SPROUL GETS 2 NOMINATIONS
Official statewide primary totals show William C. Sproul with a 203,252 vote lead over J Denny ONeil for the Republican governor nomination and multiple winners for Congress at Large. Democratic nominee Eugene C Bonniwell, with J Washington Logue winning lieutenant governor, and various other party tallies listed. Sproul also named nominee of the Washington party with 232 votes. Roosevelt Progressive name for ONeil with seven votes.
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Secretary of the Commonwealth
William C. Sproul
J. Denny O'Neil
M. M. Garland
Thomas
Eugene C. Bonniwell
Joseph S. Guffey
J. Washington Logue
Howard ©. Holstein
Robert Patton Hkbgood
Willam C. Sprowl
Asa A. Weimer
Sebo
George P. Aarons
Joseph R. Batezon
Edward E. Reidleman
de Pow
Join R, IK
Scott
Paul W. Houck
Fred J. Lewis
James E. Woodward
Congress-at
William 8. Aaron
Thomas H. Atherton
William J. Burke
Charles M. Clement
Thomas S. Crago
Guy R
Mahion Rand
Eugene €. Bonniwell
Joseph F. Guffey
John Butch McDevitt
Howard C. Holstein
Asher St. Johnson
Joseph F. Gorman
Fred Skeler
Elisha Kent Kane
Joseph McGarrity
J. Calvin Strayer
Samuel R. Turner
Charles Sehl
Dalton Clarke
William Adams
L. J. Fithian
F. Ik. Wittlesey
Flag Day Embraced as National Celebration
New York reports Flag Day gains significance as the 141st birthday of the Stars and Stripes is marked nationwide. The nation will observe with flag unfurlings in cities, plants, schools, and gatherings, with many groups dedicating new flags and pledging allegiance per federal guidance.
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New York
Cantigny
Chateau Thierry
United States
Stars and Stripes
Harrisburg Youth Wins Commission in Navy
Russell H. Lindsay of 1706 State Street has been appointed acting ensign in the U S Navy for engineering duty after a competitive examination based on scholarship. He is a Central High School graduate class of 1914 and Lehigh University graduate this spring with an electrical engineering degree. He will be assigned as engineer and instructor. Henry Martin Delone of 20 North Third Street has secured release from City Board No 1 and enlisted in the Navy in Philadelphia.
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Russel H. Lindsay
State Street
Secretary of the Navy
United States Navy
Mr. Lindsay
Central High School
Lehigh University
A. M. Lindsay
NAVY
Henry Martin Delone
North Third Street
City Board
Philadelphia
Park Cooking School Instructors Named By Playground Chief
J K Staples city playground supervisor announces Miss Anna M Bender will be domestic science instructor at Reservoir Park cooking school, Miss Lillian Kamsky folk dancing instructor, and Miss Maud Murphy sewing instructor. They start Monday. enrollment forms urged for children with name, address, age, class year. Four classes based on years attended. focus on fuel economy and food conservation. Murphy a Central College graduate now at Shippenburg State Normal School. further appointments and bathhouse attendants to be announced.
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J. K. Staples
Anna M. Bender
Reservoir Park
Lillian Kamsky
Maud I’. Murphy
Bender
Kamsky
Park
Pisvgroona A.cae
Roosevelts call to intern traitors in wartime uproar
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt urges harsher wartime measures calling for immediate internment of alien enemies and spies, criticizing slackers and privileging patriotic action. He praises Germany's handling of enemies and warns stark consequences, as President Bryan records the naming Acteseah for Roosevelt.
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Indianapolis
William Lowe Bryan
University of Indiana
Theodore Roosevelt
Germany
Tiny Acrobats Register Names as Enemy Aliens
Philadelphia marshall Noonan is startled by two boyish performers claiming to be aliens and requesting to register. They provide names Herman Kalversberg and Herman Seheibe, ages 27 and 30, both German born, 4 feet and 65 pounds, describing themselves as acrobats about to engage at a local theater.
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Philadelphia
United States
Noonan
Herman Kalversberg
Germany
Herman Seheibe
Pressure at Washington to Intervene in Russia
Washington rumors claim Allied intervention in Russia is imminent with government approval expected. Many insist the inside information serves to push for a constructive policy, as a climax to the current effort unfolds in a few days.
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Washington
Russia
Crest Negroes Take La Porte Farm Crest High Ground
In a notable action at French headquarters a native African unit aided by tanks retook La Porte Farm on a crest 370 feet high west of the Compiegne road and gaining the high ground north of it. Washington enlarges naval proving grounds by 2200 acres across the Potomac to be controlled by the Navy. Edward Pierce, convicted of larceny and related offenses, given one month in jail for gun possession amid police, court cases.
