Notable Local Notices on Farms and Heritage in Blair County
Dr. Guy A. Gerberich, ill with typhoid, has regained mobility at Lebanon. W T Huntington of Jersey Shore planted 1,000 peach trees with dynamite aiding 100. plans 500 more using dynamite for holes. Mrs J D Hammond of Carlisle owns a 1690 German hymn book heirloom, leather bound with brass trim. Judge C B Staples of Monroe County promotes rural school care and road improvements for pupils. Canoe Valley wood chop frolic in Blair County draws many, with Mary Henry home event continuing decades of tradition. women prepare abundant food beforehand.
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Guy A. Gerberich
D. P. Gerberich
Lebanon
Gerberich
W.T. Huntington
Jersey Shore
Mr. Huntington
J. D. Hammond
Carlisle
Hammond
C. B. Staples
Monroe County
Canoe Valley
Blair County
Catharine
Morris
Mary Henry
The Wasted Witticiam Exchange Joke
The hostess quips that Scots are humorous and offers a departing guest first pick among two great piles of overcoats in the dressing room. The guest patiently searches and replies I will have what I want. The joke is presented in a playful exchange with a dash of regional humor.
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Bere
His Own Words in a Victorian Domestic Exchange
A short quip from the Boston Transcript frames a domestic exchange where a husband remarks on happiness if he exerted himself, and the wife recalls his claim that she made him the happiest man on earth. The cheeky banter highlights marital ego and playful reproach.
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Boston Transcript
The Little Pitcher Said Edith to her Doll
A short passage portrays Edith chiding her doll with a stern maternal tone. She insists the doll must not answer back or be saucy, claiming rightful authority as its mother.
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Edith
Luck and Hokus Pokus in Old Sayings
A comic exchange notes Methusaleh’s long life and a quip about a wife marrying for money. The remark, framed as a judge’s aside, reflects humor about longevity and motives in marriage.
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Hokus
Methusaleh
Pokus
Parcels Post Rules for Perishables and Prohibited Items
The Parcels Post System under Postmaster General Hitchcock allows sending perishable items short distances if well packed. Eggs have local delivery only when properly packed. salted meats travel anywhere. fresh meat stays in the first zone. Fragile items must be securely packed and labeled fragile. Prohibited items include intoxicants, poisons, explosives, inflammables, live animals, obscene material, and raw hides. Books and printed matter are not accepted at parcels post rates.
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Hitchcock
Word lubber appears across Elizabethan texts
The note catalogs usage of the term lubber from Ralph Roister Doister circa 1550 to Tusser 1580 and Erasmus translations, noting its persistent sixteenth century presence. It cites lines describing a veriest lubber a dolt and lazy worker, with examples from London Notes and Queries about Lungland and lazy lobres.
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Ralph Roister Doister
Tusser
Udal
Erasmus
Lungland
Grete Lobres
Longe
London
Not For Fashion's Sake The Mansfield Mercy Tale
The text recalls England's harsh old theft law where any item over ten shillings faced capital punishment. Lord Mansfield urged mercy in a jury verdict to spare a thief who stole a trinket worth less than ten shillings, while a jeweler argued the fashion cost him twice that. The judge urged restraint and warned against hanging for fashion.
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England
What’s Dirt How a Chemistry Professor Reframes Dirt
An old college professor quips that dirt is merely a chemical construct. He shows grease becomes soap with alkali, dissolves with water, and that adding gypsum alters perception. He jokes how dirt appears in makeup and powders, urging students to analyze matter rather than label it.
Mixed Wives and the Church Bone Mystery
In an early New England town Mr. Church faced a grim dilemma after burying four wives in one plot. While relocating remains he mixed bones, then used new headstones bearing joking inscriptions about Hannah Emily Mary Matilda and others, lamenting the tangled graves with a somber moral in old fashioned tone.
