Center Family Does More Than Its "Bit"
Center county honors Captain Theodore Davis Boal of Boalsburg and his son Captain Pierre de Legarde Boal for wartime service and aviation training in France. The Hagerstown and Frederick Railway enlarges its Security power plant to double output, enabling expanded operations on newly acquired Pennsylvania lines.
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Bellefonte
Center County
Theodore Davis
Tain
Pierre de Legarde Boal
Boalsburg
Pennsylvania
C. M. Clement
France
United States Signal Corps
Hagerstown
YANKEE SMOKING HUN TOBACCO TALE IN FRANCE
American troops in France faced a shortage of their own tobacco and were supplied with "Bocie smokes" captured from Germans by the French. The tale hints at concerns of poisoned tobacco and urges readers to donate to the Telegraph Tobacco Fund. John N Landis, an East Lampeter farmer, dies at 82 in Marietta while at church with his son.
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London
England
France
Berlin
Telegraph Tobacco Fund
John Haldeman
W. B. Steinmetz
Louis Steinmetz
John Landis
Marietta
John N. Landis
East Lampeter
Jason Landis
Mennonite Church
German-born man arrested in Hanover for alien enemy status
Hanover Pa December 19 John Alexander a native German was arrested at Bitten gers Station five miles west of here charged as an alien enemy and taken to Harrisburg by two state police officers He may be interned after the war under a presidential proclamation He claimed an American wife in Germany and says he came to America eighteen years ago often drinking and discussing his loyalties He says he came from Germany five years ago via Asia and worked at a stone quarry dynamite thefts of a hundred pounds from the quarry were reported weeks ago and a local resident posing as a friend led to his capture Alexander about 50 years old.
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Hanover
John Alexander
Bittengers Station
Here
Harrisburg
Germany
America
Asia
Bittengers
Alexander
Penrose Fights Farm Loan Bank Plan on Senate Floor
Washington December 19 Senator Penrose ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee warned on the floor that any attempt to railroad through the Hollis amendment to the Federal farm loan act would meet resistance. The measure would allow the Treasury to buy bonds from farm loan banks up to 100 million dollars in each of 1918 and 1919. Penrose accused the administration of causing near bankruptcy for the farm loan banks and pledged trouble if the bill moved forward without full consideration.
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Hollis
Secretary of the Treasury
Tscal
Penrose
Combined Glee Clubs to Sing Christmas Carols
Hummelstown Pa December 19 The combined glee clubs of Hummelstown High school will sing English and French carols on Christmas Eve. They will perform old favorites and some lesser known pieces, walking a route through town from the square along West Main Railroad Second Landis Main Middletown railroad High Street Quarry Road and back to the square.
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Hummelstown
Hummelstown High School
Main
North Railroad
Landis
Middletown
High Street
Quarry Road
West Main
Town
Fire escapes to be made safe this season
Acting Commissioner Palmer of the Department of Labor and Industry orders inspectors to remove snow and ice from fire escapes across Pennsylvania. Owners must keep exits clear and surrounding areas snow free to avoid criminal liability and promote humanitarian safety. The rule includes covered escapes with extended vertical railings to prevent blockage during heavy snow.
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Pennsylvania
Palmer
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