Re-elected Sunday School Leader in Hum melstown
John J. Nissley was re elected superintendent of the Reformed Sunday school in Hummelstown. Officers include F J Schaffner as assistant superintendent and J J Nissley as treasurer. The report also lists a long line of officers, teachers, and managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John J. Nissley
Reformed Sunday School
Hummelstown
F. J.schaffner
J. J. Nissley
J. Urban Kilmer
Ward Landis
Walter Baker
John H. Greenawalt
Typhoid Fever Declines Sharply in Pennsylvania 1914
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon reports a dramatic drop in typhoid fever in 1914, with 7,000 cases and 781 deaths through November 81st, compared to 24,071 cases and 8,971 deaths in 1906. The nine years of water purification efforts reduced typhoid by over 70 percent.
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Pennsylvania
Samuel G. Dixon
Wealth
Commonwealth
War era notes and industrial requests from 1917
The item lists widely varied wartime tidbits: American coal cravings from Little Argentina, Japanese soldiers in paper shirts, St Louis manufacturers urged to supply shoes for French troops, Columbus Penitentiary Library housing about 8 000 volumes, and British talks on rubber tires for streetcars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Argentina
St. Louis
Columbus
Howard Elliott Favorite Verses on Try and Do It
The piece cites lines praised by Howard Elliott, president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad, about perseverance. It extols the theme that many say it cannot be done, yet the individual who buckles in and tries will succeed. It emphasizes steadiness, versatility, and effort as keys to winning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bonaparte
Wellington
Gladstone
Disraeli
Howard Elliott
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Bindnagles Church and East Hanover News Tidbits
William Albert was buried at Zion's Church on Saturday. An entertainment will be held at Long's Schoolhouse on Thursday evening January 21. Revival services are in progress at Gravel Hill and Lembergers. Ice from 10 to 12 inches thick is being harvested at this place.
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Bindnagles
William Albert
Zion’s Church
Albert
East Hanover
D. Mason Speck
East
Hanover
Palmyra
Long’s School House
Harold Kuntz
Rudy Behm
Henry Smith
Hershey Chocolate Company
Harry Fasnacht
Levi Lehman
Singlestown
John
Minnie Reese
Syner
Millard
Carrie Barnhart
Adam Keller
Hershey
Bradley
Groh
Gravel Hill
Lembergers
War notes and political quips from late 1910s newspapers
The excerpt collects editorial asides and quotes from the Washington Post Kansas City Star New York World Portland Oregonian and others. It references Przemysl Huerta and Turks in a holy war and comments on defense and submarine policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Przemysl
Columbia
Huerta
Washington Post
J. L. Brady
Lawrence
Kansas City Star
New York World
Portland Oregonian
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Lebanon Valley
John. B. Copenhaver
Annville
United States
Thomas Copenhaver
Pennsylvania ‘Volunteers
Union Township
Lebanon County
John D. Boger
Inez Grossi
Joseph Grossi
Grossi
Baker Stover
Stoverdale
Abram Strickler
Monroe Yingst
Mr. Yingst
Walton Farm
Union Deposit
Jacob Martin
Edward Wetzel
Dauphin County
Wells
Light
Court House
Monument Park
Penna
Bindnagles Church
Harvey Smith
Grantville
Daniel Kline
Underwood
Elliott Cresson
North Third Street
Harrisburg
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