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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
6
A shop advertises low prices and prompt delivery for tea coffee and spices. It invites telephone orders and promotes repeat patronage through satisfied customers and referrals.
Conductor S W Downs of the Pennsylvania railroad retrieved a nearly $10,000 package lost by Miss Tda McAdams a Pottsville post office clerk near her home. The bundle included 600 Liberty bonds unregistered. Downs found the parcel and took it to his Sunbury home after a search failed to locate the thief until morning papers reported the discovery. Miss McAdams is sister to William McAdams a well known state conductor.
The government has already reached $812,500,000 from the sale of stores on hand when peace was declared. Hundreds of motor cars and trucks have been marketed at prices well above the original cost due to scarcity.
New York based Piano Manufacturers association announces a yearlong plan with monthly plant vacations to defeat the 8000 worker strike in the metropolis. The move aims to avert production disruption and maintain industry output.
The House approved a bill providing federal appropriations equal to state allotments for rehabilitation of industrial cripples and sent the measure to conference for resolution.
A police sergeant discovered drugs worth $35,000 in a package wrapped in newspapers beside a wood path near Fort Lee. Federal agents in New York later found 155 bottles of heroin codeine and other substances, believed hidden for pickup and transport to Manhattan.
A force of 5,000 American regular troops under Brig. Gen. W. H Sage sailed from Hoboken aboard the Gen. Grant. The unit, tasked with police duties during the plebiscite in Silesia, will form a provisional division of the occupation army and proceed to Coblenz after landing in France pending further orders.
Vast stores of Siberian products including furs and hides valued at 1.5 million dollars have been received in the United States from Vladivostok, signaling a major raw material inflow for American commerce.
Market report outlines various dairy and meat prices across New York and East Buffalo. Butter Creamery offers extra prints and dairy picks, eggs rise modestly, cheese prices hold firm, poultry and potatoes show steady to mixed quotes, while oats flour and beans show varied figures across listed tonnages and weights.
A wartime report details American Red Cross efforts by women over two years, producing nearly 100 million dollars in surgical articles and garments. About 3 million women and girls participated, with chapter production totaling millions of pieces across divisions, plus extensive canteen, hospital, and fundraising work. The expansion of Red Cross membership to about 20 million is highlighted as a key outcome of these efforts.
A substitute bill endorsed by the Senate Post Office Committee advances graduated increases in pay for postal employees in place of a flat $150 annual advance approved by the House. The measure aims to improve compensation progressively.
Gardner B. Perry of Albany was elected president of the American Institute of Banking at the closing session of the 17th annual convention in New Orleans. Boston was selected for the 1920 convention.
London officials report July 1, 1916 as England's darkest day of the war with 170000 killed and wounded on the opening of the Somme battle.
Governor Smith designates November 2 to 9 as Red Cross Week urging state residents to support the third Red Cross roll call.
At a government motor car sale in London the price reached 15000 dollars for an automobile built by a renowned manufacturing concern for the late Emperor of Russia.
The steamship Noordam of the Volland-American line brings from Rotterdam Erich Hecht the first German to enter the United States on a passport since 1914.
Fifty years ago professional walkers enjoyed celebrity status comparable to modern sports heroes. The piece recalls Edward Payson Weston and Dan O Leary in historic marches, notes cycling's rise as the killer of pedestrianism, and ends with hope that walking may return to prominence as a sport.
Jack O'Brien, the famed middleweight boxer, now runs a physical education club in Philadelphia and manages Sailor Petrosky, a 6 foot tall heavyweight at about 175 pounds. Petrosky, born in Shamokin, Pa., trained in the U.S. Navy.
A possible new race track at Long Beach Long Island is being fostered by Senator Reynolds of New York with wealthy associates. The facility could be ready for racing in 1921 and would provide New York enthusiasts a season from annual to November 15.
An advertisement from the Mail Printing Company invites readers to contact C for fine commercial printing services.
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