State Game Preserves Expand With Leased Lands Plan
Counties across the state offer leased lands to the State Game Commission for preserves under the new act. Preserves target about 3000 acres each, in forest districts, with several counties already on board and others eyed in Carbon and western tracts at low rates. Public Service Commission schedule kept, no vacation planned, hearings in multiple cities. Officials outline enforcement of new paint and lime acts by the Department of Agriculture, with funding for enforcement and supervision. Few state employees likely to retire. pension act allows half pay for eligible disabled workers. Bass fishing reports note high muddy streams hindering catches while planting programs continue. Senator Magee from Pittsburgh attends, Kutz Town Normal School team visits, sixteen apply for forestry exam, and notable Capitol figures finish up with appropriations work.
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State Commission
Alleghenies
Countes
Lackawanna
Cameron
Sullivan
Tioga
Lycoming
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Centre
Clearfield
Huntingdon
Perry
Franklin
Westmoreland
Carbon County
Public Service Commission
Scranton
Erie
Harrisburg
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
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Manheim
State Department of Agriculture
Secretary of Agriculture
State College
State Department of Fisheries
Magee
Charles J. Magee
House Appropriations Committee
Bromley Wharton
Board of Public Charities
Appropriations
Stahl Indicted for Perjury Over Lusitania Gun Claim
Gustav Stahl, the man who swore he saw guns on the Lusitania before her last voyage, was indicted on perjury charges by the federal grand jury. The indictment cites Stahl testimony and ties to Paul Koenig, alleged chief of the Hamburg Amerikan line secret service, named as Stemler.
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New York
Gustav Stahl
Federal Grand Jury
Grand
Washington
State Department
Paul Koenig
Stahl
Stemler
Secret Service
Tom Thumb Wedding charms Marysville with 53 child actors
Fifty three children of Marysville staged the Tom Thumb wedding at Zion Lutheran Church on June 19. Grace Hagedorn trained the troupe led by Marian Davis as bride and Ernest Beers as groom. Cast included Walter Roberts best man and many family and community members in roles from mothers to aunts and bachelors.
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Marysville
Tom Thumb
Zion Lutheran Church
Grace Blackledge
Marian Davis
Ernest Beers
Walter Roberts
Beatrice Sheaffer
Walton Davis
Gwendolyn Davi
Margaret Umberger
Sara Mutzbaugh
Grace Mutzbaugh
Bride
Charles Bitting
Ethel Fleisher
Thumb
Josephine White
van Snyder
Paul White
Fay Sheaffer
Wesley Beers
Jeanette Anspach
Ralph Deckard
Lee Snyder
Martha Crone
Jennie Smith
Pauline Patterson
Lincoln High School picks Frandt as principal
Marietta Pa June 19 Mervin T Frandt elected principal of Lincoln high school by the central district board of directors at their meeting last evening Miss Beck chosen assistant but details not provided
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Marietta, Pa
Mervin T. Frandt
Lincoln High School
Central District
Miss Beck
Steelton Civic Club plans year book and fly campaign
The Steelton Civic Club will publish a Year Book detailing past achievements and outlining near term goals. A year book committee meeting is set for Tuesday at Mrs. J. M. Heagy’s home. The club also launches a fly nuisance campaign with posters urging sanitation.
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Civic Club
The
Steelton Civic Club
J. M. Heagy
Telegraph Carrier Wins High School Honors
William Jefferson aged sixteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Jefferson of 213 Adams Street, graduated with honors as salutatorian of the Steelto High School class of forty seven. He saved money earned delivering The Telegraph and plans to attend Dickinson College to study medicine. His younger brother Edward, still in high school, aspires to become a lawyer.
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Telegraph
William Jefferson
Frank L. Jefferson
Adams Street
Steelto H Igh
Jefferson
William
Edward
Dickinson College
Governor Brumbaugh To Rule On Bills Tonight
Governor Brumbaugh will release decisions on appropriation measures tonight and defer general legislation outcomes until Sunday afternoon. Reported approvals include Harrisburg area funds for hospitals and orphanages totaling substantial sums across Harrisburg Polyclinic Childrens Home and other state facilities.
Roads About Almshouse Rolled In Swatara Township
The Swatara township board is pressed to roll the two miles of roads near the alms house after the poor board requests action. Steward 8 F Barber reports efforts to remedy the rough stone stretch but lacks a roller. The poor directors ask the Swatara commissioners to confirm if the promised road rolling will be carried out or if alternate arrangements are needed. Crushed stone has been delivered for top dressing along the Rosaline area.
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F. Barber
Almshouse
Swatara
M. J. Aungst
William Still
Charles Livingston
Simon H. Grove
C. A. Rutherford
Steelton Churches Resume Services After Six Week Pause
Hillis evangelistic campaign ends. six weeks suspension lifted. Children Day events set at multiple churches including Main Street Church of God and St. Mark's Lutheran. Detailed service times and sermon titles listed for St. John's Lutheran Central Baptist First Presbyterian First Reformed Grace United Evangelical Centenary East Steelton Church of God Trinity Episcopal. Also a motor collision report notes H L Ritchey treated at Harrisburg Hospital after crash with F B Musser of Harrisburg Railways.
