Turkeys Bring High Price at Farm Sale in Annville
At a sale on William Lettich's farm between Annville and Palmyra turkeys sold for 4 0 3 cents per pound. The item notes other local happenings from Florida trips by Hoitor and Mrs I O Nissley to Meadville theft of a porter’s pay to long fruit belts near Jonestown and centenarians in Crawford county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lettich
Annville
Palmyra
Hoitor
I. O. Nissley
Middletown
Florida
Havana
Meadville
Sozt
Lebanon Valley Electric Company
Jonestown
Upton
Franklin County
Charles Klinger
Lattimer
Washington
Klinger
Samuel B. Coles
Lykens Standard
Coal Dale Hospital
Frankie
Harry Houser
Summit Hill
Bloomsburg
Albert Rhodemeyer
Earl Heeter
Johnstown
Geraldine May Heeter
Geraldine May
Crawford County
Hannah Lowman
Linesville
Phoebe Coburn
Randolph Township
William G. Welsh
David Wishart
Lydia Craighead
Louisin Sadler
Kigullinger
Parcel post spreads gifts and oddities across the nation
A curiously wide array of parcels post items circulates from Texas to Quarryville including butter honey and dressed chickens. Fresh sausage and even an alarm clock are part of mail exchanges as dramatized by a humorous jumble of remarks about parcel post and stage life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parcel Post
Quarryville
Texas
Lancaster
Oddities and Performances Prompt Linden Hall Night
A garbled carnival of lines hints at a medical removal joke, a poet, a staged wedding, and a street performer with magic props. The readable fragment promotes a Saturday March 8 Linden Hall Auditorium event featuring Rain Brush The Great and a lineup of misheard quips and acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brush the Great
Linden Hall
The Country Lawyer A Legal View of Him as the Slave of His Clients
A republican era column quizzes the rural lawyer stereotype. It argues lawyers in country districts resemble servants of entire communities, bound by long hours and constant calls, describing client dependence and the push for constant vigilance from dawn to dusk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Almond G. Shepard
Gallant Soldier Requests Blanket for Comrade in Death
A dying Sir Ralph Abercromby aboard the Foudroyant asks to learn the owner of a soldier's blanket. He learns it belongs to Duncan Roy of the Forty-second and commands the blanket be given to him that night, honoring a comrade's welfare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Abercromby
Aboukir
Duncan Roy
Ralph
Black Opals and Rare Film Reflections
Black opals appear almost misnomers with dark bodies and flashing colors across the spectrum. Some show harlequin and peacock patterns while others shift from red to green in changing light. A rare film inquiry from Cincinnati Times-Star echoes the era's curiosities and humorous snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner Paiuteil
Ruskin
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Hannah Traum
Nalsey Terrill
Monroe Beige
Clyde Brantana
Somerset County
Louisville
Jonesy
Houston
Merry—dack Jones
Grouch
Buffalo
Pierce
Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
London
Mary Montagu
Italy
Lady Mary
London Chronicle
Cincinnati Times-Star
Charles W.eliot
Jake
London Standard
Bell Service
Merchant
Bell Telephone
Universal Service
The
Bell Telephone Co
Penna
Mgr
Lancaster, Pa
Lancaster Trust Go
Queen St
J. Hay Brown
Seiles Tueei B
Long
John Hertzler
John T. Seiles
Tieredat O. Miller
Mellinger
John S. Graybiti
John B
Miller
Breneman
I. H
Weaver
Roup
Alde
Caiatric
Canker
A. R. Bomberger & Co
Elmer Eby
New Cash Hardware Store
I. P. Reese
W. King Street
Rogers Bros
Cate Alogue
International Silver Co
Meriden Britannia Ca
Meriden, Conn
Westinghouse
M. M. Souders
Lititz, Pa
Hershey & Gibbes Conveyancers Scriveners
Figente
Ind. Tel
Lititz Pa
C. H. Kreider
Main St
Lititz
Brandies
Hollinger Liquors Cor E. King and Buke Sts
A. R. Keller
Lititz, Penna
Carolinas
Georgia
Cuba
Seaboard Air Line Railway
Philadelphia
Oil Waverly Oil Works Co
Pittsburgh
Grube’s
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