Harrisburg Theaters Feature Stars In Kindred Holiday Shows
The Omnibus program lists Christmas matinee and evening vaudeville at the Majestic and Colonial plus Regent's Marguerite Clark film. Highlights include For the Freedom of the World at the Colonial, Bab s Matinee Idol at the Regent, and Garden Belles on the Majestic bill with Una Clayton and the Hickey Brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Regent
Marguerite Clark
Bob
Sessue Hayakawa
Jack Pickmerces
Louise Huff
Jack
the Majestic
Una Clayton
Harrisburg
Herbert Griffin
Hickey Brothers
Keith
George Yeomans
Fabinia Sisters
Love O Mike musical comedy at the Orpheum
The Orpheum stage presents Love O Mike a lively musical comedy with tuneful numbers and crowd pleasing farce Olga Brooks as Molly and Shep Camp as the butler Biff Jackson lead a weekend party caper The plot centers on Captain Lord Michael Kildare rivaling the party’s admirers and Bruce Grant finally revealed as the true hero with Henry Vincent as Lord Kildare.
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Mike
Orpheum
Olga Brooks
Molly
Shep Camp
Biff Jackson
Lord Michael Kildare
Lord Kildare
Ed Kildare
Bruce Grant
Captain Kildare
Henry Vincent
Lord
Bob McClellan
Grant
Franklin Lyons
Alonzo Bird
Gladys Reed
Jerry Sanges
Bobby Walton
The Mark of Cain at Victoria Theater with Mrs Vernon Castle
The Victoria Theater shows The Mark of Cain starring Mrs Vernon Castle and Antonio Moreno with Virginia Pearson in All For a Husband. The plot features a staged scandal at a munitions plant and a mistaken government agent as the officer in charge. The program also includes The Retreat of the Germans at Arras rides in on Monday to Wednesday.
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Victoria
Vernon Castle
Virginia Pearson
Battle of
Arras
Vernon
Cain
Mark of Cain
Antonio Moreno
Victoria Theater
Mrs. Verbon Castle
Miss Strickler Engaged to Earl Lefevre of Lancaster
Rohrerstown announces Miss Mary Strickler a popular school teacher engaged to Earl Lefevre of Lancaster. The wedding date is not set.
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Rohrerstown
Mary Strickler
Earl Lefevre
Lancaster
War Drama Shown for Harrisburg Charity at Colonial Theater
A benefit showing of a major war drama titled Love laughs at even the world war runs today and tomorrow at the Colonial Theater. Proceeds go to Harrisburg Chapter Daughters of 1917 National War Aid. The film follows Gordon Harvey’s enlistment, romance, front line peril, and a dramatic sacrifice ending with reward and mercy. Additional items note a man found asleep in a hollow tree in Lewistown and local notices about Masons and Mrs. Mary Holzhauser's death.
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Canada
Berlin
Ninety-seventh Battalion
Ira M. Lowry
Colonial Theater
Harrisburg
Uncle Sam
Thos
United States
Fim
Bab
Regent
Marguerite Clark
Regent Theater
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Miss Clark
Daughters of 1917
National War Aid
Organization of Women
France
Gordon Harvey
American Legion
Betty Milburn
Betty
Ralph Perry
Harvey
Perry
Edwin
Bower Hesser
No More Getting Up Nights Brown Tablets Offer
An advertisement promotes Kellogg's Brown Tablets as a cure for nighttime urinary problems. It claims a physician supports the product and offers a free 60 cent trial box to readers sending six cents for postage and packing to Frank Kellogg Co in Battle Creek Michigan.
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Washington, D. C
American Therapeutic Society
Frank J. Kellogg Co
Hoffmaster Block
Battle Creek
Mich
Kellogg's
British Merchant Losses Rise in Week as Germans Sink 14 Big Ships
London report notes a slight weekly rise in British merchantmen losses to mines or submarines. Fourteen ships over 1,600 tons were sunk, along with seven smaller vessels, in the recent week.
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London
Admiralty
Bevn
Conscript Wealth Plea From Grangers Warns on War Tax
Williamsport Pa December report from the Pennsylvania State Grange urges conscripting wealth along with men to aid the war effort. It supports a graduated income tax affecting high earners and calls for exemptions to protect farming and essential industry labor while placing physically unfit workers into war industries.
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Williamsport
Legislative Committee
The
Pennsylvania State ‘Grange
Allen D. Miller
Susquehanna
United States
Mulching Autoists Lands Former Deputy Sheriff Prison Term
Wilbur D. Speece former Harrisburg deputy sheriff and Pennsylvania politician was sentenced to State prison with hard labor for 1 to 3 years by Judge C C Shinn for extortion as a Pleasantville magistrate aiding by two special constables to gouge motorists. He pays court costs while Haff Burris get suspended terms. Speece has prior federal and local convictions.
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Atlantic City
Wilbur D. Speece
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
C. C. Shinn
Speece
Pleasantville
Daniel Haff
Egg Harbor Township
Harry Burris
Newark
N. J
Philadelphia
W. B. Dill
Charles S. Moore
Haff
Burris
Milton D. Speece
M. Dock Speece
EK. C. Machamer
York
Cumberland County
Beef For Army Spoils on Ship Due to Middle
Washington reports a refrigerator ship used to carry beef to the American Army in France returned with 150 tons of beef still aboard. The cargo spoiled after being overtak en in unloading and was discovered rotten on arrival at Hoboken New Jersey Harbor.
