Readable News Snippets From Glenside To Reading
A varied clipping notes a Glenside coal removal by dredging, Berks Prison reforms banning sash cords after a prisoner’s suicide, a 22 000 dollar Berks will filed by Adam Ernst heirs, a Greenville dog killing snakes, Bethlem swimmer Mae O Loughlin fined after a canal dive attempt, Levi Fullmer’s 26 mile birthday visit to Lewistown, a York white kitten scarred by hail, and West Chester resident Wayne Marshman training a garter snake for tricks and a marathon.
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Glenside
Secinykill
Reading
Berks County
Berks Court House
Adam Ernst
Penn Township
John Taylor
Greenville
Columbia County
Taylor Garden
Mae O’ Loughlin
Bethlehem
Lehigh Canal
New Street
William Halteman
Levi H. Fullmer
Robersburg
Lewistown
J. R. Fullmer
Fullmer
Centre County
Seven Mountains
Milroy
Hilen V. Houck
York
Wayne Marshman
West Chester
Talented Musicians of Good Family Hide Musical Prowess
The Good family near Swartaville to Stone Hill Brecknock township includes John and Wayne Good who run a grist mill and George who helps on the farm while all three form a gifted musical trio. John, the eldest, is a prodigy trained by noted instructors including Ethel Lucretia Alcott in New York, and they perform only in private.
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Samuel Good
Swartaville
Stone Hill
Brecknock Township
Mr. Good
Metzler
Ephrata
John
Wayne
George
John Good
Ethel
San Francisco
Iceland Eider Farms Guard Ducks and Harvest Priceless Down
The article explains how Icelandic and Vestmanaeyjar eider ducks are protected by law and public sentiment. Dried down comes from the birds themselves and can be reharvested from the same source after the birds molt. Farms on small islands shelter brooding ducks and use staged cleaningframes with strings to remove impurities efficiently.
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Iceland
Vestmannaecular
Ireland
Ivery
Modes of Burial Across Cultures and a Holmes Anecdote
The article surveys burial customs across cultures with varied postures and directions from eastern oriented graves to North South divinations, noting solar symbolism and regional differences. It also recounts Holmes’s humorous experiment inhaling chloroform, writing incoherently, then discovering a whiff of turpentine on the page.
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Blackbird
St. Louis
The One Surviving Tale Of Mont Pelee And Other Calamities
A survey of famed survival amid disaster recalls Marcel Bader from the Chanay wreck and a ship’s boy saved after the Primrose disaster. It recounts the Cabul retreat of 1842 with Dr. Brydone as sole survivor, a Japanese regiment’s blizzard march tragedy, and Mount Pelee’s 1902 destruction of St Pierre where a lone prisoner survived underground amid the ruins.
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Oue Lundred
Bat
Minorca
Marcel Bader
Anna Rebekka
Memel
Lfe
Dispatch
Primrose
St. Neverne
Cabul
Khyber Pass
Brydone
Wajor
Awecubri
London
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Lewis N. Moyer
Lancaster
East Petersburg
Columbia Landisville
Lancaster Junction
Manheim
Lititz
Millway
Akron
Ephrata Stevens
Denver Reinholds
Lancaster East Petersburg
Manheim Lititz
Milway
Sv. A.m
Ocean Grove
Eider Farms
Holmes
St. Pierre
Mont Pelee
London Express
Bill
Algernon
Philadephia Ledger
The
Keystone Furniture Company
W. King St
Lancaster, Pa
Keystone
Lancaster County
Lancaster City
Agricultural Trust Company
Board of
J. W. Fehl
Pro
Fehl
Martin Lefevre
Strasburg
Aaron C. Souders
Manor Township
Albert G. Herr
Washington
Boro
S. F. Sweigart
Albert R.lendis
Lanc
R. D
J. W. Feh
Chas
F. Hess
New Providence
L. QO. Davis
John E. Lefever
Safe Harbor
Henry M Herr
Millersville
Franklin Warfel
Conestoga Centre
Frank 3
Miller
Isaiah F. Hess
John M. Herr
Geo
Murry
Christian F. Lauder
Moses R. Landis
Silas E. Bard
Denver
Henry J. Gish
Elizabethtown
Amos N. Risser
R. B
Henry L. Gise
J. P
John H. Martin
Mr. Joy
Clayton J. Rover
Lane Forney
John Mohler
H. Hottenstein
Samuel R. Nissley
Manheim R. D
John A . Balmer
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