Bearded Campbelltown Butchers Sell Hides at Record Prices
Daniel Peters and Son, Campbelltown, shipped beef hides totaling 4000 dollars the highest price ever received for hides. In other news, Blough Brothers Shoe Manufacturing elected new directors with W R Blough as president and 3 percent dividend declared amid steady orders.
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Daniel Peters & Son
Campbelltown
Blough Brothers Shoe Manufacturing Company
Hummelstown
B. F. Blough
W.r.blough
H.C. Forney
F. J. Schaffner
B. N. Herman
W. R. Blough
H C. Forney
B. M. Herman
Public roads in miserable condition at Bindnagles Church
Jan 20 report notes high Swahtara making roads impassable. Local residents and visitors list calls, visits, and rentals. Remark mentions remains of Mrs Uhrich laid to rest at Shalksville and a public sale by Dr Jacob W Bots set for Thursday January 28.
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Bindnagles
Thomas Lesher
Palmyra
E. Snyder
M. B. Farling
Daniel Shuey
Daniel Uhrich
Shalksville
Mr. Alderny
Berks County
Hershey Farm
John Jefferies
Howard Stover
Stoverdale
Samuel Brighthill, Jr
Penbrook
Adam M. Kellar
Annville
Rudy Bohm
Buay
Mr. Kline
Samuel Wagner
Joseph Gerberich
William Gerbarich
Sew It Scams and a Riddle of Truth
A garbled HOA style exchange questions when a man becomes a scam atroas. The dialogue plays with puns about sewing terms and scam ethics. The fragment cites a character Roglator who says never fall for scams if he can help it.
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Glya Dt
Stotesbury Urges Honesty and Hard Work in Business
E T Stotesbury head of Drexel & Co. told Friends' Central School students that honesty and character outweigh wit and shrewdness. He cited his own rise from clerk earning 16.66 a month to leading roles in banking and railroads, stressing time devotion and usefulness. He noted many opportunities for bright young men and warned against clock watching.
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E T. Stotesbury
Drexel & Co
Friends’ Central School
Philadelphia
Mr.Stotesbury
J. P. Morgan Company
Rapid Transit
Billy Sunday Denounces Drunkenness in Sunday Talk
The evangelist rails against alcohol, calling drinkers liars and warning that even moderate beginnings lead to ruin. He recalls walking “the shores of time” and cites wrecks of those drawn by lust as warning signs.
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Billy Sunday
Books Written in Prison
A publisher notes that many famous works emerged from jail including Bunyan Don Quixote Cervantes Defoe Pellico Tasso Raleigh Rimini and Pilgrim's Progress He argues prison can inspire writers and would improve poor books by forcing reflection and experience.
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde
John Bunyan
Cervantes
Defoe
Robinson Cr
It’s a Good Letter After All
A facetious note argues the letter a is unlucky for debt and danger yet lucky for peace and existence. It claims a begins existence and ease and ends trouble, being central to honesty and love, while making editors and devils possible in the tongue.
Doing Them Good Athletic Class Hyping Scheme
A judge notes a plan where a business man markets athletic classes in Milton with five dollar fees for four years. Participants drop out in two weeks. a new class is started to keep profits, exposing a deceptive recruitment pattern.
Stallings and Mack Clash Over Shibe Park Practice
George Stallings recounts a heated exchange with Connie Mack after Stallings asked to hold a practice at Shibe Park to acclimate his outfielders to the sunlit field. Mack refused, sparking a public feud that Stallings says fired his team’s resolve and helped them prepare to face Mack’s Athletics.
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Magazine of the Public Ledger
George Stallings
Mack
Shibe Park
Connie Mack
Beaton
Athletics
Connia
Neawapaper
Connie
Connie Mu
Thia
Spotlight Shifts From Collins After World Series
The piece discusses Edward J. Collins of Millerton N Y and Philadelphia Pa as the leading player in 1914 with top infield and run totals, then notes his team’s four game World Series loss, the spotlight moving to Hank Gowdy, and argues that true greatness endures from April to mid October while World Series fame fades.
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America
Edward J. Collins
Millerton
N. Y
Philadelphia
Collings
Collins
Zip
Hank Gowdy
Wordy wartime notice on newspaper price hikes
Fragmentary text suggests a wartime notice announcing price changes for subscriptions and advertising. It hints at higher annual rates and increased rates per inch due to losses from war disruptions, with mentions of cash in advance and immediate effect.
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Willibald
Dulieg
War era notice and contraband seizure threat found in poem text
The fragment cites a wartime notice from the Axtell Standard warning that exports like prunes to Przemysl are blocked and church supper tickets cost, with a seizure of produce moved as contraband of war and a threat to shoot debtors over a year’s subscription.
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Przemysl
Gulf of Obigosh
Cows Dejected by Trow Prompt Referenced in Baltimore American
A Baltimore American note quotes a remark about cows looking despondent and linking their blue mood to the mile, suggesting a cause and effect tone in a quirky rural anecdote.
Real Patriotism Roosevelt Tells War Stories At Luncheon
At a luncheon, Colonel Roosevelt praised patriotism while recounting an anecdote about John Wesley. The anecdote contrasted English self-critique with a defiant claim that Americans remain the best people in the world.
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Roosevelt
John Wesley
Washington Star
Mis Collection Wife To a Door
A confusing OCR snippet shows a domestic scene with a husband resisting bill collectors at the door as he tells his wife to hide or stall. The text references Penn State and a froth or fight, but details are fragmentary and unclear.
Not. Agile Dancer Quips on Modern Dances
A Yale Record humor piece notes a speaker asking why one cannot quickly adapt to modern dances while claiming familiarity with the holda. The quip highlights timing and rhythm in social dancing.
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Yale
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