February births fall short as deaths rise in Pennsylvania
Vital statistics show February births at 17 323 and deaths at 10 133, with higher deaths pulling a smaller ratio of births. The report lists detailed causes including typhoid fever 108 and pneumonia 1554, plus 849 stillbirths and 138 628 communicable disease cases reported in March.
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Pennsylvania
Bureau of Vital Statistics
State Department of Health
Agor
Cbanceyr
Department of Health
June jurors drawn for next term of criminal court
Sherif Bollman Deputy Strupp and Jury Commissioners Light and Fink selected 24 grand and 48 petit jurors for the upcoming criminal court term opening Monday June 3. Names include John Bashore Robert Eby Jeremiah Brighthill J G Behney Harry Witmer Monroe Long Clayton Saylor Thomas Loser Agron Fisher Rudolph Boltz Wm Kreider and others for grand jurors and Michael Moyer Daniel Bordlemay John Hower Mansfair Levi Gerhart Jacob Zartman John Nye Samuel Brighthill John Yordy William Martin Henry Benneich Harry Boyer Edwin Bowman Schaffner Bomgardner Uhrich Steiner Hains Stauffer Roger Reedy Noll Kreider Ruth Calvin Mohn Myers and D H Roger among petit jurors.
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Sherif Bollman
Strupp
Daniel K. Light
Jacob B. Fink
Criminal Court
John S. Bashore
Robert L. Eby
Jeremiah Brighthill
North Londonderry
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Behney
South Lebanon
Harry R. Witmer
Monroe Long
Jonestown
Clayton Saylor
Annville
Thomas H. Loser
Agron Fisher
Rudolph Boltz
Wm. H. Kreider
W. G. Bollinger
Heidleberg
Equilibriator Incident Sparks Passenger Tease
A Detroit Free Press quip recalls a moment when a man raised his hat and apologized after joking about a woman's balance on a train. The exchange highlights a humorous mismatch between etiquette and railway etiquette in a crowded carriage.
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Detroit Free Press
Among the Chickens and Fowl Care Notes
A Rural New Yorker excerpt urges mothers of hatch eggs to keep hens active to preserve life in eggs. Farm Progress recommends raised water shelves to prevent dirt in drinking water and offers soda water and quinine dosing for ill fowls, plus guidance on duck feeding and grain diets.
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New Yorker
The Ten Demands for Worldly Wisdom
A satirical list titled The Ten Demands offers harsh maxims for workers and employers. It urges honesty, hard work, fair pay, debt avoidance, self-respect, prudent night conduct, and blunt truth over flattery, ending with a grim view of discipline and retention.
Autumn cases and later freezing risk
A concise observation notes that people who decide in autumn about their case are more prone to experience freezing later. It emphasizes a causal link between early decision and later stability.
Handed Down glasses story in Albany Journal
A brief Albany Journal item notes a woman passing along a pair of glasses to her son. The remark explains the child wears glasses because his father wore them before his death, a sentiment about not wasting the father's worn eyewear.
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Albany Journal
Tobacco Field Conversation Sparks Rural Banter
In a rural exchange a man points to a tobacco field and jokes about a ripe cigar, while a woman asks for lines and hints at sharing smoke. The brief vignette captures a light hearted domestic moment and agrarian setting.
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