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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1916
Page
1
A Hague dispatch reports German agents have arrived in The Hague to arrange preliminaries for a peace conference proposed in the German reply to President Wilson. They are seeking hotel accommodations for German delegates as part of the efforts ahead of any formal meeting.
Washington notes Germany has not sent an official reply to President Wilson and officials withhold comment. The response is viewed as another move in the peace process with no immediate terms agreed. The US may transmit the reply to the entente while awaiting the official text and cabinet deliberations set for Friday.
Chicago budget officials announce retrenchments for 1917 to cover a four million dollar deficit. Plans include a twenty percent cut in street lights, removal of seven hundred policemen, abolition of twenty two fire companies, and job eliminations across Health Department and multiple city hall offices.
A blaze at Frank Bowman's box factory adjoining Lancaster General Hospital in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, endangered over a hundred patients as smoke filled the hospital. Firemen kept water between the fire and the building while crews removed patients if needed. The main building was destroyed with a loss around 30000 and only half covered by insurance. New factory machinery reportedly unique was recently installed. A defective flue is cited as the blaze cause.
Rain possible this afternoon and night with a warmer trend and a low near 40. Thursday should be fair and colder. Eastern Pennsylvan ia may see rain then warmer tonight with cooler conditions in the north and west. River stage 4.0 feet, high 44, low 24, normal 31. Moon phases and sunrise sunset listed.
Front dispatches report Field Marshal Von Mackensen pressing toward Braila as Dobrudja fights intensify at the bridgehead. Verdun sees heavy firing while peace talks continue, with limited operations elsewhere. Political campaigning in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh dominates rumors as Cox and Baldwin seek speakership.
Rail managers announce they will ignore the Adamson eight hour law in payrolls after January 1 until the Supreme Court decides its constitutionality. The notices warn there will be no wage hour compromises with railroad workers while the court case unfolds.
Harrisburg building operations in the year ending December 31 1916 show expenditures over 400000 more than 1915 according to the building inspection bureau records compiled by clerk Joseph W Ibach. A total of 378 permits were issued during the year.
Reports from central Arkansas say ten dead and many missing after a tornado sweeping the region damaged Tucker State Prison Farm and Keo area settlements. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh two murders are linked to Christmas quarrels, one a wife accused of stabbing her husband, the other a wife claiming self defense after a shooting. In Harrisburg, John K Bowman noted as a bank clerk born fifty years earlier remains with the Bowman firm.
The diet opened today with the emperor delivering the throne address. He expressed gratification that relations with treaty powers were growing closer and highlighted stronger ties with Great Britain France and Russia.
Dr. V K Wellington Koo, China’s minister to the United States, delivers an able address at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. The talk offers a clearer view of China and its commercial relations with the United States as President David E Tracy introduces W T Hildrup Jr.
Nantucket Mass December 27 rescue ships Acushnet and Gresham from Woods Hole and Boston searched about 200 miles southeast of the island for the steamer Maryland after it wirelessed a Christmas night sinking. No trace was found as engines and floodwaters overwhelmed the vessel.
Rev Lot B Doty a Baptist minister lies in serious condition after a patrolman shot him in St Louis as the clergyman, mistaken for a burglar during a store purchase, refused a hands up command. The officer says Doty appeared to draw a revolver.
The first glaze storm of winter coated trees wires and pavements with ice. People slipped on the streets while trolley services slowed as ice formed on wires. Warmth and possible rain are forecast for tomorrow followed by colder fair weather by Thursday night.
Washington reports the Weather Bureau will replace sleet with glaze and ice storm for frozen rain. Sleet is rain frozen before hitting the ground. glaze forms a glassy coating after falling. ice storms are severe glaze with wind.
Hundreds of teachers and school leaders gathered for the sixty seventh Pennsylvania State Educational Association meeting at a Technical high school. Sessions focused on uniform standards, modern language specialization, summer courses, and state aid to public schools to spur rapid progress in early childhood through high school education.
Harrisburg barbers approve special New Year’s Day hours for all shops from 7 30 a m to 10 a m and close for remainder of day. Barbers union at labor headquarters 221 Market Street elects officers and delegates to Central Labor Union.
Adoption of new police rules revived rumors of a personnel shakeup at police headquarters. Mayor Mears denied knowledge of changes while speculation suggested William L. Windsor Jr. would be replaced by George W. Shuler and Patrolman Harry Lowery would take Schelhas’s plain clothes position.
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