New Theatre Planned in Lancaster County
The region expects a theatre in Lancaster County with John A. Snyder and son building it. It will seat 1800 and has an entrance at 185 North Queen Street. Keystone Wireless Co lines up a wireless telegraph station in Columbus. Lancaster reports 321 license applicants for intoxicants but no new filings. In boxing, Leo Houck suffers a setback yet plans a comeback. In Columbia a 7-year-old swallowed a cent, requiring hospital surgery to remove it after it became wedged.
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Keystone Wireless Co
Columbis
Lancaster
John A. Snyder and Son
North
Queen Street
Leo Houck
Houck
Truth
Klaus Bedh
Columbia
Paul Lindenberger
Columbia Hospital
Drowned at Reinhold's Station Milk Station
Charles W. Sweigart of Reinhold's Station died Thursday night in an apparent accidental drowning. After boarding the Denver Reading train, he left his lantern at the milk station and reportedly fell from the platform into a gutter drain filled with water. His body was found near two o'clock with his glasses and cap nearby, about 17 dollars in his pockets. He was fifty years old.
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Charles W. Sweigart
Reinhold’s
William
Pay Raise for Lancaster Jurors Passes Senate
In Harrisburg the Senate approved a bill repealing Lancaster county specifics from 1864 related to jurors and witnesses. Juror pay rises from $1.50 to $2.50 per day starting with the April term. Separately, five years running a Mentzer Building dry goods store in Ephrata assigned assets to creditors. F S Weaver, manager of the Ephrata hosiery mill, named assignee and took charge. Liabilities approximate $16,000 with assets around $8,000 including stock $5,500 and a $2,500 Elizabethtown property. A H Stern, active previously, mentioned.
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Harrisburg
Senate
Lancaster County
Mentzer
Ephrata
F. 8. Weaver
Elizabethtown
A. H. Stern
Locust Swarms Forecast for Mid Atlantic States
Government authorities and entomologists predict a massive brood of seventeen year locusts this spring across Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware and Maryland. Dr Henry Skinner curator of the Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia says the central territory will be affected with New Jersey seeing the heaviest reports and Pennsylvania also to share in the invasion.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Henry Skinner
Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia
State Roads and County Seats Debate Plan
The Philadelphia Record criticizes a proposed state funded road system favoring direct main lines over county seat routes, arguing roads should maximize public benefit and traffic flow. It notes county seats often arise from political factors and urges prioritizing high-traffic centers for efficient use. Separately Ephrate’s moneyed men plan a stove foundry in their town.
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Pew
Philadelphia Record
Ephrate
Tragedy at Porto Uma cigar factory ends in double death
Witmer W. Burkholder of Reading shot his wife Tizzie L Burkholder three times in the back after jealousy and a separation since February 5. He then killed himself with two head shots. She died at 8:30 p.m. and he at 3:05 p.m. Both were at the Porto Vauna cigar factory on 750 Penn Street. The couple, married a year, faced accusations of forgery and robbery involving a deed transferring wealth from her to him. She was 42, daughter of Harriet Garman of Denver. Burkholder formerly lived in Harrisburg.
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Witmer W. Burkholder
Reading
Tizzie L Burkholder
Burkholder
Homeopathic
Porto Vauna
P. H. Hildebrand
Pean Street
Harriet Garman
Denver
Hartisburg
Death of Postmaster Richard E. Ashhurst Announced
Family of Richard L. Ashhurst of Philadelphia, missing since January 30 after visiting Atlantic City, publish notices declaring his death. He reportedly fell from the Million Dollar Pier near Marlborough Blenheim, aged 77, after signaling his arrival to relatives and registering at the hotel.
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Richard E. Ashhurst
Philadelphia
Marlborough Blenheim Hotel
Atlantic City
Richard L. Ashhurst
Ashhurst
Knowls
Mra
Marlborough-Blenheim
Wants Mercantile Tax Abolished In Pennsylvania
Mr C A Stuart of Erie state organizer for the Retail Merchants Association of Pennsylvania visited Lancaster city and county to urge merchants to back repeal of the mercantile tax and passage of a garnishee law. Previous legislative efforts to repeal the tax are being resumed.
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C. A. Stuart
Erie
Retail Merchants’ Association of Pennsylvania
Lancaster City
Will Give Us Cheaper Lumber
Farmers hear that reciprocity with Canada could widen lumber sources and lower costs for barns, outhouses, pig pens, and repairs as the Lumber Trust tightens its grip on western timber. The article argues the trade deal would benefit consumers by increasing competition and reducing prices.
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Lumber Trust
Canada
United States
Laughter as Medicine and Health Booster
Laughter is described as nature’s device for exercising internal organs and delivering pleasure. It boosts blood flow, respiration, and body warmth while expanding the chest and cleansing the lungs, restoring health hurt by bad news or grief through a hearty laugh.
Poultry on the Farm Profit From Egg Production
The Farmers' Review urges farmers to view poultry as a core farm asset and shows how proper care and weeded flocks boost egg output. With careful culling of old birds, a flock can average about 125 eggs per hen annually, adding significant profit to the overall farm returns.
Curtis and Crazy Horse define Senator Curtis early grit
Kansas Senator Charles Curtis grew up in frontier days and earned lasting fame after a dramatic accident at the Kansas Interstate Fair. As a sixteen year old he rode the bucking colt Crazy Horse in a ten thousand dollar race, was hurled from the horse, severely injured, yet returned a week later swathed in bandages to win the race, proving his grit and destiny.
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United States
Charles Curtis
Kansas
United States Senate
Kan
United States Army
Senator Curtis
Crazy Horse
Curtis
Doc
More Rafts This Spring On Susquehanna River
Log drives on the Susquehanna resume as tracts above Lock Haven are cut over and logs hauled to the river edge. Raftsmen will pool logs at Lock Haven and move them downstream to Marietta aboard hardwood timber rafts.
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Susquehanna
Marietta
Lock Haven
Man Refuses Dish Washing Cited Bible Verse
In Myerstown Lebanon County a man who sometimes washes dishes for his wife refused the task calling it not man’s work A wife used II Kings 21 3 to counter him reading and wiping Jerusalem like a dish The man continues his occasional chore despite the rebuke
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Myerstown
Lebanon County
Jerusalem
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W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gents’ Furnisher Record Building
Lititz, PA
Senator Curtis and
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Heinitsh
BIG Ifurniture
S. Queen St
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Hoffmeier
Hoffmeier Bros
Lancaster’s
E. King Street
Reader
N. B
North Queen Stf
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