30 Mar 1908
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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily News
Location
Lebanon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1908
Page
1
Local readers get updated base ball and general sports notes from the Paily News. The item mentions Conroy as potential third baseman for the New York Americans, discusses amateur and minor leagues, managers, and player movements including Warner and Wright. It notes Mier, Joy, and other players and teams like Winston, Roxbury, and Trenton, with focus on contracts, travel, and upcoming season expectations.
Manager Thomas Sayd of York Atlantic confirms the York and Lebanon franchises will continue. He has selected his club and arranged for the old YMCA grounds to be prepared for games this season. Lebanon will get a club with a manager, likely from York, and the public mood favors wage ball if the best options aren’t available.
An old comedic dialog promotes the Fels-Naptha washing method as the right way to wash clothes. It contrasts the new method with the old, urging readers to use cool or lukewarm water, minimal rubbing, and to follow simple directions printed inside the product wrapper.
An official Reading Coal and Peat Company notice states a spring price reduction of 60 cents on various sizes of hard coal, effective immediately with retailers passing the cut to consumers. The reduction will rise by 10 cents per ton after May 7 until winter prices return.
A historical Pennsylvanian rail excursion left Cornwall and Lebanon toward Harrisburg and the national capital. The group, including Wilkes-Barre elites, traveled on a Pennsylvania special train with a guided paint tent and explained wart points of interest. Fares and lodging at Gordon Hotel are noted for the duration of the trip.
Stackhouse, division superintendent, posted notices along the line informing all employees that extra cushions sent to Rutherford are now the property of cabooses. Freight cars will be charged for cushions issued, and those caught using cushions not issued will face strict accountability.
Daniel Zellers of this city, an agent of the State Health Department, departed this morning for Pottsville to spend a week or ten days conducting investigations for Dr. Dixon, the health commissioner. The department has maintained an enviable record during Adlers’s two years of service.
Unclaimed letters for the week ending March 10 1908 include a Ladies List with Miss Mire Darie Rosa M Denthiner Nellie Risen batt Mrs Lydia M Shay Mrs Ff Spang and Mrs L B Walp. Gents list features Arthur F P Achenbach Rey J Bassam Fred W Downs Tabanon Chair Co John tight Amy Macang Amos Snagely.
A dubious advertisement touts Pazo Ointment promising to cure piles in 6 to 14 days with money back. It references a talk by Mr Henry Turner Bally on Tuesday evening, March 31 in the academy room at the high school with 26 cent admission, amid garbled details.
Notice to be made to the Governor of Pennsylvania on April 1 1908 by Daniel Weaver Monroe Gingrich Annie Gingrohh Was BH Gingrich and John Weaver for incorporation under the 1874 act to supply electricity heat and power in North Lebanon Lebanon County for residents and adjacent parties to have and enjoy all rights and franchises. B D Siegrist J Goadams
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