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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1917
Page
4
The Pure Milk Society announces summer work to aid poor city babies. Donations of money ice or other help are requested for two months. Send contributions to Miss Mary Miller Visiting Nurse Association corner Front and Boas streets.
The piece questions President Wilsons plan to appoint Baruch as centralized wartime purchasing agent. It notes Baruchs past earnings from market speculation and doubts his fit for a large organizing role while highlighting WWI policy debates and Wilsons Cabinet choices. It also mentions life insurance focus and Canada Red Cross posters promoting a patriotic fund.
The piece argues for blanket life and relief insurance for families of service members and supports universal military training to improve physical readiness. It recalls Harrisburg school cadet efforts, critiques a lax leadership at Central High School, and notes public interest rising after wartime entry. A New York jury awarded damages over an insult term, illustrating tone.
The piece urges Congress to fund 35000 battle aircraft by July next year at a cost of 600 million dollars. It argues United States factories including Ford and Willys-Overland can rapidly convert to aircraft parts, emphasizing massed planes as key to overwhelming Central Powers and aiding Allied success.
W A McDermid of Gerhard Mennen Chemical Co Newark New Jersey expresses optimism about the year ahead. He cites plans to boost advertising and selling efforts in the expected ratio to sustain strong business performance.
A mixed page features a reader letter from John Hall praising Harrisburg but criticizing urban noise and traffic sounds. It also reports labor and social notes from around the world including unions in Weavers and Longshoremen, women in London cleaning and Derby reform, wage gains for Winnipeg shopmen, proposed female conductors, and a sanitary bill in Illinois.
The Guaranty Trust Company of New York releases a booklet on the railroad situation noting railroads link wheat regions with eastern cities and provide livelihoods for many. It argues regulation burdens railroads without fair protection for investors shippers or the public, urging national unity and cooperation to improve rates, regulation, and credit.
Complaints of green mice on potato foliage. Aphids multiply rapidly if uncontrolled, curling and retarding growth. They suck juices with a sharp beak and resist arsenate, priox, and Bordeaux mixtures. Nicotine sprays are most effective and safe, applied with a spray pump for full foliar coverage.
Time heals with Pershing and the French tongue. The piece laments French mispronunciation of American names like Pershing Sims Hoover Houston and Wilson. It contrasts English and French handling of names and notes French debate over rhyming his name with marine or meringue.
A cabinet member asked for a government car for national business. A stylish female chauffeur drove, and hours later the lord camped at a rage over her driving, claiming danger from the start. The officer replied saying they likely sent him Skidding Jane.
A compact piece contrasts solitary breakfast with sociable meals, quoting Henry Dwight Sedgwick and a Westminster Gazette verse. It muses on mood, appetite, and risk in daily meals, then shifts to wartime bread rationing and home-eat concerns hinted through verse about the bus, field, and war bread.
A timeless verse speaks to a future reader unseen and unborn. The speaker, a poet in youth, sends words across time asking for wine music statues and a bright eyed love while pondering fate and conquest. The passage ends with a biblical grace line cited from Ephesians.
A light exchange humorously contrasts optimism and pessimism about spring. A mother asks about her son’s future, a child is deemed a poet who dislikes work, and a man jokes about economy with meals. A street lamppost is noted outside the door.
On June 28 1863 Union forces burned a span of the Susquehanna Bridge at Columbia to stop Confederate troops led by General Gordon from crossing into Lancaster County. The blaze lit the night sky and debris floated downstream as the bridge fell, with locals recalling the dramatic defense and later impact on Wrightsville and Harrisburg.
Ex Auditor General W P Snysder farms in Chester county. Judge J N Langham of Indiana county once clerk in the Auditor General's Department. B M Clark Jefferson county lawyer decries a unusually closing session. General W G Price leads State artillery brigade though he studies infantry. Chairman W D B Ainey Public Service Commission long served in National Guard.
Harrisburg supplied substantial wheat amounts this year. The report notes bold agricultural effort amid regional developments in the city.
Civil War era note describes General Sheridan conducting three week raids before the Wilderness battle to gain information on Lee's left. A modern commentator says such reconnaissance could have been achieved by one man using limited means.
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