davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

Authentic and up to the minute news from New York regarding wo- mems apparel for the coming season is that skirts will be at trif1e longer with many plaits. There will be 6 radical combination of colors to the extreme limit.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

Natives have arrived from Cape Prince of Wales with four sleds of new design :hat they will enter in the reindeer fair at Hot Springs. on March l9. They came here to finish their sleds with irons and in other ways
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

in the billiard tournament tonight al the Board or Trade there will be two matches. In class C. Ivory 110. plays Mish. 95. and in class B, Lewis, 120. will contes. with Gyain, 115. Play will will commence at S:30.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05
,- o. o. M.

All Loyal Moose are directed 70 be present at the regular meeting on Monday evening at which time nom. nations for officers for the ensuing year take place
 P. F. MURPHY. Dict J. P. JONES. Sect
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

The Dream management gave free Fl; tinee yesterday 70 exhibit for the last time here ten picked rounds of the Cans Nelson fight.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

The Eagles have announced that they will give masquerade ball on March 24 Further details will be made known when the committee in charge shall have worked them out
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

Robert Emmet's birthday will be n.linsly celebrated tonight by the or der which bears his name at Miners Hcme Club hall Many geusts have been invited
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

All ladies interested in a women's exchange. either fro fancy work or cooking, are requested to see Miss Oestreich An exchange will be opened if enough ladies wish to contribute for same.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

Nominations of officers will be made al tonight's meeting of the Loyal Or der of Moose.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

Adoption papers were made out last week whereby Mrs. Barney Gibney adopted the youngest child of MT. Joe Olson. The baby has been chris:ened Margaret Bongad Gibney.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

A rehersal for the Eagle minstrel show was held yesterday. It is re- ported that some great stunts will be pulled oh.
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

The mail ye 'te' iay contained five hundred pounds of matter 'ol siler- able proportion ef which was first clas,
The Nome daily nugget., 1917-03-05

council meeting tonight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16

pathize with this Pittsburgh minister
Crimes without number have been
committed in the name of religion and
no sooner do the leaders of any ma
tion find themselves in difficulties than
they call upon High Heaven for special
favors of all kinds, at the same time
blatantly informing their people that
God is with u.s.
Take care of us. but help us kill
the other fellows, help us wreck their
country, help us force our will upon
them," is their prayer.
Diplomatic attempts to gain popular
support through appeal to divinity is
sacrilegious. God is not on the side
of the United States or any other ma
ton except as that nation is on the side
of humanity. But to this extent our
ministerial friend may rest at ease.
The God of the Stars and Stripes
never was a '1ittle tribal god" AL
ways we have kept before us as a
nation the God of all the world. So
long as we in America can pray: "God
bring peace and happiness to all the
nations of the EARTH" and mean it, sc
long We may without fear pray to the
God of the Stars and Stripes"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
Not Doing Booze Any Good
kansas City Times. ]


The Western Retail Implement,
Vehicle and Hardware Association,
with a membership of 4,200 in the
Southwest, passed resolutions in their
convention in this city Monday plac-
ing themselves "squarely on record as
being in favor of nationwide prohibit
ton"
The Manufacturers Record, one of
the leading trade papers of America.
said editorially in a recent issue: THE
curse of the liquor traffic with it's
fearful toll of sin and death and finan-
cial loss, is being gradually lessened. :"
The Supreme Court of the United
States has declared that wet state
cannot ship booze into dry state il
the dry state doesn't want it to.
The United States Senate has pass
ed the Sheppard Bill that aims to pro-
hibit the sale of booze in Washing
ton.
These recent slaps at John Barley
corn recall the story of the prize fight
er who was being badly mangled by
his opponent in the ring. At last, after
having three teeth knocked out and
one eye closed, his second asked him
as he came to his corner for breath:
How are you getting on?"
WELL" he said, "the guy isn't hurt
ing me much. but he isn't doing me
any good. either"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
AMERICAS GOD
is more than mere pull
pit sensationalism in the re-

