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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
8
The Kilpatrick arrived off Barnegat New Jersey to join wrecking tugs and coast guard cutters in attempts to drag the stranded transport Sumner into deep water.
A vintage drug advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as fast relief for grippe symptoms. It recommends a dose every two hours for three doses to clear nasal passages relieve headache fever and throat soreness. The ad emphasizes easy taste and genuine product verification for 25 cents at drugstores.
Carlisle Pennsylvania December 14. A man identified as Colonel W F Pascoe 59 was found dead in his room at the Carlisle Opera House with gas flowing from an unlit burner authorities believe self inflicted. Pascoe known as a trolley line manager builder and former superintendent of the Carlisle and Mount Holly Railway and builder of the Carlisle to Newville line leaves a wife and six children.
At a mass meeting in St. Thomas the resolution urged Danish West Indies self rule under the federal government with American citizenship after transfer and natives given government appointments. A Washington delegation may be sent to press the plan. Mischa Elman is briefly injured in a taxicab streetcar collision in New York.
J W Nelson aged 60 a veteran Pennsylvania Railroad employee died early this morning at his Lancaster home after a period of poor health. He had served in various posts including supervisor on the Philadelphia division and later division engineer on the West Penn division before taking special duty with General Superintendent Geo W Creighton at Altoona. He was active in outdoor sports and tennis at Altoona and was well known in Harrisburg and along the main line. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
Long list of crew assignments and up crews from Philadelphia and Enola sides, detailing engineers, firemen, conductors, and brakemen for multiple divisions and shifts with first to go times and layoff notes. Includes names such as Gable, Ressinger, Baer, Good, Bixler, Shimp, Newhauser, Walker, Eckrich, Walker, Lutz, Brown, Finkenbinder, Shandler, Everhart, Eckman, Fisher, Cover, Brymesser, Glace, Malaby, Rodgers, Sny der, Leiby, Fulton, Malaby, and many others across Enola and Reading routes.
City Commissioner W L Gorgas proposed counting annual water department receipts in with municipal revenues to fund extensions and maintenance while keeping the mill rate low. Mayor Mears suggested diverting 68 000 to 70 000 from surplus water earnings for street lighting, but others caution keeping surplus intact for reservoir plans. Council to discuss 1917 budget at Friday conference.
Three freight trains were involved in a rear end collision at Brandtsville on the Philadelphia and Reading Railway. Conductor Elmer Leidig of Chambersburg was killed. Brakeman William Dowman of the city was injured. Traffic between Hamburg and the area was halted until morning.
The concert pianist Ethel Leginska will appear at the Oakley Chestnut Street Auditorium and at statuary events in the city. She described Harrisburg as fortunate in its location and praised the state capital’s sights and government Reservoir Park.
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