City recruits rally features war talk and music
A Chestnut street auditorium gathering urged young men to enlist as Sergeant G R L Potter warned the war end is not in sight and the German army remains tenacious. The event included talks by Captain Lamb and Reverend Dr George Hawes, plus violin solos by Miss Sara Lemer and patriotic singing by Abner Hartman.
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Chestnut Street
Charles E. Pass
G. R. L. Potter
Potter
Cambrai
Tommy
U. S
America
Canada
Ypres
Black Watch
John W. Blake
George Edward Slawes
Hawes
Wieniawski
Cesar Cui
Helen Etter
Abner Hartman
Drake
Commonwealth Band
Red Cross
Ee Cross
Stocks Steady At Opening Amid Mixed Wall Street Offers
Stocks opened flat with early declines in industrials and equipment issues. United States Steel hit a new yearly low on an early 7,000 share offering as rails and utilities slipped. By midmorning, steels rallied and general list steadied while Brooklyn Transit hit a new low and foreign bonds remained weak.
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Associated Press
New York
Wall Street
United States Steel
Liberty
Union Pacific
Indian Pacific
Brooklyn
Suffrage Delegates March to Capitol for Amendment
Four hundred women delegates of the National Woman's Suffrage Association marched to the Capitol in snow to present arguments in favor of the suffrage amendment. They were received by senators and House members during state hearings. The convention opened to hear executive council recommendations on campaign procedure and likely a push to contest the issue in the next Congress if defeated this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol
House
Membee
Executive Council
Giant Soldier Guards Local Recruiting Office in Last Rush
A seven foot tall sergeant from Johnstown guards the Harrisburg recruiting office during the final two days of draft inquiries. He is noted for serving in the Hudson or Hoaxer rebellion era and for climbing Pekin’s city wall with allied forces. Harrisburg’s first woman recruiting officer, Mrs Robert W Lesher, assists regular army clerks with paperwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Lesher
Sergeant Wiley
Johnstown
Will
Wiley
Hoxer
Pekin
Harrisburg
Robert W. Lesher
Lesher
First Hardscrabble Case Opens in Dauphin Court
Trial starts this afternoon in Dauphin county court with a jury selected. The first appeal involves Mrs. Elizabeth Hiester and Ward Baldwin, property owners at 1100 to 1106 North Front Street, with city defense led by John E. Fox and Fox and Geyer, assisted by B. Bruce Taylor.
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Dauphin County
Mongiay
Elizabeth
Hiester
Wardyn
Baldwin
North Front Street
John R. Geyer
Fox and Geyer
B. Bruce Taylor
John E. Fox
Full Crew Law Cases Heard by Public Service Commission
Charges by George B. Rowand on behalf of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen claim Pennsylvania and Reading railways violated the full crew law in Mt Pleasant and Mahanoy areas. Railroads argued movements were switching and not covered by the law. testimony given with decisions pending. Objections to an overhead crossing and fare-rate dispute for the Palmyra Lebanon trip were heard. A state highway cooperation request, staffing moves in war service, and various state government space concerns were noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ainey
Mahanoy
Reading Transit and Light Company
Palmyra
Lebanon
Wilmingee Road
Gennett Township
Chester County
Ankland
Uhler
State Highway Department
Mark T. Milner
Public Service Commission
C. M. Clement
Pennsylvania
Robert K. Young
Augusta
Capitol
Lefean
State Banking Department
State Society
O'Neill
Washington
Robert S. Gawthrop
J. A. Corbett
Pittsburgh
State Board of Pardons
John M. Baldy
State Bureau of Medical Education
I. L. Barry
North Pole Food Export License Granted to Amundsen
War Trade Board issues first license to Captain Raoul Amundsen of New York to export 292 cases of foodstuffs to the north pole for exploration. Bulletin details War Trade Board functions, export prohibitions, license requirements, and shipper guidance.
