Fire Reveals Hoard of Money and Jewels in San Antonio
Firefighters found more than $5,000 in cash coins and gold jewelry at 508 El Paso street, home of Juan and Francisco Sanchez. Dollar bills lined the carpets while negotiable coins from many countries and vast jewelry were stored in cans, bottles, and boxes. Over 10,000 coins and about 200 pieces of jewelry were collected and cataloged at the Central station.
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San Antonio
Tex
el Paso Street
Juan
Francisco Sanchez
Central Fire Station
Railroad Rumbles Penny Traffic Is New Record
Record freight activity on the Middle division shows 200 378 cars moved between Harrisburg and Altoona in May with a daily average of 6464. Loaded moves totaled 115 714 with 89513 to eastern points and 26201 to western stations. April and May values cited, plus a note on March 1916 as the high. Several staff enlistments noted along with bond and duty updates. Retirement marks fifty years service for Martin Luther Bastian.
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Harrisburg
Altoona
Reading
France
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
John B. Nicholas, Jr
Pennsy
New Rail Trouble Sparks Investigation Across Mills
Railway workers report a fresh issue with rails showing lips at ends that clip off and create rough riding joints. Depths reach about 1/16 inch as rails fail to flow consistently under pressure. Metals test as sound with no decarburization or structural irregularities found. cause remains undetermined though investigations continue.
Harrisburg Side Crews and Yard Board Updates
Philadelphia Division lists crews first to go after 3.40, 3.45 oclock with engineer up Black and firemen up Herman Himmelwright Shandler Sipe Strickler Ellinger. Conductor up Fink and McCann. Enola Side also shows crews and yard boards with engineers up Myers Heffleman Buffington Allman Beaver Essig Ney and firemen up Rupley Engle Kruger Henderson. The Reading section records crews first to go after 11 oclock with a long list of engineers and firemen, conductors and brakemen, and a cartoon ending.
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Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Black
Herman
Himmelwright
Shandler
Sipe
Strickler
Ellinger
Fink
McCann
AkaInes
Smith
Rexroth
Fis
Middle Division
Bensel
Ford
Bensell
Kraft
Humphreys
Sweger
Fegley
Sheaffer
Kretz
Flickinger
Shuey
Myers
Geib
Curtis
O. J. Wagner
McMeen
Holsinger
Deaner
Noss
Webb
McConnell
A. W. Wagner
Wolf
ENOLA
Kanlas
Hoopes
Heffleman
Buffington
Allman
Beaver
Essig
Ney
Rupley
Engle
Kruger
Henderson
Lackey
Freed
Beecher
Little
Gaegler
Barborow
Patton
Keifer
Nickle
Beashore
Pell
Dutery
Shipe
Middletown Grammar School Commencement List and Program
The Middletown grammar school commencement will be in Realty Theater Monday evening with music by the grammar school orchestra and choral numbers. The program includes readings, songs, a flag drill, a class roll of graduates, certificates presented by Superintendent H. J. Wickey, and the patriotic finale Star Spangled Banner. Thieves entered Frank Adams’s grocery store on Ann street by prying a side window, taking forty five dozen eggs and supplies worth about 200 dollars. the room was ransacked.
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Grammar School
Realty Theater
America
Johnston
Hayes
Harry Roth
Marian Baker
Kathryn Beachler
Rose Berman
Martha J. Bergstresser
Marian Best
Ruth Bortner
Mildred Botts
Viola Coble
Pearl Cowan
Julia Dubendorf
Sarah Ege
Viola Farrer
Johanna Kolesar
Margaret Lynch
Helen Seltzer
Alvena’ Snyder
Eleanora Sutcliffe
Ruth Shetron
Marian Ulrich
Helen Weidner
Minnie Zuck
James Campbell
Harold Detweiler
John Elberti
Hann Ettele
Forney George
Harry Greenawalt
John Hipple
Raymond Kauffman
James Kern
John Kolesar
Eugene Laverty Jr
Ralph Myers
Howard Noel
Frank Price
Israel Prouser
Lewis Prouser
George Sellers
Edward Shroy
Harry Singer
John Wise
Frank Adams
Ann Street
Salem Lutheran Children’s Day at Oberlin Oberlin
Salem Lutheran Church Oberlin observes Children’s Day Sunday morning at 10 30 with a long program led by Miss Effie Rup ley and others to raise funds for an orphan in Loysville. Local youths from Oberlin Enhaut and Bressler enlist in U S service. Fortnightly church notices, memorials, and visits follow.
