New York League opening features Harrisburg game
Four Burnham and Lewistown youths were seriously injured in an auto crash near a toll gate. another accident near Caledonia injured several people. A New Market party honored Ida and Fillmore Bates with games and music. Harrisburg hosts a New York League baseball opener at Island Park with Cochill's crew facing Wilkes-Barre. lineups announced amid variable weather.
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Lewistown
D. Shellenberger
Wellington Bachman
Earl Reitz
Burnham
David DeShay
Gettysburg
Adams County
Caledonia
Hagerstown
Lewis Kane
Arendtsville
Kane
Hane
New Market
Ames Bates
Ida
Fillmore
Ruth Goodyear
Harrisburg
Wilkes-Barre
Island Park
Cochill
Commonwealth Band
Wilkes- Barre
Leyden
C.f
Cook
Gough
Brown
Elliott
Eaker
Wheat
Fagg
Reed
Parson
Huenke
Brenner
Farmhand Enlists After Hitching Plow To Fence
A farmer named Egbert L. Bolden, after hitching his plow team to a fence, went to Hagerstown and enlisted in Company B First Maryland regiment. He wore field clothes from departure with twenty five rookies bound for Camp Harrington Laurel Md. Also noted: George Feisler found dead at White Pine Sanatorium Mont Alto aged 42. In Waynesboro two youths Walter McCoy and Roy Hoffman jailed for stealing a horse and buggy from Jesse Sellhammer. In Marietta Lititz School Board names Miss Anna K Miller principal and assistants Miss Mary B Newpher Miss Mary Hershey and Paul J Bensinger. J 8 Bucher elected high school principal and supervising principal of public schools of Marietta. Miss Anna Roddy Lancaster named assistant in Marietta high school.
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Hagerstown
Israel Putnam
Egbert L. Bolden
Maryland Regiment
Bolden
Waynesboro
George Feisler
Philadelphia
White Pine Sanatorium
Mont Alto
Walter McCoy
Roy Hoffman
Newburg
Shippensburg
Jesse Sellhammer
Marietta
Lititz
Anna K. Miller
Mary B. Newpher
Mary Hershey
Paul J. Bensinger
J. 8. Bucher
Ephrata
Anna Roddy
Lancaster
Marietta High School
Central Pennsylvania News Items Of Interest
Encampment of the Second Regiment Sons of Veterans Reserve set for July 1 to 8 in Lehighton. Various local notes include proposed dog catcher in Lansford, closure hours for poolrooms and hotels, and protest against Panther Valley Electric wires. A 3 year old dies from medicine in Craig's Village. Fourth of July aeronaut Lawrence W Brown to perform two flights in Imerton. Miss Fannie Barber returns from Philippine teaching duties to East Mauch Chunk. A 10 year old boy drowns in an East Lebanon textile plant reservoir linked to acidic drainage. Shamokin sees 1500 workers back at the colliery amid contract miners dispute.
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Lehighton
Sons of Veterans Reserve
Pennsylvania Brigade
Lansford
Panther Valley Electric Light Company
Public Service Commission
Burgess Gallagher
Mahanoy City
John
Harry Burke
Craig's
Imerton
Lawrence W. Brown
New York
United States
East Mauch Chunk
Fannie Barber
Laird H. Barber
Philippine Islands
Lebanon
George
Michael Grumbeck
East Lebanon
Lebanon Textile Company
Shamokin
Pennsylvania
Telephone Man Appointed on Soldiers' Aid Committee
Leonard M. Kinnard of Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania is named to the Citizens Soldiers' Aid Committee of Philadelphia joining John Wanamaker former Governor Edwin S. Stuart and Charlemagne Tower. Mr Kinnard announces that company National Guard members will receive full pay for up to three months plus nine months at full pay reduced by guardsman wages.
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Leonard M. Kinnard
Bell Telepatha Company of Pennsylvania
Haseen
Citizen Soldiers’ Aid Committee of
Philadelphia
These Ships Will Comprise the U S Navy in 1919
By January 1, 1919 the United States Navy will be comprised of twenty seven battleships of the first line six battle cruisers twenty five battleships of the second line ten armored cruisers thirteen scout cruisers five first class cruisers three second class cruisers ten third class cruisers one hundred and eight destroyers eighteen fleet submarines one hundred and fifty seven coast submarines six monitors twenty gunboats four supply ships fifteen fuel ships four transports three tenders to torpedo vessels eight vessels of special types and two ammunition ships
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United States Navy
Carmen to Elect Officers in Harrisburg Railways Meet
A special meeting of employees of the Harrisburg and Valley Railways will be held at 26 North Third Street to elect permanent local division officers of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America. Two sessions are set at 8 30 p m and 1 30 a m for workers on late shifts.
