Potatoes Sell Fast Police in State News Bits
A Pottsville area store starts selling potatoes while homes buy a carload at 72 cents a bushel. West Chester hosts a Chester-Delaware Fruit Growers Association meeting urging a uniform size law for fruit carriers. Altoona to be piped natural gas within 10 days via a line from Johnstown. Harrisburg awaits the State Editorial Association’s Jan 28 meeting with Talcott Williams and E. E. Sparks on the program. County officials propose consolidating Prison and Poor Directors under County Commissioners amid salary hikes. Old fire horse Jerry found a good home at Villa Marie Convent after years with the New Castle Fire Department. Seagulls spotted on the Susquehanna near Harrisburg signal milder winter, while a Chester lot sees a roaming raccoon near telegraph poles. A matrimonial quip ends with a joke about age and a father’s death increasing age.
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Fruit Growers’ Association
Chester
Delaware
West Chester
Altoona
Johnstown
State Editorial Association
Harrisburg
Talcott Williams
Pulitzer School of Journalism
New York
E. E. Sparks
State College
Daniel K. Hoch
Reading
Jerry
New Castle
Villa Marie Convent
New Bedford
Sharon Herald
Turkish Words and Names Reflect Ottoman Realities
The article contrasts Western terms for the Ottoman realm with Turkish usage, noting the official titles Au kyumet-i-seniye and the absence of a collective name for the sultanate within its borders. It explains regional terms, languages, and places such as Roumelia Anads Anatolia Albania Saloniki Beirut and describes language variety across neighboring lands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Roumelia
Anatolia
Albania
Lebanon
Simyrna
Saloniki
Beirut
Bulgaria
Roumania
Russia
Rome
New York Sun
Ingal ls And Butter Epigram At Senate
A reminiscence recalls Senator Ingalls in the Senate debating oleomargarine. He quips I have never tasted dleamargarine but I have stood in the presence of genuine butter with awe for its strength and reverence for its antiquity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingalls
Senate
Juliet's Balcony in Verona As Market Life Flows By
A vivid scene at Juliet's balcony in Verona where tourists imagine Romeo and Juliet. The article notes the gray house, slim wooden balcony, red flowers, a curtain in the window, and a mother with a laughing child listening to market cries amid the city’s old life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romeo
Veronsse
Capulets
Juliet
Verona
Old City
Veronese
London Velegraph
Power From the Sun and Saturns Secrets
A collection of notes on solar power potential and its historical estimates, plus observations from Gothnick at the Berlin Royal Observatory on Saturn moons. It discusses Tethys luminosity variations, possible ellipsoid shape theories, and parallels with Eros. A health tip on jacket armholes concludes the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturn
Gothnick
Royal Observatory of
Berlin
Tethys
Telhys
Harper’s
Emily Bronte Praise From Chesterton in Youth's Companion
G K Chesterton adds high praise for Emily Bronte the non writer noting she has won unstinting praise from men. He calls Wuthering Heights splendid but says nothing human about it and quips it could have been written by an eagle. Also a scene with Mrs Prouty and Sam from Youth's Companion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Bronte
G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton
Spunky Retort By Mrs Peck Henry Feigning Sleep
Dialogue excerpt shows Mrs Peck Henry asked why she feigned sleep. Henry replies he did not feign sleep though would have slept. Judge notes a statement about life, every day starting a new year, attributed to Jerdon.
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The
Bell Telephone Co
Penna
R.E. Smith
Mgr
Lancaster, Pa
Pottstown
Susquehanna
Independence Island
Atchisur Globe
Dr. Pierce
R.V. Pierce
Buffalo
Edgar Lutien Larkin
New York American
J.paul Borbuck
Dak Street
Lancaster
Qevrce Hous
Tod
H. Yodeh
M.D
Many
Livitz
Ind
Bell Phone
James
Brobst
Lititz Springs Sanitarium
Lititz
Warren S. Buch
E. Grant
Lititz, Pa
D. Alonzo Long
Broad Street
Mito
Aljr
Fox M. Long
John Hoover
Main Street
C. Hassler
Young
Planos
Oncans Lititz, PA
Schnerer
South Spruce St
Baker Whacher
Autita
Raymond L. Myers
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Willis
On, d
Brown John D. Skiles Ghabiller, Tong
Vr Ficere
John Hertzler
John D. Skiles
Herbert C. Miller
C. & Mellingir
John S
Graybill
W. A. Hensel
H.W. Hartman
Jone
Hertzler Ohn A, Nauman
John B, Miller
T. Breneman H. Whayv
I. P. Reese
W. King Street
Stephen B. Kissinger
W. Marion St. _ Lititz, Pa
Mary Jo Brumer
Wiurwieck Township
Lancaster County
Jotin KE
Rehner
Lev
H. Rudy
Wij
Desker
Jansser
Janssen
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
Waverly Oil Works CO
Pittsburgh
Sam
Malaga
Muscatel
Hollinger, Liquors
East King and Duke Sts
Isaac Sarah
Penryn
Bell
Jerdon
Rogers Bros
International Silver CO
Meriden, Com
Meriden Britannia Co
A. R. Keller
W. D. Siverling
PHONE
Warwick
Westinghouse
M. M. Souders
Ephrata
Geo. S. Dammy
Auel Suias E ‘Bane
Stein's Hotel
John D. Bair
Blue Ball
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