Every Little Lizzie Has a Movement All Its Own
An automaker in Lancaster sees a second Lizzie dash from a hitching post within a week. Gatekeeper Fred Beaver lifted North Queen street gates as a Detroit bound train neared. Four depot workers and a passerby crewed to move the car off the tracks just before the locomotive passed. The driver then steered the vehicle away, avoiding disaster.
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Lizzie
Lancaster City
Pennsylvania Depot
Prince Street
North Queen Street
Fred. Beaver
Detroit
Pennsylvania House
These Birds Had Nothing to Risk in a Confusing Fall
A fragmented note references Pete and a tense moment marked by a bond and a bat in a trestle setting. The readable bits imply a minor incident or observation with unclear surrounding details.
Roosevelt Cup to Honor Aviator Quentin in Lebanon County
Quentin high school in Lebanon county formerly Bismarck will display a silver loving cup in memory of Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt. His mother will present the cup to honor his life as an American aviator who died in France while serving with the forces.
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Quentin
Lebanon County
Bismarck
Quentin Roosevelt
France
Hoosevelt
Quentin High School
Frank Geiger
Perkiomen Valley
Edward Caum
West Chester
Honolulu
Caum
Mary B. Taylor
Joseph J. Taylor
West Goshen
George Woodring
Stoner Farm
Waynesboro
Meade Detweiler
Harrisburg
New York
Esther Minoli
Cannero
Lake Maggiore
Leonard Ferrari
Luzerne County
Ferrari
William Hilbert
Topton
Coatesville Considers Change From City to Borough
Petitions circulate after a Committee of Fifty meeting seeking signatures of last election voters. Plan asks Mayor and Council to allow a November vote on whether Coatesville should remain a third class city or revert to a borough. Supporters argue the 18,000 population cannot meet needs of larger cities like Lancaster or Reading. Opponents say Coatesville is the smallest third class city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coatesville
Iron and Steel
Lancaster
Reading
Happenings Across Lancaster County In A Busy Era
A collage of rural news from Columbia to Quarryville reports a seven pound eel in the Susquehanna, a 75 walnut tree project near Ephrata, a $10,000 station to be built by Genestoga Traction Co, price hikes in Lancaster laundries, local trades and transfers, and notable incidents from a boy’s eye injury to a burn of Liberty bonds. It notes civic moves, elections, race for prothonotary, and community storms with human interest and local enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Shultz
Columbia
Susquehanna
Judge Landis
Pacific Coast
Alaska
L. Ruppin
Ephrata
Genestoga Traction Co
Quarryville
H. G. Ranch
Strasburg
Martin Lefever
Lanecaster
Er. K. Hershey
Northern Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Akron Creamery Expansion and New Receiving Substations
Akon Creamery owner George E Brownback of Linfield Montgomery county plans a large addition to the Akron creamery building. The facility will house a modern refrigerator and machinery for first class butter production. Sub stations will be set up in northern county sections to receive milk cream eggs and other produce. Akron creamery will become the main receiving station with shipments sent to Brownbacks disposing cities. An ice manufacturing plant will also be installed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Brownback
Linfield
Montgomery County
Akron Creamery
Brownback
Academy Prof Rothermel to Direct Franklin and Marshall
Professor Joseph A. Rothermel, veteran of the Y M C A in France and former director of education in Tours, has been chosen to direct Franklin and Marshall Academy as successor to Hartman. Mr Startman is selected to head the Reformed church forward movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Rothermel
France
Tours
Franklin and Marshall Academy
Ref
TH. M. Hartman
Startman
The
Reformed Church
Strange animal seen in South Seaville roosts chicken raid
Mrs Lena Bergeson and William Champion fought off a strange beast in South Seaville New Jersey after it dragged away a prize rooster from Bergeson’s yard. The creature stood two hogs in size, with opossum feet a mink fur head and a coon like tail. The animal fled to a woodshed and was captured after Bergeson and Champion connected a pitchfork with a club. Older residents remain unsure what the creature is as rumors spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
Lena Bergeson
William Champion
South Seaville
N. J
Champion
Tie
William Sheldon
Plan Farmers Institutes Harrisburg August Plans
Plans for the state farmers institutes are being developed by Fred erik Rasmussen Secretary of Agriculture. Changes in county chairmen were made with Monroe P. Haverstick of Nelfaville to represent this county and Jean Troupman tied to a notable marriage rumor involving Ernesto Carranza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Frederik Rasmussen
Rasmussen
Monroe P. Haverstick
Nelfaville
Jean Troupman
Listen Lester” Company
Ernesto Carranza
President Carrania
Mexico
New York Dispatch
Cheating Buzzard Out of Living
In this brief item the Lancaster New Era notes that no dead horses or cattle are being dragged from woods for buzzards to feed on and that dead animal dealers now pay high prices, causing buzzards to struggle to find a living amid rising hides and tallow values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
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Hank
Pete
Ken Kling
Bond
Yee
Amy
IntTeopu
Wiee
Bea
Tim
Eames
Reacey
Aers
Roosevelt
William
Henry MccQuate
Lesher
Kntting Mill
Reamstown
Daniel M. Nissley
Sporting Hill
Dillinger
Martin Bricker
Denver
Lancaster General Cospital
Victory Welcome
A.J. Fritz
George W. Hensel
Mechanic Grove
Henry Schwartz
Manheim
Hornley
John Musselman
Allentown
West Conshohocken
Ludwig Little
Jules Schlinger
Broad Ford
VW. Academy
Antras
Coon
Plan Farmers’ Institutes
Carranza
Steelton
Beecha Pile
Wingert & Haas
Hat Store
John A. Haas
Queen St. Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
W. A
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