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Newspaper

Harrisburg Telegraph

Location

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Dec 07, 1916

Page

10

Gift Books for Boys and Girls in Popular Series

Announcement lists popular boys and girls series with 25¢ editions including Grace Harlowe, The Moving Picture Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, Ruth Fielding, Boy Scouts, Speedwell Boys, Bunny Brown, and Aunt Lu titles. Reads like a catalog of juvenile series and installment titles across multiple publishers and authors.

Moving Picture Boys Victor Appleton West Bovine Picture Boys Panama Laura Lee Hope Moving Picture Girls Oak Pari Rocky Ranch Bert Wilson J. W. Duffield Rockies Tom Swift Ice City of Gold Ruth Fielding Alice B. Emerson Red Mill Briarwood Hall Snow Camp Lighthouse Point Silver Ranch Cliff Island Sunrise Farm The Gypsies Dixie Ralph Victor Boy Scouts’ Patrol Boy Scouts Canadian Rockies Yukon North Woods Black Hills Speedwell Bunny Brown Sue

Fifty Cent Gifts in Women's Lingerie Section

The display showcases dainty garments and gift items in the Women’s Negligee and Lingerie section. Nainsook and cambric drawers, lace trimmed chemises, flannelette gowns and skirts, petticoats, aprons, and corsets priced at 50 cents to 80 cents. Second Floor displays Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart items including school girls corsets and silk caps.

Pomeroy & Stewart Brad Tern Cps Ouisia

Friday Fabric Sale With Wide Selection and Clearances

Friday only sale of mohair corded and various wools and synthetics. yardages listed with widths from 36 to 54 inches, prices per yard from 40 cents to 1.50, colors navy brown oxford garnet and more. includes storm serge gabardine broadcloth and poplin with limited availability.

Foto Ace VATA Panama

Friday Rug Sale for Bath Rugs 24 by 50 Inches

A Friday sale advertises bath rugs sized 24 by 50 inches. The notice focuses on promotional pricing and availability for shoppers browsing home decor. No additional details on store name or exact date provided.

Palm elected captain of Dickinson eleven for 1917

Carlisle Pa Dec 7 At a meeting of the Dickinson College football holders Maurice Palm of Phillipsburg Pa was elected captain for the 1917 season. Palm a sophomore has played two years on the team as end and backfield and is considered one of the fastest and most versatile athletes on campus. Captain Myers of Camp Hill was expected to enter law.

Carlisle Maurice Palm Phillipsburg Dickinson College Palm Myers Camp Hill

College grid star leaves team after final year

The player will not return for another season and is not seeking re election. A contract with Bucknell for a Thanksgiving Day next year game at Carlisle restarts relations with Bucknell, while a meeting soon aims to renew activities and revive the annual game with Gettysburg.

Bucknell Carlisle Lewisburg Gettysburg

LaMance Campaign Closes First Half This Friday

Evangelist Billy LaMance speaks at Stevens Memorial Methodist Church on The Second Coming of Christ. Tomorrow night the first half ends with booster chorus and a sermon. LaMance and Mrs LaMance appear at multiple services with crowds rising toward 13 000 attendees as meetings continue two weeks.

Billy’ LaMance Stevens Memorial Methodist Church Booster LaMance Evangelist LaMance

Needle in Digestive Tract Causes Tetanus Death

London case details a Pimlico tavern keeper's wife dying after a needle swallowed ten years earlier. A postmortem found the steel bit in her intestines. She had gripped the needle with her teeth and dropped it during sewing. Medical staff misdiagnosed it as ptomaine poisoning until onset of blood poisoning proved fatal.

London Pimlico

Dishwashing Suit Faces Woman Hater’s Estate

Grant Fletcher sues in Vandalia Illinois Circuit Court claiming he washed dishes at Granville Fletcher deceased and expected a share of a $100000 estate if he did not marry. The elder Fletcher died a bachelor, a will failed and the estate reverted to two uncles.

Vandalia, Ill Circuit Court Grant Fletcher Granville Fletcher Fletcher

90 Year Old Veteran Regains Sight After Cataract Removal

In St. Louis Colonel A. K. Rodgers aged ninety regains sight in one eye after cataract surgery. A Mexican and Civil War veteran, he had been blind for years and used bells on his fishing poles to detect bites. He can walk and greet friends without vocal confirmation. A separate note recounts a collision where a car hit a mule, sending the auto several feet and injuring Stella Schneider.

St. Louis A. K. Rodgers Alton

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