Auto Blaze Destroys Hood Area at Market Street
A car owned by Christian Johnston, chef at the Philadelphia Quick Lunch, caught fire around noon on Market Street while parked. Firefighters tackled the blaze with chemical agents, preventing serious damage.
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Christian Johnston
Philadelphia
Market Street
Ancient Spanish bell unearthed near Yuma in 1781 mission site
In Yuma Arizona on May 30 an ancient copper bell weighing about 200 pounds was dug from several feet underground while drilling a farm well. Believed to originate from the Conception Immaculada mission, the bell may have come from a once large settlement that was destroyed by Yuma Indians in 1781. In Mexico City on June 1 lawmakers consider raising deputy salaries from sixteen and a half to twenty pesos daily, amid high living costs.
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Yuma
Ariz
Spain
Conception Immaculada
Yuma Indians
Mexico City
Congress
Steelton to subscribe large Liberty War Loan sum
Steelton bankers plan subscriptions between 200000 and 300000 to the Liberty War Loan and will distribute the funds locally. The National Croatian Society has subscribed 100000, and five Croatian societies in Steelton with about 500 members are buying with enthusiasm for the Liberty Loan.
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Steelton
Largest class transfer marks wartime ceremony at school
The largest class in borough history, totaling 124 students from Central Grammar, will move to the High School next Friday evening for exercises. Fifty seven boys and sixty seven girls will participate with Rev. G. W. Getz delivering the address on Preparedness. Senior speeches, Liberty Loan essays, and war related topics will feature the program.
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Central Grammar School
G. W. Getz
Main Street Church of God
Liberty Loan
Discontinue Military Training at School
High school examinations prompted ending of military instruction led by Sergeants Frank B. Harder and Harry J. Brett. Weekly summer training plans were abandoned after two months of sessions.
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Frank B. Harder
Harry J. Brett
Plan Improvements at Pumping Station
Borough water department plans discussed at a council board meeting. Two dwellings on Christian Street will be torn down and a large wooden fence built to store part of the winter river coal supply. Funeral services for Mrs Janet Thompson, 76, will be Monday at 2 pm at the home of her daughter Mrs Lucinda Clare. burial in Baldwin Cemetery. She leaves four sons and two daughters and a sister.
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Borough Water Department
Christian Street
Janet Thompson
Lucinda Clare
South Second Street
C. B. Segelken
Presbyterian Church
Baldwin Cemetery
Hugh Roberts
Harrisburg
John §. Thompson
Easton
Annie Gwinner
Finance committee to meet in Steelton for fund drive
The Steelton Red Cross fund finance committee, made up of local businessmen, will meet in a few days to appoint an executive committee for organizing the fund week from June 18 to 25. The borough hopes to raise a large sum to forward to the National committee. Funeral services for Morris Wagner were held at 410 Reading Street with Rev. J. K. Hoffman officiating and burial in Baldwin Cemetery.
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Red Cross Fund
Steelton
National Committee
Morris Wagner
Claude G. Wagner
Reading Street
J. K. Hoffman
Grace United Evangelical Church
Baldwin Cemetery
Steelworker dies in steel plant shifter accident
Lester C. Jones aged 28 of Alexander Virginia was killed instantly at the Open Hearth Department when caught in a shifter while operating the machine. The body was turned over to H. Wilt's Sons undertakers and will be shipped to his Virginia home.
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Lester C. Jones
Alexander
H. Wilt
Virginia
Birth and Church Events in Steelton and Bethlehem
Steelton residents announce the birth of a son, James Samuel, to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kessick of South Bethlehem, born Sunday May 27. the mother formerly Anna Shaeffer of Steelton. The Rev A K Wier will deliver the baccalaureate sermon for Centenary United Brethren Church graduates on June 10. A Lilliputian wedding and reception are planned June 18 at Monumental A M E Church. A North Pole social is set for this evening at 403 North Third Street, Grace United Evangelical Church, hosted by Mrs Fred Conner. Ross Mountz, 1008 South Cameron Street, sustained a fractured right leg at Bethlehem Steel Company yards and was transported to Harrisburg Hospital.
