Evangelist Stough Preaches Hell At Tabernacle Rally
Will discuss what hell is where it is and why he believes in it during a tabernacle sermon. WCTU parade from Market Square church, 6 pm doors, 7 pm lineup with 11th Hour Rush, 3500 trailhitters counted to date, Miss Palmer enrolled 750 members last Sunday.
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Stough Tabernacle
Market Square Presbyterian Church
Miss Palmer
Tabernacle
Dr. Stough
Hell
Stough
Rotary Club Raises Belgian Fund By Orpheum Week
The Harrisburg Rotary Club voted to take over the Orpheum Theater for the week of December 14 to aid Belgians. A. B. Buchanan and other members will run the vaudeville bill, with profits over expenses sent to Belgium for food and clothing. Other items note Washington party expenses and a proposed Democratic tax fund.
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Warrisburg Rotary Club
Orpheum Theater
Hopkins
Erst
Orpheum
Rotary Club
Belgium
A. B. Buchanan
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Public Affairs
Ty Commission Reform in Harrisburg Pa a Year On
The Harrisburg City Commission, in its first year, replaced boards except Public Works and Health, with a nine month year and a January 1 fiscal year. Mill rate decisions will largely shape whether operating costs drop from the prior farm era. A City Planning Commission has been appointed under the new framework.
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Board of Public Works
Board of Health
Germans May Yet Awe Themselves
London dispatches report German forces in Russian Poland near Lodz faced near annihilation but fought with fury, breaking the surrounding cordon as reinforcements arrived. British coverage suggests a Russian push could still occur yet the idea of a complete Russian victory seems premature.
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Associated Press
London
Russian
Poland
Lodz
Petrograd
William
German retreat from Dixmude unconfirmed amid fighting
Unofficial reports claim a general German retirement before Dixmude, with fierce clashes near Ypres and reports of 120,000 Germans massed nearby. No official confirmation of a major attack. eastern fronts show mixed gains and heavy fighting in Poland, Galicia, and toward Cracow, with blurred overall prospects.
Harrisburg Weather Update and River Stage Report
For Harrisburg and vicinity continued cloudy weather with mild temperatures tonight and Wednesday. Eastern Pennsylvania sees similar conditions with light to moderate winds. river stages near 2.3 feet Wednesday morning. General conditions show widespread cloudiness across the eastern half with light rain in many districts, while the Plains and Rocky Mountain regions clear. Moon is full on December 2 at 1:22 pm. 24 hour high 48, low 42, mean 45. normal 37. River stage currently about 2.2 feet above low water mark.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Plains States
Rocky Moon
West
Nebraska
Strouse Sale Makes Ben Strouse Sole Owner Of Globe
Washington reports President Wilson warns against false Mexico reports as General Zapata arrives in Mexico City and Villa enters the capital with 25,000 troops. The Globe clothing firm in Philadelphia completes retirement of William Strouse. Ben Strouse becomes sole owner and plans interior upgrades and continued growth.
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Mexico
Ben Strouse
GLOBE
Associated Press
Washington
D. C
Wilson
United States
Silliman
Mexico City
Zapata
Hill
Angeles
Villa
Puebla
Vera Cruz
William Strouse
W. & B. Strouse
the Globe
North Third Street
el Paso
Gutierrez
Mr. Silliman
Shipload of Gifts For Europe From Missouri
Missouri residents prepare a large shipment of food clothing and toys for war victims in Europe. A charity day proclamation is planned for December 19 as governors urge aid and December parcel post resumption enables gifts to Europe with Belgium Turkey and parts of France not reachable. Postmasters coordinate to handle expected rush and mail packages to Germany and Austria Hungary under international parcel post rules.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Harrisburg
Europe
Belgium
Turkey
France
Frank C. Sites
Burleson
Germany
Austria-Hungary
International Parcel Post Service
Pennsylva nia Railroad to Grade Mulberry Second St Site
The Pennsylva nia Railroad Company plans early 1915 construction of a major freight station at Mulberry and Second streets. Bids for grading east of Second and south of Mulberry are due Friday at Broad Street Station. Completion is set for April 1 1915 with an estimated cost of 60 000 to 70 000, signaling a wintry project for Harrisburg.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Mulberry and
Second Streets
Second
Mulberry Streets
E. B. Temple
Broad Street
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Will Withdraw U S Troops as Colorado Strike Eases
President will pull federal troops from the Colorado strike zone once Governor Ammons signals readiness to resume state control. The new commission will be unrelated to the ongoing strike and its resolution.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Colorado
Ammons
Winter return planned for Frisco Hikers from Willis to Harrisburg
For the winter Harry Zorger and Vesper Smith known as the Frisco Hikers will come to Harrisburg after walking to Willis Kansas. They have traveled over half of 3100 miles at twenty to twenty five miles daily six days a week. In spring they will resume the journey west back to Willis. Alexander Roberts Harrisburg’s oldest native born resident celebrates his ninety first birthday today at his Market Square home.
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Harry Zorger
Vesper Smith
Willis
Kansas
Harrisburg
Alexander Roberts
Market Square
At 81 He Believes He Could March Again With Sherman to Sea
Alexander Bergstresser, aged 81 of 436 Market Street, celebrates his birthday by recalling Civil War memories. He found a diary noting he marched with Sherman to the sea and says he could do it again if needed. He recalls a Christmas dinner from fifty years ago and spends the day sharing stories with friends.
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Sherman
Alexander Bergstresser
Market Street
Paris Says German Retreat Not Reported Today
Paris official dispatch reports German activity north of Arras and in Belgium, with artillery exchanges ongoing but no infantry attacks. The Aisne front shows intermittent fire, the Argonne fight continues without change, and no new reports from the Woévre or Vosges regions. Field Marshal von Hindenburg is described as the man of the hour in Germany.
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Dixmude
Belgium
Yser
Lys
Ypres
Russian Poland
East Prussia
Galicia
Cracow
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Poland
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William
Petrograd
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Balkans
Turkey
Caucasus
Egypt
Red Sea
South Atlantic
Associated Press
Paris
The
Aisne
Argonne
Woevre
Vosges
Hague
London
Paul von Hindenburg
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