A Woman's Terrible Experience and Doctor Pierce Advice
A regional advertisement extols Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women. It claims the remedy restores health, vigor, and cheer after months of misery from backache headaches irregularities and other female complaints. The copy promotes safety roots and herbs and invites letters to Doctor Pierce at the Invalids' Hotel Buffalo New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Doctor Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo, N. Ye
Murder Trial Looms for Mississippi Showman Brothers
Dave and Kearney Smith are in the Meridian county jail charged with fatally slashing Edwin Durham of Lucknow during a quarrel at the Barkoot Carnival Company in Meridan. Durham's parents reside in Lucknow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dave and
Kearney Smith
Meridan
Miss
Edwin Durham
Lucknow
Smith Brothers
Durham
Smiths
Barkoot Carnival Company
Inspections and state hearings outline December agenda
Adjutant General Stewart prepares war department detailed inspections for the National Guard beginning January with cavalry on January 4 and others January 11 to 15. Winter inspections planned across armories in March to May. State Industrial Board to hold hearings tomorrow and next month to set safety standards for about seventy industries. Dauphin county to hear anthracite tax appeals with select cases from fifty. expect equity action by Scranton coal firms to be dropped. State pardons board to review Christmas list with many applications. Armory Board to meet December 17 to discuss multi year program. Creasy called by State Department for voucher issue. Lynch reappointed State Water Commissioner. War tax stamp guidance still unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Stewart
National Guard
War Department
Signal Corp
Pittsburgh
State Industrial Board
Capitol
Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
Auditor General
Equity
Scranton
Big List
Ead
State Board of Pardons
Durance
State Board of Public Charities
Philadelphia
State Armory Board
Creasy
W. T. Creasy
State Department
German Army Offensive Repulsed But Belgrade Falls
Reports say Austro Hungarian forces captured Belgrade after a bayonet assault. Berlin and Paris deny major battles elsewhere as fighting lags east and west, with limited gains near Ypres and Argonne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgrade
France
Belgium
Paris
Berlin
German War Office
North Sea
Nieuport
Ypres
Lys
Somme
Argonne
Dixmude
Krupp
Hssen
Budapest
Servia
Nish
King George
Emperor Illiam
East Prussia
Breslau
Silesia
Archduke Frederick
Japs Report German War Booty From Tsing Tau
Tokio reports list of loot seized at the German stronghold in China. The capture includes 2,500 rifles, 100 machine guns, 30 field guns needing repair, a small amount of ammunition, $6000 in cash, 15,000 tons of coal, forty automobiles, and provisions to feed 5,000 for three months. All ships in the harbor were destroyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Tokio
Japan
Tsing-Tau
China
No Thought of Entering War, Italian Premier Says
Rome premier Salandra states at parliament opening there is no new factor to alter Italy's policy of neutrality. London dispatch notes the development follows Italy's ongoing stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Associated Press
London
Rome
Exchange Telegram Company
Salandra
French Parliament to Hold Extraordinary Session
Paris notes the French parliament will meet in an extraordinary session in Paris on December 22. The cabinet members will depart Bordeaux next week and will place themselves at the disposal of the finance committee of the chamber of deputies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Bordeaux
Chamber of Deputies
Annulment Case for Anna Gould Nearing Decision
The Rota Tribunal in Rome has received all supplementary evidence in the Comte de Castellane marriage annulment suit regarding Miss Anna Gould, Duchess de Tallerand. A final decision is expected by late December as the Duchess has withdrawn from the case. In London, Australian and New Zealand contingents in Egypt are being deployed to defend the country and complete training before heading to the European front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Rome
Rota Tribunal
Comte
Bont de Castellane
Anna Gould
Duchess de Tallerand
London
New Zealand
Egypt
Europe
Musterole Relieves Aches Without Blisters
Musterole is a white ointment made from the oil of mustard that relieves sore throats bronchitis croup and chest colds without blistering. Doctors and nurses endorse its use for many pains with 25c 50c and hospital sizes listed by The Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Musterole
Musterole Company
Cleveland
Ohio
State Extension to Open Tonight at Middletown
