Classified Advertising Ground Wanted in Lancaster County
A collage of notices lists real estate, autos, farm equipment, livestock, and services. Items include a 1954 Plymouth convertible for 1350 dollars, a 1955 International pickup, farm for sale in Potter County with cattle and machinery, farm equipment dealers, purebred Hampshire lambs, and various rental and advertising lines from Lancaster and nearby towns.
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Plymouth
R. H. Low
Lancaster Farming
Classified Advertising Rates for Lancaster Farming
Rates chart for classified ads includes boxed ads and continuing runs. Prices start at 25 cents per word with a 80 cent minimum, 4 cents per word for three or more consecutive insertions, deadline is Wednesday morning, no ads after 10 AM. Address to Lancaster Farming in Quarryville, PA.
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Lancaster Farming
Quarryville, Pa
Public Sale of Akron Pa Home at 1016 East Main Street
Public sale in Akron Borough will offer a brick eight room dwelling at 1016 East Main Street with hot water heat oil insulation weather stripping and modern conveniences. The auction begins at 2 p m with viewing after 4 30 p m by the undersigned sellers Robert H Eves and Josephine M Eves. J W Beamesderfer acts as auctioneer and Alfred C Alspach as attorney.
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Borough of
Akron
East Main Street
Milk Production Slips in April as Pastures Lag
Pennsylvania reports April milk output at 590 million pounds, down five million from March due to cold weather and slow pasture growth. Despite the dip, April set an alltime high for the month, with cows numbered about 944,000 and daily yields the lowest rise in 26 years. Hay prices rise, farming spring work two weeks late, oats seeding sparse, and January-April totals reach 2.21 billion pounds, five percent above last year.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Agriculture
Accidents Costly to Pennsylvania Farmers
Rural sociologists at Pennsylvania State University report farm accidents in 2,288 farms across 48 counties cost more than a million dollars yearly for medical care and hospitalization. The study notes lost work time and replacement costs, with Wednesday and Saturday the most dangerous days. Victims blame self for carelessness in about three quarters of incidents.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State University
Lucifer Line Hikes Average At Mount Joy
The Lucinda Land Classic Holstein sale at Keystone Holstein Sales Barn Mount Joy saw 47 lots bring $30 335 to average $645. Top lot Lyon Brook Amos a July 29 1955 bull sold for 1400 to F Rolls Davis Bridgeton NJ consigned by Lyon Brook Farm Nor wood NJ. Top female Lucifer Star Margie sold for 1350 consigned by Ivan G Martin to George A Rutt RI Stevens. Other consignments included Tri Aqua Lucifer Doms calf and dam at 1375, Wye Oak Josephine at 1000, L Rose Nellie at 1050, Hamaret Sister Debonier at 1000, and Lucifer Promise with calf at 850 and 195.00. The sale highlighted strong Lucifer progeny across multiple consignors and buyers in the region.
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Lucifer
Keystone Holstein Sales
Mount Joy
Lyon Brook Amos
F. Rolls Davis
Bridgeton
N. J
Archie Meek
Lyon Brook Farm
Norwich
Lyon Brook
Margie
Ivan G. Martin
Beaver Beav er Kill S Decreases in 1956 State
A Pennsylvania Game Commission report shows 1956 beaver catches totaling 2,973, down from the prior two years. In 1954 catches reached 3,459 and 1953 had 3,176. During the 1956 three week season Crawford County led with 357 beavers, Wayne County second with 284.
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Pennsylvania Game Commission
Commonwealth
Crawford County
Wayne County
Bomb scare at Denver airport ends with harmless brush
A Denver woman arriving from a flight triggered a police demolition team after a buzzing noise was found in her luggage. The sound came from an electric clothes brush powered by two small flashlight batteries, creating a scare but no danger.
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Denver
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A compact puzzle style list presents numbered clues with mixed terms across categories. The items span astronomy, biology, geography, and common objects, suggesting an interconnected word or code puzzle.
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Green Mountain State
Oxford Resident Dies in Tractor Accident
Norman M. Thompson 68 of Oxford died from injuries after a tractor accident on Wednesday. He died Friday at Coatesville Hospital from a crushed chest punctured lung and fractured ankle. The funeral was at Johnston Funeral Home with interment in Oxford Cemetery. Thompson, a Lancaster County native, was active in Republican politics and served as sealer of weights at his death.
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Norman M. Thompson
Oxford
Coatesville Hospital
Thomas Menteith
Coatesville
Johnston Funeral
Irene Bunting Thompson
Pine Street Road
Oxford RD
Mr. Thompson
Lancaster County
Thieves Break Into Pequea Boat Dock House
Thieves broke into the Pequea Boat Dock House owned by Paul Lun gren at Riverview Hotel Pequea over the weekend stealing fishing tackle valued over 100 dollars. Conestoga Township Officer Mervin Steckervetz investigated finding six reels and rods a bucket and a wrecking bar taken after breaking the door lock.
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Boa
Paul Lungren
Riverview
Pequea
Conestoga Township
Mervin Steckervetz
Obituary for Thompson Family in Chester County
The narrative notes a son of the late John H and Ida Blanche Thompson and a member of Oxford Presbyterian Church. Survived by wife a daughter Ethel wife of Joseph Gagnon Laurel Springs NJ a son John Elkview eight grandchildren and two sisters and a brother Mrs Violet Andrews Oxford Maude wife of William Murdoch Drexel Hill and Carl Lewistown.
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Chester County
John H
Ida Blanche Quigley Thompson
Oxford Presbyterian Church
Ethel
Joseph Gagnon
Laurel Springs
N. J
John
Elkview
Violet Andrews
Oxford
Maude
William Murdoch
Drexel Hill
Carl
Lewistown
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Red Comet Fire Control Systems & Equipment
Mountville
Penna
Limberty Sales & Service
Frank K. Pomteet
Lampeter
Ph. Lane
Hampshire
Ted Black
Sinking Springs
Fritztown
Sinking ‘Springs
Keeney Brothers Farms
New Freedom
Potter County
Call
Ulysses
Almon Angood
Rover and
Haverstick Reo & Goodall
Prince St
Lancaster
Ford
Quarryville
Eaharts Atlantic Sta
Rothsville
Lester A. Singer
Banks, Pa
Clay
Ephrata
Beltsville
L. L. Logan
Kennett Square
Allis Chalmers
H.P
Planet Jr
New Simplicity
Snavely’s Farm Service
New Holland
Salsbury
Robert H. Eves
Josephine M. Eves
J. W. Beamesderfer
Alfred C. Alspach
Atty
Josephine
Chester L. i Smith
Shippensburg
Clarence E. Lyons
Nellie
Fred N. Dorn
Chatham
J Robert Hess
RJ Strasburg
Maplebend
Dean King Posch
Hamaret
Debonier
Hamaret Debonier
Charles Pratt
Waterloo
Hamaret Victory
Charlaway Lucifer
Kauffman
John M. Steckler, Jr
Alcarta
Maplehend
Lueifer
Lily Mario Lueifer
Ezra Martin
Finderne
Lillian Trailblazer
John C Metzler
Christiana
John M Umble
Atglen
Asia
Boat Dock House
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