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Church
New England
Hannah Church
Emily
Emily Church
Matilda
Mary Matilda
Hannah
A Bit of English Humor in Parody Political Lines
An old English humorist devised a scoring joke against politicians by reporting brief speech fragments from prominent Members. A comic journal, barred from news, printed a string of first lines like Sir Charles Wetherell not sensible Hunt ignorant Lord Ashley moving promptly Perceval petition Sibthorpe understanding Lyndhurst credit Sigden not one of those thought Croker fullest assurance.
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Times
Charles Wetherell
Hunt
Perceval
Sibthorpe
Lord Lyndhurst
Edward Sigden
Croker
Assur
Wonderful Fiddles Through History at Court and Concerts
The article recounts a giant fiddle seen at the Trench court in Charles VI era where boys sat inside the instrument and sang. later a similar enormous fiddle appeared in Boston concerts requiring a table for the bow. It notes the instrument as the grandfather of fiddles and comments on the beauty of the effect despite tone concerns.
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Trench Court
Charles VI
Boston
Columbia River Thrice Named and Early Indian Etymology
The Columbia river has undergone three names Oregon St Roque and Colonia given by Robert Gray in 1792. Whitney notes the original designation Oregon meaning big ear from local Indian ear stretching customs. Meanwhile Wilson muses over Tom Wilkins and Edith Brown once close, now estranged after marriage.
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Columbia River
Oregon
St. Roque
Robert Gray
Colonia
Whitney
Goose eyes and a scoreless baseball game headline
A fragmentary Chicago News item mentions goose eyes and a baseball game with no runs in innings. The snippet Playful dialogue features Big Brother and Little Sister as it ponders why the question arises.
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Chicago News
The Umbrella In English Writings Through Time
This piece traces umbrellas from ancient use in sunny climates to their England emergence. It notes Coryat in 1608, Beaumont and Fletcher in 1640, Jonas Hanway as the first well known London umbrella user in 1786, a King’s Bench libel case with an umbrella, and Cowper’s poem mentioning the item as a social symbol.
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Thomas Coryat
Italy
Beaumont and Iletcher
England
Jonas Hanway
Red Lion Square
London
Dr. She
The Steel Eating Worm Myth Origin Revealed
A letter in New York Engineering News traces the steel eating worm myth to 1866 Haspe Germany. Employees of iron seed and chemical works formed a jovial Ulk society at a hotel. A gutta percha tube fake worm filled with hydrochloric acid was shown and used to explain corrosion by a supposed worm's secretion. The editor believed the tale and it spread to other journals.
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New York Engineering News
IE. Gibbon Spilsbury
Haspe
Germany
Ulk
An Incident of Old Japan March 1868 Reception
An English minister Sir Harry Parkes faced a fierce sword attack en route to the mikado's palace. Nine of eleven guards were wounded, Parkes escaped unharmed, pursuing one attacker as another was beheaded. The samurai was executed and the next day the mikado decreed no assaults on foreigners.
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Japan
Matsuhito
Harry Parkes
Mr. Satow
Harry
Sir Harry
Mr. Freeman-Mitford
Creeping Salt and Moving Verses in a Fragmented Page
A miscellaneous set of notes and quips appears. A science snippet demonstrates salt creeping up glass walls. A short yarn laments diminished visits after marriage. A landlord's rent raise follows a moving letter remark. Witty exchanges contrast view of crime and jokes from New York Press.
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Treck
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Herbert CG
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Graybill
W. A. Uhnsel
H.W. Hartman
John A. Nauman
John B, Miller
J. T
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J. H, Weaver
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Safe Padlock Works
Lancaster City
Lancaster
I. P. Reese
W. King St
Decker and
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Jans
SEN
A. R. Keller
Lititz
Penna
Stephen B. Kissinger
Jnd
W. Lemon St
Pratts Poultry
Bet Pratts
A.R. Bomberger & Co
Elmer Eby
Marrow
Maurice River
Daniel Imhoff
Phoue
East Main Street
Westinghouse
M. M. Saunders
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