson in a suit by Clark H Henderson Sheriff. The parcel fronts Conewango Place 44 feet and measures 473 by 125.6 and 131.3 feet with chain of title tracing to deeds from 1906 1908. Sale dates May 15 22 29 listed in the notice.
A British Board of Trade committee reports that dangerous Atlantic derelicts are declining and that risk lies mainly in the western North Atlantic. It notes wooden derelicts give way to steamships, urges wireless reporting to coast stations and Lloyds free transmission of dangerous derelict notices for a set period.
The record describes June 2 1913 conveyance of two parcels in Morrison's Addition Warren Borough to Anna Jennings. It specifies parcels 577 and 578 with exact measurements along Walnut street and adjoining boundaries, referencing prior deeds and adjacent ownership including Hultberg and Owens.
Archaeologist Henri de Genouillac reports discovery of Kiss, an ancient Mesopotamian capital near Euphrates, with a colossal Temple of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth. He links the temple to the biblical Tower of Babel and dates artifacts to Hamurabi era around 2100 B C.
A Peoria Ohio letter column questions newspaper honesty and asks readers to call a cell phone with tips. It urges sending reporters for live news and invites improvements and subscriptions to The Mail for distant relatives.
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