State and local notes on marriage, farming, and wildlife
Simon Senman, a Pottsville junk dealer and great grandfather, has licensed marriage to his third wife. Irvin Chapin ships 14,000 peach baskets from Shickshinny Valley, plans 5,000 more trees on 185 acres. An York resident sprains an ankle and forfeits a $1000 wager to walk to Chicago. George and William Chapel report 70 bass from Snipman's Eddy. Craigs Meadows near Stroudsburg sees 40 wild pigeons, first in 30 years. Chestnuts total 276 pounds shipped to Lancaster, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Towanda couple marks 49 years of marriage. An express car carries elk crates to Trexler’s game preserve at Schencksville Allentown.
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Simon Senman
Pottsville
Senman
Joseph Kalbfus
Irvin Chapin
Shickshinny Valley
Wilkes-Barre
R. W. Bell
York
York City
Chicago
Rochester
George
William Chapel
Oil City
Snipman
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Charles H. Allen
Towanda
Allen
Bradford
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harry T. Trexler
Schencksville
Allentown
Jack
The Youth's Companion Prospectus for 1912 Price Rise
The Youth's Companion invites new readers with a 1912 prospectus and free 1911 issues. Subscription rises to 2.00 on January 1 1912, with 52 weekly issues at 1.75 and a Calendar gift in ten colors with gold. Address 144 Berkeley St Boston Mass for new subscriptions.
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Robison Crusoe
Companion
Berkeley St
Boston
Mass
Arrows versus Iron: Archers Range Ancient to Naval Guns
The piece recalls archery limits in medieval times with 400 to 820 yard ranges, noting Neade during Charles I. and a 463 yard record. It contrasts with a modern naval gun boasting a fifteen mile range, illustrating dramatic advances in firepower.
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Neade
Charles I
Hotter Than He Thought Keeps Fire Joke Alive
A boy delivering a phone message bursts into the senior partner’s room with news his house is on fire. The partner, surprised, wonders how his wife became so heated, joking that it must have touched off the blaze.
French Revolutionary Calendar and its Meaningful Months
The New York Times notes the national convention adopted a 12 month 30 day calendar with five festival days. Months such as Vendemaire Brumaire Germinal Floreal Thermidor and Fructidor carried symbolic meanings tied to agriculture and seasons. Thermidor marks the revolution that toppled Robespierre on July 27 174. The reformer Romane invented the calendar.
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Mars
Thermidor
Robespierre
New York Times
Southern States History Rich in Nation’s Events
A Leslie's Weekly writer notes the South’s wealth of historic milestones. Virginia led early national policy from 1789 to 1825 under Washington to Monroe, while South Carolina emerged as a political center with Hayne Calhoun and peers. Texas sparked the US Mexican War, yielding vast western lands and prompting Louisiana annexation through Mississippi River control negotiations. Florida’s earliest white settlements predate others, and Wantauga in Tennessee saw self government expand west of the Alleghenies.
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South
Leslie
Virginia
Washington
Monroe
John Adams
Hayne
Calhoun
McPuffie
South Carolina
Texas
Mexico
United States
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
California
Colorado
Wyoming
Mississippi
France
Louisiana
Florida
Wantauga Colony
Tennessee
Alleghanies
Right Handed Parrots and Maggie in Chicago
A bird fancier notes parrots’ handedness after training, joking most birds prefer left feet and only handed parrots come from left handed owners. In a Chicago tale Maggie, a domestic, misreads a skull and crossbones label as meaning the medicine is good for teeth.
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New York Sun
Maggie
Chicago
The Secret Elopement Adrift in Midnight Plans
A playful exchange between a Circassian beauty and a fat lady ends with a wry remark about a contortionist husband. The scene pivots to a secret elopement plan at about two in the morning with lingering concern about bringing a motor to the next corner and pleasing anxious parents.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Her Added Weight and a Witty Exchange
A light exchange presents Mrs Benham remarking on growing stout with marriage. Mr Benham quips about marrying a wife on the instalment plan, followed by a Hastings quotation about finding one’s place in God’s plan and being born to the socket.
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Hastings
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Dr. Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
R. V. Pierce
M. D
Buffalo
N.Y
Pierce
Brunnerville
E. G. Geyer
Thomas Steffy
Broad Street
Lititz, PA
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Williamson
C. E. Myer Tinner and
Plummer Lititz
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
Hon. J. Way
John Hertzler
D. Seiles
Besbertus Miller
C Ee Nger
Nanny Biug
Hor
W. A. Hensel
BW. Haruman Jioun Hertzler
John A. Nauman
John B. Miller
J.T. Breneman
J. BH. Weaver
Wertsch
Watchmaker
Lititz
Penna
W. H. Muth & Co
Decker and
Jansser
Janssen
Toeper
J. B. Young & Son
B. Orange St
Fulton Studio
Kinest Lancaster, Pa
Amos
Eb Reichinds
S. M. Huber
F. M. Bowman
Rothsville
Maurice River
E.C. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Lititz Water Company
Vinance
East Main Street
Weachter
Leading Farmers
Sorrel Horse Hotel
A. B. Adams
Prop R
King St
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