T>HERE is more than mere pull
pit sensationalism in the re-
fusal of Pittsburgh minister
to pray to the God of the Stars and
Stripes" The preacher puts his argu-
ments forcefully.
From what we understand" he
says, KAISER Wilhelm is working hand
and glove with the God of the Ger
mans. The Archbishop of Canterbury
is walking arm in arm with the God
of the British Empire and President
Poincare of France is pretty close to
the French God. And now I guess
they are preparing for us to pray to
our God, the God OF the Stars and
Stripes. I for one will refuse to do
it. My God is the God of all nations,
the God of the English, the Germans,
the Chinese, the Hindus and of all
the world. I cannot believe in little
tribal god. My God is greater than
the boundaries of the nation. want
to believe in a God In whom centers
ell that is good and perfect"
There will be those who will sym
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
AVAST, THE HYPHEN,

DETwEEN the Kaiser and the
ID President the poor old hyphen
appears to be on the verge Of
extinction. Soon it may deserve a
place in museum case fianked on
one side by a dodo egg and on the
other by the stuffed specimen of the
last passenger pigeon. A year ago
when the specter of war first lifted
its grim visage over the national
horizon the hyphen suddenly loomed
up as big and as frightful as a Ger
man army corps going into action.
Statesmen ran to cover when it ap-
preached and gloom was its boon
companion. But it has proved itself
a mere bugaboo, a scarecrow, a jack
in-the-boX, and we can laugh at It
now and wonder how we were ever
SO stupid as to be fooled by it.
No sooner did it become apparent
that Germany really meant to drag
us into the war than thousands of
aliens in the United States who might
have been suspected of having lean
ings toward the Fatherland rushed TO
show their colors by taking out nat
uralization papers, thereby effectually
removing the hyphen from its recently
acquired position of international i'm
portance.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
QUICK AND ACCURATE

WITH the country on the verge
wv of war and in danger of being
plunged over the brink by q
single overt act, speed and accuracy
have become more important in news
gathering, especially as it pertains to
the international situation, than ever
before.
In this respect the Harrisburg Tele-
graph is extremely fortunate. It is
the only evening newspaper in Cen
trail Pennsylvania served by the COM
plete leased wire reports of the Asso-
ciated Press, the oldest and admittedly
the most extensive and most reliable
of all the news-gathering agencies of
the world.
This Associated Press membership
is highly priced, both for the reason
that Associated Press papers every
where rank among the best in the
country and because the Associated
Press privilege carries with it assur-
ance of prompt service absolutely ac-
curate and unbiased in its character.
Being the only Associated Press even
ing newspaper in this field gives the
Telegraph advantages of very de-
cided nature.
The Associated Press wires run into
the news rooms within few feet Of
the news editors desk and frequently
in late editions it happens that the
item Is scarcely ten minutes old be-
fore it is on the presses
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
TURN GARBAGE INTO FUEL
itor of the Telegraph:

To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Since there has been so much dis
satisfaction and as the matter has not
yet been settled concerning the salts
factory collection of garbage in this
city, 1t seems advisable to call your
attention to an article appearing on
page 222 of the Independent" (weekly)
for February 8, 1917, entitled Turning
ing Garbage Into Fuel"
This article is a description of the
manufacture of fuel briquette called
"oakoal" from garbage.
Since the city of Austin, Tex, has es-
tablished a plant of this kind and the
only successful but a paying venture,
would it not be expedient for this city
to employ an expert to go to Austin to
investigate said system? Then, when
the results of the investigation have
been ascertained. IL at all practicable,
let the city of Harrisburg adopt and in
stall a similar plant.
1t would not only be a saving of
material that is now being wasted. but
would permit the city to pay higher
wages to the men who do the col
lecting. which would in turn overcome
the present difficulty of the scarcity
of help which is due partly to the fact
that the work is disagreeable and un-
attractive, and to a great extent to
the wage not being as high as what
the men can get in pleasanter lines of
work
This would not add to the expense
of the city, except the installation of
the plant, for IL the product is salable
the revenue thus derived would take
care of the running expenses; even If 1t
could not be made to be self-support-
ing more would be gained than under
tion of the garbage is financed by
taxation entirely.
Again, the manufacture of the fuel
briquette would be advantageous, par
ticularly to the working people, since
coal has become almost prohibitive in
price. and the briquette seems a likely
substitute.
I hope this may receive careful con-
side-ation, for it certainly does not
seem an impossible scheme in the light
of the fact that originally liquid coal
tar was a valueless substance to be
gotten rid of as quickly as possible,
whereas now we obtain so many valu-
able by-products from it.
Very truly yours,
INTERESTED.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
Two States Rejoice

