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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1919
Page
11
Marietta hosts a reunion of the old Donegal Presbyterian Church with a bronze tablet unveiling to honor the first pastor Rev MacFarquhar. The Witness Tree Chapter plans a 10 am and 7:30 pm session and expects prominent speakers.
Bainbridge notes the death of Jacob F. A. Stump aged 92 a retired blacksmith and Lutheran Church member He is survived by five children a brother and a sister The longtime resident died yesterday in Bainbridge from unspecified causes
Central Pennsylvania society notes list residents visiting relatives and returning from trips with dozens of names from Carlisle Mercersburg Liverpool Blain Halifax Willamstown and surrounding areas. The items include military discharge and service moves, academy connections, and college affiliations with toasts and travel from Princeton, State College, and Harrisburg.
A large audience attended the Trinity United Brethren Church Children's Day program in New Cumberland on June 17. The event featured numerous performances including songs, recitations, duets, a choir number, and an address by Rev. A R Ayres, highlighting youth activities and community spirit.
Social items describe visits among families in New Cumberland Mechansburg Shiremanstown and Marysville. Notable events include a dinner in honor of Private Luther Grier returning from France and the death of Mrs. A J Ellenberger with funeral details provided.
Willard Saulsbury, former Delaware senator, and Brand Whitlock, U.S. minister to Belgium, are reported by Washington sources to be under consideration by President Wilson for ambassador to Italy to succeed Thomas Nelson Page.
A portrait of Joshua Norton, the eccentric San Francisco figure known as the Emperor of California and Protector of Mexico, who died penniless in San Francisco on January 8, 1880. Norton proclaimed royal titles, settled myths, and met little serious opposition during free city trips, avoiding violence while seeking royal rule.
Professor Frank Smith of the University of Illinois argues migration drives bird movement more than weather. Robins arriving indicate migratory impulse rather than spring, and orioles rarely appear in Boston before May 8, reflecting inherited timing in birds.
San Francisco forecasts point to butter reaching one dollar per pound amid a storage shortage of about 600000 pounds. Wholesale price is 16 cents higher than last year with May butter at 57.25 cents and April around 57 cents. About 1 million pounds are stored locally, mostly by hotels and steamship lines.
San Francisco resident Frank Yew Lee born in China becomes a U S citizen under new laws granting naturalization to military members. He arrived twelve years ago and joined the army in April 1918, serving overseas with the 246th Field Artillery. Reverend Thomas Edwards vouched for his character.
Mechanicsburg committees rally for a Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Park with a four installment pledge plan through January 1920. A parade led by Singer Band and civic groups launches the campaign as residents seek broad support and community access.
Paris mourners union gains right to grow mustaches after consent from undertakers association while being refused permission to grow beards. The decision highlights evolving norms in the funeral profession.
A overseas romance formed in a hospital unit led to the marriage of Nathaniel Hathaway Jr. of Germantown and Gertrude E. Smith in the First English Lutheran Church Columbia Pa. The couple, both in Hospital Unit 10, will honeymoon in the White Mountains. The ceremony was by Rev Dr Edgar Grim Miller in the presence of the bride’s family.
The True Blue Adult Bible class of St. Pauls Lutheran Sunday school in York Haven Pa plans a social on the school grounds Saturday evening June 21. A York Boy Scouts patrol will perform a drill as part of the program and music will be provided for the occasion.
London reports about 1.3 billion dollars spent on intoxicants in recent years the highest level in the kingdom's history. From August 1914 to the start of this year alcoholic liquor expenditures total about 4.875 billion dollars, roughly 500 dollars per family of five.
Haldeman Figgelmessy died in a Philadelphia hospital from a brain hemorrhage and was buried in Marietta after a funeral in Pa. He was 42, last of the Figgelmessy line, a Boston Tech graduate who served in the war and survived multiple aviation accidents including a fall at the Allentown fair.
An advertisement touts Blood Iron Phosphate as a cure for thinness and weak nerves, claiming it boosts strength endurance and blood quality. It notes a five grain tablet with meals aids nervous energy and that Gorgas and other druggists guarantee satisfaction or money back. It sells in original three week packages for 1.50 dollars, 50 cents weekly.
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