Mothers Club Forms in Clearfield for Moral Guidance
A concise roundup notes a Clearfield Mothers Club formed to discuss preventing youth from evil and steering husbands away from mischief. It also highlights a spate of local items from 1912 era: geese theft rings in Lebanon county, a Freemansburg man’s suicide attempt, rival Myerstown hotels serving unusual meals, a female postmaster candidate in Mifflinburg, a rare 1912 mortality record in Valley township, Crawford county timber shipments, and a portable steam saw mill’s impact on forests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mothers
Clearfield
Lebanon County
William J. Buss
Freemansburg
Myerstown
Mifflinburg
Crawford County
Frederick the Great and Emperor Joseph II in Early Talks
In Neustadt de Came Frederick the Great, during a visit to Joseph II of Austria, engaged with Austrian generals and other figures he had scarcely befriended through war. At a table, Frederick invited London to sit beside him, saying he preferred him by his side. Frederick kept busts of the emperor at Sans Souci and warned that Joseph was ambitious, doubting him. He quipped that Joseph had a head and would achieve much but often took the second step before the first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick
Joseph II
Frederick the Great
Joseph III
Austria
Neustadt
London
M. Loudon
Rederick
Sans Souci
Joseph
Spelling Reform Confusion On Travel Plans
An elderly visitor to San Jose learns Spanish pronunciation changes, mistaking Pajaro for Watsonville after his Pajaro train ticket misreads, prompting a humorous reaction about spelling versus sounds from the east.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Cal
Watsonville
Pajaro
Steel Globes In Space The Two Earth Sized Balls Coalesce
A Maxim quotation argues that two tempered steel spheres the size of Earth released in space would behave like liquids, merging into a single globe with mountains not exceeding about fifty miles high due to self weight, illustrating gravity and buoyancy limits in a zero atmosphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houdson
Marrying Debts and the Ancestral Laws of England
A compact look at historic debt transfer upon marriage under English law before 1882. It notes that husbands bore wives debts, sometimes prompting wives to wed bankrupt men to escape creditors, and laments the need for a better law name than "a hass." It includes related observations on baseball economics and gateposts in colonial style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
London
Ed A. Goeney
Lesera
Uncomfortable exchange in London Tit-Bits dialogue
Dialog excerpts show a tense but humorous exchange about a strained marriage and social performance. The conversation references a six month silence, an unsettling mood among a church audience, and a writer who discards verses after drafting them, with noted cleverness from a London publication.
Fears the Frigate Bird and the Booby’s Feeds
An excerpt from Harper's Weekly describes the booby bird as a fierce seabird with green feet and yellow eyes that feeds its merciless master, the frigate bird. The frigate bird cannot fish in the air and torments the booby by pecking its throat to obtain fish, sometimes driving it into the sea when the booby has nothing to offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrides
Farors
Scotland
Norway
Harper's Weekly
Colors in Flames Explained and Calendar Notes
The article explains how flame color reflects combustion quality from red to violet, and describes concentric luminous shells with the innermost red at 977 degrees F. It adds calendar notes on the year 1889 and language facts about Switzerland, plus brief anecdotes and motto origins.
Milly Circles Jack Wright in Bold Afternoon Stunt
A vivid scene describes Milly throwing herself at Jack Wright this afternoon. The line suggests she sought him as a desirable catch while the exchange hints at a larger social dynamic. The quote ends with a Don Quixote reference about disease and cure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Milly
Jack Wright
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Salem
Amatica
EB. Rockwood
Lincoln
Lineatu
Cholly
Algy
Lewisville Courier-Journal
Pierge
Pierce
Send &i
New York Press
Richard L
the Lion Heart
Gisors
France
Henry VI
Elizabeth
Mary
Anne
Tallyland
Don Quixote
J. Paul Roebuck
N. Duke Street
Lancaster
ML & Yoder M-D
E. Main St
Liitz
Ind
Bell
Livira Springs
James C. Brobst
Warren S. Buch
E. Grant
Litlitz, Pa
de. D. Alonzo Long
Broad Street
Lititz
Joan M. Long
John Hoover
Paone
Main Street
Tuli
G¢ Hassler
Owards. Young
FEE
Schnerer
South Spruce St
Lititz, PA
Ernest Baker
Tracher
Livitz, PA
Raymond L. Myers
Stephen B. Kissinger
Phove W
Phrata
Demmy
Binas K Bann
Stein’s
John D. Bair
Blue Ball, Pa
Eet
Nice Chaney
Winks
Malaga
Muscatel
Hollinger
Lancaster, PA
Isaac Sarah
Penryn
W. D. Siverling
Phone Warwick
Elizabeth HB. Huber
Manheim Township
Lancaster County
Penn Township
B. D. No.2
A. G. Taemaker
Manheim
Israel
HW. Huber A
G. Hamaker
Harnish & Harnish
Tt Atty's
Samuel W. Spickler
Lititz Borough
Lancaster County, Ps
M. G. Schaeffer Phares
Spickler
Linnaeus H. Shelly
Warwick Township
Willard P. Face
Reading
Henry RB. Gibbel
B. F. Kready
Rose V. Weltmer
Farmers NaTional Bank
Eclock Plm
J. H. Breitigan
Livitz and Lexington Trentier Co
Warwick House
J. W. G. Hershey
Buy Sox Company
M. J. M. Miller
Westinghouse
M. M. Souders
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
John Hertzler
John D. Skiles
Herbert C. Miller
Mellinger
Graybill
W. A. Hensel
H.W. Hartman
John A. Nauman
John B, Miller
J. T. Breneman
I. H. Weaver
I. P. Reese's New Cash Hardware Store
Penn
Lancaster City
I. P. Reese
King St
Noes, Joseph Dreifus Finn
Decker and Janssen
Janssen
Imhoff’s Restaurant
Maurice River
Daniel Imhoff
East Main Street
A. R. Keller
Penna
Rogers Bros
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