Reading's Y M C A to add 990 seat hall and 600 gym
Reading plans a new Y M C A building with a 990 seat hall and a 600 capacity gymnasium. A fundraising campaign will fund a paid site and $10,000 in treasury. Senator La Follette to speak in Harrisburg mid March at the Board of Trade auditorium.
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Reading
United States
Robert M. la Follette
Wisconsin
Board of Trade
Harrisburg
Williamsport
Fred Weidman
Tilden Township
Merion
Charles Schultz
Lansdale
Green County
Hungry Sam Eats Outrageous Feat At Bloomsburg Party
Hungry Sam Miller of Bloomsburg Pennsylvania attended a Chicken and Waffle supper at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles Kniss near Strawberry Ridge. After 50 guests ate, he arrived uninvited and ate five chickens 50 waffles two cans of pickles three dozen small cakes two large cakes five country pies and finally drained an eight quart bucket of waffle dough before the food ran out.
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Sam” Miller
Bloomsburg
Charles Kniss
Strawberry Ridge
Sam
Perils of Lion Taming in Exhibition Cage
Louis tells an attendant the act may end him as he leaves the cage after a lion exhibition. The attendant jokes about Reno and fear, while the trainer complains cages are draughty and could kill him. the exchange reveals bravado, humor, and danger around the stunt.
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Louis
Reno
Stretched High Wire Across River After Breaker
A gorge flood broke a crib on an island near York Furnace, tearing down a seventy five foot pole with two Standard Oil telegraph wires. A new 4000 foot steel span was installed across the river, engineered by John Baer and electrician Jacob Hatt with Lancaster linemen, crossing via ice and a boat through a several hundred foot wide channel. The span is set high enough to withstand future freshets.
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McCall Ferry
York Furnace
Standard Oil Company
John Baer
Standard
Jacob Hatt
Lancaster
Tce
Ripe Pears Survive Midwinter In Cambridge Garden
Charles Shorter of Cambridge tends a Kiefer pear tree that bears ripe fruit despite freezing weather. After a failed fall harvest, he kept watch as pears lingered on the branches. He plans to let remaining fruit rot on the tree to observe decay.
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Charles Shorter
Cambridge
Shorter
Riis Relates Danish Town Tales Of Honest Lawyer
In a reminiscence from Denmark titled The Old Town Jacob A Riis recalls a village with two lawyers one regarded as honest and the other tricky. He shares an anecdote where two farmers race to town over a fence line and one concedes, choosing peace over pride when the other declares honor in law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denmark
Jacob A. Riis
Mr. Riis
Hans
Hit
Sawyer
A Mercenary Marriage Turns Happy for Lady March and Richmond
In a tale from Lady Russell’s Rose Goddess, the second Duke of Richmond wed Lady Sarah Cadogan at thirteen to cancel her father’s gambling debts. Three years later Lord March, after a continent tour, rekindled affection with his bride in London, becoming inseparably devoted.
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Lady March
Duke of Richmond
Sarah Cadogan
Lord March
Sarah
Lady Russell
Rose Goddess
Marek
London
March
A Strict Dramatic Censor in Vienna's History
Vienna's famed early 20th century censor Franz Hoegelin issued a manual guiding stage strictures. He ruled lovers must not be shown alone and marriages across class lines were forbidden, citing a hero marrying a gardener's daughter as unacceptable.
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Vienna
Franz Hoegelin
Hoegelin
Ostrich Farm in Pena Northern Ill Horse of Africa at Bloomsburg Farm
The African Ostrich Farm Company in Bloomsburg, Columbia County, showcases the first northern ostrich farm in America. Birds arrived last summer after purchase in Africa, endured a light snow season, and have been shown at 14 state fairs. Plucking events yield valuable plumes, despite injuries during hooding. Birds eat hay and bran, lay many eggs, and one acre can feed 20 birds. The article notes the potential profitability of ostrich eggs and plumes, and ends with moral couplets.
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African Ostrich Farm Company
Bloomsburg
Columbia County
America
Los Angeles
Cal
Jacksonville
Fla
Allentown
Africa
William H. Hile
Columbia
New York
Phila
Roosevelt
Delfino Lio
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Pierce
RV. Pierce
Buffalo
N.Y
Ostrich Farm
Pena
Brunnerville
E. G. Geyer
Philip Rudy
Queen Street
Thomas Steffy
N. Broad Street
M. H. Shenk
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
Bolicita
Wiila
John Hertzler
John D. Skilus
Herbert ©. Miller
Mellinger
John
Gray Bill
W. A. Hensel
Hartman John Hertzler
John A. Nauman
John B. Miller
J.T. Breneman
I. H. Weaver
E. King St. Lancaster, Pa
Amos, Photographer
Wertsch
Watchmaker
Lititz
Penna
F. & R. Depot
Continental Food Cod
John F. Schleibh
Spruce St
Ind
Pennsylvania
Waverly Oi Works Co
Piltsburg
Waverly
W.h.muth&co
W. H. Muth & Co
Lititz, Pa
Decker and
Janssen
J. B. Young & Son
Orange St
Florida
Cedar Creek
Ritchie’s
E.C. Ritchie
Railroad Restaurant
Dad
Leading Farmers’ Hotel
King St
United States Department of Agriculture
Southern Cotton Oil Co
Charlotte, N.C
P. H. Nolt Senns
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