Harrisburg Reserves drill hiatus and Red Cross appeals
The Harrisburg Reserves suspend drills from December 21 to January 4 after six months of near weekly sessions as they train for field duty and home defense. Mary Russell’s Red Cross donation prompts praise for civic generosity and calls for broader support. Censorship concerns critique secrecy in wartime information sharing and highlight a $1,350,000 Creel Committee appropriation for public information.
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Harrisburg
Har- A Csturn
National Guard
Home Guard
State politics heat up as Snyder eyes economy at Capitol
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder confronts extra staff and pay increases in a looming clash with state administration leaders. He vows inquiries into payments and appointments, while allies and opponents mobilize toward January maneuvers and potential court actions.
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Capitol Hill
Charles A. Snyder
Capitol
Snyder
Department of Public
Auditor General
England and U S Select Committees and War Expenditures
An English select committee on National Expenditures urges full financial review of proposals to speed munition programs. American debate over a joint war expenditures committee is noted as helpful, not hindering, while Russian life is described as devoid of monotony. US draft stigma is criticized as unjust.
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England
Great Britain
Congressional
Senate
United States
Congress
Draft Law Promotes Equal Military Service Rights
The text defends a selective draft as equal duty for all ages, noting volunteering is honorable but those waiting their turn have the same right to service. It argues the War Department cannot shelter and train volunteers if numbers outpace need, and praises the volunteer’s title for lineage pride.
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War Department
Inexcusable Loss of 150 Tons Beef Sparks Outcry
The essay blames HO for the forgotten 150 tons of beef on an American supply ship bound for France. The meat spoiled on the return trip due to gross negligence by a quartermaster assistant appointed through political influence. The piece calls for punishment and condemns the careless misconduct amid wartime shortages.
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France
Washington
What Shall We Do Mr Secretary War Review
Detroit Free Press criticizes Secretary Baker for weekly war preparedness notes and urges action. It questions public duties under the selective service funding and urges Baker to focus on mobilization rather than public letters. The piece lauds civilian backing and calls for stronger executive use of resources.
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Detroit
Free Press
Baker
United States
Troubles in Portugal unrest and unclear uprising
The Philadelphia Ledger notes Portugal is in social and economic turmoil after the monarchy’s overthrow and a republic’s establishment. It cites resignations and a new government, with food riots and a general strike cited in recent history, but attributes no clear royalist involvement in the present events. The piece suggests long recovery ahead from years of misrule.
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Portugal
Lisbon
Philadelphia Ledger
American women in France rush harms military work
Paris correspondence from a Philadelphia paper notes a surge of American women to France seeking to aid in the war. Wealthy and ambitious travelers arrived with plans to build housing for troops, stock food for aviators, and present gifts to wounded soldiers, often without proper preparation. Many seek to be near husbands or act as nurses, though lacking nursing training. The Detroit Free Press voices the lesson that keeping home fires burning is a worthy way to contribute now that the United States is at war.
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Paris
Philadelphia
France
Atlantic
United States
Detroit Free Press
People’s Forum lampoons wheelbarrow plan in Harrisburg
In a December 14 1917 letter to the Telegraph editor Co F Quinn mocks a mayoral wheelbarrow policy tied to wartime scarcity. He jests about officials Chiefy Gorgas Moranthater and a druggist’s objections as he questions the sudden public exposure of Mr Keister’s innovation.
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Telegraph
St. Peter
Briance
Sahara
Gorgas
Gross
Moranthater
Morgan
Mr. Keister
Cc. F. Quinn
Soldiers to Europe for a musical education says U S corporal
Samuel Lellouche a lance corporal in the 828th Infantry Army of France on sick leave in New York believes American troops will learn refined taste in Europe. He cites the Paris opera as inspiring soldiers who will demand higher quality music when returning home.
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Europe
Samuel Lellouche
828Th Infantry
Army of France
New York
West Haven
Conn
France
Paris
New York Herald
Labor Wages Rise and strike notes across regions
Reports from across North America and Europe note wage increases and contract changes. Packers in Frisco gain recognition and higher pay. Lehigh Valley machinists win higher rates. Montreal printers secure weekly gains. Ohio and Boston workers see added wages. and Irish railway workers settle a strike with better hours.
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Biblical verse quoted from Daniel and framed as a lament about collective sin and divine judgment.
DOING THEIR BITES The bedbugs council decided
A wartime verse from the Kansas City Star notes bedbugs hold a council guided by conservation. It claims a weekly biteless night during the war as a civic measure. It ends with a patriotic toast praising Red White and Blue.
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Kansas City Star
New Britain
Conn
Herald
Top in Penna. Doe carcass prompts venison disposal query
Tony Robertshaw, a Lehigh Valley brakeman from Indian Ridge, found a 100 pound doe killed by a passing train near his home and carried the venison to the game warden for lawful disposal. A man at a millionaire financier’s funeral asked how far the service had gone and was told it was just opening for the defense.
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Pittsburgh
City Farms
Mayview
Councilmank Finance Committee
The
Gazette-Times
John J. McKelvey
F. P. Booth
John Swan
Booth
Council
Lehigh Valley
Tony Robertshaw
Indian Ridge
Robertshaw
Thomas Lawson
Lawson
Three Classes In The United Statespolitical crisis warning
From this time on there can be only three classes in the United States Americans pro-Germans and yellow dogs. The yellow dogs include profiteers grandstanders and officials who seek partisan advantage and demagoguery in the national peril while others see only an opportunity for self promotion.
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United States
Saturday Evening Post
State Game Code Ends First Pennsylvania Season Tonight
Pennsylvania closes deer bear hare and rabbit seasons at sundown as the first year under the 1917 game code ends. Officials report abundant game, plan more state preserves, and expect record license revenue to fund propagation and protection efforts.
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Pennsylvania
Office
The
State Game Commission
Joseph Kalbfus
Commission
Delaware River
Dauphin County
Coal and Water
Kalbfus
Notable local figures eye records health and education
Well known people include H Hinrichs of the Erie fish authority noting this year’s record take, Dr Samuel G Dixon health recovery and remote departmental duties by telephone, Rep H Atlee Baugh of Blair County considering a county history, and Edwin Wolf president of the Philadelphia board of education pushing removal of German letters from school books.
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Erie Fishthority
Samuel G. Dixon
H. Atlee B Baugh
Blair County
Edwin Wolf
Philadelphia Board of Education
Kktur
Hunters Compete in Harrisburg Deer Pelts Past Era
Historic Harrisburg recalls old hunting matches where locals pursued antlers and pelts for deer. The fragment hints at a community pastime tied to seasonal hunts and local wildlife.
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Harrisburg
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