Variety of fall notes and local notices from Lancaster region
The page surveys harvests and seasonal shifts with remarks on turnips cider apples and corn while noting rising sugar prices and a less plentiful rabbit supply. It reports local events including a pantry sale by the United Brethren Church Ladies Aid and a staircase accident involving Harry Weiland. A tobacco growers meeting and local business quips conclude the digest with regional trivia and humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid Society of the
United Brethren Church
Conestoga Traction Company
South Broad Street
Adop
Brule Pioneer Said Real Discoverer Of Great Lakes
Etienne Brule is described as the true discoverer of the Great Lakes, including Lake Superior, predating Champlain and others by years. He failed to leave written records, and Champlain later denounced him as abandoned, raising questions about historical judgments of his morals and life among native peoples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champlain
LaSalle
Radisson
Marquette
Joliet
Etienne Brule
Great Lakes
America
Superior
Brule
Naving It Both Ways In A London Gallery
A Punch item describes a visit to the Rue da la Beetle gallery where two paintings draw high asks. A red haired girl portrait priced steeply with the dealer noting the painter is dead. a landscape signed Grogjean priced high because the painter is alive and lying is expensive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rue da la Beetle
Grogjean
Iso
She Skipped Trains and Jumped Generations of Transport
An elderly Pennsylvania woman travels to New York by automobile, a journey notable for her never having ridden a steam train. The piece reflects on rapid shifts in transportation, noting small communities electrifying with gasless lamps and skipping generations from coal gas to electric lights in a fast-changing era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
Pennsylvania
Rainbow Trout Eat Mice In Alaska Fish Story
Report from Alaska notes large rainbow trout weighing two to seven pounds feed on mice from July to early September. The fish lie in river and lake margins until mice appear, then strike and swallow them. Kitchen helpers found mice and rats in digestion stages in several specimens. Woodmen have long known the trout’s unusual appetite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Alaskan Rath
A New Difficulty in Crimson Gulch Baseball Plans
A note quotes Cactus Joe on Crimson Gulch forming a baseball team. He says attempts failed due to lack of players, with local boys described as scrappy and unwilling to settle for less.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crimson Gulch
Cactus Joe
Keep Smiling By Taking Spinal Adjustments
Chiropractic promotes health through spinal adjustments and belief in a scientific method. Office hours daily evenings and select weekdays, with consultation free offered to attract potential clients.
Proclamation for Lancaster Court Quarter Sessions Proceedings
Public notice to Lancaster City officials and county officers to appear with rolls records examinations and inquiries to prosecute prisoners in the Lancaster County jail on the third Monday in November dated October 22 ALD.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles J. Lanof
Aaron B. Hassler
Court of Common Pleas
Ausiy
Lancaster
Lanaster
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lima
Seattle
Sayre
Harry Welnland
John H. Ziegier
Jeffersonville
General Wayne
Honey Brook
Brooke Adams
Norristown
Adams
Ziegler
Meeting of Tobacco Growers
Sia
Lancaster County Tobacco Growers Association
Farm Bureau
Woolworth Building
Henry Becker
Ephrata
Long & CO
Lititz, PA
ASCO
Victor Bread
Asco Coffee
Brend
Calif
Kieffer
Richland Butter Pure Creamery
Asco Golden
East Main Street
Lititz
Lakes
Royal Stores Columbian
WM. M. Amer
S. Broad St
Farmers Nat’l Bank
New York State
D.W. Withers
Ind
Leaman & Leed
J. Leicey
D. C
Palmer
North Broad Street
Bell Telephone
Handy Store
Broad Street
Albert Gochenaur
Zartman’s Line
Zartman
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