Two Million Purses for Shoppers Rush Here
A two million dollar Christmas cash wave sweeps Harrisburg and Steelton driven by savings funds, salaries, and employer associations. Banks, railroads, and dozens of factories release funds to buyers, with clerks and delivery staff surged as shops prep for a record holiday season.
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City
Steelton
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Christmas Savings Funds
Harrisburg
Christmas Savings Funds Association
Reading Railway
Pennsylvania, Steel Company
Harrisburg Pipe and Pipe Bending Works
Central Iron and Steel Company
Harrisburg Foundry and Machine Shops
Elliottfisher Typewriter Company
W. C. Hickok Manufacturing Company
Harrisburg Silk Mill
Blough Manufacturing Company
Harrisburg Shoe Manufacturing Company
Lalance-Grosjean Manufacturing Company
Honolulu Seeks National Republican Convention Support
Honolulu residents pledge 100000 dollars and offer to charter two steam ships to bring delegates, as Lorrin Andrews, Republican National committeeman for Hawaii, travels to Washington to press the bid.
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Honolulu
San Francisco
Weather Summary and Storm Movement Report
A Thursday forecast calls for fair and slightly warm conditions with a low near 35 degrees and a notable SW wind. An offshore storm moving southeast from Iowa broadens east of the Mississippi, raising temperatures by 2 to 12 degrees as it shifts toward Ontario. River stage midweek around 3.6 feet, with previous highs near 38 and lows near 23, as the normal temperature is 34.
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Itoha
Mississippi River
Ontario
Age Dispute Follows Birthday Involving Valley Railways Crash
Miss Swails sues Valley Railways for damages after a New Year’s Eve 1914 crash on Front and Walnut streets left Grace Maugans dead and John J Hargest and Samuel Weber bruised. Warren H Manning urges a wider Walnut street Subway and road linking Wormleysburg Camp Hill with plans for Cumberland county development.
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Miss Swails
Grace Maugans
Samuel Weber
John J. Hargest
Front Street
Valley Railways Company
Walnut Street
Miss Maugans
Hargest
Weber
Harrisburg
A Dauphin
Warren H. Manning
Boston
Harrisburg City Planning Commission
Wormleysburg
Mr. Manning
Telegraph
West Shore
Cumberland County
Camp Hill
Pennsylvania and Northern Central Railroad
Ferry Street
Wormleys
Brightbill Dominates Poultry Show Prizes at Kelker Hall
Brightbill of Penbrook wins majority of prizes at the third annual Central Pennsylvania Poultry Association show in Millersburg Kelker Street Hall. Judges award top honors to Leghorn and White Wyandotte entries with Pinehurst Farm and Park Place Poultry Farm taking key titles. Also notes $20 cockerel medal and best pen cup. Meanwhile two unsuccessful attempts to wreck trains near Millersburg are investigated as trackwalkers uncover ties laid on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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W. Brightbill
Penbrook
Central Pennsylvania Poultry Association
Kelker Street
Brightbill
Pinehurst
E. E. Brubaker
Elizabethtown
J. Frank Park
Pen Brook
The
Patriot
Park Place Poultry Farm
Allentown
Millersburg
Pennsylvania
Williamsport
Sunbury
Two Carlisle Women Hurt in Accident Near Hogestown
Two Carlisle women were injured in a car crash at Bryson's Bridge near Hogestown as their vehicle skidded on a bad road. Mrs. E. R. Plank suffered severe cuts from the broken windshield, while Mrs. Raphael S. Hays escaped with bruises. Harry Bruhl assisted and drove them home.
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Carlisle
Bryson's Bridge
Hogestown
E. R. Plank
Plank
Raphael S. Hays
Carlisle Frog, Switch and Manufacturing Company
Harrisburg
Young Bride Forgives Husband Who Shot Her
Philadelphia date line reports Mrs Mary Santore a 15 year old bride forgave her 19 year old husband Joseph Santore from her hospital bed via his brother in law. The couple argued after he shot her at Broad Street Station to stop her from going to Baltimore with a chorus line. The message influenced his admission to trial by magistrate Pennock in City Hall Police Court.
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Philadelphia
Mary Santore
Joseph Santore
Pennock
City Hall
Santore
Broad Street
Baltimore
Santoro
German Forces Concentrating Against Allies in Serbia
London December 8 Associated Press reports Serbian armies retreating behind Albanian and Montenegrin fronts as German and Bulgarian forces move on the southeast Serbia sector. Heavy fighting continues with hints of French withdrawal from parts of the Vardar Cerne angle. monastir’s fall and northern wing pressures create a precarious expeditionary posture while Allied reinforcements stream to Saloniki.
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London
Serbia
Monastir
Vardar
Cerne
Saloniki
Ipek
Montenegro
Republicans To Make No Fight Against Defense Plan
Senate Republican leader Senator Gallinger said Republicans will not oppose the national defense program if Democrats frame it in caucus. He told President Wilson Republicans want a stronger army and navy and will cooperate with Democrats. Wilson reportedly objected to Democrats using caucus to make defense plans party measures.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Gallinger
Wilson
Garrison
Art Commission and Sculptor Seek Fountain Site
The city formed a new art commission to pick a site for the M. S. Hershey fountain known as the Dance of Eternal Spring. Members toured possible locations including Reservoir Park slopes and street corners while reviewing the statue at a storage warehouse.
