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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
11
Nutrition focused note extols the benefits of wheat biscuits for youths. It promotes one or two biscuits with milk as a ready to serve breakfast. Produced at Niagara Falls New York.
A well dressed gray haired woman, seen at Union Station after arriving by train from Chicago, loaded several traveling bags and asked Union Station staff for a team to drive her to Buffalo. She then boarded a Cumberland Valley train around 9 30 am and later aroused curiosity at New Kingston station.
A March 1918 reader asks for the Gaeneac action recipe, claiming it cured nerve and energy issues. The answer provides the recipe: Tincture Cadomene Comp 1 oz, Comp Essence Cardiol 1 oz, Comp Fluid Balmwort 1 oz, Comp Syrup Sarsaparilla 3 oz. mix and take a teaspoon before or after meals and at bedtime for several weeks. Dr. Lewis Baker notes the note should be clipped and kept.
Number 40 For The Blood is praised as the best treatment for blood poison including scrofulous eruptions pimples and ulcers. The ad cites Dr. J. C. Mendenhall a 40 year druggist of Evansville Ind and Geo A. Gorgas of 16 North Third Street as sellers.
Aboard the Overland Pullman Special from Philadelphia the Harrisburg delegation of sixty is greeted with hospitality and humor. P. S. Smith leads the trip with a Philadelphia band, while Sam Russel and bankers from Lewistown and Carlisle add to the jovial reception. The party tours Toledo next, with breakfast at the Willys-Overland plant and a full day of activities.
William Clay 1727 Green Street was arrested this afternoon by Officer Ferrow for indecent suggestions toward 11 year old Clara Siegel near Kelker and Green streets. A crowd pursued him to the police station while neighbors signified willingness to testify. Clara is the daughter of George Siegel of 1326 Front Street.
In Lebanon Pennsylvania discussion swirls around Charles M Schwab's Bethlehem Steel buy of American Iron and Steel plants and a possible Pennsylvania Railroad extension to Reading as rail lines report October gains. Across New York economists note a rail car shortage still weighing on earnings despite a 12 percent rise over October last year.
American railroads ordered 56 520 freight cars in November at an estimated cost of 82 million dollars a new monthly record. October and November combined accounted for about half of 1916 freight car business as equipment shortages grew for export traffic to Europe. Domestic roads bought 342 locomotives and 491 passenger cars while rails purchases totaled 737 000 tons.
Miss Elizabeth Goodyear 52 a housekeeper for Mrs Susan A Fager died at the Fager residence after months of illness and grief over the death of her employer. She leaves three brothers and two sisters and funeral rites are planned for New Cumberland with burial at Churchtown. Also noted is the death of Nelson D Shearer 23 after an appendix operation at Chambersburg Hospital. He leaves a widow and parents with services at 329 South Sixteenth Street and burial in Paxtang Cemetery.
The third day of the twenty first annual institute opens Friday at Central High School with instructors Dr W E Chan cellor of Wooster Ohio and Dr Lincoln Hulley of DeLand Fla. Royal Arch Masons officers were installed after a special meeting at Perseverance Chapter No 21. A bicycle sale suspect Sam Deiver was arrested. Bayonne youth Thomas P Silva, 17, to stay in custody until parents arrive. Ruth Titzel and A G Lynn wed yesterday in West Hummel Avenue with Rev E L Manges officiating.
The document lists crew numbers and staffing for the Philadelphia and Reading divisions, noting first to go after specified times, up and laid off personnel for engineers firemen conductors and brakemen, with names such as Gray Sober Gemmill Reisinger Lefever and Walters Powers etc. It shows multiple yards and divisions including Middle and Enclave sections with exact crew rosters and shifts.
Washington D C Dec 6 A food embargo bill author by Rep George W Edmonds of Philadelphia was introduced in the House The measure would allow the President to declare an embargo on ships carrying specified foodstuffs at US ports when certain wheat prices are reached The same item mentions a marriage announcement from New Cumberland Pa noting the betrothal of Lester Cline and Catherine Miller in Baltimore on Thanksgiving
Ellen Peters of 27 South Court Street Harrisburg says Tanlac restored her health after four years of fatigue stomach trouble and backaches. She reports improved sleep energy and reduced rheumatic pain and credits Tanlac for her renewed wellbeing as the Tonc is promoted at Gorgas Drug Store by a Tanlac representative.
Sugar sold in 2, 5, 10, 25 and 50 lb cotton bags promotes cane sugar labeled Franklin Granulated. Grocers asked to specify the brand for best cane sugar with high sweetness and quick dissolution. Packed at the refinery in cotton bags for Granulated, Dainty Lumps, Powdered and Confectioners uses.
Advertises Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound as a ready to use mix that darkens gray hair evenly in a few applications. Claims natural lustre and youthful appearance without curing disease. Available for 50 cents a large bottle.
An advertisement promotes internal sanitation by daily hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the bowels and bloodstream. It claims indigestible food residues feed gut bacteria and toxins enter the blood, urging readers to start this routine to prevent headaches, colds, biliousness, constipation, foul breath, and other discomforts.
A Home Front appeal urges early Christmas mail to troops at the border. Communities host bazaars and families knit and bake for soldiers. Mothers send cakes and friends mail cigars and tobacco while volunteers stress speed before the holiday. Boys' Brigade to Meet in New Cumberland on December 7 at 7 PM in the Methodist church basement.
Public sale ordered by the Court of Common Pleas Dauphin County on December 28 1916 at 2 PM at the court house Parachare Pa. The sale covers the Halifax Water Company mortgage property including lands along Peters Mountain Turnpike and adjacent parcels with franchises and appurtenances. Minimum bid 2500 and 500 cash deposit required. 20 percent cash due within 10 days. balance within three weeks after court approval.
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