Rotary Club to Raise Army Contingent in Harrisburg
The Rotary Club of Harrisburg will raise 150 men to join a Regular Army regiment in training at Gettysburg. The project includes a free Orpheum Theater concert and ongoing sponsor support for the volunteers, with officers from the club coordinating enlistment efforts and housing.
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Harrisburg
Gettysburg
The
Rotary Club of
Harrell
Rotary Club
Fourth Regiment
Regular Army
Orpheum Theater
Orpheum
Rotarians
Rotary
E. H. Weston
War Department
Weston
Motor Club
Beery
Stewart
H. M. Wolfe
America
Mr. Wolfe
Ramblers In Cameron Park Bloom In Spectacle
The rambler roses along Cameron Parkway create a crimson display from Cameron Street to the Cameron extension driveway. Thousands of bushes glow amid green foliage and shrubs drawing many visitors and favorable notices.
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Cameron Park
Cameron Street
Cameron Extension
Weather report for Harrisburg area and region
Fair to night and Tuesday with slight warming. Eastern Pennsylvania also fair and warmer Tuesday with gentle winds. River levels rise Tuesday in upper main river and lower North Branch falls then rises. Temperature at 8 am was 64 with a high of 83 yesterday and a mean of 74. Moon is full on July 4.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Sborg
Missouri Valley
Mississippi River
Middle Atlantic
New England
Russia Seeks Loco Motives From U.S. To Drive War Effort
In Washington on June 25 Associated Press reports Professor Lomonosoff, Russia’s railroad minister, says Russia urgently needs locomotives. He asks for 1,000 ten wheel engines to move idle cars, another 1,000 with cars to clear freight terminals, and 850 engines yearly to cover renewal and new construction. He says negotiations with the United States are promising.
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Associated Press
Washington
Russia
Lomonosoff
United States
Negro lynching reported near Punta Gorda
In Punta Gorda Florida on June 25 Sheep Trent a Black man was taken from officers to Cleveland four miles away and shot to death. He had been arrested for an attempted assault on a white woman the previous Saturday. Trent waited in a dark street but the woman escaped and raised the alarm.
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Associated Press
Punta Gorda
Fla
Trent
Cleveland
Belgium Mission Plans Extensive U S Tour to Pacific
The Belgian diplomatic mission has tentatively arranged a cross country tour through the United States and to the Pacific coast. Invitations from many cities have been received and it is nearly settled that this will be the most elaborate visit by any foreign mission.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Pacific Coast
Democratic Leader Kitchin Predicts Early Congress Adjournment
Washington June 25 Democratic Leader Kitchin said Congress would adjourn by August 1 or 15. He planned to request three day adjournments after next Wednesday or Thursday until the Senate passes the House version of Bemene legislation.
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Bysscovlluven Press
Washington
Kitchin
Congress
To-Ay
Senate
House
Suffragists Parade Before White House in Quiet Demonstration
Eight women bearing suffrage banners paraded in front of the White House then returned to their headquarters without speaking or unfurling banners. Police observed but did not intervene as the crowd and paraders kept moving.
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Washington
White House
Executive Mansion
Frederick Seiber Skids Off Road Injuring Wife and Son
On Hummelstown road last night Frederick Seiber of 113 Market street swerved to avoid a collision with another car, skidded, and slightly injured his wife and young son. Neither was hospitalized. Seiber was returning from Reading with two sisters when the mishap occurred.
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Hummelstown
Frederick Seiber
Market Street
Neutrals Hold Ships in Port to Reap Profit
Boston reports Prince Udine and the Italian mission arriving to support a critique of neutral ships idle in belligerent ports. Augusto Ciufelli pins blame on shipowners greed and urges higher port duties and denying bunker coal to ships avoiding danger zones to lift freight and insurance costs.
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New York
South Station
Augusto Ciufelli
Associated Press
Ciufelli
America
Titanic
Georgia Votes to Secede From Russian Government
A congress of Georgian National Democrats urged autonomy for Georgia with large support. Georgia, a Transcaucasian district under Tiflis and Kutais, is home to about a million and a half people across several tribes, noted for athletic prowess and beauty.
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Georgia
Associated Press
Tiflis
National Democrats
Sores
Transcaucasian
Russia
Kutais
Chinese Provinces Reach War End Historic Peace Move
All provinces declaring independence from the Peking government have ceased warlike preparations. Leaders of the southern revolting provinces telegraphed willingness to compromise with a new election, and elections were to be held without military interference.
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Associated Press
Peking
Break in Dam Causes Multi Million Dollar Damage
Fairview Utah June 25 The dam of the Price River Irrigation Company twelve miles from here was a total loss. Officials say damage will exceed 3 million dollars. Rio Grande railroad evacuated hundreds of people to safety along the path of the 11 000 acre water body.
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Fairview
Utah
Price River Irrigation Company
Rio Grande Railroad
Irrigation Company
Root Heads American War Mission to Moscow
The American mission led by Elihu Root visited Moscow to discuss war aims and logistics. Root announced ten million men to the colors, half a million expected to fight soon, and American support for Russia’s locomotives and cars. He praised workers for longer hours and pledged aid to Russia while touring government and munition sites.
