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SOCIAL NEWS OF INTERE
>tory Telling Hour
Held This Morning
The fourth meeting in a series of
■tory hours was held this morning
at 10 o'clock in the gymnasium of
3t. Paul's Episcopal Church.
At 9.45 o'clock the enthusiastic
"kiddies" met at the corner of Green
and Woodbine streets, from which
place they paraded to the chucch.
Mrs. Harry G. Keffer, president of
the Story Teller's League presided
at the meeting. "The Tongue-Split
Sparrow" and "The Sun Sisters"
Were told by Mrs. J. Sharon McDon
ald. Mrs. George Watson interested
the youngsters with a fairy tale, "The
Two Princesses" and another charm
ing story, "The Peddler." Games,
singing and a social time followed
the program. i
'OFF TO TRAINING CAMP
Sergeant Carrol B. Davish, staff
artist of the publicity department of
the Harrisburg Recruiting Station,
has returned to his duties after a
short visit at Ocean Grove, N. J. He
leaves next month for a field artillery
officers training camp.
Miss Agnes Carberry and Miss
Mjiry Carberry, leave Saturday for
Columbia to spend some time with
their aunt, Mrs. Mary Finegan.
Mrs. James C. Deininger, 710
North Seventeenth street, is spending
two months with relatives in
Hughesville, Pa.
DISCONTINUE U!>THEO\S
Chamber of Commerce luncheons
have been discontinued for the month
of August, Secretary Warren R. Jack
ion announced to-day.
Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Mackln and
family, of Retreat, Pa., motored to
Paxtonia and spent a few days with
Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Johnson, of Pax
tonia.
Mrs. M. E. Winfield, of 706 North
Sixth street, left this morning for a
two weeks' stay in Atlantic City,
3s\ J.
Miss Lillian Hanf, of Colonial
Acres, is spending several weeks at
Ararat Summit.
Captain and Mrs. George P. Drake,
of 221S North Fifth street, announce
the birth of a daughter, Edith
Georgine Drake, Tuesday, August 6,
1918. Captain Drake is now serving
In France.
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Beautiful Floral Work
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A handsome wreath for
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| Unusual Reductions
11 SHOES FOR THE FAMILY 1
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£ growing as the public becomes better acquainted 1
C with the unusual-values we are offering. I
£ Notwithstanding the lively selling, we still have
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t inally so large that there is still the widest scope' <
£ for making selections. I
1 We bought heavily before the sharp advances in ,
\ the wholesale markets and our Shoes were marked
K away below what we would have to mark them if
f we had to buy the same shoes to-day. I
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1 Many of our customers, who are familiar with
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THURSDAY EVENING,
.Dogwood Troop No. 2
Returns After Hike
Dogwood Troop, No. 2, Girl Scouts,
who were ir. charge of Miss Julia
Stamm, scout captain, on a two-day
hike to Williams Grove, returned
i yesterday.
The scouts left Tuesday morning,
riding to Mechanicsburg and hiked
from there-to Williams Grove. Mrs.
A. Carson Stanim and Miss Cather
ine Stamm motored over with the
hincheon. The girls prepared two
meals and spent the night in the
open.
POSITION IN WASHINGTON
Miss Mary Eichelberger, of 167
Bosler avenue, Lemoyne, who has
been associated with the dental of
fices of Dr. Rhine, Market street, left
yesterday for Washington, D. C., to
take a clerical position in the Union
Railways station.
Mr. and Mrs. George Wirt and
children, Elizabeth Wirt and George
Wirt, Jr., have returned home, 1620
State street, after visiting in Chatn
bersburg.
Harry S. Smeltzer, of Keystone
Bank, ttended the grocers' picnic
at Hershey to-day.
The Rev. M. O. Pelrce, minister of
the First Baptist Church, is among
the house guests of Mrs. Mahlon
Evanli, at her summer cottage, Chel
sea, Atlantic City.
TRUCK TRAIN IN CITV
A train of forty Army ammunition
trucks was camped last night on the
city circus grounds. Twenty-first and
Greenwood streets. The trucktrain is
one of the several which have been
passing through the city in the last
month.
Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Kase. of 15
North Seventeenth street, who are
summering at their country home,
Rocky Place, near Middletown, spent
several days at their home recently.
Miss Blanche Hillard, of 155 Syl
van Terrace, leaves Saturday to visit
relatives in Washington, D. C., on
her way to Neuva Paz, Cuba.
Mrs. E. Curzon Fager, of 25 South
Front street,, will leave the latter
part of next week to visit Miss Sara
E. Cooper, at Asbury Park.
Miss Sara Nunemaker, of 382%
Crescent street, returns to-morrow
from Chicago, 111., where she has
jutt completed her course of study
at the Moody Bible Institute, of that
place. The graduation exercises were
held at the school to-day.
Miss Marguerite Reynolds, of
Derry street, will spend the last week
of August at Camp Nephawin, Can
ton, Pa.
AT THI-; SEASHORE
Mrs. Ross Matter, Mrs. Elmer
Eichelberger, Miss Violet Eichelberg
er a.nd Mrs. W. J. Sheibley are
spending the week at Atlantic City.
Marvin A. Seely, who recently un
derwent an operation in fhe Harris
burg Hospital, has been removed to
his home, 1450 Market street, where
he is convalescing nicely.
Miss Helen Dunlap, of 1507 North
Second streett, will return home the
latter part of next wek after spend
ing a month with her family in
Maine.
Harrisburg Bo
of His War
Soldiers Want the Lighter Magazines For Relaxation; Tells
of Intense Hatred of the Huns
A Harrisburg lad In actlve'servlce
at the front write* the following in
teresting letters home:
„ "Over Here, July 2, 1918.
"I , haven't anything new to toll
you but lust thought I would drop
you a few lines to let you know
everything Is going well.
"It seems very peculiar not to tell
you of every move we make, but it
it quite out of the question. We
have moved, however, since I last
wrote and have viewed much new
scenery. It is also a little more
lively on this sector than on the one
we recently left.
"I haven't received any mall for
almost a month, but we have heard
that there is some at our base and it
ought to be here in a couple of days.
I am receiving the Posts and believe
me they are a godsend. Heading
matter i 3 as scarce as hen's teeth
and though there is generally some
at the Y. M. O. A.'s it consists of
Outlook, Literary Digests and pro
hibition magazines. I can't under
stand why some of the well meaning
women's clubs don't send some
magazines that a soldier can read
without the everlasting war articles
staring him in the face. We want
magazines such as McClure's, Met
ropolitan, Cosmopolitan, etc. Not
this war stuff all the time. There is
plenty of that over here.
"1 am afraid it will take another
year to the trick, though I hope
it will be sooner. I dread winter
over here. The very first night I
went up the line when I got my
baptism of fire, it was a cold and
blizzardy night and the snow was
blowing about. It was the kind of
a night one likes to spend about
the tire at home with a good book
or a nice girl and hear the wind
whistle around the house. I'll never
forget that I never was scar
ed worse in my life and I thought
that if that was war I'd go home JT I
could. It seemed so big and imper
sonal and lonely to hear that con
stant tapping of machine guns and
every couple of minutes the roar ot
a big gun or see the flash when a
shell burst and hear the shrapnel
whine as it went through the air.
Then see the great red liare in the
sky when some sulphur was sent off.
The ground was covered with" anow
and the wind blowing it at "times
and we were crawling out past the
support line trench in little groups
of four or five with our guns slung
on our backs and feeling blue and
scared and riot saying a word. Then
r 'V5 woul< * "strafe" awhile with his
artillery and we would lie in shell
holes and look out into the dark
sky and think how vast and super
human the whole thing was and wish
and pray that we could go home. And
then we went back towards our dug
out after a few hours' work and
stopped in what was called a 'soup
kitchen.' It was a dugout in the
ruins of an old house. In there were
two men who cooked boilers full of
soup and had a big box full of ei
garets and some biscuits. One can
oe supplied the light and one of our
allies guides took us in. Men sat
around on boxes, etc., and'the flick
ering candle threw nervous shadows
on the wall. We went in and dusted
the snow from our clothing and
stood our rifles in the corner and
had hot soup, biscuits and cigarets
and chatted with our ally hosts and
decided that the war wasn't so bad
after all. We sat there for an hour
by the iight of one candle, muddy
and gruesome figures in the semi
darkness piled up against the wall
or squatting ofi the board floor, some
snoozing, some silent, and some talk
ing and laughing in a low, indistinct
buzz. After that we used to look
Miss Rebecca Elscheid, of 1810
State street, who is visiting in Wash
ington, D. C., for a month will en-
Joy part of the time at Colonial
Beach, a Virginia summer resort.