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Washington
North Pole
War Trade Board
Raoul Amundsen
Forth Pole
New York
N. Y
United States
The
Exports Administrative Board
Sheriff Sale Listed For Property In Dauphin County
The notice describes a lot in the Tenth Ward of Sarrinpari Dauphin County Pennsylvania bounded by Maclay and Susquehanna Streets and an alley. It cites a 1915 deed from Samuel Fishman and wife to Peter Magaro detailing the land conveyance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beidleman & Hull
Sarrinpari
Dauphin
Maclay
Samuel K. Leedy
Samuel Fishman
Recorder's Office
Dauphin County
Pennsylvania
Peter Magaro
Dauphin Educators Take Part in State Convention
Dauphin and Cumberland county educators will play major roles in the sixty eighth annual convention of the State Educational Association to be held in Johnstown December 26 to 29. Speakers include Governor Brumbaugh and state officials, with many local leaders from Harrisburg Steelton Carlisle and Lancaster among the presenters and officers to preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Educational Association
State Board of Education
Thomas Lynch Montgomery
L. P. Kennis
Pennsylvania
C. D. Koch
Brumbaugh
Henry Houck
Charles E. Davis
Steelton
L. H. McGinnis
J. Kelso Green
Carlisle
John C. Wagner
Roscoe A. Bowman
Technical High School
Harrisburg
P. Db
Miller
William D. Meikle
Central High School
Maude M. Kennedy
Lillie M. Nankivell
Lillian Fitzsimons
Anne C. Perry
Nora M. Koons
Portugal Revolt Leader Named Foreign Minister Canada Lisbon
Dr. Sidonio Paes, leader of Portugal's revolt, is named premier and foreign minister. Machado Santos becomes interior minister. Alfredo Magalhaes takes public instruction, Moura Pinto justice, Feliciano Costa labor, Aresta Branco marine, Xavier Esteves commerce, Santos Viegos finance, Tamagnini Barboza colonies.
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Associated Press
Lisbon
Portugal
Sidonio Paes
Machado Santos
Alfredo Magalhies
Moura Pinto
Feliciano Costa
Aresta Branco
Xavier Esteves
Santos Viegos
Tamagnini Barboza
Public Auction of Harrisburg Real Estate Writs 1918
A batch of properties in Harrisburg and Swatara, Dauphin County, seized by writs of fieri facias and related orders, will be sold at public outcry at the Court House in Harrisburg on Thursday, January 10, 1918, at 2 PM. Listings include multiple parcels in First Ward and Seventh Ward with detailed bounds and authorized attorneys.
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Court of Common Pleas and Orphans’ Court
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
W. M. Hargest
City of
Tuscarora Street
Charles Bucher
Henry C. Buck
Race Street
W. H. Kohler
Public sale of Dale Light Heat and Power Company land Ebensburg
Mechanics Trust Company trustee will publicly sell on December 15, 1917 at 11 A M in Ebensburg Cambria County Pa the land described in mortgage Book 435 page 30 including the eight four perches tract and the limestone coal seam with mining rights all real estate buildings franchises and rights of way owned by Dale Light Heat and Power Company in Cambria County Pa terms to be announced at sale Kittell Shettic Olmsted Snyder & Lamanty Harrisburg and Ebensburg attorneys signed notice by the trustee
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Hershey
East Hanover
County of
Dauphin
State of
Pennsylvania
Jonestown Road
Meeser
Samuel Geesaman
Daniel Fisher
Gowen Brown
Frederick C. Hoover
