Woes in Lancaster County Include Forgery Charge and School Moves
In Lancaster County, Harry Bartelet of Denver faces forgery and false pretenses charges after attempting to collect ads from Lancaster merchants. Rev. John W. Cooper, once Lancaster Unitarian pastor, is an army major awarded the Legion of Honor by Marshal Petain. Mt. Joy selects Arthur P. Mylin as former principal resumes leadership at the high school. John Jackson sells eighteen steers for 164.90, averaging 201.26. Dr. George W. Hull, Millersville faculty since 1875 and former Huntingdon schools head, will retire at year end amid retirements of other long-serving faculty members.
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Harry Bartelet
Denver
Lancaster
Harry
New York
John W. Cooper
Lancaster Unitarian Church
Marshall Petain
Geor B. Kunkle
George W. Lull
Millersville
Huntingdon
Hull
A. R. Byerly
Armie Lyle
Flosses of a Spring Morning Poem Fragment
A fragmentary verse celebrates spring mornings with vivid nature imagery. It evokes fresh vegetation, birdsong at dawn, and the English sparrow greeting daybreak at five a.m. capturing the wakeful urge of spring renewal.
Miscellany of oddities from early 20th century Pennsylvania
A Philadelphia area list notes a gilt mirror sold for 340 to Eugene H. Gregory of Sunmeytown, a purse with 20000 dollars and a 2000 reward to Geiger lathers, bakeries seeing a 75 cent rise per barrel in flour, a hen with a two-headed chick that lived a week, and a 29 year old goose laying eight eggs. Norristown tax rate up from 8 to 10 mills due to costs and police pay, while 2500 dollars more annually subsidizes five fire companies. Forty gypsies moved on from Allentown after fortune telling. Pennsylvania added thousands of motor tires licenses, with gains over 1918. Berwick plans a home building drive to ease housing shortage.
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Nathaniel Gregory
Harlem
Eugene H. Gregory
Sunmeytown
Gordon KR. Ade
Trout Run
Lyecoming County
Philadelphia
Geiger
Hey
Frank Raus
Landis
Peter A. Metz
Kereford
Pete
Norristown
Allentown
Pennsylvania
New Shirt Factory to Open in Lancaster under Lititzman
Tauber Jumpton and Company shirts will run a new plant at Queen and Walnut streets Lancaster starting about June 1. The factory will employ over 200 women, with facilities for laundry, cutting, sewing and boxing. The firm, with branches in Lititz and Hanover, supplied 50 percent of U S army shirts during the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Pennsylvania
Lititz
Hanover
Vermont
Brooklyn
United States Army
DG. Keller
GB. Matague
Tapering Off Dust Dry Time With Water Dilution Idea
A Quarryville man proposes a gradual dilution method to keep a barrel of whiskey from running dry by adding water whenever a glass is drawn. The idea, framed as a humorous quip, highlights practical humor from local life. Hard to beat Quarryville. Lancaster New Era notes Hulls hotel flag display and cross-county dining arrangement for homecoming boys.
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Lancaster
Salvation Army Story From Evangeline Booth On Doughboys
Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in America, recounts how front line workers comforted doughboys with doughnuts and coffee, sewing buttons and bringing home touches of care. She recalls their service across seas, including the Empress of Ireland disaster, and notes the Army’s drive to show public appreciation.
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Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth
America
Ireland
You Can Beautify Your Complexion Beecham's Pills Ad
An advertisement claims Beecham's Pills purify the blood and tone digestion to improve complexion. It promotes clearer skin brighter eyes rosy cheeks and red lips as outcomes from putting blood stomach and liver in good order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beecham
Whisky Seizure Ties Stolen Liquor to Saloonists
Internal Revenue Collector Van Dyke seized hidden whisky secreted to evade taxes. Liquor allegedly belonging to a saloonist was stored in beer barrels, coal piles, and a neighbor’s cellar. Vernon Welsh and John Swantek, both in state prison, are accused of stealing and selling it to hotelmen. The owner cannot identify the whiskey. the saloonist says he bought it for two dollars per gallon.
