Midnight Carollers brighten Harrisburg Christmas
Christmas carol services fill churches with prayers by Bishop Philip R. McDevitt and Rev. Dr. J. B. Markward. Midnight choirs tour the city singing carols as in old times. Soldiers home and guests gather for meals, while inmates at the county almshouse receive gifts and a vaudeville entertainment. Flower Guild prepares wards at Harrisburg Hospital and a large candy caned tree aids local children.
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Philip R. McDevitt
J. B. Markward
Harrisburg
Majestic
A. Carson Stamm
Harrisburg Hospital
Mary Heister
Haldeman- Haley
Break in Eight Inch Water Main Delays Traffic
A break in an eight inch water main at Third and Walnut streets early this morning delayed traffic briefly and ripped a large street hole. Water and highway crews began repairs. Commissioner Hassler expected fix by evening though paving replacement will take days. Streetcar lines on uptown State and suburban routes were delayed for hours due to the damage in Walnut street.
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Third
Walnut Streets
Water and
Highway Departments
Hassler
State Street
Penbrook
Progress
Linglestown
Walnut Street
Markets Drift on Mixed Shifts in Oils Rails and Meat
New York markets open softly with gains for shippings oils tobaccos while motors tractions and some specialties slip. U S Steel steadies as rails feel pressure. Wheat corn oats and meats show varied activity across major exchanges with prices quoted for butter cheese eggs refined sugars and live poultry.
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Associated Press
New York
U. S
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Vailler
Urals
Peking Spring
Long Island
Christmas in the Churches in Shellon area
Christmas is celebrated with special services across Trinity Episcopal St John Lutheran and Reformed Church. Trinity schedules 7 20 am 8 pm and 10 am services with a large musical program. Sunday school festival Thursday at 7 30. St John holds a 6 40 am praise service a 7 pm festival and a midnight mass. Reformed Church offers an early 6 pm praise service and 7 pm Sunday school festival themed on Cathay with decor and a legend read by Miss Margaret Gault.
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Trinity Episcopal Church
Norris
Gloria
TaDeum
Read
Elvey
Smart
Kyrie
Tours
Roper
Frey
Matthews
Willis
Herald Angels
Mendelssohn
St. John's Lutheran Church
C. E
St. James’ Church
the Reformed Church
Cathay
Margaret Gault
Pittsburgh Kate Bids Steelton Good-by at Hearing
Katherine Murray known as Pittsburgh Kate faced Burgess McEntee for drunken and disorderly conduct in Steelton. She has repeatedly appeared over the years, once attempting suicide by jumping into the river while drunk, then being ordered out of town and later jailed after a recent visit. She said smoke from local steel plant stacks sparked an uncontrollable thirst and bid farewell to the police, declaring the parting permanent.
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Katherine Murray
Pittsburgh
Kate
Burgess MccEntee
Steelton
Kkate
Wile
Red Cross Memberships Come In At Last Minute
Borough residents rush to join the Red Cross after fearing loss of the first prize banner. Memberships pour in in the final hours, with more received in the last day than in the prior four days. If this pace continues Steelton may match last year’s total and keep the banner and honor.
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Red Cross
Steelton
Fortnightly and Club Meetings and Local Tragedy
The Fortnightly Club will meet Thursday evening at the Home Economics school with Miss Barrett. the program is brief to fit a Christmas social and Richelieu will be discussed. Funeral services for Fortunato Cribari, killed at the steel plant, will be Thursday at St Anne's Church for Cribari of 357 South Third street, wife and two children. A special meeting of Rolling Mill workers is set for Sunday at 2 pm at Union Hall. Louis Vrier, 486 Mohn street, crashed his motorcycle into a fence near Hershey, suffering bruises and a facial cut. he was hospitalized.
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Fortunato
Cribari
St. Anne's Church
South Third Street
Teresina
Josephine
Hershey
Louis Vrier
Mohn Street
Holiday Hours at Post Office and Stations
On Christmas Day the main post office and the Hill and Maclay stations will be closed from 10 a.m. to midnight. A single general mail delivery occurs in the morning over all carrier routes. Rural carriers maintain regular delivery and night collections proceed as usual.
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Hill and Maclay
Lost Wristwatch Found on Front Street in Steelton
A lady reports a wristwatch found on Front Street Steelton last Sunday evening. Owner can claim by identifying and paying for this ad at W. 7203 care of Telegraph.
