Advertising Rates and Local Notices from The Record
Rates list quarterly payment terms for advertisements and in advance payment for transient ads. Notices discuss normal school salary info for Millersville training and a barn fire on a Musser Farm near Columbia with $10,000 loss, possible arson, and insurance. Also includes camp life notes, mule theft report near Lincoln, and a defamation suit in Penn township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin G. Musser
Columbia
Lancaster and Columbia
Kehler’s
Isaiah Musser
Hail Storm Ravages Central Lancaster Farmland
Farmers in Cocalico Brecknock and Ephrata townships found extensive hail damage after a night storm. Walnut sized hail ruined corn and tobacco across a ten mile long tract. The storm started at Shoe Neck, crossed Cocalico Creek near Bucher's Mill, and split toward Red Run and Hahnstown on the Ephrata ridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cocalico
Brecknock
Ephrata
Shoeneck
Cocalico Creek
Bucher’s Mill
Reamstown
Ephrata Ridge
Red Run
Hahnstown
Thrown From Horse Injures Neffaville Young Man
John Buchter of Neffaville was riding toward Ephrata when his horse shied near Steinmetz’s meeting house and backed, throwing him. An automobile party assisted, taking him to Dr. J. F. Mentzer in Ephrata where doctors found a dislocation of two finger joints, a scalp wound, and severe bruises to hip and knee before he was sent home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Buchter
Neffaville
Ephrata
Steinmetz
Reading Road
J. F. Mentzer
Hot Weather Cuts Potatoes Yield Across County
Two weeks of extreme heat have damaged a large potato crop in the county. Tops browned and growth halted, tuber development failed, and yields will be meager. Early varieties worst hit, especially Irish Cobblers, with southern fields also suffering despite 20 to 30 acre plantings and Bordeaux spray efforts.
Uneasy Skeleton and Stage Steeds in Old Kansas Tales
A Wakeeney skeleton tale recounts repeated exhumations and ceremonies over the first Indian killed in a raid, with townsfolk's jokes and lynching pranks. followed by notes on Don Quixote stage horses in Paris and London productions, including a recovered horse in Bow Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike Purcell
Wakeeney
Kansas
Old Fort Hayes
Rush County
Kansas City Journal
Theatre de la Galle
Paris
Resinante
Massenet
Trving
London
Bow Street
Wild Onion Place and Two Fatal Mistakes
A United States Geological Survey bulletin traces Chicago Illinois name origin to Ojibwa form She Kag Ong meaning wild onion place with a bad smell. It contrasts two fatal historical anecdotes about Marie Antoinette and Queen Draga of Servia illustrating delays leading to executions and fortunes turned by small missteps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Geological Survey Service
United States
Chicago
Illinois
Chicago Tribune
Marie Antoinette
Tuileries
Louis XIV
Carlyle
Draga of
Servia
Belgrade
SICKROOM PLANTS SHOULD BE REMOVED AT NIGHT
Dawbarn notes plants in sickrooms increase humidity and consume oxygen at night. daylight releases oxygen from green parts, but night breathing lowers room oxygen, supporting orders to move flowers out of patient rooms. Westminster Gazette reports Chateaubriand once sold stockings on commission to pay a debt of honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert H. M. Dawbarn
Chateaubriand
la Morandais
Switzerland
Kansas & Nebraska
Munno Kunz
Avot
WE. Beare
Jos. W. Baker
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Idtitz. Lang
Co. Pa
Millersville
Camp Pau-Puk-Keewis
Bender
Ham
Lutz
Hagey
Samson
Ritchie
Levi Brubaker
Lincoln
Alderman Stauffer
Lancaster
Millersville State
W. R. Brinton
Peter A. Greenawalt
Common Pleas Court
Amos A. Greenawalt
Penn Township
Pennsylvania State Normal School
Keller
Emporium
Broad St
Lititz
Isaac Sarah
Penryn
Ind
Bell
Samuel Grubbe
Lancaster County
Cuvier Gruber
W.m.grubbh
Foster & Cochran
Riy
MO. P
Demmy
SxAvtery
Audt
Sinas
Oxfords
Foster & Cochran’s
Brussel
King St
Lancaster, Pa
Sone
Liita
Israel G. Erb
Leber
Nebraska
Tos. W. Baker
Akron Station
Lebanon
H.W. Wolf & Sons
Qeo
Demury
Rome
D. A. Byers
John D. Bear
Lansaanter County
Lancaster and
Lebanon County
N. Wolf & Sonb
Diamond Station
Will Leber
NesRaska
Ils
J. W. Baker
H. D. Bollinger’s
Bologna
H. D. Bollinger
S. Broad St
Lititz, Pa
Price
Lititz, Manheim & Ephrata
As Co
Cedar ST
Benj. F. Lutz
Lititz PA
Prhone
James O Sturgis
Horace E Sturgis
Alberto Sturgis
M.G. Scrarffer
Atry
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