Mrs. B, IJoyd Harrington, lOfi
Chestnut street, and Miss Mary Dun
can, of Duncannon, leave this week
for a trip to Longport, N. J.
Miss Hester Rodney went home
to Brookline, Mass., this morning
after a ten days' stay among relatives
in town. '
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Keller and
small son, Philip Keller, of Colum
bus, Ohio, are guests of their cousins,
Mr. and Mrs. Amos F. Long, of Mar
ket street.
' National Committee
' Accepts Eighty For
Y. M. C. A. War Service
During the present drive for Y. M.
C. A. secretaries, the applications of
198 men have been accepted by the
State Committee, it was stated to-day
by J. B. Carruthers, secretary. Of
this number, approximately eighty
rften have been accepted for service
by the National Committee.
The district under the Jurisdiction
of this committee comprises the entire
state with the exception of Philadel
phia and Pittsburgh. "E. J. Stack
pole, Harrisburg, is chairman of the
State Committee and J. B. Carruthers
secretary of the State Y. M. C A is
secretary.
In addition to the men who have
been accepted by the State Committee
hundred* of others have volunteered
their services. After the State Com
mittee passes on applications, they
are sent to the National Committee in
New York City.
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forward to Being into that kitchen
©verrf night. It was cheery and
comfortable to sit there in the mud
and dirt and sip steaming hot soup
cut of tomato cans used as cups and
smoke the rottenest cigarets I ever
came across, but the finest because
of their associations.
"Over Here, July 3, 1918.
"You asked me for my feelings to
wards the Huns. At first we had
merely a feeling that they were our
enemies and that they were nt re
sponsible for what their 'officers per
mitted them to do. A very vague
feeling which I cannot describe, but
nothing of hatred existed. We would
have shared oifr last cigaret with
prisoners. But now the feeling has
changed. It has changed to a feeling
of hatred and anger even to see pris
oners. They are the most barbar-
I ously cruel and fiendish instrument
I of hell that exist. All chance of be-
I ing treated right has been destroyed
by their own actions. The Saxons are
really fair fighters. They can be
treated as good sportsmen and if we
had them to contend with the war
would be over, but unfortunately the
major part of the German army Is
made up of Prussians and Bavarians
—the most damnably treacherous
and low down humans that exist.
They are hardly human for they are
not even good savages. You can tell
a Prussian and a Bavarian easily.
They are the round-headed type with
ugly eyes; dirty fighters but afrajd
to come over alone; that is why they
come in mass formation over the top,
because they must feel the contact
of their bodies with their fellows to
give them courage.
"They dislike the bayonet extreme
ly and fear it though they are train
ed in its use from boyhood. What
would you think of an enemy who,
when given an hour to bury their
dead and bring in their wounded
who lay all over 'No Man's Land'
and hung on the barbed wire, carry
out machine guns in their stretchers
and drop them into shell holes and
other convenient places for outposts?
They thought they were not seen, but
not a machine gunner survived, nor
I were they given any more armistices.
I know of one regiment which no
longer takes prisoners. Germans who
are unfortunate enough to fall into
this regiment's hands are kilted, no
matter whether they pray or weep
for mercy.
