Civil service exam set for town postmaster at Elizabethtown
A civil service examination for town postmaster candidates will be held in Elizabethtown on October 28. A Lancaster couple, John R. Shreiner and Fannie R. Risser, recently wed at Millersville, departed for California. The Lancaster County Wiremen’s Association raises 2500 for injured members after a carnival at the Esbenshade farm near the Country Club. The Penn Hill meeting house uses a 10 plate stove, built to order a century ago, large enough to hold four foot long logs.
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Elizabethtown
John R. Shreiner
East
Lampeter
Fannie R. Risser
Lancaster
Millersville
Califoria
Lancaster County Wiremen's Association
Fund For the
Esbenshade
Penn Ifill Meeting
Lancaster Chamber Pursues City Annexation Plan
The Lancaster Chamber of Commerce has spent a year crafting a plan to annex parts of Manor Manheim Lancaster and West Lampeter townships to the city. A Manheim township canvass yielded near unanimous signatures on the petition with few rejections, and similar support is anticipated in other areas.
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Lancaster Chamber of Commerce
Manor
Manheim
Lancaster
West Lampeter
Manheim Township
No Appreciation for Art in New Frama
The audience hissed and groaned at the principal scene of the new drama. The heartbroken playwright laments public taste while the manager predicts the crowd will demand their money back.
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Mary Ann Meisler
Woewick Township
Luit
Father’s Hard Work at the Curtain House
A little girl explains her father’s job to a great lady, saying he works awful hard at the curtain house. The lady remarks that her duties were heavy on her last trip from Europe.
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Europe
Easton Woman Holds Hard Luck Record in State
Mrs. Tillie Prendergast of Easton is noted for a string of accidents in four weeks. She stepped on a rusty nail injuring her foot, slipped and sprained her ankle, was knocked unconscious by lightning, and fell down stairs causing bruises.
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Tillie Prendergast
Easton
College Students Serve as Paid Pall Bearers
Pitt University confirms that several students were frequently hired by Pittsburgh funeral directors as pallbearers, forming a close attachment for mutual profit. The arrangement illustrates how students supplement incomes through cemetery and funeral industry work in the city.
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Pittsburgh
Pitt University
Pittsburgh Funeral Directors
Backache Linked to Kidney Trouble Cited in Testimony
Mrs. B Oehme of 118 N Cedar St reports constant backache chills headaches and dizziness due to irregular kidney action. After using Doan’s Kidney Pills she improved steadily and felt better than in years. She endorses the remedy as a preventive aid and notes she still uses it occasionally. Manufactured by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
B. Oehme
N. Cedar St
Doan
Ce Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Mfrs
Buffalo
N.Y
Fussy Dane Seeks Dog License in Comic Exchange
A humorous dialogue shows a critic clerk granting a dog license to a self important owner. The owner asks for the license with a fuss and the clerk responds with a lighthearted exchange about the dogs name. The scene captures a quaint moment of petty bureaucratic interaction.
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Kido
Dase
Migratory Waterfowl Studied Through Banding Routes
A Biological Survey project shows banded ducks provide migration data. Canadian lake tagging near Toronto reveals long flights to South America for blue-winged teals, with routes toward the Ohio River and Atlantic coast. Further study is needed to identify origins of birds using the observed routes.
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Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Biol
Wash
D.C
Washington
the Biological Survey
Toronto
Ont
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Venezuela
North America
South America
Canada
Gulf
Great Lakes
Coust
Mexico
Lake Scuyey
Lake Frie
St. Clair Flats
Ohio River
Mississippi Valley
Lake Erie
Alleghenies
Atlantic Coast
Chesapeake
Delaware Bays
New England
Lake Scugog
The Danger Signal and a Soldier of Fortune
A fragmented fragment describes a night passenger train near a broken bridge warning of danger. It mentions a student of herbs who cures with a Golden Medical tonic and blood purifier statings Vim Vigor and Vitality follow its use. Try it.
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Anay
Pierce
Golden Medical
America’s Marvels Natural and Otherwise
An 1887 report describes Wind Cave near Hot Springs in Dakota as a vast cave system with hundreds of rooms and several routes. It notes air currents, diverse chambers named for their features, and the cave’s potential as a national park site.
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Hot Springs
Ath Dakota
America
Evidense
Tos
Farm Calendar and Poultry Yard Tips for Autumn
The notice covers storage guidelines for vegetables and produce in cool moist vs warm dry conditions, with specifics on cabbage onions squash and potatoes. It also advises October yard preparation for next spring, soil plowing and sowing wheat, and feeding guidance for growing heifers and milking cows.
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Pennsylvania
Peng la
Long-ago Lititz Doctor and Political Ties Remembered
An 1885 memoir recalls Dr. Hull a staunch Democrat of Lancaster County friendships with Buchanan and other leaders. It covers his political battles his failed federal appointment and his later life care for patients and devotion to duty before his death with remains interred in Moravian Cemetery Lititz.
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Philadelphia
Lfe
Hull
Lancaster County
Madison
Mornzee
Ely Rutile
Urenhorn
Fremont
Buchanan
Docor
Medigines
James Buchanan
Wheatland
Spee Tal
Paritioans
Unoin
Uno
Buell
Dex Assarts
Pennsylvania
Creek
Lexington
Mora
Lititz
High Grade Cattle Tour to Lancaster Farmers Picks Cars
High grade cattle of the St. College Extension left for Crawford county and parts of Ohio to select three carloads for Lancaster county farmers. The districts are famed for dairy cattle with many herds tested, though some disease risk exists. Bucher plans Holstein, Jersey, and Guernsey carloads.
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St. College
Crawford County
Ohio
Lancaster County
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Lancaster, PA
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