The Atlanta Constitution, review
ing prohibition in Georgia for the last
eight months, says:
Thank heaven that you live in the
saloonless state of Georgia and the
saloonless city of Atlanta"
The Spokane, Wash, Spokesman
Review, summarizing the results of a
year of prohibition there, says:
I'm the terse and telling diction of
Theodore Roosevelt the results of a
year of prohibition in Washington and
at Spokane are "bully!' From baker
and butcher and candlestick maker,
from banker and farmer and miner,
from realtor and logger and laborer
and manufacturer, from rejoicing
women and from happy children rises
q unanimous verdict that the abolition
of the saloon has in every way been a
benefit to every other class and inter-
est in this state and city"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
The Hive

Ma says our nursery is hive, busy
hive of bees,
1 know it is a buzzing place, so every
one agrees;
Pa says, sometimes we sting him, that
he knows at least,
And Grandma says we keep things
movin', workin', just like yeast;
But mother says we're just her real,
live, busy, humble bees.
Her working and her playing humble
bees.
Sometimes we all get indolent-as
lazy as can be,
And sit around and NOPE and fret, til
we're not good to see;
Then Pa comes in and says Here fell
lows, you must get to work."
And through her specs our Grandma
says, Your tasks you must not
shirki"
And Mother smiles mo drones must
be among my humble bees,
My working and my playing humble
bees!" Edna Croft Delhi.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
MAKE BOROUGHS BEAUTIFUL
j. HORACE MCFARLAND
Outlines Possibilities in Speech to Delegates to Bor
ough Convention Meeting Here

ITO make the boroughs of Penn
sylvania attractive in their approaches
would invite the attention of many
people who now avoid boroughs be-
cause of the unpleasant features at
tendant upon passing through them.
Switzerland lives upon the money of
the tourist. Vast sums are spent by
tourists in New England. Pennsyl-
vania could have an annual travel in
come of at least twenty millions of
dollars If there was some attempt to
make the boroughs convenient and at
tractive instead of repellant, and to
change the general plan of providing
the maximum of inconvenience to the
tourist.
''If course, good borough manage
ment would cost money. A man can
live cheaper If he wears overalls in
stead of clothes made by tailor. He
can feed cheaper out of a trough than
from an orderly dining table. Much
borough handling in Pennsylvania is
of the trough order, yet the cheapest
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16

here the Ware faction means to make
it a fight of equal importance with its
effort to get control of the district at
torney's office in Philadelphia.
Public Service Commissioner
Ryan in an address to the grocers, in
Philadelphia, declared that co-opera-
ton was needed to make business and
government trot along together. Mr..
Ryan still maintains q strong hold
upon the affections of many Democrats
and is likely to be big factor again
one of these days.
Men in politics were keenly in
terested to-day in the announcement
that the fee of Henry G.. Wasson in
the Harmony society escheat was $1O,-
900. Wasson was the Republican
state chairman in the days of Bull
Moose domination and it was currently
reported that he was enjoying nice
assignment from the Auditor Generals
department.
Some interesting disclosures re-
garding expenses of the State Board of
Censors are reported about the Capt.
tol as in the wind.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
Women of the War

Afar amid wars darkness, they suffer
and grow strong.
For courage is their garment, and
hope their even-song;
They hide the pain of parting with
till we meet again"
Or greet with tender welcome their
bruised and broken men.
They give their all ungrudging, nor
think it much to give;
They see their lives in ruin, then face
the years, and live.
o heart of selfish sorrows and un-
availing fears!
One day of their devotion were worth
my idle years.
With uncomplaining patience their
sacrifice is made
So, tho in lesser service, my debt of
love were paid.
Take thou, beloved, country, the little
all / give.
Who am not born to greatness, and
yet would greatly live.
-Ethelwyn Dithridge in New York
Times.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

