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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1919
Page
16
Women in charge of the Toy Mission report a recent contest between the State Highway and State Health Departments. Highway workers donated 159 in cash and a large assortment of toys totaling many items, while the Toy Mission requests car owners to loan their automobiles for distributing packages tomorrow and Wednesday. contact 4636.
Relative of Charles S. White and Mrs. Edith I. Jones held as accessories after the fact traveled to May's Landing hoping habeas corpus proceedings before Judge Black would free them in time for Christmas. The Patriotic Sons of America lodge urged Prosecutor Gaskill to summon White to answer the charge and clear his name.
Search continued for bodies in the wreckage along the Canadian Pacific tracks two miles west of Onawa Maine after a head on collision between an eastbound freight and an immigrant special. At least 23 killed and nearly 50 injured. engineers Fred Wilson and William Bagley believed burned and missing.
Polyclinic Hospital nurses held a Slumber Party in the Nurses' Home at 1524 North Second Street with hostesses Miss Bertha Adams and Miss Beatrice Peck. The event featured decorations, a Christmas tree, games, fortune telling, contests, and prizes for Miss Shaw, Miss Wenrich, and Miss Meshey. Refreshments served to a long list of guests including Miss Adams and Miss Peck. Invitations announced the wedding of Freeda Cumbler Stees to Paul Holffman at St John’s Lutheran Church in Steelton on New Year’s Eve.
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church presents Kate Douglas Wiggin’s The Birds' Christmas Carol tomorrow at 7 15 pm. Miss Lavinia Buckwalter leads as Miss Carol Bird with Virginia Robert Elizabeth Sansom and others as Ruggles and Mrs Ruggies guiding the seven little Ruggles.
Entertaining today with tea and dancing marked the first holi day festivity a Dansant held in the Civic Club by Mrs Walter P Maguire for her daughter Miss Susanna Maguire a student of Miss Bennett s school New York City home for the holidays The decor featured laurel holly and Christmas greenery The tea table was presided over by Mrs John W Reily with Mrs Henry D Boys and Mrs Philip T Meredith assisting The guest list included numerous local and New York attendees with many Olmsted and Bailey family members and Moorestown N J connections among others.
Seiler school held its first dance on Friday with the Syncopaters providing music. Faculty members Miss Sara Jacobs and Miss Helen Shedden welcomed guests to a well attended event. A Friday afternoon Christmas concert directed by Mrs. Wilbur F. Harris featured Miss Alice A. Graydon at the piano with Miss Margaretta Kennedy and Miss Alda Kennedy assisting. The senior Christmas party followed on Saturday afternoon with younger pupils as guests of honor.
The Wednesday Club holds its annual Christmas concert this evening at Zieh Lutheran Church at 8 15. No admission charge. The program remains as previously announced and the public is invited to attend.
Fire at midnight in Allentown Pa destroyed the Leader print shop run by editor George R Roth and also wiped out a retail clothing store, a modern job printing plant, and a German weekly herald of freedom. In Russia seven hundred soldiers were found frozen to death near Omsk per Moscow dispatch.
London reports 10000 soldiers and 500 officers captured at Novo Nikolaevsk as Bolsheviks advance in Eastern Siberia on December 13. Reds seize an American Red Cross section, the Ufa State Bank with 40 million rubles, and other stores amid ongoing fighting in Narva Kiev and Kharkov regions. Dr Theodore Herman spoke at Fahne stock Hall on church and Y M C A Christmas plans for city children.
Paris on Friday December 19 reports relatives of soldiers who fell at the battle rent encounter exploitation by cab drivers hotelmen and coffin dealers seeking to profit from mourning and loss.
Newspapers condemn the odious exploitation of grief, arguing the act cannot be passed over in silence. The report highlights public outrage and calls for accountability amid the controversy.
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