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Newspaper
Harrisburg Telegraph
Location
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1919
Page
13
The piece quotes Samuel Gompers in Philadelphia criticizing prohibition and the sedition act while urging defense of liberties. It argues public opinion drives policy, defends Mr Gompers against labor sympathy accusations, and notes mixed views on the peace treaty and prizefights coverage.
The piece states Germany faces two paths after signing the peace treaty: meet obligations and seek rehabilitation or cling to aggression and risk international shame. It argues change will be slow, requiring new leaders, education, and a generation to replace past brutality with civic integrity.
The essay weighs Wilson's peace treaty and its impact on the Monroe Doctrine domestic relations and potential American troop use in Europe. It warns against blind acceptance or partisan bias, noting the war’s aftermath and the need for clear, accurate guidance before the Senate votes. It invites readers to seek light on key policy questions.
Weather forecaster R. Demain dampened opening day plans with heavy rain across Central Pennsylvania. The piece notes anglers loss and suggests Wildwood Lake could be restocked after removing invasive German carp, improving habitat for bass and other fish for local anglers.
Pennsylvania teachers deserve every cent the new salary bill will provide. The bill’s distribution ratio and funding method are debated, but it should prove equitable in the long run, prioritizing those most in need. The reform follows a lagging system, with the State Board and Department of Public Instruction reorganized to boost efficiency and thrust education into a new era amid postwar challenges.
Editors across Pennsylvania thank Governor Sproul for a session credited with important acts. Ratified federal amendments, reform legislation, workmen compensation gains, road-building progress, higher teacher salaries, and streamlined state government are highlighted. Templeton appointment praised by Luzerne and Luzack counties.
A Boston highbrow quotes intelligent love as artful, while The Houston Post offers a venomous comment praising iconoclasm and joy wrecking in love. The piece labels critics as restless vandals who find joy in blisters on lips and rough humor.
The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank president warns that proposed Federal home loan banks threaten private savings institutions and could swell government bureaucracy. He argues existing private agencies, with about 5 billion dollars in assets from nine million depositors, can meet housing demands without drastic federal expansion.
A lyric plea to release the speaker from earthly love as a higher passion calls. The speaker asks to preserve ordinary joys and sensory pleasures, resisting the beloved’s blocking beauty to reclaim familiar music and objects.
The phrase described as a racing term now applies to finalizing a modest cry meet, illustrating how language shifts from sports to everyday budgeting or household tasks in the Boston Transcript excerpt.
Collier's weekly perspective notes the war's lasting impact on France's birth rate. Before the conflict France had about 18 births per thousand, later dropping to nine per thousand, risking population decline and a slide toward second-class status alongside nations like Spain.
Major Frank C. Mahin recalls the French front with elephant balloon observers tethered high above battlefields. The gas bag and observer faced shelling and pursuit, in stark contrast to agile aviators, highlighting the grim risks of balloon warfare.
In Sailor Town the wind and tide sing of anchored ships and distant days. A China liner gleams, a Blue Funnel freighter rests, a tall barque loads at a lumber mill as shops sell sea chests and pink cockatoos. Gulls cry and a concertina joins the harbor chorus as old shipmates recall bygone days.
A Detroit News item urges maintaining manners in heat. It argues heat raises tempers for drivers and pedestrians and suggests cooling the tongue to prevent irritability at crossings and with traffic officers and mothers guiding children. It links temper to temperature and promotes restraint.
A Philadelphia Record advertisement notes that Printer's Ink asks if reaching Greenland and Patagonia via the same medium matters. It argues newspapers enable targeting profitable markets and dropping unprofitable ones, improving ad circulation and results.
A nostalgic meditation on a past farm life with siblings Jack Tom Jane and parents. The speaker recalls a summer scene by the brook and attic window, noting how fate and time reveal beauty and loss as youth vanishes in a single day. John Jay Chapman quote from Song and Poems is cited.
Railroad Administrator Hines ordered steel at a price he declared impossible, triggering the resignation of the Industrial Board. The move is likened to striking oil while boring for water, implying a risky but consequential stance.
The Engineering and Mining Journal condemns the D. and H. mine tragedy noting powder was in the same train as workers. It calls for an absolute prohibition on transporting workers and explosives together and urges management to act before law dictates.
American engineers built a 1500 foot pontoon bridge across the Rhine in forty one minutes beating German times by a substantial margin. The task drew wagers around thirty thousand dollars as the speedy crews bragged of efficiency versus Prussian standards.
The Asheville Times notes the Democratic President urges Congress to set taxes as low as possible, arguing the party has enacted unprecedented bills and labels the measures a push to ease fiscal burdens.
Harrisburg recalls old bonfires from political celebrations as Boy Scouts host a Saturday night event at Capitol Park extension. The piece recounts past traditions in several wards,记 and notes how electric lighting reduced such gatherings, while also mentioning local wildlife rescue and highway travel of attorneys to Bedford Springs.
The speaker notes leaving the uniform and gear behind after battle, tallying the war's toll. Minna Irving, writing in the N. X. Seiad, salutes enduring Yankee grit that carried the fight in France despite French trappings of war.
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