Lancaster County News Briefs and Local Disasters
The Lancaster Knights of Malta bought a site for a home at 15000 dollars. County tax rate dropped from 2 to 2 mills for 1915. Aaron H. Gilbert of Lancaster rested from the Pennsylvania Railroad police force. D M Snyder of East Petersburg built a parlor table from 150 kinds of wood totaling 3058 pieces inlayed. A fire at Frederick Brown’s Mars Hill Reservoir barn destroyed the structure and contents except livestock. loss estimated in thousands. lantern in stable believed to have caused the blaze.
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Lancaster Knights of Malta
Aaron H. Gilbert
Lancaster
Pennsylvania Railroad
D. M. Snyder
East Petersburg
Frederick Brown
Mars Hill Reservoir
Quarryville
Brown
Instinct and Reason Defined by New York American
The New York American contrasts instinct and reason as adaptive actions. Instinct acts without knowledge of how means relate to ends, while reason uses understanding of the relation between means and goals. The fundamental difference remains unknown and likely unknowable.
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New York American
Whistler Comments On A Girl Painter’s View
A girl artist shows Whistler her painting and proclaims she always paints Nature as she sees it. Whistler doubts the sincerity of seeing it exactly as she believes, remarking that one should not always paint Nature as one sees it when the view is distorted.
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Whistler
London Standard
He Fell Right In
A fragment from the New York Post recounts a scene where a wife notes her maid Anna on the street pretending not to see her. The wife explains Anna’s conduct is improper because she was accompanied by another girl and hiding her employer’s two dollar fifty cent hat.
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Anna
New York Post
Scaling the Almost Vertical Wall of the Grand Canyon
Two brothers Walter and ay Men denhall placer mined near Henry Mountains Utah journeyed to the Grand Canyon by boat. They climbed a near vertical cliff sixty to eighty feet high then navigated a 150 foot drop using a narrow rock cleft and a shelf to reach the rim. Both reached safety exhausted but alive after the perilous ascent.
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Grand Canyon
Walter
Ay Mendenhall
Henry Mountains
Utah
Montreal Herald
Colorado River
Death Roll 1914 Lititz Area Obituaries Aged List
A local death roll for Lititz and vicinity lists deaths by date, age, and interment place for January through June. Names include Christian Kreider, Elias Buch, Mrs. Henry Shhenk, Mrs. Martin Miller, John Stauffer, Harvey Albright, and many others with ages and cemeteries across Rothsville, Manheim, Lititz, and surrounding towns.
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Lititz
Lincoln
Christian W. Kreider
Erb’s
Elias Buch
Moravian
Warwick
Henry H. Shhenk
Hess
Rothsville
Martin Miller
Rothsville Lutheran
Akron
Jacob Metz
Metz
Manheim
John Stauffer
Longenecker
Neffsville
Mary A. Denlinger
Mellinger
Penn Township
Mary E. Conrad
Manheim Lutheran
Elm
Jacob E. Brownaberger
Kreider’s
John Dissinger
Evangelical
William
William Garner
Sheafferstown
George Letter
Brickerville
Hauenstein
Herman
Will
Fairview
Owl Hill
Sarah Widders
Middle Creek
Hopeland
George Getz
St. John’s Lutheran
Henry H. Loose
Kim
Esther
I. B. Koehler
Penryn Lutheran
Murrell
Jacob Stoner
Metzler’s
Samuel Eckert
Landis Valley
Charles Maury
George
Harry Firestone
Zion Home
Brethren Home
Martin Stark
Parker Watson
Disston
Franklin Buch
Zion’s Cemetery
Elizabeth Leeking
Hahnstown
Louisa M. Witmyer
Mervin Elias
Martin
Lillie Hacker
Talmage
Christian Shhreiner
Daniel K. Appel
Ephrata
Andrew M. Baker
Anna Miller
Brickerville Lutheran
Lizzie Frantz
Middle Greek
East Petersburg
Benjamin F. Moore
Greenwood
Amanda Grosh
Zion Lutheran
Elizabeth Township
Thelma Pearl
Adam and
Mary White
Penryn Reformed
Brunnerville
Hiram K. Habecker
St. John’s
Sporting Hill
Harriet Brubaker
Samuel H. Bingaman
William R. Stephens
Whitewater
Wisconsin
Reading
Miriam Face
Charles Evans
Frank
Hackman
Church of the Brethren
Matilda Shiffer
White Oak Reformed
Mary Eby
Clay Township
John S. Fetter
Emanuel Lutheran
Fianna Kline
St. John's Lutheran
James D. Whitcraft
Machpelah
Jacob W. Martin
Old Mennonite
Asenath Rickert
Moravian Ll
Kissel Hill
John
Ada Mellinger
Hammer Creek
Ephrata Township
Anna Wise
Catharine Ruth
Lutheran
Sarah Grosh
Samuel Brosey
Frank Keath
White Oak
Samuel Geib
Wolf’s
Alvin Keller
United Evangelical
Reda Irene
Harry
Lottie Rupp
York
Henry C. Sturgis
Lexington
Leonard
Samuel
Nora Young
C. Wallace Louder
Hast Petersburg
Benjamin B. Kauffman
Hast Petersburg Mennonite
Clayton & Reifsnyder
Christian Mohn
Henry Stehmach
John D. Hummer
Kleinfeltersville
William Zartman
Roseville
Fianna B. Stoner
Landis Valley Mennonite
Mary Meiskey
Polly Eby
Neffsville Brethren Home
Barbara
John Myers
Gibbel’s
Samuel Dussinger
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H. Buchclothier
Grim Reaper
Peter Zartman
Albert Longenecker
General Hospital
Harvey Schlott
Susan Kline
Lester Roy George
Eliza Eby
United Brethren
Adam Engle
Penryn
Milton Diehm
Lancaster General Hospital
Horace Ober
Weidmanville
Elizabeth Nissley
Reinhold’s
Stephen S. Sweitzer
Levi Shellenberger
Jacob D. Noll
Heinicke
Catherine Carvel
Church of the Brethren Home
Nettsville
John Kauffman
Netfsville
John Spahr
Elizabeth B. Lenhart
Brickerville Reformed
Henry H. Obetz
Farmers National Bank
Penna
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Appel
Appel Optical Department
Optical
FE Appel E Samewstworn Jewelers & Opticians
Vancasn
W. A
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
East King St