Around Your State Chronicle of local incidents and deaths
Lebanon Anville notes memory service for the Coover and Kreider families at the United Brethren church. Franklin Burns and injuries in a house fire force a family from Nicklin. residence destroyed. Pittsburgh Westinghouse payroll theft reported to police. Meadville Charles White ad buried alive in a ditch, rescued. Cornwall Albert Gettle, 63, freight conductor, falls from locomotive. arm amputated but recovery hoped.
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Lebanon
United Brethren In Christ! Areh
Annville
County
Charles M. Coover
S. William Coover
Joseph N. Kreider
Cornwall
Good Samaritan Hospital
Cost of sickness and burden of tuberculosis care
The analysis shows seven days of illness per year per person and 2 percent of the population ill at any time. Sickness costs in the United States reach about 16 billion dollars annually, with care costs per person at 31.08 dollars and per family 124.68 dollars. Including future earnings, per capita cost rises to 141 dollars and family cost to 567.33 dollars. Over 90 percent of losses fall on patients and families, with Pennsylvania bearing nearly 1.5 billion dollars yearly.
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United States
Homer Folks
Pennsylvania
Bells Ring Across Pennsylvania for Christmas Seal Sale Opening
Bellis Peal Forth Pennsylvania joins other states in ringing bells Friday November 29 at 10 AM to announce the Christmas Seal sale. Bells sounded across the state with up to 200 rings delivering a message of health.
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Pennsylvania
1925 Christmas Seals Picture Shows Bell Message
The article notes that visual counts across counties depicted an Incinnet church school and fire bells. The 1925 Christmas Seals image features a bell and bell ringer with an estimate of thousands of bells ringing to send the message Ring out tuberculosis Ring in health.
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Incinnet
Ephrata Council Approves New Water Plant Plans
Ephrata Borough Council approved the water plant project and site at Church Avenue and Pine streets. Plans by Borough Engineer Fred H. Dechant call for diverting Cocalico Creek water to an intake, then to reservoirs with a twelve inch force main to Bingaman reservoir. Estimated cost is 80 000 bonds 75 000 plant plus 5 000 for legal action. work to start within weeks and finish by next summer.
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Ephrata
Harrisburg
State Health Department
Fred. H. Dechant
Water Department
Milton Quote From Areopagitica Record
A quotation from John Milton places a noble and puissant nation waking like a strong man and an eagle awake with undazzled eyes in the full midday beam. This excerpt, labeled Areopagitica, appears under the catalog code CNGOS-1674.
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John Milton
Cngos
Obituary for Harry Neff and family details
Obituary continues for Harry Neff of Central Manor and Nora at home. It notes a son Edwin of near Lititz, 18 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Funeral is today at 1 o clock from the late home and 1 30 from Longenecker's Church with interment in the adjacent cemetery. Beck Brothers are the directors.
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Harry Neff
Central Manor
Nora
Edwin
Lititz
Longenecker
Beck Brothers
Mrs Norah Kauffman Geibe Dies Near Lititz
Mrs Norah Kauffman Geibe forty five died Saturday at her Lititz area home of complications. Former Miss Kauffman daughter of Adeline and the late Andrew Kauffman. Survived by husband mother a brother Benjamin and sister Katie wife of John Geibe both of nearby Manheim, two adopted children. Services Monday at 12.30 at home and 2 at Landisville Mennonite Church. Interment in adjoining cemetery.
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Joseph Geibe
Lititz
Norah Kauffman
Adeline
Andrew Kauffman
Benjamin
Katie
John Geibe
Manheim
Landisville
I Am the Christmas Seal Penny Seal Message
The passage presents the Christmas Seal as a symbol of health protection and TB fight. It describes the seal as a health insurer aiding home school, safeguarding families, restoring sick children, teaching health habits, and promoting exercise and cleanliness.
Professional Cards Hauling and Notary Listings in Lititz
Public notices for local services include hauling of all kinds and garbage collection by M Ada Schnerer notary public and insurance services. Listings show addresses at 127 Liberty Street and 158 Spruce Street Lititz PA with contact numbers 219 R and 1325.
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Hollinger
Liberty Street
Lititz
Huebener and Habecker Lititz Real Estate and Insurance Firm
Huebener and Habecker located at 34 East Main Lititz offer real estate, insurance, investment securities, scrivening and clerking of sales. HERSHEY and GIBBEL conveyancers provide deeds wills mortgages and all legal papers. Special attention to decedents estates settlement. Phone 47 J.