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London
Reuter
la Porte Farm
Compiegne Road
Bigger Proving Grounds
Washington
Naval Proving Grounds
Indian Head
Auxiliary Proving Grounds
Potomac River
Virginia
Wilson
Secretary of the Navy
Edward Pierce
Dauphin County
Henry
War end unknown as officer calls for front line sacrifice
An insistent German letter asks when the war will end amid dreadful losses and demands all to fight in the front. Separately, Judge Kunkel confirms the Commonwealth Trust Company report on the Susquehanna Township Water Company plant operation.
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Kunkel
Commonwealth Trust Company
Susquehanna Township Water Company
Nurses Urge Harrisburg Women to Join War Nursing Drive
Harrisburg Red Cross leaders urge women to abandon loafing and join the nursing service for American troops. Miss Frances Scott and Mrs. Jean B. Chamberlain call for more trained nurses, note shortages, and outline hiring terms, training plans, and potential careers in public health and military hospitals. The roster lists local volunteers and highlights the need for hospital capacity and Red Cross canteens.
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Harrisburg
Harrisburg Red Cross
Jean B. Chamberlain
Red Cross
Frances Scott
William Howard Taft
Mrs. Chamberlain
Miss Scott
Harrisburg Hospital
America
Telegraph
Miss I. Kelchner
Blanche Fiester
Anna Falk
Luella Davis
Adelaide Saltzman
Molly Thompson
Dessa Fry
R. A. Wood
Dessa Kissel
Esther Laubenstein
Graybill
Miss Miller
Fanny Ogelsby
Miss Backenstoss
Ella Brown
Clearfield
Olive Reed
Newcastle
Dora Josephson
Evelyn Davis
Minerva Martin
Mary Shaneman
M. Verdier
Clausen
Polyclinic
Hickok
Dr. Parks
Front Street
Scott
Camp Lee
Philadelphia
Prisoners Appeal to President For Place in Battle on Germany
Prison inmates at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia send a letter to President Wilson urging conditional pardons to allow some to join the war effort. Warden McKenty backs the plan as hundreds drill, and funds raised for the War Chest reach nearly $4,000. The appeal, carried by Mrs. Jane Gates, asks the president to let deserving prisoners work or fight for the country.
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Philadelphia
Eastern State Penitentiary
Wilson
John M. Gates
Locust Street
Washington
Robert J. McKenty
Uncle Sam
War Chest
War Service Committee
Jane Gates
William Penn Highway on a Fifty Fifty Basis
Lebanon and Berks counties adopt formal action to fund and aid the William Penn Highway project. The highway will be a permanent improvement linking eastern and western terminals with substantial construction already completed or authorized.
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Lebanon
Berks
Counties Share Cost of Turnpike Franchises Plan
Dauphin county must follow suit as two counties agree to split costs fifty-fifty. Estimated $30,000 per mile with the state $16,000 and federal $10,000 offset by credit to each county of $1,000 per mile for franchises and the $10,000 per mile government grant.
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Dauphin County
United States
Kline Elected Allegheny County GOP Chairman
Senator Charles H. Kline of Pittsburgh has been chosen chairman of the Allegheny County Republican Committee. E R B Goehring of the Pittsburgh City Committee is named in connection with the leadership slate.
Friday Handkerchief Special Prices Draw Shoppers
In a Friday sale note, women’s linen and cotton handkerchiefs feature 14 inch hems with a 15 cent value. Special Friday offer reduces prices to 10 cents for hem stitched cotton handkerchiefs with a soft finish at 8 cents.
Basement Wash Goods Sale Ad Copy
Basement wash goods items listed with prices for 25c voiles 36 inches wide fancy stripes and figures. Special Friday only sale includes 20c plaid prints, 30c imitation linen suiting one shade 36 inches wide. Spe oceee SBC and Dives Pomeroy Stewart listed as sellers.
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Pomeroy & Stewart
Screen Door Sale Advertises Damaged Stock
Damaged screen doors in assorted sizes offered at special Friday pricing. Regular prices listed as 1.98 2.35 2.75 and 2.98. Customers urged to bring measurements. Dives Pomeroy & Stewart.
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Sproul
Park Cooking School
Colonel Roosevelt
Ruth Nyquist
Anna Fritz
City
Blanche Oyler
Gettysburg
Mary Wolfe
Highspire
Lowilla Snyder
Duncannon
Frances Simmers
Cora Willis
Miss M. Miller
Josephine Weller
Naomi Hoffmeister
Marguerite Hark
Amanda Geistwhite
B. Beaver
Viola Marry
Miss Keller
Kelfer
Charles Mitchell
Harry Steel
Clara R. Snyder
THE
Bell Telephone CO
W. H. Fetter
Dives
Oxfords
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart.— Market Street
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart
Basement
Men's Store
Street Floor
O Dives
Georgette Crepe
Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart.— Street Floor
Poplin
Windsor
Castile
China
Tee
Ades
Readona Poplin
Minerva
Dives, Pomeroy & ,Stewart
Bellefonte
Third Floor
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