The Engineering Extension School of State College opens in Steelton with 170 students, mainly Pennsylvanian Steel Company employees. Frank A. Robbins leads, with Yake and Bogar among early instructors, as classes in arithmetic mathematics and shop practice begin in the Pennsylvanian Steel conference room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Engineering Extension School
State College
Steelton
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Front
Swatara
B. E. Wake
Yake
John D
Steelton Snapshots Mills Resume Operations and More
The slab mill at the Pennsylvania Steel plant resumed operations after three weeks idle. The twenty inch train in the merchant mill will resume Monday. both mills run single turns. No. 1 Blooming and rat mills shut for repairs will resume Monday. Rev Juller Bergstresser to lecture on The Vinegar Peddler at St Peters Lutheran Sibbspire this evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Steel Plant
Merchant Mill
Juller Bergstresser
St. Peter’s Lutheran Church
Middletown
St. Peter's Lutheran Church
Sibhspire
Vuja Loncar
South Third Street
John Gibb
Peter Vujaklija
Trinity Episcopal Church
William Hardrode
Luke Butt
Azelia Wigfield
C. H. Hunter
William Ebbert
Uttley Abercrombie
Sam Bradshaw
Water Boa
Borough Water Board
Marian Mihalic
Frederick Street
Tomo Oesaneski
Ministers Asked to Join Crusade for Tuberculosis Fight
The Rev Mr Herman urges ministers to teach about TB, hold sermons on Tuberculosis Day December 6, and announce the effort in church bulletins and meetings. He asks church officials and members to promote Red Cross Christmas seals to fund clothes for the TB poor and travel to sanatoriums and open-air schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman
Her |Jeans
Christian Endeavor Society
Red Cross
Mt. Alto
Cresson
Newlyweds entertained at Lakewood home during Thanksgiving
Mr and Mrs Roscoe Bonisteel hosted guests at their Lakewood Ohio home over Thanksgiving, honoring Roscoe Os mond Bonisteel and his bride Lilian Rudolph formerly of this city. The couple plan to stay with Roscoe Bonisteels parents and move to Ann Arbor later. Mary Ellen Burkholder celebrated her ninth birthday with eleven friends at 1103 Capitol Street, pink decor and Santa favors. A Monday Evening Sewing Club met in Hummelstown with twelve young girls including Erma Williams and Edith Shope among attendees. Canadians enlistment for Newfoundland second contingent to Britain proceeds, while Sir John Critchton, Earl of Erne, Orangeman grandmaster, died in Dublin born 1829.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roscoe Bonisteel
M. F. Bonisteel
Lakewood
Ohio
Cleveland
Roscoe Osmond Bonisteel
Mr. Bonisteel
Ann Arbor
Mary Ellen Burkholder
Capitol Street
Santa Claus
Bertha
Mildred Bowers
Isabel Mitchell
Eleanor Henschen
Elizabeth Halbert
Helen Keet
Lenore Preston
Edith Marcus
Susan Rupp
Mildred Yuengling
Helen Shope
Hummelstown
Erma Williams
Wiolam Crouse
Sadie Davis
Eva Kunkle
Edith Martin
Ruth Kunkle
Anna Keener
Esther Shope
Miss Shope
Associated Press
London
John Henry Critchton
Earl of Erne
Orangemen
Ireland
Dublin
Middletown Deaths and Local Notices
Funeral services were held for Ethel Mayers in Lawrence street with burial in Middletown Cemetery. Dorothy Landis, 11, died Sunday. services were at the Landis home near Iron Mine School and burial followed at Geyer’s Cemetery. Elks Lodge 1092 plans a memorial service in Realty Building. Union Hose House hosts a $500 party by the Unda town Tennis Club. Mrs. James Hipple hosted the Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church with refreshments. Vuja Pusker, Austrian, arrested for deserting wife and three children. bail default led to commitment for court by Squire Gard ner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel
Benjamin Mayers
Mayers
Lawrence Street
Middletown
Dorothy Landis
J. C. Landis
Landis
Iron Mine School
Geyer’s Cemetery
Elks’ Memorial
Middletown Lodge
Elks’ Rooms
Realty
Undatetown Tennis Club
Tnion Hose House
Hipple
James Hipple
Ladies’ Aid Society
Methodist Church
Vuja Pusker
John Gibb
Squire Gardner
Two More Pay Days for Railroad Men
Pennsylvania Railroad employes may receive two additional pay days before Christmas. The first pay is set for Monday December 7 with a probable second around December 24. Rumors of a pay date change were denied in Altoona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Transportation Brotherhoods
Concrete Pier Bases on C. V. Bridge Nearing Completion
Concrete pier bases for the Cumberland Valley Railroad bridge are near completion under Crosby Tappin. Sub foremen include A F Byers, A A Lemaster, and T Reynolds. Earth for coffer dams came from the Second Street subway and nearby islands. cement and lumber were hauled from Lemoyne to the river flats and moved to the forms by steamer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cumberland Valley
