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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1918
Page
8
In the days after new betrothals Dora and her cousin receive gifts, while Cynthia notes Dora’s softened nature and Gerald’s playful side with her. Milton grows tender and confident, and he wonders if his father senses the engagement. Milton asks Dora to let him tell his father the status.
Mrs L Timmer Man of Kansas City Kansas says six bottles of Lydia E Pinkham s Vegetable Compound cured her functional disorders causing back and side pains headaches and nervousness. The ad promotes the remedy for other women with similar symptoms and offers confidential guidance from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts.
Cynthia reveals romantic confidences about her engagement to Milton amid family tensions. Edward Van Saun welcomes her as a beloved figure, and Cynthia and Milton decide to live with him after marriage, strengthening bonds as they anticipate a shared future.
We offer thorough fabric safe dry cleaning for comforts and blankets at low cost. Prompt pickup by postal or phone service ensures convenient care. Our extensive experience promises high grade work not all cleaners can match.
U S Food Administration urges every American to share their wheat with comrades overseas until the next harvest. Housewives are advised to use substitutions and measurements from old cookbooks, with recipes like gingerbread and chocolate icing, to conserve wheat and support the war effort.
Mrs. F M Locke of Greenfield credits Vinol with restoring her strength after a grippe and cough. The ad cites beef and cod liver peptones iron manganese peptonates and glycero phosphate as key ingredients. It lists George A Gorgas Kennedy's Medicine Store Kitamiller's Pharmacy and others as sellers.
An intensive campaign to recruit twenty five graduate nurses for Red Cross service in the Army and Navy opens today at the Harrisburg Public Library basement. Charles Scott Jr emphasizes the urgent need and the campaign aims to secure twenty five nurses from the Harrisburg Chapter district.
Mrs. W. T. Hildrup provided wrist watches and 100 cigarets to 380 Belgian artillerymen encamped at Fort Totten awaiting orders. The gunners, guest of Belgian Minister Baron de Cartier, had been in Russia when the revolution began and now await a call to return to the western front.
Liverpool Pa June 3 The Junior and Primary departments of the Methodist Sunday School organize their annual Children s Day exercises for Sunday evening June 9. Committees led by Mrs H E Ritter Mrs W W Holman Mrs Ira Wert and Mrs Davis Miller oversee the drilling.
Luther Arndt aged 15 son of Mr and Mrs Abraham Arndt drowned after getting beyond his depth while swimming in the Susquehanna river at Milton. The body was recovered and a doctor treated for thirty minutes without success. Father and Son Day observed at New Buffalo Church with a special program yesterday.
The Russ Brothers plant in Harrisburg reduces production to three flavors vanilla chocolate and strawberry due to sugar shortages. Other flavors are halted until sugar supplies improve and may return after the May 15 to July 1 period. Fruit flavors will be added as sugar allows, starting with early peaches later this season. Other Harrisburg ice cream plants are expected to follow with similar reductions.
The report notes slow German progress near Rheims and Ville en Tardenois with Allies holding strength. British airmen claim twenty five German planes shot down while American and German aircraft clash in Toul sector. German bombs hit hospitals behind British lines. Moscow and Petrograd face a counter revolutionary plot with sieges and arrests. In Russia mutinous Czecho Slovak troops seize rail junctions as Kuban and Don Cossack areas threaten revolt. The Ukraine remains under German control and food shortages grow.
Miss Alverta Sipe of 84 East King Street York Pa credits Tonall with easing long lasting nerves and sleep problems. She reports improved appetite and calm after skeptical start and notes Tonall is sold at Gorgas Drug Stores Harrisburg and Hershey Drug Store Hershey Pa.
After arresting Robert Chenoweth on Saturday night investigators began a strict probe to find who alerts him to raids. Chenoweth and associates faced hearing on operating a narcotic dispensary while prior warnings suggesting predawn arrests raise questions of misconduct. Also noted is the death of Solomon Rhoads a longtime Market Street Bridge gate keeper, survived by family, with funeral set for Wednesday at 2 pm from his residence to Enola Cemetery.
Rev Edwin E Curtis of Westminster Presbyterian Church urged listeners to deepen their devotion and duty during wartime. He cautioned that some leave doors unlocked and children unprotected for pleasure, prioritizing cars and horses over life. The sermon titled Heart Care stressed responsibility to God and church. The service featured the quartet choir and solos.
Installation of an improved judgment index in the office of Prothonotary Charles E Pass is completed by Siegel Russell Indexing Company. The new books will correspond with those in the County Recorder's office and will make the records more uniform.
The books for the Prothonotary's office are being furnished without any additional charges to the county.
An old-style advertisement warns seven thousand deaths yearly from rupture and urges ditching trusses for a home PLAPAO method. It promotes a soft, self apply PAD that stays in place without straps and promises to close the hernial opening, inviting readers to send their name for a free trial and information from PLAPAO CO., St. Louis.
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