Wilson Considers Break With Germany Over Sub warfare
President Wilson, at Cornish New Hampshire, prepares to return to Washington to weigh a grave diplomatic crisis after Germany’s note on submarine warfare. Secretary Lansing will deliver the text to Wilson, who may announce a U S move to assert rights under international law or sever diplomatic relations if Germany fails to concede. Washington officials note a possible U S response pending cabinet review.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Germany
United States
Cay
Harrisburg Telegraph Vacation Delivery Ad
An offer to receive the Harrisburg Telegraph at a vacation address by phone rather than by mail. The notice urges readers to call the Circulation Apartment to start daily news delivery during their time away and dismisses letter-based subscription methods as time consuming.
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Uncle Sam
Harrisburg Telegraph
Weather Report for Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Partly cloudy to night and Sunday with little temperature change. River levels: upper main river to fall tonight, lower portion Sunday. Harrisburg stage about 12.5 feet Sunday morning. Wilkes Barre 22.6 feet and Towanda 17.5 feet Friday. Yesterday's high 83, low 62, mean 72. Temperature at 8 am 64. Sun rises 4:84 am, sets 7:35 pm. Mean moon phase 4:31 pm.
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Harrisburg Barber Shop Confirms Holt Visit Before Capital Plot
The barber shop proprietor C H Wolfe states Frank Holt or Erich Muenter, the alleged wife murderer and bombmaker, was in Harrisburg three weeks ago, conversing in German during a shave and discussing a trip to New York for a major job. Police tie to Capitol plot shown by drawings found in Holt’s room after arrest for a previous attempt at murder and bombing. Flood records in July smashed in multiple cities along the Susquehanna, with Wilkes-Barre at 22.6 feet and Towanda at 17% feet, closing riverfront activity as floodwaters rose and debris filled the stream.
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Pennsylvania National Guard Camp Under Canvas Training Start
Three brigades are now under canvas at Mt Gretna Pennsylvania as the Pennsylvania National Guard camp opens with First Brigade from Philadelphia arriving at midnight. About 5500 men, including First Second Third regiments, Ninth Thirteenth regiments, and a Fourth Brigade, begin field training amid a real post atmosphere and nearby quarry blast salute. In Rochester Archbishop Quigley of Chicago grows weaker as paralysis spreads, with no feeding in 60 hours and doctors fearing the end is near.
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Associated Press
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Chicago
Harrisburg Newsies Poster Stamps Aid Clubhouse Fund
Tele types poster stamps start today for the Harrisburg Newsboys Association to furnish their clubhouse. Each sheet has twelve stamps showing Harrisburg scenes such as the river walk, Capitol steps, Susquehanna, Public Library, Market Street bridge, and State Street monument. Proceeds go to the newsies fund for furniture.
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May Merge Charity Work: Mrs Middleton Resigns
Mrs Elsie V Middleton resigns as general secretary of the Children's Aid Society effective August 15 and will join the State Board of Charities and Corrections as social worker and investigator. Rumors of merging Children's Aid with Associated Charities and the Poor Directors surface. John P Guyer was rumored but declined the offer.
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Children’s Aid
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Poor
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State Board of Charities and Corrections
John P. Guyer
Guyer
Colonial Closes Tonight For the Summer Season
Richard Kilgore assistant manager of the Colonial theater announced this afternoon that the amusement house would close this evening for several weeks over the summer season. No definite re opening time set. Washington July 10 additional territory today was ordered released July 12 from the foot and mouth disease quarantine. It included Fayette county Pa.
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Colonial Theater
Third and Market Streets
Associated Press
Washington
Fayette County
City Commissioner Averts Fire From Sugar Sack Blaze
A fire started when a man discarded a cigar stamp box outside a studio at 19 North Third Street. City Commissioner M Harvey Taylor and Patrolman Kautz quickly knocked down the burning awning and extinguished the blaze.
