Mount Joy ships 16000 food choppers amid county notes
A county snippet list reports Mount Joy sending 16 000 food choppers to aid local digestion. It notes H C Boyd of Manheim turning 74 with lemonade and cake for patrons. Ephrata faces 72300 bonded indebt ness and Aug 17 vote on a 10000 electric plant expansion. District Attorney John M Groff resigns as lieutenant general of the Fourth Regiment N G P Colonial Groff. Esther B Young re elected president of the Columbia Telephone Company. Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway plans a line completion toward Lebanon. Mrs Annie Swanger helps Amos Wolgemuth thresh and plow, a yearly farm duty she performs despite being a widow. Howard E Dean of Colonial Theatre Lancaster declared voluntary bankrupt with Doan liabilities of 93463 33. Debate grows over too many rural high schools and argues for consolidated districts to cut costs and raise standards.
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Howard E. Dean
Colonial Theatre
East King Street
Lancaster
United States District Court
Philadelphia
Doan
Oldest Broom Maker in State Daniel Heisey of Florin
Daniel Heisey of Florin, in his seventy seventh year, is said to be the oldest broom maker in the state. He has manufactured over a thousand brooms since January 1st and works without any assistance, supplying nearly all farmers in his neighborhood.
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Daniel 8
Heisey
Florin
State Grange Corporation Planned for Pennsylvania Farmers
Application filed for a state charter to form a cooperative grange for selling produce and buying supplies. Capital $10,000. Applicant A Nevin Detrich editor of the Grange News. Plans call for Harrisburg quarters and statewide branches with warehouses near 750 local grange organizations.
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Cooperative Grange
Pennsylvania
State Grange Corporation
A. Nevin Detrich
The
Grange News
Grange
Harrisburg
Lemonade Refreshment At Plainfield Church Service
Rev Charles L Goodrich announced ice cold lemonade would be served at the midweek prayer meeting in the Congregational Church Plainfield New Jersey. Attendees said the cooling drink aided worship and it was provided by the church women. The pastor will continue the refreshment through warm weather.
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Charles L. Goodrich
Congregational Church
Plainfield
N. J
Clamps Head in Car Pane Accident At Lancaster
Annie Neff of Millersville in Centre Square Lancaster suffered scalp wounds after thrusting her head through a window pane of a trolley car she believed open. Jagged glass fragments had to be removed from the sash to release her head.
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Annie Neff
Millersville
Centre Square
Lancaster
Lancaster & Millersville
The Privilege of Newspaper Advertising
The article argues for the value of local newspaper advertising for merchants. It notes warning signs from dismissive advertisers and highlights how rural and cross-roads merchants increasingly join larger towns in using print ads to retain customers and boost trade.
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Roscor BE
Haynes
Talking Dog Talks at Hammerstein Theatre
Don a German forest dog from Germany performed in America at Hammerstein's Victoria Theatre. Laney Haswell explained Don's unfamiliar weather affected his speech while Frau Martha Haberland prompted him in German. Don’s limited vocabulary included Kuchen Ruhe Don Hunger Ja Nein and Haberland, and he answered correctly despite unpredictable mood and heat. The other tale follows a Virginian duck and trout chase ending with the gut breaking and both creatures released.
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Don
Germany
America
Hammerstein
Victoria Theatre
Laney Haswell
Hammerstein Forces
Frau
Martha Haberland
Kuchen
Ruhe
Hunger
Nein
Haberland
Extravagance and its Reward by Margaret E. Sangster
A concise meditation on extravagance across life emotions finances health speech and study. It contrasts spendthrift waste with hoarding miserliness and warns that excessive indulgence or restraint leads to future costs. The piece cites Margaret E. Sangster in The Christian Herald.
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Margaret E. Sangster
The
Christian Herald
Lancaster Automobile Club hears highway chief on road needs
The Lancaster Automobile Club met at the Eagle Hotel Ephrata with Martin E Brenner State Highway Superintendent outlining road work and funding limits. He urged cooperation with township supervisors, urged local complaints to be written for action, and noted plans for August at ex Sheriff Landis Rohrertown lawn with a reception committee of five to engage ladies members.
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Lancaster Automobile Club
Eagle Hotel
Ephrata
Martin E. Brenner
Witmer
Lancaster County
Beaver Valley
Reamstown
Gap Hills
Brenner
Quarryville
Green Tree
Landis
Rohrerstown
Wolf
Strawberries in Shakespeare’s Day From Wild to Cultivated
The piece notes a flavor improvement in strawberries since the fifteenth century. By 1480 cultivation began with a bishop of Ely’s garden, where the Duke of Gloucester praised the berries. Shakespeare echoed this speech in Richard III, though then garden fruit remained transplanted wildings sold for about fourpence a bushel per London Chronicle.
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Ely
Hatton Garden
Duke of Gloucester
Folborn
Hichard III
London Chronicle
Insect Tones and the Voice of the Insect Study
An investigator notes at least three insect tones: a low tone in flight, a higher tone with non vibrating wings, and a still higher tone when the insect is immobilized. The latter is described as the voice proper, sometimes produced by the thorax stigmata.
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Lititz
Walter H. Buch
S. Broad St
Lititz, Pa
Mount Joy
H. C. Boyd
Manheim
John M. Groff
N.G. P
Colonial Groff
Columbia, Telephone Company
Esther B. Young
Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway
That Place
Lebanon
Hopeland
Annie Swanger
Mount Joy Township
Amos Wolgemuth
Lemonade Aids Worship
Panamas & Bankeks & Javas Milans
Mackinaws
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Money
Farmers National Bank
Lititz, Penna
Heinitsh
S. Queen St
Pump
Oxford
Chas. H. Frey
King St
North Queen Street
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