"It is all because one day in an at
tack on a certain famous ridge,
members of this regiment found one
of their sergeants crucified to a barn
door with German bayonets and was
dying when they found him. In Ger
man dugouts in the front lines have
been found Belgian girls with their
throats cut. I was In one German
dugout, a massive concrete affair, re
enforced with steel rails In which a
crucifix had been found with a wire
attached leading to an infernal ma
chine. I was talking with a man
whose comrade had been.shot in the
back by a German whose wound#
he was attending. The Boche lay
wounded on a stretcher and the jock
was bandaging him. When he turned
his back to get a pair of scissors the
Hun shot him in the back, needless
to say the man's comrade buried the
gun butt in the German's face. In
some cases I have seen some of the
things. So you can see from these
tales the kind of an enemy we face,
and yet no one fears him, for right
down in his rotten core the average
German is yellow. For my part I
would sooner be shot than be taken
Into Germany as a prisoner. His
pistol bullets are nearly all dum
dums. Every seventh or tenth ma
chine fhin bullet is explosive and his
bayonet has saw teeth on the back
of it."
Charged With Disloyalty,
Will Be Given Hearings
Before U. S. Commissioner
Jordon Richardson, of Shlppens
burg, charged with making disloyal
remarks, and "Dick" Allday, of Cham
bersburg, arrested under the splonage
act for alleged prorGermanism, will
be arraigned before United States
Commissioner N. L. Bonbrake at
Chambersburg on Saturday.
Richardson although claiming to
be a loyal American, was arrested
yesterday at Shippensburg, because
it is alleged that he said the Presi
dent ought to bo shot so that the
food shortage might be satisfactorily
adjusted. This remark was made, it
Is said, while Richardson was in a
heated argument on July 16. The ar
rest was made by Deputy Martial
Harvey T. Smith, of this city.
Allday, real estate operator, in
surance agent and Democratic poll
tican, was also arrested yesterday by
Marshal Smith. Given a preliminary
hearing before Bonbrake, he was held
under $5,000 bail for Saturday's
hearing. He was a candidate for
Congress from the Seventeenth Dis
trict several years ago.
Hen Drinks Water Sun
Has Heated; Then—but
Let the Farmer Tell It
Huimnclstowii, Pa., Aug. 8. —
Farmer Jeremiah Backlash strolled
into a local bank here to-day with
the champion hot weather story of
the year.
"Pretty hot," observed Cashier
Ralph I. Deihl, as Farmer Backlash
deposited hi& money bag on the
counter preparfed to stow the pro
ceeds of a horse sale where it would
be safe for future needs.
"Yep, darned hot," observed Mr.
Backlash.
"But not so hot as it might be,"
continued Cashier Delhi. "X read in
a newspaper to-day that the apples
are actually being baked on the trees
in Virginia."
"That's nothin' compared to the
thing that, happened , out our way
yesterday," boasted Mr. Backlash.
"Toward the middle of the afternoon
one of our old hens strolled up to the
kitchen door and took t a drink of
water from a rain barrel that had
been standing in the sun all iay.
Five minutes later site laid a hard
boiled egg."
Special Council Session;
May Appoint Patrolman
City Council will meet in special
session to-morrow afternoon to pass
Anally the ordinance increasing the
salaries of a number of water depart
ment employes at the niter plant,
pumping station and pipe line shops.
Mayor Kelstcr is expected to recom
mend the appointment of an addi
tional patrolman and a police matron.
No meeting will be held on Tuesday.
Does Our Country
Need a New Name?
One Writer Calls It "A Country
Without a Name" Rwona
t Wliy tlio Name ''Articrica" Is
Sufficient as Well a.s Appropri
ate.
By GARRETT P. SKItVISS
Professor Ellen Hayes, of Welles
ley, writing in "Science" under the
t.itie "A Country Without a Name."
avers that "that particular federation
of American States which begins with
Maine and ends with Washington
needs a name more than it needs a
national flower." This is based upon
the idea that It is unjustitlable arro
gation to employ the single word
"America" to designate the nation
whose full official title is "United
States of America."
Now, it .is custom that, establishes
these things, and there can be no
doubt that the adjective "American"
is universally recognized abroad as
well as at home to designate a citizen
of the United States o£ America. The
noun "America" applied exclusively
to the United States has not been so
universally used, but the tendency
so to use it has increased enormously
since the present war began. How
the matter was regarded abroad Just
before the war is plainly shown by
this statement in the eleventh edi
tion of the Encyclopedia Britannica
(published 1910-11):
"Officially the name is "United
States of Ameria,' but 'The United
States' (used as a singular and not a
plural) has become accepted as the
name of the country, and pre-eminent
usage has now made its citizens
'Americans' In distinction from the
other inhabitants of North and South
America."
