Lancaster groups push curfew law as notes on local incidents
The WGC T U of Lancaster plans to urge City Council to pass a curfew ordinance. Mrs Mary Tamey of Columbia suffered facial burns after using coal oil to bury a kitchen fire, and her hair was singed. Soldier Jobo Berg died in Columbia hospital after an appendicitis operation while home on fur lough. Levi F McAllister of Quarryville sold 38 acres for about 2275, then earned 7200 this season from those acres.
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Lancaster
David Stoner
Mt. Joy
Mary Tamey
Columbia
Fort Riley
Kan
Jobo Berg
Berg
Albert Hershey
Saturday Evening Post
Philadelphia
Levi F. McAllister
Quarryville
McAllister
Stocked Streams With Trout In Local Area
The State trout stock for local streams is too small prompting requests to the U S Government Fish Department. One lot ranged six to ten inches and one year old. H M Sprecher has stocked streams for three years with State fish and seen no results. Trout will be distributed from April to November in the Cocalico and tributaries. The Ephrain Review notes stocking the spring creek has declined due to contamination. Local parties have stocked other streams in recent years.
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United States Government
Fish Department
H. M. Sprecher
Cocalico
Ephrain
Washington's Giant Dead At 7 7 Turner Dies In Custody
John Turner a 34 year old man described as seven feet seven inches tall and an invalid from infancy has died at the Washington Asylum Hospital. A coffin of unusual size had to be prepaid to receive his body. He could neither read nor write and spent most of his life dozing in hospitals.
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John Turner
National Capital
Washington Asylum
Turner
The Editor's Easy Job Reimagined
The piece humorously upends the notion that editors enjoy effortless downtime between press days. It depicts readers visiting for weekly news, editors jotting notes in minutes, and printers preparing pages after brief, ritual steps, all while money and deadlines dictate the pace.
Minister Will Take Up Chicken Raiser Work
Rev. G. C. H. Radcliffe, longtime head of the Quarryville M. E. Circuit, plans to leave ministry to pursue farming and chicken raising. He will move to a 45 acre farm owned by his brother at Limerick Square, Montgomery County, a setting favorable for poultry ventures where he has prior success. His health has been declining, and he believes the change will benefit him.
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Quarryville
Clergy Man Resigns Over Inadequate Salary
Rev. R. W. McLean of Mt Clements Michigan quits as pastor of the First Baptist Church claiming he cannot support a family of four on a clergyman’s pay. He notes he left medicine five years ago with assets but now faces debt around $200 and loss of property.
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R. W. McLean
Mt. Clements
Mich
First Baptist Church
Baptist Ministers’ Union
Detroit
Surrey
Fourth Primary and High School Views from the Borough
Reporter visits the Fourth Primary under Miss Laura Buch noting forty four pupils, the largest class, and a teacher who fosters independent thinking. He praises the arithmetic enthusiasm and recalls County Superintendent Brecht’s influence. The High School shows overcrowding with 125 on the first floor. Miss Mary Zeller teaches the A secondary to disciplined success with forty one pupils and a curriculum across eight subjects. Slips replace old copybooks as writing improves. (10 BE CONCLUDED)
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Laura Buch
James Oliver
Laura
Brecht
Mary Zeller
Henry
Mary
John
Miss. Zeller
Miss Zeller
Baccarat Glass Breaks No Glass Breakable Record
Baccarat France produces a new unbreakable glass in a trial that lends itself to lamp chimneys for coal mines with high fire damp. The process also increases elasticity by adding magnesia and oxide to ordinary crystal glass.
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Baccarat
France
Tourists in Japan and the Language Barrier
Vera Colum in Wide World Magazine notes how ignorant travelers in Japan incur higher costs by insisting on nonnative comforts. She cites extra bedding, improvised pillows, separate utensils, and baths with fresh water, plus tips for geishas and misread host-host expectations, highlighting the clash of cultures.
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Vera Colum
Wide World Magazine
Manyuema Cannibals Described as Terrible Tanganyika Humans
A Wide World Magazine piece portrays the Manyuema of Tanganyika as the most fiendish cannibals in central Africa. It claims they wear bark cloth, stalk victims at dusk, tear flesh from bone, and dry strips of dried meat for future use, with teeth filed to points to speed consumption.
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Manyuema
Tanganyika
Central Africa
Seganyika
East
Wide World Magazine
Women’s Sewing Circle Bans Gossip at Downingtown Church
At a First Methodist Church meeting in Downingtown Chester County members voted to stop gossiping. The rule aims to curb idle talk and promote harmony within the group.
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Women’s Sewing Cirle
First Methodist Church of
Downingtown
Chester County
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Lititz, PA
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Faster
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Lititz
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Filass
Japan
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Heinitsch
Heinitsh
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Oliver Brothers & Company
Hoffmeier Bros
Lancaster’s
E. King Street
W. W. Apple & Son
North Queen Street
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