Lancaster County News and Notes Amid Tobacco Woes
Drowned youth at Lake Conewago in Mount Gretna. a Columbia woman reports a chicken with 15 eggs. A Lenape Park incident ends with a suspect released. Tobacco prospects in the county slump with fields abandoned. Growers to meet August 9 at Williamson's Park with speakers, music, and crop discussion. Hospital fund drive urged as city and county brace for appeals. Mayor McClain tours Omaha and notes Union Stockyards cattle flows affecting local counties. Cartoon: a change of climate joke between a fashionable physician and a patient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ream
John Ream
Elizabethtown
Conewago
Mount Gretna
Eli Lackard
Columbia
Charles Taggart
Lancaster
Lenape Park
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers
Williamson’s Park
Lancaster County
General’ Hospital
McClain
Omaha
Union
Pennsylvania
Serious Wreck at Sinking Spring on Reading Railway
A Reading Railway extra fast freight wrecked near Sinking Spring station killing one crewman and seriously injuring four others, with two may die. Eighteen freight cars were wrecked and tracks torn for hundreds of yards. The operator at Sinking Spring allegedly set the red board causing the derailment as the eastbound train, about forty miles per hour, approached the grade. The engine ripped up rails as it pushed forward, piling the wreckage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Reading Railway Company
Sinking Springs
Sinking Spring
Receiver defined as man who winds up a business
A Boston Transcript quote explains a receiver as a man who winds up a business after it has run down, highlighting the role in closing or settling company affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Transcript
The Split Log Drag Origin in Missouri Roads
A Missouri farmer devised a crude split log drag to smooth dirt roads after rain. Two halves linked by braces and a chain created a drag that reshaped the surface from ditch to center, improving drainage. News accounts note its simple, widespread adoption and impact on road maintenance costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Harper's Weekly
Salt Herring Swing Across Britain Echoes Kipling
A Glasgow News note recalls an English resident taking a keg of Loch Fyne herring to London. Londoners tried to cut and boil the herring, finding it unpalatable, then fried them, finishing the keg. The anecdote highlights east west culinary divides and Scottish delicacies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipling
East
West
England
Scotland
Tweed
Glasgow
London
Glasgow News
Rise and Fall of Elizabeth Furnace and Cornwall Iron Lords
A detailed narrative traces Conrad Steigel’s rise from Elizabeth Furnace to Manheim, his glass works, wealth, and lavish entertainments, followed by his bankruptcy after Revolutionary strains. It chronicles the Grubbs and Colemans rise in Cornwall iron, land vast holdings, and Robert Coleman’s emergence as Lancaster County’s leading iron master and millionaire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steigel
Elizabeth
Colony
Commonwealth
Steadman
Brickerville Church
Manheim
Arndt
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Historical Society
Ecourt
Glass Works
America
Franklin
von Cannon Hill
Pennsylvania
Steigel Company
Washington
Thomas
Sheafferstown Way
Europe
Robert Coleman
Jasper Yeates
Hsg
Lancaster
Valley Forge
Henry
Kimberton
Warwick
Scheafferstown
Charming Forge
Brickerville
Grubbs and Colemans
Grubbs
Peter
Furnace Hills
Cornwall
Grubb
Delaware
Wilmington
Peter Grubb
Hopewell’forge
Lancaster County
Curtis Grubb
Hopewell
Mount Hope
Hopewell Forges
Henry Bates Grubb
Great Cornwall
Coleman
Daniel Benezet
Stieger
Steadmans
John Dickinson
Speedwell
James Old
Ann
Thomas Burton
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W. H. Buch
Record Building
Lititz
New York
Elizabeth Furnace
FBI
Conrad Mark
Henry Wm. Stiegel
Farmers National Bank
Lititz, Penna
Leinbach & Co
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster’s Daylight Department Store
S. & H. Green
Bell
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Chas. H. Frey the
Shoe Man
King St
Heinitsch’s
W. A. Heinitsh Big Furniture and Carpet Store
S. Queen St
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