Three football injuries land three players in Harrisburg hospital
In Lebanon Valley the injuries from football sent three players to Harrisburg hospital last Thursday afternoon. Russel Murray of Harrisburg broke his nose rushing the ball in a Wednesday game, Robert Thompson of Steelton fractured his right shoulder in a Saturday game with Hummelstown, and George Wolfe of Highspire, fellow Steelton scrub, suffered a broken right shoulder during a Wednesday scrimmage.
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Harrisburg Hospital
Russel Murray
Harrisburg
Robert Thompson
Steelton
Hummelstown
Thompson
Steelton High School
Hummelstown High School
George Wolfe
Highspire
Steelton High Scrubs
Wolfe
State opens Hamburg Tuberculosis Sanatorium on hilltop
The new State Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Hamburg opens Monday morning as part of a system expanding care for ten thousand patients. The facility, built to serve 550, features mission style buildings, glass protected wards, open air recreation, and extensive grounds of 311 acres with cultivated crops and a pure mountain stream supplying water.
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Hamburg
Schuylkill Valley
Mont Alto Sanatorium
Cresson
Tip the recruitment tune Stirring Britain and America
Britons and Americans turn to the march tune Tippe rary as a symbol of wartime sentiment. The song, once treated as light entertainment, gains status among troops and composers alike, replacing solemn hymns in public spaces and sacred concerts.
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Tipperary
Old England
Tyler's Green
London
Jommy Adding
Tylor’s Green
Favorita Aly
New War Revenue Act Targets Diverse Tax Classes
The Public Ledger outlines the 20 groups hit by the new war time levy. Bond and stock traders, proxy voters, exchange merchants, note borrowers, freight shippers, long distance callers, real estate sellers, importers, insurers, travelers abroad, cosmetic users, dentists and gum chewers, rail passengers, alcohol sellers, brokers, bankers, pawnbrokers, theatres and circuses operators, tobacco dealers and manufacturers face immediate levies. The plan expires December 31 next year.
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Congress
Custom House
The
Public Ledger
Russian Emperor Declares End to State Alcohol Sales
The Russian government will never again manufacture or sell alcohol, per an Em peror Nicholas telegram. The empress union urged a full interdiction, and vodka sales were suspended nationwide as 170 million people moved to sobriety.
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Nicholas
Russian Union of
Russia
Sailors transformed by skilled electricians and machinists
The Nation notes a shift in naval culture as modern warships recruit more from skilled tradesmen. Electricians and machinists, seen as the aristocracy of the crew, bring union traditions and greater science. Officers adapt to a new relationship with their men as bullying fades and discipline relies on good form and regulations.
Wood backs rifle teaching for schoolboys at interscholastic event
Major General Leonard Wood replied to General George Wingate’s invitation by confirming interest in attending the Interscholastic rifle championship at Peekskill. He urged teaching rifle use in schools and warned that European events underscore the need for preparedness.
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Leonard Wood
George W. Wingate
Public Schools’ Athletic League
Peokskill
Wood
Europe
Bindnagles Church Notes Oct 27 Visitors and Local Life
Local church notes list visitors including Prof Henry Early from Paine and Rev Norman Fake from Annville. Families from Palmyra Grantville and Lebanon appear, with mules purchased, a funeral attended, and a busy farming community husking corm sowing grain. School returns after a short vacation and veterinary work by Drs Betz Becker are mentioned.
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Bindnagles
Bindnagles Church
Henry Early
Paine
East Hanover
Elias Shuey
Lickdale
Norman Fake
Annville
David Ensminger
Philip Hetrick
Palmyra
William Walmer
Rudy Behm
Daniel Seichrist
Ross Seichrist
Abner Hemperly
John Walmer
Lebanon
George Ethweiler
Aaron Fox
Jacob Ulrich
Harry Crupp
Jacob Dullabone
Bismarck
Susan Seigfreid
John Jeffries
Frank Moyer
Huber Manufacturing Company
Frank
Miles Yorty
Grantville
Institute
Detroit Labor Market Braces as Influx Triggers Bread Lines
A Detroit correspondent reports a flood of hundreds of men drawn by high wages, risking bread lines amid fierce business conditions. Auto industry part time work lowers wages from last year, urging readers to avoid Detroit until after April 1, 1915 when conditions may improve. The Detroit Y M C A secretary notes 75 to 100 men seek work daily.
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Detroit
Hershey Press
The
Detroit Y. M
Hallowe'en Verses and Invitations to Dark Party
A fragment poem describes Halloween imagery with witches cats bats hobgoblins and sprites. It invites readers to a party by moonlight near a witch wall promising luck fortunes and spellbound fun before the seventh hour.
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Hallowe'en
Jack O'Lanterna
Sallow
A Touching Tribute to Mischa Ellman and a Royal Reception
Mischa Ellman recalls his early youth at a reception hosted by a Russian prince where he performed Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata. An elderly woman urged him to play something familiar, and the scene is remembered as a touching moment. An aside mentions a mathematical fact about a variable altar doubling light every seven minutes.
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Mischa Ellman
Hoa
Beethoven
Tha Sa Xosta
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