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Hershey & Gibbel
Mary M Herr dies at 89 in Colerain Township
Mrs. Mary M Herr eighty nine died Saturday at her son Clinton Herrs home in Colerain township She was daughter of Ulrich and Sarah Miller Strickler Survived by three children Abram L and Clinton S Quarryville R D and Mrs Abram Rhoads Quarryville Also surviving are brother John Strickler East Petersburg and sister Sarah Strickler Salunga Services held private at the home and public at Mechanics Grove Mennonite Church Interment in the adjoining cemetery She was a member of Mechanics Grove Mennonite Church.
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Mary M. Herr
Clinton
Herr
Colerain Township
Ulrich
Sarah Miller Strickler
Abram L
Clinton S
Quarryville
R. D
Abram Rhoads
John Strickler
East Petersburg
Sarah Strickler
Salunga
Mechanics Grove Mennonite Church
Death of Mrs Nettie Spayd in East Lampeter Township
Mrs Nettie Spayd 60 wife of Howard Spayd East Lampeter Township died at home Monday from complications. She was a Zion Lutheran Leacock member. Survived by husband a son Elmer Hoover Leola two daughters Mrs Harold Krick Bard's Crossing and Mrs Harvey Roose Heller's Church area three brothers Frank Bender Lititz Wayne and Alfred Bender Akron one sister Mrs William Cunningham Banks. Funeral private at 1 30 pm then public at Leacock Lutheran Church 2 pm. Burial adjoining cemetery.
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Nettie Spayd
Howard Spayd
East Lampeter Township
Bridgeport
Zion Lutheran Church
Leacock
Elmer Hoover
Leola
Harold Krick
Bard’s Crossing
Harvey Roose
Near Heller’s Chu
Frank Bender
Lititz
Wayne
Alfred Bender
Akron
William Cunningham
Banks
Leacock Lutheran Church
Death of George B. Kafroth at Northmont Reading
George B. Kafroth fifty nine died Saturday night at 9 45 at his home Northmont near Reading from complications after six weeks illness. He belonged to BPOE 1228 Coatesville IOOF Ephrata charter member Sunshine Club Reading and Reform ed Church Reading. Survived by two daughters Minnie M Zwally Shillington and Ida K Frederick with whom he resided two grandchildren a sister Lizzie Retter Lititz and a brother Elwood Kafroth New Jersey. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 9 am at the late home and 11 am at Lincoln Reformed Church. Burial followed in adjoining cemetery.
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George B. Kafroth
Northmont
Reading
Coatesville
Ephrata
Sunshine Club
The
Reformed Church
Minnie M
Harvey G. Zwally
Shillington
Ida K. Frederick
Lizzie Retter
Lititz
Elwood Kafroth
New Jersey
Lincon Reformed Church
Wingert Haas Hat Store Promotes Spring Hats in Lancaster
The oldest hat store in Lancaster Wingert and Haas promotes spring hats in varied colors and shapes. John A Haas proprietor advertises plain hats as a specialty at 144 North Queen Street.
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Lancaster
Wingert & Haas
John A. Haas
Queen St
Konjola Praised as Cure for Indigestion and Rheumatism
William R. Medary of Oxford Pennsylvania credits Konjola with ending his stomach pain nervous unrest and rheumatic misery after three bottles he reports lasting improvement including weight gain and better sleep. The medicine is sold at L N Moyers Drug Store in Lititz and by major druggists in the region.
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William R. Medary
Oxford
Konjola
Lititz
L. N. Moyer
Cystex 48 Hour Test Offered At Local Drug Store
Bladder irritation and burning are promoted to be relieved quickly by Cystex. The ad invites customers to try Cystex with a money back guarantee if there is no rapid improvement. Available for 60 cents at N. Moyer's Drug Store in Lititz Pennsylvania.
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N. Moyer
Lititz
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Ranklin
W. F. Cummings
Nicklin
Here
Cummings
John
Uch
Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacring Company
Meadville
Charles Whitead
Albert Gettle
Bellis
Atwater
Kent
Aedes
Beret Reehead
Atwater Kent
Jacob Kling & Son
South Broad St
Lititz, Pa
IPL
Lancaster County
Billy
W. Martin Hess Rigite
Zoru Pees
Milton
Delphine
Elmwood
M. Ada Schnerer
Mrs
William R
Medary
Farmers National Bank
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