Milton Grove Loyal to Own Business Amid County Happenings
In Lancaster County, Nathan Martin and wife of Rheems are appointed Dunkard missionaries to India. Many new lightning rod installations rise in southern Lancaster as homes and barns are protected this season. Milton Grove is praised for citizens minding their own business. Abe Buzzard, Welsh mountain outlaw, learned shoemaking in prison and may try preaching again after term. Lancaster Tristate team plans Sunday ball on July 9 pending schedule changes. Elizabethown seeks free express delivery to the railroad. Mrs. James Swisher of Eden Township, about 60, paints her residence alone, using a borrowed ladder, after balancing trucking duties and family work.
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Nathan Martin
Rheems
Dunkard
India
Lancaster County
Milton Grove
Abe Buzzard
Lancaster Tristate
Carpenter
Elizabethtown
State Railroad Commission
J. G. Hess
Apple Crop Will be Short This Year
State inspectors visiting orchards in southern counties, especially the South Mountain apple belt, report indications that this year’s apple crop will be smaller than last year. In Adams and nearby counties trees show good shape but poorer prospects than usual, with many fruit drops. Experts seek causes, studying climatic conditions or possible disease, noting trees are generally pest free.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Mountain
Adams
Boy Loses Leg in Farm Mower Accident Near Muddy Creek
Samuel Becker aged 11 suffered a severe farm accident as he stepped before a mowing machine while his father Samuel Becker Sr. operated the hay mower on their land near Muddy Creek Brecknock township. Dr Wenger of Terre Hill and Dr John L Atlee advised amputation to save the boy's life. the leg was amputated between ankle and knee at General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Becker
Muddy Creek
Brecknock Township
Wenger
Terre Hill
General Hospital
John L. Atlee
Veteran Constable Nauman Continues Rye Harvest at Penn Farm
Augustus Nauman, a veteran constable with twenty eight years in Penn township, began cutting rye with a cradle on his Elstonville area farm on Thursday. A Grand Army man and survivor of many battles, he has long served to calm the community by capturing desperate characters and sending them to jail. His skill with the cradle suggests many more years of service if needed.
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Augustus Nauman
Penn Township
Elstonville
Nauman
Split Log Drag Elevates East Lam Peter Road First Rank
Split Log Drag did the work turning a hollow muddy road into a near boulevard. The project on 2,906 feet of road earned a $10 prize. Original dirt route featured deep ruts and crogged ditches. the upgrade cost just fourteen dollars for a year.
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East Lampeter Township
Man and the World A Small Graveyard for Humanity
A New York Sun note cites Italian professor Zuccarini, arguing that with a world population of about 1.5 billion the entire living human race could shoulder together in 500 square miles. Over 6,000 years and 200 generations, burial would require a graveyard larger than Colorado or half of Germany. Dust from bodies would cover forty square miles to a depth of three feet, a modest figure compared with coral reefs built by shells.
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Zuccarini
Germany
Colorado
New York Sun
Prepared for Defeat and the Battle of Buena Vista
Precautions General Taylor took before meeting Santa Anna are recalled. Santa Anna, commanding 25 000 veterans, aimed to annihilate the U S army at Buena Vista but Taylor with about 5 600 men defended and won a substantial victory. Afterward Taylor noted he made every contingency including wills for all. he joked that defeat required writing wills for retreat. Two heads are better than one. I find one enough the morning after.
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Taylor
Santa Anna
Buena Vista
United States
Buena
Visti
Buacuw Vista
Misapplied Diminutive Tale From Youth’s Companion
A Rhode Island bishop William N MecVick ar, a bachelor, lived with his sister who kept house. A tailor sent a boy to press trousers, and the sister announced Willie the boy has come for your trousers. The visitor stared at the prelate’s notable corpora and exclaimed Gee Is that Willie in a humorous anecdote from Youth’s Companion.
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William N. MecVickar
Rhode Island
Willie
Fried Potatoes Vending Across Northern France
Consular Reports describe how pommes frites, sold from pushcarts in northern France, supplement wages for workers. Vendors operate simple carts with a fat caldron and cutting machine, serving hot potatoes in small paper cones for a few cents, a convenient lunch option for mill workers and passersby.
Bull Ant Army of Africa Striking Fear Across Forests
In equatorial Africa, the mighty bull ants terrify elephants, lions, gorillas, snakes, and even humans. They march in vast, two inch wide columns and tunnel underground when needed. A single army can take twelve hours to pass, devouring any prey instantly and clinging to flesh even after death.
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Africa
Pearson
Spoiled Her Romance From Countess Potocka Memoirs
The narrator recalls a plan to leave a husband for a passionate romance with Marie d Arquin while strolling along the Vistula. She argues happiness requires reciprocal attachment as her husband muses on the hour and shifts toward leaving the event with cousins growing tiresome. The excerpt reflects a memoir tone and personal plotting within a social setting.
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Vistula
Marie d’Arquin
Italian Help From Cop On Fourth Avenue
A passerby woman asked a policeman to help an Italian man find Fourteenth Street. The officer offered to explain in Italian and guided him: walk two blocks to a wide street, then you will reach the target. The Italian gratefully replied Grazie and said he would locate him.
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Fourth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Michael
New York Press
De Wooze Humor Sparks Quiet Frustration
The Cleveland Plain Dealer quotes The Sensitive Jester describing De Wooze as a humorist who expects immediate audience laughter and a dramatic drum smash after each pun, noting the tension when the joke falls flat.
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de Wooze
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Time and Money Counterfeiter Prison Visit Punchline
A brief anecdote notes a counterfeiter who served ten years and, when asked by a visitor what he is doing, replies passing time and passing money. The quote frames virtue as a rich stone, with a wry Bacon-esque epigram.
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B. V.D
W. H. Buch
Clothier and Gents’ Furnisher Record Building
Lititz, PA
Man and
the World
Robert Mohr
Allentown
Salisbury Township
Mohr
United Gas Improvement Company
Salisbury Road
Sean
Sixth
Hamilton
Philadelphia Record
Pranae
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Lancaster, Pa
Heinitsh
S. Queen St
Jewelers & ‘Opticians
N. Queen St
Queen Street
North Star
Indiana
Hoffmeier Bros
King Street
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