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van Dyke
Vernon Welsh
John Swantek
Lancaster Father Proud of Three Returned Serves The Proudest Father
Charles T. Kegel of Lancaster celebrates his three sons in Captain Rehm's Company A of the Loft machine gun battalion returns from France. VictorQuestioned the war’s dangers with no injuries. Thomas badly wounded at Death Valley and James wounded at Fismes.
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Lancaster
Charles T. Kegel
National Service
James
Victor
Thomas Kegel
Rehm
Lofth Machine Gune
France
Thomas
Death Valley
Fismes
How's This Explained Lancaster County Tax Payers 1918 53 6
Lancaster County records show 64 624 taxpayers in 1918 but 53 6 in current year. Assessors listed 28 300 horses and mules in 1918, 27 954 in 1919. Questioning causes for declines: autos, dogs, and potential shooting to evade taxation.
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Lancaster County
Lancaster Invests Massive War Bonds and Donations
Lancaster county reports Liberty Bonds totaling $40,000,000 and government securities over $31,000,000. Additional war relief giving totals about $1, - including $470,000 to the Red Cross and $408,000 to YKCA Salvation Army and other war work. Also $80,000 Mennonite relief and $10,000 Armenian relief.
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Lancaster County
Liberty
Ideac United States
Red Cross
Mennonite Church
Tonall Restores Appetite and Sleep Says Annville Woman
Mrs. Oscar Waltz of Annville Pennsylvania reports nervousness and insomnia eased after taking Tonall. She credits three bottles with quiet nerves and restored appetite and sleep, noting prior doctor visits failed. Sold at J E Charles Drug Store Lititz.
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Oscar Waltz
Annville
J. E. Charles’ Drug Store
Lititz
Seventeen Year Locust Emergence Warned By U S D A
The United States Department of Agriculture warns that the seventeen year locusts will reappear this summer. After spending 17 years underground, billions will emerge in late May or early June, molt their skins, and fly briefly before females lay eggs. Damage comes from ovipositor punctures in twigs and branches. The cycle includes multi year underground stages and a final larva or mapa phase before the next brood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Turing
Twenty Cents and Ice Cream Warns Young Men
A provincial warning narrates how a young man with twenty cents may face danger after May 1 as he and a damsel seek ice cream or a sundae. A waiter will demand two more cents, leaving the man in embarrassment and potential trouble, urging prudence with small change.
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Ake
Young Mom
New Steel Plant Planned for York by American Weldrigal Steel
The American Weldrigal Steel Company with 125000 capital has bought York land to build a plant and begin production around September 1. William Bangser, ex Bethlehem Steel superintendent, serves as general manager and president of the new firm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Wlédrigal Steel Company
York
William Bangser
Bethlehem Steel Company
Build Strong With Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery
An old herbal blood maker promises strength and health. It claims to cure colds, protect from disease, and aid digestion and blood formation through roots like wild cherry bark Oregon grape root and blood root. It recommends daily nasal washing with Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and offers trial tablet or catarrh tablets for 10 cents.
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Dr. Pierce
Oregon
Sage
Pierce
Invalids
Buffalo
N. Y
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Munsing
Cooper
Wilson Baum
W. H. Buch the Record Building Clothier
Lititz, PA
John Jackson
Little Britain
Berwick Businessmen's Association
Lititzman
Company
William J. Hull
Manheim
Lebanon
Mt. Hope
Trull
Lebanon County
THE
Tonall
New Steel Plant
Wingert & Haas Hat
New
John A. Haas
Queen St. Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
W. A
Queen St
L& MM
Longman & Martinez, Makers
N.Y
W. W. Appel & Son Jewelers & Opticians
Apple & Son
Optometrists
North
Queen Street
Evewor
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