It is always desirable, as profes
sor Hayes Indicates, that a country
should have a name consistinf of a
single word, from which a corre
sponding adjective can be formed.
But we by no means present a soli
tary example of an official national
name consisting of several words, and
what we do when we call ourselves
Americans is precisely what inhabit
ants of "the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland" do when
they call themselves British, only
their case is more complicated than
ours, since those who come from Ire
land call themselves Irish.
"America" is the geographicivlly
descriptive or localizing: word in our
long national designation, and since
its employment by us in its adjective
form has met with universal accept
ance there can be no objection to our
making similar use of the noun,
©t.her States of the new world,
whether by preference, convenience or
courtesy, have, in this sense, left the
name "America" to us. The official
designation of Mexico is "Kstados
Unidos Mexican os," or Republics
Mexicana"; that of Argentina is "R-.
publica Argentinia," and that of Bra
zil is "Kstados Unidos do Brazil."
All the other North or South
American States use their own par
ticular names. Canada, for instance,
has never shown any desire tobear
any other designation, and the Ca
nadian does not feel, and has no rea
son to feel, any Jealousy of the ex
clusive use of the word America to
designate a citizen of our Republic.
So, it does not appear that our
country or our countrymen have need
of any other names than those which,
by their own choice and "thQ com
mon consent of mankind" they al
ready boar. At home we call our
selves Americans and speak of our
country as the United States: abroad
everybody calls us Americans, and
everybody is rapidly learning to dis
tinguish our country by the exclusive
name of America, so much so that
the "American abroad seldom uses the
term United States in conversing with 1
Europeans.
There remains, of course, an in
convenience, and to some extent a
source of confusion, especially for the
historical writers of a remote future,
in the double application of the name
America, to designate, flrkt, a con
tinent. and, second, a particular part
of that continent, but the names of
the old continents were often employ
ed in the same way. and that, without
producing any very serious misunder
standing even in subsequent cen
turies, when the double designations
had ceased. Thus "Asia" meant for
the Greeks, at one time, both the
great, eastern continent generally and
the region centering around Ephesus
in particular.
Even if it were desirable, it
would be impracticable Vo give our
country a new name comprised of
one word. In the first place, we
could not agree upon a choice, even
"Washingtonia" would not suit every
body. It is true that Bolivia took
the name of its deliverer. ISimoln
Bolivar, but that was done in the
first flush of Bolivar's reputation and
of the people's new enjoyment of
freedom. We could not imitate the
example of the American missionary
who bestowed upon the settlement of
enfranchised negroes in Africa the
name of "Liberia," first, because we
are not a new community; second, be
cause an invented title, like that,
based upon an abstraction, would be
ridiculous.
Such things must grow up by tra
dition and have their roots in the re
mote past. "Columbia" would be no
more suitable than "America," . and,
besides, it is already appropriated.
We could hardly choose a name from
among the tribal designations of the
led men, for none of their tribes or
nations occupied more than a limited
part of what is now the Unite<r
States.
We must. in fact, admit that the
other countries on our side of the
world have had better fortune than
ours in this matter. Canada is a euph
onious and manageable name, of Mo
hawk Indian origin, found by the
French at Montreal, and happily
adopted for the whole country.
Mexico is a Spanish rendering, or
combination, of Aztec words mean
ing the place of the war god. Brazil
seems to have derived its name from
the legendary island of Brazil flater
identiflod with one of the Azores), he
cause it was found to produce a red
wood resembling brnsil wood. Chile
and Peru are of aboriginal origin. Ar
gentina is an invented name based on
the Tjit.in word for silver, as Dio de
la Plata, the name of its chief rivei*.
tpeans silver river in Spanish.
