Hoverter and Hartman Triumph in Republican Landslide
Harrisburg and Dauphin county primary results show the Republican organization solidly endorsed. George A. Hoverter won the mayoral nomination by a wide margin. Phillip S. Moyer led for district attorney. Beidleman and Baker’s slate swept county and city offices with decisive majorities, defeating independents and signaling a strong November GOP outlook. Hoverter is resting after a kidney issue. no further comment.
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Harrisburg
Dauphin County
E. E. Beidleman
W. Harry Baker
Baker
Harry F. Oves
Republican City Committee
Clarence E. Weber
Oves
Weber
George A. Hoverter
McCormick
William M. McNair
Toverter
Phillip S. Moyer
Edward F. Doehne
Beidleman
M. Harvey Taylor
Lockwood
First Ward
Park Bureau
Fire Department
D. W. Schaffner
Ed. M. Fisher
Register
Carl B. Shelly
William R. Danner
George B. Karmany
Hnmmelstown
Sheriff
Henry L. Koons
A. J. Mitchell
J. Clyde Myton
Motor Club of
Philips. Moyer
Moyer
Bar
J. Douglas Royal
John K. Royal
Patriot Staff
Royal
Weather Summary for Harrisburg and Vicinity
Fair to night and Thursday with little temperature change. Eastern Pennsylvania sees fair to night and Thursday, slightly cooler tonight in the east, gentle north winds. The Susquehanna and its tributaries are expected to fall slowly or remain stationary, with a stage around 3.4 feet at Harrisburg Thursday morning.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Mexican Police Chief and Colonel Arrested For Directing Gold Robbery
Washington dispatch says Chief of Police Agapito Perez of Tuxpan and Lieut Col Rodriguez of the Mexican Federal Army were arrested on orders of General Murguia for alleged complicity in the Penn Mex Oil robbery. The report notes nearly all 28 band members captured and state Rodriguez led the operation.
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Washington
Agapito Perez
Tuxpan
Mexico
Col. Rodriguez
Murguia
Penn-Mex Oil Company
Rhoads Chosen Chief Marshal for Harrisburg Welcome Parade
George W. Rhoads, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in Pennsylvania, accepts invitation to lead the Harrisburg Welcome Home parade. He will marshal the procession escorting soldiers sailors marines overseas workers and war nurses in the capital's September 29 greeting.
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George W. Rhoads
Grand Army of the Republic
Department of Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Route for Hill Cars and Plans for Bridge Up
Engineers at a Capitol conference between Harrisburg Railway officials and State officers discussed rerouting railroad cars during the construction of the State Memorial bridge. Plans covered how the bridge would relate to Pennsylvania Railroad tracks and the handling of piers and approaches.
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Harrisburg
Capitol
Railways Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Supreme Council Adopts Bulgarian Treaty for Deliverance
Paris reports the Supreme Council has definitively adopted the Bulgarian Treaty and will deliver it to Bulgarian plenipotentiaries on Friday morning.
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Paris
Supreme Council
Red Cross Expands Home Service For Harrisburg District
The Red Cross extends home service in Dauphin county aiding children and families through braces and treatment. Mrs William Jennings and Miss Margaret Ringland spearhead efforts after war, arguing aid should reach local sufferers as it did in Europe. Affected families in Elizabethtown Lykens New Bloomfield and other nearby towns await automobile transport to specialists in Philadelphia for braces and rehabilitation.
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Elizabethville
Philadelphia
New Bloomfield
Red Cross
Lykens
The
Harrisburg
William Jennings
Home Service Department
Margaret Ringland
Jennings
Lyman D. Gilbert
Robert McCormick
France
Belgium
Publishers May Quit New York City to Escape Paying Printers Demands
New York publishers threaten to suspend or move plants to western cities to avoid labor demands. They seek a 14 dollar weekly pay rise and a 44 hour week by October 10, while offering to arbitrate. Some large periodicals plan to sell NYC real estate and shift operations, canceling orders for new printers.
