President Wilson to Speak at Mount Vernon on Independence Day
President Wilson will address foreign-born citizens at the tomb of George Washington in Mount Vernon Virginia on July 4. Twenty seven nationalities will be represented as part of a nationwide demonstration of support for the Allied war effort. He is expected to discuss the Russian and Turkish situations and outline U S policy toward the troubled republic.
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Washington
Wilson
George Washington
Mount Vernon
White House
America
United States
Miss Ethel Carothers Bride of J Thompson Henry
Miss Ethel Carothers of Carlisle married J Thompson Henry of Martha Furnace in a 9 30 am ceremony at Second Presbyterian Church Carlisle Rev Glenn M Shafer officiated Bridesmaid Frances Perry best man Frank Garber reception at the bride’s home They will reside at Martha Furnace Mrs Henry is a former court clerk’s daughter and a Dickinson College graduate and has taught in Martha Furnace for two years New Cumberland marriage notice Helen Mae Weaver and William Baker Foster wed June 22 at Hagerstown Presbyterian parsonage Rev J R Gaar officiant Foster leaves for Camp Lee Petersburg Va Creamery near Shippensburg destroyed by fire Saturday afternoon boiler likely caused. rebuilding under way.
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Carlisle
Ethel Carothers
J. Thompson Henry
Martha Furnace
Second Presbyterian Church
Glenn M. Shafer
Frances Perry
Swarthmore
Frank Garber
Reedsville
Henry
J. E. Carothers
Dickinson College
New Cumberland
Helen Mae Weaver
William Baker Foster
Hagerstown
Presbyterian Parsonage
J. R. Gaar
Foster
Camp Lee
Petersburg
Old Herbal Diabetes Remedy Claims Success in Diet Regimen
A 40 year herbal Warner's Safe Diabetes Remedy is promoted as effective for diabetes with dietary rules. The letter from Jules Friquet of Los Angeles attests to dramatic weight loss and recovery after using the remedy, claiming personal proof and widespread belief in their improvement. The ad notes the product is sold by druggists and samples cost ten cents from Warner's Safe Remedies Co. Rochester NY.
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Warner
Jules Friquet
West First Street
Los Angeles
Cal
Warner's Safe Remedies Co
Dept
Rochester
N. Y
Cure Catarrh With Blood Remedy S S S
An old advertisement urges readers to eradicate catarrh by cleansing the blood with S S S. It warns sprays and douches do not reach blood germs, promotes winter use, cites fifty years of use, and notes a medical department offering free case study from Swift Specific Co. in Atlanta.
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S. S
Dress Swift Specific Co
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Cumberland Valley Normal School Class Exercises
The Cumberland Valley State Normal School at Shippensburg reports its 1918 graduating class as the largest in the school's history. Graduates listed include Mary C. Allen, Lillian Baker, Myrtle Bortner, and many others. A senior banquet followed by baccalaureate services guest speaker Dr. George Leslie Omwake of Ursinus College, with extensive program notes and musical numbers.
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Shippensburg
Cumberland Valley State Normal School
Mary C. Allen
E. Kathryn Askin
Carlisle
Lillian B. Baker
W. Mary Bender
Millersburg
Myrtle M. Bortner
Hanover
Nellie M. Bowman
Lemoyne
Helen H. Brown
Mabel M. Buttsfield
Mary
Ezra Lehman
J. S. Heiges
Kenneth Preisler
Jo Hays
H. Mi LeVan
Quinn T. Mickey
Miss Adams
Heiges
Stewart
Lehman
Franklin
Cumberland
George Leslie Omwake
Ursinus College
J. le Grimm
Government Truck Driver Makes Record Trip For War Part
Russell Gelwicks of Mechanicsburg drove 1100 miles to Detroit to obtain a 600 pound hydraulic hoist for a government truck converting it into a dump. He left Thursday night, arrived Saturday, and returned in first class condition with the needed equipment to speed war work.
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Mechanicsburg
Detroit
Mich
Russell Gelwicks
Gelwicks
Middletown
Express Company
Dauphin County Sunday Schools Meet at Hershey Park
Dauphin county Sunday schools hold their thirty second annual convention at Hershey Central Theater with speakers including Dr. W. G. Landes and Miss L Grace Kane. C Austin Miles directs singing as sessions run Thursday and Friday with talks on democracy brotherhood and peace.
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Dauphin County Sunday Schools
Hershey
W. G. Landes
Pennsylvania State Sabbath School Association
Landes
L. Grace Kane
C. Austin Miles
Philadelphia
J. J. Brehm
Messiah Lutheran Sunday School
Harrisburg
E. L. Bomgardier
C. L. Dice
Edwin R. Worrell
Hospital Bombing by Germans Shocks Frontline Canada
A Canadian hospital behind the British lines was bombed by German forces on Monday night. Several doctors nurses and office patients were killed or seriously wounded. A three story wing was split in two as a bomb set the building ablaze despite red crosses on the roofs. Rescue efforts followed as staff aided trapped patients amid shattered windows and burning ether.
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France
Cumberland Co Twelfth in State War Stamp Sales
Cumberland County trails in the state War Stamp drive with sales about $300,000, 6 per capita, toward a $1,100,000 target by December 31. Revised meetings schedule includes two East Pennsboro gatherings, Enola High School and Washington Heights, as local groups bolster the effort led by Carlisle's H. R. Miller. County Director George E. Lloyd expects the remaining pledges this week and notes new Community Singing Association branches will become permanent.
