Ground broken for Mount Joy bank building amid growth
In Mount Joy the First National Bank breaks ground on a new building as business grows and a large surplus supports expansion. Their move is noted alongside local notes on fuel experiments, a missing elderly man found in a Columbia tobacco cellar, and a dedicated Elizabethtown school building with a lieutenant governor speaker. The county fruit outlook warns modest peach and cherry availability with strong raspberries and currants, while economic folly is cited in several canning plants and stalled stockholders ventures.
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First National Bank
Mount Joy
Ambrose Stubbs
Fulton Township
Amos 8
Eshleman, Sr
Columbia
Ernest Brown
Lancaster
Penn Tansfer
Elizabethtown
John M. Reynolds
Lancaster County
Rheems
Princeton seniors face varied costs and habits in 300 graduates
The Princeton University class of 300 will graduate next month with an average course cost of 4216 dollars. Minimum expenses reach 800 dollars and a maximum 10000. Among the class 184 smoke, 76 started in college, 51 quit since enrolling. 91 wear glasses, 15 chew tobacco, 19 call dancing immoral, 16 disapprove of card playing. 206 correspond with 579 girls, one man lists at least sixteen partners, nine are engaged, 203 say they have kissed girls, and 24 have had proposals rejected.
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Princeton University
Auto Club Good Roads Committee Meets at Hotel Wheatland
The enlarged Lancaster Automobile Club Good Roads Committee met at Hotel Wheatland with Beiling presiding. Fifteen members attended. They discussed county road conditions and planned credential cards and instructional letters. Sub committees to hold monthly meetings and report to Chairman Reiling. A road north of Diamond Station toward Ephrata was being graded in preparation for macadamizing.
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Good Roads Committee
The
Lancaster Automobile Club
Hotel Wheatland
Beiling
Reiling
Norhh
Diamond Station
Ephrata
Adorned Lititz Springs Since 1780 in Lancaster County
The Lititz spring and Carter's Run watershed have long been a civic focus with early steps toward beautification beginning in 1780. The Moravian grounds later expanded through 1835 to 1840 with walls, walks, bridges, and tree plantings, transforming the site into a recognized resort amid Whig-era politics. A Long Island prophet predicts calamities and rising living costs for a turbulent summer.
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Lancaster Inquirer
Lancaster County
Lititz
Lancaster
Berks
Lebanon
Lititz Creek
Tobias Herte
Bryan Warns Against Plutocracy of Wealth at Oaksmore
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan addressed Mrs. Merril's school graduates in Oaksmore New Rochelle at commencement on faith. He urged belief in self and others and in God, opposing wealth oligarchy while praising learning, democracy of the heart, and education that keeps empathy.
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William Jennings Bryan
Embezzlement Charge Filed Against Columbia Tax Collector S S Clair
Former Columbia tax collector S S Clair was arrested on embezzlement charges involving several hundred dollars from public funds during his tenure. He posted $500 bail and awaits a hearing before Alderman Bressler in Lancaster. Prosecutor Charles H Gohn and three bondsmen paid $84 75 each to cover the deficiency in 1910 returns. Also noted is a lighthearted New York travel tale about a boy and his father.
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S. S. Clair
Columbia
Alderman Bressler
Lancaster
Charles H. Gohn
Made Them Laugh A Politician's Honest Moment
A London Telegraph observer recalls a politician saying I will be honest and triggering a roar of applause that upended the presenter’s point. The moment captures a brisk, ironic public reaction to candid speech.
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Prstor
London
Be a Man of Action Not Doomed by Some Day
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt urges readers to abandon the delayed plan and seize the present. It argues that the habit of postponing deeds to a distant “some day” leads to inaction. True movers act decisively, plan briefly, and proceed without boasting, accepting fallibility.
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Philidelphia Ledger
Quick Wit Saves One In Napoleonic Prison Camp
A young Italian cavalry officer pretended to be a duke to gain better treatment after being captured in Italy. He was called before Napoleon and the real Duke of Modena, who questioned the imposter. The officer pledged rewards for good treatment, joking that if a grander title existed he would have claimed it. Napoleon and the real duke forgave him.
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Napoleon
Modena
Italy
Napoleon I
Brittany Hair Harvest at Easter Fairs report
Traveling hair buyers visit Breton villages during Easter, collecting long tresses from country girls to be sold for transformations and fringe styles. Demand declines as education grows and many women choose to keep their hair, leaving fewer clients for hair harvesters.
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Brittany
Wide World Magazine
When the Waltz Was New in a 1817 Christmas Letter
A London Telegraph letter quotes a great-grandmother’s friend reproaching new dances. She condemns mazurkas gavottes minuets and the then fashionable valses as improper for young ladies of their class and fears their disappearance from respectable society.
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Betty
London Telegraph
Not Him and The Limit Anonymized Snippet
A woman asks about her husband in a bar and describes a tall red faced man in a soft hat. A bartender recalls a man matching the description buying a half pint of whisky ten minutes earlier. The exchange contrasts perceived limits with marriage vows and humor about dying as a limit.
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Haas
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Quotations on Moderation and Reasoning
A collection of proverbs and remarks. The Detroit Free Dress quips about spoiling popularity and dining at the speakers' table while Marcus Aurelius urges rational shortcuts and restraint.
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Detroit
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Prophet
William Probaso
Wimont
Long Island
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Prophet Probasco
Elmont
United States
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New York
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