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Washington
Hoboken
New York Harbor
Quartermaster’s Department
Army
Transatlantic
France
America
New York
First Winter Meeting of High School Literary Society
Williamstown Pa December 13 The Williamstown High School Literary Society, tomorrow evening, will hold its first monthly meeting in the high school auditorium. The program includes music by the Glee Club, minutes read by Miss Alice Moyer, officer installation, an inaugural address by the president, a recitation by Miss Martha Lewis, a referred question on food saving, readings by John Dyer and Margaret Curtis, a debate on universal military service, a piano solo by Miss Elizabeth Selfridge, current events by James Thompson, and a critics report by Prof. Mummert.
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Williamstown
Literary Society of
Williamstown High School
Alice Moyer
Martha Lewis
John Dyer
Margaret Curtis
John Moyer
Fred Stinner
Chester Warlow
James Phillips
Elizabeth Selfridge
James Thompson
Gazette
William Saussaman
Mummert
Glee Club
M. E. Ministers Continue Drive in Harrisburg
Harrisburg Methodist ministers push Educational Jubilee fund by aiding 250 charges in the Central Pennsylvania Conference. Rev Arthur A Bouton and Rev M Db Rush travel to enlist out of town congregations as campaign closes December 20. Funds required total 450000 with 110000 remaining for this conference. Dr M E Swartz one of the key canvassers vows success aided by leaning day projections.
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Harrisburg
Arthur A. Bouton
Riverside Church
M. Db. Rush
Iowa
M. E. Swartz
Empey
Interesting Program For Township Institute
New Cumberland Pa December 13 local institute of Fairview township teachers to be held at New Market. Afternoon program includes Rural Education Language and recitations by Mabel Long Helen Stahl Loreta Becker and Leon Hoff. Evening program features Manners and Morals solo recitations a debate on patriotism and other readings.
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New Cumberland
Fairview Township
York County
New Market
RE. E. Zimmerman
H. D. Rekert
Mabel Long
Helen Stahl
Loreta Becker
Leon Hoff
H. M. Straley
Solo
W. G. Cross
Esther Seip
Harry Parthemore
G. L. Haring
Karth Kelly
Walter Trout
Blain Seitz
Elizabeth Kunkel
Protest Against Traction Company's Reduced Fare Action
Merchants and Manufacturers Association at its December meeting protests Conestoga Traction Company's decision to discontinue selling monthly and other discounted tickets. The secretary will notify the traction company and protest before the Public Service Commission, arguing the move harms labor by affecting workers who live outside Columbia and rely on trolley lines. Also reported is the death of Pris cilla Hill, a centenarian resident, with three sons surviving.
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Columbia, Pa
Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association
Conestoga Traction Company
Traction Company
Public Service Commission
Columbia
Delegates to Convention and Local Marriages in Williamstown
At a United Mine Workers of America meeting John Motes and Harper Watkeys were chosen as delegates to the February convention in Indianapolis Indiana. Mrs Jane Moffett announces the marriage of her daughter Vivian Jane to Lt Charles Curtis on August 6 1917 in Allentown Pa. Elva M Pickle of Lancaster married Roy E Eshelman a leading local businessman, with Rev Dr Haupt officiating at Grace Lutheran Church in Lancaster.
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Williamstown
United Mine Workers of America
John Motes
Harper Watkeys
Indianapolis
Indiana
Jane Moffett
Vivian Jane
Charles ©. Curtis
Allentown
Curtis
France
Lancaster
Greenfield
Elva M. Pickle
Roy E. Eshelman
Haupt
Grace Lutheran Church
Geib Wolgemuth wedding in Marietta area
Miss Grace BE Geib of Rapho township married Harry Wolgemuth of Union Square yesterday in Marietta. The ceremony was conducted by Rev. ee B. Hoffer and attended by Miss May Flory and Wilson Nissley.
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Wolgem -Geib
Marietta, Pa
Grace BE. Geib
Rapho Township
Harry 8
Wolgemuth
Union Square
Ee B. Hoffer
May Flory
Wilison Nissley
New Remedy Tescum Powders Cures Liquor Habit Says Doctor
Dr. Conner of White Star Home for Young Men endorses Tescum Powders as a harmless home remedy to stop drinking. He reports five severe cases improved, none drank for over a month, with one former alcoholic claiming six months abstinence. The odorless tasteless powder can be given secretly and is money-back guaranteed by druggists including J Nelson Clark.
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New York
Conner
Massachusetts
College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Baltimore
Hopkins Hospital
White Star
Bec Poe
J. Nelson Clark
Patient remedies and self treatment tips offered in letters
A reader column presents home remedy suggestions for kidney trouble obesity pimples and dandruff. Balmwort tablets arbolone tablets and three grain sulf uric tablets are recommended with directions for self usage and a plain yellow mingos hair treatment advised to stop hair loss and relieve dandruff and itching.
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Belle C
G. R
Geo. W. G
Doctor Advice Columns From Dayton Newspaper
A newspaper feature presents Dr. Lewis Baker offering general medical guidance. Questions cover cough remedies with menthol laxene, hypo-nuclane for weight gain, a three grain cadomene rejuvenator, and notes Baker has long provided free medical advice through the press.
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Lewis Baker
College
College-Elwood Streets
Dayton
Ohio
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