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Salem Lutheran
Loysville
Effie Rupley
Joseph Janson, Jr
Eva Lingle
Eugene Rehkugler
Grace Rupley
Vivian Gardner
Josephine Wise
Anna Lingle
Pauline Pantle
Kenneth Eschenour
Luther Reigert, Jr
George Sheaffer, Jr
Mary Reigart
D. E. Rupley
Mark Brehm
Ruth Rupley
Dorothy Shope
George
Pantle
Oberlin
Enhaut
Bressler
United States Service
Howard Dickey
Heber Laventure
Herbert Walters
Moses Alleman
Homer Bressler
Clare Miller
Edward Hackman
John Hocker
Foster Cameron
Fred Dell
Samuel Kopac
Herbert Davies
Alonzo Laventure
Woman's Home and Foreign Society of
Salem Lutheran Church
Mr. Hoffman
Steelton
Miss Wise
Raymond Gerhardt
Shippensburg
Miriam Etter
Frank Chambers
Amos Dengler
Alice
Highspire
Helen Cashman
Carlisle
Samuel Dengler
Miss Green
Zimmerman
Selinsgrove
Miss Short
Waterford
Warren Nisstey
Hummelstown
Harry Stauffer
James Janson, Jr
Evelyn
Elizabeth
Homestead
J. H. Kessick
South Bethlehem
James Samuel
Kessick
Anna Shaeffer
A. K. Wier
Centenary United Brethren Church
Centenary
North Pole
Fred Conner
North Third Street
Grace United Evangelical Church
Ross Mountz
South
Cameron Street
Bethlehem Steel Company
Harrisburg
Breaks Leg At Play In Harrisburg Child Injures Leg
Charles Orr nine, son of Mr and Mrs George W Orr of 610 Peffer Street, fractured his right leg this morning while playing. He received treatment at Harrisburg Hospital.
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Charles Orr
George W. Orr
Peffer Street
Harrisburg
More Summoned For Speeding in Borough
The Steelton police issued summonses to H. Wilt's Sons and Stenko Dimtroff of Steelton and a Graupner Brewery driver of Harrisburg for speeding. Hearings are set for June 11 before Burgess Wigfield. John Budnick of Steelton was fined 15 dollars and Mrs. M. A. Cumber of Highspire 10 dollars for speeding at a prior hearing.
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H. Wilt’s
Stenko Dimtroff
Steelton
Graupner Brewery
Harrisburg
Acore
Burgess Wigfield
John Budnick
South Third Street
M. A. Cumbler
Highspire
Kelker Park Plans For Garden Plots Draw Interest
Kelker Park will distribute twelve 30 by 30 foot garden plots in a few days. Ten applicants remain in the running as the Parks and Playgrounds Commission warns gardeners to protect trees and shrubs. James R. Irwin, playground supervisor, will arrive by June 11. a special meeting will outline this year's work.
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Kelker Park
Parks and Playgrounds Commission
James R. Irwin
Orphan Girl Praises Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
Miss Marie Schmeltz of Pittsburgh says periodic illnesses vanished after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She reports relief from monthly sickness, headaches, dizzy spells, and side pain and urges others to publish her letter.
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Pittsburgh
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marie Schmeltz
Gardner St
Troy Hill
Lydia BE. Pinkham
Bunting in Biggest Flag Worth $2 000
The Star Spangled Banner flag, 80 by 160 feet, wool bunting, is owned by the Daughters of Betsy Ross in trust for Pittsburgh. Four hundred women worked in old City Hall to sew it, with public subscriptions funding materials. If bought today it would cost about $2,000 retail. the flag weighs 3,000 pounds with ropes and rigging.
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Pittsburgh
Daughters
Betsy Ross
Old City Hall
Daughters of
Camp Hill Sends Four Young Men to the Front
Camp Hill announced today four of its young men join the United States army. The names are Francis Armstrong Louis Munc hell John Border and Eugene Martin.
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Camp Hill
United States Army
Francis Armstrong
Louis Munchell
John Border
Eugene Martin
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Mamma
Freddie Strepto Coccus
Waldo
Cartoons Magazine
Resinol
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News OF Steelton
Steelton Bank
Eckman
School of Commerce
Troup
Panama Bell
Cumber
Harrisburg Business College
Market St
Borough
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G. R. Kinney Co., Inc
N. 4Th St
Bob” Boyer
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James H. Brenner
4Th St
Togo
Geax Denner
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