Farm Calendar Watch for Mites and Pests
Watch for mites in pullets winter quarters and ensure roosts are clean. Control grain weevils in stored wheat with treatment used for grain moths before 60 F. Use carbon bisulphide to fumigate 100 bushels. Raspberry diseases threaten Pennsylvania's industry. spray with nicotine sulphate and lime. Pick seed corn before freezing. dry ears well. Red ants in woodlots respond to mud sealing and carbon bisulphide. one treatment reduces many but not all.
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Pennsylvania
Weather Prophet Predicts Ordinary Winter Ahead
William Altman of Kane Pennsylvania, famed for accurate forecasts, will spend the winter at his West Line cabin. He forecasts an ordinary season with no extreme cold or deep snows, driven by southerly to southwesterly winds. Altman is also a hunter trapper and inventor, recently showcasing a pulley clothesline designed to dry a large family's laundry in confined spaces.
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William
Altman
Kane
MeKean County
Pennsylvania
Westline
United States Weather Bureau
County News Highlights and Local Farm Sales
Treasurer J H Rathson received sixty dollars for the county conscience fund. Frank E Herr denied pardon. Zell’s lawyer urged denial to share blame. Quarryville Cannery offered fifty dollars for largest toma-toe crop per acre. Harry Wimen won with seventeen tons per acre. Paul B Hess leaves New Holland for Los Angeles with Mrs Hess, returning after December. John Plaster, building low grade roads, now owns two farms with strong tobacco crops. John Lane sells Clay farm to Harry Seiverling. Lemon B Wiest sells 80% acre farm in Clay to David M Eshleman with possession April 1.
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Quarryville
Harry Wimen
Eden Township
John Plaster
Clay Farm
John Lane
Clay
Harry Seiverling
Lemon B. Wiest
Clay Township
David M. Eshleman
Manheim
Norseman Discovers and Names Greenland at Century's End
A tenth century Norse explorer located Greenland and established a colony there, naming the land during settlement near the end of the tenth century. The record notes the discovery and early settlement by Norse settlers.
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Greenland
Lamborns Headed to Florida for Winter Escape
Northbrook residents Mr and Mrs Frank E Lamborn traveled by automobile to Miami Florida to stay through the winter. They report camping at night on the trip and note they spent last winter in the Rocky Mountain region as part of their migration south. The story also mentions a 1814 pound turtle caught in Swatara and a robust cabbage crop with high quality heads, yielding well for sauerkraut.
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Florida
Frank E. Lamborn
Northbrook
Miami
Fla
Rocky Mountain
Swatara
Lewis
Buck Hunsicker
Help Wanted in Lititz Kidney Relief Recalled
Lititz residents seek kidney help from Doan's Kidney Pills. J. Albert Hall of 21 S Broad St recalls frequent midnight urination and back pain eased after one box. He endorses the product from Poster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y with price 60 cents at dealers.
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Lititz
Dean
J. Albert Hall
Express
S. Broad St
Doan
Poster
Milburn Co
Mfrs
Buffalo
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Advertisement
An antique ad describes cold remedies for nasal catarrh. It touts Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a local ointment and an internal tonic that boosts the bloodstream to prevent further colds. The product is sold by druggists and has been marketed for over 40 years by B. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
B. J. Cheney & Co
Toleda
Columbia Man With Wonderful Appetite
A Columbia county man, described as the hungry man from Harlem, reportedly ate an extraordinary lunch and follow on items at his workplace. From four sandwiches and a five cent cake he consumed seven more sandwiches, apples, cake portions, bologna, wafers, pretzels, bananas, coffee, water, pie, ice cream, and five cents worth of pretzels, according to an eyewitness.
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Harlem
Columbia
Thisounty
A Skilful Physician Recommends Nature’s Remedies
A reflection on ancient wisdom from Hippo and the Father of Medicine. The piece promotes Dr. Pierce's Garden Medical Discovery as a carefully blended herbal tonic and blood purifier. It asserts that keeping the blood pure leads to health, praising herbal remedies and skilled chemists.
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Hippocrates
Explorer Dr Bassler Leads Peru Trip From Myerstown
Dr Harvey Bassler of Myerstown sails August 12 from Iquites with 86 men on an Eastern Peru expedition lasting into December. Their 15 ton steam launch and canoes travel shallow rivers, haul over logs with Cecropia bark, and endure scarce food with fish monkey and palm buds. They encounter Remos Indians, harsh terrain, and a massive boa constrictor killed in December.
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Harvey Bassler
Myerstown
Iquites
Peru
Bassler
Lebanon County
Grandmother Joke Recalls Rural Purchases Tale
A Dutch-American rural citizen buys items in town and places a box in his wagon. When an acquaintance asks about the box, he lifts the lid and says he has his grandmother. The sniff prompts the remark that she is not in a trance.
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the Inquirer
Bible Found of Founder Otterbein at Otterbein College
A Bible once owned by Philip William Otterbein, founder of the United Brethren church, was found in a recitation room at Otterbein College. It lay undisturbed in a display case for a decade, printed in 1769 in German by Martin Tavern. The volume, six by four inches, bound in dark brown leather, is now in the college library and will be moved to the Otterbein Museum in McFadden Science Hall.
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Philip William Otterbein
United Brethren Church
Otterbein College
Martin Tava
Otterbein
McFadden Science Hall
Chevrolet August sales exceed forty four thousand unit mark
Chevrolet reports August sales of 44 604 cars and trucks in United States Canada and export up 78 percent from August 1922 and marking the biggest month in company history. The eight month total nears 7 a 906 vehicles and suggests continued growth.
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United States
Canada
Chevrolet
Ars
Airplanes Guard Rice Fields Against Birds and Crippling Loss
An unusual report describes aircraft deployed to protect rice fields from geese and other birds, using noises and flares to deter the flock. The effort aims to reduce crop damage and preserve yields amid challenging conditions.
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Iran
Oalitar
Horses Fetch Tiny Bids at Reading Sale
At Reading auctioneer G Buet retires from the liver stable. Eleven horses sold from 4 to 41 dollars, with one near 40. Sleighs buggies saddles and fur items also moved slowly, the entire sale totaling about 700 dollars, far below normal prewar days.
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Reading
Nee G. Buet
Bess
Administrators' Notice for Estate of Mary Ann Metzler
Letters of administration granted to undersigned for Mary Ann Metzler of Warwick Twp. Creditors and debtors urged to settle promptly. Residing Lititz R D 1, Frank Metzler and John D Metzler as administrators, with Wissler Attorney handling the matter.
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Mary Ann Metzler
Warwick Township
Lititz
Rod
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Lititz Fire House
Lititz, Pa
Pennsylvania State College
the County
J. H. Rathson
County Conscience Fund
Frank E. Herr
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Zell
New Holland
Calif
Paul B. Hess
New Holland Konough
Los Angeles
California
Workman
Dh. Hl
Lancaster
Keystone
J. A. West
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KING
Leshith Shoe
Chicago
Dr. A. Reed
Boyd
Lancaster, PA
U. B. Church
Prank PD
Metzler
John D. Metzler
Administra
Trek
Wissler
Hackman
Ralph M. Spacht
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