Locomotive accident leaves worker with amputated foot
James Powers Jr., 22, of Easton, was trapped under locomotive drive wheels and fainted after his foot was freed. He was rushed to Easton hospital where surgeons amputated his left foot. A Punxsutawney vet diagnosed a cow’s bizarre episode after it feasted on discarded mash and collapsed. State Fish Commissioner Naun R Buller mailed 40000 post cards to license holders urging catch reporting to enable proper fisheries records and potential penalties for noncompliance.
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James Powers, Jr
Easton
M. D. Renchler
Naan R. Buller
Nless
Ry Department
Promoting Pepto Mangan In Early 20th Century Ad
An ad praising Jo’s vigor uses lively phrases like good color strength and “full of red” to market Guide's Mangan. It claims the product boosts blood, energy, and appetite, urging readers with poor sleep and weakness to buy the liquid and tablet forms at meals. It presents a confident, salesy tone typical of period medicine ads.
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Oyl
Rocus
Guide
Nose surgery treats long stubborn cherry stone in nose
In Lancaster, at the General Hospital, surgeons removed a cherry stone from a 12 year old girl’s nose. The stone had been there since she was three. The incident highlights early medical intervention for persistent foreign bodies.
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General Hospital
Lancaster
Moon Year 1922 Predicts Humid Weather and Zodiac Planting
Almanac and astrologers foretell a humid, variable 1922 with moon influence on minds and weather. Spring warm and humid. summer mix of warm and cool days. Two total solar eclipses visible abroad. Aries to Cancer and other signs guide planting and harvest timings.
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Rome
Varro
Pennsylvania
Europe
Africa
South America
Australia
New Zealand
Pacific Ocean
Farmers Keep Accounts in Lancaster County Project
The Lancaster County farm management and cost accounting effort, started in 1920 under H. B. Sloat, grows in importance as it aggregates data from nearly 100 farmers. Sloat urges careful year end inventory, itemized taxes, fuel, feed, repairs, depreciation estimates, and farm value stock valuations to reveal business status beyond cash or bank balances. The process ends with transferring the year’s inventory into a new account book for the next year.
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Farm Bureau
Lancaster Coury
H. 8S. Sloat
Mr. Sloat
Sloat
Fortunes Told by Signs and Birth Months Decline
The passage notes that seed or transplanting is helpful for weed destruction and recalls historical fortunes told by signs. It also references older booklets that linked people’s fortunes to their birth month, a trend that has faded in favor of other methods.
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Aries
Taurus
Sagittarius
Bowman
Capriornus
Scorpia
Scorpion
Virgo
Gemini
Leo
Another Woman Escapes Operation in Dr Pierce’s Cure
Mrs Lawrence Halsey of Arnold Haskins Route writes from Coudersport Pa that she suffered serious feminine trouble and was advised by a physician to undergo an operation. After taking Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription Gurden Medical Discovery Irantic Tablets and using Dr. Pierce’s Purifying and Strengthening Lotion, she recovered without surgery and praises the medicines. She offers to answer inquiries with a self addressed envelope.
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Coudersport
Dr. Pierce
Gurden
Lawrence Halsey
Arnold Haskins
Totel
Buffalo
Farm calendar and planning tips from a vintage notice
Poultry breeding advice stresses using old hens for best spring hatch outcomes and warns against pullets as breeders. Garden planning guidance urges sizing by family needs and market demand, with seed ordering soon. Milk knowledge note suggests ongoing learning for dairymen, highlighting winter evenings as ideal for study.
Story of a Thaler Inspires Moravian Deaconess Work
From Allentown comes a letter about a single silver Thaler given by Prince Henry Reuss to a Moravian teacher. The coin funded the Heinrich Hospital and Moravian Deaconess Nurses' Home, aiding leper homes in Surinam and Jerusalem. Funds before the war reached 20,000 with 15,000 debt, yet the work continues. Contributions are welcome for the Deaconess Home in Niesky.
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Allentown
Mej
Herman T. Frueauff
Theodore Schmidt
Niesky
Silesia
Bethlehem
Prof
Frueauff
Prince Henry Reuss
Ebersdorf
Thuringia
Hermann Plitt
Plitt
Moravian Theological Seminary
Gnadenfeld
Upper Silesia
Thaler
Henry Reuss
Heinrich Hospital
Moravian Daconess Nurses
Mheinrich
Free correspondence courses for dairy farming at State College
The Agricultural School at State College offers free home study courses for farmers expanding dairy operations. Courses cover Silos and Silage, Principles of Breeding, Milk and its Products, Butter Making, Dairy Breeds of Cattle, Technology of Milk, and Study of Milk across several lessons. Old Family Almanac notes recall its daily farm reading role in earlier times.
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Agricultural School
State College
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W. H. Buch
Red Blood
the County
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New Jersey
J. Harvey Rodgers
Warwick Township
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Daniel Frysinger
East Donegal
Internal Revenue
William H. Garman
Falmouth
van Dem
Womple
Pennsylvania State College
LF. van Zelm Een
Nowenaner Tring
Grube’s
Famous Shoes
John L. Peiffer
Spruce Street
Lititz, Pa
C. Tr. Ritchie
E. Main St
Harrisburg
Aia Sine
Warts
J. F.,essig
W. W. Appel & Son
N. Queen St
Lancaster, Penna
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