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Carmen
Harrisburg
Valley Railways Companies
North Third Street
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes of America
Locust Valley Farm Opens Saturday for Summer
The Y. W. C. A announces Locust Valley Farm opens Saturday July 1 for the summer. Self supporting women may stay one or two weeks at a nominal cost. Registration should be made at the association rooms Walnut and Fourth streets.
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Locust Valley Farm
Association Rooms
Walnut
Fourth Streets
National Open Golf Qualifying Begins at Minikahda
Minneapolis June 27 The Na tional Open qualifying rounds start at Minikahda Club with half the field today and half tomorrow. Thirty two players in each section will advance to the final 72 holes Thursday and Friday.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
Minikahdy Club Links
WAR VETERAN DIES IN HAGERSTOWN AT 70
Captain Eli Shuck Civil War veteran and former member of Company K 5th Pennsylvania Volunteers heavy artillery died suddenly in Hagerstown from heart failure aged 70. The report notes his long service and age at death.
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Hagerstown
Eli Shuck
5Th
Pennsylvania Volunteers
Heavy Artillery
Threatened Allied Drive Begins Amid Verdun Siege
Report outlines coordinated allied strategy devised in Paris and refined by General Joffre. Observers say German reserves, about 700,000, limited Allied offensives as they mass forces behind Anglo French lines and the Verdun assault drags on.
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Paris
Joffre
William Robertson
Lord Kitchener
Petrograd
Verdun
Von Bethmann Hollweg Says Germany May Last Months Longer
Paris reports Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg warned in Berlin that Germany could hold out only a few more months. He cited scarce submarines and the need for coast defense while Austro-Hungarian and Turkish leaders push for a separate peace ending submarine warfare.
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von Bethmann Hollweg
Germany
Paris
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Berlin
Massachusetts Sends 4800 Troops to Mexican Border
Massachusetts began mobilizing four infantry regiments a hospital and ambulance company toward the Mexican border. The Ninth Regiment led the move twelve hours from Framingham to El Paso with the Eighth following at 8:30 am. Cavalry field artillery and signal units prepared to depart. W C Robinson and Sons pledged full pay for enlistees and a year's death benefit for dependents.
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Associated Press
Framingham
Mass
Massachusetts
el Paso
Two Granges Endorse William Penn Highway
The Cambria County Pomona Grange and the Huntingdon County Pomona Grange endorsed the William Penn Highway proposal. About 50 subordinate grange bodies support the plan to permanentize the Pittsburgh to Philadelphia turnpike. Cambria urged routing changes to favor agricultural areas while Huntingdon offered full approval.
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Pennsylvania
Pomona
Pittsburgh
Cambria County Committee
James A. Farnbaugh
Ebensburg
R. D
A. B. Kirsch
Nicktown
John C. Sheridan
South Fork
Thomas Hughes
Cresson
Henry M. Gooderham
Patton
Thomas Eakins Dies in Philadelphia at 78
Thomas Eakins, renowned artist and sculptor and National Academician, died at his home 1729 Mount Vernon Street in Philadelphia last Sunday. His work placed him among America's foremost artists of the past fifty years. He had received honors from European countries.
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Philadelphia
Thomas Eakins
Mount Vernon Street
Sykes Comfort Powder Praised for Infant Skin Care
Catherine I. Young of Hawthorne Massachusetts reports that Sykes Comfort Powder heals and soothes rashes chafing and skin soreness in infants and the ill. The four ounce medicated preparation is described as healing soothing and antiseptic by the product maker in Boston Massachusetts.
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Geo. A. Gorgas
M. E. Raymond, Inc
Ballston, Spa
N. Y
Catherine I. Young
Hawthorne
Mass
Boston
Masa
Blackburn's Casca-Royal Pills advertised by Mrs. C. C. Ackerman
An old advertisement notes Mrs. C. C. Ackerman of Council Bluffs Iowa endorsing Blackburn's Casca-Royal Pills for constipation coated tongue and general stomach and bowel disorders. Sold by drug stores for 10 and 25 cents.
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Blackburn
C. C. Ackerman
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Rug
Philadelphia artist born July 25 1844 in the news
The obituary notes the Philadelphia native studied painting in Paris under noted masters and sculpture abroad. It records travels through Spain and Europe, with fond memories of that stay. A separate item announces Russell R. Kohr of New Cumberland will lecture on Hash in Lewisberry on July 1.
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Philadelphia
Central High School
Paris
Gerome and
Bonnot
Chapell
Barye
Europe
New Cumberland
Russel R. Kohr
Lewisberry
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