Marriage licenses and unusual incidents across Crawford county
Marriage licenses issued to youths in Titusville and Meadville highlight early marriages in Crawford county. Youths face injuries from pistol play as a boy from Dillsburg and a Gettysburg woman’s aunt suffer gunfire. A Luzerne county farm installs a large electric plant to power home and barn. A Fern Mountain bear, among Pennsylvania’s largest, is shot by three hunters after a nine and a half foot forearm span. An Edgewood resident uncovers a skyrocket stuffed with chestnuts, a contraband stash saved by a chipmunk, left for winter by a resident hunter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford County
Titusville
Meadville
Marie Haven
Sparta
G. C. Onatt
Warren
Wilber Cook
Dillsburg
Cook
Harrisburg
Esther Williams
Gettysburg
William Stover
Menallen
Butler
Conyngham
Pennsylvania
Fern Mountain
Slate Run
Pine Creek
David and Clark McWilliams
Augustus Bennett
Wellsboro
George Barnes
Franklin County
Pen- Mar Park
Edgewood Cottage
George Lutz
Barnes
Monarchs of the Air Giant Birds That Man May Emulate in Flight
A historical overlook of soaring birds and the challenges of human flight. It describes vultures frigate birds albatross and condors with wingspans up to 17 feet, noting that wing size alone does not determine flight power. It argues toward the complexities of mastering air and lift beyond mere wing area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North America
Eyrie
Mediterranean
Eagle Flight Against the Mountain Winds
A fragmentary note describes an eight pound eagle lifting beasts heavier than itself and stories of birds carrying off children. It contrasts these feats with an imagined aeroplane that could match the eagle’s prowess yet weigh only eighty pounds. The piece shifts to diary-like vignettes of men crying on Chicago streets and social hardship observed by a narrator quoting Christian Merald on sorrow in the urban poor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ifman
Peaceness
Chicago
kKome
Christian Merald
The Death Pain and Its Relation to Dying
A renowned surgeon explains that death is rarely painless in practice but often comes with little physical pain as vital systems weaken. He notes temperament and education influence pain perception, with educated and robust individuals bearing death with greater fortitude.
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London Globe
The Biter Bitten Pigeon Purchase Tale
A Philadelphia man bought a dozen homing pigeons at a dealer for a very low price. Two weeks later the dealer learned the birds were bound for San Francisco and would return home when released. The dealer had been outsmarted and the buyer was amused by the reversal. The tale ends with a pun on the biter being bitten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
San Francises
Ana
San Francisco
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Life of a Gown in a Fire Insurance Suit
A New York Sun excerpt describes a courtroom fight over women’s gowns damaged by fire. An expert testified that a dress loses monetary value after ten wearings, implying most gowns had no worth left, which would excuse insurer liability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insurance Company
New York Sun
One View of Mountain Climbers in Historic Light
The piece notes that Murray's Guide to Switzerland (1888) claims many Mont Blanc climbers were of unsound mind, a view contrasted with modern popular outings at Lome and abroad. It also recalls Goldsmith selling The Vicar of Wakefield to pay rent and references Elizabethan juries and a banquet after verdicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lome
Murray
Switzerland
Mont Blanc
Goldsmith
Wakefield
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E. G. Geyer
Thomas Steffy
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Lititz, PA
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Happy Voices
Geo. H. Ferry
Ninth Ave
Grand Rapids, Mich
Peck Williamson
Maine
Oregon
Michigan
MYER
Lititz
The
Lancaster Trust
Queen St
Lancaster
Acta
Ryizler
ABS
Joan HE
W. Harta
John Hertz
John A
John B. Miller
Breneman
J. H., Weaver
HC IO
Wertsch
Watchmaker
P. & R. Depot Penna
W. H. Muth & Co
Decker and
Jansser
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
Fulton Studio
Insst
Lancaster, Pa
Amos
Domnannt
S. M. Huber
Lititz, Or
F. M. Bowman
Rothsville
Waverly Oil Works CO
Pittsburg
Waverly Special Auto
Waverly
Free Ice
Aifavout
Maurice River
E.C. Ritchie
Railroad Restaurant
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