Black Forest of America Grows on Jacob Nolde’s Berks Estate
The Reading area report highlights Jacob Nolde’s 720 acre Sheerland estate south of Reading where he is creating a vast pine forest to rival Germany’s Black Forest. Nolde, founder of Nolde Horst Co., plans to replace damaged chestnut oaks with conifers and has invested heavily, importing tens of thousands of trees and continually expanding plantings to age ten to sixteen feet.
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Sheerland
Jacob Nolde
Reading
Lancaster New Era
Black Forest
America
Pennsylvania
Nolde
George Horst
Shillington
Germany
Sinking Springs
Berks County
Berks
Nature
Berks Hills
Lonesome Pine
Neilde
Pennsylvania prepares to quarantine for infantile paralysis
Pennsylvania health authorities under Samuel G. Dixon announce a state wide quarantine to block New York contracted infantile paralysis entering the state. He urges rapid reporting by boards of health and physician alertness to fever and gastro intestinal symptoms in children.
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New York
Pennsylvania
Samuel G. Dixon
New York City
Boards of Health
Dixon
New York State
Commissioner of Health
State Department of Health
Board of Health
Haven Emerson
Hershey Township’s Town Strength and School Wealth
Hershey offers unmatched climate and healthful living with a top public school system and free libraries. The town provides playgrounds gyms clubs and ample public amenities that add value to home investments beyond property price.
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Hershey
Isolation Antiviral Claim and Preventive Nose Spray
The article notes isolation is imperative due to a germ and credits Flexner with germ discovery. It mentions Dercum approving a preventive recommended by Director Krusen who advises spraying the nose and throat with a 1 percent solution of hydrogen peroxide to destroy the infectious virus.
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Pennsylvania
Dercum
Jefferson Medical College
Simon Flexner
Rockefeller Institute
Simon. Flexner
Krusen
Visioned joke prompts cross-eyed remark at dinner
A remark about a woman's cross-eyed appearance is quoted from a dinner table exchange. The speaker notes that the woman is so cross-eyed she allegedly ate off another guest's plate, highlighting a humorous but crude insinuation.
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Norway
Sweden
Minneapolis
of the
Lebanon Valley
Hershey Store Company
West Hershey
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Savings Bank
Hershey Improvement Company
Hershey Trust Company
Hershey, Pennsylvania
Walter T. Bradley
S. E. Corner
Ninth and Thompson Streets
Hoffer
Engle
Hummelstown
George P. Hoffer
Palmyra
Landis
E. B. Cassady
Swatara
E. M. Hoffer
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