Harrisburg Trade Delegation Delights Readers in State Tour
Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce members concluded a two day trade expansion trip visiting Millersburg Herndon Sunbury Northumberland Danville Bloomsburg Berwick Kingston Wilkes Barre Hazleton Pottsville Hamburg and Reading. The group praised organizers thanked leaders and promised guidance for future efforts including plans for a new Harrisburg hotel.
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Harrisburg
Reading
Wilkes-Barre
Howard G. Fry
Joseph Claster
Chamber of Commerce
Hazleton
Hart
Hazleton Board of Trade
Harvey
Markle Bank
Board of Trade
Bank
Loughran
Bob” Hoy
Clark Diehl
McCormack Plans Outdoor Oratorio in Yale Bowl
John McCormack demonstrated his voice could reach 71,000 at the Yale Bowl during a visit with Yale athletic manager Everard Thompson and critics. Plans are underway for an outdoor oratorio next June in the Bowl, seen as a bold musical venture with promising prospects.
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Telegraph
New Haven
Conn
John McCormack
Everard Thompson
Yale
Weather summary for Harrisburg area and region
Fair to-night and Saturday with low of about 25 degrees in Harrisburg. Eastern Pennsylvania sees little temperature change with fresh to strong north winds. Susquehanna River and branches remain high with a likely stage near 7.7 feet Saturday morning. Moon first quarter February 21. River stage 9.7 feet. yesterday’s high 37, low 25, mean 31, normal 30.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Susquehann
Harrinsburg
St. Lawrence Valley
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Rapid City
South Dakota
German Torpedo Sinks Dinorah Aboard in Dieppe Vicinity
A German submarine torpedoed the French steamer Dinorah twelve miles off Dieppe while en route from Havre to Dunkirk. The ship did not sink but was towed to Dieppe. no crew losses reported. Dinorah sustained a damaged port side plate and remained afloat after pumping. Dieppe traffic to England suspended following the attack.
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Dieppe
France
Paris
Havre
Dunkirk
Hippo
Cape Ailly
England
Springtime Signs Across Allison Hill Marbles and Kites Return
In back lots on Allison Hill children play with marbles tops and kites as spring nears. In South Bethlehem the Lehigh Coke plant powers into a new phase with 106 more ovens fired today as part of a $12,000,000 expansion of 424 total ovens. the first 106 ovens began operating about a week ago.
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Allison Hill
Bethlehem
Lehigh Coke Plant
Ban on Evils by Harrisburg Railway Shop Workers
Report states Harrisburg Railways Company workers voluntarily banned swearing drinking card playing and other evils after the Stough evangelistic campaign ended in December. The measure followed confessions of occasional past indulgence and a plan by Chester A Shelly a shop painter to hold weekly noon meetings with Rev. William N.
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Harrisburg Railways Company
Stough
Chester A. Shelly
William N
Farr Palmer Fight Ends in House Cleansing Rhetoric
Washington Feb 19 The House calmed after a heated exchange in which Representative Farr accused Palmer of being a lobbyist and Palmer called Farr a tadpole statesman. Farr stated he did not intend to reflect on Palmer’s honor or integrity and Palmer did not wish to continue the debate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Representative Farr
Representative Palmer
House
Palmer
Hungry dog invades mayor’s sanctuary in odd incident
A near starved fox terrier wandered into Mayor John K. Royal’s private office after station hours. Officer Charley Fleck recovered the dog from the couch and the mayor ordered it removed, remarking they do not want that kind of terrier about.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cruel World
Johnny Grissinger
John K. Royal
Charley Fleck
Steel Order Resume at Pennsylvania Steel Company
Pennsylvania Steel Company resumes work on a 16 000 ton order for a railroad bridge across the Mississippi at Memphis Tennessee. The eye bar mill begins operation enabling in house eye bar production and bridge shop work is expected to increase. Vice president J W W Reynders led negotiations to secure the release of the project which was delayed by financing issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Mississippi River
Memphis
Tenn
Steelton
J. W. W. Reynders
I Never Had a Chance as Shoplifter Shoots Self in Court
Frances Chandler, accused of shoplifting, pleaded guilty and then shot herself in court shouting I never had a chance. Her condition is grave. Berlin reports say the German victory at Mazurian lakes East Prussia implies a severe Russian defeat with about 130000 troops no longer to be reckoned with by German armies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Self
the Telegraph
Chicago
Frances Chandler
Associated Press
Berlin
Say-ville
Germany
East Prussia
Panama Canal Toll Totals Top Two Million Mark
Washington reports that by February 2 after nearly six months of operation the Panama Canal tolls exceeded $2,000,000. January saw 98 vessels pass, one fewer than December, yet cargo carried set a record due to large ship tonnage.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Panama Canal
Liquor License Hearings Focus on 1915 Revocation Protests
In Dauphin county court today applications for renewing liquor licenses drew protests from residents and merchants. Opposed were John Mackett’s Upper Paxton bottling works, Harry White at Ann Street hotel Middletown, Harry Eckinger at Pax tonia Inn, Theodore Fry in the eighth ward, and several Wiconisco hotelkeepers. A Berryburg resident and a traveling man from Sunbury joined general protests about city hotel conduct. The Ann Street case continued to Page 7.