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Carlisle
Cumberland County
East Pennsboro
Enola High School
Washington Heights
Cumberland County Community Singing Association
H. R. Miller
Cumberland
George E. Lloyd
Mits
West Shore Personal and Social Items
George Cook Sr of Fourth street New Cumberland learns his son Robert Cook has arrived in France. Clayton Miller and daughter Edith Miller and Mr and Mrs R C Horton of the Quartermaster Department moved to Gettysburg on Sunday. Mrs George Zorger of New Cumberland reports a letter from Corporal Earl Beckley of the One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry Twenty-eighth Division stating arrival in France. Mr and Mrs Harry Row of Detroit Michigan and Mrs Harry Parthemore of Harrisburg visited Mr and Mrs Claude Wolf at New Cumberland on Monday. Mr and Mrs Fred Myers of Philadelphia were guests of Mr and Mrs Jerry Spahr at New Cumberland this week. Mr and Mrs Lloyd Whisler and daughter of Lewistown are guests of Mr and Mrs Samuel Whisler at New Cumberland. Mrs Anna Folk dies Waynesboro Pa on June 6 at 59. She is survived by Mrs Lillian Stout of Harrisburg and Fred Folk of Cleveland Ohio.
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George Cook
Fourth Street
New Cumberland
Robert Cook
France
Clayton Miller
Edith Miller
R. C. Horton
Quartermaster Department
Gettysburg
George Zorger
Earl Beckley
One Hundred and Twelfth Infantry
Harry Row
Detroit
Michigan
Harry Parthemore
Harrisburg
Claude Wolf
Fred Myers
Philadelphia
Jerry Spahr
Lloyd Whisler
Lewistown
Samuel Whisler
West Shore News Highlights Local War Efforts and Events
Several short items from Enola to Marysville cover a dog bite incident in Enola, farm work assignments for Boys Working Reserve members, local Boy Scout promotions, a birth announcement, graduates from Shippensburg, plans for a Red Cross bazar in Lemoyne, War Savings promotions in Marysville, Baby Bond meetings, Bethany Sunday school service honors, Perry county graduates, and a class social in Marysville.
Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate Ad Strengthens Nerves
An advertisement urges readers to use Horsford's Acid Phosphate to strengthen nerves and aid when nervous tired or restless. It promises system restoration and refreshing sleep and invites purchase of a bottle.
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Horsford
Tanlac praised by local man as cure for kidney and stomach woes
Officer Monroe praises Tanlac after claiming rapid relief from kidney and stomach troubles. He says the remedy improved appetite and headaches, and notes Tanlac is sold at multiple local drug stores including Gorgas Drug Store and stations, with the genuine bottle labeled J. J. Gore Co. on the carton.
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Tanlac
Gorgas
Carlisle
W. G. Stephens
Elizabethtown
Albert W. Cain
Greencastle
Charles B. Carl
Middletown
Colin
Fey
Waynesboro
Clarence Croft
Mechanicsburg
FF. Brunhouse
J. J. Gore Co
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Tomb OF Washington
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Lies
The
Reeder Bros. Creamery
Town
Gray
Mother Gray
Cumberland Valley
Shippensburg Institution
Ruth Fisher
State College
Methodist Episcopal Church
P. V. Harbaugh
Harbaugh
John A. Potter
William P. Shoemaker
Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry
Messiah
Reservoir Park
Dauphin County
Hershey Park
Senator Leiby
Enola
Scott S. Leiby
Marysville
Shoohouse Auditorium
Schorus
J. W. Phillips
Harrisurg
Roman
Metropolitan Hotel
C. F. Gobright
Pittsburgh
Gobright
Bell
Retail Merchants’ Bureau
Carlisle Chamber of Commerce
Boiling Springs Park
Harvey B. Basehore
American Mechanics Elect Mechanicaburg
Integrity Coucil
Order
United American Mechanics
H. H. Kitzmiller
L. W. Kintz
E. C. Gardner
D. J. Beitzel
A. V. Chapman
A. Sheriff
Nathan Stambaugh
W. H. Beitzel
H. H. Kitsmiller
J. Beitzel
McNeil
West Shore
Anna Folk
Anna Laurie Folk
Lillian Stout
Fred Folk
Cleveland
Ohio
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Gladys Houck
J. W. Wagner
John Kessler
Lawson Keller
Pennsylvania State College
Boys’ Working Reserve
Keller
Harrisburg Technical High School
Army Camp Hill
Gordon Higgley
Higgley
United Evangelical Church
Ernest Brestline
John Cummings
Paul Anderson
Samuel Heckard
Lawrence Gardner
Elwood Katz
Otis Bentz
Emmit Shields
Second Street
Lois Charlotte Shields
Jeanette Hoffman
J. W. Hoffman
Fifteenth Street
Cornell University
Hoffman
Galeton
New Cumberland High School
Lemoyne Street Bazar
Red Cross
Hummel Avenue
Lemoyne Square
H. C. Spragg
Fowler
Whitney Mumma
Lightner
Leach
Davis
George H. Johnston
Duncannon Presbyterian Church
Trinity Reformed Church
B. Stiles Duncan
Duncannon
Marketville
Shermansdale
Bethany
Bethany United Evangelical Sunday School
Home Missions Board of the Church
Perry County
Ruth W. Harling
Esther Secrist
Kenneth L. Preisler
New Bloomfield
Margaret Ellenberger
Methodist Episcopal Sunday School
NERV
Bellans
Palm Beach
FF .480 Marine
St., Cor
Howmaens
Bowman
Officer Monroe
W. &. Monroe
Sixth Street
Bowman's
Teense Bowman’ S
Lowman's
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