Crosby Tappin
A. F. Byers
A. A. Lemaster
T. Reynolds
Second Street
John Key
Lemoyne
Veteran Clerk Dies After War Service in Railroad
William John Faires, retired chief clerk of the Pennsylvania Railroad and Civil War veteran, died at his Philadelphia home from apoplexy. Born June 1843, he left the University of Pennsylvania in 1864 to serve in Company D, Thirty second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers under General Baldymith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
William John Faires
Pennsylvania Railroad
John Wyle Faires
Thirty-second Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
Baldymith
Samuel Earnest Ends 44 Years With Pennsylvania Railroad
Samuel Earnest of Mifflin retires after forty four years with the Pennsylvania Railroad serving as watering trough foreman for twenty eight years near Lewistown. He began work in 1868, faced a layoff in 1869, and never received a reprimand or suspension in his long career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Earnest
Mifflin
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sam
The
Narrows
Lewistown
Standing of the Crews Harrisburg Side and Middle Division Lists
The document lists crew statuses for Harrisburg side and Middle Division trains with numbers and names. It records first to go times after 4 p m and 1 30 p m, plus which positions are up for engineers firemen conductors flagmen and brakemen, naming numerous individuals across divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Madenford
Downs
Earhart
Keane
Crisswell
Powell
Seitz
Geesey
Hindman
Allen
Brown
Jackson
Collins
Baltozer
Knupp
Dearolf
Dengler
Riley
Busser
Bogner
Busk
McNutt
Kope
Sweigart
Cox
Hipple
Goose
Altoona
Minnich
Garman
Bennett
Free
Havens
Magill
Mumma
Webster
Simonton
Moore
Hertzler
Kugler
Welbley
Simmons
Musser
Seagrist
Kuntz
Gross
Ross
Reeder
Karstetter
Zeiders
Sheesley
Davis
Pottiger
Hornman
Paul
Baskins
Miller
Jacobs
Cain
Baker
Kane
Kilgore
Bolan
Putt
Bickert
Kerwin
Ritz
Bell
Heck
Roller
Plack
Kieffer
Ris
What Causes Colds in Seasonal Health Advice
An article argues colds stem from blood disorder and nutrient gaps, not weather. It promotes Scott's Emulsion as a fat-rich remedy to enrich blood, boost heat distribution, and strengthen the body against illness without drugs or alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Scot & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Roster notes and crew lists from Enola to Reading divisions
A compressed dispatch lists singer Reese Spahr and crew names for engineers firemen conductors flagmen and brakemen across multiple railroad divisions. It notes crews laid off at Altoona and reports Emperor Nicholas arriving at the theater of war in Poland with official confirmation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Petrograd
Nicholas
Poland
Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers Promises New Vitality
A vintage advertising claim proclaims Kellogg's Sanitone Wafers as the greatest known nerve vitalizer. It asserts they awaken drooping vitality and revive ambition, urging men and women not to remain nervous wrecks or dopey and irritable.
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H. C. Claster Gems, Jewels and Silverware
Market Street
Allegretti Chocolates
Gorgas
N. Third St
Penna
Stewart
Macungie Silk Company
Macungie
Foust
Hanover
E. G. Eckert
Dixon
Jouck
Iarrisburg Licht & Power CO
America
Cracow Forts
Times
Strykow
Lodz-Warsaw
Lowicz
Cracow
MiehsPire
Capan
Frank Capan
Vela Nowasa
South Ninth Street
Council
Harrisburg Light and Power Company
Harrisburg Railways Company
Harrisburg Turnpike
West Main Street
Catherine
Water
Spring
Union
Emaus
Main Street
Middletown Car Company
Steelton Personals
George Fairall
Romaine Crawbaugh
H. B. Garver
Mechanicsburg
Nicholas Russ
Johnstown
Martin Grunden
South Second Street
Hutchinson
Birmingham
Alabama
St. John, N. F
New Foundland
Main St
Adams
New York
Loftata
Log
C. V
Singer
Reese
Spahr
Frank
Kipp
Schoffstall
McHenry
Kohli
Peters
Stahl
Myers
Troy
Rudy
Houser
Meals
Swab
Crist
Harvey
Saltsman
Kuhn
Snyder
Pelton
Shaver
Hoyler
Hohenshelt
Enola
U Niege
Forney
Pennell
Dewees
Smith
Summy
Felker
Stimeling
Wolfe
Crosby
Vandling
Long
Rice
Shaffner
Jacoby
Hoopes
Arment
Knight
Twigg
Luts
Fair
Goudy
Kiester
Fenstemacher
P. m
Fia
Reading Aatrisburg
German
Keim
Hilon
Ferrow
Richwine
Tipton
Martin
Weirman
Kemen
Dowhower
Fulton
Epley
Snader
Anders
Nye
Palm
Bear
Czar
Kellogg
F. J. Kellogg Co
Hoffmaster
Battle Creek
Michigan
Kellon
C. T. George
North Third Street
G. C. Potts
C. M. Forney
Forney & Knouse
Equitable Life Assurance Society
John T. Shirley
Union Trust Building
Harrisburg, Pa
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