Keystone 400 potash yields lead 1931 Pennsylvania club
Harrisburg area reports 84 farmers qualifying for the Keystone 400 potato club. H. J. Walton & Sons Chester County top the year with 687.5 bushels per acre after a 696-bushel 1928 best. Gustafson Brothers McKean County produced 605 and Harry Callie Northampton 604.5 in debut. Police case: Philadelphia man John Ferguson Jr faces first degree murder verdict in the Primos gas station holdup with life sentence. Oxford mushroom houses blaze causes heavy damage. fire kept from spreading. Lebanon details cut off with an unfinished line.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Keystone
H. J. Walton and Sons
Chester County
Gustafson Brothers
McKean County
Harry Callie
Northampton Couny
John Ferguson, Jr
Primos
Charles Schnatz
Morning at the Shelby Farmhouse in Ohio
Mrs Shelby manages a busy morning routine on a typical Ohio farmhouse as her husband Pa and the four sons navigate work, school, and household duties. The day unfolds with chores, minor tensions, and quiet affection in a close family scene.
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Shelby
Ohio
Con
Ieeae
Isaac
Thomas
Johnny
Susan
Mr. Hansen
Hansen
Tricks of magic and a fatal rail accident
Six pennies are shown and warmed by audience handling then a nose touch identifies the warm penny. Copper heat retention and sensitivity explain the effect. Will Ly Lindhoret of Pan Yeagley was crushed to death at 2 PM Saturday when rails slipped from a pile and pinned him near Reading Company tracks at Fourth and Sonll streets. Coroner J. Herbereé Manbeck reports a fractured skull as cause of death.
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Will Ly Lindhoret
Pan Yeagley
Reading Company
Fourth and Sonll Streets
J. Herbereé Manbeck
Shelby family Christmas at home on the Ohio farm
In a late 19th or early 20th century scene the Shelby family gathers for Christmas on a snowy Ohio farm. Isaac boasts after foreclosing on a furniture debtor, while Ma Shelby keeps busy amid holiday preparations as Thomas presents a painting won at New York art school.
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Shelby
Ohio
Isaac
Thames
Johnny
Isabelle
Susan
Ixtern
Ma Shelby
Minnie Thomas
Shelbys
New York
Phyllis
Thomas
Grace
Nework
Dee
Hing
Ams
Bern
Turtjing
Aenes
Minnie
Star of Bethlehem
The Machine Age Spoils a Prophecy
An analysis tracing Wheat production trends from 30 years ago to today. It notes rising yields, expanding acreage in Canada and Australia, and a shift to diverse diets. The piece highlights mechanization, lower threshing costs, and Russia’s aggressive agricultural expansion as key factors shaping future supply and geopolitics.
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Canada
Australia
Hencome
Combine
Soviet
Russia
Europe
Bankers Hold Feeders Conference in Presho South Dakota
Fifty farmers attend a state bank hosted feeders conference in Presho to promote feeding low price wheat and barley for marketing through livestock. Booklets on feeding wheat are distributed and a feeders column debuts in the local paper. Bankers report strong success and plan further events next year.
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Bankers Hard Farm
Presho
South Dakota
Engineer Flees with Train to Save Fireman
Baltimore engineer P. N. Hallman raced a 27 car freight after discovering fireman H. Haas injured on the cab floor. He uncoupled the train and sped to the nearest station where Haas died after a skull operation failed. Haas was hurt as the engine passed beneath an overhead track while the fireman climbed the tender.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore
Tobacco crop sales and community notices from Clay area
The report notes farmers sold tobacco last week and lists numerous local households hosting guests and gatherings. It mentions quilting events at Grace Eshleman and a Bible class meeting at St John’s Brickerville, plus visits to Elm and Elizabethtown and a Kentuckian named John Cabell Breveentisige, who became Vice President in 1887 at age thirty six.
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Samuel Wiest and Sons
Lemon Ad Ralph
Nora Steely
Raymond Balmer
Grace Eshlenan
J. W. Gerhart
Elm
Luin Longenecker
Elizabethtown
E. Ferry Zartman
Lloyd Ober
McK. Elser Gerhart
Lititz
Lizzie Lowery
Zion
Rufus ¥. Heisey
Elwood
P. OQ. Elser
John Cabell Breveentisige
Kentucky
Prothonotary’s Notice for Guardian Accounts Confirmation
Accounts to be presented to the Court for confirmation nisi on Monday January 18 1982. Smith Mary E weak minded Guardian Lan caster County National Bank. 41114 Wiest John Henry weak minded Guardian Alger H Shirk c E Helm Prothonotary.
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Nisi
Smith
Mary E
Lancaster County National Bank
Guardian
Alias Subpoenas for Divorces in 1931 32 in Lancaster County
Court notices command several defendants to appear before Lancaster County judges beginning February 15 in Lancaster and Parti s en for divorce show cause. Names include Edgar G Collins Bessie Collins Paul Eshleman Louise Jennings Ellis Austin Miriam Schubert Virginia Stage Russell Vance and others with alias subpoenas.
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Bessie T. Collins
Lancaster
Court of Common Pleas
Edgar G. Collins
D. F. Shuman
Paul D. Eshleman
Paul O. Eshleman
Partisien
Selinda G. Nihleman
Louise W. Jennings
Orlan V. Jennings
Ellis E. Austin
Rose Mary Austin
Samuel T. Bohee
Ruby Bohee
Miriam FH. Schubert
Miriam E. Schubert
Harold E. Schubert
Virginia M. Stagg
Virginia M
Theodore B
F. Shuman
Vey
Russell J. Vance
Subpasna
Anna C. Vance
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Oxford
Frank Wilson
Lebanon
Harold Yeagley
Fim Corporation
Johany
Tere
Wheeler
H. L. Russell
St. John’s Church of
Brickerville
Samuel W. Elser
C. B. Snyder
Ephrata
Amos Hcisey
Samuel E. Ferry
Milton Eberly
Phares Brubaker
Christ Bollinger
W.M. Amer
GRUBE
Atta
Selinda G. Eshleman
Orlan VY. Jennings
Theodore B, Stagg
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