Dinner in Moscow Hotel A La Russe Described In Detail
The writer recalls a Moscow hotel dining experience with extravagant service and multiple courses. Before the meal, appetizers and decanters precede a long banquet, featuring cabbage soup, mushroom pie, sterlet, roast meats, various gravies, desserts, and a profuse silver service, ending with a desire for a simple square meal. The author notes the time and etiquette, and vows never to repeat the experience.
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Moscow
Volga
Rat-Snap ad pledges cheap kill for costly rat damage
An odd old notice advertises RAT-SNAP rat poison in cakes that kill rats and leave no odor. It claims each 5e package can kill 50 rats and saves about $100 in losses from feed and property. Available in three sizes 65c and $1.25, sold by TL. N. Moyer and 8. M. Fahnestock in Lexington.
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TL. N. Moyer
Lititz
M. Fahnestock
Lexington
Radio Ralf and His Friends Rat Control Ad
Fred Lamb reports rats avoided his best grain after using RAT-SNAP at a feed store. A neighbor’s shop sold it, and RAT-SNAP killed rats each morning. JL. N. Moyer of Lititz and H. M. Fahnestock of Lexington guarantee and sell three sizes 35c 65c and $1.25.
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JL. N. Moyer
Lititz
M. Fahnestock
Lexington
Women Jurors Move Forward in County Jury Service Plans
The county moves toward including women in jury draws as 1100 names go into the 1923 wheel. The first drawing is set in about five weeks, while reforms reflect judges and commissioners easing reluctance to call upon women for service.
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Lancaster
State Road from Lancaster to Reading Is Completed
The Lancaster Auto Association announced a hard surface road from Lancaster to Reading via Ephrata has been completed with the last dressing of oil applied. Civil war veteran Jacob Gingerich of Ephrata marked his 87th birthday with a family gathering at his home.
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Lancaster
Reading
Ephrata
Lancaster Auto Association
Jacob Gingerich
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Local and Constitutional Benefits
Those in a run down condition find catarrh worsens, proving it is a local disease influenced by overall health. Hall's Catarrh Medicine combines a local ointment with an internal tonic to improve general health. Sold by druggists for over 40 years by F. S. Cheney & Co, Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Girls Replacing Striking Workers in Chicago Rail Yards
Reports say dispatches show that girls are employed to fill vacant positions in the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway yards and other locations. Officials claim the girls clean and oil engines and machinery to management satisfaction.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Chicago
Man Hikes Across States Aiming At All 48 Capitals
Leslie Eicher of Washington Pennsylvania travels solo to visit every state capital. Since starting last March he has logged about 5000 miles across New York New England and eastern Canada. He plans a three year trek totaling over 25000 miles and is a former 81st Engineers serviceman.
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Leslie Eicher
Washington
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Canada
81St Engineers
Deer Grazing on Track Sparks Narrow Train Warning
A Susquehanna River and Western Railroad engine nearly hit two deer grazing on the tracks near New Bloomfield. The deer froze until the whistle, then one jumped a wire fence while the other crashed it. A third deer was spotted on tracks at Neilson's woods along Mahanoy Ridge. Separately, Toward Eyster, York, and W R B Stallsmith of Gettysburg hunted in Maine’s Big Woods, reporting four deer, one bear, and ten partridges over 17 days, with Stallsmith and Lyster each taking a deer and partridges. Eyster claimed the bear. The trip began in Kingman.
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Elizabethtown College
Grayhill
Susquehanna River and Western Railroad
New Bloomfield
Neilson’s Woods
Mahanoy Ridge
Big Woods
Maine
Eyster
York
W. RB. Stallsmith
Gettysburg
Mr. Stallsmith
Mr. Lyster
Mr. Eyster
Kingman
Retired Railroad Worker Recalled in Brief Notice
A brief obituary note recognizes an individual who served with the Pennsylvania Railroad and has been retired for several years.
Bear cub released in state game preserve at Lewistown
A 95 pound black cub bear native to Potter county was placed in the state game preserve at Licking Creek Lewistown by Game Warden R McCoy. The cub, the fourth of its species released there, was trapped by protectors and transported by express to McVeytown then moved by car into the wilds.
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R, McCoy
Licking Creek
Lewistown
Bruin
Potter County
McVeytown
Express
Wilds
St Pauls Evangelical Church Opposes Merger
Fifty members of St Pauls Evangelical church York protested a merger with the Evangelical Association and declined to worship under that name. Pastor Rev C W Finkbinder did not attend the meeting. A silver fox drowned after entanglement in eel nets on the Susquehanna near Shamokin Dam. pelt valued at 72 dollars with a 4 dollar bounty.
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St. Paul’s Evangelical Church
York
The
Evangelical Association
Evangelical Church
C. W. Finkbinder
J. P. Coryell
Shamokin Dam
Susquehanna
Highways to Keep 1715 Miles Snow Free This Winter
The Highway Department will clear 1715 miles of state roads of snow, a record for the department. It will use 125 snow plows 65 road machines 140 trucks 14 tractors and several hundred drags with snow fences at drift-prone locations.
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Highway Department
Bee Keeper Reports Record Honey Harvest in Lycoming County
Robert Conn, a Roaring Branch beekeeper in Lycoming County, reports harvesting more than eight tons of honey this year from 150 colonies. He believes the total sets a local beekeeping record.
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Robert Conn
Roaring Branch
Lycoming County
Court Refuses Public Admonition on Lancaster Gambling
Judge Landis refused a request by the Lancaster County Sunday School Association to admonish gambling at carnivals and festivals in multiple towns. Attorney Mellinger sought to read a petition listing Bareville Millersville Willow Street Mechanicsburg Eden New Holland and other places as gambling hotspots. The petition, supported by Henry Ober and Mary Swope, called gambling pernicious and tied to vice and idleness under charity and community welfare pretexts.
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Lancaster County
Landis
Lancaster County Sunday School Association
Walter Mellinger
Hassler
Longtime Altoona Odd Fellow James M. McCurdy Honored
James M. McCurdy of Altoona is celebrated for fifty seven years since joining the Odd Fellows on November 10 1865. He has taken active part in lodge work throughout the span and is noted as a veteran member.
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James M. McCurdy
Altoona
Lodge
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Dad
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Jack Wilson
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F.S. Kliner
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Drumore
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Phoebe Kemper
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Mellinger School
West Cocalico
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B. M. Breneman
Denver
Jacob Bard
Columbia
W. H. Hartzler
United Evangelical Congregation of
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East Donegal Township
Keystone Exchanges
Ridgway
Historical Society
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Lititz Springs National
Aramount Theatre
Richard Barthelmess
Tol
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Auspicis
Anna Alice Chapin
Ay Lloyd Carleton
Granadoe Crag
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