Minstrel events and charity drives in Clearfield
Fragments describe Hettie Jane Tunaway at a Woman's club event on November 25, a local talent minstrel show in the opera house December 4, and a Belgian relief concert in December at Clearfield opera house. Other items note Thanksgiving, Red Cross seals, and a November 27, 1914, column with civic remarks by local figures.
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Hettie Jane Tunaway
Woman's Club
Opera House
Clearfield Hospital
Clearfield
End of Deer Hunting Season Plea for Snow Tracking
The deer hunting season closed Wednesday night after fifteen days of slaughter by local and foreign hunters. Many does were shot by careless shooters and wounded deer often escaped to die unseen in brush. Calls exist to shift the season to December or wait until snow to aid tracking and reduce waste.
English football fans and wartime enlistment attitudes
England’s war minister and poet laureate urged Britons to join the fight, but many remain cool and deliberative. At a stadium event with twenty thousand Englishmen, only one volunteered, suggesting sports crowds defer war duties to others. The piece muses that post season, sport fans may consider enlisting in larger numbers.
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England
Wit
Municipal Christmas Tree Brings Joy to Clearfield Children
The Womens club leads a project to place a municipal Christmas tree for deserving poor children in Clearfield. Citizens are urged to help. plans aim to outdo prior efforts with broad participation and Santa Claus style gift distribution for all poor children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield
Womens Club
Womans Club
Gearfield
Santa Claus
Prize cattle saved from apathous disease at Penn State
Blue ribbon winners in the $30,000 Penn State herd likely avoided foot and mouth infection by not entering the Chicago dairy show last month. No Penn State cattle were exhibited there though plans existed to send top livestock to Chicago next month. The show postponement aims to prevent infection. college barns are closed to visitors to keep the herd free. Dr. H A Havner notes pigeons are among main disease distributors.
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Pennsylvania State College
Chicago
Penn State
State College
H. A. Havner
Department of Samimal Husbandry
Foot and Mouth Disease Policy Recommendation
A government report urges agents to confine infected cattle to ports or euthanize on farms with outbreaks. The guidance aims to control a foot and mouth crisis by restricting movement and culling affected stock.
Quiet Hollow Harbor Dream in Blue Bay
Poetic meditation from the Baltimore Sun describing autumn winds over the Chesapeake Bay and Canton fleet at anchor. It evokes smokeless stacks, ferry steamers, bugeyes, and capes beside the sea as boats rest and dream of spring river ports and oyster town sailings.
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Lasaretto
Benda
Bipe Bay
Chesapeake
Canton
Blue Bay
Bay-Line
Beay
Tle
Oyster Town
Baltimore Sun
Etymology of Military Ranks and Terms From History
The article explains how common military words originated from historic practices and roles. It traces colonel from colonia and company, lieutenant from holding place, dragon from dragem, admiral from emir, and commodore from with nautical signals, noting how ranks' names reflect old duties and pay. Read the Progress.
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Arcee
Vieutenant
Bagh
Anecdotes and Oddities From Various Papers
A collection of humorous quotes and clipped dialogues from multiple papers. Light jests on law fairness marriage independence and waiter delays, plus a note that E. M. McAntosh, formerly of Dickinson, visited friends in Clearfield.
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E. M. McAntosh
Dickinson
DuBois
Clearfield
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the Dailies
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Boston Transcript
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BCE Srom
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