Span ierville founder Spangler 60 years married
York couple Mr. and Mrs. Adam Spangler celebrate 60 years of marriage. He is 82 and she 80, with five of eight children living, 24 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren. He founded Span ierville, now Southeastern York, and during the Civil War he lowered the Union flag from Centre Square to avoid insult, a flag later dragged through Market Street by Rebels.
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Adam Spangler
York
Spangler
Spanierville
Market House
Centre Square
Market Street
Kindness brings costly ride injury ruling at Uniontown
A Uniontown jury awards Edward Hawkey of Shoaf $1500 in a civil case ruling that inviting a man to ride and injuring him makes the inviter liable. Hawkey, returning from work, was invited onto John Puskar’s motor truck, was thrown from it, and sustained permanent injuries.
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Uniontown
Edward Hawkey
Shoaf
John Puskar
Boy Champion Pork Producer From Pennsylvania
Robert Webster of Huntersville pig feeding club Lycoming County set a record in pork production by boosting a pure bred Poland China pig at 2.48 pounds daily for 112 days. No other 4H member in the state matched this gain whereas the state average for 22 clubs was 1.382 pounds per day.
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Pennsylvania
Robert Webster
Huntersville
Lycoming County
Got His Dues: Hawke Guilty of Larceny and Cruelty
Jacob Hawke a long time deputy game warden in Fayette County was convicted of larceny and cruelty to animals sentenced to seven months in jail and taxed $346 in costs. Prosecutors alleged he pocketed over 1000 in bounties for killing dogs he claimed were strays, though those dogs bore license tags. Judge J C Work condemned his breach of public trust calling him a menace to the community.
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Jacob Hawke
Fayette County
Hawke
JC. Work
First Horseless Carriage Sparks Altoona Streets
The Altoona Mirror reprints a 1898 item noting the city’s first motorized carriage, observed 28 years after the first wagon, as pedestrians halted to watch the novelty pass. The echoing line describes onlookers startled by the horseless carriage cruising the streets. The notice appears in a January 27, 1898 issue.
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Altoona
Altoona Mirror
First Conductor of Electric Street Car Listed
Scranton resident John Cawley long served as a trolley conductor and now a court staffer. He cites the first electric street car running in Scranton on November 16, 1886, with John Williams as motorman, two years before a similar run in Richmann Virginia. Potatoes remain unsold as state farmers boast abundant spuds and prices in Philadelphia show broad wholesale ranges.
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Scranton
John Cawley
Scranton Trolley Company
Cawley
Scranton Electric Railway
John Williams
Riehmann
Philadelphia
Local business and civic notes reach across Lancaster County
County Happenings reports Conestoga Traction Co. hauled 17,264,600 passengers in 1920. William H. Hager of Lancaster sails April 20 to England for National Retail Dry Goods Association. Judge Charles L. Landis and wife plan five week West Indies trip via Cuba. W. W. Hollinger chairs 10-member committee to enlarge Lancaster Y M C A building. Marietta receives two carloads of silk mill machinery. Klein Bros. Chocolate Co. to build Denver chocolate factory. Hamilton Watch Co. to raise capital from 2,000,000 to 3,000,000. stockholders meet March 8. Sheridan Leed of Akron arrested for unlawful possession of a ring-necked pheasant. fined. Post Office approves Griest Village Delivery for Denver.
Armstrong Cork Plant Restores 125 Jobs in Lancaster
At the Armstrong Cork Co. linoleum works in Lancaster, after November layoffs, 125 workers were recalled. Arrangements were made to operate five days per week instead of three. Forty years of service marked by Miss Sarah H. Gilbert, a long‑time employee.
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Armstrong Cork Co
Lancaster
Sarah H. Gilbert
Millersville faculty member retires after forty years
The Millersville State Normal School honored a longtime faculty member at a chapel, recognizing forty years of teaching service. Lancaster County figures Peter Gaillard, Ezra Cope, and Thomas Toppes, Jr., were cited for early grass cutting machine patents dating from December 4, 1812, illustrating regional inventors.
