Morning Notes From Across Berks To York And Pittsburgh
Reading residents consume weekly carloads of fruit while Berks farms sell stock for 2500 dollars and hogs fetch 797 dollars. A Pottstown man frames Civil War keepsake hardtack. A Huntingdon county mill worker packs stayea, and a Read ing bishop warns against flirtation during revival. Lebanon plans two mile long iron works corridor, from Fourth Street to Avon. Bees hide behind Andersontown Church pulpit yielding fifty pounds of honey. Italian immigrants in Jefferson and Indiana counties fall for wartime exemption swindles, with Dominick Balgaro pocketing over twenty thousand dollars from fake exemption papers sold to about 200 natives.
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Joseph Spang
Pottstown
Sara Long
Trough Creek
Huntingdon County
Bishop Lingle
Reading
Fourth Street
Avon
Andersontown
Dillsburg
York County
Jefferson
Indiana
Italy
United States
Desert plants and vegetable springs aid desert life
The article describes how desert plants like the coffee plant and bisnaga cactus store water in their inner tissues with water content around 96 percent. Animals rely on these plant reserves, and some desert rodents may obtain moisture from the air or metabolism. It notes that not all cacti are drinkable, but bisnaga juice is palatable to locals. It credits the United States with first establishing a botanical desert laboratory to study dry vegetation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sonora
Mexico
Arizona
Desert
United States
American Parlor Declared Outdated in Modern Homes
A Cleveland architect notes the American parlor is a thing of the past as homes shift to large living rooms, dining areas, and kitchens. Reception and formal-call spaces vanish or merge with hallways, reflecting a change from traditional parlor culture to practical family living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Discovery substitute dealer seeks profit on lesser preparations
The dealer offering a substitute for the Discovery aims to gain extra profit from selling less meritorious remedies. Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser is mailed on stamps to cover mailing expenses. Send 21 one cent stamps for the paper book or 31 for the cloth bound edition to World's Dispensary Medical Association, R V Pierce MD, President, Buffalo NY.
Growing Appetite for Eggs and Food Production in 1910
The Atlantic Monthly notes how 1900s population growth requires U S hens to lay 221 million dozen more eggs annually by 1910. Milk per person would need 1 24 billion extra gallons, butter 182 million extra pounds, and potatoes 52 million extra bushels to maintain per capita levels, implying the entire national potato crop would be consumed to meet demand.
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United States
Atlantic Monthly
California
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Maine
Maryland
North Carolina
Yesterday, To day and Tomorrow
A reflective meditation on yesterday dying at midnight due to procrastination and today inheriting all that matters. It urges kind words and gentle acts now, warning that tomorrow finds an unresponsive soil if today’s opportunities are wasted. A timeless, moral verse echoing through ages.
Letter W and D as Clever Alphabetal Cheats
A writer riffs on how letters may group good and evil things. He notes many words beginning with W like worms, wind and weevils as foes for a horticulturist and d words like damp, dark and dismal as negative connotations. The piece muses on alphabetical charm in naming foods and feelings.
Fortune Bestows $84,000 On Coatesville Widow
Mrs. Howard Shickley of Coatesville received a letter announcing a legacy of 84000 dollars from an aged lady in Elizabeth New Jersey. The widowed husband, a pipe filter maker by trade, learns that large fortunes come to those who wait and endure.
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Howard Shickley
Coatesville
Elizabeth
N. J
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Berks County
Daubersville
Dr. Pierce
Brunnerville
E. G. Geyer
Conestoga Brand
Philip Rudy
Queen Street
Lancaster
M. H. Shenk
Imnrz'pisoa
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
John Hertzler
John D. Seiles
Herbert C. Miller
Mellinger
John &. Graybill
W. A. Hensel
JH. W. Hartman
John A. Nauman
John B. Miller
J.T. Breneman
J. H. Weaver
Thomas Steffy Lititz
N. Broad Street
Fulton Studio
Amos, Photographer
Wertsch
Watchmaker
Lititz
P. & R- Depot
PENNA
Decker and Janssen
Janssen
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
W. H.muth&co
Coal Lumber
W. H. Muth & Co
Lititz, Pa
Continental Food CO
John F. Schleibh
Spruce St
Ind
Florida
Cedar Creek
Ritchie’s
E. C. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Tad
Leading Farmers’ Hotel
Sorrel Horse Hotel
A. B. Adams
Prop’r
Binner
King St
Waverly
Pennsylvania
Waverly Oil Works Co
Independent Refiners
Pittsburg
Vick’ Sgd F
Vick’s
Asters
Alog
Alfatia
Vick
James
Eo, L. Keith
Justice of the Peace
Real
Brunnerviele
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