Mystery Noises Across Oceans and Continents
A discussion of mysterious booming sounds from around the world, likened to the Moodus noises of Connecticut. The piece traces reports from Australia to Ireland, Barisal guns in India, Italy, Ireland, and California, noting possible subterranean origins and historical mentions by Bacon Humboldt and Sturt, with scientific views on brontidi.
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Barisal
India
Ganges Delta
Italy
Lough Neagh
Ireland
Vention
Profesor
Tito Alippi
Moodus
Hast Haddam
Conn
Haiti
Lord Bacon
Humboldt O
Boussingault
Captain Sturt
Australia
Hume
Mr. Hume
French Officers Mace Thrifty Salaries and Debtors
A French army officer must live frugally on a salary of only a few francs per day. Borrowing or debt is an offense, and an officer convicted of debt faces a three year suspension. Afterward a five officer court martial decides reinstatement or dismissal.
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War Office
Antiquity of Tin in Phoenician Tyre
An analysis notes brass and tin appeared in Tyre around 1000 B C and links Phoenician trade from Tyre and Sidon to tin. The writer reflects on mercantile rivalry and aims to judge humanity with kindness as a guiding principle.
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Tyre
Syria
Cornwall
Sidon
Schwab Car And Trainmen Abuse Full Crew Law
Report from South Bethlehem describes how the Full Crew Law is manipulated by railroad workers. A private car attached to a Reading Railway train forced a crew increase, one worker serving as an extra paid transit member. On Lehigh Valley Railroad a yard crew shortened a train by dropping a foreign box car, creating per diem charges for the company.
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Bethlehem
Reading
Philadelphia
Loretta
Charles M Schwab
Lehigh Valley
Representative Answers Constituent on Full Crew Law Repeal
Philadelphia March 24 John McClintock a Philadelphia Representative replies to a constituent who urged repeal of the Full Crew Law. He argues there is no treason in creating jobs for 2400 excess rail workers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and that productive labor should replace idle wages, noting $2,000,000 in wages and $32,000,000 wasted. The snow has all disappeared.
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Philadelphia
John McClintock
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
A Dish of Snails and Their Curious Flavor
Snails have a distinct flavor not like other foods and are eaten in England and France. Young snails yield tender meat when cooked properly, while improper cooking makes them tough. Snail culture in France is profitable, with large yields per acre and daily feeding, cabbage and greens as main fare. The note ends with a proverb about a mule sale.
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Consumpton
Surrey
England
Arundel
Edmund Spenser
France
Newpaper
Washington Star
Address Change Notice For RECORD Subscribers
Subscribers should notify about address changes this spring and provide former addresses. The notice advises including rural route numbers or post office addresses to ensure prompt delivery. Charged With Stealing Hay A man named James Conrad near Manheim faced larceny charges. arraigned before Alderman Stauffer in Lancaster. Longenecker farm reportedly used for the alleged theft. Bail set for hearing.
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James Conrad
Manheims
Alderman Stauffer
Lancaster
Albert K. Lengenecker
Lime Rock
Conrad
Longenecker
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Connecticut
Cold Manley Lee
Lincoln
Wilson
Rom
Abraham Lincoln
Woodrow Wilson
Leinbach & Bro
Reading’s Leading Clothiers Cor
Eighth and
Penn Streets
Readng, PA
Schwab
Goena
Japan
Lititz
Lititz Springs
B. Seaman
Broad Street
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