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Hillis Evangelistic
Main Street
Church of God
St. Mark's Lutheran
Grace United Evangelical
First Methodist
St. John’s Lutheran
George N. Lauffer
Central Baptist—Bible School
J. Mark's Lutheran
W. B. Smith
Castin
God
C. E
First Presbyterian
Benjamin Segelken
Elisha
Cateness
First Reformed
Charles A. Huyette
Pee
Centenary United Brethren
A. K. Wier
Sr. C. E
East Steelton Church of God
E. J. Huggins
Improvements in Harris County school district detailed
Dr Downes outlines 1915-16 budget of 488638.65 with 58.4 percent for teachers salaries and 19 percent for bond interest, notes 30 buildings and 308 staff, highlights domestic science growth and eleven parent teachers associations, and cites lack of new high school building as ongoing handicap. Spanish study not endorsed due to small student interest. Heating contract awarded to Columbus Heating and Ventilating Co for 10585 with a competing bid of 9205. New teachers selected without assignments. janitors to be elected next meeting.
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Downes
Harrisbore
William Sherman Steele
Central High School
Columbus Heating and Ventilating Company
Columbus
Ohio
National Heating and Ventilating Company
Florence Hartman
Helen Perdue
Louise Steinmetz
Fannie Johnson
Nancy E. Cannon
Irene E. Loomis
Wesleyan University
Monday Recreation Sites Set for Autumn Shifts
The article lists a series of changes to recreation grounds and schedules. New instructor Katherine Smith will enroll juniors and seniors at Reservoir cooking school on Monday to Wednesday, with location moves including Sycamore, Maple Hill, and a new site at Fifth and Emerald streets.
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Reservoir Cooking School
Katherine Smith
Sycamore
Maple Hill
Fifth
Emerald Streets
Reily Hosehouse
Maclay
Grand Jury Seeks Better Quarters and Facilities
The grand jury urged more comfortable quarters with less outside noise and staff amenities for jurors including fans and hat hooks. President Judge Kunkel approved the report. It also called for a juvenile detention house, a ventilated almshouse kitchen, and a modern jail kitchen. The panel acted on 136 indictments, 106 true findings and 30 ignored.
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Kunkel
Public library to city playgrounds summer program
The library will display handicrafts in fall with prizes for best articles. Assistants will begin Tuesday with books on elect ric toy making boat building box furniture camp kits beadwork cooking sewing and doll dressing. From June 28 through August the library opens at 9 am and closes 1 to 4 pm then 4 pm to 9 pm for summer readers.
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Public Library
Kansas City Flood Warning Reaches East and West Bottoms
The Weather Bureau warned residents of Kansas City to move from first to second floors as Kansas and Missouri rivers rise after heavy rains. The east and west bottoms, home to numerous laborers, packing houses, and wholesale firms, see goods moved to higher levels while a Missouri fire spreads from its banks.
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Kansas City
Government Weather Bureau
Kansas
Missouri
West
Well-known Jeweler Dies at Mechanicsburg Today
John A. Smith a prominent West Main street jeweler died after several days illness of neuralgia of the stomach. A Lewisbury native, he had run a Mechanicsburg jewelry store for nearly thirty years. He is survived by his wife and two children Miss Margaret and Everett, both at home. He was 57. Funeral plans not yet announced.
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Mechanicsburg
John A. Smith
West Main Street
Lewisberry
Dimko Basheff
Steva Pavlova
Joseph Pavlova
Steelton
Steva
Dimko
A. H. Bailey
Register
Minnie Mullen Hoffman
John C. Nissley
Nineteenth St
Bridge View
Philadelphia
Reading Tracks
Nineteenth Street
F. E B. Shambaugh
Cholera Spreads in Vienna Is Reported
An Innsbruck correspondent reports cholera spreading in Vienna as of mid June. The Geneva Tribune published the dispatch noting rising cases and health concerns in the Austrian capital.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Geneva Tribune
Innsbruck
Austria
Vienna
Railroad schedules reveal new No 1036 and eighteen changes
Revised Pennsylvania Railroad sheets take effect Sunday June 27. A new train No 1036 will arrive in Harrisburg at 3 25 a m from the West. Middle division trains receive eighteen number changes while none are withdrawn. No 103 runs Harrisburg Altoona becomes 6298 and No 102 Mifflin Harrisburg becomes 6292. Summer stops added for suburban riders.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
Philadelphia
Middle Division
Altoona
Mifflin
Pittsburgh Gets Order For Foreign Equipment
Pittsburgh from June 19 report that the Westinghouse Airbrake Company will manufacture all airbrakes for a 13,000 car order from the Russian government. The deal totals 50 million dollars with 7,000 cars awarded to Steel Car Company of Wilmerding. Negotiations aim to open Camden terminal use by Reading and Pennsylvania railroads. Prospects see Pennsylvania Railroad gross earnings surpassing June last year, signaling a possible monthly movement.
