Guest of Honor to Compete at Harrisburg Outing
Marjorie and school children may enter athletics at the Harrisburg event. Events include sprints, distance races, tug of war, high jump, broad jump, shot put, three legged race, tennis, canoe and boat races, spelling bee, bean guessing, and various prizes from cameras to silver cups. Cars leave at 9.15 and contest details follow.
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Telegraph
Marjorie
Harrisburg
Jersey
Sym
Hawthorne
Dumas
School bus routes listed for afternoon pickup
Streets and crossings map passenger pickups for after school rides on multiple routes. Cars depart at 9 15 with no waiting for late pupils. Fare is five cents each way and no special tickets issued.
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Seneca
Second
Third
Fourth
Division
Cameron
Magnolia
Race
Hanna
Thirteenth
Berryhill
Market
Reservoir Loop Line
Walnut Streets
Derry
Maclay
Sixth
Seventh Street
Five drown when steamer Bear hits rock in fog
The steamer Bear ashore after striking a rock in thick fog. All 182 passengers and crew evacuated safely with lifeboats at midnight. Rescue launched by the battleship Oregon, Eureka lifeboat, tug Relief, and Grace Dollar as Bear's cargo of 2,700 tons awaited aid.
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Relief
Eureka
Oregon
Bremerton Navy Yard
Santena
L. N. Nepander
Bear
Eureka Life Boat
Grace Dollar
William Penn routes contest over Newport and Liverpool choices
Debates over the William Penn highway split between Newport advocates favoring the Liverpool route and Liverpool supporters touting the Susquehanna river route as the logical, scenic option. New Bloomfield seeks a highway spur. Tonight’s meeting will include Jennings and James who traveled from Harrisburg.
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Newport
Clark's Ferry
New Buffalo
Montgomery's Ferry
Mount Patrick
Crow’s Ferry
Millersburg
Liverpool
Millerstown
William Penn
Liverpool Way
New Bloomfield
Jennings
James
Harrisburg
Chocolate Brown for Autos Tags Adopted in State
The State Highway Department selects chocolate brown for 1917 auto license tags with white figures, using same size and style as last year due to dye shortages. Budget bids closed within a few weeks. Also, Game Commission plans enforce dog licenses with Kalbfus enlisting wardens, and several state agency updates on quarantine, care of the insane, and electric company charters in Dauphin and Schuylkill counties.
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State Highway Department
New Jersey
Kalbfus
State Game Commission
Joseph Kalbfus
The
Game Commission
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Hogestown
State Board of Charities
Wernersville
Norristown
Dauphin County
Adams
Cens
State Agricultural Commission
State College
Upper End
Upper
Berrysburg Electric
Mifflin Township
Killinger Electric
Halifax Township
Hegins Township
Hubley Township
Schuylkill County
Tower City
George Schoffstall
John Pfeiffer
B. W. Frees
W. N. Snyder
Harper T. Bressler
Tower Cty
Erie
Stewart
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Dauphin
Frank D. Buser
Hummelstown
Philadelphia
Allegheny County
Commonwealth
Philadephia
Public Service Commission
Wilkes-Barre
Bethlehem
Bridal Couple Paves Way For Capture of Col Lujan
Colonel Pedro Lujan, a top Villa leader, was captured by Captain F G Turner of Troop M Thirteenth Cavalry at Hacienda Tepehalines after a honeymooning couple inadvertently disclosed the hiding place. Lujan, implicated in the Columbus raid of March 9, denied identity until a gold tooth betrayed him. An allied figure, Alamo Antevides, a former Carranza lieutenant, was killed by a follower in a dispute over a woman.
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Columbus
N. H
Pedro Lujan
F. G. Turner
Thirteenth Cavalry
Hacienda Tepehalines
Lujan
N. M
Turner
Alamo Antevides
Carranza
Two Soldiers Shot In Bandit Fight In Mexico Border Clash
An hour long battle along the border left two American troopers dead and seven wounded as Mexican raiders retreated. Mexican attackers suffered heavy losses with eight killed as pursuit continued by Major Gray and the Fourteenth Cavalry.
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Mexico
Major Gray
Gray
Fourteenth Cavalry
Laredo
Texas
Zapata Stronghold Falls to Constitutionalists After 48 Hour Battle
Tlaltizapan in Morelos, long Zapata stronghold, was captured by General Pablo Gonzales’s forces after two days of severe fighting. Zapata followers fled into the mountains as the war department received the dispatch. A border raid incident near the United States was noted, with Lieutenant-Colonel Villareal reported killed and questions raised about his allegiance and commission.
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Mexico City
Tlaltizapan
Morelos
Eliano Zapata
Pablo Gonzales
War Department
Zapata
Foreign Office
Villareal
Amador
Villa
U S Troop Withdrawal From Mexico Debated by Wilson
Secretary Lansing told President Wilson that the draft note to General Carranza rejects withdrawing American troops until power to order such action is proved. The President and Lansing conferred at length on the situation. No new developments noted yet.
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Wilson
Carranza
Lansing
Mexico
Washington
United States
U. S
Washington, D. C
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Harry K. Daugherty
Grove City
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J. H. Troutman
J. M. Galbreath
William R. Turner
Butler
W. P. Jamison
Cherry Valley
J. E. Stoops
Slippery Rock
Margaret Irwin
Evans City
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Col. Lujan
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