Meat choppers ship to Australia and other county notes
A Mount Joy firm ships a solid carload of meat choppers to Australia while Lancaster trades reveal scarce haircuts, a local paper dies for lack of patrons, and Mt. Joy boys sell bugs to Forest Park. Farmers report strong clover seed, bumper potato crops, and rising labor wages as harvests continue amid lively county activity. Benny Bleecher wins potato size prize with a stump puller and a derrick, as old torch light parades fade from memory.
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Mount Joy Manufacturing Company
Australia
Mt. Jay
Forest Park
St. Louis
Benny Bleecher
East Drumore
Benny
Akron Shirt Factory Robbery Nets Forty Dozen Shirts
Thieves broke into A. M. Zimmerman shirt factory in Akron on Thursday night, took forty dozen men’s shirts valued around two hundred dollars. A ladder was used to enter a second story window. three suspicious men were seen earlier in town, and Harry Enck pursued one group before losing them near Millway. Lancaster police were alerted.
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A. M. Zimmerman
Akron
Harry Enck
Millway
Mr. Enck
Lancaster
Eleven Guilty Couples Flee Theaters After Threats In Wilmington
A man burst into a Market Street Wilmington cinema claiming his wife was inside with another man and that he would kill them. The panic drew a crowd as the manager urged the couple to escape via the rear exit, and within ten minutes eleven couples fled the theater.
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Wilmington
Del
Ephrata–Lebanon Street Railway Marks Bonds Sold
The Ephrata and Lebanon street railway reports about $75,000 in bonds sold. mortgage not yet entered. Construction paused, expected to resume in two weeks. Line completed from Ephrata to Hopeland and is profitable, with daily receipts about $40 and expenses $14.
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Ephrata
Game Laws Table of Animals and Birds Hunting Rules
Joseph Kalbfus of the State Game Commission lists season dates and bag limits for animals and birds. Bears may be hunted Oct 1 to Jan 1 with steel traps forbidden. many birds have Sept 1 to Jan 1 or Nov 1 to Dec 15 windows. limits vary from unlimited to specific daily and weekly quotas.
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Joseph Kalbfus
The
State Game Commission
Great York Fair aims for new amusements and education
The York fair plans unprecedented midway features and novelties to entertain while educating. Managers promise a clean, high grade lineup with freaks, games, and daily free attractions in front of the grandstand to attract patrons. The lineup will be announced soon, with a strong emphasis on entertainment balanced with education.
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Grange
York
Automobile exports and rise of the motor age in 1911
The passage notes 1911 automobile exports reached 21,636,661 dollars as cars become faster than streetcars, aiding remote farms and isolated villages. It predicts the trolley’s pace may yield to the faster mobile, urging urgency in ownership and production. It also mentions a National Magazine quip about a marriage for money.
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United States
National Magazine
Tickled the Buffaloes and the Telegraph Poles
A Pawnee county pioneer recalls western Kansas telegraph poles tickled by buffalo gnats. Buffalo herds damaged posts, breaking poles as section crews driven by a Boston official used pegging awls to deter them, but the poles fell under attack.
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Kansas
Pawnee
Boston
Icansas City Journal
Silent Wisdom on Keeping Still in Troubled Times
Dr. Burton recalls two commotions where he wrote letters in anger and later found restraint wiser. He kept a long letter in his pocket, reviewed it calmly years later, and chose to destroy it. Time teaches reticence and calm speech, reducing hurtful impulse.
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Dr. Burton
Candlelight and Candlesticks in a House of Light
The passage contrasts candle use and designs from early modern homes with grand state candles, noting brass candlesticks and snuffers, and a bronze lamp that brightens family life yet carries a grim whiff of oil. It recalls Sperm oil prices and the demon like scent of burning oil. It also reflects on Wordsworth and eighteenth century manners, including his belief in his own poetic gift and his view of poetry widening to new fields.
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Mary
Jerusalem
London Globe
Parlor Rain Keeps Couple From The Theater Joke
A Cornell Widow quip compares a rain night at home to a theater outing. The line jokes that after hiding in the parlor, the couple finds theaters dull, hinting at changed social habits and domestic humor.
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Rufus
Cornell
In Suspense and Usual Custom Quips Told
A debate among clubmen opens with My brother has taken the drink cure. Has it cured him. The fears, so Pittsburgh Post. The Usual Custom. A quip from a wife about an ideal husband reads his heart like a book and would be satisfied with the pretty binding in Fliegende Blatter.
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Pittsburgh Post
Government wisdom on self governance and family duty
A compact moral declamation opens with Sir Walter Raleigh's adage that a man must govern himself before governing a family and only then can he govern the commonwealth. The line frames personal virtue as the foundation of public leadership and civic responsibility.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
New Minister Praised for Fresh Perspective in Town
In a local exchange, residents compare the new minister to familiar helpers, noting he brings insights unseen before. One speaker contrasts him with a laundryman, suggesting his practical touch resonates with the community.
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Gertie
Harry
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Teamsters
Walter H. Buch
S. Broad St. — Record Bldg
Lititz, Pa
Mt. Joy
Florin
City of
Columbia Herald
Herald
W. Hayes Grier
Pattison
George Bucher
Akron Shirt Factory
Ephrata-Lebanon Railway
York Fair
Richard Evelyn
Wordsworth
Rylstone
Wingert & Haas
Queen St
Lancaster, PA
Farmers National Bank
Lititz
Penna
Heinitsh’s
S. Queen St
H. Green
Chas. H. Frey
King St
Queen Street
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