Poison ivy tale and other small town items
Local notes recount Clarence Mill of Vera Cruz chewing poison ivy to prove immunity while Herbert Geiling of Pleasant View earns bragging rights for four mile daily walks to Milton High through four weather years. Walter Becker family in Germany writes they are safe as Hartstown considers dissolving its borough charter. plus quirky pottstown and Muhlenberg incidents, church conference greetings, goose and duck egg hatching, road sign removals, and rising sugar jar prices ahead of canning season.
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Clarence Mill
Vera Cruz
Herbert Geiling
Pleasant View
Milton
Milton High School
Geiling
Ernest Becker
Mount Carmel
August Becker
Ryan
Europe
Beckers
Germany
Hartstown
Crawford County
Prather
West Fallowfield Township
Mary Knight
Williamsport
L. M. Knight
Cogan Station
Miss Knight
Ruth Weaver
Pottstown
Cedarville
Henry Rothermel
Muhlenberg
Leinbach
Wilson
Brumbaugh
Conference of the Church of the Brethren
Hershey
Winona Lake
Ind
Henry ©. Fulkerson
Blossburg
Young man starts own farm after a citybound dream
Justus Drury recebe one hundred dollars from his father and leaves for the city with Violet Moore. A freight-wagon wreck leads to salvage of a chicken car. Justus and a tramp turn a cabin into a working chicken farm earning four hundred dollars from one thousand chickens in two months.
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Levi Drury
Justus
Levi
Justus Drury
Violet
Violet Moore
Jabez Lincoln
Mr. Lincoln
Lincoln
Christendom
Early sumptuary laws traced from Egypt to Charlemagne
The article notes ancient sumptuary statutes in Egypt around 3000 B C and their appearance among Romans in the twelve tables. It credits Charlemagne with pioneering modern sumptuary legislation, outlining the long history of laws regulating eating drinking and dress.
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Egypt
Charlemagne
Child's Age Confusion Reported by Sister in City Journal
The Kansas City Journal notes a caller describing a girl who alternates claiming to be eight and then saying she is a sister. The writer suggests the child’s behavior reflects underlying issues and mocks other women perceived as inferior.
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Sis
Kinses City
Subscribe for shares offered by Lancaster region list
Desiring subscribers may mail requests for shares with a five dollar per share check payable to J. W. Fehl Treasurer and Secretary Pro Tem Fehl Building Lancaster Pa. Further information available from listed local residents including Martin Lefevre Strasburg Aaron C Sanders Manor township Albert G Herr Washington Boro S F Sweigart Strasburg Albert R Landis Lance R D 5 J W Fehl Lancaster Chas F Hess New Providence L Davis Lancaster John E Lefever Safe Harbor R D Henry M Herr Millersville Franklin Warfel Conestoga Centre Frank B Miller Washington Boro Isaiah F Hess Manor Township John M Herr Manor township Geo F Murry Manor township Christian F Lauder Manor township Moses R Landis Lancaster R D 5 Silas E Bard Denver
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J. W. Fehl
Pro
Fehl
Lancaster
Martin Lefevre
Strasburg
Aaron C. Sanders
Manor Township
Albert G. Herr
Washington
Boro
S. F. Sweigart
Albert R. Landis
Lance
F. Hess
New Providence
Davis
John E. Lefever
Safe Harbor
Jim Poems Move Riley to Reminisce in Hotel Reading
A New York Sun piece recounts James Whitcomb Riley and Joel Chandler Harris seeking rest in southern mountains. A young elocutionist performs a poem about Jim, prompting Riley to reveal his affection for Jim poems and to credit Eugene Field as the author of the poem.
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Riley
James Whitcomb Riley
Joel Chandler Harris
New York Sun
Mr. Stiley
Jim
Miley
Jim Poen
Jim Poens
Eugene Field
Art in Its Dawning The First Painter and Vase Creator
James McNeill Whistler reflects on early humanity discovering art. A solitary innovator among hunters and gatherers shapes patterns and forms from earth, leading to the first vases and crafted goblets as a shared, ceremonial beauty emerges from collective toil.
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Pusuire
James McNeill Whistler
Mystery of Matter and the Endless Circulation of Life
A passage from Geoffrey Martin’s chemistry treatise explains the endless cycle of matter in the universe. It traces how atoms form Earth, move through air, plants, and animals, and finally return to future life, existing long after current creation ends.
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Geoffrey Martin
Earth
Globe
Irving
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State Highway Department
Pennsylvania
Isabel Westover Price
Tes
Sudan
Big Twin
Flory Bros
E. King Street
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster County
Lancaster City
Agricultural Trust Company
Board of
Henry J. Gish
Elizabethtown
R. D
Amos N. Risser
Henry L. Gise
J. P
R. BD
John H. Martin
Mt. Joy
Clayton J. Rover
Lititz
Lane Forney
John Mohler
Ephrata
M. H. Hottenstein
Man
Jim” Poem
Hudson
West Point
Philadelphia & Reading R. R
Sirius
East Petersburg
Lancaster Junction
Manheim
Rothsville
Millway
Reinholds
Vinemont
Fritztown
Jersey City
Iron Steamboat Company
Military Academy
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