Electric lights planned in Landisville and local events
Landisville gears up for full illumination as several electric street lights were installed last week with more to come. In Columbia area a 9 year old boy died after being crushed by a falling tree on a Warren farm. Denver borough grants a franchise to D S Martin for power from Newmanstown. and more local notes: engagements, a fire destroying a home near Rheems, old home week planning in Ephrata, occupancy dispute at Unicorn hotel, tobacco seed sowing, a 87 year old horse, and Manheim trapping champions. The Lancaster Automobile Club launches a children’s essay contest to promote good roads.
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Landisville
William Warren
Columbia
Paul
Warren
Denver
Martin
Newmanstown
Lebanon County
W. A. Morning
Elizabethtown
Anna
Elmer Reist Kraybill
New Holland High School
Miss Morning
Harry Heisey
Rheems
Ephrata
G. Zerfass
Hiram Nessinger
John B. Weaver
J. J. Baker
John P. M. Raub
Unicorn
Quarryville
Horace B. Witmer
Anna M. Hensel
Ritter
Howard
Harry
Manheim
Growing Ginseng Pioneer in Strasburg Township
Albert Hartman of Strasburg Township becomes the first in the area to grow ginseng successfully. A boss carpenter for Bran & Stewart with the Pennsylvania Railroad, he farmed on his hill near New Providence and Green Lane. After years of trial he plans to harvest his first crop this season and is in talks with oriental buyers, gaining recognition as a local ginseng authority.
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Albert Hartman
Strasburg Township
Hartman
Bran & Stewart
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
New Providence
Green Lane
Lancaster County
Kindness as Wealth and Living Words
The piece argues that kindness grows principal with use, unlike money. It praises sincerity and self‑examination to weed out mean impulses and cultivate kindness, citing Lincoln quotes about honey over vinegar and planting roses. It concludes health and happiness, not money, are life’s true gains.
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Lincoln
Night Voices of Lancaster County Birds Lecture
Prof H H Beck spoke to the Linnaean Society on Night Voices of Lancaster County Birds illustrated by museum mounts. He split birds into nocturnals and quasi nocturnals with notes on owls whip por will and night hawk, and described nesting sites of night heron and other species in Lancaster. The talk included calls imagined as a common language among migrating birds and was illustrated with lifelike sound imitations. P E Will celebrated twenty fifth anniversary as a blacksmith by shoeing a horse in six minutes twenty one seconds with Dr Harry Bender present.
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Lancaster
H. H. Beck
Linnaean Society
College Hill
Lancaster County
M. W. Raub
Beck
Canada
Herrearies
Frysville
Muddy Creek
Chickies Creek
White Oak
Mountville
P. E. Will
Penryn
Jerome K. Greiner
Elm
Penn Township
Harry Bender
Lititz
Ilias Hitnier
John Dommy
Dreams Foretold Death Echoes in Ominous Visions
A London paper cites multiple cases where dreams warned of deaths. Rev. J Taylor Collins recalls his son’s fatal sea accident months after a room vision. a January dream led to discovering a missing preacher hung at a hall. a wife’s dream linked to a found suicide, and a letter from a brother predicting a Kent throat cut.
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London
J. Taylor Collins
Dufton
Appleby
Mr. Collins
Luten
Mission
Norwood
Samuel
Kent
Orpington
Robber's awful blows at Lancaster doctor’s room
Dr E T Prizer awoke to a burglar entering his room on Thursday. The intruder struck four blows with an iron spade before fleeing, after which the thief hurriedly left with a sugar bowl and spoons. He was later identified as Harry Smith alias Adams, released March 29 after a prior prison term for burglary in Columbia.
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E. T. Prizer
Lancaster
Dr. Prizer
Columbia
Harry Smith
Adams
John Bartch
Literature on high Seas and the Davis portrait in Atlantic
A commentary on shipboard libraries notes careful curation for varied tastes. It discusses Jefferson Davis as a sensitive leader, detailing nervous dyspepsia and quick disapproval responses that shaped his public persona. Bradford recounts these traits in Atlantic.
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Jefferson Davis
Mira
Davis
Gama- Hel Bradford, Jr
Atlantic
Irving and His Money Excerpt Reflects Generous Actor
John Hare notes Irving’s extravagance but says he valued money for others. During a midland town engagement Irving rode a shabby taxi each night. After the show he asked the landlord about the cab fare and urged paying the driver a sovereign for his service.
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Irving
John Hare
Sir Henry
The Doones Myth and Lorna Doone Origins
K W Hackwood argues in The Good Old Times that Doones are legendary. No Doones existed. the name is a local bogey derived from Dane. A faint tale links a fugitive from Sedgmoor to Doon valley, with the last Doones dying in winter 1800.
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Mr. Blackmore
Lorna Doone
K. W. Hackwood
Fareft
Sedgmoor
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W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gents’ Furnisher Record Building
Lititz, PA
the Automoble Club of
H. H Beck
Robber
Wingert & Haas
QueEn ST
Lancaster, PA
Heinitsch’s
Heinitsh
S. Queen St
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Hoffmeier Bros
Lancaster’s
E. King Street
Reader
N. B
Queen Stre
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