NEW LAWS OF PENNSYLVANIA A Brief Outline of Acts of the General Assembly of 1913 As Approved by the Governor No. 8. Misleading Advertisements. Whoever, in a newspaper, periodic al, circular, form, letter, or other pub- lication published, distributed, or eir culated in this Commonwealth, in any advertisement in this Commonwealth, knowingly makes or disseminnates, or causes to he made or disseminnated, any statement or he quantity, the quality, the the merit, the use, the present or for mer price, the for the price, Or the a sale, of any ties, or method or cost of prof facture of merchandise; or possession of tinctions conferred on account of such merchandise; of merchandise 0: securities untrue or lated to mislead, shall be guilt of a conviction be value, cost, the reason tnotive or purpose of merchandise, securi or concerning th manu services; tion or such the rewards, prizes, or dis or tne manner or source |sucnH purchase of which is calcu: misdemeanor, and on pay a thousand dollars, or by sentenced to fine of not more than one risonment in the ceeding fine and nn ex ounty jali not sixty days, or both imprisonment No. 108 Permits blind children to be edud ed at public elght expense until the age is reached No. 109 ship provides (ol Increases the clerk of the count) No. 111 False Credit Statement an Offense. A fine not iu prisonment not exces both curred for for the p exceeding $I 1 15 (he penalt makin 1Tpose Pennsvivania Deaf, at stitution Fixes the Eibrarian sistant R $1,800 each $10 $5 a day sessions a day (stants R. for entiaries, pent temporarily Grants vne count No. 117 Validates all deeds, other in wri have been by husband 4, 1301. mortgages and iments ting which defectively acknowledged April and wife prior to No. 118 Courts of on pleas are allowed to employ sucl as may be ne comn number of interpreters eSSary . No. 119 Refunds 3845.51 erroneously Standard Distilling Cc No. Provides for judgments to be enter ed against ipalities No. 121 Authorizes two or more overseers ol the poor in house ‘o provide one by or purchase of real erection of buildings, bonds for that purpose No. 122 that each from which dependent children are commit. téd to the association ghall be responsible for the costs of maintenance ab Ms paid b license for mun counties having no poor the leasing and and to the estate issue Provides county care of any No. 123 Makes it unlawful to kill wild tur keys and provides for a fine of $25 or a just sentence of twenty-five days. No. 124 Fixes the number of employees under the superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, and fixes their salaries. No. 125 To limit the number of pilots at the port of Philadelphia No. 126 Gives permission to the Board of Commissioners of Navigation of the river Delaware to make rules limiting the speed of vessels on that river, No. 127. Amends the law concerning malicl ous injury to railroads, to cover all roads, publle and private, No. 128. Prothonotaries shall keep a cost docket, open to public inspection, which shall be an accurate record oi fees received. No. 129. Creates a department of “City Transit’ for cities of the first class, to have control of the transit facilities, No. 130. With the consent of local authorities street railways may relocate certain portions of track to eliminate con “gested or dangerous situations. No. 131. Twenty thousand dollars appro- priated for the American Oncologic liospital at Philadelphia, deficiency of 1911. No. 132. Jurisdiction is given the Common Pleas in divorce cases where the libellant has been a resident of the state for one year, where marriage of the parties or the occurred oulside where the respondent with courts of this has pith for divorce state, and been gerved only lication. notice by No. 133. Requires boards of education to ad- mit to the public schools the children of orphan asyslums, whether or legal residents of the school district, No. 134. Extends the protection of the laws No. 135, Relates to taxation in cities of the first-class No. 136. Provides the a judgment debtor, for the purpose i prop subject tO oral examination whether may be maae execution on the judgment No. 137. furni which } fs shing by gift or sale rettes, or cigarette papers, and requires minors to divulge from whom procured No. 138. Aunthorizes a association of ‘lerks state County Commissioners, County { solicitors No. 139. she creat County on ana re extension work lege No. 143, nis to another No, 145, ire aninori 148, cipanties alleys No. 149 companies No. 150. Empowers all corporations orgat the laws of this state, not for ed under acquire real estate of the profit, to rental value of No. 151. Relates to the as for " y vearly sessment age improvemeuts in mm Lies Rs quires cities the second and third class to ordinances Carr tn effect INE INE pass the the provisions of the iwensing of steals enghk No. 153. Cold Storage Act. Requires a operate a cold storage warehouse from the Food and Dalry Commissioner and provides rules for operation No. 154. icenpe te lating tc packing beef and pork for ex port No. 155. Makes a felony of an attempt to ex tort money or anything of value means of threats. No. 156. Commission on the construction of buildings given until November 1, 1914, to make report. No. 157. Amends the act concerning disor: orderly conduct in public places to make it an offense to incite others to create disturbance, Also makes it the duty of train conductors to arrest parties creating disturbance. No. 158. Refunds 2500 illegally collected by the state as license for moving pic ture show. No. 160, Bible in Public Schools, At least ten verses of the Bible shall 92 read cach day, without com- ment, by the teacher in each public school, at the opening of the morn. ing session, No. 160. Relates to fees in civil casos, No. 181. Requires liconse for sale of "bank: rupt’’ stocks of goods to ba lssued by the treasurer of the city, borough or township. As Some Breeds Approach Gradual Extinction Others Are Showing Marked increase. Wild creatures along ‘the arctic coast of North America are changing, according to Vilhjalmar Stefansson, who writes in the Geographical Jour nal: “Contrasting pleasantly