Brandywine bass brings muskrat surprise and odd notices
Odd items from Keystone exchanges include a fourteen inch bass with a muskrat in its stomach caught near Coatesville by Charles Brown, plus eccentric boasts about Cuban suitors and a potpourri of local oddities. Bears become scarce or plentiful, and a 103 year old Reverend Vogel dies, with Reading boasting vast factory strength across many industries.
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Brandywine Creek
Coatesville
Charles Brown
Brown
Fulton County Lacks Rail Access and Movie Theater
Fulton County remains the only county in the state without a railroad and also without a movie theater. State records show 1281 motion picture theatres statewide, with Philadelphia at 150 and Allegheny County at 191. Regulations protecting the public govern theater conduct, part of the safety standards overseen by the state industrial board and enforced by the bureau of inspection. Currently 1880 individuals hold licenses to operate motion picture machines.
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Fulton County
Department of Labor and Industry
Philadelphia
Allegheny County
Pittsburgh
State Industrial Board
Bureau of Inspection
West Donegal Organizes County Farm Women Branch
County Happenings notes a new branch of the Society of Farm Women forming in West Donegal township. A call to action invites local women to join and participate in county agricultural activities and community work.
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The
Society of Farm ! Women
West Donegal Township
Ephrata Hosts First Sabbath School and Aged Horse
At the World's Sunday School Convention in Japan report 800000 schools worldwide. The first Sabbath School was in Ephrata. Charlie, a good old horse owned by M W Keller of Ephrata, died last week at age 35, used by his owner for daily pleasure rides.
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Japan
Ephrata
Charlie
M. W. Keller
Cake With Fifty Candles Celebrating Golden Anniversary in Elizabethtown
Mr and Mrs William Noden celebrated their golden wedding at the Masonic Home Elizabethtown with a large fifty candle cake and an informal reception. Manheim to host Farm Day with tents on Market Square October 22 23 featuring exhibits cattle and farm machinery and special amusements.
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William Noden
Elizabethtown
Manheim
Market Square
German Bride Seeker Appeal Reaches American Singles
American bachelors urged to write J Stahl at 14 Realchus strasse Deisburg Germany to marry a well bred German lady. A letter from Statl says thousands of German maidens look to America for happiness denied by Germany due to men shortage. Stahl says he will not deceive and notes high costs make matrimony a luxury for the rich in Germany.
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J. Stahl
Realchusstrasse
Deisburg
Germany
Statl
America
Stahl
Old Landmark Near Elizabethtown Burned In Fire
The historic building known as the Running Pump near Elizabethtown was destroyed by fire last week. Once an inn dating to Revolutionary times, it drew fame from a pump that supplied water for decades. Reading lists once included many notable visitors. it has stood vacant in recent years. A preservation effort had begun to restore it as a relic. A old sign proclaimed Nectar Is Better Than Water on the front.
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Elizabethtown
Fur Farms in Alaska Captive Foxes and Cold Storied Pens
Report from Tanana Valley near Fairbanks details a fur farm facility of 10 acres with 50 by 8 by 10 feet pens, steel underground fencing, and two foot overhangs. Each pen houses a mated pair, kept timid to deter outsiders. Foxes fed on salmon, moose meat, carrot and turnip stew with rice and rabbits. farm employs two men for roughly 200 animals. The land and equipment cost 18,000 dollars, with breeding stock at 37,000 dollars.
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Alaska
Tanana Valley
Fairbanks
Fox Farm
Canada
New York Evening Post
Finds Crow a Friend and Nuisance to Farmers
Bureau of Biological Survey notes crows help farmers by attacking grasshoppers caterpillars and white grubs while also raiding cornfields and poultry yards and destroying nests. They recommend balanced policy rather than wholesale killing. The piece ends with a dated quip about girls and marriage.
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Crow
Bureau of Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Birrmen
The Funny Side of Camp Life Shown in Films
The Paramount-Inec photoplay Way Foot Straw Foot opens at Paramount theatre next Wednesday. The film portrays the humor of army training camps with rookies and green soldiers, featuring Doris Lee and a capable cast led by Ray, Conklin, Aitken, and Lockney, with no battle scenes.
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Paramount-Inec
Paramount Theatre
Mr. Ray
Doris Lee
William Conklin
Spottiswoode Aitken
J. P. Lockney
Four Townships Unite to Buy Modern Fire Equipment
West Lampeter Pequea Lampeter and Strasburg townships unite as the big four to secure fire fighting gear for property valued at five million dollars. Years of heavy losses spurred the action as farms and buildings in the county seek better protection.
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West Lampeter
Pequea
Lampeter
Strasburg
Anurie Urging Kidney Help From Doctor Pierce
A 67 year old man from Nerscorpeck Pa. touts Anuric tablets as a cure for kidney trouble and back pain caused by uric acid. He claims improved mobility and energy after using the medicine and advises others with kidney problems to try it.
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Pierce
Nerscorpeck
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Keystone Exchanges
Lititz
Frank S. Quesade
Leolyn
Towanda
M. B. McNett
McNett
Owl
John M. Kelly
Curwensville
John Keech
Altoona
Altoona Motor Company
Potter County
Game Commission
Potter
Albert Vogel
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Jeannette
Reading
Concer
W. H. Buch
Lititz Fire House
Tite
Clancy Mids
Tiramie
Percy L. Crosby
McClure
Syndi Eee Mer Sait
the County
Charles Rush
Quarryville
Durham
William B. Linn
Superior Court
Valentine Linn
Royer’s
Lebanon
Duisberg
American Alliance
Wonder
Charles Ray
Unite
W. W. Appel & Son
Welfers & Opticians
Queen Street “Steer
Lane
Janes
LE Roy
WM. M. Amiik
Litatz
Wingert & Haas
Wingert & Haas Hat Store
John A. Baas
N. Queen St
Lancaster, FA
Has. H. Frey
East King St
Lancaster, Pa
England
Heinitsch’s
W. A
Pat
Anca
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