China tensions and Li Yuan Hung’s rise concern Harrisburg mission circle
The death of Yuan Shi Kai stirs interest in Harrisburg as Li Yuan Hung emerges. Mission leaders like Dr. C. Newton Dubs and the Groffs steer church efforts in China while political shifts echo in local anxieties. A reflective editorial urges listening over talking, citing William Dwight Hillis on wisdom from listening.
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LI Ytan Hungarrisburg
China
Yuan Shi Kai
Groffs
Dubs
Christian Missions
Harrisburg
Li Yuan Hung
Hankow
C. Newton Dubs
United Evangelical Missions In
Yuan
Peking
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Talk and Conventions Echo
Chicago dispatch surveys Pennsylvania delegation at the 1916 Republican and Progressive conventions. Notables include John J. Fisher Indiana senator, Cyrus Woods seeking gubernatorial timber, W. C. Sproul and Charles Miller among Pennsylvanians present. Reports detail platform parallels and debates on tariffs and preparedness, plus local alliance with the Municipal Band and a portrait of state figures visiting the capital.
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Chicago
John 8. Fisher
Indiana
Indiana-Jefferson
Harrisburg
Capitol
Fisher
Commonwealth
Cyrus E. Woods
Pittsburgh
Woods
Pennsylvania crowd at the convention stories and chatter
Captain Chal Port recalls security work with the Pennsylvania railroad police and tells of the colonel’s hunting tales. Senator Charles H. Kline reports jokes, while Pennsylvanians and their relatives fill the pink tea room at the state headquarters. Narrator notes familiar names, local ties, and bustling crowds around the convention.
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G. Chal. Port
Huntingdon
Pennsylvania Railroad Police
Tyrone
Green Valleys
Keystone State
Pennsylvania
Phil German
The
National Guard
What the Rotary Club learned of the city quiz reveals council setup
Harrisburg Rotary Club held its annual Municipal Quiz with questions and answers about city government. It states that legislative affairs are controlled by City Council, consisting of the Mayor and four superintendents, with the Mayor as President and the Superintendent of Accounts and Finance as Vice President.
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Harrisburg
Front Street
Social Workers’ Club
Rotary Club
Harrisburg Rotary Club
City Council
Bandelier Monument Proclaimed in New Mexico
A proclamation establishes Bandelier Monument in central New Mexico. Adolph Bandelier, noted American historian and ethnographer, is celebrated as a pioneer who lived among Pueblo Indians, learned their language, and laid the foundations for modern Southwest history. The article lauds his perilous life and scholarly rigor.
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William Dwight Hillis
Amazon
Wilson
New Mexico
Bandelier
Adolph Bandelier
Southwest
America First in Citizenship Plea and Local Vignettes
In Mauch Chunk, Hoch der Star Spangled Banner, Lewis Zollner and his two sons, of Lehigh Tannery, seek citizenship papers and declare America First. The Hanover Evening Sun tallies early week Pennsylvania fires at 325000 in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Girard in the Public Ledger praises the Battle of the Flowers fundraiser for an allied arts home in Philadelphia. Franklin and Marshall students urge military training. A 6 and 10 cent store tale recounts Mrs Knox of Connellsville buying a tin horn after claxon failure. Warren’s new library opens with a smoking room noted. Bellefonte’s Alexander Risk’s widow seeks debt payments after his death. Judge Yreas orders Luzerne county marriages urged toward matrimony.
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Lewis Zollner
Lehigh Tannery
Mauch Chunk
America
Girard
The
Public Ledger
Philadelphia
Allied Arts
Chicago
Recall of judicial decisions looms in breezy Telegraph Periscope
The Chicago rains bring frosts as notes scan the recall of judicial decisions. Count Okuma is killed as often as Villa is captured. Chauncey Depew joins Ford ads. Carranza orders to beat it. the President plans an ultimate ultimatum.
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Chicago
Okuma
Villa
Carranza
Telegraph
Jane
Cupid
Dispute Over City Authority In Coatesville
A fragment notes a clash between Coatesville’s mayor and the police, each claiming authority over the other. The mayor refuses council orders and the police refuse to obey the mayor, leaving supremacy undecided.
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Coatesville
Editorial Sketches From Across The Nation
A compiled taste of editorials on justice’s views by Knoxville Journal and Tribune and Cleveland Plain Dealer. War opinions shift with Cole Blease remarks while Kansas City Star urges nature to run its course. A light tale recalls Ezra Haskins the detective who follows clues to a stump.
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Justice
Knoxville Journal and Tribune
Hughes
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Cole Blease
Kansas City Star
Ezra Haskins
New England
Sherlock Holmes
Ezra
Weather and town life mix of Harrisburg in June
A lively Harrisburg column notes damp early June with rain soaked tennis courts and river currents, mixed with civic tidbits. It highlights Ebensburg secretary Melville H. James pushing the William Penn Highway project, Rotary club lunch evolution from Wash Day dinners to Columbus venue, and Steelton furnace renaming from numbers to letter stacks with rapid recent stack completions.
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Melville H. James
Ebensburg
William Penn Highway Association
James
Pennsylvania
Johnstown Democrat
Harrisburg Rotary Club
Senate
Columbus Hotel
John H. Nixon
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dauphin
Plaza
Engineers’ Club
Columbus
Rotary Club
Rotarians
John H. Nixon Ias
James B. Kemper
Richard Jobe
Try Try Again Egg Lesson From Jersey Bantam Tale
A Jersey girl with a bantam ban tam hopes for a bigger egg after the first bird lays a small one. The ostrich specimen appears on the table with a note reading Keep on trying. After a long search the missing ostrich is found near the bantam nest with the encouraging message.
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Jersey
Marlon
Missi
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Carlisle
M. A. Brinton
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John M. Morin
H. E. Melnex
Colorado
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H. P. Shomo
Harry Hartzler
H. D. Lindemuth
Auburn
A. Nevin Detrich
Chambersburg
Progressive Platform
Oscar King Davis
Detrich
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Charles H. Kline
Depew
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By Frederic J. Haskin
Hanover
Ignus Delens
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster
Warren
Omar Khayyam
Alexander Risk
Bellefonte
Mr. Risk
Luzerne
Yreas
Chauncey Depew
Ford
Ebening
Steelton
Pennsylvania Steel Company
Lochiel
Cambria Steel Company
Johnstown
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