Changes in Game Laws for the Coming Season
The 1925 26 season introduces multiple shifts. Bear season moves to November 16 with cubs protected. deer season unchanged. small game rules adjust including raccoon October 1 to January 15 and ducks rabbits and others with lowered daily bags. State sale of killed game barred except bear and raccoon skins. Pennsylvania fishing code lowers resident license age to 16, sets two rods two lines and one hand line, bans special devices, and ends bass season December 1. Creel limits updated except trout.
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Brant
Pennsylvania
Free Hotel in Williams Port Serves Hoboes
The free hotel at City Hall in Williams Port, the city’s only free lodging for hoboes and jobless men, has seen scant use in summer with under fifty lodgers but gains in cooler weather. In seven years the facility has housed more than 12,000 men. J. H. Fincher, the night police captain, acts as clerk and registers each transient who stays two nights.
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Williamsport
Mehr
J. H. Fincher
Wile Harvests 517 Bushels Per Acre Potatoes in Montgomery
Jacob S. Wile of Souderton Montgomery County again qualifies for the Keystone 400 Bushel Club after an acre of potatoes yielded 517 bushels. Wile practices a two year rotation with 20 acres of potatoes this year and notes prior high yields.
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Jacob S. Wile
Souderton
Montgomery County
Wile
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Middletown Woman Jailed for Delinquent Taxes
Sara Dorsey of Middletown was jailed in Dauphin county prison at Harrisburg after she refused to pay delinquent taxes. She locked herself in a second story room and police obtained a search warrant to arrest her. In a separate note, the Columbia County Conservation Association bought corn from Leon Stout in Sugar Loaf Township to prevent bear traps and protect bears for sport in that area.
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Sara Dorsey
Middletown
Dauphin County
Harrisburg
Columbia County Conservation Association
Leon Stout
Sugar Loaf
State
Stout
Conservation Association
Game Commission
Firemen's Convention Picked for Philadelphia Next Year
Philadelphia was chosen as the next meeting place for the State Firemen's Association of Pennsylvania at the closing session in hure Pa last week. A. W. Stillwell of Madison Wis aged 82 continues to carry a Civil War era hard tack item from 1361. Maj. Updegrad and Dennis T. McCarthy, both postal veterans, retired after lengthy careers. Lycoming County turkey crop is expected to be the best in years aided by dry weather and foraging birds risking the holiday menu.
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Philadelphia
State Firemen’s Asociation of
Pennsylvania
A. W. Stillwell
Madison
Wis
Williamsport
Mr. Stillwell
Trev
Mag. B. H. Updegraff
Dennis T. McCarthy
Willias Jt
Maj. Updegrad
McCarthy
Lycoming
Lycoming County
Northern Lights and Other Recollections
The aurora borealis once seen in summer disrupted telegraph and telephone lines to Kansas City, hailed as the heaviest atmospheric disturbance Western Union observed. Prof Herman Frueauft reports arches of fire in Norway and vivid sky colors, while travel notes describe Morway journeys, Elberus in the Caucasus, and a distant ark resting site.
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United States
Canada
Kansas City
Western Union
Norway
Herman T. Frucauft
Frueault
Morway
Schneehaetten
Mont Blanc
Switzerland
French
Savoy
Elberus
Transcaucasus
Smimmer
Prueautf
Europe
Asia
Elbervs
Mountaineeus
Caucasus
Russia
Specimens Sent to Washington for Analysis
Radium prospect in Berks county near Bow attracts tourists as a geologic formation yields potential ore. Specimens sent to Washington for expert analysis after being collected by visitors. Historian D. B. Brunner argued the area shows signs of ancient volcanic activity and a large crater.
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Hele
Ephrata Industry Expands Block Plant Capacity
Kurtz Bros. near Ephrata installs a new block making machine with capacity for 3,000 blocks daily and a second unit producing 1,000 blocks, totaling four thousand blocks per day. The firm also handles other concrete products.
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Kurtz Bros
Ephrata
Big Wheat Crop on Cassidy Farm in Colerain Township
A reporter notes a large wheat harvest on the Thomas Cassidy farm in Colerain township with a yield over a thousand bushels from about 20 acres, half of which were sow stalk ground. The farm is also known for the cattle and hogs fed there. Nearby, William Blacher sold a 100 acre Wakefield farm and Andrew Charles sold a farm in the same area, both to Maryland buyers.
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Thomas Cassidy
Colerain
Coy
William Blacher
Wakefield
Andrew Charles
Maryland
Fossil Flint Hill Known As Feurshtay Harrich in Upper Berks
Century old ridges show stone relics of silver chalcedony quartz used for war implements by Indigenous peoples from New York and Virginia. The Sauconys built a major village near Virginville as a Lenni Lenape sub tribe. Possible Indian presence sparks local interest near Bowe.
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New York
Berks County
Virginville
Pennsylvania
Busquehanna River
Iadian
Bowe
Land Values Rise Rapidly As Boom Gets Under Way
The Lititz pike area near Lancaster emerges from past neglect as eastern and western Lancaster booms shift to this corridor. Development concerns have bought tracts and placed them on the market, pushing values upward over the past year, with Sub urban Development Company among the contributors to the trend.
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Lititz Pike
Lancaster
Suburban Development Company
County Convention and Rosemont development plans detailed
A county convention at Cookman M E Church in Columbia outlines speakers on religious and social topics. Separately, St Johns Lutheran honors a donor and Rosemont development near Oregon Lititz Pleas ure Road advances with strict deeds, sidewalks, and communal beauty rules for 64 streets and eight houses per block.
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Big
Samday
Cookman M. E. Church
Columbia
Dre. Schlegel
Isburg
Walter E. Myers
Philadelphia
A. W. Karnell
Pearl Larson
Call of the Church
Young People's Division
Rosemont
Oregon and
Lititz Pikes and Pleasure Road
Lancaster
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Souderton Farmer
Montgomery
Munsing, Cooper
Duofold
High Rock
Lawrence Union
Arrow
Ide
Sweet Orr and Company
Freeland
W. H. Buch
Keystone Exchanges
Firemen’s
Johns Mansville
C. M. Snavely Garage
Berks
Washington
the County
Milton J. Brecht
Cecil County
Harry Frederick
John A. Kegel
Edwin M Blasalski
Lititz
Luite Record Lutity
Oregon Pike
B. Frank Hers
St. John’s Lutheran Church
St. John’s Church
Areca
Es No
Florsheim
Grube
Rea
Lititz Springs National Bank
Lava Ali
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