Moravian Society plans summer house in historic Indian graveyard
In Nazareth the Moravian Historical Society votes to build a 500 dollar summer house near an Indian graveyard. In Baumstown a group including Hadley, George Francis Hughes, and Albert Griesemer catch 70 pounds of catfish and 24 pounds of eel. Mrs Edwards, jailed in Reading, seeks a pardon for murder. the pardon board will hear the case on June 16. M Parker of Harrisburg notes a horse startled by a road object near McVeytown, disturbing a six foot blacksnake. J Mark Mauser of Laurys receives Smithsonian inquiry about two wild pigeons found along the Lehigh River at his home.
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Moravian Historical Society
Nazareth
Baumstown
Thomas
Hadley
George Francis
Huges Henderson
Albert Griesemer
Kate Edwards
Reading
State Board of Pardons
Jd. M. Parker
Harrisburg
McVeytown
J. Mark Mauser
Laury’s
Smithsonian Institution
Lehigh River
Mauser
The Greatest Home Newspaper The Philadelphia Sunday Record
The Philadelphia Sunday Record offers world news telegraphed and edited fairly with novels jokes poems cartoons and human interest pieces. It includes a women’s page with fashion drawings and a Boys and Girls supplement aimed at developing character in children. order now before sold out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Sunday Record
Telegraph
Mail
Cable
Shad Dinner Marks Start of Lancaster Club Meetings
The Lancaster Automobile Club will hold its regular May meeting on Friday evening May 16 at the Washington Borough hotel. This first county season gathering includes a shad dinner, with a large turnout expected as new members join and many members attend with guests.
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Lancaster Automobile Club
Washington Borough
Lancaster
A Stranger's Views of Lititz and Linden Hall
A Moravian visitor travels from Bethlehem to Lititz and admires Linden Hall and its campus. The letter praises the town square, church buildings, the Linden Hall structures including the Castle and chapel, and the new gymnasium. It notes growing enrollment with about one hundred names and many boarding students, then recounts visits to Lititz Springs and local amenities before continuing the journey.
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Moravian
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem
Lititz
Linden Hall
Mary Dixon
Hagen
Lititz Springs
J. B. Chew
Penryn Mule Seller Isaac Sarah Seeks Buyers
Attention Farmers. Isaac Sarah of Penryn sells mules for John D. Bear. Prospective purchasers can reach him by postal card, Ind. or Bell phone.
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Isaac Sarah
Penryn
John D. Bear
How Nobel Prizes Are Chosen and Awarded
A Philadelphia Press summary describes Alfred Nobel's fortune and the five prize categories in physics chemistry medicine literature and peace. It explains who awards each prize how deputies and board members are chosen and that each prize averages about $40,000 with distributions on December 10, Nobel's death anniversary.
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Alfred B. Nobel
Swedish Academy of Science
Caroline Institute
Faculty of Medicine
Stockholms
Swedish Academy
Stockholm
Peice
Stort
Gfleen
Academy of Science
Nobel Institute
Nobel
Philadelphia Press
Auld Fools Gambol Named From Old Fools Day
The article traces April 1 as auld fools day from a superstition in which young women in a sacred grove performed a ritual at night. A phantom, a white man, and a talking crowd amused the girls, leading to marriages by year’s end to men much older, giving the event its ironic name the auld fools' gambol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremberg
Loudon
The Dead Sea Landscape Amid Silence and Stillness
The Dead Sea lies about nine hours from Jerusalem as a vast lake. Its waters are still and clear, highly buoyant, allowing a person to float like a cork. Surrounding scenery is dreary, with oppressive stillness and no animal or bird life heard along the lonely shores.
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Dead Sea
Jerusalem
Shelley’s Kiss Theme in Short Lyrics
A compact quoted stanza celebrates pervasive kissing imagery in Shelley’s poems. The lines describe mountains kissing heaven waves clasping earth and moonbeams kissing the sea while urging the beloved to return the kiss, framing Romantic unity through nature and passion.
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Shelley
As She Saw It Handgone Hospital Curse Tale
A fragment from Tit-Bits notes a woman who wed an elderly wealthy man, delighted by the match saying she prefers nursing one old man to many. The quote reflects a sharp social aside on marriage and status.
Opportunist Defined by a Detroit Free Press Quote
An opportunist is described as a man who has done something worthwhile that others believe he could have done just as well if not for being otherwise engaged when chance arose, as cited by the Detroit Free Press.
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Chance
Detroit Free Press
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Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Lafale
UNC
Auld Fools’ Gambol
Levi F. Lonigenecker
Front Street
Lititz, PA
W. M. Grube
Hershey & Gibbes
Ind. Tel
Brandies
Hollinger
King and
Duke Sts
Lancaster, PA
C. H. Kreider’s Hardware Store
Main St
Waverly Oil Works
Pittsburgh
Lewis White
A. R. Bomberger & Co
A. R. Keller
Lititz, Penna
Limbert’s
Limbert
W. A. Heinitsh
S. Queen St
Boy Scout
Russia
Chas. H. Frey
King St
Spruce Villa
Brubaker
Imhoff’s Restaurant
Marrow
Maurice River
Daniel Imhoff
East Main Street
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