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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1916
Page
6
A new shipment of women’s untrimmed Panama hats arrives, lifting the season’s stock to its highest level of style and preparedness. Panamas are selling quickly with fine styles priced at 2.95 and 3.95 dollars.
Golf and motor hats and caps priced 50 cents to 1.00. Men and women outing hats in white silk and duck 50 cents. Stripe mohair and silk Palm Beach 50 cents to 1.00. Raffia outing hats for all ages 50 cents. Light weight golf caps 50 cents to 1.00. Water-proof auto and golf caps 1.00. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Men's Store.
The advertisement presents Summer Dress Cottons and Voiles in many styles including Garden Gate Voile at 44 inches with sport stripes in black rose blue and green and solid shades. It lists Imported Voiles with varied colors and 36 to 44 inch widths and many patterns, with prices around 50 to 69 cents per yard. It mentions Silk Marquisette in multiple shades and Seeded Voile 36 inches with stripes and florals, plus over 100 voile styles and Columbia Volle fabrics from Pomeroy & Stewart.
A delightful showing of women and misses bathing suits in mohair and satin, featuring blue and black palettes, wide stripe collars, button trims, laced sleeves, belts with buckles, and full plaited skirts. Prices range from 5.50 to 10.00. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart-Second Floor.
Dives, Pomeroy and Stewart offers significant reductions on a range of furniture pieces. Circassian walnut toilet table and chiffonier priced at 398 dollars, mahogany chiffoniers from 14.95 to 39.00, golden oak dressers 8.50, Jacobean settee 8.75, four piece Jacobean library 49.00, leather upholstered suites 49.00, and golden oak bed 15.00. Third Floor showroom invites prospective home furnishers to save.
Fred Sidebotham of Philadelphia captured top honors in the Harrisburg Sportsmen’s Association registered shoot. Fred Plum of Atlantic City tied with four others for two days, winning by a perfect 50 flawless targets. Martin Wise and Sidebotham followed in the top placements among 43 shooters with high run scores posted for the two days.
At Indianapolis the annual Anti-Saloon League convention features a key college men oratorical contest with eight entrants. Represented states and schools include DePauw Illinois Northwestern Ohio Ohio Wesleyan Pennsylvania College Michigan Syracuse New York Maine Bates College and New England colleges. Also notes on motorboat safety inspections under Charles R. Kurtz for Susquehanna waterways and a club meeting of O and M N P with new members welcomed.
The article explains sleeve collar and shoulder insignia meanings for officers in olive drab, with cord colors denoting branches such as infantry blue cavalry orange red artillery red, engineers dark red, medical green, and officers’ black and gold hat cords. It details collar insignia, shoulder bars, and noncommissioned officer chevrons, plus special cavalry marks, battalion and regimental staff insignia, and marching orders for identifying ranks and duties during Mt Gretna mobilization.
In Mexico seventy years ago the Towers of Monterey poem by Charles Fenno Hoffman honors fallen defenders and recalls the fierce assault on Monterey. The narrative then shifts to Santa Anna’s rise and the Buena Vista campaign, detailing Taylor’s reluctant marches, Santa Anna’s vast but poorly supplied army, and the dramatic engagement that earned the field its storied fame, slated to continue.
Washington reports postal receipts for the last two quarters totaling $164,264,069 with $84,564,447 for the December quarter and $79,699,622 for the March quarter. The current fiscal year is expected to reach about $3.205 billion, surpassing 1914 by 15 to 20 million. The Postmaster General issued a $54,253,962 check in mid June for March quarter running expenses, a record deposit and withdrawal from the Treasury. Remaining March receipts amount to $25,445,660 for other postal uses.
Gasper Marturano and Thomas Chickerilla, Italians from Barnesboro Cambria County, were electrocuted at Western Penitentiary for killing Vito Cavallo for his pay envelope two years earlier. A lengthy bid to commute to life imprisonment failed.
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