Coming Events Listing for Lancaster Area Churches and Reunions
A dense roster lists summer and early autumn activities across Lancaster and nearby towns. Highlights include multiple church and Sunday school events, family reunions such as Druckenbrod, Hornberger, Gibbs families, and regional gatherings like the Lititz Moravians and Brunnerville U B picnics. Notable items note the Sesquin Centennial Celebration in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania National Guard encampment at Mt. Gretna, and the Mt. Gretna Brethren camp meeting. Read the Record price listed as $1.50 annually.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania National Guard
Mt. Gretna
Pennsylvania State Firemen’s
Stroudsburg
Monroe County
Lancaster Co
Christian Endeavor
New Holland
Large coat button blocks throat of Northumberland child
An 18 month old boy James Carr from Northumberland coughed for 15 weeks before a button nearly the size of a 25 cent piece dislodged itself into his throat. He was believed to have asthma until the obstruction was expelled onto his mother's lap during a coughing fit.
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James Carr
Northumberland
Walking Drayman A. Yerger of Williamsport A Legend
George A. Yerger has served as Williamsport’s sole walking dray man for fourteen years hauling a hand pulled two wheeled cart. He once used a horse drawn wagon but kept working after the horse died. He even moved a child’s body and carried a sick man home, earning a reputation for steadfast service and perfect Sunday school attendance for 15 years.
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Yerger
Conundrums and Riddles From a Vintage Page
A quiz of wits on ships, pockets, money, and noses with punchlines. Questions ask which ship carries most passengers and why pocket value rises. Answers hinge on wordplay and clever puns, ending with a dictionary pun about a foolish talk.
Farm Calendar Notes For Diyers And Farmers
Farm Calendar emphasizes frequent mowing for lawns, calf care in heat with ample feed and shade, ensuring binders are ready for harvest, careful watering of flowers, and pest control in grain with early bin tightening and prompt threshing. It warns about angoumois grain moth risk in hot weather and provides fumigation guidance using carbon bisulphide.
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Pensylvania State College
Snow Reef Top in Glacier Peak Park Featured
Snow Reef in the Rocky Mountains stands year round at Snow Reef Top in Glacier National Park. The crescent shaped snowfield near the peak draws landscape painters and camera artists, with some sections drifted up to 100 feet high.
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Rocky Mountain Range
Glacier National Park
Dinosaur footprints found in Arizona rock beds
Experts from the Interior Department report on Navajo Nation rocks in Arizona containing dinosaur footprints dated to about 0.000ing years ago. The tracks measure inches in length and indicate ancient life in the area.
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Wie
Enele Suiwu
Department of the Interior
Nave
Navajo Indian Reservation
Arizona
Sheriff to Sell Goods of H.2 Michael in Manheim
Notices indicate a broad sale of the personal property of H.2 Michael, longtime Overland dealer on South Main Street Manheim. An execution issued by Mrs. Michael funds the sale, following Michael’s disappearance during the night of June 20.
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H. 2. Michael
South Main Street
Manheim
Michael
Overland Automobile
Ephrata National Bank to Open New Building on July 11
At a Wednesday board meeting Ephrata National Bank declared a 4 percent semi annual dividend and voted to add 50000 to the surplus, now 45000. The bank shows capital 125000 and resources near 3 million. The new building nearing completion will open to the public on Saturday, July 11.
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Ephrata National Bank
Ephrata Invents Marketable Door Hanger For Freight Cars
Ephrata resident Elam M. Royer has patented a new ball bearing door hanger for freight cars and barns. The simple inexpensive device drew favorable railroad company responses and will be manufactured by the new Cloister Roller Bearing Co. in Ephrata. In Lancaster County farm census shows 38,000 people on farms, 8,013 farms owned by 5,371 people, 2,642 rented, total 477,138 acres, 96,867 acres wheat, 35,658 tobacco, and 15,050 cattle.
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Elam. M. Royer
Chestnut St. Ephrata
Royer
Ephrata
Cloister Roller Bearing Co
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Tientsin Port Ad Slogans Claim Mild Death Rates
A Shanghai shout declares Tientsin as the best port in China with a cheerful claim that its deaths are fewer than other ports, per optimistic reports from The Mei Moo Shield.
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China
Tientsin
Shanghai
Will Establish an in Airplane School Lancaster County
In Lancaster County, J Harry "Happy" Jones plans to open an aviation school on a Nut Tree Farm near Willow Street. He aims to teach dual control flight in a six acre field with two planes, one bought years ago and a second built by Jones, targeting 12 students in a headquarters hangar. The project highlights Jones lifelong mechanical skill and pivot from nut trees to professional aviation, seeking cost efficiency and high standards.
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Lancaster County
J. Harry
Happy” Jones
Happy
Jones
Willow Street
Quarryville Road
Harry
Walter Meyer
Hary
Willow Stret Pike
Hari
Bowling Fields
Virginia
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Palm Beach
W. H. Buch
Lititz Springs Park
Evangelical Union S. Schools of Reading
First Presbyterian
Schools of Lancaster
St. Marks Lutheran Bible School of Lancaster
Druckenbrod Family
Advent Lutheran
School of Lancaster
Leola
Mechanicsburg S
Dohners
M. E. Church
Lance
Kemper
Lancaster Moravians
Wenger
Thurs
Lititz Union Sunday Schools
Harnish
Hornberger
Emanuel Lutheran
Faith Reformed S. School of Lancaster
Fishborn
Hershey
St. Luke’s Lutheran
Reading
Wed
St. Stephens Lutheran
Lancaster
Yhurs
Lititz
Tadmore Siesta No
Bagdad
Taylor
Memorial Presbyterian S
Andie
St. Luke's
Bethel M. FE
S.S
Lane
Bomberger
Mon
Freymeyer
Coldren
Charles Dilliplane
Spangsville
Manatowny
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Dilliplane
Pennsylvania
Jerusalem
Pennsylvania Committee
Zionist Movement
Jewish Agricultural College
Palestine
Mount Alton
New Zealand
West Chester
Nathan R. Rambo
United State Marine Band
Court House
State Armory
Everhart Groe
Marine Band
Wayne Field
Sharples Park
Marines
Christian Schaeffer
Pottsville
Charles Miller
Schaeffer
Charles Kingsley
United States
Ephrata Bank
O.lawrence Hawthorne
Record Printing House
S. Broad St
Lititz, Pa
Lititz Springs National Bank
Horn Hackman
R. M. Spacht
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