Amusements Canada Aided Big War Film
A benefit motion picture For the Freedom of the World will be shown at the Colonial Theater Thursday and Friday for the Harrisburg Chapter Daughters of 1917 National War Aid. The film portrays the American Legion of the Canadian Army with Canadian Government support to boost U S war sentiment and recruitment. Military leaders from Camp Borden and Valcartier, including Major General Logie, Brigadier General Fages, Lieutenant Colonel McCormick and Colonel McBain, contributed to production.
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Freedom of the World
Colonial Theater
Harrisburg
Daughters of 1917
National War Aid
Edwin Bower Hesser
American Legion
Canadian Army
United States
New York
Canada
Logie
Military District No. 2
Camp Borden
Ontario
Healey
Fages
B. J. McCormick
William McBain
McCormick
Two Hundred and Thirteenth Overseas Battalion
McBain
Amp Valcartier
Quebec
Astep
Metro
Lockwood Productions
Uncle Sam
Barbara Castleton
Trained Animal Circus Pleases Majestic Crowd
The Norma trained animal circus at the Majestic features a small menagerie with monkeys pony and dog performing with minimal trainer cues. Acts include Caron and Farnum slapstick stunts Welser and Reeser in blackface comedy a passable Sherman Was Right musical sketch and Klein Brothers lively songs. Max Robertson reports.
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Animal Circus
The
Majestic
Norria
Caron
Farnum
Welser
Reeser
Sherman
Red Cross
Klein Brothers
Max Robertson
Norris
Weiser
Kola
Love O' Mike musical at the Orpheum tomorrow
Dainty production with chorus girls and comic bits. The show titled Love o Mike promises refined fun and popular music. It features songs and laughs drawn from New York success and will be seen at the Orpheum tomorrow with a lively, lighthearted entertaining style.
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Mike
the Orpheum
Eddie
Igor
York
Nee
Ein
The Warrior headlining at Victoria and Majestic vaudeville
Local listings preview The War rior with Maciste in a dramatic Alps saga and Cambiria. Virginia Pearon in Love of Mike at Orpheum with plot about Captain Lord Michael Kildare at a house party. Colonial features Harold Lockwood in The Square Deceiver. Regent shows The Silent Man and The War rior screenings with price details.
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Victoria
Maciste
Cambiria
Mrs. Vernon Castle
Mark of Cain
Virginia Pearton
Ausband
Diana Marvin
Bronxville
N. Y
Love O' Mike
Orpheum
New York
Michael Kildare
Winter baseball crisis echoes through International League
The International League, after announcing Toronto as 1917 pennant winner, faces a lean future with Richmond Rochester and Montreal considering quitting. Transportation and war pressures threaten operations while Barrow rumored to become Boston Red Sox president. Presence includes Chapin, Lichtenheim, Lynch, Gammons, Price, Lennin and Donovan.
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New York
International League
Imperial Hotel
Toronto
James J. McCaffrey
Jack Dunn
Baltimore
Dunn
Richmond
Rochester
Montreal
Charles T. Chapin
P. W. Wilson
Sol Lichtenheim
Boston
Edward G. Barrow
Red Sox
H. H. Frazee
Mr. Barrows
Jack Barry
Cub
Mr. Barrow
E. G. Barrow
Sol Litchenheim
C. T. Chapin
Mike Lynch
James Gammons
Providence
James R. Price
Newark
Hick-A-Thrift League Gridiron? Big Night of Two Games
In the Hick-A-Thrift League at Boyd Memorial hall the Red team beat Blues 22 to 21 and the White team defeated Greens 40 to 4. Scorers include Beck and Irwin for the Reds and N. Frank, Goodiel, Herring, and Smith for the Whites with Ellis dominant on fouls.
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Hick
Beck
Irwin
Meck
N. Frank
Gohn
R. Ellis
Ellis
E. E. Miller
Timer
E. Rockefeller
Fulton Winner by K C Route in Two Rounds
Fred Fulton of Minneapolis knocked out Porky Flynn of Boston in the second round in Columbus, Ohio. Fulton pressed from the start landing clean.lefts and body blows. He will challenge Jess Willard by December 20 if declined, aiming to claim the championship with backing from leading sportsmen.
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Jerome Kern
Eddie
Jane
Harry B. Smith
Fulton
Wang
Flynn
Jess Willard
Willard
Aeria
Johnny Dundee
Bridgeport
Conn
New York
Kunz
Reading High School Plans For Basketball Season
Reading Pa Dec 11 Prospects for a winning five to represent Reading High in the cage are excellent. Dick Nyquist leads the squad as captain elect while Bill Rhodes is ineligible. Nyquist will play forward and toss fouls with Irasso and Baumener contesting other forward berths. Snell and Friedman at forward both six feet tall with Snell likely the pivot man.
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Reading
Reading High School
Dick" Nyquist
Lightner
Nyquist
Bill” Rhodes
Irasso
Baumener
Snell
Friedman
Reading High to honor cadet runners and color roll
The Reading High Athletic Association plans a roll of honor for students who answered the colors and will raise a service flag with 68 stars. The letter award ceremony for boys is set for January 26 1918.
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Abrams
Sailer
Julian
Krebs
Tamaqua
Tamaqua High
University of Pennsylvania
Reading High Athletic Association
Reading High
France
Charles R. Errick
Horace B. Barr
William W. Miller
Reading Rifle Club
Cattle Frozen in Cars at Northumberland Yards
Northumberland County endures its coldest December in over thirty years as mercy drops below zero. Cattle left in cars at the Northumberland transportation yards froze to death while railroaders cleared the humps in frigid wind. Fires burned to keep workers warm as trains were prepared and water pipes burst across the town including the European hotel.
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Burg
Northumberlana County
Northumberland
Susquehanna
War Bread Found Good in Harrisburg Homes
The government’s war bread formula, with fixed ingredients but no price controls, is warmly received in Harrisburg. Bakers report few complaints as the new loaf is deemed tastier though drier. housewives bake at home to save money, using skim milk substitutions and water to cut costs.
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Harrisburg
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