Alaska trip yields large potatoes raspberries and game
Dr J R Care of Norristown and Robert Selden report Alaska summer farming notes and a big game bag. They traveled 10000 miles by rail steamer and on foot from Norristown to Vancouver Skagway White Horse and Bear Creek. They hunted five caribou two moose five grizzly bears three mountain sheep and three goats amid extreme temperatures and vast landscapes.
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Alaska
J. R. Care
Norristown
Robert C. Selden
DeKalb Street
Reading
Yukon
Care
Seldon
Vancouver
B. C
Skagway
Passage
Selden
Bear Creek
Hunters Trek to Geneva Bar Camp Beside Glacial Base
A hunting party paddled from FEN to near the lake’s western end then moved on foot to a permanent camp at Geneva Bar at the glacier’s base. Summer heat reached 80 degrees before cooling to snow, while Dr. Care and Mr. Seldon reported unusually large potatoes observed at Bear Creek and Dawson City, including two potatoes weighing six pounds combined.
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Kluahane Lake
Geneva Bar
Care
Mr. Seldon
Bear Creek
Dr. Care
Dawson City
Tut Ankh Amen to Ad World Fame at Luxor Tomb
A playful, time warped account of Tutankhamun nicknamed Tut by Luxor Golf Club crowd. After his tomb’s discovery centuries later, advertisers seized the story, propelling Tut into massive fame while historians would have kept it quiet.
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Tut-Ankh- Amen
Luxor Golf Club
Tut
Disease Among Rabbits Strikes Chester County Cottontails
Slanters noting reports from Chester county say a mysterious disease is killing large numbers of cottontail rabbits. Some carcasses found dead in nests with no external injury appear to have died suddenly, prompting local sportsmen to seek answers.
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Chester County
Gunners Have Luck on Virginia Trip With 97 Rabbits
County notes report three men from Murrell Floyd S Bucher of Reamstown and Barton Schnader of Chester county spent three days in Virginia by auto on a gunning trip covering 290 miles each way. They bagged 97 rabbits and 42 partridges during the trek.
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Virginia
Jacob H. Hichelberger
Murrell
Floyd S. Bucher
Reamstown
Barton Schnader
Chester County
Ephrata Man Receives Sedan as Christmas Gift
Dr J W Keath of Ephrata received a surprise when a stranger delivered a Flint sedan to his curb as a Christmas present. He learned the gift came from a friendship formed years ago during his time at Jefferson Hospital Philadelphia, where he had both legs amputated after a back injury while a medical student.
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Ephrata
J. W. Keath
Keath
Jefferson Hospital
Philadelphia
FARM CALENDAR Practical tips for fall breeding and winter care
Practical notes on selecting breeding cockerels in fall to improve next season stock. Rhubarb storage methods to yield January February fruit. Winter milk cooling remains essential to prevent spoilage. Nail driving with axle grease aids ease and timber protection. Young pigs benefit from alfalfa or clover hay to cut tankage and substitute pasture, with legume hay keeping brood sows fed.
Trap Many Muskrats Near Washingtonboro
John Shand of Washingtonboro claims the musk rat trapping harvest this fall with 181 trapped, a hundred more than last year. Trappers must set traps correctly near Water for the York Traven Dam to catch rats daily. Some ducks and a rabbit were incidentally caught. hides fetch up to $2.50 each, with about eleven grades and kittens at 50 cents.
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John Shand
Washingtonboro
York Traven
Lancaster Canoeists Return After 11594 Mile Gulf Voyage
H R Patton and J J Herr of Lancaster, starting with 80 cents and a canoe named Flapper, paddled from Columbia up the Susquehanna then to Juniata and Allegheny rivers, across the Ohio and Mississippi to the Gulf, to Port Arthur and Vera Cruz. After three days on the Gulf they were picked up by a Revenue Cutter and brought home.
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Lancaster
Mexico
Lancaster County
H. R. Patton
Prangley Avenue
J. J. Herr
Chester Street
Columbia
Mexican Gulf
West Coast
Susquehanna
Juniata
Canamah
Allegheny
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Port Arthur
Texas
Vera Cruz
Panama Canal
Gulf
Traveling Oven for Pretz-Stick Plant
The traveling oven at Pretz-Stick Baking Co in Myerstown, the sole of its kind, was invented by George W. Holtzman. In full operation it will bake up to 120,000 large pretzels in ten hours or twice as many small pretzels.
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Myerstown
George W. Holtzman
Doan’s Pills Tame Lititz Backache and Kidney Ailment
A Lititz citizen Mrs. Daniel Eshleman of 210 East New Street reports backache began as simple pain and worsened with kidney issues. After using Doan’s Pills from Hensel’s Drug Store the discomfort eased and kidney troubles regulated. Price 60 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo NY manufactures.
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Lititz
Daniel Eshleman
New St
Doan
Charles
Hensel’s
Indian Cave Found by Two Reading Men
John and Robert Kinsey of Reading report discoveries in a Boyertown Berks cave showing a pre white man Indian trade factory with household tools and weapons, turquoise rock and ore evidence, three skeletons near the entrance, suggesting transport by traders. Liberia schools rotate teaching duties as students advance and some walk eight miles through swamps to reach classes.
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United States
Boyertown
New England
Ohio
Quantier Vites
Liberia
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William Wilde
Wilde
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the County
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Washington Ave
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