Race for No. 3 reveals a Klondike dog race saga
A long chronicle details a series of 19th century era events: a Weatherly school truancy case. a Lewistown farmer with 20 chickens producing 280 eggs in February. a Dunmore Erie Railroad shop apprentice building a Pacific type miniature locomotive costing 1500. a Chambersburg boy with a lynx pelt rug. preservation of a 1823 Northampton Farmers Almanac. a proposed state game preserve for 9,000 acres between Springville and Raymilton. a $3000 monument for Conrad Kresge killed by Indians near Effort. Akron High School graduation plans. the will of ex Attorney General W. A. Hensel. and an extended fictional tale of Smoke and Shorty in a Dawson Klondike gold rush, including a roulette system, a cast of Dawson elites, and a dramatic Mono creek dog race leading to a crowded finish.
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Banks Township
Weatherly
Homer Rhearn
Lewistown
Erie Railroad
Dunmore
Pacific
Guyton Kempton
Chambersburg
Philip Wright
Wright
Northampton Farmers’ Almanac
A. Huddleston
Milton
Springville
Raymilton
Mercer Iron and Goal Company
Lake Shore Railroad
Wild Life League
Senate
Conrad Kresge
Effort
Monroe Country
Conrad
Smoke
Shorty
Dawson City
Breck
Squawcreek
Joy Gaster
Joy
Squaw Creek
Harvey Moran
Tivoli
Elkhorn
The
Moran
Burke
Big Burke
Dawson
Scott
Keeper
Big’ Olaf
Arizona Bill
Big Olaf
Cyrus Johnson
Mono Creek
von Schroeder
Arizona
Bill
No. 3
Discovery
Yukon
Consadine
Schroeder
Klondike
Lancaster County Turnpikes Dominate Pennsylvania
Lancaster County holds 27 turnpikes totaling 186 miles with capitalized companies at 556000. Average cost per mile about 3040 dollars, far below 15000 dollars per mile for state roads. Longest is Lancaster to Elizabethtown at 17 miles. shortest Manheim to Old Line at 14 miles. Farmers and travelers push to convert to free roads as auto clubs push for better maintenance.
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Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Elizabethtown
Manheim
Old Line
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Akron High School
Brethren Church
Isaac W. Taylor
Neffsville
Mary Enck
Edith Smith
Ella Hackman
Erla Zwally
Mary Conlin
Florence Weitkamp
Ella Loose
Charles Witmyer
Charles Adams
John Dietrich
Harold Brubaker
Hensel
W. A. Hensel
Elizabeth
John A. Nauman
Valley Forge
Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster Trust Company
Christopher Beilew
Joy Gastell
Lake Lebarge
Snorty
Bowie
Northwest Territory
Baron von Schroeder
Squaw
Hanson
Hudson Bay
Sitka Charley
Pollock
Simoke
Bedlam
Jack London
Wheeler Syndicate
Racorp
Rexall
Lewis N, Moyer
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