Grant at Berlin letter echoes across time and presses for peace
A reader cites a letter on Grant at Berlin and honors from The Springfield Republican. He recalls Civil War fronts, meeting Grant era figures in Galena, and Perkins view of Grant's character, urging the world to "Let us have Peace" and "We will stick it out before Richmond if it takes all summer."
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Grant
Berlin
Springfield
Mass
Springfield Republican
Massachusetts
Lynn Brown
Frank Grant
Westfield
Grant Family Association
Elihun Grant
Haverford College
Ling
General Grant
Galena
Til
Gen. Grant
Mr. Perkins
Jesse R. Grant
Gen.Grant
Richmond
Pennsylvania State College Beef Cattle Meetings Set at State College
The second annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Hereford Cattle Breeder's Association will be held at State College on May 3 with a Cattle Feeders' Day the following day. Informative programs are planned for breeders and feeders of beef cattle. Also notes urge timely repair part orders for spring and summer farm machinery to avoid delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Hereford Cattle Breeder's Association
State College
Woman Refuses Marriage License Over Cousin Rule
Miss Wilhelmina Bahnargan deputy clerk of courts in Belver county denied a license to a foreign couple after ruling their marriage would bind them as first cousins once removed due to the groom being an uncle and nephew to the bride. Fred Pierce described as the heaviest mail carrier in the United States died at 58 in Susquehanna Pennsylvania weighing 358 pounds.
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Wilhelmina C. Bahnargan
Belver
George A. Baldwin
Frank E. Reader
Fred Pierce
United States
Susquehanna, Pa
Civil War Vet Franklin Ginter One Of Last York Rifles
Franklin Ginter 86 of York is among two remaining members of the York Rifles, a Civil War era command that answered Lincoln's call for troops. The unit was among the first to respond to the president's call.
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Franklin Ginter
York
York Rifles
Lincoln
Ku Klux Klan See Growth Aimed in York County
A K K members drive is active in York County with reps in York and nearby towns. They claim a goal of about 8 000 members by July 1, up from an estimated 2 000 already in York.
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Ku Klux Klan
York County
Order
York
Klan
Womelsdorf Set to Mark 200th Founding Anniversary
A four day program in Womelsdorf June 28 to July 1 plans historical addresses and parade events for the 200th anniversary of Tulpehocken settlement. Speakers include descendants connected with early valley history and pioneer founders dating back to 1723 in Lebanon Valley.
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Tulpehocken
Womelsdorf
Lebanon Valley
Pennsylvania
Boilermaker’s Son Finds Opera Recall in Factory Days
A wealthy former boiler maker attends a Wagner opera at his daughter’s urging. An acquaintance asks if he enjoyed it, and he reflects that it reminded him of youth, but corrects the memory to summers in the boiler factory rather than countryside scenes.
Lancaster County Happenings From Law to Local News
A Lancaster policeman guards the soldiers' monument in Center Square to prevent tobacco spitting. Yeates School may reopen with Bishop Darlington's help as plans form in Harrisburg. New Holland churches field baseball teams playing twice weekly. Longtime wagonmaker Martin Andes spent 65 years in the trade. A grand stand for 500 with facilities rises on New Holland grounds. County home and institutions totals given by the grand jury. Lancaster water works workers start a private zoological garden with a possum, alligators, and more. A lettuce buyer finds a gold ring. Herr & Co property in Columbia sold to First Columbia National Bank. Navy officer Charles Jason flies to Washington with family, visits Havre de Grace en route, then returns to Honey Brook.
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Charles’ Jason
Pensacola
Fla
Washington, D. C
Navy
William OC. Mason
Honeybrook
Havre de Grace
Ueber Goodman
Wall's Catarrh Medicine claims cure for catarrh
Catarrhal deafness results from inflamed mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. Inflammation may cause rumbling hearing or complete loss if untreated. Wall's Catarrh Medicine promises to rid the system of catarrh and restore hearing. For over forty years Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been sold by druggists. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
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Wall
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Net Maker Sowers Quietly Pursues Craft and Family
Veteran net maker Conrad Sowers of Martie Forte, Lancaster county, 84, lives with wife Mrs. Sowers, 82, and continues to fashion fish nets and onion nets for farmers. He recalls Civil War service and says net making remains his joy and livelihood after 30 years in the business.
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Conrad Sowers
Martie Forte
Lancaster County
Hfe
Hambright
South
Why the Farmer Moves to Town As Shifting Farm Yields Sparking Migration
Department of Agriculture survey of 6004 farm ventures shows in 1922 average cash yield on $16 400 capital was 795 with 202 from machinery and livestock 294 from land fuel and food and total 1211 including labor. Yet 14.6 percent failed to cover expenses and only 5.6 percent earned over 3000, explaining rural to urban migration.
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Department of Agricultur
Blood Tonic Promises Germ Protection
A flawed health ad urges readers to bolster immunity with Dr Pierce's Gulden Medical Discovery. It claims perfect blood and germs blocked by taking the tonic and offers a trial prize via Buffalo New York.
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Pierce
History of vaccination traces to ancient inoculation practices
Dr W G McCay of the U S Public Health Service notes smallpox vaccination is rooted in ancient immunity methods. He cites early inoculation by exposing healthy people to the sick and mentions Jenner’s cowpox work as a refinement. The article also references Rachel’s tomb as a Jewish sacred site near Bethlehem and notes access limitations by Jews and others. A London hospital case recounts a physician’s quizzing of a patient about ear pain.
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W. G. McCay
Eugenic Laboratory
United States Public Health Service
McCoy
Jenner
London
Thirteen Civilians Remain from Ninth Cavalry Pennsylvania Volunteers
War records show only 13 survivors from the Ninth Cavalry Pennsylvania Volunteers of the Civil War, with five in Lancaster County. The 54th reunion will be held in Lancaster at Mec Caskey Memorial Hall on June 7. Survivors include H C Shenck of Lancaster and others in Landisville Lititz Brunnerville and Columbia.
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Minnster
Ninth Cavalry
Pennsylvania Volunteers
War Department
Lancaster
Aretter
Mec Caskey Memorial Hall
H. C. Shenck
Lancaster County
Henry Diffenderfer
Landisville
Edward Euck
Lititz
Charles Hackman
Charles Hackman, Brunnerville
Farry Strickler
Columbia
John Wise
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Lititz, Pa
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J. F. Lgngenecker
The
Pennsylvania State College
Keystone Exchanges
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Enarco
Japam BT
Center Square
Yeates
Friends of Yeates School
Darlington
Thomas Brown
Harrisburg
New Holland
Martin
Andes
Wheelwright
East Petersburg
Grand Jury
County
Lancaster Water Works
Minnie Yeager
Columbia Real Estate
Herr & Co
Locust and
Fourth Streets
First Columbia National Bank
Sky
L. N. Moyer
Radio Ralf
Jack Wilson
McClure Newspaper
Tut
August T. W. Boldt, Jr
West Cley Street
Reading
U. S
Pittsburgh
Tutankh-Amen
Valley of the Kings
Luxor
Egypt
Cairo
Boldt
Rachels Tomb
Rachels
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Jerusalem
Kebron
Blarcaus
Relius
Beacon
Packard
Florshein
la France
Plant Bros
Grube’s
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