Potato sprays boost yields and seed quality across Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania farm page reports 400 potato disease demonstrations in 57 counties showing sprayed potatoes yielded 4 bushels more per acre than unsprayed and seed disease-free seed reduced losses by 69 bushels per acre versus bin-seeded stock. The column urges timely garden plantings and notes labor pressures on home vegetable plots. Deer sightings rise in eastern counties with tame herds near towns and roads, prompting warnings for winter abundance.
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Pennsylvania
State College
School of Agriculture
America’s Marvels Natural and Otherwise
A Chicago department store occupies a vast building extending from 43 feet below street level to over 200 feet above, with a 300 foot main aisle and space exceeding 176000 square feet on the basement floor. It employs up to 9000 staff, 200 delivery vehicles, 92 elevators, and handles up to 50000 daily calls, with a seven story complex including a large dining hall for 1900 and a full city scale power demand.
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Chicago
Awmerice
James
Stone Line
Delvery
New York
Western Newspaper Union
Cold in the Head Catarrh Remedy Ad
An ad describes a nasal catarrh remedy with an ointment for local use and a tonic that acts through the blood to strengthen the system, reducing susceptibility to colds. It notes 49 years of druggist sales and cites Fd Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio.
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Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ban on Gasoline Stoves and Trail Opening Plans At Susquehanna
Mt Gretna bans gasoline and kerosene stoves after a May 13 fire destroyed nine cottages. The Susquehanna trail plans an official September opening in Williamsport with governors from Maryland New York and Pennsylvania and aims to tag the route with Indian head symbols on telephone poles by late summer.
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Mt. Gretna
Board of Managers
Williamsport
Charles T.aikeng
Selinsgrove
Trail Association
Mason and Dixon
New York State
Maryland
New York
Pennsylvania
Fire Eater Injury At Deep Park Incident
A boy from Deep Park near Pottsville tried to imitate Ringling fire eaters. He filled his mouth with gasoline and his clothing caught fire when flames arose. Bystanders smothered the blaze, likely averting fatal burns.
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Harry Long
Deep Park
Pottsville
Ringling
Biasco Ibanez Spain’s famed novelist and exile figure
Vicente Biasco Ibanez born 1866 in Valencia propelled by journalism and politics. Imprisoned for republican views at eighteen, twice exiled, lived in Paris and Italy, spent years in South America as cowboy and rider. He served as deputy in Spain and commander of the French Legion of Honour, renowned for novels like Blood and Sand and The Shadow of the Cathedral.
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Biasco Ibanez
Vincente Biasco Ibanez
Valencia
Spain
University of
Paris
Italy
South America
la Bodega
Gur Sea
Luna Bender
Lessons From Frain Rain Totals Water Weight
Farm Journal asserts that 3.28 .609,000 tons of pure distilled water would flood an area the size of Pennsylvania from an inch of rain. It imagines oceans drawn and transported at no cost to where needed, praising the vast, living forces behind weather and rainfall.
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Frain
Pennsylvania
Howe
Farm Journal
McEntire Heads to Seattle En Route to Alaska
John H. McEntire of Columbia, a retired railroad engineer, travels toward Seattle with plans to continue to Alaska. Landis Valley’s Landis family has held the Landis Farm since 1728, with the dwelling from that year still standing in splendid condition.
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John H. McEntire
Columbia
Seattle
Alaska
Charles B. Landis
Landis Valley
Landis
Manheim and Sporting Hill Turnpike to be Free
At a recent stockholders meeting of the Manheim and Sporting Hill Turnpike Company most holders approved selling to the county commissioners. The road will be toll free by about July 1 and the sale received broad support with few exceptions.
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Manheim and
Sporting Hill Turnpike
Manheim
No Feast of Roses Removed at Manheim This Year
Zion Lutheran church Manheim will not hold the Feast of Roses ceremony this year due to alterations making crowd accommodation impossible. The will requires a red rose to Baron Steigel or heirs when demanded, but no formal demand has ever been made, removing penalties for omission. The ceremony had resumed in 1890 and mostly continued except during 1917 and 1918 for war. The second Sunday in June was set for the event.
Clay Township School Directors Set Tax Rate for Term
Clay Township school directors met recently and fixed the tax rate at 6 mills plus a heat tax of 2 dollars. The 923-124 term will open August 27. Teachers selected to teach for the coming term include Woo!, Corner Marion Buch Fairview Florence Greiner Sunnyside Marion Rohrbach Durlach Miss Noll Mr. Airy Kathryn Lausch Swamp Mary Noll Hopeland Primary A. P. Miller Hopeland Seron Marry L. Wealand Clay Mary Keller.
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Clay Township
Marion Buch
Fairview
Florence Greiner
Sunnyside
Marion Rohrbach
Durlach
Miss Noll
Airy
Kathryn Lausch
Swamp
Mary Noll
Hopeland
A. P. Miller
Hopeland Seron
L. Wealand
Clay
Mary Keller
Lancaster County Leads U S in Tobacco Acreage and Output
From the 1922 Agriculture yearbook, Lancaster county Pennsylvania tops the nation in tobacco acreage and production, with North Carolina first in crop value. The report notes 42 states growing tobacco, 10,291 farms, 183,000 workers in 1919, and a surge in machine-made cigarette production from 4 billion to 60 billion annually.
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Department of Agriculture
Kentucky
North Carolina
Virginia
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Hartford County
Connecticut
Lancaster County 1922 Industrial Output Tops 104 Million
Lancaster County industrial establishments produced products valued at 104,987,700 dollars in 1922, up 12.6 percent from 1921. City output reached 52,450,500 dollars, Columbia 6,205,000. The county employed 25,989 with wages totaling 21,790,000, and capital invested at 48,465,000. Manufacturers shipped 64,275,700 outside Pennsylvania, with metal products rising 45.5 percent and textiles down 11.8 percent.
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Lancaster County
M. Hoke Gortschall
Bureau of Statistics and Information
Pennsylvania Department of Internal Affairs
Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Brunswick
Lancaster
Lanu County
Columbia
Lancaster City
Mir. Gottschall
Department of Internal Affairs
Harrisburg
Lancasterdustrial
Pennsylvania
Val m
Gottschall
Angler Fish Life and Hunting in the Sea
The article describes angler fishes as a diverse family living in the sea to stalk prey. It notes their stealthy approach, reduced body and fin size due to living near the sea bottom, and their unusually large heads relative to body.
The Boy That Failed at Her Plans for Him
A terse account recounts a mother’s faith and hopes for her son and the failure that derailed a promised future. The text centers on maternal optimism and the ensuing disappointment with no further details.
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Mother
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Hazleton
Blakeslee’s
America
King SF
Gretna
Susquehanna
Japan
DR. L, N, Moyer
Tobacco County
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