Germans Launch New Drive Near Paris amid Verdun Fighting
German forces renew pressure on Verdun while French reinforcements push to counter. Berlin reports gains along the Meuse and in Champagne with heavy losses for the French, including Voient Douaumont clashes, as Paris claims a turning French counteroffensive and stalled German advances.
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Paris
Verdun
Fort Douaumont
Champagne
Berlin
Aris
Meuse
Champneuville
Vacherauville
Bras
Douaumont
French War Office
St. Mihiel
Teutons
Mandeulles
Cote Lorraine
Navarin
Souain-Somme- Py
Joffre
Woevre
Hardaumont
Weather summary for Harrisburg and region. storm impacts
Fair and cold tonight with low around 16. Tuesday shows increasing clouds and slightly higher temperatures. Eastern Pennsylvania fair tonight, then partly cloudy and warmer with light northwest winds. No river stage changes. Harrisburg at about 4.5 feet Tuesday morning. Atlantic coast storm moves northward with gales Atlantic-wide. winds strongest in northeast states. Temperature trends show below normal nationally with some warming in Gulf States. Current readings: 36 at 5 am. sunrise 6:42, sunset 5:56. Moon: New moon March 3 at 10:58 am. River stage five feet above low water. Highest yesterday 27, mean 24.
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Isburg
Pennsylvania
Conditio
Grane Lakes
Ohio Valley
Atlantic States
North Carolina
New York City
Gulf States
Ol' Simon Chism Goes to Dauphin County Poorhouse at Last
Obdurate for years, Simon Chism the Courthouse figure finally yielded to county aid and a trip to the Dauphin county almshouse. Once living in courthouse corridors, he survived on a small pension and charitable coins from lawyers and officials while boasting of being an ex slave.
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Ol’ Simon Chism
Courthouse Fame
Dauphin County
Simon Chism
Stowe
Simon
Minister Killed on Way to Conference in Trolley Collision
Rev. W. M. Ettinger pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church Quakertown died in Allentown hospital from a fractured skull after his car was struck by a Philadelphia limited trolley at a grade crossing near Brick Tavern. His companion Harvey Brunner of Lansdale is severely injured and could die.
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Allentown
Brick Tavern
Quakertown
W. M. Ettinger
Methodist Episcopal Church
Harvey Brunner
Lansdale
Bethlehem
Philadelphia Limited
County Officials to discuss Mothers Pension plan
Dauphin county commissioners and County Solicitor Phil Moyer will meet Wednesday at 3 PM with Miss Helen Glenn State superintendent of the Mothers Assistance Fund and the mothers pension committee of the East End Republican Club. The conference follows an invitation by John Hopper East End Club chairman to discuss adoption of the pension plan for Dauphin county.
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Dauphin County
Board of Commissioners
Phil
Moyer
Helen Glenn
Mothers’ Assistance Fund
Mothers’ Pension Committee
East End Republican Club
John Hopper
East End Club
The German Crown Prince’s Verdun Drive Defies Hindenburg
The German Crown Prince, leading a major Verdun assault, acted against General Von Hindenburg’s wishes. Had he followed the elder commander’s counsel, the war withstood would likely have faced a different fate.
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Verdun
von Hindenburg
Efeat
First and Last Call to Thirsty Court Chooses Bishop Candidate
Dauphin county liquor license court heard the first and last call for the hotel at 1108 Market Street run by David C Mingle as it seeks the privilege to sell for the next year amid remonstrances. Archbishop Edmond F. Prendergast led a diocesan council at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Harrisburg to begin selecting a successor to the late Bishop John W. Ingram.
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Allison Hill
Dauphin County
Market Street
David + C
Edmond F. Prendergast
Philadelphia
Harrisburg Catholic
Admiral Says Navy Needs More Men and Ships Now
Rear Admiral Austin M Knight told the House Naval committee the U S Navy cannot field more than fifty percent of its strength in ships and guns and urged immediate enlistment of 25000 more men and construction of six battle cruisers and eight scouting craft. He warned the Atlantic fleet could be hamstrung by manpower shortages and proposed rapid expansion to speed 35 knot cruisers and scouts.
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Washington
Austin M.knight
Navy War College
House Naval Committee
Knight
Atlantic
Motorcyclist Faces $5,000 Damages Suit
A civil action seeks $5,000 from Frank G. Felkenberger after injuries to Clyde Garman on Labor Day 1915 near Paxtang when Felkenberger allegedly rode on the wrong side and knocked the boy down. The case is filed by ex-Recorder O G Wickersham as trespass.