with the gradual retreat and approaching extermination of both the caribou and the musk-ox is the increase in num bers of three game animals—the musk rat. the beaver and the moose. Hall a century ago, to the westward of fireat Bear lake, moose were found only on the west side of the Macken zie river. They have since crossed the river until something like twenty years ago they reached the west end of the Bear lake, some ten years ago they got to the east end of the lake and three years ago the first moose were seen on the shores of Coronation gulf by the Rae river Eskimo “The history of the spread of the musk rat has gomewhat similar of the this district, geems to have preceded some been to that moose in although it the moose hy a few places and by a decade or so in oth ers. They are now found in many of the small lakes right down to the east coast of Coron#tion gull and Dol- phin and Union straits, but there are hundreds of living can remember the when they first saw these animals. Being strange through newness they were considered supernatural, and are so even today Although some tribes are hard put to it to find skins enough for clothing, and although they will use the Inferior throw away decades in Eskimos now who time skin of the marmot, they both the skin and meat of the rat and use only the employed charms and The too, is spreading toward the although has as ttained high a northing as the musk rat, and will probably always be confined to the timber country.” musk tails, which are as talismans beaver he not sea yet 80 And Some Wall Over 3.4 tered In that a lot © Street Goats. were alaugh year, but at managed to make Philadelphia Inquirer. 13) 000 animals New York ¢ fast ares thelr getaway Without “Padding.” The teacher of the class in English, says the Detroit Free Press, demand ed that the pupils all write for their exercige a brief account of a One boy sat through seemingly wrapped in thought, while the others worked hard, and turned in thelr narrative, After the téacher approached the the laggard ‘T'l give you five that description,” he it is not punish The, boy promptly his attention teacher slowly At last, with joyful scratched a line on his handed it to his master, It “Rain—no game.” = the school, desk of minutes to sternly that write enid; “if done by time, I shall you." all the moments concentrated upon the theme counted as the eagerness, he tablet, and read Sleeping Sinners. In former times the question of falling asleep during divine was one that greatly exercised minds of church officials, Eventually. as certain listeners refused to stirred up by the discourse, it cided to stir up in was deputed to folk service the he de another way Was them and the beadle round of the ‘rousing stick,” with When beadle, some one specially The old make a with force attention there WHS was select ed to perform the duty tom was in vogue in of the last for ti ord of one Finch culine sort of woman century Betty being office at Holy Trinity chureh, ton Mistress F down the i inch stalked aisles during services with a great sti« which had a “bob of it, and nudees nudged with this the sleepers Sold Manufactured “Mummy.” An imita mainly tls recently tion mummy, constructed bones of gold in from the United States as of a palace Egyptian dynasty Ti however detected from the airo to $a £4 a vg diguitary . i ang ade the sale was Fascination of the Emerald, The idea that the emerald has mys tic powers is very ancient. Nero Is sald to have used an emerald glass to keep off evil influences, and it was commonly belleved that an em erald drinking glass was an infallible of poison. It is told of that his wife was given an emerald which had the magic prop who came On her death she or emerald mouth, owing to eye discoverer Charlemagne erty of fascinating anyone its wearer dered that the placed in her the emperor would not allow her out of his sight He ble, until one of his officers discovered the spell, and by giving it transferred his affections from the dead to the living. Probably § has occasioned the reference j§ near should be which coffin was inconsola- to another encountered Poe's Airship Hoax. Mr. Fairbalrns was anticipated Edgar Allan hoaxing. In aunounced ing ¢ ' ays: Poe in the art of aerial 1844 the one New York Sun Astound crossed in morning Atlantic Triumph of Mr news! Three yn's Flying Machine! the paper, and fc ng and detailed account of JUL of the Atlantic in a by Mr. Monck and four others swortn loon was minutely described tracts were printed from ch Harrison Alnsworth on 1 such a days for had took some realize hoaxed wiOry HOw been First-Class Alibl shat ve hat ¥ JU Baie sa lin meek-looking HE asked an pr and 1 1 can RE What a Sparrow Did. What is perhaps the most remark able accident that ever occurred was reported from Germany. was traveling at boulevard lined and several boys were tak chances of being arrested by the shooting at the birds with One pebble, particularly struck a the ipper wing and gliding through the alr ithe driver of the car, him full in the face, and in the next in stant things began to happen. The driver clutched at his the car lurched into the ditch, knocking down ar telegraph pole, vaulled to a plowed field on the other side of the diteh, and went full force into a huge Despite this wild was even scratched except damaged leslie's, iast A large touring car fair speed along a with trees ing police by month slingshots well aimed, sparrow on sent him directly toward the bird struck eyes haystack BWerve, no one the driver, whose eyesight was by the claws of the sparrow Where Washington Crossed. It 18 worth mentioning that the Pennsylvania legislature has appropri ated $25,000 for morial and the ent § ff erection of a acquisition of 100 the me ACTeS land at Washington Crossing on the Delaware river. This accords with the action taken some time ago by the ey legislature in laying out a that side 0 mark mtinental of the river t Blmas eve the uil Tr fa mi most famil- and the annais the embarkation for bat ton deserves to be marked rhta nraptured to get the auto lower show, show the eres no in a jiffy— is limited. " pack-
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