Henry Cover's 30-Pound Carp Dominates Local Fishing
In West Fairview Henry Cover of Elizabethtown caught a 30 pound carp on hook and line, a whopper he proudly displayed to friends. The piece also notes community war effort items including Liberty bond gifts, local business contributions, and morale remarks by Henry Van Dyke about Allied soldiers.
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Henry Cover
Elizabethtown
Susquehanna
West Fairview
Henry
B. F. Heiges
Manheim Public Schools
Lancaster County
Reed Alexander
Lancaster
Camp Meade
National Army
Daniel B. Flory
County Board No. 4
Lancaster City
Covenant United Brethren Church
Rowe Motor Truck Company
Liberty
Manheim Township
A. Buch’s Sons Co
Henry van Dyke
Netherlands
New York
Authors’ Club
Escadrile Lafayette
War era notes and local updates from Harrisburg to Reading
A Harrisburg postman Andrew Jackson still at 89 amid a wartime economy. Hazleton won a fusing contract for shells. West Scranton’s war gardens harmed by mining caves. Reading freed ten prisoners to work at a Met Electric plant to cover labor shortfall. Lehigh county poultry output expected to double with 1,000,000 chicks. Allentown Lutheran conference halts May day outings for orphans homes due to war costs. Lieutenant James H Hutchinson returns home from Siberia for Baldwin Locomotive rail efforts. Miss Margaret Buchanan heads to Philippines teaching post with mother and sixty teachers aboard. Two Bloomsburg youths enlist in Canadian army under false pretenses Route to Philadelphia. Hyde and Lang’s families at war with Britain. Tragic deaths: a boy’s fatal brain injury from a kitchen knife accident and a four-year-old dies after porch work sighting.
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Andrew Jackson
Harrisburg
Hazleton
Thos. Whitaker
West Scranton
Mina Caves
Reading
Metropolitan Electric Company
Lehigh County
Allentown
Good Shepherd
James H. Hutchinson
Russian Siberia
Baldwin Locomotive
Margaret Buchanan
Duffryn Mawr
State Normal School
West Chester
Pacific Coast
Philippines
Tragic porch knife accident claims boy's life
A boy found a lost knife beneath the porch and, while playing, tripped and fell. The blade pierced his eye, entering his brain and killing him within an hour. A Shamokin man, Gilbert Martin, survived a stray bullet that struck his pocket coins, leaving only a minor flesh bruise.
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Gilbert Martin
Shamokin
Martin
Patton Hargood Endorsed by McKean County Republicans for Governor
Robert Patton Hargood of Bradford, McKean County, seeks the Republican nomination for governor. He cites county endorsement, statewide sentiment favoring a regular Republican, and his record of party harmony in the Legislature and State League of Clubs. He argues for unity over factionalism to defeat internal divides.
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Bradford
McKean County
Republican County Committee
Pennsylvania
Hastings
Morever
Republican State League of Clubs
Knox
Harrisburg
Brumbaugh
Charles A. Ambler
Spider on the Typewriter Confuses Law Office Clerk
The solicitor returns from the country to find signs of laziness in the junior clerk. A typewriter untouched, a spider weaving a web over the keyboard, and the clerk admits a fly blocked the machine. He claims he introduced the spider to trap the insect rather than waste time.
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Thomas
London
Papa In the Telephone Dra matic White House Memory
A recalling of a moment when President Cleveland telephoned from Chicago to the White House. His daughter, young at the time, heard her father’s voice through the telephone and reacted with bewilderment and fear as she gazed into the receiver’s tiny opening and cried out to her mother about how to get papa out of the little hole.
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Papa
Cleveland
White House
Chicago
London
Plan for Wheat Flour Rationing in Victory Bread Use
Howard Heinz, U S Food Administrator for Pennsylvania, proposes a home rationing plan for wheat flour in families where total abstinence from wheat is not feasible. The guidance appears to set a maximum limit on Victory Bread usage, aiming to conserve flour resources during wartime.
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Howard Heinz
U. S
Pennsylvania
Eat Potatoes Grow Potatoes Save Wheat Campaign
How ard Heinz and the U S Food Administrator for Pennsylvania push a potato campaign to boost consumption and production. The effort stresses eat and grow potatoes to save wheat for Europe and America, with a focus on weather, labor, and future harvest potential.
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Howard Heinz
U. S
Pennsylvania
Europe
America
Food Administration
The
Vary Your Diet We Are At War Pennsylvanians urged to adapt diet
J S Crutchfield food administrator urges Pennsylvanians to vary their diet during wartime. He notes wheat flour restrictions and promotes using vegetables and meats in place of wheat bread, advises watching markets, and compares citizens to an army under changing orders to ensure plenty without deprivation.
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Pennsylvania
J. S. Crutchfield
U. S&s
Heinz
Division of Distribution and General Markets
The Password War Debate Cites War as Life Lens
Dr Alonzo Taylor urges applying war-time analysis to daily choices to sustain the war effort. He argues every decision across planning, eating, and dressing should be weighed by its impact on prolonging or supporting the war.
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Alonzo Taylor
Bringing Iron to the Front
A health advert claims iron boosts strength and energy, describing blood iron needs for soldiers and civilians. It touts Trontic, a pill from Doctor Pierce's Surgical Institute in Buffalo, offered at sixty cents per vial with a ten cent trial package request.
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Iit
Dr. Pierce
Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Doctor Pierce’s Surgical Institute
North Vernon man learns father has chestnuts on lungs
A North Vernon man stopped a youngster to ask about his father. The boy said his father had chestnuts on his lungs. The man checked and learned the father had a slight congestion of the lungs, per the Indianapolis News.
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North Vernon
Indianapolis News
Glotored Snowstorms Across Centuries
Records of colored snow and hail across history describe orange, red, brick red, and rose tints. Notes include Tuscany in 1813, Carnicia Austria in 1803, Italy in 1816, Tyrol in 1847, and Kane's Arctic voyage noting crimson cliffs ten miles away.
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Humboldt
Palermo
Tuscany
Carnicia
Austria
Italy
Tyrol
Kane
Sir John Ross
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Wilson Baum
W. H. Buch
the Record Building Clothier
Lititz, PA
the County
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Danville
John Lang
Anna Lang
William Hyde, Jr
Philadelphia
Hyde
Lang
Great Britain
John
Myrtle Summy
Wheatfield
Robert Patton Hargood
de Mar
Philadelphia Record
Pennsylvana Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Keystone State
Germany
United States
Crutchfield
Wingert & Haas Hat
New
John A. Haas
N. Queen St. Lancaster, PA
Oxfords
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
W. A
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Appel & Son
Queen Street
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