Veteran Railway Clerk Baer Retires After Long Service
Andrew J. Baer aged 73 of 113 South Thirteenth street retires as a railroad mail clerk with a good health record. A Civil War veteran of the One Hundred Twenty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers he narrowly escaped a mob mistaking him for J. Wilkes Booth in Harrisburg in 1865.
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Andrew J. Baer
South Thirteenth Street
One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Baer
J. Wilkes Booth
Abraham Lincoln
Booth
Central Hotel
Harrisburg
Mr. Baer
Rabbis Silver and Tydbaum headline Chanukah relief event
Rabbi L. Silver and Rabbi A. Tydbaum, manager of the New York Central Relief for European war sufferers, will speak tomorrow afternoon at a Chanukah entertainment in the Chestnut Street Auditorium beginning at 4 o'clock and continuing through the evening. The Harrisburg Central Relief Branch sponsors the program.
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L. Silver
A. Tydbaum
New York Central Relief For
Chestnut Street
Harrisburg Central Relief
Earthquake Shocks Detected by Georgetown Seismograph
A slight quake lasting from 4.35 to after 5.00 was registered today on the Georgetown University seismograph in Washington. It appeared to originate roughly 4,600 miles away.
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Washington
Georgetown University
Compensation Amendment Aims to Aid Poor Claimants
A proposed amendment to the 1915 Workmen's Compensation Act would establish an eight member Workmen's Compensation Board and appoint advocate counselors to represent claimants who cannot hire attorneys. Referee W. J. Scott of the Philadelphia district says the counselors would assist claimants through the first hearing and until settlement, relieving the judge from handling their entire case.
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Workmen's Compensation
Workmen's Compensation Board
W. J. Scott
Philadelphia
Scott
Harrisburg Christmas Festivities Light Up Evening
The city gears up for a big Christmas program led by Rotary with a 9 PM tree lighting. Moorhead Knitting Company Chorus and Municipal Band perform in a marches and carols sequence, followed by prayers from local pastors and a Christmas story reading.
Piles Cure Offered by Home Absorption Method
Advertises a home treatment for piles with promises of immediate relief and permanent care. Claims to mail instructions and free samples to readers who send their address to Mrs. M. Summers in Notre Dame Ind with references available if asked. Urges immediate action and to tell others.
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M. Summers
Notre Dame
Ind
Holiday Singers Parade On Street Cabaret In Harrisburg
A large group from the When Dreams Come True company will stage an informal cabaret from a truck in front of the Orpheum this evening. Actors will mingle with crowds selling Red Cross Christmas seals as part of a holiday program.
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C. Floyd Hopkins
Orpheum
Red Cross
Charity Drives Holiday Cheer In Mid City Harrisburg
Christmas giving arrives with plans for baskets of food toys and clothing. John Yates notes a likely record year as Elks Owls Knights of Columbus and Eagles organize events for hundreds of needy children and families.
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Sunshine For
Roberta Disbrow Lloyd Sunshine Society
Newsies
Newsboys’ Association
North Second Street
Telegraph
John Yates
Associated Aid Societies
Chicago Woman Doctor Discovers a Third Sex
Chicago physician Bertha Van Hoosen describes a rising third sex evolving from the feminine half of the brace. She says many girls lack domestic marriage drives and will choose careers, forming a neuter gender focused on intellect with less emotion and romance.
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Chicago
Bertha van Hoosen
Dr. van Hoosen
New England
America
Europe
Christmas Demands Strain Expresses for Dry States
In Baltimore on December 23, liquor shipments to Virginia West Virginia and the Carolina dry states were embargoed by two express firms to ease congestion. A week of heavy handling saw 25 000 to 40 000 liquor packages daily ranging from quarts to multiple gallons.
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Baltimore
Virginia
West Virginia
Carolinas
Express
Body of Dead Infant Found Hidden in Wall at 1007 Wallace Street
Coroner Eckinger examined the front cellar at 1007 Wallace Street and found a dead infant concealed between the walls near the sewer. Neighbors alerted police. the body appeared to have lain undiscovered for months. The house is occupied by Louis Frank, with a search for a previous occupant described as a huckster.
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Eckinger
Wallace Street
Louis Frank
Hucster
Frank
Christmas Darw Raises At Prudential Co Employees
The Prudential Insurance Company of America announces extra salary payments totaling about 300000 to be paid January. Home office staff before Oct 1 earning $5 or less weekly receive one extra week. others get 25 dollars. Industrial agents receive 10 dollars plus a quarterly-based bonus. organizers and assistant superintendents get 15 dollars plus a similar add on.
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Prudential Insurance Company of America
Onextra
Exercises at Lemoyne Christmas Tree Tonight
Lemoyne Pa December 23 Exercises under Lemoyne is community Christmas tree will be held this evening at 730 oclock with a program of singing by the High School Seventh and Eighth grades under the direction of Miss Erma Snyder music instructor in the local schools Ministers of the town will take part The tree is below Lemoyne Square on Hummel avenue and decorated with 300 varicolored bulbs The celebration is in charge of the newly organized Lemoyne Municipal League.
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Elks
North Second Street
Nest of the Order of Owls
Owl
John Yates
Associated Aid Societies
Knights of Columbus
Cathedral Hall
Sisters of Mercy
Santa Claus
Harrisburg Aerue
Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Ladies’ Auxiliary
Cumberland Streets
Raymond Beitman
South Fourteenth Street
Samuel Dunlap
Verbeke Street
L. M
Lemoyne
Erma Snyder
Lemoyne Square
Hummel Avenue
Death of German Prince Weighs on Coleman Will Suit
Lebanon Pa December 23 death at Berlin of Prince Guido Whenckel von Donnersmarck father of Dr Guido Hinkel contestant in the Coleman will case may complicate proceedings. Hinkel seeks to establish identity as natural son of the late Mrs Rosalie Parent Coleman of Paris in attempts to break the will which disinherited him for serving in the Kaiser's army. Mrs Coleman left interests in the Cornwall iron ore mines to Drayton de Reuter and Besson. The Coleman estate is valued around 12 000 000.
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Lebanon
Berlin
Guido Whenckel von Donnersmarck
Guido Hinkel
Freeburg
Germany
Rosalie Parent Coleman
Paris
Hinkel
Coleman
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Newsie
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