Lebanon Valley notes on local events and people
Albert J. Shenk shot a 40 inch red tailed hawk near Bindnagles Church. Gun accidents and hospital reports follow. Clayton Deimler survives a near-miss after a gun misfire. William Kohr receives a $100 fine for selling liquor. Local rail and railroad scaffold work proceeds at Edison works. Lieutenant Robert W. Lesher attends Army Navy game in Philadelphia with pennant. John McElroy lauds Lebanon valley as fertile and prosperous. Former Mayor Edgar A. Weimer becomes a candidate for Secretary of Agriculture. An auto accident in Reading injures no one. Congressman Krolder and friends escape serious harm. Plum tree growth breaks a record in Ebenezer. State Treasurer receives a mysterious 50-cent mailed by Reading. Kreiders return from a West trip via Pittsburg and Chicago.
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Edgar A. Weimer
Lebanon
Department of Agriculture
Brumbaugh
Weimer
Lebanon County Agricultural and Horticultural Society
Lebanon County Pigeon and Poultry Association
Pennsylvania State Poultry Association
Lebanon County Fish and Game Protective Association
Wei
Deer Hunting Numbers Grow As Reports Filter In
Secretary Kalbfus of the State Game Commission notes over a thousand deer killed in Pennsylvania this season. Wardens and sportsmen groups urged to submit reports on deer and other game. A Yellowstone elk found dead near a Clearfield hunting camp after being shot with a shotgun round ball. The carcass unusable though the head may be mounted. A Columbia County hunter was fined for killing a deer with shot, violating the ball only rule.
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Kalbfus
State Game Commission
Pennsylvania
Yellowstone Park
Clearfield County
The
Game Commission
Columbia County
Second Crop of Apples Reported in Lebanon
Augustus Rank of Lebanon observed an apple tree on Freeman Gross’s farm at Reinoehlsville bearing a second crop. The first crop ripened in June, followed by a second crop this month. The fruit is described as well formed and tasty, of the early sweet variety.
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Augustus Rank
Lebanon
Reinoehlsville
Mr. Rank
Freeman Gross
Panama Canal earnings in October show steady income
Panama Canal reported October business of 876000 dollars at an annualized rate of 4.5 million. Operating expenses stand at 4 million, yielding about 600000 yearly profit, roughly one seventh of one percent of cost, reflecting wartime commerce disruption but still a positive return.
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Panama Canal
Damage suit over son’s electrocution deaths filed
Grant S. Krall of Palmyra sues Annville and Palmyra Electric Light Company in Lebanon Common Pleas Court seeking 10000 for the death of his 20 year old son Harvey Krall electrocuted when he touched a live wire carrying 6600 volts causing instant death.
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Lebanon
Good Prices For Hogs
Farmers face prosperous hog business says the Twentieth Century Farmer. After the war Surope will need pork. The speaker expects renewed buying and significant depletion of breeding stock and surplus, boosting American farmers’ market for some time.
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Surope
World journey records sharpen with new speed ages
A history of global circumnavigation across four centuries shows travel times shrinking from centuries to under 35 days. A 1913 record by a Evening Sun reporter used a route from New York to New York via major capitals and the Siberian Railway, aided by air travel, suggesting future journeys could run in the mid thirties.
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R. Hennig
Leipzig
Jules Verne
Suez Canal
Hennig
trans-Siberian
Moscow
Pacific
Vitus Bering
Bering Strait
Count de Lesseps
Kamchatka
Paris
Europe
Asia
Kiaochow
Germany
Evening Sun
New York
London
Berlin
Petrograd
Mukden
Fusan
Shimonostki
Tokyo
Yokohama
Victoria
Seattle
Chicago
Siberia
Ann Arbor
Figs in the North Newport Farmer Sells Fresh Fruit
A Newport area farmer, R L, prospers as a fig grower with a popular crop sold locally. His fig farm is a showplace with a fad for fresh fruit, and trees are dug up before frost and kept dormant in a cellar until spring when replanted after danger has passed.
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Newport
R. L
Paroled barfly misreads parade in park
Pat Let Them Pass Pat, rather drunk, wanders home through a park and collides with a tree. He apologizes after each collision and finally remarks he will sit down and let the gentlemen pass, insisting it is only a parade.
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Pat
Market Square Church appoints new junior department head
Miss Anna GC. Weir resigns after 54 years as head of the junior department at Market Square Presbyterian Church Harrisburg due to illness. Miss Roberta Orth succeeds her, continuing a long history with the Sunday School.