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Art Commission
M. Harvey Taylor
B E. S. Herman
Planning Commission
J. Horace McFarland
Municipal League
William Henderson
The
Civic Club
M. I. East
Southern Chapter of Pennsylvania
Giuseppe Donato
Fountain Bowl
State Streets
Reservoir Park
Reservoir
Ty Market Streets
Harris Park
Christmas Baskets Planned For Needy by Local Jewelers
Jacob Tausig's Sons of 4201 Market Street will provide 500 for 200 Christmas baskets to the worthy poor of the city. The Telegraph will publish a coupon to nominate families, with names given to Associated Charities for investigation. Baskets, distributed day before Christmas, will include groceries and feast makings.
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Jacob Tausig
Market Street
Telegraph
Associated Aid Society
Associated Charities
Herman J. Tausig
Edwin F. Tausig
Tausig
Harrisburg
St Stephens May Buy Alricks Property For Rectory
The vestry of St Stephen s Episcopal Church met informally to consider buying the W K Alricks property on Front Street just south of the church and Cranberry alley. The church has an option on the lot and will seek congregational input before deciding. No plans to move the rectory at 309 North Front Street are expected.
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St. Stephen’s
Alricks
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
W. K. Alricks
Front Street
Cranberry Alley
St. Stephens
North Front Street
Colored Civic League Charitable in Scope
A civic league of colored citizens of Harrisburg and Steelton organized at 319 Calder street last evening with non political and non sectarian aims. Officers elected include Archdeacon KE L Henderson president Alphonzo Harris vice president Dr James E B Oxley secretary Rev C J Henderson assistant secretary John W Wields treasurer. Board of directors: W L Winston chairman Augustus Stewart George W Moody Albert Shack Marshall Wicklin Joseph B Butler and John H H Keyser.
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Colored Citizens of
Harrisburg and
Steelton
Calder Street
Archdeacon
KE. L. Henderson
Alphonzo Harris
James EB. T. Oxley
C. J. Henderson
John W. Wields
W. L. Winston
Augustus Stewart
George W. Moody
Albert Shack
Marshall Wicklin
Joseph B. Butler
John HH. Keyser
Second Contingent of Ford Peace Party Under Way
New York December 8 Twenty peace advocates form the second contingent of the Ford expedition to The Hague. They will sail this afternoon on the Frederik VII for Copenhagen as most could not depart Saturday on the Oscar II carrying the main group. The list includes undergraduates from Yale Harvard Iowa State Vanderbilt Washington Minnesota Oregon and Leland Stanford, plus representatives of Idaho Arkansas Alaska governors and fraternal beneficial societies.
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New York
Hague
Copenhagen
Mr. Ford
Yale
Harvard
Iown State
Vanderbilt
Washington
Minnesota
Oregon
Leland Stanford
Idaho
Arkansas
Alaska
Mahon Arrives to Help End Wilkes-Barre Trolley Strike
W D Mahon of Detroit international president of the street car workers union arrived in Wilkes-Barre to aid in settling the trolley strike at Wilkes-Barre Railway Company. He said he came at the request of Secretary of Labor Wilson and State Labor Mediator Patrick Gilday. A conference with a Chamber of Commerce committee was set up.
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Wilkes-Barre
W. D. Mahon
Detroit
Wilson
Patrick Gilday
State Labor Department
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Vice President Thomas R Marshall Home Burglary
Burglars looted the Indianapolis residence of Vice President Thomas R Marshall while he stayed at his wife’s bedside in St Vincent’s Hospital. Thieves ransacked the home but found little of value, leaving valuables secured in a safety vault in preparation for his return to Washington.
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Shall
Indianapolis
Ind
Fir
Thomas R. Marshall
St. Vincent's Hospital
Washington
Confusion in Identity of Sunk American Ship Communipaw
London reports a telegraph from Alexandria saying the American steamship Communipaw, reportedly sunk off Tripoli by a submarine, may have been misidentified. If true, she would have discharged oil cargo and been en route elsewhere. The Rome bulletin claimed Tobruk, Tripoli, with Petrolite off Crete as reference.
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London
Alexandria
Egypt
Lloyds
Communipew
Tripoli
Petrolite
Rome
Tobruk
Crete
Mr. Warden
Algiers
Uncertain Fate of Vessel Communipaw Amid Reports
New York dispatches report the Communipaw may be safe after reaching Alexandria on Sunday and planning to sail to New York. Standard Oil officials wait for confirmation while pondering whether the Petrolite was torpedoed after leaving Alexandria. No word yet on the Petrolite’s status, and officials doubt the Communipaw’s location given speed and routes.
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New York
Alexandria
Egypt
London Lloyds
Standard
Nordstrom
David T. Warden
Foreign Shipping Department
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
Mr. Warden
Standard Oil
Vayage
British Squadrons Chase Submarine Near Communipaw Sinking
British authorities order Malta and Egyptian squadrons to pursue the submarine believed to have sunk the Communipaw. Details partial. story continues on page 12.
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Associated Press
Rome
Malta
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Port Said
Suedia
Syrian
Cairo
Manning
State St. Bridge
Lillian Snails
Robert F. Gorman
Penna. Branch
Colored Civic League
Ford Peace Party
Andard Oil
Etrolite
Pennsylvania Steel
Wilmington
Del
Kent County
Wilming
Ton
Amsterdam
Fort Cognellee
Namur
Belgium
Echo de Berge
State Hospital
State Board of Charities
Harrisburg State Hospital
State Commission of Agriculture
State College
E. B. Dorsett
Mansfield
C. E. Carothers
G. G. Hutchison
Mark
Capitol
Possi
Charles Christian Keener
Lillian Marie Piker
Charles McSunterom
Mt Gap
N. CC
Florence Sharisteer
Enola
Frederick L. Barnhart
Havel Belle Crown
Ross Wilbur Coulty
Estella Mabelle Garner
George J. Wagensellier
Minnie May
Viola Geary
Newport
John H. Bowers, Jr
Washington Heights
Florence Mac Anderson
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