Fire Apparatus of Two Centuries in Big Parade
Harrisburg coverage details a parade on October 8 featuring old and new fire apparatus. Read about antique hand engines from Philadelphia and Hummelstown, plus modern equipment, with Darktown divisions reassigned and Harrisburg hosting multiple contingents. Tag day planned October 3 to support the convention fund.
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Big Parade
Volunteer Firemen’s Association of
Philadelphia
Baltimore Volunteers
Hummelstown
Harrisburg
Cumberland Valley
Howard
Holstein
Darktown
Susquehanna
General Finance Committee
Unsettled Weather Across Herrisburg Vicinity
Un settled conditions in Herrisburg and nearby areas with probable showers tonight. Thursday will be fair and cooler. Eastern Pennsylvania remains unsettled and cooler tonight and Thursday with moderate variable winds.
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Herrisburg
Pennsylvania
Iceless Refrigerators Fireless Cookers In The Age Of Progress
The piece highlights iceless refrigerators and fireless cookers as symbols of a modern, efficient kitchen. It notes that housekeeping is approaching automated convenience, with many devices marketed to lighten kitchen labor and widespread newspaper advertising attracting interested American women.
Survivors Landed At Holland Seaport After Sea Fight
287 British sailors from sunk cruisers reach Ymuiden on the Dutch steamer Flora. Wounded cared for by Dutch Red Cross as crowds gather near hotels and hospital. The Aboukir struck early with three torpedoes causing a catastrophic explosion.
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Associated Press
Ymuiden
Holland
London
North Sea
Flora
Red Cross
Aboukir
Doctor Mpalioter Elected President of State Medical Society
Dr John M Alister of 234 North Third Street was elected president of the Medical Society of Pennsylvania now in session at Pittsburgh. The Dauphin County delegation included Dr John F Culp, Dr Harvey F Smith and Dr John Oenslager Jr. The society has about 8 000 members. President Heckel urged closer public ties and denounced fee splitting while praising ethics and reform.
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John M. McAlister
North Third Street
Medical Society of Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
McAlister
John F. Culp
Dauphin County Medical Society
Charles S. Rebuck
State Medical Society
Culp
Harvey F. Smith
John Oenslager
Edward B. Heckel
University For Pennsylvania Medical College
Heckel
Lillian Russell Undergoes Appendicitis Operation
Pittsburgh report of actress Lillian Russell wife of Alexander P. Moore publisher of the Pittsburgh Leader, being operated on for appendicitis at West Penn Hospital. Surgeons L W Swope and C B Schildecker performed the procedure. she is expected to recover.
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Pittsburgh
Lillian Russell
Alexander P. Moore
The
Pittsburgh Leader
West Penn Hospital
L. W. Swope
C. B. Schildecker
Organize City Tennis Club Meeting Tomorrow
Harrisburg tennis enthusiasts are invited to a 7:30 PM meeting in the Park Department offices to form a city tennis club and to distribute lockers at the Reservoir clubhouse. All Reservoir court users are urged to attend.
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City Tennis Club
Harrisburgs
Park Department
Reservoir
Taylor Announces Stations for New Fire Apparatus
City Commissioner M Harvey Taylor outlined permanent housing for Harrisburgs first motor fire apparatus The La France truck goes to the Good Will Company in the west end The Morton truck is assigned to the Friendship Company on South Third below Chestnut The arrangement aims for rapid service across the city and honors Superintendent Lynch by placing the Morton truck at the Friendship house
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Harrisburg
M. Harvey Taylor
la France
Good Will Company
Morton
Friendship Company
Good Will
West End
South Third Street
Chestnut
Friendship House
Lynch
Taylor
Friendship Fire Company
Arrests Alleged Auto Thief Near Wiconisco
Sometime Monday night or early yesterday morning an automobile owned by James Troutman near Berrysburg was stolen and later found abandoned near the Lykens Valley Coal Company washery. Blair Welker was arrested as the alleged thief and jailed in Harrisburg.
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Wiconisco
James Troutman
Berrysburg
Lykens Valley
Smoking Carby Road Mystery Arouses Elizabethville
Elizabethville Pa Sept 23 Travelers along the Lykens Valley Railroad found a smoking automobile near the tracks two miles west of town triggering rumors about the owner Jonas Garman who had left Monday evening. A search party started but Garman reappeared explaining a serious acute accident and that his car caught fire forcing him to go home.
