Lancaster county notes wage raises and local updates
Within Lancaster County brewers who struck for higher wages won a $2 weekly increase and returned to work. W. W. Moyer of Ephrata joins the Ephrata National Bank board, succeeding the late Geo. Hirshman. Fulton township farmers ship stored potatoes at 65 cents per bushel. Alderman Joseph H. Bone plans to resign after guarding Parkesburg Iron Works. Millersville Normal dining room notes labor shortage with 16 female volunteers serving. Nicholas Longenecker of Lancaster owns a 150 year old Swiss pewter dish. George and Mrs Aukamp and Mr and Mrs Harry Wiggins of Providence township have 14 living children. At Gall’s near Collins 65 people stripped and tied 22 bales of tobacco then feasted. Sergeant E B Deitz returns to duty after injuries in Dayton. Young Dietz served in France with Canadian forces, now in aviation. A joke features a nurse and a bystander Irishman joking about the condition.
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Lancaster
W. W. Moyer
Ephrata
Ephrata National Bank Board of Directors
Geo. Hirshman
Fulton Township
Joseph H. Bone
Parkesburg Iron Works
Millersville
Nicholas Longenecker
Switzerland
Longenecker
Marietta
George Aukamp
Providence Township
Harry Wiggins
Wiggins
Aukamp
Samuel G. Gall
Collins
E. B. Deitz
Dayton
Ohio
Young Dietz
France
War era notes show varied requests and servicemen tales
The report covers a German study request by 106 of 400 Altoona pupils, a vaccination plea for 1000 Bethlehem Steel workers, a 125 year old bayonet found in Berks, and Hazleton relaxing side walk skating rules. It also notes 52 Penn Hall students pledging to sponsor French orphans, a no Good Roads Day proclamation by Gov Brumbaugh urging gardening, and updates on Chester Fisher and Harry Bard, young soldiers with long service histories and family links, including a stepbrother in Mexico.
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Pennsylvania
Brumbaugh
Clean-Up Week Urges Pennsylvania Wide Health Push
Citizens are urged to join a state wide Clean-Up Week from May 6 to May 11 to remove garbage, ashes, and unsightly debris from homes, yards, and outbuildings. The effort aims to cut fly and mosquito breeding, reduce infant mortality, and support war time health by renewing clean streets and alleys nationwide.
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Lititz
Rabbage
Pennsylvania
Lota
Nature
Commonwealth
Federal
Children’s Bureau
France
Committees of Public Safety
Firestone War Gardens Yield 94 Cents An Hour
Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in Akron created 265 war gardens near factories. Workers averaged 2 hours 29 minutes weekly, producing goods valued at $14,205.59 with a 94 cent per hour return. A time clock tracked hours and yields to quantify results for company and public guidance.
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Firestone Tire & Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Firestone Company
Firestone War Gardens
Eteenee
Sieeseereree
H. S. Firestone
Firestone
Clipper Ships Return to Sea After War’s Push
The article notes sailing ships reclaiming prominence as steam rivals falter. Refitted clippers and schooners once idle on decayed wharves resume freight work, painted white canvases replacing aging sails to foil U-boats, amid a shift toward cheaper sail-powered tonnage and veterans of the forties and fifties reemerging.
Tonall Praised By Mrs. Kate A. Long Of Lititz
Mrs. Kate A. Long of Lititz Lancaster Co Pa says Tonall relieved her giddy weak stomach rheumatism and indigestion that caused gas and painful swelling. She credits Tonall with better eating sleep and no further rheumatism. She notes Druggist J E Charles advised Tonall would help and that Tonall is sold at his Lititz drug store.
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Kate A. Long
Lititz
Lancaster Co
Tonall
J. E. Charles
Tonal
J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
Tanlac cures Erie man after grippe
H W Baldwin of 518 East Tenth street Erie Pa says he was pale, weak, and terrified before using Tanlac. After half a bottle his stomach cleared, bowels regularized, kidneys improved, and after three bottles his nervousness vanished and his health returned. Tanlac is sold locally by Druggist L N Moyer.
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Tanlac
H. W. Baldwin
East Tenth Street
Erie
Taniac
L. N. Moyer
Neighborliness in the countryside versus city life
The piece contrasts rural neighborliness with urban anonymity, arguing independence thrives in the country while city life breeds crowds and conflict. It envisions how fire, storms, and illness test neighbors, and recalls pastoral scenes that haunt business leaders in memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Irontic Tablets Promise Uplift and Vigor
An advertisement extols Iron tic tablets from the Surgical Institute in Buffalo New York. Claiming easy iron absorption through herbal extracts the pills purportedly boost blood color energy and nerves. A sixty cent vial is offered with a ten cent trial by mail to Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Farmhouse Hospitality Then and Now in Small Town Life
The passage contrasts rural home cooking with urban scarcity noting that eggs and milk were common when guests arrived and tables were generous. It recalls times for community discourse on local and national matters like Horace Greeley, and the simple rhythm of settling affairs between supper and bed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horace Greeley
Bednie
Filtration and the vacuum cleaner in old gossip
The excerpt contrasts modern gadgets like filtration and vacuum cleaners with reflections on neighbors and an older, slower life. It suggests younger generations miss the steady, leisurely ways of their forebears and criticizes the fast moving, "civilized" age lacking true homeward simplicity.
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Philadelphia Public Ledger
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