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New York City
Associated Presse
New York
Big Six
Union of
John Adams Thayer
New York Publishers’ Association
Thayer
Moore's Plurality in Philadelphia Mayoralty Showdown
Noon counts list Moore at 150,199 votes to Patterson 148,792, a 1,407 lead with ongoing updates. Patterson faction demands official tally for nomination. Also notes Dr J W Smith freed by Villa rebels after ransom in Chihuahua City.
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Moore
Phila
Patterson
Pershing Leads Last Grand Review of War Parade
Washington reports Pershing and the First Division marching up Pennsylvania Avenue in the final victory parade of World War I. The vast crowd cheered as Pershing passed the salute to Vice President Marshall, with Pershing's own regiment and a tank battalion forming a flawless, ornate display of valor and readiness.
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Sept
Pershing
Pennsylvania Avenue
Marshall
Wilson
Election Officers Strike for More Pay in Reading Pa
Election officers in Reading's Second precinct of the Fifteenth ward went on strike and returned their ballot box without counting ballots or totaling votes. They cited dissatisfaction with state pay for election officers, upsetting city totals. Authorities likely to act.
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Associate Press
Reading
Storm toll rises in Corpus Christi area after hurricane
Corpus Christi Texas September 17. Fifteen additional storm victims were brought to the temporary morgue bringing the known death toll in the city to 82 as a result of the tropical hurricane last Sunday. The total known dead now exceeds 160 including 50 at Portland 30 at White Point and 14 at Rock Port. Recovery conditions hinder identification and relief work as drenching rain continues and more lives are believed lost in Corpus Christi Port Aransas and Aransas Pass.
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Corpus Christi
Texas
Portland
White Point
Rock Port
Port Aransas
Aransas Paxs
Citys Memorial to Its Soldiers a Beauty in Design
Arnold W Brunner outlined a plan for Harrisburgs memorial to fallen soldiers. A circular marble base with marble seats surrounds a bronze pillar and flagpole. A grass strip along Thirteenth Street will become a formal park to frame the eastern approach to the State Street memory viaduct.
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Arnold W. Brunner
Capitol
Harrisburg Memorial
Thirteenth
State Streets
Harrisburg Club
State Street Memory Viaduct
Brunner
Paul Johnson
Spencer (. Gilbert
Ciy
Mission Delayed By Belgian Finance Minister
The Belgian financial mission to the United States could not sail to New York as planned due to no steamer accommodation. Aloys Van Wyvere, named president of the mission, opts not to go because of the rather cool reception of his nomination.
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Associated Presse
Brussels
United States
New York
le Soir
Aloys van Wyvere
Finance
Leslie Candidates Lead in Incomplete Allegheny Returns
Returns from about five eighths of Allegheny districts show Leslie candidates leading for county offices. Anti Leslie rivals fare in key races for register of wills and clerk of courts, while A C Gumbert is renominated by a large Leslie-leaning majority. Leading totals include Douglas 48 521 and Bailey 45 080 for clerk of courts and registrar of wills respectively.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Leslie
Republican Party
Max Leslie
Anti- Leslie
William Conner
Register of Wills
John Douglas
A. C. Gumbert
J. P. Kerr
Samuel D. Foster
Robert S. Cain
John H. Shenkel
J. C. Armstrong
J. PD. Graham
Leslie Man
H. B. Flegal
Clerk of Courts
Douglas
Bailey
Conner
Foster
Governor Catts taunts Tampa officials over retract request
Tampa city leaders ordered a telegram from Governor Catts framed as a retort to their demand that he retract or deny remarks linked to Labor Day address. The governor challenged them to confront him in Tallahassee or Tampa, calling their resolution contemptible.
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Catts
Pensacola
P. O. Knight
Messrs
F. W. Ball
W. A. Johnson
Be McKay
Peter O. Knight
Tallahassee
J. Catts
Reading cigar strike continues with wage demand
State headquarters in Reading says no overtures toward settlement have been made and workers will hold out for higher wages and better conditions. More than 500 of 1200 cigar factory workers have found higher paying jobs elsewhere as the cigar shortage remains acute after six weeks of strike.
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Associated Press
Reading
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