Noted painter Blakelock returns to asylum in Middletown
Ralph Albert Blakelock, once a celebrated artist, has been readmitted to the State Hospital for the Insane at Middletown, N Y after 17 years there. Despite release in 1915 to regain health, authorities doubt a full recovery and say he may never paint with his former skill. He believes he possesses immense wealth from his works which public rejection stoked. A Y M C A picture given for lodging was sold for 4000 dollars to ease his asylum life.
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Associated Press
New York
Ralph Albert Blakelock
State Hospital For the Insane
Middletown
N. Y
Blakelock
Young Men's Christian Association
Nicaragua asks U S aid to cope with Costa Rica threat
Nicaragua requests U S land forces to counter a feared Costa Rican invasion. The State Department investigates. Managua accuses Tinoco of massing troops after Costa Rica's revolution collapse while denying Nicaraguan support for the rebels.
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Nicaragua
U.S
Costa Rica
Washington
United States
State Department
Tinoco
Liberal Party
Zelaya Regie
Americans Demand Senate Ratify League Covenant
Former President William H Taft said Americans are determined to secure ratification of the League of Nations covenant by the United States Senate. Taft and League to Enforce Peace members toured fifteen states advocating the covenant and the Treaty of Peace.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Senate
William H. Taft
League
League of Nations
Mr. Taft
Mysterious Death Of Dr Becker Stuns Bluefields College
Dr T Henry Becker Jr president of Bluefields Sanatorium died after a late night walk during Jefferson Medical College commencement in Philadelphia. He was 34 and collapsed after a taxi ride to Jefferson Hospital. Police have not explained the death to satisfaction.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
T. Henry Becker, Jr
Bluefields Sanatorium
Bluefields
W. Va
Jefferson Medical College
Protect Farmer and Increase Foodstuffs, Jordan Tells Rotarians
Dr C G Jordan a Lawrence legislator addressing Harrisburg Rotary Club says farmers need protection and laws to boost production noting his own farm improved sixfold with scientific methods He urges policy to keep youths on farms and lift Pennsylvania from tenth to sixth in agricultural output E J Stackpole and others attended the event Dr William C Miller announced a health film showing at the Orpheum Theater for Rotarians and wives
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United States
C. G. Jordan
Lawrence
Harrisburg
Police Think They Have Clue in Bomb Plot
New York dispatch reports six detectives sent to Bessemer Pennsylvania by Inspector Faurot after police there may have a lead on the identity of those behind nationwide bomb outrages against public officials. The team carries instructions to wire updates on the developing Pennsylvania district case.
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Bessemer
Associated Press
New York
Faurot
New Castle
Pennsylvania
Bell Telephone to Welcome Home Men
Bell Telephone opens its first postwar Telephone Society meeting at the Board of Trade hall tonight at 8. The reunion includes talks and remarks by returning servicemen, moving pictures, officer elections, and director appointments for the year. Meanwhile Johns Hopkins zoology professor Ethan Allen Andrews eats locusts and finds them tasty if other food is scarce.
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Bell Telephone Company
Telephone Society
Board of Trade
Baltimore
Ethan Allen Andrews
Johns Hopkins University
Two Army Officers Cited For Valor in Meuse Argonne
Citations issued for gallantry by Second Lieutenant Ira N. Kellburg of the Quartermaster’s Depot Marsh Run and First Lieutenant Lester A. Shearer of Carlisle. Kellburg led his platoon under heavy fire at Bois des Ogons, was wounded, and refused aid until his line retired. Shearer, on November 3 and 4, 1918, commanded after the CO was wounded, led patrols to neutralize enemy machine gun nests, was wounded by a sniper, yet kept the unit organized and returned the patrol safely.
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Ira N. Kellburg
Marsh Run
Lester A. Shearer
Carlisle
Ira N. Kellberg
Berg
Three Hundred and Fifteenth Infantry
Meuse-Argonne
Bois Des Ogons
Reunion plans for Veteran Employes Association finalizing
Final arrangements for the Veteran Employes Association of the Middle division reunion are set for today. The banquet is scheduled at Chestnut Street Hall on Thursday June 19 at 630 PM.
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Veteran Employes' Association
Middle Division
Chestnut Street Hall
Crews Ranked for Philadelphia Division and Enola Side
Yard and middle division rosters list crews for the Philadelphia and Enola sides with 108 and 230 trains announced. It names engineers firemen conductors brakemen yard board and passenger service positions with assignments and vacancies across multiple crews and shifts.
