Services Held for Soldiers Burned in Camp
Impressive services at Middletown for three soldiers burned to death in the guardhouse at a U S camp near Middletown. Bodies encoffined and sent to Rockford Illinois Detroit Michigan and Munhall Pennsylvania. Coroner Eckinger barred from investigation per Major Garrison amid ongoing War Department inquiry.
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Middletown
United States
Thomas C. McCarrell
Middletown Presbyterian Church
Pennsylvania
R. Wiley
Rockford
Ill
One
War Department
Aviation
Gallagher
Washington
Baker
Red Cross Needs as a Little Girl Sees Them
A Buffalo girl’s school essay urges national Red Cross support and explains the horrors of war in France Russia and Persia. It notes six base hospital units sailed to Europe within three weeks and calls for every citizen to give to the cause under President Woodrow Wilson. The piece ends with a medical ad for Laxative Bromine Quinine tablets.
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RED Cross
William F. Bilger
Bowman & Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Telegraph
Miss Bilger
France
Marne
Aisne
Russia
Persia
Caucasus
Europe
Woodrow Wilson
Stars and Stripes
Middletown
Ohio
What Do You Find Interesting Beatrice Fairfax Advice
Beatrice Fairfax examines how people seek novelty and excitement and how interests reveal character. Through examples Mary Jones, Tommie Smith, Kitty Smith, and Billy Mason the piece argues that aligning life with genuine interests reveals deeper self truths and guides personal growth. It cites a businesswoman who discovers beauty and balance after acknowledging her hidden desires.
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Mary Jones
Mary
Tommie Smith
Tommy
Kitty Smith
Kitty
Billy Mason
Billy
Willy-nilly
City Officials Seek Big Increases in 1918 Budget
City commissioners and Mayor Keister push for major boosts in most departments for 1918. With a 9 mill tax rate the total funds would reach about $810,000, but a 10 mill rate could lift revenue to $806,000 while payrolls and capital plans expand across police, water, health, lighting, and street improvements.
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Gorgas
Keister
Nore
United States Service
Harry D. Rees
Bureau of Weights and Measures
DeWitt A. Fry
Bureau of Revision of Taxes
Highway Department
North Third Street
Walnut
North Street
Cameron Street
Herr
Calder Streets
Mulberry Street
Fourteenth Ward
Water Department
Nudget
Division Street
Vaughn Street
Second Street
Health Department
Raunick
Sixth
Verbeke Streets
Briggs and Cowden
Hagg Brothers
Fire Department
Calder
Hamilton Streets
River Front
Wildwood Park
The Call to True Beauty Against Cheap Emotionalism
The speaker urges the reader to pursue genuine beauty and reject cheap emotionalism. Liking the ugly is warned as self handicap, risking a destiny tied to the petty, contemptible, weak, and even vicious.
House reports to Wilson on return from Europe
Associated Press reports Colonel E. M. House, fresh from Europe where he headed an American mission to the interallied war conference, met at the White House to deliver a personal report to President Wilson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
E. M. House
Europe
White House
Wilson
Bulk of Meade Men to Go January 3
Indications are that the 1,400 men needed to fill Philadelphia's draft shortage for Camp Meade will not depart until January 3. Men from other Maryland counties will ride regular trains in small numbers before year end. Camp Meade is the only post with men due under earlier shortages to replace rejected draftees. Remaining Camp Meade and Camp Lee quotas undecided. Pottstown Armory repair bids all rejected. units to bid anew in January.
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Philadelphia
Camp Meade
Maryland
Meade
Lee
State Armory Board
Pottstown
Pope warns Teutons against aiding Turks over Jerusalem
Rome establishes a papal circular denying any Christian state may assist the Turks in reclaiming Jerusalem. The Holy See will condemn such aid by any belligerent nation, per the Messagero report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope
Teutons
Rome
Messagero
Jerusalem
Holy See
Nurse Varney Cleared In Norfolk County Murder Trial
Dedham Massachusetts December 18 A jury in the Norfolk County superior court found Miss Eennet A Varney a nurse from West Utton not guilty of the murder of Mrs Pauline Keyes ten months married to Boston real estate man George H Keyes after more than four hours deliberation.
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Dedham
Mass
Eennet A. Varney
West Upton
Pauline Keyes
George H. Keyes
Boston
Norfolk County Superior Court
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United States Food Administration
Lincoln
Swift's
Chicago
Packing House
Peoria
III
New Universities
Harrisburg
the Federal Machine Shop
Cranberry St
Ret
2Nd and Court
Richmond
Halifax
Mont Blanc
Dartmouth
Lord Northcliffe
Great Britain
The
American Red Cross
Tedia
Grove
Bell
Man
Beatrice Fairfax
Keistar
House
Eecau
Miss Varney
Keiser
N. Third ST
Nuss Mrs. Co.lith and Mulberry
Sta
Harrisburg, PA
Turkeys
York
Cumberland
Geo. W. Swavely Dial
Cumberland St
Imperial Hardware Co
Harrisburg, Pai
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