Spring updates and small town notices in Penn Pointers
Mrs Frank Gessner and son on sick list. Carl Evenson visited Barton relatives. Louise Avesler helped at Kaeding Bros. Nellie and John Doyle visited city friends. C E French recounts a livery mishap with a horse rearing and a broken double tree. Margaret Hicky left for Edmore. Nellie Doyle to teach in her absence. Kaeding Bros store refreshed. Tim Donahue hosted a birthday event. Meade Cycle Co rep sold a wheel to C E French. Daley to serve C Gessner this summer. A reflection on habit forming and first impressions. Cracker Jack.
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C.E. French
C. Gessner
Margaret Hicky
Edmore
Nellie Doyle
Local notices from Conway and Lawton illustrated
Community items recounted including Posner building a residence for himself and family, Schmid visiting Lawton seeking land, a school board meeting with little business, and Vobayda relatives visiting Conway. Local farming activity, clothing for men and boys, families moving to Canada, a farm purchase, Royal Neighbors entertainment netting $60, and social visits from Michigan City. A Newark trolley scare involved Sergeant Brown removing three mice from a hat during a ride. the owner refused to identify herself.
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Brown
Clinton Avenue
Newark
Bergen Street
Operating Marionettes Show Reveals Dexterity Behind Stage
A showman describes marionette theater where an eight piece orchestra and a dozen spectators fill boxes as a marionette drama plays. The conductor appears motionless but uses fingers and toes to move strings, some as many as thirty two, linking to each figure.
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Philadelphia Record
Health of the Army in Philippines Reels Disease Down
A Washington report says the medical department has almost eradicated dysentery among American troops in the Philippines through strict sanitary measures. The adobe itch also declined as parasite-caused cases were halted by hot ironing and drying clothes on lines. Typhoid fever is decreasing, with full eradication anticipated with the rainy season.
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Medical Department of
Army
Philippines
Washington
Surgeon General Forward
Instinct of a Mother in Branding Calves Across Herds
The article explains a simple rule from E. Mayo on Beering beef: a calf belongs to the cow that claims it, hence to the brand owner. In open range days the method worked, except for mavericks and yearlings not yet under branding, where division followed each herd’s share.
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E. Mayo
Seelie’s Monthly
Dictating Sore Throat Described By Physician
A physician notes dictating sore throat as a modern affliction among business men. The high pitched, strained voice used while dictating harms the vocal cords, with over 100 letters daily from big interests cited as typical. Cure rests on using natural voice or stopping dictation.
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Philadelphia Record
Prince Chen Derailed by Mock National Anthem in Brussels
Prince Chen yesterday toured Brussels after visiting Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. He found the city’s officials playing a tune they claimed to be the Chinese National Anthem. The guest examined the music and learned no such anthem existed. The composer had previously sold his mock piece, earning a small fortune.
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Prince Chen
Prince Imperial
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Brussels
San Francisco
de Mot
The Oyster Industry Booms Across North America
Nineteen states and Canada have boosted oyster production from five billion to over twelve billion annually. At a half cent per oyster, Americans spend about sixty million dollars yearly on this delicacy. Delaware Bay now leads Chesapeake Bay in output, with oyster grounds spanning over 220 square miles, more than 600 vessels, and 7,000 workers. Each Delaware oyster acre yields about sixty nine dollars in annual profit. The industry is centered in Bivalve, a port with Venetian-style streets, rails, and waterfronts.
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States
Canada
Harper's Weekly
Delaware Bay
Chesapeake Bay
Delaware
Left in Deposit Boxes Reveal Hidden Treasures
Arrears in bank vault rent lead to box openings uncovering varied contents. A vanished young woman left only baby shoes in a downtown box after a year’s nonpayment. Another box yielded a diamond brooch valued at $400. Banks retain such items awaiting rightful claimants, amid letters from mothers, sweethearts, or grateful pensioners.
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Philadelphia Record
Cornell Receives Egyptian Well Curb Donation
A reddish granite Egyptian well curb, about two and a half feet diameter and height, six inches thick sides, weighs around a ton and a half. Gifted to Cornell University by Ambassador White, the relic was moved from a freight van to the library by four men after removal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cornell
Cornell University
Ambassador White
New York Tribune
University
New Interpretation of the Flag by Rabbi Myers
Rabbi Isidore Myers of San Francisco told a Federation of Zionists meeting that the flag’s stars symbolize those who behave themselves while the stripes signify those who do not. He addressed largely Russian Jewish immigrants, offering a provocative reading of the national emblem.
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Isidore Myers
San Francisco
Federation of Zionists
America
Ed Howe Sayings Offer Wry Social Wit and Ironies
A vintage column of Ed Howe style quips explores human folly and social norms. It jests about marriage, widowhood, education, motherhood, aging, fashion, and greed with humorous, pointed skewers of behavior and public taste.
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Ewan Valley
Grand Forks
Craik and
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Reeturn
I.N. Ker
Devils Lake
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Kent Realty Investment Co
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Salvation Army
Prosser & Scrumgard
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ED Howe
Seth Paine
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Velgmil
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