Reading Meat Condemned as Unfit for Public Sale
An inspector condemned 5334 pounds of meat in Reading as unfit for consumption within three weeks. The report also notes a deadly hunting season in Pennsylvania with 27 hunters killed and 126 injured.
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Reading
Pennsylvania
Shillington
Young Men’s Democratic Society of York
Washington
James Noll
Bethlehem Township
Benjamin F. Herman
Nazareth
Atlas
Northampton
Trappe
Reading Coal and Iron Company
Speaker Alter
William Adams
Luzerne County
Ralph Gibson
Lycoming
Elmer Bower
Williamsport
Old Mother Hubbard
Juniata
Connellsville
Burgess Evans
Mount Carmel
Chester
B. F. Fisher
Schuylkill
R. T. Cornwell
West Chester
Gray
Old
Libby
Richmond
Fisher
Bryan to Enter Cabinet In Wilson Administration
Miami Herald reports that William J. Bryan has given positive assurance to accept the post of Secretary of State in the Wilson Cabinet after conferences with Henry E. Alexander and other Democratic leaders. Alexander left for Trenton possibly bearing Bryan's answer to President-elect Wilson. The piece also describes the Bell method of visible speech used to teach deaf mutes, detailing tongue and lip positions and air flow for vowel and consonant articulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William J. Bryn
Henry EB. Alexander
Trenton
N. J
Wilson
Miami Herald
Bryan
Alexander
Christian Herald
Rocks in the Atlantic Risk to Steamship Routes
The Nautical Gazette argues there are partly submerged rocks in the Atlantic near historic steamship lanes. Some lie so close to Titanic sites that icebergs may ground on them, making charts unreliable as many rocks are barely visible or hidden underwater.
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Atlantic
Atlantic Ocean
Nautical Gazette
London
Dr. Pierce
Pierce
Singing Deckhand Inspires Captain in Jungle Opera Moment
A deckhand in a jungle setting sings the Duke's aria from Rigoletto with a rich, untrained baritone. The captain praises the performance as genuine Latin music, noting the sailor learned the song in Naples and via a phonograph. The sailor reveals he was born in New York on Mulberry Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Naples
New York
Mulberry Street
Caruso
Church of England's Two Archbishops and Two Houses
Harper's Weekly outlines the Church of England with the archbishops of Canterbury and York as leading figures. It notes Canterbury as primate of all England and York's jurisdiction over a northern province plus two ecclesiastical convocations in each see.
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Church of England
Archbishop of Canterbury
Private of All
England
York
Canterbury
Harper's Weekly
Constantinople falls to Turks in 1453
The Turks captured Constantinople on May 29, 1453, ending the eastern Roman Empire. Before 1100 they controlled Asia Minor, and Amurath I first crossed into Europe. Adrianople was occupied in 1360, and over the next ninety years the Turks overran southeastern Europe until the fall of the city.
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Constantinople
Asia
Straits
Europe
Amurath I
Wao
Adrianople
Appearances Deceptive Poet Hummer Highlighted
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes the thin melancholy poet Hummer, famed for verses including Life is what you make it You can make it glad, while detailing his struggle with chronic dyspepsia.
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Hummer
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Scrappy Outlook Advises Against Borrowing to Avoid Memory Lapses
A collection of short quips and jokes from newspapers includes warnings about memory lapses from borrowing money and humorous banter about alarm clocks. The tone is light and period newspaper style with pithy one liners from various sources.
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Buffalo Express
South
Jones
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Cornwell
Covenant Methodist Church of
Howard E. Hand
Smythe
John Moray
Moran
London Globe
Cincinnati Engtrer
Plato
Bell Telephone
The
Bell Telephone Co
Penna
R. E. Smith
Mgr
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
John Hertzler
John ED. Skilues
Herbert C. Miller
Mellinger
John 8. Graybilis
W. A. Hensel
H.W. Hartman
John A. Nauman
John B. Miller J
T. Breneman I
H. Weaver
New Cash Hardware Store
Wetherill
P. Reese
W. King Street
Lancaster
Joseph Dreifus Rissa
Putin
Pe Santh
A.R. Bomberger & Co
Elmer Eby
Malaga
Muscatel
Hollinger, Liquors
East King and Duke Sts
W. D. Siverling
Ind
Warwick
Isaac Sarah
Penryn
Donovan
Donovan’s
Lancaster County
Donovan Company
East King St. Lancaster, Pa
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