County auction and farm notes from Lancaster area
Public sale updates show Frank Imsweiler’s six mules fetching about 342 dollars each and 28 cows averaging 87 dollars at West Hempfield. A Masonic Home planting order covers four carloads of fruit and forest trees plus three hundred bushels of lawn grass seed for Elizabethtown. A mad steer in Drumore township was shot after a threat to kill. Hay prices fall from 20 to 10 dollars a ton, straw at 8. Morris Levy notes United Cigar Manufacurers will not buy Havana seed tobacco this season.
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Lancaster
Coatesville
West Hempfield
Frank Imsweiler
Masonic
Elizabethtown
Tey
Jacob Denlinger
Drumore
Ultra
Morris Levy
Lancaster County
United Cigar Manufacturers Company
Governor Tener signs dove and plover shooting ban
On Saturday Governor Tener enacted a law prohibiting shooting turtle doves plovers black birds or killdeer. Violations carry a ten dollar penalty per bird killed. An owner of property where blackbirds are caught destroying eggs or young may kill them under a proviso, as well as birds feeding on grain fruit or berries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tener
Women Not Improving Morals Debated by Clergy and Noted Men
Rev. Dr. Augustus H. Barnett preached at the Church of the Redeemer in Philadelphia urging discussion on whether women progress morally at the same pace as men. Readings from William Allen White Emile Berliner Jacob Riis Lydia Stokes Adams Luther Burbank Poultney Bigelow and others critiqued modern women, with Barnett linking certain behaviors to moral decline while praising church women and condemning women of the underworld.
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Agustus H. Barnett
Church of the Redeemer
Philadelphia
William Allen White
Emile Berliner
Jacob A. Riis
Lydia Stokes Adams
Luther Burbank
Poultney Bigelow
Dr. Barnett
Letter From Kilauea Describes Work and Hawaiian Life
A personal letter from Theodore Buch in Kilauea Hawaii March 8 1911 details his work on a sugar plantation from early morning to late, long horse journeys to meet Oakland guests and visits to the ocean. He notes the Kilauea volcano poses no danger, plans a future trip to Honolulu, mentions quarantine for their dog Muff, and shares travel and parcel post food and garden notes.
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Theodore Buch
Killauea
T. H
Oakland
California
Deakins
Kilauea
Hawaii
Honolulu
New York
BR. Buc
Regular Newspaper Reading for Community Benefit
The Lancaster Morning News argues readers gain direct cash value from regular, thorough newspaper use. Housewives save on living costs and learn about children’s schooling, concerts, domestic help, and local services. businesspeople find market insight and opportunities. farmers track crop outlooks. workers gauge wages and conditions. all seek competitive intelligence and consumer savings through consistent daily reading.
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Lancaster Morning News
Obligation Both Ways
A Washington Star quote features Mr. Comrox noting some pictures as genuine old masters and expressing pride in owning them. He adds that the old masters would respect him if they knew what he paid for them.
Realizing It How Floods Dread and Weary the Heart
An Ohioan visiting a Philadelphia newspaper office compares flood disasters with biblical ruin. He recalls assessing a flooded Dayton home by map and dispatches, describing the yellow muddy flood waters, wreckage, and the haunting aftermath inside rooms. He laments the decay and deathly odor, grateful his new home survived while others burned.
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An Qohican
Philadelphia
Dayton
Middle West
Johnstown
Austin
Forsees Bankruptcy of Railroads in 16 Years
A. Heaton Robertson, director of the New Haven road, warned that continued criticism and government pressure could drive every U S railroad into receivership within ten years. He blamed rate restraints and rising costs despite higher employee pay, saying rates must rise to prevent collapse.
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A. Heaton Robertson
New Haven Road
New Haven
Robertson
United States
Weidmanville Seniors Lead Tiny Village Population
Weidmanville on the C H turnpike hosts three residents over ninety. Betsey Nissley is 95 in a longtime limestone home. Polly Loose, 94, lives with her son-in-law Jesse Jacoby opposite the general store. Catharine Erb, 90, will turn 91 in May, living near her son-in-law Christian Kreider. The village has thirteen houses and under seventy five residents.
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Weidmanville
Lincoln
Betsey Nissley
Jesse Jacoby
Polly Loose
Daniel Loose
Christian W. Kreider
Catharine Erb
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Walter H. Buch
the Men’s Outfitters
Record Building
Lititz
Smooth and Bailey
J. F.iLongenecker
Lititz, Pa
Farmer’s National Bank
Farmers National Bank
Penna
Lancaster City
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Real McDougall
McDougall
Heinitsh's
S. Queen St
Chas. H. Frey
King St
North
Queen Atre Lancaster, PA
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