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Anna GC. Weir
Market Square Presbyterian Church
Harrisburg
Roberta Orth
Unusual Bounties Paid on Birds by Local Alderman
Alderman B Slogrist of Lebhon paid bounties this month for a great horned owl shot by Herbert Mengle of Preacott, including four weasels and three goshawks as rewards.
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Alderman
B. Slogrist
Lebhon
Herbert Mengle
Preacott
Hershey High Falls 18 15 in Close Basketball Tilt
Hershey High School lost to Oberlin High School 18 to 15 in a hard fought game on a muddy field. Captain Houck led Oberlin with 4 floor goals and Wirth 3 while Hershey’s Clark scored 8 points amid a tight defensive battle.
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Houck
Wirth and Clark
Hershey
Wirth
Oberlin
Houck Clark
Bomgardner
Sheaffer Shellenhammer
Essseess
Peck Imboden
Horstick
Imboden
Clark
Romig
Dressler
Everett
Hershey High School
Oberlin High School
Ephrata Five Hosts Hershey On Friday Night
The Ephrata basketball five will host Hershey Friday evening in a showdown the home crowd anticipates as one of the season’s best. Hershey seeks to erase last season’s two defeats with a decisive score while the visitors defend tough play led by the Doremus brothers, with both teams fielding full regular lineups.
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Ephrata
Hershey
Hershey Five
Doremus Brothers
Lebanon Valley College Sports Notes and Captains
A 20 man basketball squad trains for a December 4 opener with Lebanon Club as the schedule lists 14 games against strong college opponents. Ross Swartz of Hummelstown, class of 1917, is elected captain for next year’s football eleven, while John Laren, senior, is captain of the baseball nine. The Hummelstown football team suffered its worst defeat of the season on Thanksgiving, losing to Mt. Carmel.
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Lebanon Valley College
Dee
Lebanon
Ross Swartz
Hummelstown Ind
Swartz
Yarsity
John Laren
Hershey
Hummelstown
Mt. Carmel
Stallings predicts stronger ball club for next year
In a signed confession Stallings claims Davis Strand Crutcher will join three top pitchers to complement Rudolph Tyler and James, aiming for a 1915 stronger team. He notes after July first he won 80 percent of NL games and all World Series, while McGraw and Mack plan to add about a hundred athletes in February to rebuild their squads and chase glory.
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Stallings
Davis
Strand
Crutcher
Rudolph
Tyler
James
Boston
McGraw
Mack
Swat
Eccentric Exchange Between Neighbors Over Mechanical Piano
A playful dialogue between Mr. Newrleha and Mrs. Newrleha over neighbors on the right, joking that they are poor and cannot afford a mechanical piano. The daughter is described as taking lessons by hand.
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Mra
Newriche
Hiram
Mr. Newrlehe
Newrleha
Our Country's Possibilities for Business Empire
A visionary piece argues the United States with 100 million people holds vast potential to drive global trade. It outlines immense coal, iron, steel, cotton, and petroleum output, plus vast resources and a friendly hemispheric market, urging renewed effort to expand commerce and influence.
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Cuba
Porto Rico
Mexico
Central
South America
United States
Europe
New England
Germany
France
Belgium
England
Earth
Modern Girl Bella Weighs In On Denario Exchange
In a quirky exchange, Bella asks about weights while Lona answers with numbers 110 in a bathrobe and 100 dressed, creating a playful courtroom of figures.
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Bella
Denario
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Albert J. Shenk
Annville
Shenk Baker
Bindnagles Church
Derry Township
Union Deposit Bridge
Rockpoint
Horseshoe Pike
Hoeville
Clayton Deimler
Palmyra
Good Samaritan
William S. Kohr
Swatara
Swatara Township
Lebanon County
Graeff
Kohr
Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad Company
Edison Electric Light Works
Buchanan Foundry
Robert W. Lesher
Jonestown
Philadelphia
Army
Navy
Lesher
John McElroy
National Tribune
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Reading
Krolder
D. P. Geerborich
David H. Meyer
Amaville
L. W. Daubert
Ebenezer
Capitol
Conscience Fund
A.S. Kreider
G. R. Kreider
Pittsburg
Congressman Kreider
Hershey, _ Penna
Tech
Rote
Smeltzer
Earley
Shippensburg
Central Pennsylvania
Penbrook A. C
Yeagertown Eleven
Island Park Grounds
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