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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1915
Page
12
A health column promotes a cheap skin lotion made from spurmax and hot water to brighten complexions and reduce shine. It also offers a homemade shampoo using canthrax to make hair fluffy, clean, and glossy with no dandruff.
Waynesboro Pa June 17 Pen Mar Park will be formally opened for the season on Saturday. The Series has been greatly improved and many new attractions added.
Nervous, overworked readers are urged to try Begg Nerve Aid Tablets billed as a remedy for worry and fatigue. A 60 cent box is sold with a six day 50 percent improvement guarantee, supported by Chemist Begg behind the product and a mail trial offer for ten cents from Begg Medicine Co., Rochester, N Y.
The 1915 Central High School commencement Argus, larger and more polished, goes on sale with staff praise and student tributes to Miss Anna Saul after the death of Prof W S Steele. Editorial list of staff and departments included. The Telegraph printed it.
All city parochial schools were represented in the annual chorus at Cathedral Hall. Rt. Rev. M. M. Hassett presided over the program. Medals were awarded to top averages among the pupils. Berlin reports Russian retreat north of Sieniawa toward Tarnogród as Galicia fronts shift.
City Planning Commission approved blasting and clearing bids for river channels two feet deep and sixty feet wide along the Cumberland county shore. Proposals will be prepared, land purchases sought, and a general report by Park Expert Warren Manning will be sent from Boston in a few days.
Francis H. McCabe aged 37 proprietor of the Merchants Hotel at 125 Chestnut street died of heart failure yesterday afternoon just before 5. He was born April 7 1878 and later became a plumber then a bar clerk before taking over the hotel in 1908. Survived by his mother Mrs Jane McCabe and a brother James. Funeral from St Patrick's Cathedral Saturday at 9 with Requiem Mass. Burial in Mt Calvary cemetery. He belonged to St Patrick's church Hassett club BPO Ellis and Friendship Fire company.
Memorial services for twenty two members of eleven Harrisburg and Dauphin county lodges of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows will be held at Messiah Lutheran church. Rev. Dr. H. W. A. Hanson will preach the memorial sermon as 1,400 members march from Dauphin lodge to the church with Rebekah auxiliaries. A special musical program and a reading of the dead list are planned.
London June 17 The Lusitania sinking inquiry led by Baron Mersey heard testimony alleging no life belts were available on deck. Witnesses said Staff Captain Anderson countermanded orders to evacuate women and children and that Captain Turner had instructed boats be filled.
Washington June 17 considerable speculation swirled over General Carranza next moves in light of Villa peace overtures. Awaiting a definitive reply, Carranza has so far ignored three Villa peace proposals, with his stance likely determining the next phase of the Mexican crisis.
Emory Ferguson, age 17, missing since last Saturday after vanishing in a canoe in Columbia Pennsylvania, was located on a Susquehanna River island near McCall’s Ferry by Orrie Detwiler. He and the canoe were brought to his mother, and relatives later returned him home. The story also notes a Pen nsylvania railroad veterans reunion in Altoona with about 100 Harrisburg delegates.
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