Local notes include military, licenses and a trolley plan
In Elizabethtown R L Coble returns home after five years in the Philippines. Kinderhook woman Mrs Joseph Halter earned a gunner license. Engineers surveyed routes between Marietta and Maytown for a proposed trolley extension. The Citizens Committee backs the plan with local support. Mt Joy’s Henry Sheaffer faces weeks of knee injury. Wayne Jackson is jailed by Federal authorities for sending a threatening postal card. Wenninger reports a large salmon catch in Fife's Eddy. Lancaster man Robert Todd fined for school neglect and imprisoned for two days after refusing to pay costs.
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R. L. Coble
Elizabethtown
Sam
Philippines
Joseph Halter
Kinderhook
West Hempfield
Engineer Corps
Marietta
Maytown
Henry Sheaffer
Mt. Joy
Wayne Jackson
Lancaster
George Myers
Coatesville
William T. Wenninger
Wenninger
Fife
Eddy
Robert H. Todd
Alderman Doebler
Todd
Who the Cossack Is
The Cossack is a born horseman and a steppe native. They sit on strong swift horses from childhood and grow up with one career in view to serve the government faithfully. They are picturesque, less civilized than other peasants, intermarry within their group, larger and sturdier, with high cheekbones and a far-seeing eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sasha Kropokin
New State Highway Maps Show Southeastern Pennsylvania
The State Highway Commission issued a large map of southeastern Pennsylvania at four miles to one inch. It lists state and state aided highways along with county and township roads. Prepared under Commissioner Bigelow, the map covers Adams through Snyder counties and portions of several others. A limited number of copies are available for motorists and travelers.
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Pennsylvania
Bigelow
Adams
York
Lancaster
Chester
Delaware
Philadelphia
Montgomery
Bucks
Berks
Lebanon
Dauphin
Cumberland
Franklin
Perry
Juniata
Centre
Mifflin
Clinton
Union
Northumberland
Montour
Columbia
Luzerne
Carbon
Monroe
Northampton
Lehigh
Schuylkill
Snyder
Wireless in War How Cruisers Lead Scouts With Wireless
The article explains wireless telegraphy in naval warfare, detailing how battleships, cruisers, and destroyers stay in contact to guard against enemy ships. It describes stations ashore, the relay of intelligence to the admiral, and the silent, high-pressure operations in the wireless rooms aboard ships.
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Navy Department
Mere
Kat
Ted
Boston Transcript
Wasted Sympathy in a Short Exchange
A brief dialogue highlights the imbalance of effort and pay for a professor’s wife and a piano mover. The mover downplays musical status, while Life urges practical restraint. Talent and tact emerge as contrasting guides in this domestic vignette.
Military Annihilation and the Meaning of War Terms
The article explains that annihilated or destroyed in war often refers to the loss of an organization or unit rather than every soldier killed. It cites Boer War examples, noting officers die at higher rates and a unit can be wrecked yet soldiers remain alive but unable to fight until reformed.
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Buller
Tugela River
Alligators of Panama Killer Alligator Terrorizes Villages
Paul Drevy recounts a Panama river terror in Wide World Magazine. A solitary alligator, over twenty four feet long and over a century old, devoured about thirty people across two villages near the Tayra River, forcing locals to fear night and day. Hunters finally trapped the creature with a baited hook and a pig, ending a two month reign of danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tayra
Gulf of Panama
Paul Drevy
Wide World Magazine
Animals and Electricity in Animal Reactions
A discussion explains that humans have greater resistance to electricity than many animals. A feed on a copper plate over zinc is held by weak electric action. Horses are troubled by small potential differences. An ox treated for rheumatism with electricity died from a current harmless to humans.
The Human Eye Sunk In Disease Provides Pale Appearance
The human eyeball rests in facial fat and is surrounded by fat cushions. When disease causes severe emaciation the fat is absorbed and the eye sinks inward, producing the sunken look commonly seen in illness.
Those Kind Friends engagement report echoes
A short exchange from the New York Times recalls reactions to an engagement. Evelyon asks what people said and Dorothy answers that they believed the father’s failure could not be as bad as reported, reflecting social commentary on reputations.
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Evelyon
Dorothy
New York Times
No Doubt About It in Courtroom Pairing
A bystander notes the apparent connections of two men, one an officer and the other in custody, as they are handcuffed together and escorted toward the courtroom for a proceeding reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Louis Post-Dispatch
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Norfolk
Dr. Wright
Hainstream Rib
T. W. H. Buch Clothier
Eitan, Mee
The
Lancaster County Humane Society
Society
East Lampeter
Frank B. McGrann
N. E. Bitzer
St. Joseph’s Hospital
H. R. Steigerwalt
Bell
Independent
Frank McGrath
M. S. Hershey
Hershey
Hershey Chocolate Company
New
Panama
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
Penna
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Brussels
Axminster
W. A
Queen St.north
Seidelseie Toit
Oeta
Unm
Chas. H. Frey the
Shoe Man
East
King St
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