This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 23 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1917
Page
16
The State Forestry Commission ordered surveys of 40,000 acres in Clearfield Elk Cameron and adjoining counties offered for sale to extend forest reserves. Summer surveys may lead to purchase if prices are right. State forests now total about 1.25 million acres excluding auxiliary reserves aimed at protecting water supplies.
Nelson and Lewin of Washington and Conway Building of Chicago win the contract for the hotel work. Construction aims to finish within a year. The project follows plans for the Hotel Washington, a thirteen story Bedford stone structure in Washington designed to be the largest and finest in the city, owned by the National Capital Hotel Company with R. S. Downs as manager.
Washington June 2 The mobilization of national guard troops ordered to July 15 for intensive training may be postponed. Secretary Baker said Congress funds of 77 million dollars for thirty two cantonments would cover only about half the cost. Revised estimates put the need at 150 million dollars to complete the cantonments as planned, raising the possibility the guard will train under canvas in the United States.
The Harrisburg Gettysburg Alumni Club of Zion Lutheran Church endorsed pensions for Gettysburg College professors and a limited tenure of trustees at a meeting last night. Delegates to the Federated Gettysburg Clubs meeting on Monday, June 11 were elected, including the Rev. Stewart W. Herman, the Rev. I. C. Manges, the Rev. L. C. Manges, the Rev. J. B. Markward, Professor G. W. Hill, P. B. Rice and Victor Hausknecht. Dr. J. B. McAllister presided.
Kronstadt workers and soldiers delegates vote 219 to 40 to assume control of the fortress defending Petrograd. They declare no recognition of the provisional government and transfer relations to the Petrograd branch. The justice minister has been asked to intervene and seek revocation of Kronstadt council orders.
A meeting for organizing the Home Guards is set for tonight in the main courtroom. Captain Henry M. Stine and other local older military men lead the effort with invites sent to Spanish-American War Veterans and Veterans of the Foreign Wars to join.
May 1917 rainfall fell short of normal with 1.95 inches total. Seven clear days, thirteen partly cloudy and eleven cloudy. Two thunderstorms and one heavy frost occurred. High reached 86 degrees on the 18th and low dropped to 39 on the 4th.
Harrisburg column of the Pennsylvania Railroad Women's Division War Relief reports busy sewing at the P R R M C A on Tuesdays and Fridays. Kits for duty in France will be completed for forwarding to Philadelphia within ten days. A first aid class for women begins Tuesday, June 5, at 4 p.m. Dr George B Kunkel leads. Plans for cooperative buying to reduce living costs will be discussed at June meetings of Mutual Beneficial Associations of Pennsylvania railroad employes. Local Assembly No 21 meets Tuesday night at Second and Walnut. No 4 meets Wednesday June 13 at Odd Fellows Hall. National officials will explain the plan. members from Altoona will share experiences. The assembly has investigated cooperative buying used in New York City and Philadelphia prices to inaugurate a buying plan in Harrisburg.
Philadelphia Division shows the 115 and 203 crews first after 2 and 3 45 o'clock with listed engineers firemen conductors flagmen brakemen and ward board crews. Middle divisions at 3 10 and 3 40 show specified crews and up crews with multiple names alongside. Justice seeks re election in Hagerstown and two German interns escape Ellis Island incident noted.
A. L. Anderson & Brother of Altoona secure a Pennsylvani a Railroad contract to build ten miles of single track from Champion to Jefferson through Greene and Washington counties. The line serves new coal fields and requires 800000 yards of excavation and 18000 yards of concrete masonry with work starting immediately for operation by January 1, 1919.
A small shed at the Central Iron and Steel Company caught fire shortly before 11 last night causing about 50 dollars in damage. An alarm came from Front and Dock streets and the bus department extinguished the blaze.
In the local effort to fill war strength, Companies D and I of the Eighth Regiment near full quotas by Tuesday. A recruiting tent at the Courthouse drew applicants today, with the Armory open tomorrow for more. About 130 men enlisted in Company I and a nearly equal number in Company D, as a Monday night band concert and parade plan underlines the push.
Dauphin County Public Safety committee, teaming with city officials, calls for volunteers in every registration district for Registration Day. Ministers will remind voters. interpreters and copyists are requested, with car donations and telephoned volunteer signups to the Harrisburg Chamber of Commerce.
News notes three urgent council items including awarding a garbage truck contract filling a fifth ward seat and selecting a police chief. Vetoes on sewer superintendent and traffic signage follow, with church services listed for local congregations and a schedule of sermons and Sunday activities.
Washington reports Lester P. Barlow of Pennsylvania, a first close electrician, devised a bomb deemed the most deadly known at the Frankford arsenal. Representative John Q. Tilson showed the device in the House, noting experiments from February to September 1916. Experts say it would explode six feet above ground and it is now in production for army and navy use.
Employees of the Postal Telegraph Cable Company would participate in a Mutual Investment Credit Union scheme led by Edward Reynolds. The plan buys Liberty Loan bonds for workers with area payments and pays 3.5 percent interest on payments until bonds are fully paid, after which bonds are delivered with receipts intact, yielding 7 percent on invested funds.
The Steelton Red Cross Society sent two large packing cases of army hospital supplies to national headquarters in New York for France. Two more cases are nearly ready to ship next week from the local headquarters. Monday sewing day added. rooms open Monday afternoon and evening along with Wednesday and Friday. Forty-one new members joined yesterday, bringing total membership to 3,840.
The Steelton Businessmen's Association plans to aid local banks by handling a large Liberty Bond sale. arrangements set for Monday at 4 pm in M. J. Kane's office. Also notes a steel plant explosion injuring one worker, a funeral for Mrs. Jane Thompson, and various local community items including street oiling, ship burial of Lewis Jones, and firehouse improvements.
Ross Moritz of Harrisburg fractures his right leg in the open-hearth dept at a local steel plant and is taken to Harrisburg Hospital.
A man was held for court without bail after a Thursday hearing before Squire H A Lenhart on charges of making slanderous remarks about President Wilson and the United States flag. The record notes a hearing, names Clin ton Page, and identifies the Squire. Additional notes mention local visits, a church wedding, and Red Cross rummage sale plans.
Regular or irregular alcohol use harms kidneys. It often causes urinary trouble with excess alkaline secretion, frequent urination, and burning pain. Urine may be highly colored and strong smelling. seek corrective measures to address these symptoms.
A registration booth will operate at the army recruiting station in Harrisburg for men enlisting on June 6. Sworn registrars will oversee the process. Local Harrisburg area youths enlisted yesterday including Jerome Feather from the Carlisle Indian School and Spiroff Alexander of Steelton. Navy recruiting saw seven applications with five accepted, listing John Edmund Hefflefinger Carlisle and Howard Foreman from the Carlisle Indian School among others.
Substitute Cuticura For One Week And make Cuticura Soap and Ointment your everyday toilet preparations. They cleanse and stimulate pores, offer fragrance and comfort, and contrast with costly beauty fads. For pimples or redness apply the ointment five minutes before bathing. free samples by post include Cuticura Dept. 22 Boston.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.