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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1916
Page
2
Myra Webb and Grace confront jealousy and class in a planned afternoon drive with Dayton. Sylvia Ainslie arrives, provoking Grace’s sly resentment as Myra weighs professional duties against personal ties in a tense social triangle.
The article describes a flounced net and silk petticoat ensemble with a corset cover, shoulder straps option, and embroidery accents. It provides fabric yardages for sizes 16 and 18 years and notes pattern No. 907 can be mailed by the paper's Fashion Department for ten cents.
Special to the Telegraph reports Colonel Theodore Roosevelt held a late night conference with George W. Perkins Hiram Johnson Oscar S. Straus and Chester H Rowell to map the Progressive party path. Perkins emphasized awaiting the national committee meeting set for June 26 after all conventions are finished before any action.
Harrisburg Hospital board report details new fire doors to isolate sections, maternity ward expansion, extra nurse quarters, and a private telephone exchange. More patients served last year than the previous period. Police court notes show Sollenberger to appear for larceny. Davidson and Wilson to have hearings. George Marton arrested for alleged false pretenses.
Continuous fighting rages in Galicia Tarnopol and Buczacz as Russian forces press Austrian lines. Czernowitz falls nearer, Verdun sees a lull while German efforts to seize Hill 321 and Vaux plateau continue. Major totals show 115,700 prisoners reported with 1,700 officers among them.
Paris reports Verdun fighting slowed by exhaustion after Germans hurled an entire division, half Bavarian and half Pomeranian, at French lines north of Thiaumont in twelve attempts. Nightfall yielded no result, but a foothold on hill No 821 was taken amid heavy losses.
Berlin June 13 Many women in German mining and smelting are now working 12 hours daily. The Hirschduker Labor Unions president said some women prefer night shifts to tend to households and children while men labor elsewhere.
Berlin reports a Russian offensive 75 miles north of Pinsk failed after several heavy infantry assaults. German war office says the Russians endured heavy losses. Also cited are British navy losses totaling over 600,000 tons per German papers.
In New York on June 14 reports say Hughes backers may place up to $60,000 against $50,000 for President Wilson. Chester Thompson announced Hughes money ready to stake, a potential record single wager in a presidential campaign. Later, Tourist Club members led by Miss Clara V Mehaney held an outing at Menger's Suburban Inn Camp Hill with supper on the second porch and diversions.
Gov Brumbaugh declines to discuss Capitol appointments while preparing to fill major State posts within a week. He vows to probe charges impartially, not heed rumors or enemies. Names linked include Frank B Black for a commission, John H Walker for fire marshal, and a possible western insurer choice. The Pittsburgh registration commissioners will be named within 48 hours.
William Jennings, president of the William Penn Highway Association, names Charles 5. Covert of Harrisburg to the legislative committee and Frank B. Bosch of Harrisburg to the membership committee. Full committee lists will be announced after the June 21 Pittsburgh meeting. Current members include A. M. Grier Huntingdon, Richard Beaston Blair, A. M. Custer Cambria, W. P. Stevenson Mifflin, Charles E. Covert Harrisburg. Membership includes John Langdon Huntingdon, J. K. Shute Blair, George W. Swank Cambria, J. C. Felker Mifflin, Frank B. Bosch Dauphin. A road superintendent list for the fourteen counties and the Montgomery county road governor will be released next week.
Five men are known to have died in the blaze that yesterday destroyed Pennsylvania Railroad elevator No. 3 on Canton harbor front. Four others are missing and nineteen are hospitalized, two in critical condition. The estimated loss is $2,000,000, covering the elevator, grain damage, and harm to the Dutch steamer William Van Driel Sr. and the British steamer Welbeck Hall moored nearby. A spark from broken machinery is suspected.
Women readers reassure that Lydia E Pinkham’s Medicine Co never publishes fictitious letters and always secures written consent. The letters explain how Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound restores health from displaced organs inflammation ulceration irregularities nervousness weakness stomach trouble and the blues, sparking relief and a wish to help others.
In Atlanta laboratories of Swift Specific Co trained physicians study blood diseases for fifty years. The ad claims blood illnesses like catarrh rheumatism scrofula eczema and skin diseases originate in the blood and touts S S S as the premier blood cleanser and tonic. Readers are urged to request free medical advice and buy S S S from their druggist or contact the Medical Department.
A young woman from Philadelphia seeks a long lost friend named Florence Payton, formerly of Tacony, Philadelphia. She moved to Harrisburg six weeks ago and asks the Telegraph to help locate her friend, asking anyone with information to contact the Telegraph office.
An old advertisement touts a weight loss method using fresh air therapy combined with oil of korein capsules taken with meals and at night. It promises safe fat reduction without starvation, drugs, sweating, or heavy exercise, claiming improved digestion, energy, and skin.
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