Washington horse chestnut named for Mount Vernon origin
The Keystone Exchanges page notes the Washington horse chestnut near Bath in Northampton County as a new entry to Pennsylvania's Hall of Fame for trees. Professor Joseph J. lick endorses it, tracing the tree to Mount Vernon and a gift from George Washington to General Brown. Measurements show 27 feet 7 inches in circumference at the base and 17 feet in circumference at six feet up.
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Pennsylvania
Washington
Bath
Northampton County
Joseph J. Lick
George Washington
Mount Vernon
General Washington
General Brown
Asa Mellheney
Airydale
Brady Township
Huntingdon County
Department of Forests and Waters
Second
Emerald
Streets
Harrisburg
E. ©. Metz Allensville, Is Another of Brady Township
Against the Rules Stone Age Poet and Cornell Widow
A terse exchange unfolds as Stone Age Poet accuses a hoax-team of withholding a manuscript while Ditto Hostor stays coldly distant. The fragment hints at tension between creators and an institution or group, with terse accusations and a guarded response.
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Cornell
Heat of the Sun and Earth Heat Comparison
A scientific note states that the heat from a gun is 46,000 times more intense than the heat from the Earth's interior. The comparison highlights extreme energy differences in thermal output between man made weapons and geothermal heat.
Just What He Asked From A Tenement Staircase
A man seeking a social work contact asked a boy for Mr Linkovitch s address. The boy collaring a tip leads them up four flights to a doorway where the boy reveals the man sits on the doorstep and Mr Linkovitch is not present. The exchange ends with the observer noting the man being the occupant.
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Mr. Linkovitel
The Cheery Eskimos and a Sur Norwegian Explorer
A 15 year sojourn among Eskimos of Greenland and Alaska ends with the explorer's move to Paris. He praises Eskimo friends for superiority in some ways, noting their songs mock one another with biting invective. The piece wryly questions what proves civilization.
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London Daily Telegraph
Gov ernor Trickery Here Saturday Mystery
A reader quotes a fragment from a county seat newspaper page doubled over and unreadable, with a garbled headline about a Governor trickery claim. A musician recalls a Devonshire song, finding tears in a guest’s eyes as the hostess asks if he is Devonshire-born. The exchange centers on confusion over the timing of Saturday and a reading mishap.
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Devonshire
Mr. Smith
Why You Are What You Are Based On Head Destructiveness
The passage links head shape to character claiming a large upper forehead and top head indicate destructiveness. It asserts such individuals can be dangerous yet with higher faculties they become forces for good. It notes swearing tendencies tied to ear tip development and describes jailworthy, vice-filled behavior when certain faculties are missing.
Not So New Traveler Returns to Native Village
A traveler arrives in his native village after twenty years abroad and encounters a boy with a baby in the road. The boy corrects him, saying the baby has simply been washed, not a new face. The brief vignette appears in the Western Christian Advocate in Cincinnati.
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Western Christian Advocate
Cincinnati
The Idle Thing
The quarried woman complains about the neighbor who talks nonstop. The husband asks when she talks, and the reply notes she talks over the fences to him.
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Richard
Trolley line Drews Comforts to Rival Automobiles
West Chester to West Grove trolley line plans to lure riders by adding automobile like comforts. Cars will feature revolving plush armchairs wider windows lighting curtains coat racks and other novelties. In Herndon a Wise Cat tale tells of Samuel Wolfe and his five children nearly suffocating from coal gas at their home.
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West Chester
West Grove
Samuel Wolfe
Herndon
Mr. Wolfe
Series of Mishaps In Heilig Family In Harrisburg
Mrs. Sarah Fidilig 81 is crushed by a trolley near the Capitol Harr isburg. Her husband 80 is severely burned the next day. He finds $238 hidden under a carpet but it is stolen. His brother Richard A Heilig a hotel cashier commits suicide in York. Widow in Shinglehouse finds $13 000 in a cellar with bonds and papers after a house search led by her brother Louis Schmidt.
