Draft big help for many men in Pennsylvania during WWI
Pennsylvania supplied 7,669 men to student officer training camps and 9,577 to technical schools, totaling 17,246 in the army program. Major W. G. Murdock reports white educated draftees, funded by $1,797,983.71 across 24,405 draft bills, with an anticipated $10 per man final average cost as local boards expedite classifications and final inductions.
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Pennsylvania
W. G. Murdock
Army
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Easton
Erie
Lancaster
State College
France
Murdock
Rome Welcomes Wilson Party in European Tour
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson are to stay in Rome with an apartment readied in the Royal Palace of the Quirinal. Unofficial word notes possible visits to France England and Belgium and a Turin ceremony making Wilson honorary citizen in Piedmont towns. A separate note mentions evangelist Beulah McIntire at United Brethren Church Wormleysburg.
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Associated Press
Rome
Royal Palace of the Quirinal
Wilson
Europe
France
England
Belgium
Italy
Turin
Piedmont
Beulah McIntire
United Brethren Church
Wormleysburg
Elks Honor Dead in Harrisburg Memorial Service
Harrisburg Lodge No. 12 held a Majestic Theater memorial for seventy five deceased Elks including thirteen in the past year. Musicians Miss Margaretta Kennedy and Miss Helen Kanders performed, as Frank Loughran delivered an eloquent oration on Elk aims and immortality, with closing sentiments and a parade of ceremonial duties.
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Harrisburg Lodge No. 12
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Majestic Theater
William H. Opperman
Allia Marcia
Ce Pa
Margaretta Kennedy
céNist
Schumann
Traumerer
George Edward Hawes
Market Square Presbyterian Church
Misa Helen Kanders
New York Metropolitan Opera Company
Israel
Mendelssohn
Elijah
Scrantonian Speaks
Miss Kennedy
Walde
United States
Forty Hour Devotion at St Marys Church
Services continue at St Marys Catholic Church as part of the Forty Hours Devotion. High Mass was officiated by Rev William V Daily. Rosary sermon and benediction held in evening. mass schedule listed for today and tomorrow at 5 30 and 7 45 with a children procession slated for Tuesday morning.
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St. Mary's Catholic Church
William V
Merey
Tuesay
You Need Not Suffer From Catarrh
An advertisement claims catarrh is a blood infection and promotes 8 8 8 from Swift Specific Company as a permanent cure. It asserts the product purifies blood and relieves throat and nose symptoms, with free medical advice from the company’s chief adviser and no charge for letters.
McKey decision on compensation limits test of worker duties
State Compensation Board Chairman Harry A. Mackey bars Philadelphia and Reading objections to Ruth L. Frye’s award after findings that Preston Martin Frye’s death in Rutherford yards occurred during duties of dropping cars, not interstate commerce work. The ruling emphasizes the actual work the employee was engaged in at the time of the accident as the test for compensation eligibility.
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Harry A. Mackey
State Compensation Board
Philadelphia
Reading
Ruth L. Frye
Marysville
Preston Martin Frye
Rutherford Yards
Frye
Mackey
Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
State Forestry Reservation Commission
South Mountain
Juniata Valley
State Highway Department
Automobile Division
Automobile Registration Bureau
Ida Yocum case denied care by visiting nurses
A statement by Mary W Miller of the Visiting Nurse Association denies reports about Ida Yocum of 2249 Jefferson Street. It details eight months of nursing care from November 1917 to June 1918, followed by hospital treatment and forty three days, then continued care until she could manage her needs. The note notes a need for institutional care and that County Home admission was refused last June.
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Mary W. Miller
Visiting Nurse Association
Ida Yocum
Jefferson Street
Mary W.ler
Harrisburg Hospital
Directors of the Poor
Las June
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Newark
N. de Ing
Eckman
Eckman Laboratory
DOW
Elk Memorial
Kennedy
Handel
Largo
Miss Kanders
Gaul
Mr. Opperman
Abner W. Hartman
James J. Carroll
Clarence H. Sigler
Edwin J. Lewis
ST. Mary's Church
McNeil
RT EE
School OF Commerce
Harrisburg
Business
Bell
Dial
TROUP
S. Market Square
R. F. Royer
Carbondale
Alney
Ainey
Public Service Commission
Skipstons
Philpaalnht
State Medical Bureau
Jacob Redfield
Bucks Men
Bucks County
Justices of the Peace
Fire Service
Springfield Consolidated Water Co
Superior Court
Water Company
Hart
Commissioner of Fisheries
N. R. Buller
Lake Erie
Union City
Pleasant Mount
Torrendale
Doutrichs
Stetson
Harrisburg, Pa
Manhattan
Market Street
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