Reading area notes missings, records and curious tales
Charles Cooper reports his wife and 11 year old son William Cooper missing from Chester after leaving home days ago. Reading sees a $709000 hotel design site visit opposite post office. Cecil County licenses surge as Anson Phillips, from Sugar Run, shows at Lock Haven with a 63 foot pilot snake. A Pittston merchant, Nathan Valone, welcomes a 14 pound baby girl, the twenty sixth for the couple. Sixteen of the 191 West Chester public school boys want to learn to swim. M C A pool courses planned. Sheriff Howhard’s Somerset jail chimney swallows colony grows to thousands. The Philadelphia Sunday Record is praised as wholesome home reading costing three cents. Automobile registrations in Pennsylvania rising. projected year-end total near 70 600. The Lion of Janina recounts Ali Pasha’s head on tour in London. A Hobson’s tale explains a fierce scolding wife.
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Charles Cooper
William Cooper
Chester
Reading
Anna M. Heebner
Camdenwas
Gretna Green
Jersey
New Jersey
Wilmington
Delaware
Elkton
Cecil County
Anson Phillips
Sugar Run
Scootaeelay
Valone
West Chester
Stanley F. Jenkins
Sheriff Howhard
Somerset
Fnally
Therie
Veterans to be transported to Gettysburg camp site
More than 12 500 Civil War veterans and Pennsylvania veterans and survivors applied to the State Commission for transport to Gettysburg in July for the semi centennial celebration. The commission will provide transport for all qualified men, with identification papers issued to veterans on arrival to assign them to quarters in the large camp being set up there.
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Ovver
Pennsylvania
State Commission
Gettysburg
State
Great Camp
Just a Suggestion from the Exchange
A young lawyer appeared before a Washington judge with his umbrella under his arm and hat on his head. He stood agitated as the court advised him to raise his umbrella and set aside the hat, prompting a brief humorous exchange.
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Washington
Punishment in the Shed Smoking Incident
A fragmentary dialogue depicts a boy hiding in a shed smoking pine, facing a feared punishment. The exchange hints at a harsh fatherly discipline and the boy’s plea for leniency before the consequence is carried out.
Seasick Fish Die During Ocean Transport
Seafaring shipments of tropical fish reveal high mortality when moved long distances. A 400 fish consignment from Key West to New York saw over 100 die en route, with survivors needing care upon arrival. The article notes extreme stress from pitching and crashing temperatures, and describes feeding and tank conditions aboard ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Key West
New York
Very Scientific Punishment in Italian Readers
A New York World excerpt describes severe corporal punishment in schools and prisons. Incorrigible youths are bound, bathed, and electro shocked via a sponge contact to simulate whipping, aiming to induce submission through fear and pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
New York World
Legal Comedy and Animal Choking Tips From Farm and Fireside
A Philadelphia legal satire notes the land summons against William Penn and heirs to clear an encumbrance, mocking the 200 year dead men. The column also provides a practical choking remedy for farm animals using a broken egg poured from a bottle or funnel, with steps for safe administration.
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Philadelphia
William Penn
Richard Penn
John Penn
Quotations on Parenting and Society Curiosities
A collection of brief humorous and moral snippets from various papers. It contrasts a girl's pride in a writer father with anecdotes about teenagers, civic figures, and witty exchanges. Includes lines about elevating humanity, a boy near a gate, and a general line about not eating cake.
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Royal
Philadelphia Sunday Record
State Highway Department
Automobile Division
Janina
London
Ali Pasha
Byron
Childe Harold
Constantinople
Ali
Hondou Specttor
Buffalo Express
R. V. Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel
Buffalo, N.Y
Dr. Pierce
RLV
Pierce
M.D
Potter Medicine
America
Wrath
Manchester Guardian
Kansas City Journal
Abe
Exschange
Cervantes
W.M. Grube
Lititz, Pa
Levi F. Longenecker
Front Street
Ilershey & Gibbes Conveyancers Scriveners
Ind
Lewis
A. R. Bomberger &Co
Rhe
Lititz Pa
Brandies
Hollinger
King and
Duke Sts
Lancaster, PA
C. H. Kreider’s Hardware
Main St
Lithicz
Waverly
Waverly Oil Works Co
Pittsburgh
LHS
A. R. Keller
Lititz, Penna
Ata
White Mountain
W. A. Heinitsh
S. Queen St
Lancaster
Men’s
Oxford
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
Spruce Villa Dairy Co
Brubaker
Imhoff’s Restaurant
Marren
Maurice River
Daniel Imhoff
East Main Street
Lititz
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