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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1914
Page
12
A Beatrice Fairfax column urges seventeen year olds to host guests at home rather than meet suitors in public spaces. It argues a tidy, welcoming, modest home shapes better character and lasting respect, contrasting with dance halls and boats.
Philadelphia and Providence women report relief from cramps backache and fatigue after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Advertisers urge readers to try the remedy, citing improved sleep appetite and energy and offering to publish names of grateful users.
Herr Moeslein was re elected chairman of the Dauphin county Democratic committee at the Board of Trade meeting amid undercurrents over the primary. Howard O Holstein and C W Erb were elected to key posts, with McConkey delivering remarks. In a separate session Howard Jones became city chairman after a brief contest.
In Selinsgrove Pennsylvania on June 16 the Pennsylvania division of the Sons of Veterans Reserves operates a camp at Rolling Green. The encampment follows a plan similar to National Guard camps set in a wheat field. The Shamokin Dam band has been chosen as the official musical organization of the Third Infantry.
An old warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments and urging use of Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The notice claims mercury damages smell and system and promotes internal remedies with testimonials available. It notes Druggists sell Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hull's Family Pills for constipation.
An advertisement touts the Francis Bacon baby grand piano 4 ft 8 in by 4 ft 6 in, claiming superior tone and space efficiency. It highlights a cooperative price of 455 dollars with a 5 dollar initial payment and 10 dollar monthly installments for 45 months, plus a 60 cent rebate for early payments and a 30 day trial with money back guarantee.
The Francis Bacon baby grand piano is perfected after years of effort and is a compact dramatic advance. It claims longer strings than any piano of its size and a rich round tone, representing a family tradition of fine piano building.
Professor George E. Rothermel of Sunbury led a well received concert. The Sons of Veterans awarded a gold medal to the Third Regiment Williamsport commanded by Colonel T M Morgan. Silver medals went to the Philadelphia battalion and Company C Second Regiment Mauch Chunk and Company F Third Regiment Minersville. Buglers Clarence and Benjamin Seip, ages 10 and 6 of Minersville, are with the Second Brigade. their father B F Seip is editor sergeant for the Second Infantry. Tonight Robin Hood and his Merrie Men by Frank Lea is at the Colonial Country Club with Progress or Linglestown cars and $1 admission.
Creatore and his band will perform at Paxtang Park on Friday. Advertisers hail his genius as the house fills with electricity and the crowd responds with pleasure and awe. Special to The Telegraph Millerstown Pa June 16 John Hetrick finds a weasel while on a fee trip to Perry Valley.
The narrator notes a bounty on weasels but killed only four of the ten young ones, earning two dollars for each. The passage implies unfamiliarity with the bounty system and reflects on the small payoff for the limited number of animals slain.
Captain W. J. Roberts and the crew of the American liner New York are among witnesses summoned for the inquiry by the board of inspectors of steam vessels into the collision with the Pretoria. An Hamburg inquiry will also hear Pretoria officers.
Seventeen persons injured on the scenic railway last night when a two car train turned on its side and was rammed by another car are reported on the road to recovery today.
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