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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1917
Page
1
A revised tally from Halifax reports 1 200 dead 2 000 missing 6 000 wounded and 25 000 homeless after the munition ship Mont Blanc exploded and a great fire swept two and a half square miles. Authorities estimate about 4 000 dead, with many bodies never recovered.
Fair and cold through tonight with lows several degrees below freezing. Susquehanna and tributaries icebound and nearly stationary, with local rises if channels choke with ice. River at Harrisburg about four feet, stage near low water mark. overall storm influence spreading from Minnesota to New York and Ohio Valley. Temperature 5 am around 28, normal 34.
London report says Jerusalem surrendered after being surrounded by British troops. Bonar Law announced in the House of Commons that the city capitulated, closing months of siege and military pressure.
British capture of Jerusalem ends 1 200 years of Muslim control marking a strategic blow in the Mesopotamian campaign. General Sir Edmund Allenby leads the 1916 Palestine operation as the city’s historic rulers change hands after centuries of conquest.
Paris, Dec 10. Violent artillery fighting occurred last night on the Verdun front east of the Meuse. The report notes repulsed Italian posts near Corbeny and British French forces taking over Italian sections between Lake Garda and the Adriatic. Casualties reported as German attempts to breach Bezonvaux repelled.
A Bolshevik report describes a counter revolt in Southwestern Russia led by Generals Kaledines Dutoff and Korniloff aiming to seize authority, cut Siberian food supplies, and control Don region and mining areas. Orenburg fallen to Dutoff. Tcheliabinsk siege by Dutoff forces. Karauloff attacks in the Caucasus amid claims the Democratic party aids the revolt.
Harrisburg residents respond to a Halifax disaster appeal through the local Red Cross Chapter at Fager School. Donations of overcoats warm clothing and money pour in as volunteers solicit further support for the victims.
Harrisburg moves to sell fresh fish from Lake Erie by car to cut costs for residents. Dairy and Food Commissioner James Foust will present the plan to Donald McCormick with Erie fisheries inspecting wholesomeness. If approved, the car shipment will be weekly under the food administrator and a designated salesman. A $100 reward is offered to disproveRed Cross sweater stories by Citizens' War Committee chair William Jennings.
Officials discuss possible special session if Congress passes a prohibition amendment and election reform bills. Governor’s allies advise against it while rumors of Philadelphia policy actions persist. no confirmations given. Patton reportedly plans to object to four Agriculture Commission appointees at the bureau of markets.
In Enola Pennsylvania Harry Lowrey aged 24 wandered from home and froze to death near Zion Lutheran Church while volunteers flood Harrisburg recruiting offices in New York Mrs James W Gerard undergoes appendicitis operation success reported Three thousand men expected to enlist at Market Street station in the coming days with examinations underway and large crowds at the Harrisburg recruiting office
Readers are treated to a Sunday-era spoof about the Penn Harris Hotel construction where locals debate a so called negative gravity theory to explain floor support. The piece pokes fun at a vaudeville style argument among the Ancient and Honorable Order of the Sons of Rest and a colorful character named Arthur Vendig, whose theory is ridiculed as impractical.
Robert B. Reeves announced that George M. Appleby of 216 South Second Street has tendered his services as a Y M C A secretary for France. Appleby, a member of Appleby Brothers & Whittaker, is a prominent local businessman and the first to answer a call for six Harrisburg men to join European war work.
Chambersburg Pa December 10 The new frame residence of George Hein back near Mercersburg burned to the ground last night due to an overheated flue. The family escaped with difficulty. No child died this morning from burns. another has pneumonia. Everything in the house including clothing was destroyed.
A blaze at the Tokyo Stock Exchange building likely started from a defective flue and spread to nearby businesses. The exchange closed temporarily but officials report that the trading records were saved and preserved.
The Supreme Court upheld Idaho's prohibition statute as a valid exercise of state police powers, ruling it constitutional and enforceable as of December in the year reported.
Harrisburg leads Pennsylvania in Liberty Loan drives and Army recruitment. Mrs. Lyman D. Gilbert urges residents to join Red Cross or Army as the city supports national war effort.
Coal dealers report an acute city coal shortage amid a severe cold wave. River traffic is halted and zero weather is forecast, with a five to six day supply remaining in the city. Freight and street life are disrupted as Harrisburg braces for colder conditions.
London dispatch reports the marriage of Count Christian Gunth Vonff, son of the former ambassador to the United States, to Mrs. Marguerite Vivian Burt Thompson of Burlington New Jersey. The ceremony date is noted around early December with Berlin social pages citing the event.
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