Hummelstown Health Bulletin and Local Elections News
The Hummelstown Board of Health proclaims this week clean up week urging residents to remove rubbish. Burgess Murray calls for compliance with the board of health. Statewide Good Roads Day on May 26 sees officials like Cunningham, Hunter, and Uhler coordinating efforts across western to eastern counties. William H. Erb seeks Republican nomination for county commissioner with Palmyra ties.
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Hummelstown
State Highway Department
Cunningham
Hunter
Uhler
Biles
Department
William H. Erb
Erb
Palmyra
W. L. Kreider Sons Company
Lawn
Bindnagles Church May 17 and June 13 Events
Deep in local church notes Drs Betz and Baker remain busy veterinarians. Communion services planned. Sunday school Children’s Day set for June 13. Residents and visitors like Adam Koller and William Bordlemay traveled to Lebanon. Clinton Bacastow buried at Alan’s Church. Weather eyed as rain helps farmers.
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Bindnagles
Stears
Daniel Kline
Richard Smith
Ross Bank
Morrla Lease
David Waeminger
Taneastar
Mimer Relgal
Deodata
Rain and War Echo Drought Myths Across History
An essay traces beliefs linking loud noise to rain from cannon fire to bells, noting scientific tests in 1892 failed to prove weather control by humans. It mentions rain myths, hail prevention practices, and the Franklin lightning rod, then shifts to the spread of coffee from Arabia to Europe and beyond, ending with a brief note on processing coffee beans.
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Channel
North Sea
London Standard
North America
United States
Willis L. Moore
United States Weather Bureau
Europe
Pertner
Benjamin Franklin
Africa
Arabia
America
Constantinople
Rossie
England
Silenced Bilton Asked Why He Stays Late
A courtroom exchange reveals Miss Bilton answering her father and a judge questions the reason for a young man’s late calls. The dialogue shows propriety and social tension within a family scene.
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Bilton
Miss Bilton
Record Coffee Imports Reach Over One Billion Pounds
Coffee imports into the United States last year totaled 1 011 000 000 pounds, a historical high second only to 1904 and 1909 when 1 140 000 000 pounds were imported. A rough visualization notes that amount would fill a seven inch diameter cylinder 287 000 miles tall, rivaling the moon's distance, illustrating the vast U S coffee habit.
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United States
Talso
Hynes
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Lebanon Valley
Hummelstown ’ National Bank
Eli Hostetter
Mount Joy
Kalbfus
Brumbaugh
Game Commission
Harrisburg
The
Hummelstowe Sun
Francis Alexander
Round Top
Abe Brinser
Mr. Brinser
South Hanover
Hummelstown Sun
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Daniel H. Heitschu
Treapassord
Crosalnia
Strack Railway
Lnes
Harry J. Erbe
Lawrence Chambers
William Carlson
Steelton
Heckton
Susquehanna River
Chambers
State Department of Fisheries
State Federation of Labor
William HE. Crawford
J. E. Crawford
Hanover
Crawford
F. W. Cocklin
Technical High School
York
Baltimore
Moore Senate
State Game Commission
C. S. Crumbling
H. E. Messersmith
Mr. Bender
Annville
Annie J. Fisher
Mary Bowman
Miss Bomberger
Schaeffer
Sarah Kreider
Mary B. Landis
John Gerber
Myra Turby
Irene Bicksler
Bindnagles Church
M. A. de Wolfe Howe
AML
Menno F. Hershey
Derry Township
Dauphin County
Register of Wills
Malinda Hershey
Menno _F. Hershey
Hershey, Penna
E. M. Hershey
Hershey
Penna
Ira S. Kohr
Fannie Kohr
Maxwell
Ream & Son
Byer
Brethren’s Convention
Hershey, Pa
King Street
Bell Phone
Hummelstown Gas An Fuel Co
U. S. Farmers’ Bulletin 150
Atlas Farm
Atlas Powdercomp
Halen
OmMoon Chintogharm, Horton, Joplin
Know
Wilmington
Del
New Orleana
New York
Mutladaiptia
Tela
Tram Roar Rem Ae
Atlas Powder Co
Wilmington, del
Paxson
Paxson Manufacturing Co
Sansom Street
Philadelphia
General Distributors
Witman-Schwarz CO
Hooven Mercantile CO
Reading, Pa
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