Lancaster County items reflect tax, debt, and development
Lancaster's 5 mill school tax rate allocates 1 mill for buildings and 4 for general expenses. The county debt has fallen from 700000 to 295000 since 1901. Eleven sites were offered for a new Lancaster post office with prices from 20000 to 250000. A Brunswick hotel may rise on the Imperial Hotel site at Queen and Chestnut streets. Other notes include a 44 year old lemon tree at Danner & Co. Manheim, rising cattle prices, and tobacco and potato acreage forecasts for Lancaster county.
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Lancaster
Lancaster County
Queen and Chestnut Streets
Brunswick
Germany
Paul Heine
Danner & Co
Manheim
Danner
Two Hillier Tie Cans a Year
The American Can Company produced 2,000,000,000 common tin cans last year and several million non common cans. If laid end to end they would circle the world six times. Full, packaged cans would bring about $20,000,000 at 10 cents each. The firm makes over 42,000 tin products and US tin can output rose 200 percent in ten years.
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American Can Company
Africa
United States
Unusual Offer for Dictionary via Coupon Promotion
The Philadelphia Record promotes a six coupon offer plus cash for the New Modern English Dictionary. Three binding options range from $2 to $4, with varying leather and cloth bindings, maps, color plates, and educational charts. Send six coupons and money to the Dictionary Department at 916 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia Record
Daily
Sunday Record
Chestnut St
Philadelphia
Cortright Metal Roof Ad Advocates Longevity
Advertisements promote Cortright Metal Shingles as durable roofing used for over 25 years with first installations remaining sound. Prospective customers urged to request a free copy of the company issue sent from Philadelphia, detailing user letters endorsing the product.
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Cortright
Cortright Metal Shingle Advocate
Cortright Metal
New Fishway for Apcall's Ferry to Be Built of Concrete and Rock
The McCall's Ferry Dam Company plans a 60 foot wide concrete and rock fishway on the York side to route shad from the bay up the Susquehanna and tributaries. Commission Buller will supervise progress as the project aims to end river disputes and allow possible June shad catches next year.
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Buller
McCall’s Ferry Dam Company
Susquehanna
Lancaster
State Fish Commissioners
York
Sunbury
Juniata
Newport
Man of vigor and memory dies at Eden township
Bible Bundred Times Henry Binear, age 36, dies at home in Eden township after a fall that broke his leg. A quarryman all his life, he worked barehanded without gloves. He read the Bible through many times and could quote passages verbatim. He was known for humor, late funerals, and steadfast election attendance.
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Henry Binear
Eden Township
Tony
Griffiths Sentenced for Passing Bogus Ten Dollar Notes
Hiram Griffiths, convicted in Philadelphia federal court for circulating counterfeit ten dollar notes, was sentenced to six years in Atlanta federal prison and fined $1000 by Judge Thomson. The Mohnton resident appeared in Ephrata before Christmas, passing several counterfeit notes in small purchases and one in the city. After conviction his sentence was not suspended for cooperation, as he refused to provide information on the money's source.
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Hiram Griffiths
United States
Philadelphia
Atlanta
Thomson
United States District Court
Griffiths
Mohnton
Ephrata
Cornwall Ore Banks Ownership Tied to $7.5 Million Mortgage
The Cornwall Ore Banks and The Pennsylvania Steel Company hold 52 ninety sixths of the Cornwall iron ore banks and mine hills as disclosed in Lebanon court papers related to a $7.5 million mortgage to Girard Trust Company of Philadelphia acting for bondholders.
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Pennsylvania Steel Company
Cornwall
Lebanon Court
Steel Company
Girard Trust Company
Philadelphia
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Record Building
Lititz
Apcall’s Ferry
Bundred Times
Grifiths
Cornwall Ore Banks
Studebaker
Studer
New York
Minneapolis
Chicago
Boston
South Bend
Ind
Dallas
Kansas City
Denver
San Francisco
Farmer’s National Bank
Farmers National Bank
Penna
Lancaster City
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Heinitsh's
S. Queen St
House of Good Shoes
Chas. HA. Frey
King St
North
Queen Stre
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