Will Send Two Men For
Boards in Other States
In addition to its quota of eight
men. the first city board will send
other men to Camp Wadsworth. Spar
tanburg, Va. to-night at 9.10 o'clock.
They are Martin Aronson, 125 Chest
nut street, who was registered at a
city board in Chicago, and Hugh P.
Calvert, 823 North Third street, reg
istered at a board in Akron, Ohio.
Harry Hurvitz, 236 North Second
street, whcr was inducted for service
as a stenographer in the 814 th Aerial
Squadron at Washington, D. C., left
for duty at 1 o'clock this afternoon,
having been inducted by board 1.
CHARIiOTTE KEIBLE
Charlotte Keible, 1609 Swatara
street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Keible, died at the home of
'her parents this morning. She was
17 years old. Burial will be made at
Chambersburg, Saturday morning at
9 o'clock.
Miss Eleanor Harrold, East Main
street, Mechanicsburg, spent the
weekend the guest of Miss Esther
Sipe. In Goldsboro.
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Ovar Viva Years at Thla Address
Three Missouri Friends of General Pershing
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AUNT^utAW^?Wirr'
J. C.CROV/DEB
General John J. Pershing, comm-ander of the American troops in
France, the man on whom world depends to beat Germany in her war
against civilization, was raised in Laclede, Mo., a small frontier town at
that time. And here are three of the close friends with whom he was
brought up. Charles Spurgeon went to the village school with him. as
did J. C. Cro-wder. Aunt Susan Hewitt was well known in the town. She
was older than the general, but she was one of his boyhood friends.
GROCERS' PICNIC
DRAWS THOUSANDS
[Continued from First Pago. ]
keynote of the day's activities for
getting trouble and renewing youth.
"Many Contests Enjoyed
Other athletic contests of various
sorts in the morning combined to
make the day an interesting affair
for all who were present. Score*
Participated while many others looked
on and cheered their efforts.
After a big dinner at noon in which
wartime regulations were strictly ob
served. amusement lovers went to the
park theater where they saw the
show without cost. Another carnival
of enjoyment will be held to-night.
For music lovers there will be a big
WITMER, BAIR AND WITMER
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WITMER, BAIR AND WITMER
i WALNUT NEAR SECOND
1 •- - '
AUGUST 8, 1918.
hand concert at the open-air audi
torium and for dancers there will
be a free dance in the large pavilllon.
It is estimated that more than 5,000
people are attending to-day's picnic.
It is usual to have a cfowd of ten
thousand merry-makers but because
of the war, the number has been cut
almost in half. Kvery effort was
made to comply with food adminis
tation regulations In the serving of
the big dinner to the thousands of
picnickers.
No Special Train
The effect of the war was seen
when, several weeks ago, the request
of the association for a special train
for Hershey was refusedi In past
years it was necessary to have at
least three sections of a special train
to transport the many thousands to
the park. Because of congestion of
traffic and use of railroads for wa
purposes It was necessary to elimi
nate the service. To accommodate
the crowds the Harrlsburg Railways
Company last night announced that
a number of extra cars will be placed
on the Hummelstown line. In place
of the usual two cars an hour, the
schedule was announced as double
headers every half hour, or Just
twice the regular number of cars.
In addition to this there were hun
dreds of automobiles which took peo
ple to the scene of the festivities.
Hundreds of people on the athletlo
field at Hershey Park saw an excit
ing baseball game between uptown
and Hill grocers at the big grocers'
picnic this morning. Because of the
strenuous nature of the game, it was
impossible for the officials in charge
of the contest to announce any score.
In fact, it is said the game became
so Interesting they forgot to score.
Both sides claim the victory and it
is said that the umpire and the
scorer are now endeavoring to decide
just who won. The result will be
made public, officially, at a later
date.
There were host of people who
watched the two teams clash. There
were other hosts who gathered to
watch races, swimming contests,
polo climbing feats and other athle
tic features. While sport lovers
watched these various contests, there
was plenty of room In the big park
for the hundreds of people to get
together and renew acquaintance
ship. The spirit of auld lang syne
pervaded the park and after the ath
letic stunts, thousands gathered for
the big war-time dinner.
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