Farm Bureau Leader Urges Tobacco Grower Cooperation
Lancaster County Farm Bureau President J C Brubaker plans co operative marketing for the 1924 tobacco crop if members demand it. A national authority on co operative marketing will speak at the annual meeting to assess conditions in other fields. Brubaker says action depends on growers true intent and notes local marketing and supply demand data need closer tracking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
J. C. Brubaker
Lancaster County
J.C. Brubaker
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Mr. Bro
Baker
News Journal
Lancaster County Farm Bureau
Bucher
Farm chores and seed buying tips for spring
The notice urges bedding cows to keep udders clean for clean milk and to absorb manure for land. It promotes early seed catalog requests, suggests preparing for next year’s fields, reading Penn State Extension bulletins, and obtaining nursery catalogs. It notes poultry house sanitation and appealing home grounds planning. It ends with a remark on 1923 cigar leaf production and government figures.
Spanish Proverb About Timing and Suitability
A traditional adage notes that while every ten is good overall progress it does not apply to every situation conveying caution about applying general rules to specific cases.
Lancaster Manufactures Boom Represented by 64 Million Investment
John B. Fisher former state banking commissioner told 250 Manufacturers Association members in Lancaster that Lancaster county industries now have 64 million dollars in capital investment and around 95 million dollars in annual production, shifting the area away from agriculture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Lancaster County
John 8. Fisher
Manufacturers' Association
Martin to Erect Manheim Hardware Building
H H Martin a Manheim hardware dealer plans a new 40 by 120 foot three story building in early spring. First floor to house hardware store with two store rooms. Second floor apartments. Third floor offices. Martin formerly lived in Lititz. Steer Chases Boy to Cemetery in Lancaster incident ends with steer captured.
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H. H. Martin
Manheim
H. W. Martin
Lancaster
Woodward Hill
Gaintner
Police Department
Snowy damage to Lancaster streets prompts $10,000 repairs
Acting Street Commissioner James Malone of Lancaster stated the heavy snow and freeze up will require about $10,000 in repairs to city streets. He cited concentrated traffic in ruts and hundreds of thousands of tons of vehicles over limited roadways on nearly every street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
James Malone
Outbreak of Typhoid Fever in New Holland
An outbreak of typhoid fever in New Holland over several weeks alarms residents. Five houses are placarded, cases are serious, and the water is deemed pure. Contamination is suspected from lettuce or celery as investigations continue. A second note describes a hawk capturing a grey squirrel near the Howell farm in East Bradford township and discusses predation by hawks on rabbits and birds, with dangers from owls and daytime predators noted.
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New Holland
Board of Health
Howell Farm
Bradford
Pierce Reed
Gift of Stock Shares Propels Ritter Lumber Empire
The W. M. Ritter Lumber Company founder M. W. Ritter gave a gift of stock valued between two and three million dollars to employees and relatives as a Christmas gesture. The story traces Ritter from a penniless start in Muncy Pennsylvania to seizing opportunities in West Virginia during its early lumber boom.
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Ritter
West Virginia
Muncy
Chester County Club Plans New Thorndale Clubhouse
The Chester County Rod and Gun Club with about 1000 members will erect a new clubhouse on its Thorndale grounds. Christ Lutheran Church at Hazelton considers a parish house project valued at 120000 dollars and plans a 250000 dollar church in coming years with half funds raised. A new 155000 dollar three mile State road from Cold Spring to Mount Gretna in Lebanon county opens, widening 18 feet, linking to military areas south to Coneways Valley.
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Chester County Rod and Gun Club
Chester County
Thorndale
Christ Lutheran Church
Hazelton
Mt. Gretna
Cold Spring
Mount Gretna
Lebanon County
State Highway Department
Military Reservation
Coneways Valley
Tom Mix Land Bought as State Game Refuge in Pennsylvania
The State Game Commission announced the purchase of 8800 acres near Mosquito creek Mix run and Madix run in Elk and Clearfield counties for 26400 dollars to establish a game refuge. The land is linked to Tom Mix the actor who learned to ride the range in the area. Mix run is named after Tom Mix's father, a noted horseman.
