Out of Season Rabbit Shooting and Odd Local Tales
A Waynesboro man pays a fine for Sunday rabbit shooting. A Williamsport visitor elicits cow alarm and a river swim. An aged voter walks miles to vote. A Berwick cat, triple dentition, graces the region. Pennsylvania gears up for state and national elections amid various notes. An alligator spotted near Williamsport raises questions. Authorities warn of a swindler posing as a traveling relief doctor issuing bogus checks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
William Houck
Waynesboro
Potter
Williamsport
George M. Strack
Myerstown
Biltiken
Saxony
Elias Hoppes
Berwick
House of Representatives
Courts of Common Pleas
Susquehanna River
Pennsylvania Railroad
Clifford Harsh
Harsh
Pennsylvania Road
Altoona
Huntington
Pennsylvania Relief Department
Grievance Letter About Subscriptions and Job Ad
A reader named Mr Jackson complains about a subscription in a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper. He explains his wife secured work through an advertisement in the paper, countering the paper's political stance with a personal note about employment. The missive reflects reader dissatisfaction tied to politics and a relief at a job opportunity found via the publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Jackson
Mistah Jackson
Oklahoma Shopper Outwits Mail Order Quandary
A man in Oklahoma buys a saw from a local dealer after balking at Sears price. He pays cash and endures delays to match mail order terms, costing him two cents more and two weeks longer for the identical item. The tale contrasts immediate cash purchase with mail order slow delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Chicago
How to Be an Editor
A humorous look at editors who must sift ordinary incidents into readable items. It cites Mrs. Jones in a pantry cut by a can opener and a sequence of small mishaps across towns, ending by noting how editors still earn salaries.
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Jones
Cactus Creek
Piketown
Pike
John Doe
Harold Green
Violet Wise
Mr. Green
Isaiah Trimmer
Running Creek
Mr. Fong
Talk That Beat Harvard and Kept Penn in the Game
Edward Lyell Fox recounts how coaching urgings and a dogged kicker influenced key games in 1905 1907 college football. Mike Murphy’s table speech energized Penn at Harvard Capron’s late kicks tied Minnesota Wisconsin in 1907 with dramatic field goals defining the outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Magazine
Edward Lyell Fox
Pennsylvania
Harvard
Mike Murphy
Murphy
Antony
Boston
Fellows
Franklin Field
Ithaca
Cornell
Columbia
Princeton
Bill
Morley
Fisher
von Saltza
Fox
Ile
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Capron
Une
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Dr. Pierce
Penn
Brunnerville
E. G. Geyer
W.H. Muth & Co
Lititz, Pa
Esecbd Sidez
Waverly
Waverly Oil Works CO
Pittsburg
FREE
Abost
Waterman’s Fountain Pens
Wertsch’s
Watchmaker Jeweler
Maurice River
E. Cc. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Lititz
Ind
Williamson
Tinner and
Plummer Lititz, Pa
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
John Tertilge
John D. Skiles
Jerbert & Miller
Mellingher
John 5
Ghrayuetul
W. A. Ilers
J. Hay Brown
John D, Skiles Ghrabili B
Long
Ah Ha
CPMAN
John HI
Vizier
Jonn A. Nauman
Miler
Fulton Studio
Amos
S. M. Huber
F. M. Bowman
Rothsville
Irving
East Main Street
Leading Farmers’ Hotel
Sorrel Horse Hotel
A. & Adams
Prop’r
Dinneh
King St
Lancaster
Water Brent Notice
Lititz and
Warwick
Walter Miller
Thomas Steffy Lititz
N. Broad Street
Degker and
Janssen
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
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