The Card That Took the Trick
Jim Terry learns misapplied courtship tactics from Tom Darby who coaches him on pleasing Maggie Worth and Ruth. A prankish lesson backfires as Terry earns real affection from both women, leaving Darby to admit women are sharper than men and to seek a way to undo the tangle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RUSSELL THORNE
American Press Association
Jim
Tom Darby
James Terry
Maggie Worth
Terry
Darby
Miss Worth
Dorby
Maggie
Ruth
weill
will
Ruth Darby
Scott
Tom
Watering Horses Says a Leading Veterinarian
Dr. W. B. Gilbert argues water should be plentiful and freely supplied to horses, with careful timing. He warns against drinking after a full grain meal, stresses premeal hydration, and notes dangers from cold or irregular water during heat or after hard work. Small stomachs require water before feeding to aid digestion and nutrient absorption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. BR. Gilbert
A Fountain Feed Bag Demonstrates Modern Horse Feeding
The illustration shows a nose bag with a reservoir attached to the bridle. Feed flows by gravity into a saucer receptacle under the horse’s mouth. The design prevents spill and keeps the feed always within reach.
Sacrificing Good Horses In A Tough Market
The Breeder's Gazette notes many thin horses are leaving farms to save feed after hard seasons. Dealers enable feeding impressively to flip good animals for higher profits, while others are sacrificed when thinning out. The piece stresses the feeder's inside track to judge a horse's true quality.
Early Shearing Practices for Breeders and Flocks
A breeder urges early shearing with shelter, noting March as suitable and advising careful dipping of ewes and lambs after shearing. If desired, August shearing can help ewes breed early, as the cooling effect often invigorates them into heat.
Gettysburg Faces Mixed Reactions to Baltimore Colored Excursionists
A large Monday crowd of Baltimore colored excursionists drew complaints about crowd size and disruption at Gettysburg while local leaders and business interests noted revenue benefits. Residents protested over seven to eight hundred visitors at a time, but receivership and prior bans on such trips had eased tensions. Street litter from the visit was quickly cleaned, and minor fights were quickly settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gettysburg
Western Maryland Railroad
wote
Baltimore
Real Estate Transfers in Town and Townships
Martin Winter buys 51.4 acres from Frommeyer and 51.4 acres from J Emory Bair plus 1.2 acres from Alexander Spangler and 1 acre from Wm H Dull. Wm H Dull acquires 12 acres from Calvin Gilbert adjoining Charles B Tate in Cumberland township. John M Bream sells his Straban township farm through Winter’s Agency to Irvin M Reynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Winter
town
F. N. Frommeyer
J.Emory Bair
Alexander Spangler
Wm. H. Dull
Dull
Calvin Gilbert
Cumberland township
Charles B. Tate
John M. Bream
Straban township
Irvin M. Reynolds
Apples Canning Boom At Musselman Factory Biglerville
Growers in the county rush apples for canning and cider at the Musselman Canning Company plant in Biglerville. 1500 bushels arrived in two days as eighty workers process fruit for shipment to Philadelphia Harrisburg Camden and other cities. Canning continues daily past nine o clock with plans to run through Christmas. Smaller apples go to the cider mill attached to the factory. York Imperial Smoke House and other varieties are received.
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Musselman Canning Company
Biglerville
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Camden
York Imperial
Ankeny Miller wedding in Dixon Illinois
Nettie G. Ankeny and Harry Miller were married Wednesday evening at the bride’s parents home in Dixon Illinois. About one hundred guests attended as Laura Ankeny played Lohengrin’s wedding march. Rev Rutherford officiated under a canopy of bells and ferns. The bride wore white messaline and carried bite’s roses. The couple will visit Knoxlyn at the groom’s home before returning around October first.
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C. B. Ankeny
Dixon
Illinois
Nettie G. Ankeny
Harry (. Miller
Nathan Z. Miller
Knoxton
Laura Ankeny
Lohengrin
Francis Bames
Josephine Smith
Mr. Rutherford
Mrs. Miller
Knoxlyn
Kehm resigns from Emmett shoe firm for Birdsboro post
New Oxford Sept. 17 C. W. Kehm of New Oxford, long time superintendent at the Emmett shoe factory here, leaves to take a similar job in Birdsboro. Harry E. Kehm, foreman in the Emmert cutting department, also resigns to join a York shoe factory.
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New Oxford
C. W. Kehm
Emmett
Birdsboro
Harry E. Kehm
Emmert
Yorkshoe
Gold Without Glint On the Vesta Yacht Crew Mutiny
Ned Etery inherits a joke of sailing command and signs articles for his yacht the Vesta crew. After a mutiny threat and a day at sea the girls from Starkweather arrive as substitutes. The crew, exposed to aristocratic company, end with a mock ceremony and note the adage all that glitters is not gold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ned Etery
Vesta
Ellery
Duncan Starkweather
Starkweather
Billy Riggs
Margaret Lee
Billy
Tom Irwin
Jenny Bowers
Irwin
Bors
Miss Lee
Home Again to Shore and Cockfight Gear Display
The piece opens with a chant about returning home from the boardwalk and enjoying summer, free from the beachside glare and city styles, then shifts to C. M. Barnitz and the Cockfighter's Outfit, describing cockfighting paraphernalia manufactured in Indiana by the only factory of cockers supplies in the world, including artificial spurs known as soul searchers and jaggers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
jaggers
Feathers and Eggshel ls in Poultry Economy
A historical note on farm profits with Pennsylvania producing 15 million dollars of agriculture, high prices for exotic poultry like black swans in New York, and anecdotes on fanciers fund raising, canaries, and feed fraud. It mentions state feed analyses, birds’ value, and a fatal Indiana poultryman incident.
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Pennsylvania
Central park
New York
United States
Baltimore
Boston
state department
Indiana
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Maryland
Baglerville
ANKENY
MILLER
J.O. BLOCHER
W. M. Depot
W. J. STARRY
BOWLDER, PA
Centre
First National Bank of
New Bank
D. G. Minter
Alex. Spangler V. Pres
S. M. Bushman
J. Elmer Musselman
MARK ANDERSON
American Preas Association
Mistah
Wasay
sweet Salome
C. M. BARNITZ
As. Ks. Pom
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