Automobile banking comes to Lancaster county service route named
The Intercourse National Bank launches an auto delivery route to collect deposits, traveling to La Park Vintage White Horse Boyertown Kruger and nearby points for customers with no teams. Andrew M. Martin a Florin Washington Grammar School teacher is held on $500 bail for assaulting a pupil, Paul Lefevre. A Maytown man Oliver Clark reports a muskrat incident that damaged his trousers and caused a nervous shock.
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Lancaster County
Intercourse National Bank
la Park
Vintage
White Horse
Boyertown
Kruger
Andrew M. Martin
Washington Grammar School
Florin
Paul Lefevre
C. H. Lefevre
Martin
Mexico
Philadelphia
Oliver Clark
Maytown
Morever
Clark
Energy from Coal Aims at Central Electric Power
8 Z De Ferranti told the Institution of Electrical Engineers in London that less than ten percent of coal energy becomes useful work. He warned that most by products, mainly fixed nitrogen, are wasted. He proposed converting all coal heat and power into electricity and distributing nationwide from a few centrally supervised stations.
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Z. de Ferranti
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Jiondon
Elizabethtown Postoffice Robbed by Burglars
An early Saturday heist at Elizabethtown post office led by 3 or 4 intruders who blew the safe with nitro glycerine. They took a small amount of money and stamps, awakened neighbors, and fled after two explosions. A witness saw two men run, firing shots in the air.
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Elizabethtown
H. H. Nissley
Fisher
Whiskers and Wealth in Early Pennsylvania Tales
A humorous reminiscence compares senators who never shaved or wore collars, mentioning Peter Sweigard of Reinhold's Station and other Pennsylvanians famed for beards, wealth, and thrift. The piece recalls Samuel G. Reese's accident in Mount Tunnel Cemetery Elizabethtown as a grave-digging misadventure.
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Peter Sweigard
Reinhold
Neve
Lancaster County
Kansas
United States Senate
Pennsylvania
Chester County
Lancaster
Harrisburg
Senate of
Somerset County
Samuel G. Reese
Mount Tunnei
Elizabethtown
Berks Surpasses Lancaster in Census Population
Census figures show Berks County at 183 223 in 1910 rising from 159 615 in 1900 and 136 327 in 1890. Reading drives most gains with 17 110 of the 23 607 county increase while rural areas decline. Lancaster reaches 167 029 in 1910, up 6 768 since 1900, with Reading and Lancaster as growth engines.
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Lancaster
Reading
Berks County
Wildcat finance lures in Lancaster county readers
In a sharp satire the piece mocks local gullibility as spring promoters tout supposed riches from mines and oils. It recalls a Lancaster county investor who joined a copper mine scam and paid far more for a dubious meal than expected, highlighting risks of flashy securities.
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Lancaster County
Fort Pitt
Pittsburg
Lancaster Countian
St. Patrick
William A. Clark
Government vault guards wealth with electric protection
The United States Government houses a vast underground vault beneath the Treasury Building in Washington. It stores not less than 500 million in currency with heavy steel walls and doors, an electric protection system of 9000 dollars comprising over 17 miles of wire, alarms that trigger every 15 minutes, and a secret elevator protected by treasury guards.
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United States
United States Treasury
Washington
Treasury
Conestoga Traction Company Advises Courteous Service
Company announces that all employees must be courteous to patrons and provide any information requested in a courteous manner. Management emphasizes courtesy benefits both the public and the firm, noting it pays well.
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Conestoga Traction Company
Quail on the Farm Promoting Protection and Value
The article extols quails as beautiful useful farm birds and urges continued protection through good laws. It argues quails help control insects, emphasizes humane hunting via photography over shooting, and notes protected flocks can be worth around a hundred dollars yearly on an average farm.
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Mearns
Leprosy Cure Claim Reported From Lancaster
J M Herbelroth of Lancaster claims an old recipe cures leprosy. Fifty pounds of ointment were sent to the Moravian leper hospital in Bethesda Surinam to treat a severe case. A youth improved. wounds closed and gratitude expressed. Efforts seek trials in Jerusalem and more hospitals.
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J.M. Herbelroth
Lancaster
Bethesda
Surinam
Dutch Guiana
South America
Henry Mr. Bernhard
Herbelroth
Sen Hilf
Jerusalem
The Uruguayan Potato
A new white potato species has been cultivated in France from Uruguayan plants. Once bitter, after years of cultivation it becomes an excellent food source with enormous yield and disease resistance. It grows best in moist soil along marshy river shores in Uruguay and self propagates from broken roots. Its flowers give a jasmine odor and perfume has been extracted.
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France
Uruguay
Mercedes
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W. H. Buch
Record Building
Lititz, PA
Berks
Wingert & Haas
QueEn ST
Lancaster, PA
Heinitsch’s
Heinitsh’s
S. Queen St
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St. Lancaster, Pa
Hoffmeier Bros
King Street
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