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Associated Press
Moscow
War Industrial Commission
Elihu Root
Mr. Root
America
Root
Russia
Painter Says He Was Held Up By Soldiers Near Rockville Bridge
William Klinger of Millersburg, a painter for Gohl and Bryan, claims two drunken soldiers robbed him of his wages near Rockville Bridge on Saturday afternoon. He reported to railroad police this morning and says the attackers pursued him after forcing him to show a pass. He fled to a nearby store. police investigate.
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Rockville Bridge
William Klinger
Millersburg
Gohl and Bryan
Klinger
Rockville
Mob Lynches Negro Ahead of Trial in Galveston
A Black man, Chester Sawyer, accused of attacking a white woman, was taken from Galveston jail by a small mob and hanged near the city limits. Sawyer was scheduled for trial that morning after arriving from Brooklyn earlier in the year.
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Galveston
Tex
Chester Sawyer
Salon
Sawyer
Brooklyn
U S Steamer Aids British Crew After Sinking
Survivors of the British steamship Ortolan report it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on June 14 with three crew members lost. An American vessel four miles away rescued survivors and fired at the U-boat as Ortolan, en route from Genoa to Liverpool, went down.
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Associated Press
Montreal
Genoa
Liverpool
Contracts Set For Ten Steel Merchant Ships
Washington reports the Emergency Fleet Corporation has let contracts for ten steel merchant ships and four wooden vessels with twenty wooden hulls. Deliveries are scheduled for 1918 alongside orders for twelve marine engines to Ellicott Machine Corporation. The total to date reaches 104 ships, including 38 steel, 32 wood and steel, and 34 wood, plus 72 wooden hulls.
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Washington
General Goethals
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Ellicott Machine Corporation
Baltimore
Fleet Corporation
German U-Boat Sunk in Fight With Merchantman
Officers of a British steamer reported sinking a German submarine after firing a shell into the U-boat's magazine. The explosion tore the vessel amidships and caused it to sink. The British ship remained uninjured.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Haig Paces German Lines With Night Raids Across Front
British forces widen raiding activity from Belgium to St Quentin as Haig notes a string of local operations. In Lens area British gains 400 yards of trench east of Biaumont wood while other raids west of Hulluch and near Roeux, Vernaille, and Warneton yield prisoners and enemy casualties.
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France
London
Belgium
St. Quentin
Haig
Messines
Lens
Warneton
Aisne
Vauxaillon
Chemin-des-Dames
Biaumont Wood
Hulluch
Roeux
Vernaille
Prohibition Fight Shapes Senate War Measure Debates
The Senate blocks approve the food control bill with prohibition provisions, facing a fight over beer wine and distilled spirits. Amendments include wide power for the President to regulate foodstuffs and strategic resources. final vote expected within a week or ten days.
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Tute
Chamberlain
Senate
Lewis
Illinois
Walsh
Ransdell
Wadsworth
Cummins
U. S. Minister Vopicka to resume duties after war tour
Charles J. Vopicka American Minister to Serbia Bulgaria and Romania plans a globe circling journey to reach Jassy after Bucharest fell to Germany. He crossed Austria Hungary and Germany to return to America and will travel via the Pacific Siberia and Russia to resume his Romanian duties.
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Associated Press
Washington
Charles J. Vopicka
Serbia
Bulgaria
Romania
Bucharest
Jassy
Austria-Hungary
Germany
America
Pacific
Siberia
Russia
Cork Riots End After Police Use Machineguns
In Cork on June 25 Sinn Feiners rioted as police with clubs failed to restore order. Soldiers cordoned points while police fired on disturbers. One rioter was killed and others wounded. about a dozen treated for bayonet and related injuries. The riot was quelled without further troop deployment.
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Cork
Sinn
Red Cross Fund Aims for 100 Million by Tonight
Washington reports show about a thousand American cities pushing to reach a war fund total of 100 million dollars. With early returns exceeding 75 million, war council leaders expect the full target to be reached by end of day, though final tallies may not come in until tonight or Tuesday.
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House
Frederick C. Ehrhardt
Scranton
Philadelphia
Associated Press
Washington
Red Cross War Fund
War Council
Great Fund
Serbian Ministry Resigns. Pachitch to Lead New Cabinet
Corfu reports the Serbian ministry has resigned and a new cabinet will be formed with Nikola P Pachitch as premier and minister of foreign affairs.
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Corfu
Nikola P. Pachitch
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W. F. Harrel
U. S
Agesrated Press
Anpres
Boston
Prince Udine
M. Tretiakof
People's Bank
Trinity Monastery
Holy Synod
Duct
Painter
Terrice
Crown Prince
Ure
Red Cross Fund
RED Cross
Katharine Stinson
Buffalo
Steelton
Redross
Berlin
Yser and
Lys
Army
McCarrell
Commonwealth Trust Company
W. S. McKay
Strawberry Street
Pehn-Harrris Hotel
Caldwell
Harrisburg Hotel Company
Baker Back Aircraft
Senate Military Committee
Baker
Paris
Froidmont
Farm and Chevreux
Tony Steiner
Akron
Theresa Barbaras
Hiram Walters
Lewistown
Minnie Anna Smee
Carlisle
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