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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1918
Page
4
A citywide Fourth of July parade will feature a massed singing procession led by a prominent chorister. Choral groups will assemble at the P R R Y M C A and march as a single unit singing patriotic songs under white attire for the event.
Harrisburg action approves a plan for Capitol Park treatment featuring a monumental viaduct from the park extension to State Street near Thirteenth. The city solicitor is urged to confer with the Board of Public Grounds and Buildings to prepare actions for submission to the Legislature and to foster Commonwealth city cooperation.
New York stocks opened firm then softened on pressure against U S Steel Baldwin Locomotive and related industrials as traders absorbed the British premier's remarks. Commodities futures in Chicago and Philadelphia moved with declines and gains across grains meats and farm products in a broad trading day.
In IthacaNew York trustees of Cornell University rename the Schiff fund from German culture to human civilization and reallocate next year's income for lectures on the civilization of France. The $100000 endowment given by Jacob H Schiff in 1912 to promote German culture now finances broader human civilization studies.
A coroner's jury found the Jednota railroad crossing death of Roy Welborn a truck driver occurred June 15 due to the crossing watchman falling asleep. Watchman Frank Still, seriously injured, was discharged from the hospital. Jury members were Guy H. Behman Daniel C. Devlin George G. Clemm C. W. Thompson A. H. Stains W. H. Wise. Witnesses listed include George W. Terry A. W. Shope Thomas Clarke C. C. Silger Frank Walford Bruce Hoffman F. B. Keller Mike Uhler A. A. Sloverns H. George Hess Boyd Manbeck Frank Still Samuel Nucky Harry Bouser and Dr L. W. Frazier.
Mrs. Adolphus Busch widow of a St. Louis brewer hurries back from Germany to protect her property from the Custodian of Alien Property. A question arises whether she remains an American citizen.
Speech by head of Patriotic Order Sons of America calls for eradicating German influence from education and publications. He urges burning German books and eliminating German content from schools, presses, and public life to boost morale and defeat Prussianism. He cites efforts across Pennsylvania and cooperation with public instruction officials.
R. L. Sellers was cut by flying glass when a Harrisburg Light and Power Company coal truck backing into a Reservoir trolley car spilled coal. The truck moved ahead of the trolley on Market Street and, after turning into Ninth, was forced back into the trolley by a machine turning from Ninth to Market. Sellers suffered the sole injury.
The Philadelphia Committee of Public Safety adopted the new title Pennsylvania Council of National Defense and Committee of Public Safety to honor Council of National Defense officials in Washington and reflect county unit support for the change.
The Dancey, first wooden steamer built in Jacksonville under government contract, was launched from the J. J. Murdock Ship Building Company. Within ten minutes the keel of another vessel was laid. The Dancey measures 304 feet and is expected to reach fourteen knots.
Allied war front bulletin reports German artillery activity east of Amiens between Villers-Bretonneux and Morlancourt with other sectors seeing action. British forces carried out raids in the Arras area capturing prisoners.
Pittsburgh June 25 Every member of the University of Pittsburgh faculty suspected of pro Germanism will be asked to resign. Reports say two professors have already retired and two more resignations are expected tomorrow as the faculty may be voluntarily purged before the cleanup is completed.
Lieutenant Duncan C. Cameron of Pittsburgh and Sergeant Ernest L. Ahlstrand of Chicago, Marine Corps Aviation, died when their airplane plunged about 900 feet during a practice flight at Curtiss field near Miami Florida late yesterday.
East Liverpool June 25 Mrs Joe Simon an Hungarian woman from Leetonia near here killed her four children by slashing their throats with a razor and then attempted to take her own life with the same weapon. She is in a Salem hospital and will live.
Last night observers witnessed a partial lunar eclipse visible across western North and South America the Pacific and Australia. The earth's shadow covered a small portion of the moon while many watched the sky in awe.
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