Growth at Hummelstown church and local industry milestones
The Hummelstown Methodist Sunday school reports three month growth with enrollment up twenty five percent attendance up forty five percent and contributions up thirty one percent. Kreider shoe factory in Middletown turns 2200 to 2300 pairs daily with 325 on payroll including 90 women. Harrison Kalbach, Lebanon merchant, dies at 82. Various local items: fireman Theodore Frantz long service, Palmyra auto fatality, ground breaking for Carlisle hospital, Oneida trap factory orders for New Orleans, and other community notes.
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Hummelstown
Kreider
Middletown
Oneida
Lititz
New Orleans
Express
A Compromise Plan for Prohibition and Temperance
James Samuel of Marietta argues for a double standard license to curb drink abuse. He proposes low licenses for beer and high licenses for stronger alcohols sold only for off premises use, plus optional local option restricted to the stronger license. He cites beer as the best temperance promoter and calls for government managed quality and gradual cultural change.
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Everybody's Magazine
James ‘Samuel
Marietta
China
Denmark
Hell
Agricultural colleges Boost Wealth From Soil and Skill
A historical excerpt praises agricultural colleges for increasing wealth by combining sun snow rain and human labor with education. It notes ground worth six dollars yearly, eight dollars of work, and seed costs of one dollar fifty, yielding wheat and straw worth twenty five dollars.
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Aska Girard
Philadelphia
Schoola
Colloras
Bindnagle's Church a Landmark in Palmyra Area
The 1803 Bindnagle's Church sits on Swatara Creek two miles north of Palmyra with 22 inch thick brick walls. It is tied to Muhlenberg and used as a fort in Indian raids, and a nearby log school housed Luther's catechism taught over a century ago. The graveyard holds early settlers including Dr. John Palm founder of Palmyra. The 1909 centennial featured Rev. Neiman and others. Rev. O R Bittner is the current pastor.
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Bindnagle’s
Swatara Creek
Palmyra
Muhlenberg
Luther
John Palm
J. H. Neiman
A. R. Appel
J. M. Walters
J. E. Balmer
O. G. Romig
R.A. Smith
Lebanon County
O. R. Bittner
Grantville
Crackdown on minors buying cigarettes in Philadelphia
Judge Brown of the Juvenile Court started a campaign against dealers selling cigarettes and papers to minors under the 1918 act. Summary actions will be taken, with fines from 100 to 800 dollars. Mrs. Yetta Goldberg was held on 500 dollars bail after five boys testified she sold them cigarettes. Dealers statewide face prosecution. probation offices will report violations. minors refusing to name sources face fines or jail.
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Philadelphia
Brown
Yetta Goldberg
Germantown Avenue
Juvenile Court
Fragmentary Poem Excerpt Quoting Houston Post
A jagged line from a Houston Post excerpt shows a speaker asking about a father’s objection to killing. The fragmentary text hints at a conversation on violence and approval within a family and a provocative exchange.
Auditors Verify Derry Township School District Accounts
We, the undersigned auditors of Derry Township, have examined the Year Ending July 1914 accounts and find them correct to the best of our knowledge and belief. Attestation by A W Snavely Lee and A B Shenk as officers.
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Derry Township
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Harrison Kalbach
Lebanon
Harry M. Larkin
Mt. Pleasant
Porto Rico
Philippine Islands
Nellie C. Proctor
Orville ‘C. Proctor
Theodore T. Frantz
Pennsylvania
Perseverance Ire Company
Gilbert Stewart
Harrisburg
Claude Witters
West Annville
Ansell
Wilson Kipler
Annville
Carlisle
J.W. Deshong
Church of God At
Lancaster
Sallie Rudy
Lancaster County
John Kirk
New Cumberland
Uncle Sam
Wichita River
W. C. Spayde
Hummelatown
Hunter
Carter County
Missouri
Mra
Heinlo
Mr. Spayd
I. J. Garson
The
Masonic Women of
Pennnsylvania
Wzabethtown
Byron Gibney
Parry County
Sharmanadale
E. Shiffer
Elizabethtown
H. B. Gingrich
Lawn
Rudolph Behm
Studebaker
Emma Cassel
Mechanicsburg
Penbrook
David E. Brehm
Burkholder
United Christian Church
C. F. Kreider
Cleona
M.D. Landis
Aaron Detweiler
Cleona Church
Tolbert Swiger
Phe
Paxtang
Dauphin County
J. A. Good
E. C. Brinser Farm
Round Top
Grant W. Nitrauer
John E. Hartman
Martin Houser
Katherine Keefer
Harry H. Poorman
Elkton
William Poorman
Post Office Department
Samuel §. Bachman
Bachmansville
George D. Krautse
George Krause Hardware Company
Grant Weidman
Paris
New York
Second United Brethren Church
Valley Glen Park
West Lebanon
UW. J. Wellingsworth
Rum
Bindnagle’s Church
A. W. Snavely
Lee
A.B. Shenk
Pres
Ae Ee
Phensnilsah
Sennabb
Seamer
Churches Factories Machinery Groups
Hershey
Hershey Park
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