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Bellefonte
Williamsport
Pennsylvania Match Company
London
Kilmarnock
North Sea
Washington
Russian Foreign Office
United States
Bryan
Great Britain
France
New York
Charles Rector
Long Branch
N. J
Tockport
Rome
Vienna
Giornale D'Italia
Paris
Havas
Petrograd
Army Journal
Galicia
William
Berlin
Verdun
Elizabethville
Lykens Valley
Jonas Garman
Garman
Democrats weigh Palmer withdrawal from senatorial race
Rumors swirl as the Democratic State committee meets in Harrisburg to test sentiment on dropping A Mitchell Palmer for Gifford Pinchot amid Roosevelt faction pressure. Other items include Forrest Whitney facing weapons charges, William Gruver's death after a fall, and H Merchants Ice directors approving a $10 000 bond for treasurer M Hare.
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Democratic State Committee
A. Mitchell Palmer
Gifford Pinchot
Roosevelt
Wilson
Palmer
McCormick
Lewis
Hartisburg Merchants Ice Company
Metropolitan Hotel
M. Hare
Hare
German Right Wing Slowly Being Turned
Berlin reports warn of continued Allied pressure on the Western front as German forces face potential losses and the turning of the German right between Peronne and St Quentin. Casualties mount on both sides with Admiral reports of submarine actions and fleet losses amid a shifting front near the Aisne.
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The
Aisne
St. Quentin
Peronne
Berlin
von Wroehem
von Arbon
German Casualty List Increases To Sixty Three Thousand Four Hundred Sixty Seven
Berlin reports a casualty list listing 5,895 names with dates of battles. Generals Von Wrochem and Von Arbott are listed as dead along with Major General Von Thortha. Lightly wounded include Lieutenant Generals Von Willisen and Von Kuehne. Overall losses total 10,086 dead 39,760 wounded and 13,621 missing.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
von Wrochem
von Arbott
von Thortha
von Willisen
von 'Kuehne
German Left Wing Enters French Lorraine Area
German left wing crossed the French border into Lorraine advancing south of Blamont and Nomany and north of Nancy. Dispatches say they reoccupied DeMeuve and engaged on the right bank of the Oise where Germans were forced back and moved toward Saint Baussant and Limay.
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Washington
Lorraine
Demevre
Blamont
Nomany
Dilme
Nancy
Oise
Saint Baussant
Limey
Harrisburg Academy Opens 138th Session With 135 Enrolled
Harrisburg Academy began its 138th session with 135 students in the upper forms. Opening exercises at 9 o clock in the main study hall featured Rev. John D. Fox delivering prayers for the year and Headmaster Arthur E B Brown introducing new faculty. Professor Sherman A Allen sang a solo and outlined daily study routines.
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Harrisburg Academy
John D. Fox
Grace Methodist Episcopal Church
Arthur EB. Brown
Sherman A. Allen
Europe
Submarine Seen As Key Weapon In Modern Warfare
London reports that the sinking of three British cruisers Aboukir Hogue and Cressy by five German submarines in the North Sea marks a pivotal naval loss. Admiral Percy Scott praised the submarine as the era’s dominant weapon while a German sailor described a submerged patrol off the Scottish coast and a peaceful British squadron above.
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Associated Press
London
Aboukir
Hogue
Cressy
North Sea
Germany
Pathfinder
Percy Scott
Austrians Retreat After Nine Day Engagement
Official bulletin from Nish Serbia states after nine days of fighting the Austrians have fallen back along the front from Ljubovia to Losnitza with wings beaten. Servians pursue vigorously and success in Bosnia continues.
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Paris
Grand Duke
Nicholas
Jaroslav
Nish
Loubovia
Losnitza
Rome
Maria Theresa
Admiral Staun
Sebenica
Dalmatia
Petrograd
Przemysl
Forst
Antwerp
Brussels
Servia
Ljubovia
Bosnia
Austrian Cruisers in Port Badly Damaged
Report from Rome says the Austrian cruisers Marie Theresia and Admiral Stauan e arrived in Dalmatia’s Sebenico badly damaged. dispatch notes travelers’ claims from Rome.
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London
Rome
Central News
Sebenico
Dalmatia
Marie Theresia
Staunae
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Old Public Library
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