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Ayeandee Film Company
M. Harvey Taylor
Kautz
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Market Streets
Rotary Club Outing on Juniata Next Friday
More than seventy five Rotary Club members plan to attend the annual outing to be held next Friday afternoon and evening at the Iroquois Club house along the Juniata river. George W. Bogar and W. B. Bennett lead arrangements for sports refreshments and other details.
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Mother and Daughter Suffer Typhoid at Harrisburg Hospital
Mrs Adam Fissel and her daughter Mrs Charles Swartz of 163 North Fifteenth street were admitted to Harrisburg hospital today with typhoid fever. Richard Bidaman of 403 Herr street was also admitted with typhoid, doctors believe.
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North Fifteenth Street
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Richard Bidaman
Herr Street
Motor attachment causes rider concussion in Harrisburg crash
Richard Webster of 304 Crescent Street was riding a bicycle fitted with a motor attachment when he was thrown at Second and North streets. He suffered a brain concussion and was admitted to Harrisburg hospital.
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Funeral services set for Miss Lula Meyers Monday
Funeral services for Lula Meyers of Trindle Springs will likely be held Monday evening at her home, with burial in York Springs cemetery. Her body was due to arrive in Cumberland county tonight from Easton, and her brother Harry Meyers went to Easton to claim it.
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Russians Block German Advance In WWI News
Rome reports Austrian troops repulsed at multiple points. The German reply to the Lusitania note is published but Washington awaits official text. Berlin’s Morgen Post says the answer will win wide American approval. London notes Entente morale and Russian resistance as German forces retreat in Southern Poland while Austro Hungarian fronts see repulsed attacks. Petrograd cites stubborn fighting as Germans reinforce and await a potential recovery of initiative.
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Whisky and Brandy Removed as Medicine in U S after Jan 1
Washington July 10 Whisky and Brandy cannot be sold as medicine after January 1, 1916. Druggists selling either after that date must obtain a saloonkeeper license and pay the retailers tax under local and state regulations. Dr Harvey W Wiley announced the Revision Committee of the United States Pharmacopeia dropped both from the pharmacopeia, removing their medicine status.
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Randy
United States
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Governor Brumbaugh to Preach For Old Friend
Governor Brumbaugh traveled to Meyersdale to honor a long standing promise. He would preach at the Brethren church of Elder C. G. Fee, who has been blind for twenty years, and later visit Elder William Howe, a Juniata College alumnus now serving as assistant pastor. He will return Monday after visiting a guard encampment.
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German Jingo Paper Officially Rebuked
Berlin July 10 The Overseas News Agency reports that political and naval circles tire of the Tages Zeitung editorials against a German American understanding on the submarine question. The paper’s stance is cited as proof that such an understanding is desirable.
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Deutsche Tages Zeitung
Tages Zeitung
Governor Brumbaugh Plans State Auto Tour See Pennsylvania First
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh aims to boost tourism and PA interests by organizing a major automobile tour across much of the state during the first week of October. About fifty cars will depart Market Square in Harrisburg to promote the slogan See Pennsylvania First.
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Martin G. Brumbaugh
State announces first Workmen's Compensation Board
Governor Brumbaugh names three attorneys to form the state's initial Workmen's Compensation Board. James W. Leech Ebensburg John A. Scott Indiana and Harry A. Mackey Philadelphia named to serve four year terms with salaries of 7500 for the chairman and 7000 for the other two.
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Workmen's Compensation Board
James W. Leech
Ebensburg
Cambria County
John A. Scott
Indiana
Indiana County
Harry A. Mackey
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Workmen's Compensation Bureau
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Becker's Counsel Seeks Writ in Maine
New York July 10 Becker's counsel W Bourke Cochran left for Rangeley Maine to ask Supreme Court Justice Hughes for a writ of error. The writ would grant Becker a hearing in the Federal courts and Hughes decision on the application was expected today.
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New York
W. Bourke Cochran
Becker
Rangeley
United States Supreme Court
Charles E. Hughes
Justice Hughes
States Supreme Court
Charles Becker
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