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Newspaper
Hershey Press
Location
Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
2
A Palmyra resident, Henry Rigle, famed as a mathematician, gives a debateful display of jargon on perpetual motion and wheel theory. The reporter notes the talk reads like fantasy, compares him to a Napoleon of mathematics, and questions practical truth of his devices.
A brief quip notes that individuals should avoid overstating their own flaws and instead rely on friends to highlight them. The line frames friendship as a filter for self-critique and social feedback.
The narrator tells a thrilling tale from his pocket about narrow escapes in Santiago. A curious listener leans in as he recalls wolves closing in and relentless roars. They fled for their lives, certain the ravenous pack was closing in with each passing second.
Charles Cannon of Bristol Pennsylvania beats his own mark by cutting 5218 shocks in 27 days and 303 shocks in ten hours at the William Wilkinson farm. He also cut 1300 shocks in seven days on another nearby farm. He notes Shaffer farm yields an eighty bushel per acre crop from a twelve to fifteen foot high field.
Rev. W. Stinespring of Baltimore, solicitor for the United Brethren Orphanage in Quincy, Franklin County, Pa., delivered sermons at Gravel Hill and Quincy, sharing offerings totaling nearly forty dollars. He stayed with Rev. O. G. Romig and will preach at Mt. Joy next Sunday.
Salem United Brothers invite strangers and the unsaved to weekly services every Sunday at 10 am and 7 30 pm. The church frames itself as an open place for the unchurched, a refuge, a fortress for believers, a study site, and a servant to the town’s moral welfare.
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