Recorder
Dauphin County
Harry A. Peters
Stroh
City of
Harrisburg
Thirteenth Street
Kittatinny Street
Amos H. Stover
Buckthorn Street
Avenue
KE. B. Buckalew
South Thirteenth, Street
Joseph J. Baughman
Dauphin County Recorder's Office
Harry C. Stover
H. C. Stover
Court of Common Pleas
Cambria County
Theorough
Ebensburg
County of Cambria
Dale Light, Heat & Power Company
Recorder's Office
Stonycreek
State of Pennsylvania
Samuel J. Horner
George J. Daniels
George W. Daniels
George E. Daniels
Cambria Iron Company
Recorder of
Leeds
George “. Daniels
Cambria Iron_ Compan
George &. Daniels
Dale Light, Heat and Power Company
Maggie
Cambria
A. N. Wakefield
Jacob Jacoby
Frank J. Hornick
Cambria Steel Company
Caimbria Steel Company
Edgar H. Wise and
Schell
Edgar H. Wise
Stony Creek
Dale
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Dale Light
Mechanics Trust Company
Olmsted, Snyder & Lamanst Ya
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G. W. Field & CO
Broad ST
Hoxton
Philadelphia
Atlantic City
Richmond
Norfolk
U. S. Steel
Western
En Jersey
New Jersey
Kansas
J. Hay
Timethy Faceuraing
Chicago
Chicago Board OF Trade
Board of Trade
Chandler Brothers and Company
Philadelhia Stock Exchanges
North Maret Squre
Pine Street
Allis Chalmers
Atchison
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore and Ohio
Bethlehem Steel
Canadian Pacific Oe
Central Leather
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chi
Mil
St. Paul
Colorado
Crucible Steel
Aihy
Distilling Securitie
General Motors
Goodrich
Ooo
Great Northern Pra
Ahr
Great Northern
Inspiration
International Paper
Kennecott Copper
Kansas City Southern
Lackawanna Steel Tris
Lehigh Valley
Maxwell Motors
Marine Ctfs
Ptd
Mexican Petroleum
Miami
Midvale Steel
Tace
New York Central
Norfolk and Wes
Northern Pacific
Pacific Mail Peere
Pennsylvania R. R
Railway
Steel Spring
Ray Con. Copper
Reading Railway
Republic Lron and Steel
Toll
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Studebaker
Utah
Westinghouse
Willys-Overland
Maryland
Dred Women
of the National Woman's
Suffrage Association
House Judiciary
Mittee
United Ice & Coal Co., Lumber Department
Forster and Cowden Sts
Arkansas Valley Railway, Light & Power Company
Bonbright & Company Morris
Wistar Stroud, Jr
Chestnut St
Boston
Detroit
London
Paris
George B
Rowand
Reading Sys
Tems
Mt. Pleas
Ant
Amundsen
Sheriff's Sales
Dauphin and
Cumberland County
Charles
Sheriff’s Sales
Seventh Ward
John W. Reily
North Sixth Street
Hamilton Street
Washington M. Wolf
Jacob H. Santo
Elizabeth Avenue
North Street
County Recorder's Office
John Fralich
Skmupp
County of Dauphin
Reily Street
James Street
Daniel H. Creamer
Meres Vr Creamer
Mary F. Creamer
Jesse Wingert
Emma C. Shaffer
Braddock
Swatara
Brookwood Street
Washington Avenue
Wing and Dunkle
Joseph Kk. Rhoads
Mary Schell
Ephraim Schell
John EH. Schell
Morris Schell
Clayton Schell
Charles Schell
Albert Schell
Harry Schell
Mary Schell Gleason
Sadie Schell Brenneman
John H. Schell
J. W. Swartz
Cameron Street
Harris Street
M Harris Street
William H. Brenneman
J. D. Brenneman
J. D
Breneman
Neiffer & Saussaman
Joseph F. Young
Berm
South Ninth Street
George J. Franck
W. W. Caldwell
Eyey
Moorhead Knitting Company
Moorhead Knitting Mill
Cor
Liwest
First National Sales Corporation
Conestoga Motor Trucks
Lancaster, Pa
Wn. Strouse
Equity
Oo Ee OF
OF Common Pleas
Kittell
Board of Trade Building
Commonwealth Trust Co
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