Harrisburg Plans Largest Patriotic Independence Day Parade
Harrisburg outlines a citywide Independence Day fete inviting all citizens and foreign born residents to parade together. Mayor Keister to marshal with Edward Moeslein chairing the foreign born committee, and participation expected from Sons of Italy Romanians Greek colony and Bethlehem Steel employees with a baseball game and open air events on Island Park planned.
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Harrisburg
Aberland Valley
United States
General Committee
Court House
Keister
Edward Moeslein
Italy
Pennsylvania
Island Park
Bethlehem Steel Company
Bio-feren touted as health booster in advert notices
Advertisements claim Bio-feren rebuilt health from anemia fatigue and nervous debility with non stimulant properties. Readers are urged to consult physicians, see listed benefits from various cases, and purchase terms include money back guarantee and direct mail shipment from Sentanel Remedies Company Cincinnati Ohio.
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Kentucky
Sentanel Remedies Company
Masonic Temple
Cincinnati
Ohio
City plans multi-committee celebration with concerts and speakers
The city outlines five to six band concerts in Reservoir Park and other areas with patriotic addresses during intermissions. Mayor Keister and officials urge readiness for service to support day events and parades. Numerous committees form to organize finance, bands, stunts, foreign-born participants, publicity, industry, speakers, comfort, societies, parade, fire, decorations, singing, and invitations.
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Reservoir Park
Keister
Arthur D. Bacon
Charles W. Burtnett
J. William Bowman
James M. Cameron
John F. Capp
G. K. Rasadean
Joseph Rolles
Giovanni di Santo
R. Ross Seaman
J. Horace McFarland
E. J. Stackpole
H. B. McCormick
F. E. Downes
L. S. Mudge
J. B. Markward
P. R. McDevitt
Louis J. Haas
Frank C
L. G. Julian
David Kaufman
J. L. L. Kuhn
Gustav F. Koster
R. W. Moorhead
F. Dunkle
Frank A. Robbins, Jr
F. W. Smith, Jr
W. P. Starkey
W. G. Starry
J. L. Shearer
Benjamin Strouse
William Strouse
I. H. de
H. M. Stine
Frank G. Fahnestock
A. Boyd Hamilton
Francis H. Hoy, Jr
George BF. Lamb
C. O. Backenstoss
E. Z. Gross
William H. Lynch
John Co. Kindler
Col
H. C. Demming
A L. Patton
H. L. Holstein
Frank A. Smith
W. H. Bennetham, Jr
John K. Royal
P. G. Deiner
E. R. Eckenrode
John Fox Weiss
John W. Philips
James G. Sanders
D. L. Keister
C. W. Burtnett
F. Hassler
W. H. Lynch
Corporal Beidleman Arrives Safely in France
Announcements from Harrisburg report the safe arrival in France of Corporal Joseph B. Beidleman of Company A, 103rd Ammunition Train, 28th Division. He previously drove for the Allison Hook and Ladder Co., left Harrisburg last July with Truck Train Battalion No. 1, spent time at Mount Gretna, and trained at Camp Hancock, Georgia.
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France
Joseph B. Beidleman
One Hundred and Third
Twenty-eighth
Beidleman
Allison Hook and Ladder Company
Harrisburg
Mount Gretna
Camp Hancock
Strong Hun Attack on British Flanders Post
A strong enemy party attacked a British post southwest of Morris on the Flanders front but was repulsed. Germans left prisoners in British hands. German artillery activity reported near Villers Bretonneux east of Amiens and in the Scarpe Valley east of Arras.
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British
Flanders
Associated Press
London
Morris
War Office
Villers-Bretonneux
Amiens
Scarpe Valley
Arras
Yankee Troops Praised as They Sail in on Han
Paris dispatches praise American troops for brilliant military qualities. They sail in on Han at a difficult point as they celebrate the anniversary of the front.
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Associated Press
Paris
Night Recruiting Drive Closed by Odd Fellows
More than 500 Odd Fellows attended a recruiting meeting in Market Square last night led by Grand Master Behman. The event capped a week of Harrisburg recruitment efforts with speakers including Frank B. Wickersham who urged enlistment for national causes and Rev. George N. Lauffer who contrasted American and German religious thought.