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Frank G. Felkenberger
Thawing Water Pipes Gridlock Penbrook Homes
Plumbers from Penbrook rushed to thaw frozen water pipes as residents struggled for hours without water. A switch to Huppelstown supply works followed the outage. In Hummelstown Pennsylvania on February 28 a burst main cut all water and power, forcing schools and the shoe factory to close.
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Penbrook
Johnnie
Mabel
Huummelstown
Hummelstown
United Evangelical Preachers Urged to Fight Sabbath Desecration
A special committee led by a Lancaster minister urges ministers to preach against Sabbath desecration. The report calls for renewed church action, public exhortations, and sermons stressing reverence for Sunday observance.
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United Evangelical Preachers
Lancaster
Trustees Named and Officers Elected at East Pennsylvania Conference
The East Pennsylvania Conference of the United Evangelical Church urged strict Sabbath observance condemning commerce on Sundays and the profanation of the Lord’s Day. The meeting also elected routine officers and named The Rev. A. M. Sampsel and other trustees for Albright College at Myerstown.
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East Pennsylvania
United Evangelical Church
J. F. Gross
Lancaster
Albright College
Myerstown
A. M. Sampsel
Sinking of Maloja and nearby ships rocks Dover area
British and Russian steamships Maloja and others were sunk by freshly sown German mines near Dover. Of 411 aboard Maloja 260 saved. 47 bodies washed ashore. many crew members missing. Separate report from Scranton notes Old Forge policeman Daniel Bell shot and killed by his father in law John Zota during a domestic quarrel.
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Associated Press
London
Straits of Dover
Adascent
Peninsular and Oriental Line
Maloja
Dover
Steamship Company
Scranton
Daniel Bell
Old Forge
John Zota
War Stopper pamphlet calls for desertion bribes
Charles Delbridge of St Louis promotes a self defense pamphlet proposing a national fund to pay enemy soldiers to desert and to buy back equipment from invaders. The six page pamphlet, titled War Stopper, offers one thousand dollars to deserters and aims to end warfare by dissuading aggression.
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New York
Charles Lomax Delbridge
St. Louis
Delbridge
United States
City Council Refines Date for Hardscrabble Takeover
City Commissioners met with City Solicitor D S Seitz to discuss the Gross resolution, setting May 1 as the deadline for vacating Hardscrabble properties slated for razing. They planned to finalize decisions on the measure and authorize bonds related to the taking over the property. The meeting also touched on bid specs for the city treasury audit.
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D.S. Seitz
City Treasury
Fox Testifies Before Grand Jury In Brewers Probe
Hugh F. Fox of New York secretary of the United States Brewers Association appeared before the federal grand jury in Pittsburgh seeking records related to alleged brewery political activities. He arrived with a valise said to contain the needed materials while fellow witnesses awaited call including Charles F. Ettla Catherine Gallagher and J P Mulvihill.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Hugh F. Fox
New York
United States Brewers’ Association
Charles F. Ettla
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Brewers’ Association
Catherine Gallagher
Ettla
J. P. Mulvihill
Independent Brewing Company of Pittsburgh
Plan for union workers to wear evening clothes at social events
Wooster Massachusetts February 28 A movement by the moulders organization to have union workmen appear in formal evening wear at their social affairs is under way. The union has also announced plans for its annual concert to be held this week and requests male attendants wear formal attire.
Germany keeps pledge on submarine warfare note to Secretary Lansing
Germany confirms to the United States it will not revoke Lusitania pledges and will continue to treat enemy merchant ships as warships armed defensively with precautions to avoid attacking unarmed vessels. Count von Bernstorff presented the note in Washington as baron Zwiedenik explains the policy and no reason exists to change it. In Pittsburgh, a morning fire at Hubard & Company damages 125000 dollars worth of shovel machinery, origin undetermined.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Lansing
Count von Bernstorff
Germany
United States
Lusitania
Baron Zwiedenik
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Harrisburg
Crown Prince
Prendergast
Cathedral
U. S
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army of the State
Petshenga
Pather-In-Law
Fox
Grand Jury
King Miners
Lykens, Pa
United Mine Workers of America
Mountain Colliery
William Stuppy
Grant Fine Brewing License
Fink Brewing Company
Fink
Mary E. Shaneman
Harrisburg Hospital
Edith E. Yingst
Board of Governors
United States Mail
Jersey Cen
Tral Railroad
Halberstadt
Bayard Halberstadt
Pottsville
Standard
Teutonic
France
Donato Moffa
Daniel Belmont
Steclion
Giiula Berta
Liszie Sabo
Williamstown
George C. Sehreffler
Elizabethyilic
Mande J. Brown
Lykenay Nehip
Associated
Hubbard & Company
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