Lancaster Area Happenings Show Charity and Progress
The Water Street Mission in Lancaster housed 810 men in January with 510 staying free, plus 795 meals, 1050 cups of coffee, 1100 buns and 287 garments. York County issues 11,000 dog licenses as the Agricultural Society moves to buy eight more acres of York Fair Grounds. Estate of late Peter T. Watt reveals over 1.4 million in personal property, mostly stocks and bonds, with a dry goods start in 1878. Big pear tree on Enos Heller’s Manheim farm born 1825 bears well yearly.
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Water Street
Lancaster
The
York County Agricultural Society
West York Borough
Peter T. Watt
James Shand
Enos Heller
Manheim Township
Desire to memorialize college wife sparks cold reception
A man and his wife admire college buildings funded by wealthy alumni. They reach a hall with a tablet honoring a wife by John C. Black. He wishes to do the same for his college, only to feel his wife grow distant as the moment passes.
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John C. Black
Colege
Survived German Prison Camp Fatal ly Injured in Mine
Liborie Senen a French WWI veteran who endured a German prison camp was fatally injured in a mine at Clymer by a mine car while eating lunch. He was 24, leaving a wife and baby. A Pottsville merchant Frank Kaiser paid $1200 into a death fund but expects no return. John Tynan, former Stony Creek telegrapher, kept a small farm and freed a lame deer trapped on his property. A horse owned by Charles Snyder in Ferguson Valley died after a parade muscled the street. the horse reared and fell when a band played Uncle Tom’s Cabin music.
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Frank Kaiser
Pottsville
P. O.S. of A
John Tynan
Stony Creek
Port Clinton
Liborie Senen
Clymer
Charles Snyder
Ferguson Valley
Valley Street
Lewistown
Stranger Delivers 2000 Dollars Then Disappears
A battered stranger handed Howard Shipley of Brownsville Pa. a package containing 2000 dollars and fled. A week later no clue identifies the owner or the assailant. Shipley, stopped at a west side corner, was asked to wait and the man vanished returning with the money before fleeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Shipley
Brownsville
Shipeey
West Side
Shipley
Farm Calendar Garden Fertilizer And Pigs And Pigs
Spring farming notes advise broadcasting acid sulphate on plowed soil at one pound per fifty square feet and using nitrate of soda as a top dressing. Manage egg production by light control, avoid overproduction, and feed grain. Pig futures depend on spring farrowing, ensure clean warm quarters. Dairy care urges a thermometer to track milk cooling as days warm.
Water Glass Best Egg Preservative for Year Round Supply
Water glass preserves eggs to extend shelf life and stabilize year round consumption. Properly prepared sodium or potassium silicate solution covers fresh eggs in clean containers, kept cool and ventilated, with monthly checks and annual fresh lots. Use infertile, freshly laid eggs and test via candling for best results.
Two Irishmen discuss an elderly worker
Two Irish business men chat with an elderly man passing by. One calls him Brown and notes he works for him. The other comments he is honest looking and asks about staying power. The first says he began at the bottom of the ladder in seven and has stayed there ever since.
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Brown
Old People Ad Seeks Lititz Property and Vital Tonic
For Sale The Old Reliable Real Estate Agent promotes a Parkview Hotel site in Lititz near railroad and trolley terminus, suitable for boarders or a picture show house. Also extols Gude's Pepto Mangan as a trusted blood tonic for all ages, with 30 years physician endorsement.
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Reliable
Parkview Hotel
Lititz
Lititz Springs Park
Gude
Weeds as Hidden Virtue and Moral Parable
The passage extols weeds for their windward resilience and stubborn grip on earth, arguing they flourish despite obstacles and rival crops. It suggests weeds may embody a sacred vitality, hinting that nature’s secrets could reveal weeds as essential to world well being, parallel to humanity’s bad habits and morals.
Domestic Stuff Worrylotte Quarrel Over Lost Item
Mrs Worrylotte laments misplacing something as her spouse scours the house. The exchange unfolds with light humor as she chides his search while he questions where it could be hidden. The scene captures domestic bustle and close couple dynamics.
First Snake Story From West Chester Man
Pratt Dutton of West Chester tells the first snake tale of the year after driving a wagon along a Brandywine area road. He found a six foot long black snake dead beside the road days later, suggesting it awoke from a winter den due to sun heat.
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Pratt Dutton
West Chester
Dutton
Brandywine
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Kent
Hossery
Munsing
Cooper
Brunner Woolen Company
W. H. Buch
Lititz, Pa
the County
Rath Fon
York Fair Grounds
Mary L. Kuhn
Elizabethtown
U. S S. District Court
Philadelphia
Aaron H. Bear
New Holland
Eastern Pennsylvania Railroad
Middleport
Freeland Polite
Fist National Bank
John J. McGarvey
Berks
John Yoschin
Edward Blumer
Mountainville
Mortuary Fund of
P. O.S .of A
Man
Pennsylvania State College
Mickie
Yessdias
Am, Gesso
J. Fred Essig
America
Virginia
Anyinean
Bezcuis
J. F. Essig
W. W. Appel & Son
N. Queen St. Lancaster, Penna
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