Aged Harrisburg Engineer Pins Historic Railroad Feat
Alfred A. Pancake of Harrisburg, in his 86th year, rode the first Harrisburg to Pittsburg train over mountains and the Gallitzin tunnel, later commanding the first Pittsburgh to Altoona run. Also noted are a 1846 gold coin found near Beaver Creek, a Forest county splinter removal, a French service cruiser crew led by Edward Shields, wandering Chester county deer, and the Horseshoe Pike name origin.
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Alfred A. Pancake
Harrisburg
Pittsburg
Johnstown
Pittsburgh
Altoona
Gallitzin
Calvin McMillen
Forest County
T. D. Collins
Beaver Creek
Peter Karn
Meadville
Karn
Edward Shields
Bellefonte
France
Paris
Chester County
Bradford Hills
Chester Valley
State Game Commission
Bradford Heights
Horseshoe Pike
Honeybrook
A Timely Gift to Dr Anna Shaw
Dr Anna Shaw recounts poverty years in Boston when a poor old woman gives $5 after a revival. The gift lifts Shaw’s spirits and Calms fears about her future as she notes the bill carried her future on its back.
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Anna Shaw
Anna Howard Shaw
Boston
Metropolitan Magazine
Curious Bread During Genoa Siege Described as Mixture
The bread served during the Genoa siege was a horrible compound of damaged flour sawdust hair powder oatmeal linseed rancid nuts and other substances with a little cocox to give solidity. Small bits of wood held the loaf together and General Thiebault compared it to peat mingled with oil in his siege journal.
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Genoa
Marbot
Thiebault
His Punishment
Huddeston recounts a nightmare at breakfast about purgatory and being compelled to do things he warned friends he would do if in their places, illustrating a conscience shrouded by fear in a Brooklyn Life item.
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Huddeston
Brooklyn
Picnic Water Precautions Against Typhoid
The article warns that picnic season brings risky water sources and typhoid fever. It urges carrying safe drinking water and boiling unfamiliar water for twenty minutes before use to prevent illness.
The Philadelphia Record Sunday Magazine Promoted
The Sunday Record Magazine is highlighted as a premier weekly feature in the Philadelphia Sunday paper. It boasts renowned contributors and strong fiction alongside informative articles and sports coverage, encouraging readers to reserve a copy and become regular subscribers.
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Philadelphia Record
Philadelphia
Sunday Record
Philadelphia Sunday Record
Peach Growers Poison Trees In Arsenic Bores Fight
A Pennsylvania State College report finds arsenic poisoning from lime sulfur and lead arsenate used to combat the peach tree borer has killed hundreds of trees in Cumberland Valley and western Pennsylvania. Researchers note bark dieback and dead cambium limited to treated areas and urge discontinuing lead arsenate use.
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Cumberland Valley
Pennsylvania
J. F. Adams
F. N. Fagan
Pennsylvania State College
Mercer
Washington
Fagan
Fabian tactics through history and Washington
The article traces Fabian tactics from Fabius Maximus in 217 B C to their use by Washington and Napoleon. It explains delaying actions and retreat to stronger ground as a strategic approach, and notes later misuses of the term in popular speech. Washington Star credit.
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Europe
France
Marne
Aisne
Washington
George Washington
Fabius
Rome
Carthage
B. C
Hannibal
Fabius Maximus
Napoleon
Austerlitz
Ginier
Wild
Bernadotte
Cremara
In a Quandary
A humorous exchange from the New York Globe features a doctor and patient discussing alternating fever and chills. The patient jokes that on fever days his head is too hot to think, while on ague days he shakes so he cannot form an opinion.
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Iper
New York Globe
Plot outline for a shipboard romance and adventure
A serialized plot suggestion from the Indianapolis News outlines a novel premise aboard an ocean liner between San Francisco and the Philippines. A young man travels on business to Hawaii, a heiress and her aunt drift, and romance grows amid a tropical storm. The ship battles rocks, a dramatic sea rescue unfolds, and the couple ends on a sunlit beach with a distant U S rescue.
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San Francisco
Philippines
Hawaii
Adma
Hesperus
Hope
Indianapolis News
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Mr. Husband
Atlantic Refining CO
the Sunday “Record
United States Department of Agriculture
Clark University
United States
Rocky Mountains
Fabian
Mazzini
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster County
Lancaster City
Lancaster
Agricultural Trust Company
Organization
Board of Directors
J. W. Fehl
Fehl
Martin Lefevre
Strasburg
Aaron C. Souders
Manor Township
Albert G. Herr
Hore
S. F. Sweigart
Albert R. Landis
R. D
Chas
F. Hess
New Providence
L. O. Davis
John E. Lefever
Safe Harbor
Henry M. Herr
Millersville
Franklin Warfel
Conestoga Centre
Frank B. Miller
Henry J. Gish
Elizabethtown
Amos N. Risser
Henry L. Gise
J. P
John H. Martin
Mt. Joy
Clayton J. Rover
Lititz
Lane Forney
John Mobler
Ephrata
M. H. Hottenstein
Manheim
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