Reading area dog and crime notes headlined in state column
A stray mad dog bites several dogs in Schafferstown before being shot and the bitten animals are killed. A Reading store buys farm land in Berks to build a vacation farm for workers. Hoboes chased from Becker’s Hyde Park barn. a dog incident at Mount Rock. Swimming season opens on the Brandywine with Blue Rock a favored spot. Reading detectives arrest youths for ring and shoe thefts and revolver thefts in Pottstown. Willow roots clog Troy mains. Shamokin student Anna Zanker has perfect attendance for 12 years. A toddler from Sunbury suffers severe injuries after a trolley collision in Elkheart. Chicken heads found around Canaan township amid ongoing poultry raids. Hollidaysburg garden yields wild rabbit nest. plans to tame for children.
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Schafferstown
Reading Department Store
Anna Zanker
Shamokin High School
William
John Beard
Sunbury
Elkhart
Ind
Blood Money in Persia Law Governing Murder
A London Times summary outlines Persian murder law with blood money rules. A woman is valued at half a man, affecting who can be punished. If two women kill a man, both deaths may be demanded, while several killers of a woman may pay for one life. Minor injuries involve blood money tied to the body part paid.
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Cain
Persia
London
Dr. Pierce
Fragmented old quip about memory and attention
A garbled quote from the Philadelphia Record plays with a joke about memory and attention. The lines mention Bor em and flinner, noting the joke has long been cracked and that Wagg says Bor em didn’t crack it.
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Philadelphia Record
Old Miracle Plays Rendered In Town Squares Of Yore
The article traces medieval mystery and miracle plays from twelfth century town square stages to grand twentieth century productions. It notes crude scenery with ropes for angels and water holes for seas, performed by guilds in York or Chester as local crowds and even royalty gathered for pageants from Marseilles to Palestine and beyond.
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Red Sea
Marseilles
Palestine
York
Chester
Four Seas
Mary Stuart Started White Bridal Fashion Century Ago
Brides favor white today but its modern origin lies with Mary Stuart at her 1558 wedding to Francis I. Before then eastern brides wore pink and medieval and Tudor queens often wore crimson. The white gown spread gradually, becoming common by the late seventeenth century.
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Mary Stuart
Brittany
Francis 1
France
Notre Dame
London
Jefferson and the Patent Office History
Jefferson led the early patent system giving personal scrutiny to each application. The first patent, awarded in 1790 to Samuel Tropkins for pearl ash, showed the system aimed at public benefit rather than revenue. The later rise of feather plumes for London coster girls sparked a brisk rental market with daily plume loans and weather-influenced terms.
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Jefferson
Patent Office
Thomas Jefferson
Secretary of War
Samuel Tropkins
State Department
Thoroton
London
Stint and Stunt Distinguish Labor From Foolish Tricks
A glossary note contrasts stint as a productive effort with stunt as useless horseplay. Stint is a warning that work must be done and time is advancing, urging honest labor rather than performative tricks.
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Atlantic
A Chinese Columbus and the myth of Fusang
A sixth century chronicler Hui Sen is cited claiming that North America was named Fusang by Chinese, 6500 miles east of Asia. In 453 five Buddhist priests supposedly sailed from China to Fusu landing in Mexico teaching Buddhism, founding temples, and erecting large statues. The text notes Mongolian traces in Mexico and a statue resembling Chinese grotesque deities.
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Hui Sen
North America
Fusang
Pusu
Asia
China
Fusu
Mexico
Slarper
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Lancaster, PA
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O. W. Gardner
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Paris
New York
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E. Main St
Lititz Pa
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Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Hon. J. Hay Brown
John D. Seiles
Grabill B. Long
John Hertzler
Jon D. Seiles
Herbert C. Millinh
C. 8. Mellinger
John
Gray Bill
W. A. Bensel
H. W. Hartman
John A. Nauman
John B. Miller
J.T. Sreneman
I. H. Weaver
Philadelphia
Voneseewe
North Broad ST
Joseph Dreifus
S. M. Hubertio
Decker and
Janssen
Bear & Long’s Coal and Lumber Yard
Lititz
W. F. Groff
Cortright
S. M. M. Bow
Suber
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Isville, PA
Waverly
Waverly Oil Works CO
Pittsburg
A. H. Kreider
W. Vine ST
Lancaster
Ordsie
C. N. Derr
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