State police patrol Mt Gretna to stop wholesale robbery
The state enlists police to patrol the Mt Gretna area and protect the Pennsylvania Chautauqua cottages from a spate of robberies. Turkeys seized by humane agents as stock in trade for distribution are among the losses.
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Mt. Gretna
Pennsylvania Chautauqua
Parrish St. Methodist Church
Wilkes- Barre
Humane
Roberts
Fishery Department
N. R. Buller
Columbia County
W. H. Hile
Bloomsburg
Dillon Coyon
Alaska
Espy
Pennsylvania
State Banking Department
William H. Smith
Mahanoy City
Tamaqua Leap Year Club
Live Owl Trapped in Palmyra Church Pipe Organ
A live owl was found inside the large centre tube of the United Brethren church organ in Palmyra after a Sunday noise. It entered via a broken window and remains imprisoned until an organ expert can remove parts and free the bird.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren
Palmyra
The Perfect Putterer and the Art of Puttering
The essay defines puttering as doing for oneself slowly what others can do quickly and well. It celebrates the putterer as a creator who values personal effort, maddening variation, and a liberal education through self directed work, resisting excessive specialization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Blind Painter Turns Out To Paint Blinds
A witty exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes a so called blind painter who creates blinds as his artwork. The anecdote frames the artist as a genius while revealing the punchline that his subjects are practical items. The joke plays on the blindness as a theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland Plain
Why Women Need Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription
An older, healthy looking woman is contrasted with a forty or forty five year old. The text argues that female weakness affects beauty and health and touts Dr. Pierce Favorite Prescription as restoring vigor to womanhood. It claims no alcohol or habit forming drugs and offers free confidential letters to Dr. Pierce at Buffalo New York World’s Dispensary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R.V. Pierce
Pres
Buffalo, N.Y
Fear As A Malady Phases Of Morbid Fright
Fear as a disease is now recognized as a set of phobias distinct from normal fear. Claustrophobia agoraphobia monophobia and mysophobia appear among others. Normal fears justify experiences while morbid phobias are groundless and arise from brain disturbance.
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Nickajack Cave
Nickajack
Tennessee River
Chickamauga
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
Kentucky
Flubson
Washington Sur
Birmingham
Brunnerville
Geyer
W. H. Muth & Co
Lititz, Pa
Waverly OL Works CO
Pittsburg
Waverly Special Auto
Waverly
Fohaifavou Oa
Wertsch’s
Watchmaker Jeweler
Lititz
Maurice River
E. Cc. Ritchie Railroad Restaurant
Ind
Peck-Williamson
Cail and Sea This Furnace
Marvel, Co
E. Myer Tinner and Plumber
The
Lancaster Trust Co
Queen St
Lancaster, Pa
Hertzler
John D. Seiles
Herbert
Milner
Treaster C
J. Hay Brown
John DR. Skiles Grabill
A.W. Twartman
John Hertzler
John A. Hayman
John Be, Miler
J.P. Dreneman I, H. Weaver
Fulton
Amos
Cen Nissan
S. M. Huber
Lititz, Or
F. M. Bowman
Rothsville
Irving
East Main Street
Leifing Paraiars
Sorrel Horse Hotel
4& B
Binner
King St
It and
Warwick
Walter Miller
N. Broad Street
Thomas Steffy Lititz
Becher and
Janssen
Century
J. B. Young & Son
E. Orange St
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