Mount Joy auctioneer sells seven properties in 31 minutes
In Lancaster county Charley Zeller, a busy Mount Joy auctioneer, set a record by selling seven Lytle estate properties in just thirty-one minutes. The piece notes Elizabethtown business activity, the upcoming Lancaster county school directors convention at Millersville State Normal School on November 28, and retirements and local feats including a large river bass catch by architect C Em len Urban. Also covered are a boiler accident at a Columbia plant, and new rail line developments for the Ephrata and Lebanon Street Railway Company from Ephrata toward Hopeland, with power plant plans and a bridge in progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley Zeller
Mount Joy
Lytle
A. L. DeAaman
Elizabethtown
Lancaster County School Directors
Millersville
Caver
Pennsylvania
Quarryville
Ephrata
Hopeland
Lancaster and Northern railroad revival linked to cement plant
Interest grows in completing the Lancaster and Northern railroad from Millway to Wenger farm beyond Brownstown. Promoters buy the farm for a cement plant and say the line will reach the Pennsylvania railroad cutoff near Lancaster, with a cement plant to follow, while locals expect full completion and extension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster and Northern Railroad
Reading and Columbia Railroad
Millway
Wenger
Brownstown
Talmage
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lancaster
Substituting for a trombone solo gone wrong at the Royal Opera House
A narrator recounts agreeing to substitute for a sick trombone player, only to fail during the rehearsal of an opera. Lehmann, the real player, is revealed to be sick, and the substitute ends up mimicking motions while no sound comes out. The fiasco ends with a joke on mischance and a moral about not overlearning or substituting in bad luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Opera House
Wolfram
Lehmann
Lehman
Béte Noir
Rascal
Heavenly Muses
Such is Life Luther Finiff Downtrodden Fulton County Farmer
Luther Finiff a Fulton county farmer who left railroading years ago to retire on his farm was struck by a falling tree limb and killed. The note recalls Lost Time Sylvanus Miller a civil engineer involved in a Central American railroad project who sought local support and quipped about the road cutting travel time from three days to one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luther Finiff
Fulton County
Pittsburg
Sylvanus Miller
Central America
Miller
Senor
Boston Record
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Pontiasie
Shackamaxon
India
W. H. Buch
Lititz, PA
Columbia
M. E. Church
J. B. Mann
York
Salome U. B. Church
Susquehanna
C. Emlen Urban
Peach Bottom
Urban
Jonas Gerfin
Gerfin
Queen St
Wingert & Haas
Lancaster, PA
Chas. H. Frey the Shoe Man
King St
Heinitsh
BIG Furniture and Carpet
S. Queen St
N. Queen St
North Queen Street
M. M. Souders
BEL
Balteries, Co
OUR
Crystal Spring Farm
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