Local Bride and Army Officer Wed in Lancaster
Leonard R. Nissley son of Mrs Julia Nissley of Middletown and Miss Helen S Shoemaker daughter of Mr and Mrs W F Shoemaker were married in Lancaster on Friday December 30. The couple returned home after a brief wedding trip. Nissley served in World War and works at the Finance Department US Army Ordinance Depot. Shoemaker is active in the community and a 1917 high school graduate who taught in the New York Institute for the Deaf and Blind. Preparations for Holy Communion were announced for January 15 with services in the Reformed Church. A girl telephone operator is sought at Kilmer's Jewelry Store. Officers of the Reformed Church were elected and ordained. Stories mention visits, lectures, and community updates in Hummelstown and Harrisburg areas.
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Leonard R. Nissley
Julia Nissley
Middletown
Helen S. Shoemaker
W. F. Shoemaker
Lancaster
Nissley
Finance Department
United States Army
Ordinance Depot
Hummelstown
New York Institute For the Deaf and Blind
Reformed Church
Dial Exchange
Kilmer
Congregational Meeting of
the Reformed Church
J. A. Kilmer
D. I. Sassaman
Fred G. McCall
Harry R. Landks
Grover C. Buser
A. Bowman Snavely
Ward Landis
E. R. Donald
Tamaqua
New York
Reading
Young Women’s Missionary Society of the Reformed Church
Katharine Brighthill
Arthur S. Coggeshall
Carnegie Museum
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg Natural History Society
Technical High School
Harrisburg
Brownstone
Mary McElwee
Samuel Jacobs
David Retten
Town
Stella Maxwell
Earl Kautz
David C. Burns
Squire R. B. Earnest
Brantner
Fred McCall
R. B. Earnest
F. C Witmer
E. J. Brighthill
John Stephenson
Elmer E. Erb
W. B. Earnest
E. 2 Etter
Mary Dupler
Nathaniel and
Flora Dupler
Lancaster County
Wickersham
Arthur Fox’Holler
H. ¥. Holler
Tucany
Eining
George Bartels
Hershey
C. Heckerman
Bedford
Japan
Mission Board of the Reformed Church In
Weekerman
Lakota
Paul Schaffner
Heckerman
Schaffners
No, I carry a toaded revolver?
In a terse exchange a thief seizes a watch purse and pocketbook but finds no gun in the suspect’s possession. A passerby questions the thief about a weapon, noting the weapon’s absence. The dialogue hints at danger and prudence in urban crime.
Railway Run Confusion Stuns New Guard in Wales
A new guard, unfamiliar with a Welsh rail route, stood before a Llan Uretoct sign for minutes in mute confusion. He finally gestured to the carriages and called out in frustration, asking if anyone could spell out the destination for him.
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Wales
Llan Uletoct
Evangelistic services draw crowds in Bachmansville
Brethren in Christ hold extensive meetings at Schenk's Church with notable interest and several new converts reported. Community notices list births visits and local trades among residents including Kreider family near Deodate and various trips across Hershey Palmyra and Newmanstown.
Local Notes From Upper Lawn Area
John B. Brenneman spent several days last week at Merion with his daughter and family. H. M. Gruber attended a cattle sale in Norristown on Wednesday and Thursday. J. H. Kettering of Palmyra visited on Saturday. Nelson Bogar of Lebanon, new assistant township engineer, met the Supervisors to review local roads. Rev. Kresge of Albright College preached in the local church on Sunday morning. H. B. Gingrich and C. C. Gingrich made business trips to Lancaster and Philadelphia respectively. D. M. Sandy will sell real estate and personal property on his farm near Upper Lawn on January 25.
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Brethren In Christ
Schenk’s
Frank Kreider
Near Deodate
Lewis Greiner
William Hamilton
Derry Church
Ruth
Edna Garrett
Newmanstown
George Greiner
Emily
J. S. Eshleman
Isaac Eshleman
Hershey
Elias Booser
Harrisburg
John McCorkle
Irwin Shiffer
Elizabethtown
John Shiffer
S. D. W. Gates
Elizabeth Kelley
Palmyra
James Kelley
Ulrich Weltmer
Hocker
George Kline
Jacob Hess
Clara
Jacob S. Brandt
Jonas Ebersole
Peter D. Gruber
Middletown
Hiram
Harrison Shiffer
Amanda Shiffer
Alice Shiffer
May
Erma
Katie Rider
Edwin Youtz
John B. Brenneman
Merion
H. M. Gruber
Norristown
J. H. Kettering
Nelson Bogar
Lebanon
Heffner
Kresge
Albright College
Myerstown
H. B. Gingrich
Lancaster
C. C. Gingrich
Philadelphia
D. M. Sandy
Upper Lawn
Sign ideas from a Chinese immigrant in the early laun dry
A newcomer from China seeks a suitable shop sign for a laundry. He studies nearby eateries noting Never Closed and Twenty Four Hour Service signs before crafting his own sign Me No Sleep I too as a final attempt.
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China
One Shy Jones on a Fishing Trip Boat Sinking
In a tense moment Jones urges prayer as Smith volunteers, and the crew acts fast by donning lifebelts while they face a sinking boat during a fishing trip.
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Jones
Smith
President’s Wife Seeks Audience Amid Busy Office
An office boy laments visitors crowding the president and repeats his line that access is impossible. A woman claiming to be the president’s wife insists on seeing him, only to hear the same refrain that “that’s what they all say.” The scene captures a humorous and busy office dynamic.
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Indy
Plucking Out A Kentucky Man And City Girl
A Kentucky man bonded with a Cincinnati native in a conversation about tobacco farming. The woman, born in Cincinnati, discussed visiting the tobacco field and the task of harvesting winter wheat, noting her interest in seeing the work firsthand.
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Kentucky
Cincinnati
Ingenue Terms and Phrases in Film Criticism
A concise look at the term ingenue used in film criticism and its variants. It clarifies meanings, usage, and related phrases such as ingénue and feminine lead in classic cinema analysis.
Take orator yes audience: capital and labor
The quote contrasts capital and labor with a claim that one group bosses the work while the other works the bosses. It emphasizes the relationship between workers and management and notes a single difference in how authority is exercised in each case.
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