Budget for reval and militia figures cited
A $19,000 expense budget for the Stough campaign revival is nearly fixed as officers report cash on hand will likely exceed the amount. Ministers who pledged support were warned to "hit the trail" or withdraw, as campaign work continues with five weeks completed and 4,108 trailhitters recorded.
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E. A. Heffelfinger
Stough
Tabernacle
Trailhitters
Henry W. Stough
God
Dr. Stough
Shamrock Fire Company
Fourteenth
Herr Streets
Harrisburg Railways Company
Allison Hill
Reservoir Park
State Street
Ifill
Harrisburg Chooses City Forester Applicants Seek Post
Five candidates compete for Harrisburg city forester with City Commissioner Taylor evaluating theoretical and practical forestry qualifications. The position pays 1000 dollars annually, and no recommendation will be made until year end after budget approval. Local tree trimmers have also applied for the role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Forester
Harrisburg
Aubrey DeLong
Livonia
Center County
Harry J. Mueller
Bellefonte
Edwin K. Workman
H. S. Makibbin
City
LeRoy Howard
M. Harvey Taylor
Taylor
Germans Capture Lodz and Pivot Toward Warsaw
German forces seize Lodz in Russian Poland and resume the march toward Warsaw. Russian reports hint at a broader plan shifting main attacks to the south, with Cracow and Breslau as targets, while Servia reassesses after Austrian advances. Western fronts show detached engagements with no clear, decisive gains.
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Looz
Warsaw
Russian
Poland
Berlin
Petrograd
Lodz
New York Police Uniform Found In Woman's Trunk
A woman, found near Liverpool, England, yesterday sent to Ormskirk workhouse, cannot recall her name or origin. Her clothes bear the name Kate Fitzpatrick, which she denies, and a New York police uniform was discovered in her trunk amid claims she was robbed and had crossed the water under Sister Caire's escort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
England
Ormskirk
Caire
Kate Fitzpatrick
New York
Weather Forecast for Herrisborg and Vicinity
Rain or snow expected tonight with cloudy and colder conditions tomorrow. Wire trouble prevented a full summary. temperature 8 a.m. 38. River stage 2.6 feet above low water mark. Yesterday’s high 41, low 35, mean 28, normal 35.
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Herrisborg
Iseta
Birds Gather for Central Pennsylvania Poultry Show
Birds from Indiana, Connecticut, New York and Missouri arrive for the Central Pennsylvania Poultry Association and National White Wyandotte Club exhibit in Chestnut street hall. Wire pens for nearly a thousand birds are set, with four judges to inspect all entries starting tomorrow morning as shipments arrive tonight.
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Indiana
Connecticut
New York
Missouri
Central Pennsylvania Poultry Association
National White Wyandotte Club
Chestnut Street
Sick Sailors from North Sea Reach Liverpool on Ship China
The hospital ship China, chartered by the British Admiralty, arrived in Liverpool with about two hundred sick sailors from various North Sea warships. Survivors described cold conditions, monotony, and occasional thoughts of engaging German forces, noting fewer German submarines than expected.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
China
British Admiralty
North Sea
Battle ship Kansas Safe off the Delaware Capes
Philadelphia reports the battleship Kansas was in trouble off Ocean City on Sunday but is now anchored off the Delaware Capes waiting for weather to improve. In Nish, Servia, Servians since December 4 have resumed a vigorous defense as Austrians pressed their right wing to the Kolubera river, where they surrendered a battery.
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Cape Hatteras
Maine
Harrisburg
Associated Press
Delaware
Washington
Philadelphia
Western Union
Postal Telegraph Companies
Cracow
Germany
Silesian
Breslau
Galicia
Servia
Nish
Kolubara
Kansas
Delaware Capes
Ocean City
Paris
Kolubera
Waterways funding eyed at 1916 fiscal year start
Washington D C Dec 7 More than 53 million dollars are estimated for improvements and maintenance of the nations waterways and harbors during the fiscal year 1916 beginning July 1 1915 The Mississippi river allocation tops 10 5 million dollars with others including Ohio Hudson Tennessee Columbia Missouri and Delaware all listed with multi hundred thousand sums Pittsburgh Evelyn Nesbit Thaw builds a 25000 home in Mount Lebanon Township and the sale of two large lots to her mother was kept secret until recently with construction starting last August.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Red Cross
J. M. J. Raunick
Stough Tabernacle
Harrisburg
Shirley B. Watts
Bell Tanaphone Company
Zembo Patrol
Band of the Mystic Shrine
Boy Scouts
Edward Manser
Watts
Technical High School
Pretty Girls
Mystic, Shriners
Chestnut Street Auditorium
Zembo
Washington, D. C
Mississippi River
Ohio
Hudson
Tennessee
Columbia
Missouri
Delaware
Pittsburgh
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Washington Road
Mount Lebanon Township
Harry Thaw
Mount Lebanon Land and Trust Company
French Receives Order of Merit in France
London dispatch reports King George during his France visit conferred the Order of Merit on Sir John French, commander of British forces on the continent, and pinned the Victoria Cross on the first East Indian to earn the decoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
France
George
Sir John French
Dier
Emperor Yoshihito Seeks Final Blow in War Strife
Tokio December 7 Emperor Yoshihito opened the Diet with a strong war message praising growing ties with treaty powers and allied victories. He said the great war is not yet ended and urged loyalty and bravery to attain the final object quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoshihito
Associated Press
Tokio
Great Britain
France
Russia
Wilson opposes inquiries on U S war preparedness
President Wilson today opposed Representative Gardner's plan to investigate national defense readiness. He said such inquiries would be an unwise approach to a question that could create unfavorable international impressions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
United States
Associated Press
Washington
Representative Gardner
Girl joins German army as boy and becomes nurse
At Kenitz in West Prussia a recruit of nineteen passed basic rifle drills before authorities discovered she was a girl. She pleaded to go to the front but was sent to Danzig to train as a hospital nurse.
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Berne
Kenitz
West Prussia
Danzig
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Capitol Park
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