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Sarah Fidilig
Capitol
Harrisburg
Heilig
W. 8. Heilig
York
Richard A. Heilig
John Grein
Votter County
Ohio
Louis Schmidt
Schmidt
Roll of Bills Trampled in Barnyard Mire
A roll of bills totaling 92 dollars was trampled in the barnyard of John Murowski near Latrobe. Murowski lost the money while milking a cow when it slipped from his pocket. A week later he kicked up the roll, badly mutilated and with most numerals obliterated, and the U S Treasury will be asked to redeem them.
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John Murowski
Latrobe
United States Treasury Department
Murowski
Town Without Industry Holds a Quiet Borough Outlook
Town of Dubisetown in Lycoming County with 750 residents lacks a factory, lockup, cemetery, borough hall, paid police, or street commissioner. No local amusement venue or doctor is nearby, hindering health board membership, yet it has one church and a volunteer fire company. A church aged 181 years recalls colonial era foundations and enduring history.
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DuBsisetown
Lycoming
South Williamsport
Board of Health
Augustus Lutheran Church at Trappe praised for patriotism
Rev W C Fegley delivered a lecture on The Old Church praising the Augustus Lutheran Church at Trappe after 181 years of service. Bequeaths employees money George Nass Jr Lower Merion remembered in his will with beneficiaries Somers Cotton 5000 Clarence Knox 1060 William Roberts 350 Howard Mc Goldrick 35 Edward Carpenter 100 George Roberts 250 Fred Bauer Jr 200
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Augustus Lutheran Church
Trappe
W. C. Fegley
J. D
George Nass, Jr
Lower Merion
Somers B. Cotton
Clarence R. Knox
William Es
Howard McGoldrick
Edward Carpenter
George "Ae Roberts
Fred A. Bauer, Jr
Man Pulled From Icy Waters Near Lebanon
Bernard Kullman, 60, of Lebanon, was found nearly submerged in the Little Swatara Creek. He was rescued with a rope, taken to hospital, and is suffering dementia with possible death from exposure.
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Bernard Kullman
Lebanon
Swatara Ireck
Rothsville and Lancaster Firms Face Legal and Local Changes
County notices report Girvin and Co. of Lancaster filing bankruptcy petitions in Philadelphia District Court. Rothsville Evangelical and St Paul Evangelical Churches plan a union to strengthen community work. Ephrata Mountain Springs summer resort near Ephrat a, a 90 acre tract with multiple buildings, to be sold at auction by the heirs of D S Von Neida on Saturday March 1.
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Girvin and Co
Lancaster
U.S. District Court
Philadelphia
N. Queen Street
Rothsville
Ephrata Mountain Springs
Ephrata
D. S. von Neida
Cooperative marketing touted for tobacco in Lancaster County
County agent Bucher returns from Connecticut where cooperative tobacco marketing is judged a go after interviews with growers. He says dissatisfaction exists but not enough to abandon cooperation, and Lancaster County may adopt lessons learned. Also reports heavy bidding for market stalls in Lancaster with top bid of 155 dollars.
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Obacco
Connecticut
Lancaster County
Bucher
Tle
Western States Farm Bureaus
Mr. Bucher
Lancaster
Elias Vogel
Abandoned Farms and Lincoln Letter On View
Abandoned farms in north central Pennsylvania could become profitable through forest planting, says Williams F. Dague, district forester, who notes over 300000 uncultivated acres in the area. Mrs. Milton C. Egbert displayed a Lincoln letter on the former president's birthday, describing his thanks for a munificent five thousand dollar Christmas donation to soldiers.
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Pennsvania
Williams F. Dague
Clearfield
Moghannon
Department of Forests and Waters
Milton C. Egbert
Abraham Lincoln
Oil City
Washington, Jan
Milton C. Egebert
Col. Forney
Philadelphia Hospital
How Papua Natives Prepare Enemies' Heads Described
In a recent issue, Mr. B Riley details Papua village of Dorre ritual head preparation. After flesh and brain removal, a rattan cane fixes to the skull bottom to replace the lower jaw and support neck packing. The head is hung in the house as a war trophy, jaw sometimes replaced, dried on a wooden framework over a fire, and hair removed as skin decays.
