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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1916
Page
4
A Thursday sale offers 30 pieces of porch furniture including chairs rockers and settees at half price. Oak frames are finished in green and prices range from 3.75 to 9.75. Dives Pomeroy and Stewart on the third floor advertise this sale for families planning porch furnishings.
The event will run after Governor Brumbaugh addresses pupils in the auditorium. Two representatives per school will be selected by teachers to uphold scholastic honor. The park outing at Paxtang Park features Marjorie Sterrett and patriotic songs, with fireworks and prizes on display in Market Street. If weather prevents, the outing shifts to Wednesday June 21.
We offer the largest summer oxford and shoe variety in the city at 3.00. Styles come from the latest lasts with Goodyear welted seams. The price saves current factory-cost increases. today retail would be at least a dollar higher. Black and tan calfskin and black and brown kidskin options. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Street Floor, Rear.
Readable ad fragment lists pricing and items: 25 lbs sugar for 1.95 with 1.00 worth of groceries, 10 bars of soap, relish and pickles, cocoa, coconut boxes, Snow Boy powder, tomatoes and corn cans, beans and salmon cans, crackers, mixed tea, tuna, peanut butter, and more. Contains multiple product names, quantities, and promotional pricing typical of a mid century newspaper shopper’s section.
An expert in fireless cookery holds a basement demonstration this week showing how to prepare a good dinner on a fireless stove. Tomorrow's menu includes roast chicken and potatoes biscuit and cake at Dives Pomeroy Stewart Basement.
Johnstown Chamber of Commerce plans a welcome smoker for Motor Club of Harrisburg visitors on June 19 20 detail shows an informal smoker at Fort Stanwix hotel Monday evening 8 to 9 with remarks by Johnstown and Harrisburg leaders and theater plans for ladies coffee and lunch arrangements at Juniata House Alfarata Park aligned with a luncheon stop for the delegation
Members of the Veteran Association of the Governor's Troop Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry Spanish War marked the 18th anniversary with a reunion at Mt. Gretna. Attendees came from Harrisburg Philadelphia Fortree Monroe Reading Hummelstown Steelton Williamsport and other places. A dinner in the woods near Conewago Lake followed reminiscences of the 1898 tour including Porto Rico. A new silk guidon and a Spanish hunting guidon were displayed atop the eighty foot staff at the brownstone marker. A business meeting elected officers President David M. Gregg Reading and others including Edward L Riley Harrisburg Treasurer W Stuart Barker Harrisburg Secretary Jonas K Reist Steelton Historian William Youngman Boston Mass Executive Committee Colonel Frederick M Ott Harrisburg Benjamin W Kline Williams Cameron L Baer Harrisburg Edward L Riley Harrisburg and Ross A Futton Harrisburg.
President Wilson led a large, nonpartisan parade through Washington to honor Flag Day. He walked the entire route, viewed by crowds as government workers enjoyed a holiday and many stores closed. Police, soldiers from Fort Myer, Marines and Navy Yard personnel helped manage crowds while civilian-clad officers marched with department workers.
New York City and state mark Flag Day with broad participation from patriotic groups schools and the public in observances. A Sons of the Revolution parade and Washington statue exercises on Wall Street underscored the day while seventy thousand Brooklyn school children joined park and recreation center ceremonies.
A simple household method claims to banish facial hairs at low cost. Mix water with powdered delatone to form a paste, apply to the hairy area for two to three minutes, then rub off and wash. The result is removal with no harm, but buyers should ensure the product is real delatone.
Easton Pennsylvania June 14 With 116 members of the graduating class Lafayette College held its eighty first annual commencement today A featured address was given by Edwin S Stuart L L D of Philadelphia Honorary degrees were awarded to Henry Clifton Edgar Pottstown Pa electrical engineer David Fowler Atkins New York City civil engineers Chester Allen Gettysburg James Reese Schick Roanoke Va Doctor of Divinity The Rev William E Brooks Allentown Pa Samuel Martin Jordan Teheran Persia the Rev Arthur Russell Taylor York Pa Doctor of Science Samuel Gibson Dixon Philadelphia George Joseph Ray East Orange N J Albert Hunt Welles Scranton Pa Doctor of Laws William Mann Irvine Mercersburg Samuel Rea Bryn Mawr Pa.
Locust Valley Farm House known as the Y W C A vacation house near Mechanicsburg will open July 1 and stay open through September offering a modest fee summer retreat for self supporting women. The facility has operated in past years with about fifty women enjoying vacations yearly and reservations are handled through the Y W C A office.
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