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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1914
Page
10
An ad proclaims Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a blood purifier that purges poisons from the blood, strengthens digestion and nerves, and improves skin and energy. It links war and business courage to pure blood and promotes the remedy as alcohol free and non narcotic.
Advertisement offering Dr. Pierce cloth bound book of 1000 pages with color plates. Mail 20 cents for charges to Invalids' Hotel Buffalo NY and enclose this notice. Book covers many home medical topics aimed at quick health knowledge.
Professor George B. McClellan former mayor of New York told the International Polity Club in Princeton that any outcome of the current war will likely force the United States to choose between abandoning the Monroe Doctrine or fighting to uphold it He warned that abandoning it would imply the U S is a second class power at the mercy of global bullies.
Pittsburgh December 5. Officials corrected errors by the returning board acting on complaints. Chairman Walter J. Christy of the Republican county committee added 7 010 to Penrose and 1 999 to Brumbaugh. Result totals: Penrose 55 306 in county and 250 625 state lead. Brumbaugh 63 466 county and 137 819 state lead.
The Matin reports proof of a planned violation of Swiss neutrality found among German officer papers. Ordnance survey maps resemble Swiss ones but are Italian labeled and marked for use by an Italian army marching through Switzerland to attack France.
Directors of the Landis Tool Company in Waynesboro Pa announce a 4 percent semiannual dividend on the $500000 preferred stock for the year. The $20000 payout will be made January 1 to stockholders of record December 24, totaling $40000 in dividends for the year.
Reports from Berne via Paris describe heavy cannonade in Upper Alsace heard as far as Basel with main fighting near Alt kirch and Damerkirch. In Vera Cruz General Venustiano Carranza returned after a six day interior trip and was welcomed with military honors.
An advertisement from Mrs. M. Summers of Notre Dame Indiana offers a free home treatment for bed wetting claiming it can cure children and adults with urine difficulties. No money required and instructions included. urges mothers to write today and not blame the child.
Theodic inquiry reports William S. Carter of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen testifying that engine crew pay should share in increased productivity. He cites B. A. Worthington of railroad managers backing locomotives weight as the wage basis. Separate note: dedication of the trainmen's home at Altoona on December 14 with speakers William G. Lee and Val Fitzpatrick. cost about $50,000. Also, W. S. Coughlin led a monthly track inspection on the Pennsylvania railroad via the water splash special through Harrisburg.
Pennsylvania railroad yard rosters show after 4 p m Harrisburg side crews for Philadelphia Division with engineers firemen conductors flagmen brakemen and names. Enola and Reading sides follow with first to go times and up lists detailing personnel for engineers firemen conductors flagmen and brakemen across multiple yards and crews.
Petrograd dispatch describes a brutal clash around Tuzcyn Brzeziny southeast of Lodz as German forces trying to unite with the main body are forced to fight through to Brzeziny. Russians launch repeated counterattacks but Germans carve a 150 mile passage. The engagement is labeled the bloodiest and most pitiless so far, with most German officers out of action and many regiments reduced to under 100 men.
Amsterdam dispatch reports a large tunnel near Tekija blown by dynamite severing communications between Servia and Rumania. The Danube river transports by Russia are halted, and Turkish sources in Nish confirm the act impacting regional traffic.
Chicago reports Lat Tin, a full blooded Chinese player and captain of the Honolulu Chinese team, has been signed by the Chicago club of the American League. Tin, a shortstop, batted .300 in Honolulu and is the first Chinese player to join a major league club.
The State Department notes DuBois voted for cityhood and will apply for a third class city charter. Lancaster and other cities follow under prior acts. State game licenses rise. six new game preserves planned on forestry lands with spring establishment likely. Public Service Commission resumes Bell Telephone rate hearing in December with limited testimony from independents. Governor Tener and Gaither attend Terrapin Club dinner in Philadelphia tonight.
Reports from November 29 detail Italian resistance to a war treaty, with entrenched German defenses and subterranean warfare shaping a siege like conflict. Storms in Norway, Belgian relief shipments from Philadelphia, and Chicago Board of Trade prices for wheat, corn, oats, pork, lard, and ribs round out a broad wartime update.
The first general teachers meeting of the current term will be held at Steelton high school on Monday. Topics are The Greatly-to-be-Coveted Habit of Doing One's Best and Education in Its Dynamic Phases. Open to the public. teachers from surrounding districts are invited. Superintendent L B McGinnes announced the program with principals listed.
The Douglass Association will host an entertainment and banquet after the new Hygienic school dedication on January 8. Numerous local church and lodge groups report officer elections, meetings, and planned participation in parades and community events across Steelton and nearby Minersville, with church services listed for multiple congregations and a Ladies' Auxiliary organized at 394 South Second Street.
Charles Worlick 91 died yesterday age infirmities of age retired cobbler and for sixty years a Mennonite Church member. His widow and several children survive. Joseph Gardner 73 died last night from a pita at Lancaster Hospital. he was a barber by trade and a number of children survive. Ferdinand Bressier 73 died at home in Milton of multiple diseases widely known as an auctioneer.
Twenty five locals attended a reception at Mrs. A R Stottlemyer's Buena Vista Springs home honoring Anna Stottlemyer recently married to John W Colton of Baltimore. A London navy list lists a new British battleship and two flotilla tenders named Canada Tipperary and Botha.
Twenty five students answered Captain William Crump’s call for candidates for the Steelton high school basketball team. The list includes William Crump, captain, William Gardner, Cameron Keim, Fred Ulrich, and several others. First practice will be held within the next few days.
Local political circles buzz that C B Erisman a prominent Republican and Middletown business figure may seek a Poor Director nomination. He has served as councilman school director and burgess. He declined comment saying it is too early to talk. Also notes on tennis prize winners and town meetings.
Mrs Emma Catherine Black Milligan widow of Thomas H Milligan senior partner of T H Milligan Co hardware merchants died suddenly at her daughter Mrs J Harry McCullochs home. She would have been 69 on Christmas Day and is survived by Miss Jennie Linn Milligan Mrs J Harry McCulloch and Frank Montgomery Milligan a sister Mrs Laura Gilmore and a minister will conduct funeral Monday at 10 from Dr McCullochs residence with burial in Newport Cemetery.
Miss Amanda M. Reese wed I. Thomas Purdy near Elizabeth town with Rev. George Sigler presiding. Miss Mary J. Breneman from Landisville married Carl H. Long of Lancaster Junction under Rev. Hiram G. Kauffman.
P J Chenry and Co of Toledo offer One Hundred Dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that does not respond to Bale Catarrh Cure. Warns that deafness stems from inflammation of the Eustachian tube. claims nine in ten cases due to catarrh and promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Also notes real estate ad in Highspire Steelton area.
The Majestic presents Friday matinee and evening Billy the Kid with Berkeley Haswell and a dramatic arc of outlaw reform, while Saturday features Damon and Pythias in six parts via Universal. The Orpheum schedules Captain Sorcho divers, Dolly Connell y and Tricked, with Pekin Mysteries promising Chinese illusion and Fun.
Risibles in the act of Rose and Gates headline a Colonial week bill along with the Depace Opera Company and Harold Kennedy. The feature program includes Blind Fate with Florence Turner and The Theft of the Crown Jewels from the Alice Joyce Series, promising jewels worth a cool million and a three thousand dollar Lucille gown.
A Reading, Pennsylvania man reports years of severe itching and eruptions finally healed after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. He describes nightly baths and full body relief with the products and invites samples by mail from Cuticura Department T Boston.
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