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B. Riley
Dorre
Papua
Red Light Traps Use Acid Bath To Kill Insects
A Yorks World report describes a tropical pest control method using red light to lure flying insects into a perilous acid bath. A red bulb attracts night fliers above a wide mouthed bottle with a funnel, where fumes stun and guide them into the bath for drowning or asphyxiation.
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Yorks World
New Crane Scale Tailored for Airship Cables and Heavy Loads
A steel scale with four heavy springs provides precise pull measurements for airship moorings and high capacity crane loads up to 10,000 pounds. Developed for U S government use, it ensures safe working loads and prevents overloads. The dial measures 1 inches in diameter.
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Progr
United States
Scientific American
Screeching axle grease quip stirs crowd in dim scene
In a tense exchange a fair girl laments becoming a bird while a shadowy man wishes she were a box of axle grease. The lemon-haired maiden asks for meaning and the dark speaker explains that axle grease stops screeching.
The Best in the World Man Proposes to Jack
A terse exchange references Leap year and a “golden rule” amid a heated moment. The dialogue contrasts Hubbel and Loston transcript tones, implying a humorous or ironic proposal in a public or literary frame.
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Jack
Hubbel
Good Luck Charm Rabbit foot belief sparked pocket tale
A light local item notes a rabbit foot good luck charm. A man recalls his wife mistaking the charm for a mouse when it was felt in his pocket. The anecdote reflects common superstitions about good fortune items.
Early Talkative Automaton Legend and Inventor Tales
Fragmentary notes recount talking machines from early times. An elderly automaton opened doors and spoke phrases like Toast 1 2.8 as a man named Miller claimed future triumphs with talking devices. Abbe Mical reportedly presented a talking invention in 1783, later facing religious objections. Edison’s first machine is alluded to as displayed in a distant century.
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Trelanch
Miller
Abbe Mical
End Academy of Sciences
Edison
Love is Blind Viola Sees Unexpected Twist in Shop
In a bustling shop Viola recounts spying her husband in a chair with a towel draped over him and a stranger’s face appearing as she, recalling a plan to meet downtown, leans in and greets him only to uncover a startling, unseen face.
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Viola
Tom
Bank Director From Aged Man In City Tale
A dialect tale shows an aged man named Henry bragging about a new role as a bank director. A drug store clerk asks about his work, and Henry nonchalantly explains he stands at the door directing people where to go, presenting a humorous scene of selfstyled authority in a neighborhood setting.
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Henry
Lawdy
No Great Actors Anymore Says Old-Timer In Courier-Journal
A Louisville Courrier Journal reader recalls a bygone era of acting. The old-timer laments today’s actors as repressed and questions the claim that there are no great actors left.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Non-Stop Passenger Questions Captain on Collision
A nervous passenger asks the captain what would happen if the ship struck a large obstacle. The captain explains the vice would pass along as if nothing occurred, leaving the elderly woman noticeably unsettled.
Learned Astronomy by Making Own Telescopes
A Springfield Vermont group learned astronomy by building and using homemade telescopes. They held small workshops in home cellars and at an old government site on Hawks Mountain, camping on the surrounding slopes and observing through the night. The event showcased eager locals exploring the heavens, with a stiff wind but clear sightlines as instruments revealed celestial details.
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Springfield
Kussedl Wo Porter
Porter
Ephraim
Bananas and a Bishop Dinner Joke
A young woman chats with a bishop at a church dinner. Mistaking a banana joke, she asks if he is fond of bananas. The bishop, hard of hearing, asks her to repeat and then reveals a surprising preference for the old fashioned night shirt.
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Hin
TY O
Harper's Weekly
Opinion Gap Jotnsen Looks at Wandering Covered Wagon
A rural resident on Rumpus Ridge leans on a rickety fence to observe a swaying wagon rolling along the main road. The old man explains he planned to move his family toward Oklahoma but delays, road traffic, mud, and repeated starts have kept him from leaving.
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Rumpus
Oklahoma
Kansas City
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