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Tom Mix
Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
Mosquito Creek
Mix Run
Madix Run
Elk
Clearfield
Game Commission
Conductor Escapes Bullet During Last Reading Transit Run
George Weinhold, conductor-motor man for a one-man Reading Transit car, narrowly escaped a fatal bullet during the last trip from Myerstown to Lebanon. A bullet shattered the window beside him as the car neared Avon, missing his head by inches.
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George Weinhold
Myerstown
Lebanon
Reading Transit Company
Avon
Woman With Leprosy to Be Sent From Reading
Health officials report a leprosy patient found in Reading will be returned to Greece, not sent to Carrville, and will depart under government guidance. The woman’s case was disclosed recently and Washington officials were notified by Pennsylvania authorities.
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Washington
Carrville
Tia
Public Health Service
Pennsylvania
Greece
Lancaster Tobacco Price Under Review by Federal and State Station
Otto Olsen of the Ephrata tobacco station hosts Mr. Gage from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. They discuss Lancaster county's tobacco price misstatement in federal statistics and plan revisions once sufficient sales data reflect market prices across the county.
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Lancaster
U. S
Otto Olsen
Ephrata
Gage
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Federal Department of Agriculture
Lancaster County
Tobacco trade in county stalls as buyers offer lower prices
Farmers report a standstill in tobacco sales with deliveries nearly vanished. Packers hint at low prices, while growers hedge to wait for better rates, noting Pennsylvania leaf remains essential for cigars and demand among major manufacturers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Ground feeding quail controlled by dogs and relocation
The piece explains how quail feeding on the ground are moved when grain is taken, using bird dogs to drive them to new covers and feed locations. It notes that starlings destroy young quail, break eggs, and raid nests, taking food meant for the quail.
Penn State Grad Oversees Panama Canal Zone Electrical Work
Walter L. Hersh, Penn State electrical engineering graduate class of 1907 and formerly of Quarryville Lancaster County, is placed in charge of all electrical work in the Panama Canal Zone. He has spent fifteen years in Panama and now oversees plant electrical equipment purchases in Washington. He previously worked for General Electric at Schenectady.
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Pennsylvania State College
Panama Canal Zone
Walter L. Hersh
Quarryville
Lancaster County
Penn State
Hersh
Panama
Washington
Canal Zone
General Electric Company
Schenectady
C. L. Kinsale
Penn State Electrical Engineering
Uncle Sam
Canal
Fossil Time Leaves Traces of Life in Coal Beds
A reflective line notes that even a small life leaves a record in its era. The quote emphasizes lasting traces of good or evil across fossilized records from bygone times.
Erie Representative Rushed Home After War Dog's Death
Rep Morrison of Erie left the Harrisburg session and took a midnight train home upon learning his war dog had died. Secretary Wright, a close friend, notified him. Morrison, a former U S Army member who served in France, had acquired the dog in Ireland.
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Representative Morrison
Erie
Harrisburg
Wright
Morrison
France
Ireland
Rabbits Balk at Snow in Maine Import
Two crates of Maine rabbits balked at snowy fields as Game Protector Bruce F. Yeager supervised their removal to baskets in Sunbury. Quail at Island Park are fed by Northumberland County Railways Company workers who visit daily to see trains.
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Maine
Bruce F. Yeager
Sunbury
Island Park
Northumberland County Railways Company
Assessor Objects to 100 Year Old Oak Removal
Charles E. Forrester, assessor of Upper Augusta township in Northumberland county, protests the removal of a 100 year old oak from the school grounds. He says the tree was donated by his paternal grandfather for school purposes only and the board cannot use it for profit. The board had contracted a local resident to cut down the tree and sell the wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles E. Forrester
Upper Augusta Township
Northumberland County
Forrester
Freight train derailment spills grain along Reading tracks
A freight train of 45 cars derailed near Palm when a truck loosened on the second car. Eighteen cars jumped the rails and grain spilled over the landscape as birds and a squirrel converged on the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading Company
Palm
New Chair for Chapel Honors Lees War Veterans
The Society of Lees of Virginia presented a hand carved oak choir pew to the Washington Memorial Chapel at Valley Forge. The pew ends feature Continental soldiers kneeling, carved by Edward Maene, renowned for the chapel’s stalls.
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Society of Lees of Virginia
Washington Memorial Chapel
Valley Forge
Edward Maene
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