Over the State Highlights From Central Pennsylvania News
A mouse caused a school meeting frenzy at Doylestown High. The Reading Trust orchard suffers heavy loss from scale with most trees dead or infected. Mary Ann Hassler applies for a Dauphin county marriage license to wed Harry Lontz, both of Fort Hunter. Lontz’s first wife died in 1910. Hassler’s in 1911. she is just under 19. Indians once hunted Hollidaysburg and Gaysport area. arrowhead finds surface at Bald Hill and near Jackson burying-ground. The Holliday massacre site is dated to August 1781. Williamsport is praised as among the east’s cleanest cities per E. W. Byrne’s justice department survey on housing and social issues. Reading Woodrow Wilson Club president announces 51 rail fare payers for Wilson inauguration, with 25 from Kutztown, 20 from Allentown, two from South Bethlehem, plus Leesport Wilson Club members. total party expected well over 100.
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Doylestown High School
Pennsylvania Trust Company
Reading
Dauphin County
Mary Ann Hassler
Fort Hunter
Harry Joseph Lontz
Lontz
Jackson
Gaysport
Williamsport
E. W. Byrne
United States Department of Justice
G. L. Kienigina
Woodrow Wilson Club
Wilson
Kutztown
Allentown
Bethlehem
Wilson Club
Leesport
Bird Claw Combs Aid Prey Capture Across Species
The text notes a comb or blade in the middle toe claw of many birds including owls night jars and razorbills used to grasp prey. In some species a curved toothed blade lines the inner side of the claw while younger nightjars show only the blade and adults develop a fuller comb.
Corot Chooses Bohemian Life Over Wealth
The French landscape painter Corot embodies the ideal of a principled bohemian. Faced with his father’s offer of £80 a year and a place at the table if he becomes a painter, or £4,000 to start a shop, he chose art and leisure, remaining faithful to bohemian principles throughout.
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Corot
Daide
Doing Him a Favor in a London Sketch
A perturbed diner questions the waiter about the fish and the coup. The waiter answers calmly that it was high time you had that fish, delivering a dry, humorous exchange characteristic of London Sketch.
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London
Man vows all he has to win her, then resents demand
A New York Tribune note quotes a man declaring he would give all he possesses to make a girl happy, but he scolds when she challenges him and strictly enforces his promise, illustrating a clash between sentiment and control.
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New York Tribune
Easy Going Trinidad Hotel Description From Lincoln Bates Jr.
A travelogue sketch of a Trinidad hotel portrays a quiet portside retreat. An old servant named Methuselah watches as guests sign in and luggage is carried away. The room is vast with lattice walls, garden views, and exotic birds, evoking a slow, rambling tropical atmosphere.
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Trinidad
Lincoln Bates, Jr
Barnum's First Show Venture Brings Noted 18th Century Nurse to Exhibit
P T Barnum launched his career by displaying Joyce Heth, a purported 160 year old former nurse to George Washington, in an exhibit bought for 1000 dollars. He advertised across New York and Philadelphia to draw crowds, though Joyce Heth died amid the show’s hype.
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Barnum
P.T. Barnum
George Warshington
Joyce Heth
George Washington
New Yorkton
Phladelphia
Joyce Meth
National Magazine
Real estate bonds praised as safe investments for the average man
A discussion cites real estate first mortgages as the ideal safe investment offering safety, stability, and convertibility. It notes the historic safety of real estate bonds and mentions prepended endorsements by W. Straus and a Savage Club anecdote about Andrew Halliday and a mistaken name at a club dinner.
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W. Straus
Leslie's
Dipping the Flag as Naval Salute Through History
Harper's Weekly notes dipping the flag as a premier maritime greeting. It traces the practice from ancient English shores and the risks of insulting foreign ships to avoid war, recalling Sir John Hawkins and the ritual’s fixed etiquette and gun salutes among naval powers.
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John Hawkins
Portsmouth Sound
Harper’s Weekly
Changes in words and their shifting meanings explained
A Chicago Journal excerpt traces how words evolve through time. It shows how neighbor once sib and gossip later shifted meaning. It also notes farmer from poor and the neighbor origin of the term neighbor. It ends with a reinterpretation of the proverb about little pitchers and big ears.
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Chicago Journal
Pepys Attends The Mayden Queene Play At Court
Samuel Pepys records a dinner with his wife and the king’s house visit to see The Mayden Queene a new Dryden work. He praises Welllommell’s comical part and Neil Gwyn as unmatched in wit and stage craft, noting the king and the Duke of York attended and the performance elicits his admiration.
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Samuel Pepys
Neil Gwyn
Mayden
Dryden
Wlommell
King
Luke
York
Neil
Taming a Fox in a Detroit Free Press account
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes taming foxes and other wild mammals through gentle treatment. The narrator details daily access, feeding with raisins and fruit, gradually overcoming fear, and forming friendly interactions with four foxes, coyotes, and wildcats.
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Coyotes
Lyases
Wildcats
Detroit Free Press
Metals to Metaphors in a Coppery World
An imaginative riff on how metals symbolize traits and people. It parades silver tongues, golden mouths, iron will, leaden feet, a copper stomach, tin wealth, quicksilver cunning, and brass borrowers in witty portraits of character through metallic imagery.
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Africin
Amicable Adjustment Sparks Jaw-dropping Quips
Amicable adjustment discussion features Emil and colleagues debating a wife’s new addition with terse refusals. The exchange reveals wary civility as tone shifts between sarcasm and restraint. The quotes mirror satirical remarks from Fliegende Blatter and Washington Herald about politics, barber banter, and oddities, ending with a cryptic line about a mainho te explosion.
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Emil
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Savage Club
Sir John Aare
Andrew Halliday
Andrew Balliday
Colonel Dutt
Galliday
Mailiday
Ile
Halliday
Daffer
Eealligny
London Standard
DR. Pierce
Braintree
Jones’ Place
Bell Telephone Co
Pema
R. E. Smith
Mgr
Lancaster, Pa
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Acta
Hon. J. Hay Brown
John D. Skiles Grasill B. Long
John Hertzler
John D. Skiles
Oo Mitler
GS. Mellinger
John 8. Grayrill
W. A0. Hensel
J. W. Hartman
John A. Nauman
Cr Cin
New Cash Hardware Store
I. P. Reese
W. King Street
Lancaster
Soseph Dreifus Enna
Bair Tonie
Washington Herald
Baltimore American
Conkey
C. H. Kreider
Conkey’s
Cornman’s
Hess & Clarke
Garber’s Poultry
Lewis N. Moyer, P. D
Main St
Lititz
Main Street
Brandies
A. R. Keller
Lititz, Penna
A. R. Bomberger & Co
Hershey & Gibbes
iReal Estate and Higurance Hoents
Ind. Tel
Lititz, Pa
Cedar Creek
Ideal
Puritan
Hershey Wilbur
Hardewick
Hooten Blumenthal
Knickerbocker
E. Cc. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Ind
W. D. Siverling
D. Phone Warwick
John F. Schleith
Spruce St
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