Six Cent Bread Controversy Affects Harrisburg Bakers
Harrisburg faces six cent loaf amid higher costs for sugar lard salt and flour with bakers warning of losses on the five cent loaf while prices of grain and other inputs rise. The public may pay now or bread prices should fall when flour normalizes. homemade bread offered as relief. Also notes hosiery price or length changes threaten women consumers as material costs rise and advertising shapes demand.
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Arrisburg
Pennsylvania Master Bakers’ Association
Europe
America
Harrisburg
Chicago
C. P. Carter
Philadelphia
National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers
Harry Lauder
Big Brother
Political tensions spill into Harrisburg and state race
The issue report covers Pennsylvania politics with George W. Williams entering the House speaker race, Cox and Baldwin competing for Republican support, and Brumbaugh and Penrose factions shaping strategy. It also notes charter talks, campaign spending, and local office moves in Harrisburg and Reading.
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Tioga County
Williams
Richard J. Baldwin
Edwin R. Cox
Capitol
Cox
Baldwin
Pittsburgh
Wellsboro
House
Penrose
Brumbaugh
Philadelphia
Reading
Republican Committee
State Committee
Horace W. Schantz
Allentown
Congress
Ferdinand Thun
Gustav Oberlaender
Henry Janssen
E. Richard Metling
Bryan eyes 1920 nomination as Wilson support grows
Bryan, guest of honor at a Washington luncheon and a banquet of Democratic leaders, drew attention with remarks that every Western state he spoke in backed Wilson. The country waits on his address with more interest than the President, signaling his clear push toward the 1920 nomination.
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Bryan
Wlliam Jennings Bryan
Wilson
William Jennings Bryan
Washington
Brooklyn Citizen Claims Wilson Re-Election Prediction Glory
Chairman Vance McCormick of the Democratic National Committee writes to the Brooklyn Citizen praising it as the only Greater New York newspaper to predict President Wilson's re election correctly on election night and the following morning. Ed Page signs the note as editor and publisher.
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Wilson
Brooklyn Citizen
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William Allen White to Become Secretary of the Navy
The Rochester Democrat reports a shift in the federal cabinet with William Allen White slated to replace Josephus Daniels as Secretary of the Navy after the new administration takes office. The change signals a major personnel adjustment at the Department of the Navy.
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Prairie Naval
William Allen White
Josephus Daniels
Rochester
Letters to the Editor on Mail Wagon Horses and Election Aftermath
Letters critique mail wagon drivers and horse welfare in the United States Postal Service. The second letter analyzes the recent general election, reflecting on Wilson, Prohibition and Independent votes, labor policy, and postwar economic expectations.
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the Telegraph
United States
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Alaska’s Roaring Days End in Latest Society Tale
A humorous social tableau unfolds at a Malemute saloon reception as Alaska’s wild frontier image collides with a newer, genteel society. A rugged newcomer from Washington is welcomed by a crowd of Mrs South Carolina and Miss Virginia as the last frontier myth fades away.
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Dan McGrew
Lou
Robert W. Service
South Carolina
Miss North
Virginia
Washington
Alaska
Tillicum
Bonds, government control, and labor in politics
A long letter discusses bond indebtedness above one billion and railroads plus telegraph lines at over twenty billion, arguing government takeover would add two million workers to sway elections. It compares costs of government shipbuilding to contracting and praises the Telegraph for supporting the Republican party. A separate note urges buyers to visit stalls for fresh meats at Chestnut Street yard.
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Brooklyn Navy Yards
Grand Old Republican Party
Black
the Telegraph
Chestnut Street
Our Daily Laugh Game and Quips
A collage of witty exchanges and jokes about whips, leap year chances, and a merchant debating ad space. The humor plays on aging, chance, and advertising logic with brief quips from O'Brien, O'Toole, Kate, Logic, and an editor.
Harrisburg to Host State Education Meeting With Taft
Harrisburg will host the State Educational Association annual meeting during Christmas week. Ex President William H Taft will speak December 23 and attend a governor Brumbaugh reception at the Executive Mansion. Other speakers include Charles Zueblin and state officials. The article also notes plans for regional municipal consolidation discussions and local library Christmas displays.
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Harrisburg
State Educational Association
General Assembly
William H. Taft
Taft
Govavernor
Brumbaugh
Pennsylvania
Poeoene
Charles Zueblin
Boston
Young
Houck
Keystone State
Pittsburgh Area Figures Shift Roles in Civil and Military Posts
Col. Asher Miner of the Third artillery returns home on furlough and boasts a weight loss of a score pounds to Wilkes-Barre neighbors. Gen. A. J. Logan resumes duty with his brigade at El Paso. J. Frank Tilley of Pittsburgh elected an officer of the National Board of Steamer Navigation. Admiral Benson favors Pittsburgh as site for a national armor plate plant. Judge J Whitaker Thompson moves from his country home to Philadelphia.
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Third Artillery
Wilkes- Barre
A. J. Logan
Pittsburgh
el Paso
J. Frank Tilley
National Board of Steamer Navigation
Admiral W. 8. Benson
Navy
Ess
J. Whitaker Thompson
Philadelphia
Flickering Fragments of 19th Century News Fumes
A collage of dated mentions appears with references to Harrisburg engineers aiding Pittsburgh mines, John Harris gifting to friendly Indians at a Christmas ferry, Germany proposing to enlist the unemployed, Billy Sunday’s skepticism about lineage, and scattered notes on Poland’s independence as reported by Chicago papers.
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Pittsburgh
John Harris
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