Lights and Ventures Highlight August Penryn Reunion
The article notes a large family reunion for the Lights of Lebanon county at Penryn in August, praising their brilliancy and numbers. It also reports 35 fawns born in Colonel Harry C. Trexler’s Allen town game park this week, bringing the deer herd to over 100. Heavy orders valued in the thousands have been placed with Westinghouse Electric for power house and rolling stock at its East Pittsburgh plant. Johnstown tax authority ends school tax collection with a tentative plan to seek legal guidance on old law applicability.
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Lebanon County
Penryn
Harry C. Trexler
Allentown
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
East Pittsburg
Johnstown
John H. Baum
Hamburg
Beech Valley
Lycoming County
Lippincott Cranberry
Pennsylvania State College
Lansford Record
Luzerne’ County
Adonridi
Sensations of taste vary by tongue region and nerve fibers
Curio science notes that four taste classes sweet bitter salt and acid form all tasted sensations. Tip of tongue best for sweet and sour while back excels at bitterness. Different tongue areas house varying sensory nerve fibers explaining regional taste sensitivity.
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New York Press
Somebody Must Go To Work The Mass Shift In Economy
Milo Hastings argues that too many people move from productive farming to distributive roles. He cites census comparisons showing rising clerical and trade occupations while farmers shrink. The result is higher living costs as wealth creators decline and middlemen proliferate, urging a return to productive labor.
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America
Hamiltons Cotton Mill Scheme Promoted by Paterson Founder
A long letter in New Jersey archives cites a New York banker who doubted cotton mills would ever prosper in the U S. Yet Alexander Hamilton planned Paterson New Jersey as an industrial town, organized The Society For Useful Manufactures, and financed water power ventures while an agent attempted to import cotton mill machinery secretly from England.
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Alexander Hamilton
New Jersey
New York
Treasury
Hamilton
Paterson
N. J
United States
The
Society For Useful Manufactures
England
Pennsylvania
Kingdom
Waldo Objects to Pickled Pepper Poem
In a Boston Traveler piece Waldo and a nurse debate learning the Peter Piper tongue twister. Waldo critiques the alliteration as excessive and argues that picking peppers already pickled is impossible, dismissing the poem as beneath attention.
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Waldo
Peter Piper
Boston
Snipe Shooting On An Irish Bog
A bog shooter tests skill on treacherous peat. An experienced marksman may dive flat and fling his gun to an attendant, often a gossoon, who catches it. The bog’s grip is unpleasant but peat supports a body set flat or on its side during release.
Great Wheel at Laxey Isle of Man Head Office
A Great Wheel in Laxey serves as the island's lead mine headquarters. Erected in 1854 it boasts a seventy two foot diameter and remarkable steadiness with almost no oscillation, operating continuously since its installation.
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Laxey
Isle of Man
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Milo Hastings
Kansas
Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N.Y. Dc
Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
N. Y
People’s Medical Adviser
Abo
Brunnerville
E. G. Geyer
Thomas Steffy
N. Broad Street
Lititz, PA
M. H. Shenk
S. Broad Street
Lititz
PENNA
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
Hon. J. Hay Brown
John D. Skiles Grabsile B. Long
Offichra
John Hertzler
John
Skiles
Herbert C. Millen
Mellinger
John §. Graybile
AON
W U. Hensel
W. Hartman
Jorn A. Nauman
John B. Miller JT
Breneman Jj
H. Weaver
U. S. Army
Roosevelt
United States Army
Kermit Roosevelt
Africa
Philip Rudy
Queen Street
Lancaster
Waltham Watches
Waltham
Wertsch
Watchmaker
R. Depot
W.h.muth& CO
Coal Lumber
W. H. Muth & Co
Fulton Studio
Amos, Photographer
S. M. Huber
Lititz, OR
F. M. Bowman
Rothsville
Habecker
Habeckher the
Baker Brunnerville, PA
M .M. Souders Electrical Contractor
Leading Farmers’ Hotel
Sorrel Horse Hotel
A. B. Adams
Prop’r
King St
EO. L.ebith
Justice of the Pease Real Hetate
Colrections
Brunwnerville
John F. Schleith
E. C. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Ind
Waverly
Waverly Oil Works Co
Independent Refiners
Pittsburg, PA
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