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Harrishurg
Philadelphia
Boyle
Solomon
McDonald
May
C. Smith
Gable
Bickle
Schwartz
Yeater
J. Evans
A. K. Steffy
Shoaff
Howard
Peters
Zimmerman
Baker
Bell
Furlow
Hemminger
Lantz
Gross
Deckart
Lentz
Arter
Johnson
Fenical
Elery
Kipp
Lesher
Danner
Potter
Shade
Rhoades
Shearer
Page
G. W. Johnson
Linn
Yard Board
Morrison
Fease
Kautz
Runkle
Wise
Wertz
Cleland
Gormley
Wirt
Myers
Walters
Bureau
Zeigler
P. S. Smith
Rodenhafer
G. K. Smith
Howe
Otstot
Spahr
Charles
ENOLA
Cullen
Barnhart
Good
Brakmen
Dover
Shelly
Walgast
Miller
Harper
Shank
Brunner
Horn
Harman
Rasechello
Vatulli
Tennant
Shesher
Smeltzer
Flowers
Spense
Garverich
G. H. Smith
Dorsett
Trostle
Branyon
Bretz
Kauffman
Flickenger
Shuey
Geib
Curtis
A. W. Wagner
Sadler
Milliken
Taylor
Albright
Holmes
Wall
McConnell
Hutchison
Vetter
Haubaker
Kennedy
O. J. Wagner
Swigart
H. Ditmer
J. R. Brinser
J. W. Burd
F. F. Schreck
A. C. Allen
A. J. Wagner
H. F. Groninger
L. H. Ricedorf
W. C. Black
W. E. Turbett
C. D. Hollenbaugh
J. Crimmel
J. W. Smith
Peace terms to Austria described as impossible and penniless
Vienna June 9 The peace terms for Austria are declared impossible and will starve the country, as President Seitz opens the national assembly. Foreign Minister Bauer reports on Feldkirch talks with Dr Renner and criticizes the Czechs for seizing Austria’s sugar and industries. He says South Tyrol could stay with Austria as a neutral zone, awaiting Italian reply at Saint Hermain.
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Vienna
Austria
Seitz
National Assembly
Bauer
Feldkirch
Renner
Bohemia
Tyrol
South Tyrol
Dr. Bauer
St. Hermain
Eight American Women Honored by Marines in London
Eight American women who aided the London Red Cross canteen for Marines received gold and silver Marine Corps brooches from Major Charles P Gilchrist at Naval headquarters. The honorees include Elizabeth Davidson Florence Heald Margaret Stephens Jane Rider Ada Boardman Mildred Weiman Cora Pogter and Alice Collingwood. Each received a congratulatory letter after the surprise salute.
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London
Se States Marine Corps
Marine Corps
Mildred Weiman
Gloversville
N. Y
Cora Pogter
New York City
Alice Collingwood
Endicott
Charles P Gilchrist
Naval Headquarters
Gilchrist
Nineteen New Grand Jury Cases Added This Week
Nineteen cases were added to the criminal court sessions list for Grand Jury consideration this week, bringing total prosecutions to 99. The docket includes larceny and other charges against multiple defendants, with sessions scheduled Thursday and Friday and tipstaves named for the week.
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Criminal Court
Grand Jury
William Dolan
Albert A Bare
Conrad Troutman
Agg
Charles F. Bowman
His. House
Elijah Manning
David R. Finkenbinder
William Green
Milko Kovarbasic
Lazo Kovarbasic
Peter Carricato
Meto Lekic
George Ivkov
John Walker
Henry Clark
William Collens
James Crawford
Elija Hoover
John Pottorff
R. W. Green
Harry Fulchner
M. F. Graham
Sam Johnson
H. (. Winters
Jacob Stauffer
W. J. Winfield
Henry Chubb
Milfred Ball
B. R. Mitchell
J. A. Yentzer
Felix Newman
Michael Conway
T. J. Blades
Henry Everhart
George Peters
Harrison A Kuhn
Pure Homemade Root Beer from Hires Extract
Make sparkling root beer at home using Hires Household Extract. The extract uses natural flavors and requires sugar and a yeast cake to produce forty pints per two cup bottle. Directions are included and bottles or corks can be sourced from the same grocer.
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Hires
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New York State Hospital
Chas. H. Mauk
Columbus Cafe Club
Star Carpet Cleaning Works
Joseph Coplinky
Walnut
Senate Hotel
Fred B. Aldinger
Senate
Dr. Becker
DR. Muck
Boston
Karl Muck
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Fort Oglethorpe
Georgia
Germany
Charleston
D. C
Jordan
Bell Telephone
Hershey
Hershey Creamery Co
Harrisburg, Pa
Friendship and Co-operative Club
James K. Linn
Veterans’ Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Railroad “Y
Reading
Salvation Army
Columbia
Carrie W. Rasbridge
Salvation Army Home Service Campaign Committee
United States Marine Corps
McNeil
Jess Willard
Philadelphia Press
Atlante
N.J. Annex
Emerson Crouthamel
Mgr
Uzit
Gorgas Drug Stores
Sergei
Poplins
Gaberdines
Burgundy
Copenhagen
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