Rotary Club Offers Prizes to Harrisburg Recruits
The Harrisburg Rotary Club mobilizes support for a war regiment with a free public concert at the Orpheum Theater. A wrist watch is given to each new recruit and a roll of honor is planned in the Telegraph. Captain Harrell backs the plan and leaders like Emerson Collins and Jesse Cunningham will speak at the mass meeting.
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Rotary Club
Orpheum
Andrew E. Buchanan
Committee of Public Affairs
Rotary
Notary
Notary Club
Harrisburg
Harrell
War Department
Emerson Collins
Jesse E. P. Cunningham
Pennsylvania
Weather Report Harrisburg and Eastern Pennsylvania
Unsettled and warmer tonight with likely showers in the north and west on Wednesday. Temperatures have risen across the eastern half of the country with a high of 79 and a low of 61. river stage about 5.3 to 5.7 feet. full moon on July 4.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Upper North Branch
Consumer Gouged For Hundred Per Cent Profit Probe Shows
The Federal Trade Commission reported that current retail prices for canned vegetables nearly double wholesalers’ costs this season. It notes many items are last year’s pack and promises fast action if future complaints arise in autumn and winter over prices for peas corn tomatoes or similar products.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Canmrs
City Solicitor Seeks Court Date For Hardscrabble Hearing
City Solicitor John E. Fox will ask Dauphin county court to fix an autumn date for the Hardscrabble appeals hearing. The city bonds have been issued and cleaning the Front street blocks between Calder and Herr should proceed within months, with owners urged to expedite to collect awards and relocate.
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John E. Fox
Dauphin County Court
Front Street
Calder and
Herr
House Calls for Dry Nation War Food Control
At the opening of the House session, a resolution moved by W. M. Rhodes of Fayette urged Congress to pass the food control bill as a matter of national necessity. The move drew amusement since the bill is seen as having prohibitory power, placing the House on record for prohibition during the war.
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House
W. M. Rhodes
Fayette
Congress
Governor Urges Knox to Vote For Food Bill in Senate
Governor Brumaugh sends telegram to U S Senator Philander Knox urging support for an amended food law during wartime. He states that best thinking in Pennsylvania backs the prohibition on manufacturing intoxicating liquors and asks Knox to vote for the conservation measure.
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Knox
United States
Senate
Brumaugh
Philander C. Knox
U. S
Washington, DC
Pennsylvania
Detain Woman Who Warned Of Air Raids On U S Cities
Mrs. Ruth Fought of St. Louis was detained here after sending messages predicting German air raids on New York Philadelphia and Baltimore while en route from Washington to Chicago. She is ill and no charge will be filed. authorities will release her to relatives en route to the city.
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Ruth Fought
St. Louis
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington
Chicago
Russia vows no separate peace amid Senate hearing
The Russian ambassador Boris A. Bakhmetieff told the Senate the mission rejects a separate peace and seeks a lasting democratic peace. He described wartime reorganizing of the army, food and transport controls, labor measures, and measures to sustain military success while democracy rules the world.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Boris A. Bakhmetieff
Kakhmetieff
Russia
Germany
Pan-Peasant Congress
Kansas Women Plan Draft For Marriage
A Salina led group proposes matrimonial conscription to pair draft age men with marriageable women. They operate a secret organization with Lockbox 201 at the Saline Post Office and have not revealed promoters. Separately Madrid imposes martial law suspending constitutional guarantees with Premier Dato seeking royal approval.
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Kansas City
Kansas
J. L. Bristow
Kansas Public Utilities Commission
Salina
Saline Post Office
Spain
Madrid
Dato
Root Confident Russia Can Be Fighting Power
In Moscow Elihu Root addressed six organizations during his first 24 hours there praising Russia’s fight to preserve democracy. He urged support for the provisional government and warned of malignant influences seeking to disrupt industrial work. Separately in Harrisburg two girls Lillian Howard and Alice Miller, both homeless, were jailed or placed with authorities after nights in parks and stations, recounting troubled pasts and seeking new beginnings.
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Moscow
Elihu Root
Military and Industrial Committee
Root
Petrograd
Lillian Howard
Captain Thompson
Alice Miller
Reading
Dauphin Bay to Sail For France With Fliers of the Lafayette Corps
Walter J. Shaffer of Dauphin, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Charles E Shaffer, to sail Saturday with a unit of American flyers joining the Lafayette corps in France. He trained as a linotype operator at the State Printery and later pursued aviation on Long Island after parental initial discouragement. His brother Ernest Shaffer has enlisted in the Signal Corps and is at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
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Walter J. Shaffer
Charles E. Shaffer
Dauphin
Lafayette Corps
France
Shaffer
State Printery
Essington
Germany
Long Island
Ernest Shaffer
Signal Corps
Regular Army
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
War loan bill passes with higher rate and pension inquiry
The Ware Senate bill authorizing $5,000,000 in defense bonds was amended in the House to raise interest from 3 to 4 percent. It then passed second reading. A separate resolution to inquire into old age pension systems also passed second reading.
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Camp Curtin
Laurelton
Senate
Three British Airplanes Defeat Ten Kaiser's Fliers
London report says three British naval airplanes engaged ten German aircraft over Flanders on Monday. One enemy plane was brought down in flames, two others driven down out of control, with clouds hindering view. all British machines returned safely.
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Associated Press
London
Flanders
Koulers
Brewers Battle Drastic Prohibition Provisions In Food Bill
Washington June 26 The Senate Agricultural subcommittee opened debate on the food control bill facing major hurdles notably the House ban on manufacturing intoxicants. Proponents hope to draft a Senate version tomorrow with changes to permit beer and light wines. Drys expect a majority to push the bone dry House provision while revenue arguments warn of lost wartime tax income.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Subcommittee
House
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Disposition of American Troops Remains Secret
In the House of Commons Joseph King asks if American troops on the western front are under French, Haig, or American command. Henry Forster replies the American government will announce any disposal when it deems appropriate, noting no implication about the question.
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Associated Press
London
Joseph King
North Somerset
House of Commons
Haig
America
Henry William Forster
King
Mr. Forster
London Air Raid Toll Rises to Ninety-One Dead
New casualty figures from the June 15 London raid show 91 men 24 women and 42 children killed with 220 men 110 women and 100 children injured as debris clears.
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London
French Dash for Gains on Aisne Front and Greece Action
General Petain reports a brilliant surprise attack northwest of Hurtebise with the German line carried and held against counterattacks. More than 300 German prisoners taken. Venizelos arrives in Athens to form a pro Allied cabinet as Greece debates joining the war. French troops enter Athens to help maintain order. British aircraft fight over Flanders with a 16 minute battle, three German planes downed.
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Hurtebise
M. Venizelos
Athens
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