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Market Square
Behman
Harrisburg
Frank B. Wickersham
Germany
George N. Lauffer
Steelton
United States
Odd Fellows Memorial Services at Salem Church
The Independent Order of Odd Fellows will hold its annual memorial service Sunday at 7:30 in Reformed Salem Church Dauphin County with Rev. E. E. Stauffer delivering the sermon. Thirty members across twelve lodges have died in the past year.
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Independent Order of Odd Fellows
Grands’ Association
Dauphin County
Dauphin County Historical Society Nears Its Half Century
The Rev George Preston Mains spoke at the forty ninth anniversary of the Dauphin County Historical Society held in its building Mrs Theodore B Klein read the president s address in his absence and Mrs Mabel Cronise Jones presented a paper on current events Gifts were announced and the society scheduled to reconvene the first week in September Leases John H Irone has leased the Johnson residence Front street near Hamilton and will move in July The Eby property was bought by H H Bowman Building permits issued to N A Zerby for a one story frame garage at 1728 North Fifth street costing 400 Red Men Here in 1919 Harrisburg named as next year s convention city after the latest meetings in Scranton Pa. June 14
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Johnson
Robert H. Irone
Maurice Co. Eby
Third
Maclay Streets
Front Street
Hamilton
Eby
H. H. Bowman
Bowman and Co
N. A. Zerby
Lewis Capin
North Fifth Street
Scranton
Red Men
Harrisburg
Cnvention
Cavalry Veteran Thomas G. Wilson Serves in France Artillery
Thomas G. Wilson, former Cavalryman who left with the Governor's Troop, is now in France with the Keystone Division serving in the artillery. He resides at 55 Kelker Street and is the son of Mrs. William Wilson of Philadelphia.
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Thomas G. Wilson
France
Keystone
Artillery
Wilson
Kelker Street
William Wilson
Philadelphia
First American Contingent Arrives in France in Stiff Battle
The arrival marks a turning point as American troops meet a strong German push in a difficult sector. They inflict heavy casualties on the attacker while reinforcing the advancing Allied line.
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France
Eleven US soldiers awarded Distinguished Service Cross
With the American Army in France on June 13 General Pershing announced the Distinguished Service Cross awards to eleven members of the American expeditionary force. The honorees include two officers four noncommissioned officers and five privates for actions on February 28. Ambulance drivers artillerymen infantrymen and a medical private are among the decorated.
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France
Pershing
Medical Department
Dinner Entertainment Near Shiremanstown
In Shiremanstown area on June 14 Mr and Mrs William Stettler with family and friends attended a dinner hosted by Mr and Mrs Daniel Straining and Mr and Mrs Bilis Eichelberger at their country home near Shiremanstown.
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Shiremanstown
William Stettler
Paul Stettler
Bettie Stettler
Frank Miller
Vance Miller
Lemoyne
Harry Straining
Wickelberger’s Curve
Daniel Straining
Bilis Eichelberger
Germany to declare US coast a danger zone
A dispatch from Amsterdam reports the German Admiralty plans to declare the eastern US coast from Canada to Mexico a danger zone and warn neutral shipping. Secretary Lansing said Washington had not heard of such an intention, though there is belief in Berlin and Washington that Germany may act.
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Amsterdam
Tondon
United States
Mexico
Canadian
Exchange
Berlin
Washington
Lansing
Germany
Canada
London Report Cites Move Aimed at Protecting Neutral Shipping
The London report says the measure is expected to shield neutral vessels from damage caused by belligerent actions. The move aligns with precautionary steps Germany faces to limit harm to neutral shipping.
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London
Germany
Don’t Let Soap Spoil Your Hair
Advice warns against alkali in soaps and shampoos for hair care. Recommends plain coconut oil as a greaseless, cheap cleanser that lasts months, creates rich lather with water, rinses clean, leaves hair soft, bright, and easy to comb, and removes dust, dirt, and dandruff.
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New York
White” Progressive Club
Rotary
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America
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Victor
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Odd Fellows
Livingston
Ivingston
South Market Square
Taffeta
Jersey
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