Infant dies from teething and rail collision fatality
Notices report the infant Robert K. Seaman eight months old died from teething with funeral plans at Landis Valley. Separate item records a fatal auto train crash near Ronks killing Mrs Trout and injuring Mr Trout in dense fog. Other brief notes cover Philip Harter’s heart failure death in Brownstown, a mistaken corpseIDENTIFICATION mix at Lancaster, and an extended ad for Youth's Companion 1914 offerings plus mule sales by Isaac Sarah of Penryn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert K
Clayton Seaman
Oregon
Landis Valley
Philip Harter
Lancaster
John Duck
Brownstown
A. V. Walters
Walters
John H. Long
Undertaker Long
Harter
Lititz
Pleas For Patriotism And Mutual Concessions
A brief exchange humorously contrasts patriotism with unpaid service and a quip about pill shipments. It then pivots to a joke about a couple making mutual concessions as a man shouts votes for women while his wife cheers the home team.
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Briggins
Washington Star
One Way Paw Borrow Fifty on a Note Joke
A fragment from a humor item cites two newspaper quotes on mistaken resemblance and polite reproof. The Houston Post line contrasts a husband flattering his wife with a wife refusing to speak after a remark. The Cincinnati Enquirer reference notes a thirty day note loan of fifty dollars allegedly borrowed by a son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Paw
Cincinnati Enquirer
Water Fed The Flames On A Stricken Ship
A Le Treport freighter named Barfly carried mineral water and cases marked metallic sodium. The cargo shifted as the ship listed, several sodium cases burst into flames, and water intensified the fires causing explosions and airborne flaming debris. The crew fled as the ship broke apart and sank after numerous detonations. Sodium oxidizes rapidly with water, and improper packing led to the disaster per the Boston Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
le Treport
France
Boston Herald
Origin of a Famous Hymn by Cowper
The hymn God Moves In a Mysterious Way was written after Cowper attempted suicide multiple times. A driver, hired to take him to the river for drowning, grew suspicious, detoured the route, and finally left him at his home where Cowper repented and penned the hymn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowper
New York American
Common Center of Gravity Described by Larkin
Edgar Lucien Larkin writes in New York American that objects arrange irregularly yet act as if compressed into a spherical mass at their common center of gravity. He compares cosmic bodies to bees in a swarm moving under universal gravitation, a view of sidereal structure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Lucien Larkin
New York American
I Can Read The Signs Of A well Seasoned Car
A collage of brief quotes and captions from various newspapers presents satirical lines about social behavior and etiquette. The snippets include a woman in a smoking car asserting politeness, a Sunday school toast about being spotless, a Leopard joke, and exchanges about economy and friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Wilfe
Chicago Records Herald
Trunks of elephants show many roles and feelings
Theodore Roosevelt describes elephants as highly capable beings with expressive trunks used for feeding, watering, dusting, testing ground, guiding calves, and sensing danger. He notes their curiosity, social bonding, and limited vision, observing a herd in natural behavior while hunting in dull clothes at eighty yards.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Scribner's Magazine
Pilgrims in India Travel Packed in Third Class Trains
In Wide World Magazine, pilgrims journey to sacred Hindu sites by third class trains packed with narrow cubicles and benches. At stations many try to force entry, police intervene with batons, and some travellers endure open trucks for ten to forty hours in harsh conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Ganges
Wide World Magazine
Education and death by action in modern society
The piece quotes The American Practitioner linking education and higher self harm rates, noting crime and culture as factors. It cites Italy, France, and Germany with varying crisis reports and imagines a future blowout of the earth. Also includes satirical lines on fashion plates, parental effort, and a Stanhope quote on education being only paint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Russia
Spain
Europe
France
Germany
Perfect Alibi and Witnesses in Portland Murder Case
A Portland lawyer defended a Chinaman accused of murder. An interpreter reported the prisoner had a perfect alibi, but later the same interpreter revealed the man shot the victim and disposed of the pistol on Moltison Street. The lawyer disputed the new account, claiming the prisoner was miles away in a railroad camp. The interpreter smiled, saying there were plenty witnesses to prove it. Saturday Evening Test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Misti
Molrtson Street
McGuire's
Les
Mollison Street
McGuire
Public Sale Listings From the RECORD Office
Public sale register lists upcoming auctions with bills printed at this office. Nov 1 Lobes sale and exchange stable Ephrata western horses by Jos W Baker. Nov 26 Akron station near Akron heifers and bulls by E N Wolf & Son. Nov 7 Hphrata cows to hand springers by Geo S Demmy. Nov 22 Springs Hotel Lititz villa sale by Geo F Schreiber. View house by calling Samuel Achreiber residing thereon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lobes Sale and Exchange Stable
Ephrata
Jos. W. Baker
Akron Station
Lititz
Spruce Street
Geo. F. Schreiber
Samuel Achreiber
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Clark Trout
Strasburg
Ronks
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
Trout
B Rd
Umbrella Mender
Pier
Companion
Youth’s Companion
Berkeley Street
Boston
Mass
Isaac Sarah
Penryn
John D. Bear
Houston Post
Madgin
Chicago Tribune
Gnaggs
Mr. Gnaggs
Philadelphia Record
Natural Phenomena
Kingdom Come
Cleveland
Hixe
Exe
Boston Transcript
Farmer Corntessel
Stanhope
The
Royal Garage
John Habecker
Broad Sr
East Main Street
Sturgis
John H. Tshudy
N. Y. State
Spruce Street Grocery
John L. Hosler, Jr
H. P. Gingrich & Co
Broad St
Conestoga Meat CO
W. King St. Lancaster
John F. Schleith
Mgr. Spruce
Frank’s General Store
J. C. Felker Cor
Bread and Orange Sts
Warwick
Telephone
Banquet
Parke
Donovan’s
Coats & Suits
Bettelhein & Coyne
Donovan Company
Williamson’s
Foster & Cochran
E. King St
Lancaster, Pa
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