Berks county clears debt as $53,000 funds emerge
Berks county reports no debt and a $53,000 surplus while Clearfield adopts a shade tree commission under the new Pennsylvania statute. W C Wolff of Lilly files patents for a phonograph dubbed the electric universal autphone. The West Penn Railway sees its largest fill south of Maysontown, and a gully near Wader City prompts structural choices. Professor Clarence Griggs of Conneaut Lake undergoes appendectomy and metal fragments found in the appendix raise questions about canned goods. The Canton Sentinel notes political candidate rhetoric, and a State Inspector of Bees office stalls without funding. Fred and Kenneth Hunter complete a 200 mile water trip to Wilkes-Barre, reporting festive river life along the Susquehanna.
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Berks County
Clearfield
Pennsylvania
W. C. Wolff
Lilly, Pa
West Penn Railway
Maysontown
Fayette County
Morgantown
Clarence Griggs
Conneaut Lake
Meadville City Hospital
Canton Sentinel
Mary
Bradford County
Fred
Kenneth Hunter
Great Bend
Wilkes-Barre
Susquehanna
Hunter Brothers
Country Town Sayings Reflect Rural Wit and Woes
A column of pithy maxims contrasts timid manners with courage, social dynamics, and everyday conflicts. It notes neighbors’ judgment, the pull between work and home life, and the uneven influence of wealth on the young. The anecdotes mix humor with cautionary observations.
Ephrata and Lebanon Railway Progress Update
Surveyors near Hopeland complete. Grading crew near Clay. Concrete piers for Coculico Creek bridge finished awaiting iron work this month. Piers for Wolf's Mill bridge at Hopeland under construction. Several concrete culverts planned.
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Ephrata
Lebanon
Hopeland
Coculico Creek
Middle Creek
Wolf’s Mill
Hat Boxes Too Small In Treasury Lockers
The Treasury's new hat lockers upset about 400 female employees as they inspected the open facilities. Boxes measure eighteen inches wide and cannot fit a two foot hat, prompting questions about design and practicality.
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Sam
Mermaids From Dugong Describe Sea Woman Features
A New York Press piece compares a dugong to mermaids noting its humanlike hands feet and facial features. It describes a dugong as tall as a man when grown with a head neck and shoulder structure reminiscent of a human, and notes the animal bears its young similarly to humans while warning that dugongs are increasingly endangered in the Indian Ocean.
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Dugong
Indian Ocean
New York Press
Washington
New York ‘Tribune
The Family Cat and Public Health Policy
Chicago health commissioner warns that epidemic and focal diseases are spread by the family cat under normal conditions. The piece contrasts parental danger in child’s toys with the cat’s unpredictable movement, then quotes the Washington Star on political accountability and patriotic sacrifice.
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Chicago
Knew His Business and Public Court Gag Line
Selection of brief quips from old papers. A Louisville Courier-Journal joke notes a fine and open court remark about kissing. Chicago News quotes a marriage reform line. Chicago Tribune features a child’s question about an accommodation train.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Bobby
Chicago Tribune
Civilizing the Indian in Eastmans View
The Indian speaker in The Law of the Indian recalls learning morality from an untutored woman before Christ and whiteness, loving nature and simplicity, and valuing beauty over dollars. Civilization, he says, educates away natural grace, replacing reverence with artificial wealth and a painted landscape.
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Charles Alexander Eastman
Nature
Big Ben Dial Size Revealed By Clock Tower Details
A London note describes Big Ben's dial diameter as twenty three feet with minute marks a foot apart and numerals two feet long. The minute hand measures fifteen feet, its weight sometimes slowing the clock in snow.
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Parliament
Westminster
Big Ben
Great George Street
Thames Embankment
London Mail
Not a Parallel Case from the Saturday Evening Post
A Philadelphia writer recalls a bashful farmer boy afraid to speak to a girl. His father scolds him for not seeking a bride, noting his own early marriage and farm. The boy complains that unlike his father he must find a strange girl to marry.
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Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post
Conferring a Title by the Kentucky Governor
While governor Proctor Knott sent to Hon. tod dart Johnston a certificate bearing the great seal of the state naming him Mister, a distinctive title no Kentuckian had previously borne, officially commissioning him with honor.
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Kentucky
Proctor Knott
Toddart Johnston
Lost and Found a Heart in Humble Verses
A collection of quips and witticisms from The Comeback Skinflint Christian Advocate Toledo Blade and Levis. It contrasts hopeful lines about recovery with sharp social humor. The snippets joke about money advantage gratitude and color without extensive context.
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Puck
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Ethel
Jong
Pierce
R.V. Pierce
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N.Y
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Levis
Brunnerville
E. G. Geyer
Thomas Steffy
Broad Street
Lititz, PA
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Co. E. Myer Tinner and
Plummer
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
AON
Hay Brown
John DR
Skiles
Long
Torn Hertzler
HN D. Skiles
Gurrear C. Miller
Mellinger
John 8. Graybill
W.A. Hensel
W. Hartman
Joan Hertzler
John A. Nauman
John B. Miller
J . Breneman
Whavesr
Fulton Studio
Amos, Photographer
Waltham Watches
Wertsch
Watchmaker
Lititz
PENNA
W.h.muth&co
W. H. Muth & Co
U. S. Army
Col. Theo. Roosevelt
United States Army
Kermit Roosevelt
Africa
Philip Rudy
Queen Street
Lancaster
Saul
S. M. Huber
Lititz, Or
F. M. Bowman
Rothsville
Wavers GH Works
Hdependent Refinans
Pittsburg
Waverly
Waverly Gasu
YAN
Leading Farmers
Sorrel Horse Hotel
A. B. Adams
Prop’r
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Ritchie
I.c. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Eo, L.khith
Justice of the Pease Real Hatate
Brunnervilur
M .M. Souders
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