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Front Street
Steelton
Telegraph
Proclamation in Divorce Knepp v Knepp Dauphin County
In the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County Pa libel in divorce vinculo matrimonii Carlotta B Knepp versus James A Knepp subpoenas returned non est in ventus James A Knepp must appear at Harrisburg Pa on the second Monday of January 1919 to answer the complaint Sheriff W W Caldwell Harrisburg December 17 1918
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Dauphin County
Court of Common Pleas
Carlotta B. Knepp
James A. Knepp
Harrisburg
W. W. Caldwell
Chas
A. Dennis
Maggie Dennis
Anna M. Scheffer
Henry Scheffer
Anna M. Gilbert
Leroy Gilbert
Emma_E. Callahan
James F. Callahan
Charles L. Wilson
Cora Wilson
Parrisburg
Paul Kozler
Helen Kozler
S A
Josephine Cuckovic
George Cuckovic
W. W. Caldwel Sherif
Clara M. Market
Charles F. Market
Charles i
Markel
Mabel Lb. Cassel
Amos C. Cassel
Divorces by Libel in Dauphin County 1918 Notices
Multiple court notices direct defendants in libel in divorce actions to appear in Harrisburg court on the second Monday of January 1919. Cases listed include Dennis vs Dennis, Scheffer vs Scheffer, Gilbert vs Gilbert, Callahan vs Callahan, Wilson vs Wilson, Kozler vs Kozler, Cuckovic vs Cuckovic, Market vs Market, Cassel vs Cassel. Subpoenas marked non est inventus or ventus. Sheriff notices dated December 17, 1918, Dauphin County Pa.
Sheriff Sales Under Multiple Writs in Dauphin County Pa
Public sale of real estate in Harrisburg Dauphin County Pennsylvania scheduled for Thursday January 1914 at 2 PM. Properties include a 13 by 90 foot parcel on South River Avenue and a 20 by 100 foot lot on Swatara Street near Twenty first Street with details in Deed Book K Volume 8 page 396. Attorneys Reed and Wickersham Metzger represent the matter.
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Court of Common Vas and Orphans’ Court
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Wickersham & Metzger
City of
South River Avenue
William J. Bergstresser
River Avenue
John Merkley
Mulberry Street
Liver Avenue
Davia W. Walters
Samuel 8. Walters
Jacob H. Walters
J. O. Miller
Reed
Daykin County
Pennsylvania
Watara Street
Puing
Twenty-first
Swatara Streets
Swatara Street
Twenty-first Street
Long Avenue E
Long Avenue
P. Bowman
North Sixth Street
Mahantongo and
Sixth Streets
C. F. Copenhaver
Sixth Street
Frank C. Smith
Annie B. Smith
Carter
West Hanover Township
Adam Brighthill
John Vox
John Rauch
Catharine Lydia
Nellie Runkle
George Runkle
Annie M. Lungenecker
Samuel
T. A. Lingle
Harry Sellers
Annie M. Longenecker
Samuel Longenecker
Charles J. Beck
Elizabeth Beck
Recorder's Office
Charles J Beck
Elizabeth Leck
Win W. Jackson
Wallace and
Cumberland Streets
Wallace Street
Cumberland Street
Penneylvania
Northwa
Peene
Jacob Wiener
Annie Wiener
Edwin W, Jackson
State of
Jate
William C. Kirby
Anniy Wiener
Patrick McNiff
Caroline I. Mehring
Wyeth Street
Wyeth Alley
Har‘rikburg
William C. ‘Kirby
Wiliam C. Kirby
Wackson
State
Market Street
Market
Fourteenth Street
Board of Control
Kind
Ada V. Storey
Storey
M. B. Cowden
Charles H. Locher
Isaac Bumbaugh
North Fourteenth Street
Third Street
Granite Street
Christian Houseman
H. Frickman
Theresa
North Third Street
John A. Bentz
Rosenberg & Rosenberg
Suran Palmatary
North Seventh Street
Hannah Hickok
Jacob Weiner
Annie Weiner
Neiffer & Saussaman
Harrisburg area properties auction list with multiple deeds
A long Harrisburg property sale record outlines several parcels including Nos 2104 and 2106 Swatara Street with three story brick dwellings, and additional lots on North Sixth and North Fourth streets. The document details boundaries, prior deeds from 1916, mortgagee James W. Lloyd, and multiple other lots in Dauphin County with various owners and attorneys listed.
Harrisburg Properties Seized In 1915 Foreclosure Sale
The notice describes parcels at 1535 North Fourth Street and 719 North Second Street with details of boundaries and adjacent properties in Harrisburg Dauphin County. It notes title references, the sale as property of Martha Gerhart Sober, and sale conditions requiring a $50 bid payment and further payments on bids over $500 with a resale clause if not complied with.
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Briggs Street
Samuel A. Holman
North Second Street
Martha Gerhart Sober
W. W. Caldwel
Sherift Office
Harrisburg
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