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Dauphin County
John Mackett
Upper Paxton Township
Harry White
Ann Street
Middletown
Harry Eckinger
Paxtonia Inn
Theodore Fry
Eighth Ward
Wiconisco
Berrysburg
Sunbury
Occu
Germany's Reply to U. S. Not Yet at State Dept
Washington reports no official text of Germany's note warning against damage to American ships had reached the State Department by today. Amb. Gerard had no delivery confirmation from Berlin while other advices indicate the German reply reached the American ambassador and is en route to the United States. Officials cited cable routing delays and indirect relays as the reason for the holdup.
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Associated Press
Washington
Germany
United States
British Isles
State Department
Gerard
Berlin
Rome
London
Gen Obregon Seizes Grain Stocks and Mills in Price Drive
Mexico City reports General Obregon issued a decree demanding ten percent of all foodstuffs and grain stocks be handed to military authorities within 48 hours. The order justifies confiscation to curb high prices and promises free distribution to the poor. Merchants resisting delivery face severe punishment, and mills may be nationalized to force price reductions.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Obregon
Masked bandits rob express car near Alexandria
Police hunt two masked robbers who boarded the Sea Board Air Line Florida flyer near Alexandria and bound the messenger before escaping. The train slowed at a bridge while deputies rake Virginia hills for the pair after an attempted robbery ended with an empty safe.
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Associated Press
Washington
Virginia Hills
Sea Board Air Line
Florida Flyer
Alexandria
Washington Monument
Dynamiter Captured After Long Chase At Bainbridge Island
David Caplan, last of the men sought in the Los Angeles Times building bombing, was arrested on a Bainbridge Island chicken ranch near Rolling Bay after two years living under the name Frank Moller. He admitted his identity and agreed to return to Los Angeles for trial, facing murder and dynamite transport charges alongside ally M. Schmidt, who is being sent from New York.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
David Caplan
Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles Times
Rolling Bay
Bainbridge Island
Caplan
Walter R. Thayer
William J. Burns Detective Agency
David Capan
Thayer
David Capitan
Times
M. A. Schmidt
New York
Capitan
J. B. McNamara
Mystery Buried Skeleton Probe Freezes on Hill Case
District Attorney Michael Stroup says a buried skeleton mystery on the Hill may never be solved. He notes the body could be decades old, with no identification and several families living at the house during the burial period. County Detective Walters considers the possibility the bones were hidden in a well or cistern before the house was built.
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Michael J&. Stroup
Mr. Stroup
Bessie Guyer
James E. Walters
French steamer torpedoed as war under sea begins
German torpedo attack in the English Channel sinks a French steamer but she reaches port badly damaged. Berlin papers hail a hard line in reply to an American note. Fighting is reported near Ypres with gains for Germany and Austrian advances in Bukowina. Russians evacuate Bukowina as German forces press in East Prussia and Northern Poland. Travel between England and the continent is suspended by the British admiralty.
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Germany
English
Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Stone
Ypres
Bukowina
London
Petrograd
Vienna
Carpathians
Poland
East Prussia
German War Office
Russia
Tauroggen
Kovno
Warsaw
Belgium
France
Verdun
State Department
Washington
England
Continent
German naval threat prompts Dutch protest reply expected
The Hague reports the German submarine blockade dispute remains unsettled with no Dutch response yet, while government offices continue late work and ministers hold conferences. Copenhagen confirms a second German airship wreck off Jutland, the L-3 exploded on Fanoe Island and Count Platen's Zeppelin sank near Esbjerg with four drowned.
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Associated Press
Hague
London
Copenhagen
Jutland
Fance Island
Count Platen
Esbjerg
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Commerce Body
McCormack
Russ
Market Square
Russ and Windsor
Strawberry Street
Joseph P. Thompson
Paul Schelhas
Police Department
Traction Company
Farr-Palmer
Dog
Royal
Cruel Bluecoat
U. S
Capital
Florida
Dynamiter
Stroup
The
Bucharest
Sidney Friedman
Berton
Central High School
Liverpool
Wegian
Belridge
New
Amsterdam
Dover
Ably
Europe
British Admiralty
Carranza
Monterey
Norristown
Charles Johnson
Stanley Drake
Grafton
W. Va
Jamison Coal Company
Barracksville-Famington
London Times
Norfolk
P. H. Aberroth
Coast Guard
Seminole
Phineas W. Sprague
Thomaston
Mobile
Frank Fornwall
Carrie Marshall
Charles Franklin
Vera May Hockenbrock
Eliza
Thville
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