Senator ]. P. McNicho1 will
spent the next ten days in Florida.
Frank Booth, Pittsburgh's city
controller. sold lot of old rails for
the same price that the city originally
paid for them.
To-day is the birthday of Ex-
Mayor Blankenburg and Philadel-
phians are sending him their cards.
Col. II. d. Turner, commander of
the Second Artillery, who has been
Ill since his return from the border, is
improving rapidly. VII
w. II. Stevenson, Pittsburgh
businessman, says that a navy yard
for that city is not impossible.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
By BRIGGS

thing any citizen of this State gets be-
tween the cradle and the grave is the
municipal service supplied him in con-
sequence of the taxes he pays.
"All of you gentlemen who are here
as elected officers of the Pennsylva-
mia boroughs, are selling something to
the citizens just as distinctly as any
department store ever offers some
thing for sale. You are selling serv-
ice, and you ought to be proud of the
opportunity to sell it, and also of the
opportunity to make it the best pos
sible service of it's kind. 1t is the
service of life, for it is concerned with
the health, safety, happiness, comfort
and business opportunity of those who
buy it.
"If you will tell your people about
this service, and have them fully ac-
quainted with it through proper pub
licity in the schools and even in the
churches, you will soon develop a
splendid asset to municipal adminis-
tration. in the shape of borough
pride"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
Give the Poor Proper Houses

|
That is the cry that has gon
up from the Health Department
the Civic Club and various other or
ganizations of the kind for the bet
terment of housing conditions in thi
city.
There can be no doubt that 1T i.
justified.
A walk through any of the poorer
sections will be convincing proof of
that, If there be doubters.
God made the air and the sunshine,
and he made them for all of us, rich
and poor. They are as essential to
health as pure water or wholesome
food. They are free. or should be.
who wilfully denies another
air or sunshine robs him of a God
given right. Foul air. dark rooms,
overcrowded quarters, leaky roofs,
dirty, tumble-down surroundings, as
DR.. Raunick said in his report as
health officer the other day, are all
conducive to crime. The reverse also
is true. Pleasant, healthful home con-
ditions make not only for good health
but for good morals.
The owner who rents for residence
purposes a building unit for human
habitation is conspiring against the
welfare of the community. If he can
not restrain his own greed for gain
at the expense Of his fellows the people
should step in and do it for him. The
law should compel all owners of dwell
ing houses to so maintain them that
there shall be ample air and sunshine,
that the surroundings be kept clean
and as attractive to the eye as condi-
tions permit. With this should go
social education, to the end that the
tenant may be taught to cooperate in
keeping the property in good condi-
ton. The problem is a big one, but
not beyond solving.
The first step is the adoption of an
adequate building code. and the prep
aration Of this should be the work of
thoroughly experienced persons of
high ideals. While reasonable In its
provisions it should be rigid as to its
regulations of house building. Such a
code should be made to forcibly elimi-
nate the slum districts, which are
sores on the community, the virus of
which reaches to every walk of life.
The poor people who live there must
be brought under new and better con-
ditions of home life both for their own
sake and for the sake of the city as a
whole
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16

