Local notes on blooms farms burial and legal case
A Columbia crab cactus plant blooms with 120 flowers and 40 future opens. Lancaster county corn yield noted from eight acres at 1 680 bushels. Rev I W Taylor elected moderator of the Eastern Pennsylvania Brethren Home district. Rev G M Falkenstein chosen secretary. Thomas Lebazious of Rawlinsville buried at 93, a long time Odd Fellow. John Mack alias Harry Martin convicted of pandering and keeping a dis orderly house in Ephrata. 18 months jail and $75 fine. case linked to town’s social tensions involving a 14 year old girl.
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George W. Hogentogler
Columbia
Lancaster County
Rohrer Stoner
Donegal Springs
I. W. Taylor
Odd Fellows
United States
Rawlinsville Lodge
John Mack
Harry Martin
Ephrata
Mack
Live Within Our Means Says Encouraging Advice
The piece critiques Pennsylvanians chasing rapid wealth and luxury. It warns that youths abandon farming for business, urging learning a trade, avoiding debt, and a clean life to achieve lasting success.
Tobacco not sold early as fair weather aids curing
Farmers expect higher prices after a long drought as curing tobacco advances. Reported good progress on 1914 crop with leaves long and thick though not suited for wrappers. Packers seek cheap purchases. many expect to pay about 10 cents a pound for wrappers and 2 cents for fillers, delaying February contracts.
Christmas Tree To Shine In Columbia Park
A 35 foot tall Christmas tree will grace Columbia Park over the holidays. A charity gift will be hung on the tree for a poor youngster in the borough.
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Columbia
Post Office Site Picked for Lancaster Corner
The Lancaster site for a new post office has been effectively chosen at the corner of North Prince and Chestnut streets after a $5000 price reduction, making final construction location largely settled.
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Lancaster
North
Prince and
Chestnut Streets
Marietta Hollow Ware to Expand Foundry Capacity
The Marietta Hollow-Ware and Enameling Co. plans a new foundry to increase production and employ more men, signaling expansion and job growth for the company and the local workforce.
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Marietta Hollow-Ware and Enameling Co
Power of Cotton as Basis of Explosives and Everyday Uses
An extended notice extols cotton as foundational to high explosives and smokeless powder and highlights its vast global reach. It cites cotton in ships, clothing, celluloid, autos, cement, packing and bags, insulation, and thousands of applications from airbags to wallpaper, asserting immense economic impact and historical importance.
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T. Revere
Cuba
Florida
United States
New York
South Africa
Canadian Northwest
EL Whitney
Old Time Prices Show 1814 Amity Store Ledger
A Pennsylvania subscriber shares an Amity township daybook from 1814 revealing prices for candles calico tea eggs and meat and a notable salt charge. The note contrasts cheap food then with higher transport costs for goods now and wonders if distant goods will ever be cheap.
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Pennsylvania
Amity Township
Berks
L’ennsylvania
Toledo Blade
Horse Tricks and the Perils of Trained Beasts
General Baden-Powell recalls a circus horse that sat when bands played and a mounted horse he trained to rear and bow. He notes dangers of learning a horse to lie down or to bow, recounting near-misses with a boar charge and a nervous charger that would periodically drop to the ground.
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Tech
Robert Baden-Powell
Pearson's Magazine
John Tech
Lost His Nerve After Eye Surgery By Blacksmith
In York England a blacksmith removed cataracts from several villagers. A local doctor funded his education as an oculist, but the blacksmith, awed by eye anatomy, lost his nerve and returned to the anvil, fearing the knowledge he had gained.
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York
England
London Chronicle
How Is the Law Made in The Ages
A compilation of humorous snippets on law making and marriage from 19th century newspapers. The piece satirizes legislative steps from senate ratification to presidential approval and house adjournment, and contrasts it with light domestic quips about marriage and cabbage.
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United States
Senate
Neuse of Representatives
House of Representatives
Not a Diplomat Knicker Pattern Diary Fragment
Brief notebook snippet contrasts a wife's mother not being a diplomat with a line about patterns and envelopes, reflecting a humorous or clipped exchange in a newspaper feature. The fragment hints at social chatter rather than a full report.
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Norfolk
Dr. Wright
W. H. Buck Clothier
Sto, Re
Lancaster's
Man
Hawthorne
Mr. Nowed
Louisville Courier-Journal
Chicago Herald
Knicker
Becker
New York Sun
Milwaukee Sentinel
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
Penna
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Brussels
Axminster
W. A
Appel
Gpticians Lancasrér
Chas. H. Frey the ‘Shoe Man
King St
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