Lancaster area to gain 13 banks with new trust company
Lancaster County notes report Agricultural Trust Company to open October 1 bringing the total banks to thirteen. Also listed are three vacant director seats at Exchange National Bank of Marietta and riotous strike action at Marietta’s hollow ware works.
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Lancaster
Agricultural Trust Company
The
Exchange National Bank of Marietta
Marietta
Elizabethtown
Thomas Magee
Norristown
Colerain
Academy School
Ephrata
Intercourse
Beach Bottom
Tragedy at Waldeck Hotel in Lebanon County
Thomas Weik, a former U S Navy sailor, shot his wife three times near the Waldeck Hotel two miles south of Schaeffers Town. He then wounded his mother in law and shot himself, dying. Ruth Weik was reported dying and Mrs Reuben Carpenter escaped injury by a misfired attempt. The couple had married five years earlier in Rexmont near Cornwall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Weik
Lebanon County
Waldeck
Schaefferstown
U. S. Navy
Reuben Carpenter
Weik
Ruth Carpenter
Carpenters
Rexmont
Cornwall
A Billy Sunday in His Time
A former Schaefferstown native Moses Dissinger becomes a famed local preacher, converting at eighteen and leading revival crowds across Berks, Lebanon, Lancaster, and Lehigh counties. He defended orthodox preaching, fought drinking, and earned comparisons to Billy Sunday through dramatic sermons and camp meetings.
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Schaefferstown
Moses Dissinger
Berks
Lebanon
Lancaster
Lehigh
Billy Sunday
Lebanon County
Lititz
Reading
Evangelical Association
East Pennsylvania Conference
Kansas
Douglas County
Mose
Strawler
Mose Dissinger
Millerstown
Macungie
Lehigh County
Brats
Catasauqua
Roughs
der Mose
North
Masa Dissinger
Sunday
Stough
Nicholas
Solomon
J. R. Missimer
Mt. Joy
Rev
Dissinger
Hassler’s Church
Hell
Lucifer
God
Satan
Wheat Harvest to Hire 40,000 Workers in Spring
Rapid spring wheat growth speeds harvest and raises labor shortages. Federal and state bureaus plan to deploy 40,000 men to the fields, with Kansas and Oklahoma crops ripening concurrently and labor in short supply.
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Kansas
Oklahoma
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the Record
W.H. Buch Clothier Tititz
Addison R. Long
Oregon
Martin Schreiner
Blue Ball Live Stock Company
Blue Ball
George Diller
John D. Barr
Hast Earl
Lewis N. Moyer
Cain
Diasinger
Devil
Christ
Big Twin
Flory Bros
E. King Street
Pew
Rél
Farmers National Bank
Bank
Wingert & Haas
Queen ST
Lancaster, PA
Walthams
Elgins
Hamiltons
Low Queen ST. North
Gpticiens
Lancaster PA
Heinitsch
McDougall
W. A
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
East King St
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