HORACE MCFARLAND, publisher,
writer and civic authority, writing
to the editor, had this to say of
the Telegraph:
Last evenings issue seemed to me
to be one of the highest order of
excellence in its arrangement,
contents and ideals.
This is high praise from a man
especially well qualified to pass upon
the merits of any newspaper, and who
at times has been quite as ready to
criticise adversely. Words of COM
mendation are rare to editorial ears.
Newspaper readers are ready
enough to find fault and quick to
carry their grievances to the editor,
but few take the trouble to write their
approval. In this particular instance
Mr.. McFarland's letter is doubly well
come, for it is an indication to those
in charge of this newspaper that their
efforts have not been in vain.
The Telegraph is striving con-
stantly to improve its arrangement
and contents" and to live up to the
highest ideals of modern journalism.
1t has no other purpose than to print
the news, to entertain and instruct it's
readers, to champion what it believes
to be right, uplifting and progressive
and to vigorously expose and de-
nounce evil in all it's forms.
1t is not being run for political pur-
poses. Nobody employed or con-
nected with it has political ambitions.
1t is pulling no chestnuts out of the
fire. 1t prints the truth, but it SLAM
ders nobody. 1t does not entertain
the foolish idea that everybody who
does not happen to agree with it is
dishonest. 1t entertains no childish
notion as to it's own infallibilty.
But it does lay claim to being an
honest, reliable newspaper, sturdy and
constant in its defense of public in
terests and pointing the way ever
lastingly toward bigger, better Har-
risburg.
That the Telegraph is succeeding in
its purposes to an appreciable extent
is not only pleasing to those who make
the paper but an inspiration to more
earnest effort along the lines that
have been mapped out for it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
Labor Notes

LABOR NOTES
Persian farming depends on irriga-
ton.
Toronto (Canada) Machinists' Union
has a membership of over LOO.
Boilermakers on Canadian Govern
ment railroads have a minimum rate
of 48 cents an hour.
Compulsory service for women is
under discussion in England. 1t would
apply to munition and clerical work
for the Government.
The various Structural Iron Work.
ers' Unions of the California bay coun-
ties have voted to affiliate with the
Iron Trades Council of San Francisco.
The Tramways Committee of Glas-
gov (Scotland) Corporation have
adopted a motion that all women in
the Tramways Department should be
paid the same scale of wages as men,
Since Oct. / the membership of the
California State Federation of Labor
has increased by more than 10000.
making it one of the largest, il not
the largest, State labor bodies affili-
ated with the American Federation of
Labor.
President Samuel Gompers was in
structed at the a. F.. of l.. convention
held in Baltimore to visit Canada SO
that he might be better informed on
union matters during the war. 1t is
expected that he will time his visit so
that he may be in Ottawa during the
next meeting of the Trades Congress
of Canada.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
English Shell Bids
New York Evening Post.l

New York Evening Post.J
The explanation of President Grace
of the Bethlehem Steel Company for
the fact that Hadfield's, Limited, of
Great Britain, were able to underbid
American munition makers to so great
an extent on the recent inquiry for
naval shell prices, certainly seems
plausible enough. Mr.. Grace remark
ed that inasmuch as the British navy
had been in action but little in the
war, it was entirely conceivable that
the English government had consid-
erable surplus of naval shells on hand
which it might be willing to have it's
munition manufacturers dump" on
our market land turn the proceeds
into shells for use on the battle field"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
FRIDAY EVENING. FEB. 16

This above all: To thine otCn self
be true, and it must folloto, as the night
the day, thou cdnst not then be false
to any mdn.-SHAKEsPEARE.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
A Hint

If publicity is all Thomas Lawson
was after. 1t might have been more
comfortable to depend entirely on
buying 1t at the usual advertising
Star.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
DO YOU KNOW

THAT Harrisburg tin plate is
worked up into articles that arc
sold In the South Seas?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
NJ 4 r CH o !

4 4NS
ANY distinctive
feature in your
1917 model!
Yes, sir. Each
machine Is plain
ly lettered. This
car is not a jit-
ney bus.'' This
feature il greatly
appreciated b ,
o u r fashionable
trade. I assure
you"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
OUR DAILY LAUGH
POOR DOGGIE.

POOR DOGGIE.
She had a dog
with soulful
eyes
That was her pet.
her joy, h 9 r
prize
She b OF him
specs, to see. I
think,
His soulful eyes
were on { h Q
AItnIr
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
HISTORIC HARRISBURG

Governor Mexican, who occupied
the executive chair in the early eigh-
ties. lived in Front street, near
Locust
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-16
MISCON-
STRUED,

MISCON-
STRUED.
She: Winter
sports are so
fascinating!
H O.: Well,
don't look at
me. I'm not
even q summer
sport.