Multiple Berks County items mix estate, farming, and church news
In Leesport the Lydia I Unger estate sale sees candlesticks hitting 46 dollars as the 200 acre Jefferson township farm passes to tenant Harry Stoudt amid Alfred Greenawalt’s will contest. Berks Court also hears a burglary and livestock theft case in Douglass township. Zion’s United Evangelical Church distributions from Susanna DeTurck's estate total 60 000 for missions and church work. Mink’s Pond in Lebanon Township reports record pickerel catches from ice as Lehigh and Mannheim parties harvest hundreds of fish. Bishop Rudolph Dubs of Harrisburg enters Philadelphia hospital for a malignant eye tumor operation, risking loss of the eye.
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Lydia I. Unger
Leesport
Jefferson Township
Harry Stoudt
Alfred S. Greenawalt
Berks Court
Martin Harnise
Stoudsburg
Otto G. Noack
State Live Stock Sanitary Board
Centre
Douglass Township
Susanna DeTurck
Berks County
Zion’s United Evangelical Church
Friedensburg
Hast Pennsylvania
Missionary Society of Hast Pennsylvania
Mink
Lebanon Township
Pike County
Lehigh County
Manheim
John C. Warner
Leroy E. Kipp
J. F. Terwilliger
Mink’s
How Hard Is a Diamond According to Historical Text
The article explains diamond hardness with examples like a diamond blade plane on glass producing ultra thin shavings. It notes variable hardness within a single diamond, Kohinoor’s mixed hardness, and describes iron pressure tests. It also recounts meteoric Arizona diamonds and theories on their formation linked to iron and “made in heaven.”
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Arizona
United States
Scotland
America
London Globe
Realizing blindness in a dim club setting
A New York Press anecdote recalls a social worker's reflection on blindness. While visiting a private school for the blind, she joins a supper and night gathering where lights go out. Surrounded by embroiders and lace makers, she senses ordinary activities dimmed by darkness and learns what being blind feels like.
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New York Press
Invisible Light Demonstrated by Dust and Beams
The article explains that light is invisible until it reaches the eye and demonstrates this with a beam in a dark room. A glass vessel without dust makes the beam visible only before and after the vessel, not inside, and removing motes or burning them makes the beam vanish at that spot. It compares light to bullets needing direct aim to affect the retina.
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Pearson’s Weekly
United States
R. V. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
K. V. Pierce
Prest
Buffalo, N. Y
Bread From Moss and Insect Flour Across the West
Travelers report moss bread made from fir moss dried and fermented then baked in stone pits along the Columbia River. Californians collect cattail pollen to bake bread and favor grasshopper flour bread as a delicacy.
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Columbia River
Curious Contrasts in Writers and Their Lives
A compact survey of how authors’ writings clash with their personal morals and conduct. Notables cited include Montaigne Lamb Sterte Woodworth Johnson Burns Rousseau Moore and Scott, noting midnight hymns, noon awakenings, temperance talk from drunkards, and other paradoxes across literary life.
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Yvenius
Montaigne
Teun
Charles Lamb
Milton
Paradise
Thompson
Richard Sterte
Woodworth
Dr. Johnson
Burns
Rousseau
Unron
Foundlings Hospital
Moore
Scott
Melrose Abbey
Walter
William Matthews
Sainte Beuve
Holes in Macaroni and Food Factories
Article explains how macaroni holes are formed using a tubular die with a center pin, producing tulip shaped macaroni and spaghetti. It covers the extrusion process, hole formation, curing durations, and drying methods, noting variations by factory and conditions.
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Omaha Bee
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