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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1916
Page
2
The big event arrives Saturday June 10 with Ringling Brothers Circus in Greensburg. The main tent spectacle Cinderella features 100 plus dancers and pageants, while 400 performers and many trained animals headline a largely new European lineup. A bright street parade opens show day morning.
Mr and Mrs Coulter return to McKeesport after a week with Annie M Brown and daughter. J B Gilhousen J W Shields and Miss Ella Moore toured Panxsutawney in Gilhousens new car to see Wallace and Tlagenback Circus. Miss Mary Wynkoop departs Friday for six weeks in Waterloo Town. Adella Snyder of NuBois called to Home Station for brother in law W E Winter CG J and S J McElhoes bought a New Buick. Mrs C B Sloan and son of Creekside spent Wednesday with cousin Mrs Brown. William Streams and family from Marion Center visited Hannah Mill.
Heavy trading of railway issues on the floor today drew surprise from speculators. Reading led with first sales at 1,400 at LOG and 50 at 106 1-4, quickly rising to 106 1-2. Chesapeake and Ohio moved up from 64 4-8 to OGLA as Occidental Flour note referenced.
San Francisco idol Smith, famed for his cheerful smile in Japan, was to perform a loop at Osaka. A crowd gathered, stones were thrown, he was knocked down and rushed to a hospital. He attempted to fly again but diverted toward Narade, twenty miles away, with bystanders stunned.
Five thousand New York orphans were treated to a large annual outing at Donnelly's Grove in College Point. A motor coach loan made possible the event with meals and refreshments provided by philanthropic donors.
An article on the British Non-Combatant Corps explains conscientious objectors in WWI Britain. It notes Quakers and Plymouth Brethren refusing to fight, serving in labor roles with equal pay, and occasional criticisms from public opinion. Many members were clerks or shopkeepers, some from Cambridge, who valued peace and refused to kill.
Harrisburg reports supplementary orders for annual encampments of guard units. First Brigade Field Hospital Ambulance No 2 and others to set duty S-15 with site near Philadelphia. Second Brigade North Girard August 4-12. Third Brigade Tobyhanna July 22-20. Fourth Brigade Mt. Gretna August 4-12. Batteries B D F and Field Hospital Ambulance details incomplete.
A fragment notes a July training period around Belvoir net in Virginia. Mentions Battery D artillery, First Cavalry, Companies A and DB, engineers and a practice march on a date to be set by the commander. References July H2LG and dinky 22-29 in Mi Cre may.
The State Health Department yesterday announced three mild smallpox cases in Tay field Lawnship Crawford County linked to a Detroit visitor Wayne Smith who, while visiting his father Marry Smith, developed a skin eruption. His family and a faith healer contracted mild forms and all exposed persons are being watched by health authorities. In other news the Women’s Relief Corps presented a large American flag to Zion Lutheran Church Sunday school in Crawford County and officers were elected for the auxiliary in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia officers.
A quirky wartime note imagines the United States clashing with Switzerland in a grand nonviolent conflict over scenic beauty. The piece muses whether the Swiss Alps or the Rockies offer grander spectacle for travelers, referencing a torpedo sinking rumor about a vessel named Tribantia and a tangential mention of Indians beating Stay.
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