Snow drifts hinder state highway work and flood of notices
Snow drifts six to fourteen feet required plows and scrapers to clear state highways for cross state truck movement. Path Valley saw a fourteen foot drift, with many drifts from Harrisburg to McConnellsburg and in mountain counties. Other items report agriculture rankings, hatchery improvements, full crew law cases, charter issues, and political visits.
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State Highway Department
Path Valley
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Virginia
State Commission of Fisheries
Public Service Commission
Brotherhood of Railroad
Pennsylvania
Reading
Mount Union Uses Public Shame to Track Slacker
Mount Union Pa December 13. The town of Mount Union with 6000 residents raised 15000 for the Y M C A from over 2000 subscribers and 1000 from the high school. One merchant refused Liberty Bonds and Red Cross support and a salty poster accuses him of disloyalty signaling potential ruin of his business while locals rally behind wartime duty and patriotism.
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Mount Union
Red Cross
Y. M. Co. A. War Fund
Y. M. C. A. War Fund
Europe
Belgium
France
General Clement Steps Aside For Younger Man
Augusta Georgia December 13 Major General Charles M Clement commander of the Twenty eighth Division surrendered his command to Brigadier General Frederick W Stillwell after a War Department telegram retiring him for physical disability in line with policy favoring youth and endurance He returns to Sunbury Pennsylvania at sixty two still in good health and is honored by his brigade and regimental leaders His three sons and Captain Theodore D Boal accompany him home
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Augusta
Charles M. Clement
Frederick W. Stillwell
War Department
Army
Clement
Pennsylvania National Guard
Sunbury
John F. Clement
111Th Infantry
Charles I
Dr. A. T. Still Founder of Osteopathy Dead
Dr. A. T. Still died in Kirksville Missouri yesterday. Born in 1828 in Lee County Virginia he began practice among the Shawnee Indians. He founded an osteopathic college in 1892 after developing his treatment ideas in 1874.
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Kirksville
A. T. Still
Osteopathic School of Healing
Still
Lee County
Virginia
Four Cannon to Be Dedi cated in Wrightsville
Governor Brumbaugh will speak at Wrightsville to dedicate four cannon donated by the U S government marking the farthest east reached by Confederate troops on July 28 1863 A service flag with 67 stars will be unfurled by the school children A Wrightsville boy Sherman Caron is recovering from wounds in France while with Canadian forces. Local shops will close for the ceremony and attendees will be hosted at luncheon by local officials.
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Wrightsville
Martin G. Brumbaugh
United States
Fourth
Hellam
Army
Navy
Sherman Caron
France
Brumbaugh
D. F. Lafean
York
Burgess
R. P. Wilton
A. J. Warfield
Arrest of Lester Banks for Larceny at Bucket of Blood
Lester Banks, a sixteen year old residing at 510 Strawberry alley, was arrested on suspicion of larceny at the Bucket of Blood on Seventh street yesterday. He cited bad company as his reason for leaving home. John Kinderling, of 220% Mulberry street, slipped on Market street near Third and sprained his ankle. The Harrisburg Hospital ambulance conveyed him to the hospital for treatment.
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Lester Banks
Seventh Street
Banks
510
Strawberry Alley
Market Street
John Kinderling
Mulberry Street
Harrisburg Hospital
Spa treatment at home promises rapid relief for uric acid disorders
A quoted promotion touts refined alkin saltrates as a superior remedy for gout sciatica lumbago neuritis and other uric acid disorders. It claims quick system cleansing and kidney and liver benefits and urges readers to obtain a trial supply today from Keller's Dry Store G A Gorgas Clark's Medical Store.
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Keller's Dry Store
G. A. Gorgas
Clark
Medici Store
Wheelbarrows Proposed to Ease City Ash Cleanup
Open correspondence from Co. F. Quinn of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor suggests using five wheelbarrows to assist ash and garbage collection. The letter mentions Mayor Keister and Druggist Gross as potential agents to address the waste problem at 111 Back Street City.
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Co. F. Quinn
Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor
D. L. Keister
Gross
No. 111
C. D. Shultz
South Hird Street
City
Keister
Workingmen's Nonpartisan League Seeks Mayor Aid
The league urges the mayor to visit with his barrow and relieve distress. A card was sent to the mayor and a copy of the reply directed to you. The request is signed by the Workingmen's Nonpartisan League and lists Gross Lynch Gorgas and Morgenthaler as contacts.
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Gross
Lynch
Gorgas
Morgenthaler
Workingmen’s Nonpartisan League
Jubilee Singers to Perform Benefit Concert at Wesley Church
The Williams Jubilee Singers present a charity concert at the Technical High School auditorium tomorrow at 8:30 p m under the Wesley A M E Zion Church Workers Class auspices. Taught by Dr A I Marshall the group has toured major U S and European cities and impressed many critics.
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Williams Jubilee Singers
Technical High School
Wesley A. M. E. Zion Church
A. I. Marshall
America
Europe
Civil Service Clerk Examination Noted for Washington Job
The United States Civil Service Commission announces a clerk exam in Washington DC on January 5, 1918. Open to all US citizens meeting requirements, with earlier entrance salary of 900 to 1000 dollars, War Department set at 1100 dollars during the war and potential promotion to 1200 dollars after three months. Applicants must be 18 or older and apply using form 304 through the post office building secretary.
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Washington
D. C
United States
War Department
Board of Civil Service Examiners
Civil Service Commission
Lieutenant Berkley Recovers From Surgery
Lieutenant Howard Berkley of 808 North Sixth Street is recovering from an appendicitis operation at a local hospital after receiving a commission at Camp Oglethorpe shortly before Thanksgiving. He was reported improving rapidly last night.
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George Jones
South Street
Washington
Jones
Howard Berkley
North Sixth Street
Camp Oglethorpe
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