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Pittsburgh
Canada
Westinghouse Airbrake Company
Wilmerding
Pet Steel Car Company
Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Reading
Camden
Pennsylvania
Federal Street
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Standings of the Crews by Philadelphia Division and Reading Branch
The document lists crew compositions and orders for multiple divisions and shifts. It names engineers firemen brakemen conductors flagmen and yard crews across Philadelphia Division 103 232 and other groups with assigned numbers and personnel such as Hubler Young Smeltzer Brown Snow McCauley Den nison Crisswell and Mehaffi among many others. It notes first and subsequent go times after 12:30 pm 12:45 pm 1:30 pm and 4 pm with various crew roles listed for each group.
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Hubler
Young
Smeltzer
Brown
Snow
McCauley
Dennison
Crisswell
B. L
Smith
Horstick
Copeland
Huston
Gelsinger
Brenner
Arnsberger
Robinson
Kronister
Miller
Madenford
Weaver
Garman
Gross
Karstetter
Ross
Mohler
Sheesley
Byrnes
Huber
Basns
Derrick
Bell
Baker
Strouser
Troy
Coluser
Thornton
Nearhood
Winter
Fritz
Stahl
Wenerick
Bolan
Henderson
Shaver
Landis
Hoy Beck
Harter
Brewer
Blosser
Ray
Houser
Meals
Swab
Crist
Harvey
Saltsman
Keller
Reitzel
Corrigan
Gehrett
Lutz
Rice
Staffner
Musser
Walkeman
Smiley
Famous
Rider
McCormick
Shellahamer
Bryan
Feass
Fortenbaugh
Ewing
McNally
Kingsbury
R. H. Fortenbaugh
Berrehere
Woland
Wood
Sweeley
Barnhart
Middaugh
Crawford
Morrison
Martin
Morne
Massimore
Anspach
Zukoswki
Fulton
Dobbins
Anders
Hilton
Wolfe
Kapp
Martial Law Report From Bishop Hartzell Details War Morocco
Bishop Joseph C. Hartzell reports martial law prevailed in many Africa regions during his eight and a half month tour. He described enforcement under English French Belgian and Portuguese authorities as he discussed wartime governance with church and mission leaders. London sources note Sir Thomas Shaughnessy of the Canadian Pacific Railway discussing plans to secure major army supply contracts in Canada for war effort.
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Associated Press
New York
Joseph C. Hartzell
Methodist Episcoeee Church
London
War Department
Canada
Thomas G. Shaughnessy
Canadian Pacific Railway
Times
Harrisburg Chamber Host Praises City Civic Upgrades
George W. Perkins lauded Harrisburg civic improvements during a chamber luncheon. He toured Wildwood and Capitol grounds, comparing Wildwood to New Jersey’s Palisades parks and noting concrete river walls and winding driveways designed to curb speeding. Perkins left for New York City afterward.
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George W. Perkins
Harrisburg
Wildwood
Palasaide Park
New Jersey
New York
Hudson
Perkins
New York City
No Liquor Order For Encampment Issued
The notice states no liquor order for the encampment will be enforced and inspections will be under the inspector general. Per diem is allowed for eight days for eight staff details, with Gretna duty from July 10 to July 17. The 1915 rifle competition is set for August 19 at the Mt Gretna State Range with two teams per regiment. The First Cavalry and Engineer Battalion join the Fourteenth Infantry as a brigade. the separate battalion joins the Third brigade.
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Gretna
Mt. Gretna
Fourteenth Infantry
Bryan heads to New York for peace address at Carnegie Hall
William J. Bryan sails to New York to deliver a peace address at Carnegie Hall as his first speech since resigning as Secretary of State. He plans to return to Washington for a brief stay with Mrs. Bryan before traveling to Asheville, North Carolina for a short visit.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
William J. Bryan
New York
Carnegie Hall
Smallpox Report From Ruhleben Detention Camp
An English newspaper said British prisoners released from Ruhleben and reaching Rotterdam report widespread smallpox in the Ruhleben camp with fifty cases developing in recent weeks.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
Ruhleben
Rotterdam
Pope Benedicts Nephews Serve With Italian Army Front
Rome reports Pope Benedict XVI's nephews, children of his sister, have joined the Italian army at the front. Paris dispatch notes the nephews are now serving with Italian forces as of June 19.
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Associated Press
Rome
Paris
Pope Benedict
Harrisburg Improvement Bonds Redeemed July 1 1915
Notice to holders of the City of Harrisburg Improvement Bonds that the bonds will be redeemed at the City Treasurer’s office on July 1 1915 and that interest on all bonds will cease on that date. Harrisburg Pa June 19 1915.
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Naudain Street
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Linden Street
Crabapple Street
Hop Street
Helen Street
Derry Street
Turner Alley
Fourth Street
Eighteenth Street
No. Amt
Gerald Street
Second Street
Reese Street
Cond Street
Owen M. Copelin
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