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Millersville State Normal School
Peter Gaillard
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Harvester World
Ezra Cope
Thomas Toppes, Jr
Former Reading man kept awake for 30 years at dam
Winfield Giles, 68, longtime lock tender for Plat Rock dam on the Schuylkill Canal, says he has not slept in a bed for thirty years, dozing in chairs and boards at locks between duties. He began at age 10 in 1863 with Schuylkill Navigation Co. and 58 years in service, saving many lives and watching water levels to prevent floods while monitoring river conditions for mills and weather.
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Plat Rock
Schuylkill Canal
Philadelphia
Winfield Giles
Giles
Schuylkill Navigation Co
Reading
Prices 70 Years Ago Whisky and Cigar Delights Listed
An Allen town paper reprints 1850 prices showing whisky at 3 cents a tumbler with a free cigar, cigars four for a cent, cows at 15 dollars, steers 8 to 10 dollars, meat 7 cents a pound, eggs 6 to 8 cents a dozen, sugar 6 to 10 cents a pound, coffee 12 cents a pound, calico 60 cents a yard, hay five dollars a ton, and laborers earning 37 to 50 cents a day with harvest hands at 75 cents, fed five times daily.
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Allentown
County medical inspector warns on unreported contagious diseases
Dr. C Howard Witmer, county medical inspector, warns that those who employ no physician and fail to report contagious childhood diseases face arrest and punishment. Mumps, chickenpox, measles, and scarlet fever are epidemic in the county, yet few cases are reported and quarantine rules are rarely followed.
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C. Howard Witmer
Extra Good Crop of Tobacco by William Bucher near Keams town
William Bucher planted 6 000 tobacco plants on just over an acre last spring and, after careful cultivation, delivered 2 640 pounds this summer. The crop yielded 2 321 pounds of wrappers and 819 pounds of fillers, selling for 476.96 dollars at 20 cents per wrapper and 4 cents per filler to buyer Michael Hoffman of May town.
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William Bucher
Keamstown
Bucher
Michael Hoffman
Maytown
The Largest Tree in the World in California
A giant sequoia in Tulare County near Tule River was discovered in 1874. It stands about 240 feet tall with a trunk 111 feet in circumference and 85 feet 4 inches in diameter. The tree, damaged at the top, contained a two foot diameter rotten core and a perfectly grown inner sapling spanning nearly 100 feet.
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San Francisco
Calaveras
Tulare County
Tule River
Visalis
Lightship's Perilous Voyages Amid Hurricane
Nantucket Shoales beacon, a key transatlantic guide to New York, tore from its moorings in a hurricane at ninety mph. After ships reported missing the lightship and an anxious wireless search, the vessel arrived at New Bedford after thirty six hours and a 100 mile run. Keeper L. J. Johnson and fifteen men staffed the emergency effort amid fragile light vessels and limited gear.
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Nantucket Shoales
New York
New Bedford
Mate L. 9
Johnson
Mrs Daughenbaugh credits Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescriptions
In Altoona Pennsylvania, Mrs T E Daughenbaugh says years of nervous, run-down periods left her unable to function several days each month. After using one bottle of Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescriptions she was entirely relieved and has had no further trouble. Druggists sell the prescription.
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Altoona
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W. H. Buch
Lititz Fire House
Hank
Pete
Sol
Wes
Ken Kling
Ty Favet
the County
Uli
Conestoga Traction Co
Penn’s Retail Association
Wiliam H. Hager
England
National Retail Dry Goods Association
West Indies
Charles L Landis
Cuba
W. W. Hollinger
Lancaster Y. M. C. A
Marietta
Chocolate Factory
Denver
Klein Bros. Chocolate Co
Elizabethtown
Borough
Hamilton Watch Co
Sheridan Leed
Akron
John N. Werner
Ephrata
Leed
Post Office Department
Congressman Griest
Griest Village
Durham
Schuylkill
Ey le
Appel & Son
Ola
North Queen
Lancaster, PA
Kemp
Bill
Johnnie
Olfugbill
LE Roy
N.Y
Lancaster’s
Ella Se Home Music CO
Neer Kiro
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
Heinitsch’s
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